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Yet ye were those who slay your kinsmen and turn a party out of their homes, and back each other up against them with sin and enmity. But if they come to you as captives ye ransom them!- and yet it is as unlawful for you to turn them out. Do ye then believe in part of the Book and disbelieve in part? But the reward of such among you as do that shall be noughtelse but disgrace in this worldly life, and on the day of the resurrection shall they be driven to the most grievous torment, for God is not unmindful of what ye do
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
But here you are, killing your own, and expelling a group of your own from their homes-conspiring against them in wrongdoing and hostility. And if they come to you as captives, you ransom them, although it was forbidden to you. Is it that you believe in part of the Scripture, and disbelieve in part? What is the reward for those among you who do that but humiliation in this life? And on the Day of Resurrection, they will be assigned to the most severe torment. God is not unaware of what you do.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Yet ye it is who slay each other and drive out a party of your people from their homes, supporting one another against them by sin and transgression? - and if they came to you as captives ye would ransom them, whereas their expulsion was itself unlawful for you - Believe ye in part of the Scripture and disbelieve ye in part thereof? And what is the reward of those who do so saveignominy in the life of the world, and on the Day of Resurrection they will be consigned to the most grievous doom. For Allah is not unaware of what ye do
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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
John Medows Rodwell1808–1900 · published 1861
Then were ye the very persons who slew one another; and ye drove out a part of your own people from their abodes; ye lenthelp against them with wrong and hatred; but if they come captives to you, ye redeem them! - Yet it was forbidden you to drive them out. Believe ye then part of the Book, and deny part? But what shall be the meed of him among you who doth this, but shame in this life? And on the day of the Resurrection they shall be sent to the most cruel of torments, for God is not regardless of what ye do
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Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Afterwards ye were they who slew one another, and turned several of your brethren out of their houses, mutuallyassisting each other against them with injustice and enmity; but if they come captives unto you, ye redeem them: Yet it is equally unlawful for you to dispossess them. Do ye therefore believe in part of the book of the law, and reject other part thereof? But whoso among you doth this, shall have no other reward than shame in this life, and on the day of resurrection they shall be sent to a most grievous punishment; for God is not regardless of that which ye do
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
Megjithatë, jeni ju ata që vrisni njëri-tjetrin dhe dëboni një grup prej jush nga vendbanimi i tyre, duke bashkëpunuar kundër tyre padrejtësisht e armiqësisht. Ndërkaq, kur ju vijnë të robëruar, ju i lironi ata (duke paguar shpërblesë), ndonëse dëbimi i tyre është i ndaluar për ju. Pra, a i besoni një pjese të Librit (Teuratit), ndërsa e mohoni pjesën tjetër?! E çfarë mund të presin tjetër ata që veprojnë kështu, përveç poshtërimit në jetën e kësaj bote, kurse në Ditën e Kiametit do të dërgohen në dënimin më të rëndë! Allahu nuk është i pavëmendshëm ndaj asaj që veproni.
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বাংলা · Bengali
এই সুদৃঢ় অঙ্গীকার করার পরেও তোমরাই তো তারা, যারা আজ নিজেরা পরস্পরকে হত্যা করছো, তোমাদেরই এক দল আরেক দলকে তাদের গৃহ থেকে বের করে দিচ্ছো। তোমরা পাপ (অবিচার) ও সীমালঙ্ঘনের মাধ্যমে তাদের বিরুদ্ধে সহায়তা করছো। আর তারা যদি যুদ্ধবন্দি হয়ে তোমাদের নিকট আসে, তোমরা মুক্তিপণ দিয়ে তাদেরকে মুক্ত করো; অথচ তাদেরকে বের করাই তোমাদের জন্য হারাম ছিল। তাহলে তোমরা কি কিতাবের কিছু অংশে ঈমান রাখো, আর কিছু অংশ অস্বীকার করো? সুতরাং তোমাদের মধ্যে যারা তা করে দুনিয়ার জীবনে লাঞ্ছনা ছাড়া তাদের আর কী বা প্রতিদান হতে পারে? আর কিয়ামতের দিনে তাদেরকে কঠিনতম শাস্তিতে নিক্ষেপ করা হবে। আর তোমরা যা করো, আল্লাহ সে সম্পর্কে অনবহিত নন।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Nakon toga, vi ipak, jedni druge ubijate, a pojedine od vas i iz zavičaja njihovog istjerujete, pomažući se protiv njih, uz grijeh i nasilje, pa ako vam kao sužnji dođu, vi ih otkupljujete. A zabranjeno vam je da ih izgonite! Zar vi u jedan dio Knjige vjerujete, a drugi negirate?! Nikakve kazne za one od vas koji tako čine, sem poniženja na ovome svijetu, neće biti, a na Kijametskom danu bit će stavljeni na muke najteže! Allah, doista, nije nemaran prema onome što vi radite.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Nakon toga, vi ipak jedni druge ubijate, a pojedine od vas i iz zavičaja njihovog istjerujete, pomažući se protiv njih, uz grijeh i nasilje, pa ako vam kao sužnji dođu, vi ih otkupljujete. A zabranjeno vam je da ih izgonite! Zar vi u jedan dio Knjige vjerujete, a drugi negirate?! Nikakve kazne za one od vas koji tako čine, sem poniženja na ovome svijetu, neće biti, a na Sudnjem danu bit će stavljeni na muke najteže! Allah, doista, nije nemaran prema onome što vi radite.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Rewi heen onon ɓee oɗon mbara ko'e mon oɗon njaltina yimɓe e mon galleeji maɓɓe, oɗon peññina tooñe mon e maɓɓe, si ɓe arii e mon dahaaɓe coodtiɗon ɓe yaltingol ɓe na harmi he mon, mbela on goongɗinat yoga he deftere ndee njeddon yoga heen kala he mon waɗooɓe ɗum njoɓdi maɓɓe ko koyeera weejo aduna ñande darnga ɓe nduttee he lette ɓurɗe bonde Alla noon yeebotaako ko ngolloton koo.
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ქართული · Georgian
შემდეგ კი თქვენ (ო, იუდეველებო, მედინაში) ერთმანეთს კლავდით, და თქვენგან ერთ ნაწილს აძევებდით მათი საცხოვრებელი ადგილებიდან, მათზე აღმატებულობის მოპოვებით ცოდვითა და მტრობით. და (ომის შემდეგ), როცა ტყვეები მოდიოდნენ თქვენთან, თქვენ მათ გამოსყიდვას ახდენდით (ტყვეობიდან გასათავისუფლებლად), მაშინ როცა თქვენთვის აკრძალული იყო მათი გაძევებაც კი. ნუთუ თქვენ გწამთ წერილის [თორას] ერთი ნაწილისა (რომ ტყვეთა გამოსყიდვა დასაშვებია) და უარყოფთ მის სხვა ნაწილს (არ თვლით ცოდვად თანამოძმეების მკვლელობას და მათ გაძევებას)? და რა არის საზღაური იმათთვის თქვენგან, ვინც ამას სჩადის თუ არა სირცხვილი და დამცირება ამქვეყნიურ ცხოვრებაში, ხოლო აღდგომის დღეს ისინი დაბრუნებულნი იქნებიან უმკაცრეს სასჯელში [ჯოჯოხეთში]. და ალლაჰი არ არის უყურადღებო იმის მიმართ, რასაც თქვენ აკეთებთ!
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Deutsch · German
Dennoch seid (gerade) ihr es, (da) ihr einander tötet und eine Gruppe von euch aus ihren Wohnstätten vertreibt, indem ihr einander in Sünde und feindseligem Vorgehen gegen sie beisteht. Und wenn sie als Gefangene zu euch kommen, kauft ihr sie los, wo euch doch ihre Vertreibung verboten worden ist. Glaubt ihr denn an einen Teil der Schrift und verleugnet einen anderen (Teil)? Die Vergeltung für diejenigen unter euch, die dies tun, ist nichts als Schande im diesseitigen Leben. Und am Tag der Auferstehung werden sie der härtesten Strafe zugeführt werden. Und Allah ist nicht unachtsam dessen, was ihr tut.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Και ορίστε, έπειτα από αυτό, εσείς σκοτώνετε ο ένας τον άλλον και εκδιώκετε η μια ομάδα από σας την άλλη από τα σπίτια της, ζητώντας τη βοήθεια (από τους εχθρούς της άλλης) εναντίον της (για να την εκδιώκετε) άδικα και με παραβίαση (των δικαιωμάτων τους). Όμως, αν έρχονται σ’ εσάς ως αιχμάλωτοι τους εξαγοράζετε, παρότι η εκδίωξή τους εξ αρχής ήταν απαγορευμένη για σας. Πιστεύετε, λοιπόν, σε ένα μέρος του Βιβλίου (Τορά) και αρνείστε άλλο μέρος; Η ανταμοιβή αυτών από σας που έκαναν έτσι, δεν θα είναι παρά η ατίμωση κατά την εγκόσμια ζωή, και την Ημέρα της Κρίσεως θα σταλούν στην αυστηρότερη τιμωρία. Και ο Αλλάχ δεν αγνοεί ό,τι κάνετε.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर[39] तुम ही वे लोग हो कि अपने आपकी हत्या करते हो और अपने में से एक गिरोह को उनके घरों से निकालते हो, उनके विरुद्ध पाप तथा अत्याचार के साथ एक-दूसरे की मदद करते हो और यदि वे बंदी होकर तुम्हारे पास आएँ, तो उनका फ़िदया देते हो, हालाँकि उन्हें निकालना ही तुमपर ह़राम (निषिद्ध) है। तो क्या तुम पुस्तक के कुछ भाग पर ईमान रखते हो और कुछ का इनकार करते हो? फिर तुममें से जो ऐसा करे, उसका प्रतिफल इसके सिवा क्या है कि सांसारिक जीवन में अपमान हो तथा क़ियामत के दिन वे अत्यंत कठोर यातना (अज़ाब) की ओर लौटाए जाएँगे? और अल्लाह बिलकुल उससे असावधान नहीं जो तुम करते हो!
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Italiano · Italian
Ma eccovi che vi uccidete, e fate uscire una parte di voi dalle loro case, peccando e trasgredendo contro di loro – e se loro dovessero tornare a voi come schiavi, li riscattereste – ed è un peccato per voi esiliarli. Ma come, credete in una parte del Libro e negate l’altra? Chi fa questo, tra voi, non avrà altro che l’umiliazione in vita, e nel Giorno del Giudizio sarà fatto tornare alla grande punizione, e Allāh non è distratto circa ciò che fate.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
85. Ir po to, tai jūs, kurie žudote vienas kitą ir išvarote jūsiškių grupę iš jų namų, padedami (jų priešams) prieš juos nuodėmėje ir nusižengime. Ir jei atitenka jie jums kaip belaisviai, jūs išperkate juos, nors jų išvarymas jums buvo uždraustas. Ar jūs tikite dalimi Rašto, bet atmetate kitą? Tagi koks atlygis tiems iš jūsų, kurie taip elgiasi, jei ne nemalonė šiame gyvenime, o Prikėlimo Dieną jie bus pasiųsti į pačią skausmingiausią kankynę. Ir Allahas nėra nežinantis apie tai, ką jūs darote.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Ergasii isin yaa jarana lubbuu keessan (wal) ajjeeftan. garee isin irraa ta’e manneen isaanii irraa baaftan; isaan irrattis badiifi diinummaan wal gargaartan. Yoo isaan booji’amtoota ta’anii isinitti dhufan immoo isaan bilisoomsitan. inni dhoowwaadha isinirratti isaan baasuun. Sila garii kitaabaatti amantanii gariitti kafartanii? galanni nama isin irraa kana hojjatuu jireenya addunyaa keessatti salphina malee hin taane. Guyyaa Qiyaamaa gara azaaba cimaa deebifamu. Rabbiin waan isin dalagdan irraa dagataa hin taane. [33]
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Русский · Russian
Затем именно вы убиваете друг друга и изгоняете некоторых из вас из их жилищ, помогая против них грехом и враждой. А если они приходят к вам пленными — вы их выкупаете, хотя вам запретно [само] их изгнание. Неужели вы веруете в одну часть Писания и отвергаете другую? Каково же воздаяние тем из вас, кто поступает так, кроме позора в мирской жизни? В День воскресения они будут возвращены к ещё более суровому наказанию, и Аллах вовсе не в неведении о том, что вы совершаете.
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Српски · Serbian
Након тога, ви ипак једни друге убијате, а поједине од вас и из завичаја њихових протерујете, помажући се против њих, уз грех и насиље, а ако вам дођу као заробљеници, ви их откупљујете. А забрањено вам је да их изгоните! Зар ви у један део Књиге верујете, а други негирате?! Онога од вас који тако ради стићи ће на овоме свету понижење, а на Судњем дану биће стављен на најтеже муке. А Аллах, заиста, није немаран према ономе што ви радите.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Kisha nyinyi kwa nyinyi mnauwana, na mnawatoa baadhi yenu majumbani mwao, mkisaidiana (na adui zao) dhidi yao kwa dhambi na uadui. Na wakikujieni wakiwa mateka, mnawakomboa, na hali mlikatazwa kuwatoa. Je, mnaamini baadhi ya Kitabu na mnamkufuru baadhi yake? Basi ni yapi malipo ya mwenye kutenda hayo miongoni mwenu ila aibu katika maisha ya duniani, na Siku ya Kiyama watapelekwa kwenye adhabu kali kabisa. Na Mwenyezi Mungu si mwenye kughafilika mbali na yale mnayoyatenda.
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Svenska · Swedish
Trots det dödar ni varandra och driver ut en grupp av er från deras hem och motarbetar dem med synd och överträdelse. Om de kommer till er som krigsfångar köper ni dem fria, fast det var förbjudet för er att jaga bort dem [redan från början]. Tror ni på vissa delar av skriften och förnekar andra? Vad ska då lönen bli för den som gör så, om inte förnedring i detta liv? Och på uppståndelsens dag ska de utlämnas till det hårdaste straffet. Gud är inte omedveten om vad ni gör.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Ama siz, birbirinizi öldüren, içinizden bir kesime karşı kötülük ve zulümde yardımlaşarak size haram olduğu hâlde onları yurtlarından çıkaran, size esir olarak geldiklerinde ise fidye verip kendilerini kurtaran kimselersiniz. Yoksa siz kitabın (Tevrat’ın) bir kısmına inanıp, bir kısmını inkâr mı ediyorsunuz? Şu hâlde içinizden böyle yapanın cezası dünya hayatında rezil olmak ve kıyamet gününde azabın en şiddetlisine uğratılmaktan başka bir şey değildir. Çünkü Allah, yaptıklarınızdan habersiz değildir.
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اردو · Urdu
لیکن پھر بھی تم نے آپس میں قتل کیا اورآپس کے ایک فرقے کو جلا وطن بھی کیا اور گناه اور زیادتی کے کاموں میں ان کے خلاف دوسرے کی طرفداری کی، ہاں جب وه قیدی ہو کر تمہارے پاس آئے تو تم نے ان کے فدیے دیئے، لیکن ان کا نکالنا جو تم پر حرام تھا (اس کا کچھ خیال نہ کیا) کیا بعض احکام پر ایمان رکھتے ہو اور بعض کے ساتھ کفر کرتے ہو؟[1] تم میں سے جو بھی ایسا کرے، اس کی سزا اس کے سوا کیا ہو کہ دنیا میں رسوائی اور قیامت کے دن سخت عذاب کی مار، اور اللہ تعالیٰ تمہارے اعمال سے بےخبر نہیں
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Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the
same edition and their orthography differs.
Talal Itani2012 We made a covenant with the Children of Israel: "Worship none but God; and be good to parents, and relatives, and orphans, and the needy; and speak nicely to people; and pray regularly, and give alms." Then you turned away, except for a few of you, recanting.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And (remember) when We made a covenant with the Children of Israel, (saying): Worship none save Allah (only), and be good to parents and to kindred and to orphans and the needy, and speak kindly to mankind; and establish worship and pay the poor-due. Then, after that, ye slid back, save a few of you, being averse
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when we took from the children of Israel a covenant, saying, 'Serve ye none but God, and to your two parents show kindness, and to your kindred and the orphans and the poor, and speak to men kindly, and be steadfast in prayer, and give alms;' and then ye turned back, save a few of you, and swerved aside
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when we entered into covenant with the children of Israel, we said, "Worship none but God, and be good to your parents and kindred, and to orphans, and to the poor, and speak with men what is right, and observe prayer, and pay the stated alms." Then turned ye away, except a few of you, and withdrew afar off
George Sale1734 Remember also, when We accepted the covenant of the children of Israel, saying, ye shall not worship any other except God, and ye shall shew kindness to your parents and kindred, and to orphans, and to the poor, and speak that which is good unto men; and be constant at prayer, and give alms. Afterwards ye turned back, except a few of you, and retired afar off
DIN 31635waʾiḏ ʾaḫaḏnā mīṯāqakum lā tasfikūna dimāʾakum walā tuḫriǧūna ʾanfusakum min diyārikum ṯumma ʾaqrartum waʾantum tašhadūna
Talal Itani2012 And We made a covenant with you: "You shall not shed the blood of your own, nor shall you evict your own from your homes." You agreed, and were all witnesses.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when We made with you a covenant (saying): Shed not the blood of your people nor turn (a party of) your people out of your dwellings. Then ye ratified (Our covenant) and ye were witnesses (thereto)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when we took covenant from you, 'shed ye not your kinsmans blood, nor turn your kinsmen out of their homes:' then did ye confirm it and were witnesses thereto
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when we made a covenant with you that ye should not shed your own blood, nor expel one another from your abodes, then ye ratified it and yourselves were witnesses
George Sale1734 And when We accepted your covenant, saying, ye shall not shed your brothers blood, nor dispossess one another of your habitations. Then ye confirmed it, and were witnesses thereto
Talal Itani2012 Those are they who bought the present life for the Hereafter, so the punishment will not be lightened for them, nor will they be helped.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Such are those who buy the life of the world at the price of the Hereafter. Their punishment will not be lightened, neither will they have support
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Those who have bought this worldly life with the Future, the torment shall not be lightened from them nor shall they be helped
John Medows Rodwell1861 These are they who purchase this present life at the price of that which is to come: their torment shall not be lightened, neither shall they be helped
George Sale1734 These are they who have purchased this present life, at the price of that which is to come; wherefore their punishment shall not be mitigated, neither shall they be helped
Talal Itani2012 We gave Moses the Scripture, and sent a succession of messengers after him. And We gave Jesus son of Mary the clear proofs, and We supported him with the Holy Spirit. Is it that whenever a messenger comes to you with anything your souls do not desire, you grew arrogant, calling some impostors, and killing others?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And verily We gave unto Moses the Scripture and We caused a train of messengers to follow after him, and We gave unto Jesus, son of Mary, clear proofs (of Allah's sovereignty), and We supported him with the Holy spirit. Is it ever so, that, when there cometh unto you a messenger (from Allah) with that which ye yourselves desire not, ye grow arrogant, and some ye disbelieve and some ye slay
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We gave Moses the Book and we followed him up with other apostles, and we gave Jesus the son of Mary manifest signs and aided him with the Holy Spirit. Do ye then, every time an apostle comes to you with what your souls love not, proudly scorn him, and charge a part with lying and slay a part
John Medows Rodwell1861 Moreover, to Moses gave we "the Book," and we raised up apostles after him; and to Jesus, son of Mary, gave we clear proofs of his mission, and strengthened him by the Holy Spirit. So oft then as an apostle cometh to you with that which your souls desire not, swell ye with pride, and treat some as impostors, and slay others
George Sale1734 We formerly delivered the book of the law unto Moses, and caused Apostles to succeed him, and gave evident miracles to Jesus the son of Mary, and strengthened him with the holy spirit. Do ye therefore, whenever an Apostle cometh unto you with that which your souls desire not, proudly reject him, and accuse some of imposture, and slay others
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 —
0.57 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 · George Sale0.66
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.52
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.51
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
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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.