# Pin down a term exactly as your text uses it — Gemini Notebook prompt

> Technical vocabulary in aqeedah carries weight, and the same word can be used differently by different authors. This extracts the precise sense a specific uploaded text gives a term, and flags where your other sources use it differently.


_Markdown version of https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/prompts/islamic-studies/aqeedah-term-precision — for AI and LLM crawlers. Content is identical to the web page._

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- Category: Islamic studies
- Goes in: Chat message

## The prompt

```
Term under study: [Arabic term, with transliteration if you have it].

From my uploaded sources only:
1. How does each source define this term? Quote the defining passage and give its location.
2. What does each source contrast it with — the terms it is defined against are often more revealing than the definition.
3. Where do my sources use the term in different senses? Show the difference rather than reconciling it.
4. Which of my sources treat this term as contested, and what is the contest about?

Give the Arabic alongside the transliteration throughout. If a source uses the term without defining it, say so — that is worth knowing.
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## How to use it

1. Open your notebook at notebooklm.google.com.
2. Replace the [bracketed] parts with your specifics.
3. Paste the prompt into the chat box and send it.

Square brackets mark the parts you replace with your own topic or question.

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