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Muhammad محمد

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Thirty-eight verses on fighting and the conduct of it: the binding of captives, the ransom or release afterwards, and the warning that turning away invites replacement by another people. Between those passages, the rivers of paradise — of water that does not spoil, of milk whose taste does not change, of wine, of honey.

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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.

47:22
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.75. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.94.

Talal Itani · 2012

If you turn away, you are likely to make mischief on earth, and sever your family ties.

Edward Henry Palmer · 1880

Would ye perhaps, if ye had turned back, have done evil in the land and severed the bonds of kinship
47:9
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.74. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.85.

Talal Itani · 2012

That is because they hated what God revealed, so He nullified their deeds.

John Medows Rodwell · 1861

This - because they were averse from the command which God sent down; Fruitless, therefore, shall their works become
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47:25
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.73. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.83.

Talal Itani · 2012

Those who reverted after the guidance became clear to them-Satan has enticed them, and has given them latitude.

George Sale · 1734

Verily they who turn their backs, after the true direction is made manifest unto them; Satan shall prepare their wickedness for them, and God shall bear with them for a time
47:17
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.70. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.79.

Edward Henry Palmer · 1880

But those who are guided, He guides them the more, and gives them the due of their piety

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · 1930

While as for those who walk aright, He addeth to their guidance, and giveth them their protection (against evil)
47:28
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.69. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.88.

Edward Henry Palmer · 1880

This is because they follow what angers God and are averse from His goodwill; and their works are void

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · 1930

That will be because they followed that which angereth Allah, and hated that which pleaseth Him. Therefor He hath made their actions vain
More about this surahDerived
Verses
38
Words
539
Place
Medinan
Revelation position
95th of 114 in an ordering its source does not name
Opening letters
None
Bismillah
Carried by the surah, unnumbered
Word-by-word breakdown
49.7% of 539 words carry an analysis
  1. 96
  2. 68
  3. 73
  4. 74
  5. 1
  6. 111
  7. 81
  8. 87
  9. 92
  10. 89
  11. 93
  12. 94
  13. 103
  14. 100
  15. 108
  16. 102
  17. 107
  18. 109
  19. 105
  20. 113
  21. 114
  22. 112
  23. 53
  24. 80
  25. 97
  26. 91
  27. 85
  28. 95
  29. 106
  30. 101
  31. 75
  32. 104
  33. 77
  34. 50
  35. 90
  36. 86
  37. 54
  38. 38
  39. 7
  40. 72
  41. 36
  42. 25
  43. 35
  44. 19
  45. 20
  46. 56
  47. 26
  48. 27
  49. 28
  50. 17
  51. 10
  52. 11
  53. 12
  54. 15
  55. 6
  56. 37
  57. 31
  58. 34
  59. 39
  60. 40
  61. 41
  62. 42
  63. 43
  64. 44
  65. 45
  66. 46
  67. 51
  68. 88
  69. 18
  70. 16
  71. 71
  72. 14
  73. 21
  74. 23
  75. 32
  76. 52
  77. 67
  78. 69
  79. 70
  80. 78
  81. 79
  82. 82
  83. 84
  84. 30
  85. 29
  86. 83
  87. 2
  88. 8
  89. 3
  90. 33
  91. 60
  92. 4
  93. 99
  94. 57
  95. 47
  96. 13
  97. 55
  98. 76
  99. 65
  100. 98
  101. 59
  102. 24
  103. 22
  104. 63
  105. 58
  106. 49
  107. 66
  108. 64
  109. 61
  110. 62
  111. 48
  112. 5
  113. 9
  114. 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 38 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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