Get tafsir or translation

Fetches the tafsir or translation of an ayah from a named source, with its book and author.

Technical nameget_tafsir

Returns what a tafsir, a Quranic-sciences source or a translation says about one ayah, or about a whole surah for surah-level sources, quoted exactly as published with the book, author and publisher. Pass several sources at once to compare them. Translations are fetched from QuranEnc surah by surah and refreshed when a new version comes out.

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A real example

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The call

get_tafsir

source: muyassar
surah: 1
ayah: 1

The result

Source: التفسير الميسر, نخبة من العلماء، مجمع الملك فهد لطباعة المصحف الشريفTafsir Center for Quranic Studies

1:1

أبتدئ قراءة القرآن باسم الله مستعينا به، (اللهِ) علم على الرب -تبارك وتعالى- المعبود بحق دون سواه، وهو أخص أسماء الله تعالى، ولا يسمى به غيره سبحانه. (الرَّحْمَنِ) ذي الرحمة العامة الذي وسعت رحمته جميع الخلق، (الرَّحِيمِ) بالمؤمنين، وهما اسمان من أسمائه تعالى، يتضمنان إثبات صفة الرحمة لله تعالى كما يليق بجلاله.

Reference: 1:1

The full JSON result in the live demo

Captured from the server: 2026-11-12 · mutqin-mcp 0.3.0

The call as JSON

{
  "name": "get_tafsir",
  "arguments": {
    "source": "muyassar",
    "surah": 1,
    "ayah": 1
  }
}

Parameters5 parameters

You never type these yourself: your assistant fills them in from your request. They are listed here for reference.

Name	Type	Default	Description
`source`Required	`string \| string[]`	-	Source id from list_tafsir, such as ibn-kathir, saadi, muyassar or irab, or a list of up to 8 ids to compare. A repeated id is fetched once.
`surah`Required	`integer 1-114`	-	Surah number, 1 to 114.
`ayah`Optional	`integer`	-	Ayah number in Hafs numbering. Not needed for surah-level sources.
`language`Optional	`string`	-	Language, for sources published in more than one. Al-Mukhtasar: ar, en or bn.
`include_raw`Optional	`boolean`	-	Also return text_raw, the stored text with its HTML markup, when that markup was removed from the text field. Default: no.

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