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Talal Itani· published 2012
Righteousness does not consist of turning your faces towards the East and the West. But righteous is he who believes in God, and the Last Day, and the angels, and the Scripture, and the prophets. Who gives money, though dear, to near relatives, and orphans, and the needy, and the homeless, and the beggars, and for the freeing of slaves; those who perform the prayers, and pay the obligatorycharity, and fulfill their promise when they promise, and patiently persevere in the face of persecution, hardship, and in the time of conflict. These are the sincere; these are the pious.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces to the East and the West; but righteous is he who believeth in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Scripture and the prophets; and giveth wealth, for love of Him, to kinsfolk and to orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and to those who ask, and to set slaves free; and observeth properworship and payeth the poor-due. And those who keep their treaty when they make one, and the patient in tribulation and adversity and time of stress. Such are they who are sincere. Such are the Allah-fearing
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
Righteousness is not that ye turn your faces towards the east or the west, but righteousness is, one who believes in God, and the last day, and the angels, and the Book, and the prophets, and who gives wealth for His love to kindred, and orphans, and the poor, and the son of the road, beggars, and those in captivity; and who is steadfast in prayer, and gives alms; and those who are sure of their covenant when they make a covenant; and the patient in poverty, and distress, and in time of violence; these are they who are true, and these are those who fear
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Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
There is no piety in turning your faces toward the east or the west, but he is pious who believeth in God, and the last day, and the angels, and the Scriptures, and the prophets; who for the love of God disburseth his wealth to his kindred, and to the orphans, and the needy, and the wayfarer, and those who ask, and for ransoming; who observeth prayer, and payeth the legal alms, and who is of those who are faithful to their engagements when they have engaged in them, and patient under ills and hardships, and in time of trouble: these are they who are just, and these are they who fear the Lord
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Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces in prayer towards the east and the west, but righteousness is of him who believeth in God and the last day, and the angels, and the scriptures, and the prophets; who giveth money for God'ssake unto his kindred, and unto orphans, and the needy, and the stranger, and those who ask, and for redemption of captives; who is constant at prayer, and giveth alms; and of those who perform their covenant, when they have covenanted, and who behave themselves patiently in adversity, and hardships, and in time of violence: These are they who are true, and these are they who fear God
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
Mirësia nuk është në kthimin e fytyrave tuaja në drejtim të lindjes e të perëndimit, por mirësia (e vërtetë) është në atë që beson Allahun, Ditën e Fundit, melekët, Librat dhe pejgamberët; që jep pasurinë e tij, - edhe përkundër dashurisë që ka për të, - për të afërmit, jetimët, të varfrit, për udhëtarin e mbetur rrugës, për lypsarët dhe për lirimin e robërve; si dhe që e fal namazin dhe e jep zekatin; dhe (mirësia qëndron edhe) në ata që përmbushin premtimet e dhëna dhe në ata që bëjnë durim në skamje, sëmundje dhe kur ashpërsohet lufta. Këta janë të vërtetët dhe pikërisht këta janë të devotshmit.
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বাংলা · Bengali
পূর্ব ও পশ্চিমদিকে (১৫) তোমাদের মুখ ফিরানো সৎকর্ম নয়; কিন্তু সৎকর্ম হলো যে ব্যক্তি আল্লাহ, শেষ দিবস, ফিরিশতাগণ, কিতাবসমূহ ও নবীগণের প্রতি ঈমান আনবে। আর সম্পদের প্রতি ভালোবাসা (১৬) থাকা সত্ত্বেও তা দান করবে আত্মীয়-স্বজন, ইয়াতীম, অভাবগ্রস্ত, মুসাফির, সাহায্যপ্রার্থী ও দাসমুক্তির জন্য এবং সালাত প্রতিষ্ঠা করবে, যাকাত দিবে, প্রতিশ্রুতি দিয়ে তা পূর্ণ করবে, অর্থ-সংকটে, দুঃখ-কষ্টে ও সংগ্রাম-সংকটে ধৈর্য ধারণ করবে। মূলত তারাই সত্যবাদী এবং তারাই মুত্তাকী।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Nije dobročinstvo u tome da okrećete lica svoja prema istoku i zapadu, nego je pravo dobročinstvo – dobročinstvo onih koji vjeruju u Allaha, u onaj svijet, i u meleke, i u knjige, i u vjerovjesnike, te onih koji od imetka, iako im je drag, daju rođacima i siročadi, siromasima i putnicima namjernicima, prosjacima, i za otkup iz ropstva, i onih koji namaz obavljaju i zekat daju, i koji obavezu svoju, kada je preuzmu, ispunjavaju, te onih koji su strpljivi u neimaštini i u bolesti, i za vrijeme borbe. To su oni koji su iskreni i oni su, uistinu, bogobojazni.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Nije dobročinstvo u tome da okrećete lica svoja prema istoku i zapadu, nego je pravo dobročinstvo dobročinstvo onih koji vjeruju u Allaha, u Sudnji dan, i u anđele, i u knjige, i u vjerovjesnike, te onih koji od imetka, iako im je drag, daju rođacima i siročadi, siromasima i putnicima namjernicima, prosjacima, i za otkup iz ropstva, i onih koji molitvu obavljaju i zekat daju, i koji obavezu svoju, kada je preuzmu, ispunjavaju, te onih koji su strpljivi u neimaštini i u bolesti, i za vrijeme borbe. To su oni koji su iskreni i oni su pravi bogobojaznici.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Dewal ngal wonaali fewtiŋgol geece mon ɗen ɓaŋnge fuɗnaange e hiirnaange. Ko woni tun dewal ngal: ko oon gomɗinɗo Alla e ñalaande sakkitiinde nden, e malaa'ika en, e deftere nden, e annabaaɓe ɓen; o okki jawdi - e hoore yiɗugol ndi- joomiraaɓe ɓadondiral, e wonduɓe ɓen, e ɓilliiɓe ɓen, e ɓii hoore-laawol, e ɓen torotooɓe, e fii rinɗinngol daaɗe; o niiɓni (ñiiɓni) juulde, o totti asakal, e ɓen hunnooɓe aadondiral maɓɓe si ɓe haldidaama, e ɓen muññitooɓe ka baasi (caɗeele ) e ka lorra, e fewndo gowole. Ko ɓen ngoni goonguɓe ɓen, ko ɓen kadi ngoni gomɗuɓe.
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ქართული · Georgian
ღვთისმოსაობა იმაში არ მდგომარეობს, რომ ლოცვის დროს თქვენი სახეები აღმოსავლეთისა და დასავლეთისკენ მიაბრუნოთ, არამედ ღვთისმოსაობა არის (ერთ-ერთი თვისება), ვინც ირწმუნა ალლაჰი, და უკანასკნელი დღე, და ანგელოზები, და წიგნი [ალლაჰის მიერ გარდმოვლენილი ყველა წერილი], და წინასწარმეტყველები და გასცემს ქონებას (ნებაყოფლობით მოწყალებად), მიუხედავად იმისა, რომ თავად უყვარს იგი, ნათესავებს, ობლებს, ღარიბებს, მოგზაურებს, მთხოვნელებს და მონების გათავისუფლებაზე (და ტყვეთა გამოსასყიდად) და აღასრულებს ლოცვას, და გასცემს სავალდებულო მოწყალებას [ზაქათს]; და ასრულებს თავიანთ შეთანხმებებს, როცა დადებს მას; და მომთმენნი არიან გაჭირვებაში [უკიდურესი სიღარიბის დროს], განსაცდელში [ავადმყოფობისას] და რისხვის დროს [მძიმე ბრძოლისას]; — სწორედ ისინი არიან, რომელნიც მართალნი იყვნენ (ალლაჰთან და მის მონებთან), და სწორედ ისინი არიან ღმრთისმოშიშნი.
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Deutsch · German
Nicht darin besteht die Güte, dass ihr eure Gesichter gegen Osten oder Westen wendet. Güte ist vielmehr, dass man an Allah, den Jüngsten Tag, die Engel, die Bücher und die Propheten glaubt und vom Besitz - obwohl man ihn liebt - der Verwandtschaft, den Waisen, den Bedürftigen, dem Sohn des Weges, den Fragenden und für (den Loskauf von) Sklaven hergibt, das Gebet verrichtet und die Pflichtabgabe entrichtet; und diejenigen, die ihre Verpflichtung einhalten, wenn sie eine eingegangen sind, und die Geduldigen in (Zeiten der) Not, (und des) Leid(s) und in Kriegszeiten, das sind diejenigen, die wahrhaftig sind, und jene sind die (Allah-)Fürchtenden.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Ευσέβεια δεν είναι να στρέφετε το πρόσωπό σας (κατά την προσευχή) προς Ανατολάς ή προς Δυσμάς, αλλά η (αληθινή) ευσέβεια είναι εκείνου που πιστεύει στον Αλλάχ, στην Έσχατη Ημέρα, στους Αγγέλους, στα (Θεία) Βιβλία και στους προφήτες, και δίνει από την περιουσία του, παρά την αγάπη του (για την περιουσία του), στους συγγενείς, στα ορφανά, στους άπορους, στους οδοιπόρους, στους επαίτες και για την απελευθέρωση των σκλάβων και των αιχμαλώτων, και τελεί τις προσευχές και δίνει τη Ζακά (ετήσια υποχρεωτική ελεημοσύνη), και εκείνων που όταν κάνουν μια συμφωνία την εκπληρώνουν, και εκείνων που είναι υπομονετικοί σε περίοδο φτώχειας, ασθένειας και σε καιρό πολέμου (κατά τη διάρκεια των μαχών). Αυτοί είναι οι ειλικρινείς (στην πίστη τους) και αυτοί είναι οι ευσεβείς (που φυλλάσονται από την τιμωρία του Αλλάχ μέσω της τήρησης των εντολών Του).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
नेकी केवल यही नहीं कि तुम अपने मुँह पूर्व और पश्चिम की ओर फेर लो! बल्कि असल नेकी तो उसकी है, जो अल्लाह और अंतिम दिन (आख़िरत) और फ़रिश्तों और पुस्तकों और नबियों पर ईमान लाए, और धन दे उसके मोह के बावजूद रिशतेदारों और अनाथों और निर्धनों और यात्री तथा माँगने वालों को और गर्दनें छुड़ाने में, और नमाज़ क़ायम करे और ज़कात दे, और जो अपनी प्रतिज्ञा पूरी करने वाले हैं जब प्रतिज्ञा करें, और जो तंगी और कष्ट में और लड़ाई के समय धैर्य रखने वाले हैं। यही लोग हैं जो सच्चे सिद्ध हुए तथा यही (अल्लाह से) डरने वाले हैं।[94]
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Italiano · Italian
La devozione non sta nel girare il vostro volto sia a Occidente che Oriente, ma la devozione è nel credere in Allāh e nell’Ultimo Giorno, negli angeli, nel Libro e nei profeti. Ed è in quelli che per amore Suo donano ai familiari, agli orfani, ai poveri, ai viaggiatori[21] ﴿ابن السبيل﴾, ai miseri e liberano chi è schiavo, praticano la preghiera con devozione e osservano la Zakēt. E quelli che mantengono le promesse quando promettono. E quelli che hanno pazienza nelle difficoltà, nella disgrazia e in tempo di guerra: quelli sono i veritieri e quelli sono i timorati.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
177. Al-Bir (dievobaimingumas, teisingumas ir visi paklusnūs Allahui veiksmai ir t. t.) nėra tai, kad jūs gręžiate veidus į rytus ir (arba) į vakarus (maldose). Tačiau Al-Bir yra (savybė) to, kuris tiki Allahą, Paskutiniąją Dieną, angelus, Knygas, Pranašus ir dalina savo turtą, nepaisydamas meilės jam, giminėms, našlaičiams ir Al-Masakin (vargingiesiems), ir keliautojams, ir tiems, kurie prašo, ir vergų išlaisvinimui. (Pamaldus yra tas, kuris) atlieka As-Salat (Ikamat-as-Salat), ir duoda Zakat, ir tas, kuris ištęsi savo pažadą, jį davęs, ir tas, kuris yra kantrus dideliam skurde ir negalavime (ligoje) ir kovos metu (per mūšius). Tokie yra tiesos žmonės ir jie yra Al-Mutakūn (dievobaimingieji - žr. aja 2:2).
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Русский · Russian
Благочестие не в том, чтобы вы обращали свои лица к востоку и к западу. Но благочестив тот, кто уверовал в Аллаха, в Последний день, в ангелов, в Писание и в пророков; кто, несмотря на любовь к имуществу, отдавал его близким родственникам, сиротам, беднякам, путнику, просящим и на освобождение рабов; кто выстаивал молитву и выплачивал закят; кто соблюдал свои договоры, когда заключал их; и кто был терпелив в нужде и беде и во время битвы. Такие — те, которые правдивы, и именно они — богобоязненные.
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Српски · Serbian
Није честитост у томе да окрећете лица своја према истоку и западу; честити су они који верују у Аллаха, и у Будући свет, и у анђеле, и у књиге, и у веровеснике, и који од иметка, иако им је драг, дају рођацима, и сирочадима, и сиромасима, и путницима, и просјацима, и за откуп из ропства, и који молитву обављају и обавезну милостињу дају, и који обавезу своју, када је преузму, испуњавају, нарочито они који су издржљиви у неимаштини, и у болести, и у боју љутом. Они су искрени верници, и они се Аллаха боје и ружних поступака клоне.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Siyo wema kuwa mnaelekeza nyuso zenu upande wa mashariki na magharibi. Bali wema ni wa anayemuamini Mwenyezi Mungu na Siku ya Mwisho na Malaika na Kitabu na Manabii. Na anawapa mali - licha ya kuipenda - jamaa na mayatima na masikini na wasafiri, na waombao, na katika ukombozi. Na akawa anashika Swala, na akatoa Zaka, na wanaotimiza agano lao wanapoahidi, na wanaovumilia katika shida na dhara na wakati wa vita. Hao ndio walio sadikisha, na hao ndio wacha Mungu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Fromhet är inte att ni vänder era ansikten mot öst eller väst. Fromhet har snarare den som tror på Gud och den yttersta dagen och på änglarna och skrifterna och sändebuden, och som ger den egendom han håller kär till släktingar, och till de faderlösa, och till behövande, och till resenären i nöd, och till de som ber om hjälp och [i syfte att friköpa] slavar; och som förrättar bönen och ger allmosan, liksom de som håller sina avtal när de slutit dem, och de som är tålmodiga i tider av fattigdom och sjukdom och i stridens hetta. Det är dessa som är sannfärdiga och det är dessa som är gudfruktiga.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Yüzlerinizi doğu ve batı yönüne döndürmeniz iyilik değildir. Fakat iyilik Allah’a, ahiret gününe, meleklere, kitaba ve peygamberlere iman eden, malına olan sevgisine rağmen; akrabaya, yetimlere, yoksullara, yolda kalmışlara, isteyenlere, kölelere ve esirlere veren, namazı dosdoğru kılan, zekâtı veren, sözleştikleri zaman sözlerini yerine getiren, sıkıntıda, hastalıkta ve savaşta sabredenlerin yaptıklarıdır. İşte doğru ve takvalı olanlar onlardır.
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اردو · Urdu
ساری اچھائی مشرق ومغرب کی طرف منھ کرنے میں ہی نہیں[1] بلکہ حقیقتاً اچھا وه شخص ہے جو اللہ تعالی پر، قیامت کے دن پر، فرشتوں پر، کتاب اللہ پر اور نبیوں پر ایمان رکھنے واﻻ ہو، جو مال سے محبت کرنے کے باوجود قرابت داروں، یتیموں، مسکینوں، مسافروں اور سوال کرنے والے کو دے، غلاموں کو آزاد کرے، نماز کی پابندی اور زکوٰة کی ادائیگی کرے، جب وعده کرے تب اسے پورا کرے، تنگدستی، دکھ درد اور لڑائی کے وقت صبر کرے، یہی سچے لوگ ہیں اور یہی پرہیزگار ہیں۔
Translated by Muhammad Ibrahim Junagarhi, developed under the supervision of the Rowwad Translation Center. The original translation is available for the purpose of expressing opinion, evaluation, and continuous development.
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5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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Talal Itani2012 It is they who exchange guidance for error, and forgiveness for punishment. But why do they insist on the Fire?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those are they who purchase error at the price of guidance, and torment at the price of pardon. How constant are they in their strife to reach the Fire
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They who sell guidance for error, and pardon for torment, how patient must they be of fire
John Medows Rodwell1861 These are they who have bartered guidance for error, and pardon for torment; But how great their endurance in fire
George Sale1734 These are they who have sold direction for error, and pardon for punishment: But how great will their suffering be in the fire
Talal Itani2012 That is because God has revealed the Book in truth; and those who differ about the Book are in deep discord.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That is because Allah hath revealed the Scripture with the truth. Lo! those who find (a cause of) disagreement in the Scripture are in open schism
Edward Henry Palmer1880 That (is), because God has revealed the Book with truth, and verily those who disagree about the Book are in a wide schism
John Medows Rodwell1861 This shall be their doom, because God had sent down "the Book" with the very truth. And verily they who dispute about that Book are in a far-gone severance from it
George Sale1734 This they shall endure, because God sent down the book of the Koran with truth, and they who disagree concerning that book, are certainly in a wide mistake
Talal Itani2012 O you who believe! Retaliation for the murdered is ordained upon you: the free for the free, the slave for the slave, the female for the female. But if he is forgiven by his kin, then grant any reasonable demand, and pay with good will. This is a concession from your Lord, and a mercy. But whoever commits aggression after that, a painful torment awaits him.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the murdered; the freeman for the freeman, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female. And for him who is forgiven somewhat by his (injured) brother, prosecution according to usage and payment unto him in kindness. This is an alleviation and a mercy from your Lord. He who transgresseth after this will have a painful doom
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you for the slain: the free for the free, the slave for the slave, the female for the female; yet he who is pardoned at all by his brother, must be prosecuted in reason, and made to pay with kindness. That is an alleviation from your Lord, and a mercy; and he who transgresses after that for him is grievous woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 O believers! retaliation for bloodshedding is prescribed to you: the free man for the free, and the slave for the slave, and the woman for the woman: but he to whom his brother shall make any remission, is to be dealt with equitably; and to him should he pay a fine with liberality. This is a relaxation from your Lord and a mercy. For him who after his shall transgress, a sore punishment
George Sale1734 O true believers, the law of retaliation is ordained you for the slain: The free shall die for the free, and the servant for the servant, and a woman for a woman: But he whom his brother shall forgive, may be prosecuted, and obliged to make satisfaction according to what is just, and a fine shall be set on him with humanity. This is indulgence from your Lord, and mercy. And he who shall transgress after this, by killing the murderer, shall suffer a grievous punishment
These figures count the words the translations share. They measure wording, not meaning, and they do not say which translation is right.
Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.62 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
computed, not judged.
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
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Talal Itani · George Sale0.66
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.62
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.53
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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.
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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.