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Key Verses: 2:186, the verse of supplication
Āyatullāh Jawādī Āmulī’s full commentary on “When My servants ask you about Me, I am indeed nearmost”: God’s nearness, the degrees of supplication, the conditions for its answering and what holds it back, supplication and the divine decree, and the narrations. A new translation from the Arabic edition.
Read the commentary on 2:186 →Ask al-Tasnim
Ask a question in your own words and read the passages of al-Tasnim that answer it, each linked to its place in the commentary. Every word shown is from the book.
Ask a question →Questions and Answers for the stories
Short answers, in the order of each story, to the questions readers ask about Adam (75), Ibrahim (74), Musa and Khidr (45), and ʿĪsā and Maryam (90), each with a link to read more in al-Tasnim.
Start with the story of Adam →Themes and Concepts
Imāmah, Infallibility (ʿiṣmah), Tawḥīd, and The Qur’an: its revelation and understanding, gathered from across the commentary as questions with short answers, each linked to the passage.
Browse the themes →Join the Project
Help bring more of Tafsīr al-Tasnīm into English: translate a chapter, a key verse or a theme, and Tawheed Institute Australia will review, edit and publish it here, with your name.
How to take part →Key Debates
The questions al-Tasnim settles, each set out with the views of the exegetes and Āyatullāh Jawādī Āmulī’s own conclusion, linked to the place in the commentary.
See the debates →The Story of Dhul Qarnayn, Part 1
The commentary on verses 18:83–88: who Dhul Qarnayn was, the means he was given, and his journey to the setting of the sun.
Read Part 1 →Study tools and My Study
Highlight and add notes, save passages into collections you can share, make picture cards, cite a passage, mark what you have read, and see what ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī says on each verse in al-Mizan, in summary.
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