Q 27:62 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

أَمَّنْ إِذَا مَّعَ مَّا

Is not He (best) Who answereth the wronged one when he crieth unto Him and removeth the evil, and hath made you viceroys of the earth? Is there any Allah beside Allah? Little do they reflect — Pickthall

Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse (d. 1975) read the whole Qurʾān aloud at Medina Baye over fifty-six sessions between ẓuhr and ʿaṣr in Ramaḍān 1383/1964, and his students wrote those sessions down as Fī Riyāḍ al-Tafsīr. He comes back to the same āya elsewhere — in the fatwās, the Ḥikam, the poetry — decades apart. About the tafsīr →

In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Naml begins at vol. 7, p. 85 (Tūnis 2022, 10 vols.)

The āya above is Warsh ʿan Nāfiʿ, the rasm of the printed edition. The root behind each underlined word comes from a Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim corpus, realigned to this Warsh text word by word; 125 of the 6,236 āyāt differ in word count between the two riwāyāt, and those were aligned rather than assumed. A word carries no underline where the corpus supplies no root. Lexicon entries are a reading aid and carry no page reference; the edition does not cite them. Page references elsewhere on this site follow the ten-volume Tunis 2022 printing this site was transcribed from; published scholarship on this text cites the six-volume Tunis 2010 printing, whose pagination is different.

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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 38, ¶5 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 96 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(أَنْهَراً وَجَعَلَ لَهَا رَوَسِيَ) جبالا أثبت بها الأرض (وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ حَاجِزاه العذب والملح لا يختلط أحدهما بالآخر (اللَّة مَعَ اللَّهِ هل يوجد إله مع اللّه في ذلك أعانه (بَلَ أكْثَرْهُمْ لا يَعْلَمُونَ ) لما كان هو المنفرد بالإيجاد فحقه أن ينفرد بالعبادة أيضا ( أَمَن يُجِيبُ الْمُصْطَرَ المكروب الذي مسه ضرر (إِذَا دَعَاهُ وَيَكْشِفُ اُ۬لسُّوٓءَ) عنه وعن غره

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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 38, ¶6 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 96 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

*وَيَجْعَلُكُمْ خُلَفَآءَ الأَرْضِ) هذا الإله الذي يقوم هذه الأشياء خير أم آلهتهم؟ الذي يجيب المضطر ويكشف السوء ويجعلكم خلفاء الأرض أي يخلف كل قرن القرن الذي قبله (أَلَّةٌ مَعَ اللَّهِ هل معه إله يعينه على هذا؟ (قَلِيلًا مَا تَذَّكِّرْونَ) تتعظون، إن اللّه تبارك وتعالى وعد بإجابة دعاء المضطر، والمضطر من لم يجد قرارا إلا بالله لم يجد معولا إلا عليه، ليس عنده إلا اللّه تبارك وتعالى هذا إذا دعا اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى يستجيب دعاءه، هذا صفة الأولياء العارفين بالله ليس عندهم إلا الله، هم مضطرون إلى اللّٰه فلهذا تسرع إجابة دعواتِهم.

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The printing brackets no quotation here. A run of consecutive words in this paragraph — three at the shortest — occurs in one place in the muṣḥaf and nowhere else, and every āya lying inside that run is credited, so a run crossing a boundary attests both. Matching folds together the letter shapes the scan confuses, so the words need not stand in the āya exactly as printed.

Entries are grouped by what Shaykh Ibrāhīm is doing with the verse, then ordered oldest first inside each group, so the same words can be seen carrying different work across a career. Every entry names the witness it comes from. Passages that are known but not yet available are listed rather than hidden. Beyond Fī Riyāḍ al-Tafsīr, 156 āyāt have so far been indexed from his other writings — the Ḥikam, the fatwās, Kāshif al-Ilbās, theQanābīl, the Tafsīr Maʿānī cassettes. A verse with nothing under this heading has not been searched in them and found wanting; it has not been searched.

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