# Compare what your tafsir works say on one ayah — Gemini Notebook prompt

> Upload two or more tafsir works and this lays their treatments of a single ayah side by side — what each emphasises, where they diverge, and what each cites. The comparison you would build by hand with the books open, done in one pass with the references kept.


_Markdown version of https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/prompts/islamic-studies/compare-tafsir-on-an-ayah — 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

```
I am studying [surah and ayah number]. Using only the tafsir works I have uploaded, set out how each one treats it.

For each work, in its own section:
- The interpretation it gives, in its own emphasis rather than a flattened summary
- The linguistic points it raises about specific words, with the Arabic term and its transliteration
- What it cites in support — narrations, other ayat, named authorities — exactly as the work presents them
- Anything it explicitly leaves open or lists as a disputed reading

Then, across the works:
1. Where do they agree, and where do they genuinely differ rather than merely differ in wording?
2. What does the difference turn on — a linguistic reading, a narration one work accepts and another does not, a methodological difference?

Cite the work and location for every point. Where my uploaded works do not address something, say so plainly instead of supplying it from elsewhere.
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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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