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Talal Itani· published 2012
O you who believe! Do not be like those who disbelieved, and said of their brethren who marched in the land, or went on the offensive, "Had they stayed with us, they would not have died or been killed." So that God may make it a cause of regret in their hearts. God gives life and causes death. God is Seeing of what you do.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
O ye who believe! Be not as those who disbelieved and said of their brethren who went abroad in the land or were fighting in the field: If they had been (here) with us they would not have died or been killed: that Allah may make it anguish in their hearts. Allah giveth life and causeth death; and Allah is Seer 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
Edward Henry Palmer1840–1882 · published 1880
O ye who believe! be not like those who misbelieve, and say unto their brethren when they knock about in the earth, or are upon a raid, 'Had they but been at home, they had not died and had not been killed.' It was that God might make a sighing in their hearts, for God gives life and death; and God on what ye do doth look
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Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O ye who believe! be not like the infidels, who said of their brethren when they had travelled by land or had goneforth to war, "Had they kept with us, they had not died, and had not been slain!" God purposed that this affair should cause them heart sorrow! God makethalive and killeth; and God beholdeth your actions
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Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O truebelievers, be not as they who believed not, and said of their brethren, when they had journeyed in the land or had been at war, if they had been with us, those had not died, nor had these been slain: Whereas what befell them was so ordained that God might make it matter of sighing in their hearts. God giveth life, and causeth to die: And God seeth that which ye do
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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
O besimtarë! Mos u bëni si jobesimtarët (dyfytyrëshit) që u thoshin vëllezërve të tyre kur niseshin në udhëtim ose për në luftë: "Sikur të qëndronin me ne, nuk do të vdisnin dhe nuk do të vriteshin", ashtu që Allahu ta bëjë këtë dëshpërim për zemrat e tyre. Allahu është Ai që jep jetë dhe vdekje. Allahu sheh mirë çdo gjë që bëni.
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বাংলা · Bengali
হে মুমিনগণ! তোমরা তাদের (মুনাফিকদের) মতো হয়ো না যারা কুফরী করে এবং তাদের ভাইয়েরা যখন (রিযিকের অনুসন্ধানে) বিভিন্ন দেশে ভ্রমণ করে বা যুদ্ধে যায় (এবং সেখানে মারা যায়) তখন তাদের সম্পর্কে বলে: ‘তারা যদি আমাদের কাছে থাকতো তবে তারা মারা যেতো না এবং নিহতও হতো না।’ আর আল্লাহ তাদের এ ধরনের কথাকে তাদের মনের দুঃখ ও দুশ্চিন্তার কারণ বানিয়ে দেন। প্রকৃতপক্ষে আল্লাহই জীবন দান করেন ও মৃত্যু ঘটান। আর আল্লাহ তোমাদের সমস্ত কার্যাবলীর ওপর দৃষ্টিদানকারী।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
O vi koji vjerujete, ne budite kao oni koji ne vjeruju i koji govore za braću svoju, kada se na put po svijetu otisnu ili se budu borili: "Da su bili s nama, ne bi umrli, niti bi poginuli!" Jer, Allah time čini tugu u srcima njihovim, a Allah daje i život i smrt. On dobro vidi ono što vi radite.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
O vi koji vjerujete, ne budite kao oni, koji ne vjeruju i koji govore za braću svoju, kada se na put po svijetu otisnu ili se budu borili: "Da su bili s nama, ne bi umrli, niti bi poginuli!" Jer, Allah time čini tugu u srcima njihovim, a Allah daje i život, i smrt. On dobro vidi ono što vi radite.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Hey mon yo goŋɗinɓe, wata on wa'u wa ɓen heeferɓe ɓe wi'ani siɗɓe maɓɓe ɓen : "Si ɓe njehii ka leydi, maa ɓe laatike haɓooɓe, si ɓe laatino ka amen goo, ɓe waretanooke", ko fii yo Alla Waɗir ɗum ɗon nimse ka ɓerɗe mo'on, Alla ko jioowo ko golloton kon.
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ქართული · Georgian
ჰეი, თქვენ, რომელთაც ირწმუნეთ! ნუ დაემსგავსებით იმათ, ვინც ურწმუნო გახდა და თავიანთ ძმებს (რწმენით) [მუნაფიყებს] ეუბნებოდნენ იმათზე, ვინც მათგან გარდაიცვალა ან დაიღუპა, როცა ისინი მოგზაურობდნენ მიწაზე (ვაჭრობის ან სხვა საქმისთვის) ან იყვნენ (საომარ) ლაშქრობაში: «რომ ყოფილიყვნენ ჩვენთან [არ გასულიყვნენ იმ გზაზე], არ მოკვდებოდნენ და არ დაიხოცებოდნენ». (ეს მოხდა) იმისათვის, რომ ალლაჰს ექცია ეს მათი გულებისთვის მწუხარებად. და ჭეშმარიტად, ალლაჰი აცოცხლებს და აკვდინებს, და ალლაჰი ხედავს იმას, რასაც თქვენ აკეთებთ.
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Deutsch · German
O die ihr glaubt, seid nicht wie diejenigen, die ungläubig waren und zu ihren Brüdern sagten, wenn sie im Lande umhergereist sind oder sich auf einem Kriegszug befunden haben: „Wären sie bei uns gewesen, wären sie nicht gestorben und nicht getötet worden.“ Dies, damit Allah das zu einem Kummer in ihren Herzen mache. Und Allah macht lebendig und lässt sterben, und Allah ist sehend über das, was ihr tut.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Ω, εσείς που πιστεύετε, μην γίνετε σαν εκείνους που αρνήθηκαν την πίστη και είπαν για τους συγγενείς τους που ταξίδεψαν στη γη (για κάποια δουλειά) ή συμμετείχαν σε κάποια μάχη (και πέθαναν ή σκοτώθηκαν): «Αν είχαν μείνει μαζί μας, δεν θα είχαν πεθάνει ή σκοτωθεί!» Ο Αλλάχ έκανε αυτά (τα λόγια που είπαν) να είναι θλίψη στις καρδιές τους. Και ο Αλλάχ είναι Αυτός που δίνει ζωή και την αφαιρεί, και ο Αλλάχ βλέπει ό,τι κάνετε.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
ऐ ईमान वालो! तुम उन लोगों के समान न हो जाओ, जिन्होंने कुफ़्र किया और अपने भाइयों के बारे में जबकि वे यात्रा पर गए हों या जिहाद के लिए निकले यह कहने लगे कि : यदि वे हमारे पास रहते तो न मरते और न क़त्ल किए जाते। (ऐसी बात उनके दिल में इसलिए आती है) ताकि अल्लाह इसे उनके दिलों में संताप का कारण बना दे। तथा अल्लाह ही जीवित करता और मृत्यु देता है। और तुम जो कुछ करते हो, अल्लाह उसे देख रहा है।
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Italiano · Italian
O credenti, non fate come i miscredenti che dissero ai loro confratelli, quando uscivano per i loro affari in terra, o a combattere: «Se fossero rimasti con noi non sarebbero morti, né sarebbero stati uccisi!», e Allāh instillò nei loro cuori il rimpianto. E Allāh dà la vita e dà la morte, e Allāh di ciò che fate è Osservatore.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
156. O jūs, kurie tikite! Nebūkite kaip tie, kurie netiki (veidmainiai) ir kurie sako savo broliams, kai jie keliauja žeme arba išeina kovoti: „Jei jie būtų pasilikę su mumis, jie nebūtų mirę arba nužudyti.“, tam, kad Allahas padarytų tai apgailestavimu jų širdyse. Tai Allahas, kuris suteikia gyvenimą arba sukelia mirtį. Ir Allahas yra Visa Matantis, ką jūs darote.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Yaa warra amantan! akka warra kafaranii hin ta’inaa, kan obboleeyyan isaaniitiin, yeroo isaan dachii keessa deeman yookiin loltoota ta'an “odoo (lolarraa hafanii) nu bira ta’anii silaa hin du’anu; hin ajjeefamanus” jedhanii. Rabbiin kana onneewwan isaanii keessatti gaabbii gochuuf (kana jedhan). Rabbiin ni jiraachisa; ni ajjeesas. Rabbiin waan isin dalagdan argaadha.
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Русский · Russian
О вы, которые уверовали! Не будьте как те, которые отвергли веру и сказали своим братьям, когда те отправлялись странствовать по земле или выступали в поход: «Если бы они были с нами, то не умерли бы и не были бы убиты» — и тем самым Аллах сделал это сожалением в их сердцах. Аллах оживляет и умерщвляет, и Аллах видит то, что вы совершаете.
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Српски · Serbian
О ви који верујете, не будите као они, који не верују и који говоре за браћу своју, када се на пут по свету отисну или се у борбу дају: „Да су били са нама, не би умрли, нити би погинули!“ Јер, Аллах тиме чини тугу у њиховим срцима, а Аллах даје и живот и смрт. Он добро види оно што ви радите.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Enyi mlioamini! Msiwe kama wale waliokufuru na wakawaambia ndugu zao wanaposafiri katika nchi au wanapokuwa vitani: 'Lau wangelikuwa nasi, wasingelikufa na wasingeliuwawa.' Ili Mwenyezi Mungu afanye hayo kuwa ni majuto makubwa katika nyoyo zao. Na Mwenyezi Mungu huhuisha na hufisha. Na Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mwenye kuyaona vyema mnayoyatenda.
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Svenska · Swedish
Troende! Var inte som de otrogna som säger om sina bröder när de gett sig ut på resa eller fallit i strid: ”Om de hade stannat hos oss hade de varken dött eller dödats!” Gud låter detta bli en källa till djup sorg i deras hjärtan. Det är Gud som ger liv och tar liv, och Gud har full insikt i allt ni gör.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Ey iman edenler! Kardeşleri sefere veya savaşa çıktığında onlar hakkında: “Onlar bizim yanımızda olsalardı, ölmezlerdi ve öldürülmezlerdi” diyen kâfirler gibi olmayın. Allah, bunu onların kalplerine dayanılmaz bir üzüntü olarak koydu. Yaşatan da öldüren de Allah’tır. Allah, yaptıklarınızı görmektedir.
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اردو · Urdu
اے ایمان والو! تم ان لوگوں کی طرح نہ ہو جانا جنہوں نے کفر کیا اور اپنے بھائیوں کے حق میں جب کہ وه سفر میں ہوں یا جہاد میں ہوں، کہا کہ اگر یہ ہمارے پاس ہوتے تو نہ مرتے اور نہ مارے جاتے[1] ، اس کی وجہ یہ تھی کہ اس خیال کو اللہ تعالیٰ ان کی دلی حسرت کا سبب بنا دے[2]، اللہ تعالیٰ جلاتا ہے اور مارتا ہے اور اللہ تمہارے عمل کو دیکھ رہا ہے.
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Easy-read (simplified)thumma anzala 'alaykum min ba'di l-ghammi amanatan nu'aasan yaghshaa taa'ifatan minkum wataa'ifatun qad ahammathum anfusuhum yazunnoona billaahi ghayra l-haqqi zanna l-jaahiliyyati yaqooloona hal lanaa mina l-'amri min shay'in qul inna l-'amra kullahu lillaahi yukhfoona fee anfusihim maa laa yubdoona laka yaqooloona law kaana lanaa mina l-'amri shay'un maa qutilnaa haahunaa qul law kuntum fee buyootikum labaraza lladheena kutiba 'alayhimu l-qatlu ilaa madaaji'ihim waliyabtaliya llaahu maa fee sudoorikum waliyumahhisa maa fee quloobikum wallaahu 'aleemun bidhaati s-sudoor
DIN 31635ṯumma ʾanzala ʿalaykum min baʿdi l-ġammi ʾamanatan nuʿāsan yaġšā ṭāʾifatan minkum waṭāʾifatun qad ʾahammathum ʾanfusuhum yaẓunnūna billāhi ġayra l-ḥaqqi ẓanna l-ǧāhiliyyati yaqūlūna hal lanā mina l-ʾamri min šayʾin qul ʾinna l-ʾamra kullahu lillāhi yuḫfūna fī ʾanfusihim mā lā yubdūna laka yaqūlūna law kāna lanā mina l-ʾamri šayʾun mā qutilnā hāhunā qul law kuntum fī buyūtikum labaraza llaḏīna kutiba ʿalayhimu l-qatlu ʾilā maḍāǧiʿihim waliyabtaliya llāhu mā fī ṣudūrikum waliyumaḥḥiṣa mā fī qulūbikum wallāhu ʿalīmun biḏāti ṣ-ṣudūri
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Then after the setback, He sent down security upon you. Slumber overcame some of you, while others cared only for themselves, thinking of God thoughts that were untrue-thoughts of ignorance-saying, "Is anything up to us?" Say, "Everything is up to God." They conceal within themselves what they do not reveal to you. And they say, "If it was up to us, none of us would have been killed here." Say, "Even if you Had stayed in your homes, those destined to be killed would have marched into their death beds." God thus tests what is in your minds, and purifies what is in your hearts. God knows what the hearts contain.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then, after grief, He sent down security for you. As slumber did it overcome a party of you, while (the other) party, who were anxious on their own account, thought wrongly of Allah, the thought of ignorance. They said: Have we any part in the cause? Say (O Muhammad): The cause belongeth wholly to Allah. They hide within themselves (a thought) which they reveal not unto thee, saying: Had we had any part in the cause we should not have been slain here. Say: Even though ye had been in your houses, those appointed to be slain would have gone forth to the places where they were to lie. (All this hath been) in order that Allah might try what is in your breasts and prove what is in your hearts. Allah is Aware of what is hidden in the breasts (of men)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then He sent down upon you after trouble safety,- drowsiness creeping over one company of you, and one company of you getting anxious about themselves, suspecting about God other than the truth, with the suspicion of the ignorant, and saying, 'Have we any chance in the affair?' Say, 'Verily, the affair is God's.' They conceal in themselves what they will not show to thee, and say, 'If we had any chance in the affair we should not be killed here.' Say, 'If ye were in your houses, surely those against whom slaughter was written down, would have gone forth to fight even to where they are lying now; that God may try what is in your breasts and assay what is in your hearts, for God doth know the nature of men's breasts
John Medows Rodwell1861 Then after the trouble God sent down security upon you. Slumber fell upon a part of you: as to the other part - their own passions stirred them up to think unjustly of God with thoughts of ignorance! They said - What gain we by this affair? SAY: Verily the affair resteth wholly with God. They hid in their minds what they did not speak out to thee, saying, "Were we to have gained aught in this affair, none of us had been slain at this place." SAY: Had ye remained in your homes, they who were decreed to be slain would have gone forth to the places where they lie: - in order that God might make trial of what was in your breasts, and might discover what was in your hearts, for God knoweth the very secrets of the breast
George Sale1734 Then he sent down upon you after affliction security; a soft sleep which fell on some part of you; but other part were troubled by their own souls; falsely thinking of God a foolish imagination, saying, will any thing of the matter happen unto us? Say, verily the matter belongeth wholly unto God. They concealed in their minds what they declared not unto thee; saying, if any thing of the matter had happened unto us, we had not been slain here. Answer, if ye had been in your houses, verily they would have gone forth to fight, whose slaughter was decreed, to the places where they died, and this came to pass that God might try what was in your breasts, and might discern what was in your hearts; for God knoweth the innermost parts of the breasts of men
Talal Itani2012 Those of you who turned back on the day when the two armies clashed-it was Satan who caused them to backslide, on account of some of what they have earned. But God has forgiven them. God is Forgiving and Prudent.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! those of you who turned back on the day when the two hosts met, Satan alone it was who caused them to backslide, because of some of that which they have earned. Now Allah hath forgiven them. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Clement
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, those of you who turned your backs on that day when the two armies met, it was but Satan who made them slip for something they had earned. But God has now pardoned them; verily, God is forgiving and clement
John Medows Rodwell1861 Of a truth it was Satan alone who caused those of you to fail in duty who turned back on the day when the hosts met, for some of their doings! But now hath God pardoned them; For God is Forgiving, Gracious
George Sale1734 Verily they among you who turned their backs on the day whereon the two armies met each other at Ohod, Satan caused them so slip, for some crime which they had committed: But now hath God forgiven them; for God is gracious and merciful
Easy-read (simplified)wala'in qutiltum fee sabeeli llaahi aw muttum lamaghfiratun mina llaahi warahmatun khayrun mimmaa yajma'oon
DIN 31635walaʾin qutiltum fī sabīli llāhi ʾaw muttum lamaġfiratun mina llāhi waraḥmatun ḫayrun mimmā yaǧmaʿūna
Talal Itani2012 If you are killed in the cause of God, or die-forgiveness and mercy from God are better than what they hoard.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And what though ye be slain in Allah's way or die therein? Surely pardon from Allah and mercy are better than all that they amass
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And if, indeed, ye be killed in God's way or die, surely forgiveness from God and mercy is better than what ye gather
John Medows Rodwell1861 And if ye shall be slain or die on the path of God, then pardon from God and mercy is better than all your amassings
George Sale1734 Moreover if ye be slain, or die in defence of the religion of God; verily pardon from God, and mercy is better than what they heap together of worldly riches
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 —
0.63 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
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.76
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.72
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.69
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.63
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.58
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.56
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.43
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.
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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.