Sūrat Al-Zumar · 39 : 53

Q 39:53 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اَ۬لذِينَ عَلَيٰٓ لَا مِن إِنَّ اِنَّهُۥ هُوَ

Say: O My slaves who have been prodigal to their own hurt! Despair not of the mercy of Allah, Who forgiveth all sins. Lo! He is the Forgiving, the Merciful — 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-Zumar begins at vol. 8, p. 136 (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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Exegesis of the verse

Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 43, ¶165 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 105 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

يوسعه (لِمَنْ يَّشَآءُ وَيَقْدِرُۖ إِنَّ فِے ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَٰتࣲ لِّقَوْمࣲ يُومِنُونَۖ قُلْ يَٰعِبَادِيَ اَ۬لذِينَ أَسْرَفُواْ عَلَيٰٓ أَنفُسِهِمْ لَا تَقْنَطُواْ مِن رَّحْمَةِ اِ۬للَّهِۖ إِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ يَغْفِرُ اُ۬لذُّنُوبَ جَمِيعاًۖ اِنَّهُۥ هُوَ اَ۬لْغَفُورُ اُ۬لرَّحِيمُۖ) سبب نزول هذه الآية أن وحشي قاتل حمزة عم رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّه عليه وسلم يوم أحد أراد الإسلام فكتب إلى النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم إني أريد الإسلام ويمنعني منه آية في كتاب

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The verse used, not interpreted

Here the verse warrants a claim argued from other authorities. It is not the object of commentary.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمproof-textunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 12, ¶65 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 198 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(وَتَرْغَبُونَ) أيها الأولياء (أَن تَنكِحُوهُرَ) ترغبون عن أن تنكحوهن لدمامتهن وتعضلوهن أن يتزوجن طمعا في مبرائهن، رغب إذا تعدى ب "أنّ" فهي كراهة، وإذا تعدى ب" في " فهى رغبة، ترغبون عن أن تنكحوهن لدمامتهن وتزوجتموهن لتستولوا على أموالهن، أو "ترغَبُون" لكم رغبة في نكاحهن لما عندهن من المال لتستولوا على المال (وَ) في (الْمُسْتَصْعَمِينَ مِنَ ألْوِلْدَلِ) أن تعطوهم حقوقهم و يأمركم ( أَن تَقَومُواْ لِلْيَتَامبى بِالْقِسْطَ وَمَا تَفْعَلُواْ مِنْ خَيْرِ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ بِهِ، عَلِيماً) كل ما فعل العبد من خير فإن اللّه تبارك وتعالى عليم بذلك ويجازي عليه. الولدان: الصغار، ذكرهم اللّٰه في الكتاب لأن فيهم خصالا جميدة من اتصف يها يلحق بالأولياء الصالحين1، الولد إذا حزن بكى دموعا ولا يُبّت حقدا لأحد، إذا تشاجر مع مثله لم يبيت عداوة في قلبه، ويصدق في المقال، إذا تشاجر الصبيان وسئلوا يقولون الحق فقط ويبيتون على الأرض متواضعين، كل من تخلق بأخلاق الصبيان يكون كبيرا. "وَمَا تَمْعَلُواْ مِنْ خَيْرِ …

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Lesson 12 runs Q 4:87–Q 4:147. This āya falls outside it. He quotes it here inside the commentary on another verse, which is why it is not filed as exegesis of this one.

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.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمproof-textunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 55, ¶98 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

من هو حتى نخرجه من بيننا؟ فقال: يا موسى أنهاك عن النميمة وأكون نماما؟ قال: فتابوا بأجمعهم فسقوا.

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Lesson 55 is titled by sūra rather than by āya, and its bounds (Q 87:1–Q 111:5) are inferred from where the neighbouring sessions begin, so they are soft at the edges. This āya falls outside it. He quotes it here inside the commentary on another verse, which is why it is not filed as exegesis of this one.

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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