Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.76. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.88.Do you know what it is?
What shall make thee to understand how frightful the pit of hell is
Al-Qaari'a القارعة
- The Calamity
- 11 verses
- 36 words
- Meccan
- 30th of 114 in revelation order
In plain wordsEditorial
An editorial summary of the translations. Not a translation or tafsir.
Eleven verses on a striking day this surah is named after, when people are like scattered moths and the mountains like carded wool. Scales decide what follows: a pleasing life for the one whose scales are heavy, and for the one whose scales are light the four renderings part company - three name a pit of fire, and Pickthall renders it as a mother bereft.
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Where the translators differDerived
The verses of this surah whose wording differs most, most differently worded first. Under each, the two renderings that share the fewest words are quoted in full under their translators' names; every rendering is on the verse's own page. This measures wording, not meaning.
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.72. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.79.What will explain to you what the Shocker is?
And what shall make thee know what the smiting is
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Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.68. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.88.Then as to him whose balances are heavy
Moreover he whose balance shall be heavy with good works
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.67. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.67.The Shocker.
The smiting
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.67. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.85.He will live a pleasant life
his shall be a life that shall please him well
More about this surahDerived
- Verses
- 11
- Words
- 36
- Place
- Meccan
- Revelation position
- 30th of 114 in an ordering its source does not name
- Opening letters
- None
- Bismillah
- Carried by the surah, unnumbered
- Word-by-word breakdown
- 50.0% of 36 words carry an analysis
- 96
- 68
- 73
- 74
- 1
- 111
- 81
- 87
- 92
- 89
- 93
- 94
- 103
- 100
- 108
- 102
- 107
- 109
- 105
- 113
- 114
- 112
- 53
- 80
- 97
- 91
- 85
- 95
- 106
- 101
- 75
- 104
- 77
- 50
- 90
- 86
- 54
- 38
- 7
- 72
- 36
- 25
- 35
- 19
- 20
- 56
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 17
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 15
- 6
- 37
- 31
- 34
- 39
- 40
- 41
- 42
- 43
- 44
- 45
- 46
- 51
- 88
- 18
- 16
- 71
- 14
- 21
- 23
- 32
- 52
- 67
- 69
- 70
- 78
- 79
- 82
- 84
- 30
- 29
- 83
- 2
- 8
- 3
- 33
- 60
- 4
- 99
- 57
- 47
- 13
- 55
- 76
- 65
- 98
- 59
- 24
- 22
- 63
- 58
- 49
- 66
- 64
- 61
- 62
- 48
- 5
- 9
- 110
Meccan Medinan
Counted from the text and the spine at build time, not written into the page. Opening letters are derived from the edition's orthography: an opening token of at most five letters carrying none of its vocalisation marks. The revelation position is reproduced from Revelation order as encoded by the Tanzil metadata, which does not name whose ordering it is.
Analysis detailsDerived
These figures count the words the translations share. They measure wording, not meaning, and they do not say which translation is right.
- Mean score across this surah
- 0.60 across 11 scored verses
The page says a verse is worded differently only above the cut below. The cut is a stated convention, not a property of the text, and it can be changed.
- The cut
- 0.644
- Share of measured verses above it
- 33%
- Verses above it
- 2,079
- Verses measured
- 6,236
Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
- Method
- Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
- Scored
- 6,236 verses
- As at
- 13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC
Sources for this page
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