Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.76. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Ta, Seen, Meem.
T. S. M.
Al-Qasas القصص
- The Stories
- 88 verses
- 1,430 words
- Meccan
- 49th of 114 in revelation order
- Opens with طسٓمٓ
In plain wordsEditorial
An editorial summary of the translations. Not a translation or tafsir.
Eighty-eight verses on Moses before he is a prophet: the basket on the river, the household that raises him, the man he strikes and kills, the flight to Madyan, the years of work for a bride price, and the fire on the mountain on the road back. Late in it comes Qarun, whose wealth and whose house the earth swallows. It opens with disconnected letters.
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worded differently
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 0.83.But We brought forth generations, and their lives dragged on for them. And thou wast not a dweller in Midian, reciting unto them Our revelations, but We kept sending (messengers to men)
But we raised up generations after Moses, men whose days were lengthened; neither didst thou dwell among the inhabitants of Madian to rehearse to them our signs, but we sent Apostles to them
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Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.72. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.82.You did not expect the Scripture to be transmitted to you, except as mercy from your Lord. Therefore, do not be a supporter of the disbelievers.
Thou didst never expect that the Book would be given thee. Of thy Lord's mercy only hath it been sent down. Be not thou helpful then to the unbelievers
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.71. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.83.Whoever brings a virtue will receive better than it. But whoever brings evil-the evildoers will be rewarded only according to what they used to do.
Whoso doeth good shall have reward beyond its merits, and whoso doeth evil, they who do evil shall be rewarded only as they shall have wrought
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.70. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.89.But he who repents, and believes, and does righteous deeds, may well be among the winners.
Howbeit whoso shall repent and believe, and shall do that which is right, may expect to be happy
More about this surahDerived
- Verses
- 88
- Words
- 1,430
- Place
- Meccan
- Revelation position
- 49th of 114 in an ordering its source does not name
- Opening letters
- طسٓمٓ one of 29 surahs that open this way
- Bismillah
- Carried by the surah, unnumbered
- Word-by-word breakdown
- 59.2% of 1,430 words carry an analysis
- 96
- 68
- 73
- 74
- 1
- 111
- 81
- 87
- 92
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- 103
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- 53
- 80
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- 104
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- 50
- 90
- 86
- 54
- 38
- 7
- 72
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- 25
- 35
- 19
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- 56
- 26
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- 6
- 37
- 31
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- 51
- 88
- 18
- 16
- 71
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- 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
- 0.59 across 88 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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