Q 8:29 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اَ۬لذِينَ إِن لَّكُمْ عَنكُمْ لَكُمْۖ ذُو

O ye who believe! If ye keep your duty to Allah, He will give you discrimination (between right and wrong) and will rid you of your evil thoughts and deeds, and will forgive you. Allah is of Infinite Bounty — 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-Anfāl begins at vol. 4, p. 30 (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 20, ¶92 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(بِنَصْرِه) يوم بدر بالملائكة (وَرَزَقَكُم مِنَ الطَّيِّبَاتِ) الغنائم (لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونُ يَايُّهَا ألذِينَ ءَامَنُوا لا تَخُونُوا اللَّهَ وَالرَّسُولَ هذه الآية نزلت في أبي لبابة مروان بن عبد المنذر بعثه الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم إلى بني قريظة لينزلوا على حكمه فاستشاروه فأشار لهم قالوا له: كيف حكم النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم؟ قال لهم هكذا. أشار لهم أن حكم النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم هو الذبح، لأن عياله وماله فيهم قال: ما أتممت الكلمة حتى شعرت أني خنت اللّٰه ورسوله، فجاء وربط نفسه بسوار المسجد وقال لا يحله إلا رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فنزلت في حقه «يَأَيُّهَا ألذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ لا تَخُونُوا اللَّهَ وَالرَّسُولَ»(وَتَخُونُواْ أَمَنَٰتِكُمْ) ما ائتمنتم عليه من الدين (وَأَنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونُ وَاعْلَمُواْ أَنَّمَآ أَمْوَالُكُمْ وَأَوْتَدُكُمْ مِتْنَةٌ فتنة لكم صادة عن أمور الآخرة (وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ عِندَهُ أَجْرّ عَظِيمٌ) فلا تفوّتوه بمراعاة الأموال والأولاد والحيانة لأجلهم. ونزل …

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On the meaning of ﴿And in the heavens is your provision﴾ (Q 51:22) and ﴿had the people of the townships believed and had taqwā﴾ (Q 7:96)

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سؤال عن معنى قوله تعالى: ﴿وَفِي ٱلسَّمَآءِ رِزْقُكُمْ وَمَا تُوعَدُونَ﴾ (الذاريات:22)، وقوله: ﴿وَلَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ ٱلْقُرَىٰٓ ءَامَنُواْ وَٱتَّقَوْاْ لَفَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِم بَرَكَٰتٍ مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ﴾ الأعراف:96

al-Fatāwā wa-l-ajwiba · undated · Arabic · §1, pp. 241, 243 · Mawsūʿat al-āthār al-nathriyya li-ṣāḥib al-fayḍa al-Tijāniyya, maḥwar 5 · compiled by Muḥammad b. al-Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Tijānī · answered in writing

الجواب عن الآية الأولى والله أعلم: أن للآية ظاهرا وباطنا كغيرها من الآيات، وقوله تعالى ﴿وَفِي ٱلسَّمَآءِ﴾ السماء: معناه المجازي المطر… والمعنى الحقيقي السماء المعروفة. والرزق أيضا رزقان: رزق مجازي ورزق حقيقي. فالرزق المجازي مدار أمره على المطر، لا ينزل رزق إلا بواسطة المطر.

The answer concerning the first verse — and Allah knows best — is that the verse has a ẓāhir [outward sense] and a bāṭin [inward sense], like other verses. ﴿And in the heaven﴾: al-samāʾ, in its figurative meaning, is rain… Its literal meaning is the known heaven. And provision, likewise, is of two kinds: a figurative provision and a real one. The figurative provision turns entirely upon rain; no provision descends except by means of rain.

Excerpt from the answer; the full text is not published here. Translation by Amadu Kunateh. The compiler's footnotes are not included.

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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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