Q 69:7 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

عَلَيْهِمْ فِيهَا كَأَنَّهُمُۥٓ

Which He imposed on them for seven long nights and eight long days so that thou mightest have seen men lying overthrown, as they were hollow trunks of palm-trees — 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-Ḥāqqa begins at vol. 10, p. 76 (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.

loci in the corpus

distinct acts

2 of 2

text available

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 52, ¶85 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 52 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

نمود قوم صالح أهلكوا بصيحة متجاوزة الحد في الشدة، صاح جبريل فهلكوا (وَأَمَّا عَادࣱ فَأُهْلِكُواْ بِرِيحࣲ صَرْصَرٍ) شديدة الصوت عَاتِيَةٍ) قوية شديدة على عاد مع قوتهم وشدتهم (سَخَّرَهَا) أرسلها بالقهر عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَنِيَةَ أَيَّامِ أولها من صبح يوم الأربعاء لثمان بقين من شوال وكانت في عجز الشتاء (حُسوما متتابعات في آخر الأربعاء من الشهر دمرهم الربح (جَتَرَى الْفَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعِبى)، مطروحين هالكين ( كَأنَّهُم أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ) أصول نخل (خَاوِيَةٍ) ساقطة فارغة ( جَهَلْ تَرِى) ما ترى ( لَهُم مِنْ بَنِيَ

Read in context →

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 3, ¶65 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 72 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

ذهب إلى الحضر نصف نهار قال: "عَاتِنَا عَدَآءَنَا لَقَدْ لَفِينَا صِ سَجَرنًا هَلذَا تَصْباً ، ٨ ذهب إلى المخلوق جاع في نصف يوم، ولما توجه إلى الحق مكث ثمانين يوما أي أربعين يوما بالليالي ولم يحس بالجوع، لهذا قال الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: من أخلص لله أربعين يوما نبعت الحكمة من قلبه وجرت على لسانه[37]، هذا أصل خلوة الذين يدخلون الخلوة أربعين يوما؛ خلوة ثلاثة أيام أصلها "ثَلَئَةَ أَيَّامِ إِلَّ رَمْزًا ، وخلوة سبع ليال "سَبْعَ لَيَالِ وَثَمَٰنِيَةَ أَيَّامِ حُسُومًا . (وَإِذْ قُلْتُمْ يَمُوسِىٰ لَى نُومِسَ لَكَ حَتَّىٰ نَرَى اللَّهَ جَهْرَةَ بَأَخَذَتْكُمْ الصَّحِفَةُ وَأَنتُمْ تَنظُرُونُ ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَٰكُم مِنْ بَعْدٍ مَوْتِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكَرُونٌ وَظَلَّلْنَا عَلَيْكُمُ

Read in context →

Lesson 3 runs Q 2:26–Q 2:59. 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.

Go to1–52