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A believing man from Pharaoh's family, who had concealed his faith, said, "Are you going to kill a man for saying, `My Lord is God,' and he has brought you clear proofs from your Lord? If he is a liar, his lying will rebound upon him; but if he is truthful, then some of what he promises you will befall you. God does not guide the extravagant imposter.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And a believing man of Pharaoh's family, who hid his faith, said: Would ye kill a man because he saith: My Lord is Allah, and hath brought you clear proofs from your Lord? If he is lying, then his lie is upon him; and if he is truthful, then some of that wherewith he threateneth you will strike you. Lo! Allah guideth not one who is a prodigal, a liar
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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
And a believing man of Pharaoh's people, who concealed his faith, said, 'Will ye kill a man for saying, My Lord is God, when he has come to you with manifest signs from your Lord? and if he be a liar, against him is his lie; and if he be truthful, there will befall you somewhat of that which he threatens you; verily, God guides not him who is an extravagant liar
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Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And a man of the family of Pharaoh, who was a BELIEVER, but hid his faith, said, "Will ye slay a man because he saith my Lord is God, when he hath already come to you with proofs of his mission from your Lord? and if he be a liar, on him will be his lie: but if he be a man of truth, part at least of what he threateneth will fall upon you. Truly God guideth not him who is a transgressor, a liar
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Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And a man who was a true believer, of the family of Pharaoh, and concealed in his faith, said, will ye put a man to death, because he saith, God is my Lord; seeing he is come unto you with evident signs from your Lord? If he be a liar, on him will the punishment of his falsehoodlight; but if he speaketh the truth, some of those judgments with which he threateneth you, will fall upon you: Verily God directeth not him who is a transgressor, or a liar
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
Një burrë besimtar nga familja e Faraonit, që fshihte besimin e tij, tha: "A do të vrisni një njeri vetëm pse thotë: "Zoti im është Allahu", ndërkohë që ju ka sjellë prova të qarta nga Zoti juaj? Nëse është gënjeshtar, ai i vuan pasojat e gënjeshtrës së vet; por, nëse thotë të vërtetën, atëherë mund t'ju godasë diçka nga ajo me të cilën ju kërcënon. Pa dyshim, Allahu nuk udhëzon në rrugë të drejtë atë që është teprues e gënjeshtar."
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বাংলা · Bengali
‘আর ফির‘আউন পরিবারের একজন মু’মিন ব্যক্তি, যে তার ঈমান গোপন রেখেছিল সে বলল: ‘তোমরা কি (নিরপরাধ) একটি মানুষকে কেবল এ কারণে হত্যা করতে চাও, যে বলে: ‘আমার রব আল্লাহ’; অথচ সে তোমাদের রবের পক্ষ থেকে সুস্পষ্ট প্রমাণ নিয়ে তোমাদের কাছে এসেছে। যদি সে মিথ্যাবাদী হয় তবে তার ওপরই বর্তাবে তার মিথ্যা; আর যদি সে সত্যবাদী হয় তবে যে বিষয়ে সে তোমাদেরকে (যে শাস্তির) ওয়াদা দিচ্ছে, তার কিছু তোমাদের ওপর আপতিত হবে। নিশ্চয় আল্লাহ তাকে হিদায়াত দেন না, যে সীমালঙ্ঘনকারী, চরম মিথ্যাবাদী।’
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Bosanski · Bosnian
A jedan čovjek, vjernik, iz porodice faraonove, koji je krio vjerovanje svoje, reče: “Zar da ubijete čovjeka zato što govori: ‘Gospodar moj je Allah!’, onog koji vam je donio jasne dokaze od Gospodara vašeg? Ako je lažov, njegova će laž njemu nauditi, a ako govori istinu, onda će vas stići barem nešto od onog čime vam prijeti – jer Allah neće ukazati na Pravi put onom koji u zlu pretjeruje i koji mnogo laže.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
A jedan čovjek, vjernik, iz porodice faraonove, koji je krio vjerovanje svoje, reče: “Zar da ubijete čovjeka zato što govori: ‘Gospodar moj je Allah!’ onog koji vam je donio jasne dokaze od Gospodara vašeg? Ako je lažov, njegova će laž njemu nauditi, a ako govori istinu, onda će vas stići barem nešto od onog čime vam prijeti – jer Allah neće ukazati na Pravi put onom koji u zlu pretjeruje i koji mnogo laže.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Gorko gooŋɗinɗo goo, jiyaaɗo e yimɓe Fir'awna ɓen - cuuɗunooɗo gooŋɗinal mum - :"E on waray gorko, fii o wi'i: "Joomi am ko Allah?" Hara le o addanii on ɓanngannduyeeji, immorde ka Joomi mon. Si tawii o fenu, haray fenaande makko ko kaŋko fawii; si tawii kadi o goongu, haray yoga e kon ko kammbirani on, heɓay on". Pellet, Allah feewnata on fantinoowo yeddoowo!
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ქართული · Georgian
ფარაონის ოჯახიდან ერთმა მორწმუნემ, რომელიც თავის რწმენას (ხალხისგან) მალავდა, თქვა: «ნუთუ კაცის მკვლელობას აპირებთ იმის გამო, რომ ამბობს: 'ჩემი უფალი ალლაჰია'?და მან თქვენთან მოიტანა ნათელი ნიშნები [უდავო არგუმენტები] თქვენი უფლისგან? თუ ის [მუსა] მატყუარაა, მაშინ მისი სიცრუე მის წინააღმდეგ იქნება; ხოლო თუ ის მართალია, მაშინ თქვენ მოგეწევათ ზოგი ის (უბედურება), რასაც გპირდებათ. ნამდვილად, ალლაჰი არ უძღვება გზას გადამეტებულთ (და) რომლებიც (ალლაჰზე) ტყუილებს იგონებენ!»
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Deutsch · German
Ein gläubiger Mann von den Angehörigen Fir'auns, der seinen Glauben verborgen hielt, sagte: „Wollt ihr denn einen Mann töten, weil er sagt: ,Mein Herr ist Allah’, obwohl er doch mit den klaren Beweisen von eurem Herrn zu euch gekommen ist? Wenn er ein Lügner ist, so trägt er (die Last) seiner Lügen. Wenn er aber die Wahrheit sagt, wird euch etwas von dem treffen, was er euch androht. Wahrlich, Allah leitet nicht recht, wer maßlos und verlogen ist.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Ένας πιστός από τον λαό του Φαραώ, ο οποίος έκρυβε την πίστη του, είπε: «Θα σκοτώσετε έναν άνθρωπο, μόνο επειδή λέει: «Ο Κύριός μου είναι ο Αλλάχ», παρόλο που ήρθε σε σας με ξεκάθαρες αποδείξεις από τον Κύριό σας; Αν είναι ψεύτης, το ψεύδος του θα είναι εις βάρος του, αλλά αν είναι ειλικρινής, τότε θα σας πλήξουν μερικά απ' αυτά που σας υπόσχεται. Πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ δεν καθοδηγεί όποιον είναι παραβάτης και ψεύτης.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा फ़िरऔन के घराने के एक ईमानवाले व्यक्ति ने, जो अपना ईमान छिपा रहा था, कहा : क्या तुम एक व्यक्ति को केवल इसलिए मार डालना चाहते हो कि वह कहता है कि मेरा पालनहार अल्लाह है, जबकि वह तुम्हारे पास तुम्हारे पालनहार की ओर से खुली निशानियाँ लेकर आया है? और यदि वह झूठा है, तो उसका झूठ उसी के ऊपर है और यदि वह सच्चा है, तो तुम्हें उस (यातना) का कुछ अंश पहुँचकर रहेगा, जिसका वह तुमसे वादा कर रहा है। निःसंदेह अल्लाह उसका मार्गदर्शन नहीं करता, जो उल्लंघनकारी, बहुत झूठा है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
E disse un uomo credente, della corte del Faraone, che nascondeva la propria fede: «Uccidete un uomo solo perché dice: ‘Il mio Dio è Allāh’, ed è venuto a voi con le Evidenze dal vostro Dio? Se lui mente, la sua menzogna ricadrà su di lui, e se è veritiero, avrete parte di ciò che ha promesso. In verità Allāh non guida chi è trasgressore e bugiardo.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
28. Ir tikintysis vyras iš Firauno (Faraono) šeimos, kuris slėpė savo tikėjimą, tarė: „Ar tu nužudytum žmogų, nes jis sako: „Mano Viešpats yra Allahas ir jis atėjo pas tave su aiškiais ženklais (įrodymais) nuo tavojo Viešpaties? Ir jei jis melagis, jam bus jo melo (nuodėmė), tačiau jei jis sako tiesą, tada dalis to (nelaimės) kuo jis gąsdina, užklups tave.“ Iš tiesų, Allahas neveda to, kuris yra Musrif (daugiadievis arba žudikas, kuris lieja kraują, neturėdamas teisės, arba kuris daro didžiąsias nuodėmes, engėjas, nusidėjėlis), melagis.“
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Namichi mu’uminni fira fir’awni irraa ta’e kan iimaana isaa dhoksu, ni jedhe: “sila isin namicha ajjeeftuu? waan Gooftaan kiyya Rabbuma jedheef, odoo Gooftaa keessan irraa ragaawwan ifa ta’aniin isinitti dhufee jiruu. Yoo sobaa ta’e sobni isaa isuma irratti; yoo nama dhugaa ta’e gariin waan inni isin sodaachisee isin tuqa. Rabbiin nama inni daangaa dabraa, akkaan sobaa ta’e hin qajeelchu. [5]
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Русский · Russian
Уверовавший муж из рода Фараона, скрывавший свою веру, сказал: «Неужели вы убьёте человека за то, что он говорит: “Мой Господь — Аллах”, в то время как он уже принёс вам ясные доказательства от вашего Господа?! Если он окажется лжецом, то его ложь против него. Но если он окажется правдив — вас постигнет часть того, чем он вам угрожает. Воистину, Аллах не наставляет на верный путь того, кто является преступающим всякую меру, лжецом!
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Српски · Serbian
А један човек, верник, из фараонове породице, који је крио своје веровање, рече: „Зар да убијете човека зато што говори: 'Мој Господар је Аллах!' А донео вам је јасне доказе од вашег Господара? Ако је лажов, његова лаж ће њему да науди, а ако говори истину, онда ће да вас стигне бар нешто од онога што вам се прети; заиста Аллах неће да упути на Прави пут онога који у злу претерује и који много лаже.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na akasema mwanamume mmoja Muumini, aliyekuwa mmoja katika watu wa Firauni aliyeficha Imani yake: Mtamuuwa mtu kwa sababu anasema Mola wangu Mlezi ni Mwenyezi Mungu? Na hali naye amekujieni na hoja zilizo wazi? Na akiwa yeye mwongo, basi uongo wake ni juu yake mwenyewe. Na akiwa mkweli, yatakufikieni baadhi ya hayo anayokuahidini. Hakika Mwenyezi Mungu hamwongoi apitilizaye mipaka, mwongo mkubwa.
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Svenska · Swedish
Då sa en troende man ur Faraos släkt, som dolde sin tro: ”Ska ni döda en man enbart för att han säger: ’Min Herre är Gud’, när han har kommit till er med klara tecken från er Herre? Om han ljuger skadar det honom men om han talar sanning kommer något av det han varnar er för att drabba er. Gud vägleder inte någon som överträder alla gränser och ljuger [om honom].
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Türkçe · Turkish
Firavun ailesinden, imanını gizlemekte olan Mümin bir adam şöyle dedi: “Rabbim Allah’tır, dediği için bir adamı öldürecek misiniz? Hâlbuki o, size Rabbinizden apaçık mucizeler getirdi. Eğer yalancı ise yalanı kendi aleyhinedir. Eğer doğru söylüyorsa sizi tehdit ettiği şeylerin bir kısmı başınıza gelecektir. Şüphesiz Allah; aşırı giden, yalancılık eden kimseyi doğru yola eriştirmez.''
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اردو · Urdu
اور ایک مومن شخص نے، جو فرعون کے خاندان میں سے تھا اور اپنا ایمان چھپائے ہوئے تھا، کہا کہ کیا تم ایک شحض کو محض اس بات پر قتل کرتے ہو کہ وه کہتا ہے میرا رب اللہ ہے اور تمہارے رب کی طرف سے دلیلیں لے کر آیا ہے[1] ، اگر وه جھوٹا ہو تو اس کا جھوٹ اسی پر ہے اور اگر وه سچا ہو، تو جس (عذاب) کا وه تم سے وعده کر رہا ہے اس میں سے کچھ نہ کچھ تو تم پر آ پڑے گا[2]، اللہ تعالیٰ اس کی رہبری نہیں کرتا جو حد سے گزر جانے والے اور جھوٹے ہیں.[3]
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Talal Itani2012 Pharaoh said, "Leave me to kill Moses, and let him appeal to his Lord. I fear he may change your religion, or spread disorder in the land."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Pharaoh said: Suffer me to kill Moses, and let him cry unto his Lord. Lo! I fear that he will alter your religion or that he will cause confusion in the land
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Pharaoh said, 'Let me kill Moses; and then let him call upon his Lord! verily, I fear that he will change your religion, or that he will cause evil doing to appear in the land
John Medows Rodwell1861 And Pharaoh said, "Let me alone, that I may kill Moses; and let him call upon his Lord: I fear lest he change your religion, or cause disorder to shew itself in the land
George Sale1734 And Pharaoh said, let me alone, that I may kill Moses; and let him call upon his Lord: Verily I fear lest he change your religion, or cause violence to appear in the earth
DIN 31635waqāla mūsā ʾinnī ʿuḏtu birabbī warabbikum min kulli mutakabbirin lā yuʾminu biyawmi l-ḥisābi
Talal Itani2012 Moses said, "I have sought the protection of my Lord and your Lord, from every tyrant who does not believe in the Day of Account."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Moses said: Lo! I seek refuge in my Lord and your Lord from every scorner who believeth not in a Day of Reckoning
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Moses said, 'Verily, I take refuge in my Lord and your Lord from every one who is big with pride and believes not on the day of reckoning
John Medows Rodwell1861 And Moses said, "I take refuge with my Lord and your Lord from every proud one who believeth not in the day of reckoning
George Sale1734 And Moses said unto his people, verily I have recourse unto my Lord, and your Lord, to defend me against every proud person, who believeth not in the day of account
Talal Itani2012 O my people! Yours is the dominion today, supreme in the land; but who will help us against God's might, should it fall upon us?" Pharaoh said, "I do not show you except what I see, and I do not guide you except to the path of prudence."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O my people! Yours is the kingdom to-day, ye being uppermost in the land. But who would save us from the wrath of Allah should it reach us? Pharaoh said: I do but show you what I think, and I do but guide you to wise policy
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O my people! yours is the kingdom today, ye are eminent in the land, but who will help us against the violence of God, if it comes upon us?' Said Pharaoh, 'I will only show you what I see, and I will only guide you into the way of right direction
John Medows Rodwell1861 O my people! this day is the kingdom yours, the eminent of the earth! but who shall defend us from the vengeance of God if it come on us?" Pharaoh said, "I would have you see only what I see; and in a right way only will I guide you
George Sale1734 O my people, the kingdom is yours this day; and ye are conspicuous in the earth: But who shall defend us from the scourge of God, if it come unto us? Pharaoh said, I only propose to you what I think to be most expedient: And I guide you only into the right path
Talal Itani2012 The one who had believed said, "O my people, I fear for you the like of the day of the confederates.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And he who believed said: O my people! Lo! I fear for you a fate like that of the factions (of old)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And he who believed said, 'O my people! verily, I fear for you the like of the day of the confederates
John Medows Rodwell1861 Then said he who believed, "O my people! truly I fear for you the like of the day of the allies
George Sale1734 And he who had believed, said, O my people, verily I fear for you a day like that of the confederates against the prophets in former times
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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.55
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.46
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.
Sources, editions and licences for everything above
ReceiptsSource fact
7 sources
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.