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Talal Itani· published 2012
So it was, that We caused them to be discovered, that they would know that the promise of God is true, and that of the Hour there is no doubt. As they were disputing their case among themselves, they said, "Build over them a building." Their Lord knows best about them. Those who prevailed over their case said, "We will set up over them a place of worship."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And in likemanner We disclosed them (to the people of the city) that they might know that the promise of Allah is true, and that, as for the Hour, there is no doubt concerning it. When (the people of the city) disputed of their case among themselves, they said: Build over them a building; their Lord knoweth best concerning them. Those who won their point said: We verily shall build a place of worship over them
Sources
Translation Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran·Public domain — copyright term expired
Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran·1930 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work
·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Edward Henry Palmer1840–1882 · published 1880
Thus did we make their people acquainted with their story, that they might know that God's promise is true; and that the Hour, there is no doubt concerning it. When they disputed amongst themselves concerning their affair, and said, 'Build a building over them, their Lord knows best about them;' and those who prevailed in their affair said, 'We will surely make a mosque over them
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And thus made we their adventureknown to their fellowcitizens, that they might learn that the promise of God is true, and that as to "the Hour" there is no doubt of its coming. When they disputed among themselves concerning what had befallen them, some said, "Build a building over them; their Lord knoweth best about them." Those who prevailed in the matter said, "A place of worship will we surely raise over them
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Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And so We made their people acquainted with what had happened to them; that they might know that the promise of God is true, and that there is no doubt of the last hour; when they disputed among themselves concerning their matter. And they said, erect a building over them: Their Lord best knoweth their condition. Those who prevailed in their affair answered, we will surely build a chapel over them
Sources
Translation George Sale, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
George Sale, English translation of the Qur'an·1734 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work
·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Other languages (18)Shqip · Albanian
Dhe kështu, Ne bëmë që ata të zbuloheshin, në mënyrë që (njerëzit) ta dinë se premtimi i Allahut është i vërtetë dhe se nuk ka dyshim për Kiametin. Teksa grindeshin me njëri-tjetrin për çështjen e tyre, thanë: "Ndërtoni një ndërtesë mbi ta. Zoti i tyre di më së miri për ta." Por, ata që kishin më shumë pushtet, lidhur me çështjen e tyre thanë: "Ne do të ndërtojmë mbi ta një faltore."
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর এমনিভাবে আমি তাদের ব্যাপারে (শহরবাসী লোকদেরকে) জানিয়ে দিলাম, যাতে তারা জানতে পারে যে, নিশ্চয় আল্লাহর ওয়াদা সত্য এবং কিয়ামতের ব্যাপারে কোনো সন্দেহ নেই। যখন তারা নিজেদের মধ্যে তাদের বিষয়টি (গুহাবাসীদের ব্যাপারে করণীয় বিষয়) নিয়ে বিতর্ক করছিল, তখন তাদের একদল বললো: ‘তাদের ওপর তোমরা একটি ভবন (স্মৃতি সৌধ) নির্মাণ করো।’ তাদের রবই তাদের ব্যাপারে অধিক জ্ঞাত। (গুহাবাসীদের ব্যাপারে) নিজেদের কর্তব্য বিষয়ে যাদের মত প্রাধান্য লাভ করেছিল, তারা বললো: ‘আমরা অবশ্যই তাদের ওপর একটি মসজিদ নির্মাণ করবো।’
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I Mi smo, isto tako, učinili da oni za njih saznaju, da bi se uvjerili da je istinito Allahovo obećanje i da u čas oživljenja nema nikakve sumnje, kad su se između sebe o njima raspravljali, i rekli: “Sagradite na ulazu u nju ogradu, Gospodar njihov najbolje zna ko su oni.” A onda oni do čijih se riječi najviše držalo rekoše: “Napravit ćemo na ulazu u nju bogomolju!” [1]
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I Mi smo, isto tako, učinili da oni za njih saznaju, da bi se uvjerili da je istinito Allahovo obećanje i da u čas oživljenja nema nikakve sumnje, kad su se između sebe o njima raspravljali, i rekli: “Sagradite na ulazu u nju ogradu, Gospodar njihov najbolje zna ko su oni.” A onda oni do čijih se riječi najviše držalo rekoše: “Napravit ćemo na ulazu u nju bogomolju!”[1]
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko nii min n njaltiniri fii maɓɓe, fii yo ɓe nganndu pellet, Fodoore Alla nde ko nde Goonga, Pellet, Darnga sikke alaa e maggal. Tuma nde ɓe pooɗondiratnoo hakkunde maɓɓe fiyaake maɓɓe ɗen, ɓe mbi'i'i: "Mahee e hoore maɓɓe maadi, ko Joomi maɓɓe woni gannduɗo fii maɓɓe." Ɓe foolɓe e fiyaake mu'un mbi'i i: "Min njogitoto e dow maɓɓe Juulirde."
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ქართული · Georgian
ამგვარად ვაცნობეთ [იმ ჭაბუკებზე] მათ [იმ ხალხისთვის, ვინც მათ დროში ცხოვრობდა], რათა გაეგოთ, რომ ალლაჰის აღთქმა [აღდგომის დღეზე] ჭეშმარიტია, და რომ საათში [სამსჯავროს დღის დადგომა] ეჭვი არ არის. და ისინი კამათობდნენ ერთმანეთში მათი მდგომარეობის შესახებ. და თქვეს: «ააგეთ მათ თავსზემოთ [ამ გამოქვაბულის] შენობა [ტაძარი] [რათა მან დაფაროს ისინი] [და თავი დაანებეთ ამ ჭაბუკებს, რადგან] მათი ღმერთი მათ ყველაზე უკეთ იცნობს». თქვეს იმათ, რომელთაც უპირატესობა მოიპოვეს მათ საქმეში: «უსათუოდ ავაგებთ მათ თავსზემოთ სალოცავს».
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Deutsch · German
Und auf diese Weise ließen Wir (die Menschen) sie doch entdecken, damit sie wissen, dass das Versprechen Allahs wahr ist und dass es an der Stunde keinen Zweifel gibt. Als sie (also die Menschen der Stadt) untereinander über ihre Angelegenheit stritten, sagten sie daraufhin: „Errichtet über ihnen einen Bau. Ihr Herr weiß am besten über sie Bescheid.“ Diejenigen, die in ihrer Angelegenheit überlegen waren, sagten: „Wir werden uns über ihnen fürwahr eine Gebetsstätte einrichten.“
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Ελληνικά · Greek
(Όπως τους κάναμε τα παραπάνω θαύματα), ομοίως, κάναμε τους άλλους (τους κατοίκους της πόλης και τον βασιλιά τους) να μάθουν γι' αυτούς (και την ιστορία τους, όταν είδαν τα παλιά νομίσματα μ' αυτόν που πήγε να αγοράσει φαγητό). Για να μάθουν (οι κάτοικοι της πόλης όταν είδαν αυτό το Σημάδι) ότι η υπόσχεση του Αλλάχ (για την ανάσταση) είναι αληθινή, και ότι δεν υπάρχει καμία αμφιβολία για την Ώρα (της Ημέρας της Κρίσεως). [Όμως όταν έφτασαν, οι κάτοικοι, έξω από το σπήλαιο, και ζήτησε εκείνος που πήγε να αγοράσει φαγητό να μπεί πρώτος για να μην τρομάξουν οι άλλοι, πέθανε αυτός και οι σύντροφοί του στο σπήλαιο], τότε διαφώνησαν (οι άνθρωποι) μεταξύ τους για το θέμα εκείνων (των νέων), και έτσι (κάποιοι) είπαν: «Χτίστε έναν τοίχο στην είσοδο του σπηλαίου τους (για να τους προστατεύει). Ο Κύριός τους γνωρίζει καλύτερα την κατάστασή τους (και την ενάρετη θέση τους).» Όμως εκείνοι που επικράτησαν στο θέμα τους, είπαν: «Πράγματι, θα χτίσουμε στον τόπο τους ένα τζαμί (τόπο λατρείας για να τους θυμόμαστε και ως τιμή γι' αυτούς).»
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हिन्दी · Hindi
और इसी प्रकार, हमने (लोगों को) उनसे अवगत करा दिया, ताकि वे जान लें कि अल्लाह का वादा सत्य है, और क़ियामत (के आने) में कोई संदेह[6] नहीं। (याद करो) जब वे[7] (उनके विषय में) आपस में विवाद करने लगे। कुछ लोगों ने कहा : उनपर कोई भवन निर्माण करा दो, उनका पालनहार उनके बारे में अधिक जानता है। जो लोग उनके मामले में प्रभावी रहे, उन्होंने कहा : हम तो उन (की गुफा के स्थान) पर अवश्य एक मस्जिद बनाएँगे।
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Italiano · Italian
E così li facemmo scoprire, perché si rendessero conto che la promessa di Allāh era vera e che in verità l’Ora è indiscutibile. E quando loro erano impegnati a dibattere i loro affari, il popolo disse: «Costruite su di loro un edificio! Il loro Dio li conosce meglio di noi.» Quelli che ebbero la meglio (nella discussione) dissero: «Costruiamo sopra di loro un Masjid!»
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
21. Ir taip Mes padarėme jų istoriją žinomą (žmonėms), kad jie galėtų žinoti, jog Allaho Pažadas yra tiesa, ir kad negali būti jokios abejonės dėl Valandos. (Atmink) kai jie (miesto žmonės) ginčijosi tarp savęs apie jų istoriją, jie tarė: „Pastatykite pastatą virš jų, jų Viešpats žino geriausiai apie juos.“ (Tada) tie, kurie pasiekė savo tikslą tarė (greičiausiai netikintieji): „Mes tikrai pastatysime garbinimo vietą virš jų.“
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Русский · Russian
Так Мы дали [людям] обнаружить их, чтобы они узнали, что обещание Аллаха — истина и что в Часе нет сомнения, — когда они спорили между собой о своём деле. И они сказали: «Возведите над ними строение. Их Господь лучше знает о них». Те же, которые одержали верх в их деле, сказали: «Мы непременно устроим над ними место поклонения».
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Српски · Serbian
И Ми смо, исто тако, учинили да они за њих сазнају, да би се уверили да је истинито Аллахово обећање и да у час оживљења нема никакве сумње, кад су се између себе о њима расправљали, и рекли: “Саградите на улазу у њу ограду, Господар њихов најбоље зна ко су они.” А онда они до чијих се речи највише држало рекоше: “Направићемо на улазу у њу богомољу!”
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na namna hivo ndivyo tulivyowajulisha kwa watu ili wapate kujua ya kwamba ahadi ya Mwenyezi Mungu ni ya kweli, na kwamba Saa haina shaka. Walipokuwa wakigombania jambo lao wao kwa wao, wakasema: Jengeni jengo juu yao. Mola wao Mlezi anawajua vyema. Wakasema wale walioshinda katika shauri yao: Bila ya shaka tutajenga msikiti juu yao.
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Svenska · Swedish
Så lät vi dem upptäckas för att [stadens invånare] skulle inse att Guds löfte är sant och att det inte råder tvivel om den yttersta stundens [ankomst]. De tvistade sinsemellan om vad de skulle göra med deras [gravplats]. Somliga sa: ”Res en mur framför dem. Deras Herre känner dem bäst.” De som fick sin vilja igenom sa: ”Vi bygger en helgedom vid dem!”
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Türkçe · Turkish
Böylece (insanları) onlardan haberdar ettik ki, Allah'ın vâdinin hak olduğunu, kıyametin şüphe götürmez olduğunu bilsinler. Hani onlar kendi meselelerini aralarında tartışıyorlardı. Bunun üzerine: “Üzerlerine bir bina yapın” demişlerdi. Rableri onları daha iyi bilendir. Fakat onların işine galip gelenler ise, “Mutlaka onların üstüne bir Mescid edineceğiz” dediler.
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اردو · Urdu
ہم نے اس طرح لوگوں کو ان کے حال سے آگاه کر[1] دیا کہ وه جان لیں کہ اللہ کا وعده بالکل سچا ہے اور قیامت میں کوئی شک وشبہ نہیں[2]۔ جب کہ وه اپنے امر میں آپس میں اختلاف کر رہے[3] تھے کہنے لگے کہ ان کے غار پر ایک عمارت بنا لو[4]۔ ان کا رب ہی ان کے حال کا زیاده عالم[5] ہے۔ جن لوگوں نے ان کے بارے میں غلبہ پایا وه کہنے لگے کہ ہم تو ان کے آس پاس مسجد بنالیں گے.[6]
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Talal Itani2012 Even so, We awakened them, so that they may ask one another. A speaker among them said, "How long have you stayed?" They said, "We have stayed a day, or part of a day." They said, "Your Lord knows best how long you have stayed." "Send one of you to the city, with this money of yours, and let him see which food is most suitable, and let him bring you some provision thereof. And let him be gentle, and let no one become aware of you."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And in like manner We awakened them that they might question one another. A speaker from among them said: How long have ye tarried? They said: We have tarried a day or some part of a day, (Others) said: Your Lord best knoweth what ye have tarried. Now send one of you with this your silver coin unto the city, and let him see what food is purest there and bring you a supply thereof. Let him be courteous and let no man know of you
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Thus did we raise them up that they might question each other. Spake a speaker amongst them, 'How long have ye tarried?' They said, 'We have tarried a day or part of a day.' They said, 'Your Lord knows best your tarrying; so send one of you with this coin of yours to the city, and let him look which of them has purest food, and let him bring you provision thereof; and let him be subtle and not let any one perceive you
John Medows Rodwell1861 So we awaked them that they might question one another. Said one of them, "How long have ye tarried here?" They said, "We have tarried a day or part of day." They said, "Your Lord knoweth best how long ye have tarried: Send now one of you with this your coin into the city, and let him mark who therein hath purest food, and from him let him bring you a supply: and let him be courteous, and not discover you to any one
George Sale1734 And so We awaked them from their sleep, that they might ask questions of one another. One of them spake and said, how long have ye tarried here? They answered, we have tarried a day, or part of a day. The others said, your Lord, best knoweth the time ye have tarried: And now send one of you with this your money into the city, and let him see which of its inhabitants hath the best and cheapest food, and let him bring you provision from him; and let him behave circumspectly, and not discover you to any one
Talal Itani2012 "If they discover you, they will stone you, or force you back into their religion; then you will never be saved."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 For they, if they should come to know of you, will stone you or turn you back to their religion; then ye will never prosper
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, they - should they perceive you - would stone you, or would force you back again unto their faith, and ye would never prosper then
John Medows Rodwell1861 For they, if they find you out, will stone you or turn you back to their faith, and in that case it will fare ill with you for ever
George Sale1734 Verily, if they come up against you, they will stone you, or force you to return to their religion; and then shall ye not prosper for ever
Talal Itani2012 They will say, "Three, and their fourth being their dog." And they will say, "Five, and their sixth being their dog," guessing at the unknown. And they will say, "Seven, and their eighth being their dog." Say, "My Lord knows best their number." None knows them except a few. So do not argue concerning them except with an obvious argument, and do not consult any of them about them.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 (Some) will say: They were three, their dog the fourth, and (some) say: Five, their dog the sixth, guessing at random; and (some) say: Seven, and their dog the eighth. Say (O Muhammad): My Lord is Best Aware of their number. None knoweth them save a few. So contend not concerning them except with an outward contending, and ask not any of them to pronounce concerning them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They will say, 'Three, and the fourth of them was their dog:' and they will say, 'Five, and the sixth of them was their dog:' guessing at the unseen: and they will say, 'Seven, and the eighth of them was their dog.' Say, 'My Lord knows best the number of them; none knows them but few.' Dispute not therefore concerning them save with a plain disputation, and ask not any one of them concerning them
John Medows Rodwell1861 Some say, "They were three; their dog the fourth:" others say, "Five; their dog the sixth," guessing at the secret: others say, "Seven; and their dog the eighth." SAY: My Lord best knoweth the number: none, save a few, shall know them
George Sale1734 Some say, the sleepers were three; and their dog was the fourth: And others say, they were five; and their dog was the sixth; guessing at a secret matter: And others say, they were seven; and their dog was the eighth. Say, my Lord best knoweth their number: None shall know them, except a few. Wherefore dispute not concerning them, unless with a clear disputation, according to what hath been revealed unto thee: And ask not any of the Christians concerning them
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Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Talal Itani · George Sale0.54
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.51
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.49
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.49
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.45
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.40
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
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.
As at
13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC
Gate
verify/divergence_gate.py re-derives and fails on drift
The platform does not say which is right, and does not
characterise what the difference means. The renderings are placed
together so the difference is visible; reading it is the reader's work.
7 sources
stand behind this page. Each is listed once, in the order the page first
cites it, with the licence it was cleared under and what was actually read.
Nothing on this page rests on a source that is not here.
Source Tanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) · Uthmani, Version 1.1
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 ayahs. The bismillah is delivered as a separate `bismillah` attribute on ayah 1 and is NOT fused into the ayah text. 112 surahs carry one: every surah except al-Fatiha, where the bismillah is ayah 1:1 itself, and at-Tawba, which has none. Sourced from the XML output; the plain-text output of the same release DOES fuse it, which is defect D1.
CLEARED. Licence read verbatim from the block embedded in this very file. Ingested exactly as shipped: no normalisation, no stripping of marks, no Unicode recomposition.
Parsed structurally from the EPUB: an h3 names the surah, one p per verse with its number in its own span. An unnumbered p is the basmala and is not a verse, except in surah 1 where the basmala IS verse 1. 112 unnumbered paragraphs were found, which is 114 surahs less surah 1 and surah 9. Text is stored VERBATIM: NFC normalisation and XML entity unescaping only, because CC BY-ND forbids modification.
CLEARED on a licence read first-hand from the translator's own download page, not from an aggregator. Tanzil also hosts this translation, but under a blanket "non-commercial purposes only" term that directs the user to the translator or publisher for permission - a hosting disclaimer, not a grant - so the grant was taken from the licensor directly. The "God" edition was ingested; ClearQuran also publishes an "Allah" edition, differing in how the divine name is rendered, which is not ingested.
CLEARED ON THE WORK, WITH TWO RECORDED CAVEATS ON THIS COPY. (1) Rights basis is the expired copyright term, NOT the redistributing repository's licence. That repository dedicates its contents to the public domain under the Unlicense while also redistributing plainly in-copyright translations (Abdel Haleem, Saheeh International, The Study Quran), so it is dedicating rights it cannot hold and its blanket grant is not relied upon here. (2) The file declares its own upstream as tanzil.net, and Tanzil attaches a non-commercial condition to its TRANSLATION distributions, though not to its Qur'anic text. Since Pickthall's copyright has expired, nobody holds rights in these words and no licence is required from anyone; Tanzil's terms are a contract binding those who download from Tanzil, which we did not. The chain is nonetheless not spotless and Anwar may prefer a clean digitisation of the 1930 printing. NOT VERIFIED: that this digital text matches the 1930 first printing rather than a later revised edition. No page images were collated. Recorded as unverified rather than presented as established. SERVED TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE CITED FILE AT ONE VERSE, 37:97: the file reads "red-hotfire" (a glued token, also in Gutenberg #16955); the served row reads "red-hot fire", restored 2026-09-13 from Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (London: George Allen & Unwin, printed for Alfred A. Knopf; 1930), p. 460, XXXVII 97 - scan archive.org in.ernet.dli.2015.216140, PDF page 475; banked data/derivation-sources/pickthall-1930-dli-2015.216140-text.pdf (sha256 70e81146c97fa3a590243a82e04e349108546074787e2551a78c616202138870) on Anwar Malik's grant.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 verses, keyed to mushaf order. The
bismillah is not fused into ayah 1: 1:1 carries it and no other verse
does. Verified against content check C3 at ingest.
CLEARED ON THE WORK. Term expired by every measure. The digital edition's upstream is not stated by the redistributor and the printing is unverified. No statement of purpose is recorded for Palmer because none was sourced from his own preface in this pass; nothing is asserted on his behalf.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 verses, keyed to mushaf order. The
bismillah is not fused into ayah 1: 1:1 carries it and no other verse
does. Verified against content check C3 at ingest.
CLEARED ON THE WORK. Term expired by every measure. TWO edition caveats. (1) The upstream is not stated by the redistributor. (2) Rodwell's own edition PRESENTS THE SURAHS IN HIS OWN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, not the mushaf order — he says so in his preface. This digital text is keyed to mushaf order, so it derives from a restored-order printing (such as the Everyman edition) rather than from Rodwell's own arrangement. Which printing is not stated and has not been established.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 verses, keyed to mushaf order. The
bismillah is not fused into ayah 1: 1:1 carries it and no other verse
does. Verified against content check C3 at ingest.
CLEARED ON THE WORK. Term expired by every measure. The digital edition's upstream is NOT STATED by the redistributor, so the printing it represents is unverified; Sale's text was reprinted and re-edited many times between 1734 and 1900. Recorded as unverified rather than assumed to be the first edition.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 ayahs. The bismillah is delivered as a separate `bismillah` attribute on ayah 1 and is NOT fused into the ayah text. 112 surahs carry one: every surah except al-Fatiha, where the bismillah is ayah 1:1 itself, and at-Tawba, which has none. Sourced from the XML output; the plain-text output of the same release DOES fuse it, which is defect D1.
CLEARED. Parallel edition, held in ayah_text_variants. It sits alongside the Uthmani spine for search normalisation and is never used to correct it.