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text: Tafsir Rasag
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  Tafsir Rasag
  
  Introduction
  
  An Explanation of the Torah in Arabic (<i>Tafsir at-Tawriyya Bi-'l-'Arabiyya</i>)
  In the Name of the LORD Shall We Act and Prosper.
  [This is] an Exposition of the Torah by the Head of the Academy, Rabbi Saadia (Of Blessed Memory)
  [Which] Brings Out the Meaning of the Holy Scriptures from the Prophetic Book Called
  the "Torah" from the Sacred Language [of Hebrew] into the Contemporary Language 
  that is Widespread in the Land of His Birth ([10th Century CE Egypt]).
  [Introduction to the Book]:
  
  
  
  Nevertheless, I authored this book because of a few seekers who requested that I simply break down the text of the Torah in a standalone book: one that does not get involved in discourses about philology, grammar, or syntax; one that does not enter quoting questions posed by atheists, and providing their rebuttal; nor one that delves into rational laws, or how to perform traditional laws; just that I would simply convey the meaning of the text of the Torah [itself]. Indeed, I saw it was fitting to request that the audience hear the meaning of the Torah, from the narratives to the imperatives...
  
  Genesis
  
  
  
  
  
  As soon as God (<i>Allah</i>) created the heavens and the Earth -
  And the Earth was deeply submerged, and darkness [was] on the surface of the depths, and <i>Allah</i>'s wind would blow on the surface of the water.
  And <i>Allah</i> willed that there should be light, and then there was light.
  Also, when <i>Allah</i> knew that the light was good, <i>Allah</i> divided between the light and the darkness.
  And <i>Allah</i> named the time of the light "Daylight", and the time of darkness, He named "Night"; and then it went from the nighttime to daylight. Day one.
  <i>Allah</i> willed that there should be a layer in the midst of the waters, and that there should be a separation between both waters.
  And <i>Allah</i> made the layer, and divided between the water which was outside of it, and the water that was above it; and then it was so.
  And <i>Allah</i> named the layer "Heavens", and then it went from the nighttime to daylight. Day two.
  <i>Allah</i> willed that the waters should be gathered together from beneath the heavens into one location, and that the dry land should appear; and then it was so.
  So <i>Allah</i> named the dry land "Earth", and the place of the water He named "Seas". Then <i>Allah</i> knew that this [was] good
  And <i>Allah</i> willed that the Earth would sprout vegetation, and grasses that contain grain, and trees that have fruit which produce fruit according to the species of what was planted in the Earth; and it was so.
  And the Earth produced vegetation and grasses that contain grain according to their species, and trees that produce fruit from what was planted according to their species; and <i>Allah</i> also knew that this was good.
  And then it went from the nighttime to daylight. Day three.
  <i>Allah</i> willed that there should be lights in the layer of the heavens, and that they should distinguish between daylight and nighttime, and that they should be [for] signals, and times, and days and years.
  And there were lights in the layer of the heavens, to shine upon the Earth; and it was so.
  And <i>Allah</i> made the two great luminaries: the larger luminary to shine in the daytime, and the smaller luminary to shine at night, and the stars.
  And <i>Allah</i> set them in the layer of the heavens to shine upon the Earth.
  And to shine in the daytime and at nighttime, and to distinguish between the light and the darkness; and <i>Allah</i> knew that this was good.
  And then it went from nighttime to daylight. Day four.
  And <i>Allah</i> willed that moving things that have a living soul would move among the waters, and that flying things would fly over the Earth, before the layer of the heavens.
  So <i>Allah</i> created the great sea-reptiles and rest of the crawling living souls that move among the waters by their species, and all the flying things that have wings by their species; and <i>Allah</i> also knew this was good.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  And this is an expounding of the begettings of the sons of Noaḥ, Shem and Ḥam and Yefet, for they had sons after the flood.
  The sons of Yefet: Turkey and Yaʾjūj and Media and Greece and China and Khorasan and Persia
  The sons of Gomer: the Slavs and Franks and Burgundians.
  And the sons of Greece: Cilicia and Tarsus and Cyprus and Adana.
  From these dispersed the islands of nations – pertaining to their countries, each group to their language, to their clans and their nations.
  And the sons of Ḥam: Ethiopia and Egypt and Tafath and Canaan.
  
  Exodus
  
  
  
  Leviticus
  
  
  
  Numbers
  
  
  
  Deuteronomy
  
  