Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.78. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Alif, Lam, Meem.
A. L. M.
Luqman لقمان
- Luqman
- 34 verses
- 546 words
- Meccan
- 57th of 114 in revelation order
- Opens with الٓمٓ
In plain wordsEditorial
An editorial summary of the translations. Not a translation or tafsir.
Thirty-four verses built around a father's advice to his son, quoted directly: do not associate anything with God, be grateful, be moderate in your walk, lower your voice — the harshest of voices is the braying of a donkey. It takes its name from the man giving it, described as having been given wisdom. It opens with disconnected letters.
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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: 0.76. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.85.Whoever submits himself wholly to God, and is a doer of good, has grasped the most trustworthy handle. With God rests the outcome of all events.
Whosoever surrendereth his purpose to Allah while doing good, he verily hath grasped the firm hand-hold. Unto Allah belongeth the sequel of all things
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Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.75. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.85.And do not treat people with arrogance, nor walk proudly on earth. God does not love the arrogant showoffs.
Turn not thy cheek in scorn toward folk, nor walk with pertness in the land. Lo! Allah loveth not each braggart boaster
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.72. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.83.O my son, observe the prayer, advocate righteousness, forbid evil, and be patient over what has befallen you. These are of the most honorable traits.
O my dear son! Establish worship and enjoin kindness and forbid iniquity, and persevere whatever may befall thee. Lo! that is of the steadfast heart of things
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.72. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.83.And if a wave enshroudeth them like awnings, they cry unto Allah, making their faith pure for Him only. But when He bringeth them safe to land, some of them compromise. None denieth Our signs save every traitor ingrate
When the waves cover them like dark shadows they call upon God as with sincere religion; but when He safely landeth them, some of them there are who halt between two opinions. Yet none reject our signs but all deceitful, ungrateful ones
More about this surahDerived
- Verses
- 34
- Words
- 546
- Place
- Meccan
- Revelation position
- 57th of 114 in an ordering its source does not name
- Opening letters
- الٓمٓ one of 29 surahs that open this way
- Bismillah
- Carried by the surah, unnumbered
- Word-by-word breakdown
- 60.4% of 546 words carry an analysis
- 96
- 68
- 73
- 74
- 1
- 111
- 81
- 87
- 92
- 89
- 93
- 94
- 103
- 100
- 108
- 102
- 107
- 109
- 105
- 113
- 114
- 112
- 53
- 80
- 97
- 91
- 85
- 95
- 106
- 101
- 75
- 104
- 77
- 50
- 90
- 86
- 54
- 38
- 7
- 72
- 36
- 25
- 35
- 19
- 20
- 56
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 17
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 15
- 6
- 37
- 31
- 34
- 39
- 40
- 41
- 42
- 43
- 44
- 45
- 46
- 51
- 88
- 18
- 16
- 71
- 14
- 21
- 23
- 32
- 52
- 67
- 69
- 70
- 78
- 79
- 82
- 84
- 30
- 29
- 83
- 2
- 8
- 3
- 33
- 60
- 4
- 99
- 57
- 47
- 13
- 55
- 76
- 65
- 98
- 59
- 24
- 22
- 63
- 58
- 49
- 66
- 64
- 61
- 62
- 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
- 0.61 across 34 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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