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Al-Humaza الهمزة

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Nine verses against one figure: a slanderer who gathers wealth and counts it and thinks it will make him last, and the fire that closes over him in outstretched columns. It takes its name from the slander at verse 1.

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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.

104:4
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.76. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.90.
Nay, but verily he will be flung to the Consuming One
By no means. He shall surely be cast into al Hotama
104:8
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.74. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.87.
Lo! it is closed in on them
Verily it shall be as an arched vault above them
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104:2
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.73. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.90.
Who hath gathered wealth (of this world) and arranged it
Who heapeth up riches, and prepareth the same for the time to come
104:9
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.72. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.86.
In extended columns.
on columns of vast extent
104:5
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.71. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.82.
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Consuming One is
And what shall cause thee to understand what al Hotama is
More about this surahDerived
Verses
9
Words
33
Place
Meccan
Revelation position
32th of 114 in an ordering its source does not name
Opening letters
None
Bismillah
Carried by the surah, unnumbered
Word-by-word breakdown
48.5% of 33 words carry an analysis

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
0.67 across 9 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
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