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Talal Itani· published 2012
The likeness of the Garden promised to the righteous: in it are rivers of pure water, and rivers of milk foreverfresh, and rivers of wine delightful to the drinkers, and rivers of strained honey. And therein they will have of every fruit, and forgiveness from their Lord. Like one abiding in the Fire forever, and are given to drink boiling water, that cuts-up their bowels?
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
A similitude of the Garden which those who keep their duty (to Allah) are promised: Therein are rivers of water unpolluted, and rivers of milk whereof the flavour changeth not, and rivers of wine delicious to the drinkers, and rivers of clear-run honey; therein for them is every kind of fruit, with pardon from their Lord. (Are those who enjoy all this) like those who are immortal in the Fire and are given boiling water to drink so that it teareth their bowels
Sources
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
The similitude of Paradise which is promised to the pious,- in it are rivers of water without corruption, and rivers of milk, the taste whereof changes not, and rivers of wine delicious to those who drink; and rivers of honey clarified; and there shall they have all kinds of fruit and forgiveness from their Lord! (Is that) like him who dwells in the fire for aye? and who are given to drink boiling water that shall rend their bowels asunder
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Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
A picture of the Paradise which is promised to the God-fearing! Therein are rivers of water, which corrupt not: rivers of milk, whose taste changeth not: and rivers of wine, delicious to those who quaff it; And rivers of honey clarified: and therein are all kinds of fruit for them from their Lord! Is this like the lot of those who must dwell for ever in the fire? and shall have draughts of boiling water forced on them which will rend their bowels asunder
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Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
The description of paradise, which is promised unto the pious: Therein are rivers of incorruptible water; and rivers of milk, the taste whereof changeth not; and rivers of wine, pleasant unto those who drink; and rivers of clarified honey: And therein shall they have plenty of all kinds of fruits; and pardon from their Lord. Shall the man for whom these things are prepared, be as he who must dwell for ever in hell fire; and will have the boiling water given them to drink, which shall burst their bowels
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
Xheneti, që u është premtuar të devotshmëve, është si vijon: ka lumenj me ujë të pastër, lumenj qumështi me shije të pandryshuar, lumenj vere të këndshme për ata që e pinë dhe lumenj prej mjalti të kulluar. Ata do të kenë aty çdo lloj frute dhe falje nga Zoti i tyre. A mund të jetë ky shpërblim i njëjtë me atë të atyre që do të jenë përherë në Zjarr e do t'u jepet ujë i valë që ua gris zorrët?!
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বাংলা · Bengali
মুত্তাকিদের জন্য যে জান্নাতের প্রতিশ্রুতি দেওয়া হয়েছে, তার উপমা হলো, সেখানে রয়েছে এমন পানির নদী, যা কখনো দুর্গন্ধযুক্ত বা বাসি হয় না; এমন দুধের নদী, যার স্বাদ কখনো পরিবর্তিত হয় না; পানকারীদের জন্য সুস্বাদু মদের নদী; এবং পরিশোধিত মধুর নদী। সেখানে তাদের জন্য থাকবে সব ধরনের ফলমূল এবং তাদের রবের পক্ষ থেকে ক্ষমা। (এরা কি) তার মতো, যে চিরকাল জাহান্নামে থাকবে এবং যাদেরকে পান করানো হবে ফুটন্ত পানি, যা তাদের নাড়িভুঁড়ি ছিন্নভিন্ন করে দেবে?
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Zar je Džennet, koji je obećan onima koji se Allaha boje, u kome su rijeke od vode neustajale i rijeke od mlijeka nepromijenjena okusa, i rijeke od vina, prijatna onima koji piju, i rijeke od meda procijeđenog i gdje ima voća svakovrsnog i oprosta od Gospodara njihova – zar je to isto što i patnja koja čeka one koji će u Vatri vječno boraviti, koji će se uzavrelom vodom pojiti, koja će im crijeva kidati!?
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Zar je Raj, koji je obećan onima koji se Allaha boje, u kome su rijeke od vode neustajale i rijeke od mlijeka nepromijenjena okusa, i rijeke od vina, prijatna onima koji piju, i rijeke od meda procijeđenog i gdje ima voća svakovrsnog i oprosta od Gospodara njihova – zar je to isto što i patnja koja čeka one koji će u Vatri vječno boraviti, koji će se uzavrelom vodom pojiti, koja će im crijeva kidati!?
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko woni sifa Aljanna podaaɗo on gooŋɗuɓe ɓeen: ina toon canɗi ndiyam ɗi dakamme mum waylaaki, e caatli ɓira ɗi waylataa dakamme mum, e caatli konnjam mbelayɗam yarooɓe, e caatlii njuuri laɓɓinaandi. Hino woodani ɓe kadi ton: kala dimɓe, e haforaneede immorde e Joomi maɓɓe. [Ɓeen wa'oyay] wa luttinoyteeeɓe ɓen ka Yiite, ɓe njarnee ndiyam fatayɗam, ɗam taƴa tekteki maɓɓe ɗin?
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ქართული · Georgian
ღვთისმოშიშთათვის აღთქმული სამოთხის მაგალითი: მასშია მდინარეები უცვლელი წყლისა, და მდინარეები რძისა, რომლის გემოც არ იცვლება, და მდინარეები ღვინისა, სასიამოვნო მსმელთათვის, და მდინარეები გაწმენდილი თაფლისა. და მათთვისაა მასში ყოველგვარი ხილი და შენდობა მათი უფლისგან. ნუთუ ჰგავს იმას, ვინც სამუდამოდ ცეცხლშია და ასმევენ მდუღარე წყალს, რომელიც მათ ნაწლავებს გლეჯს?
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Deutsch · German
Das Gleichnis des (Paradies)gartens, der den (Allah-)Fürchtenden versprochen ist: Darin sind Bäche mit Wasser, das nicht schal wird, und Bäche mit Milch, deren Geschmack sich nicht ändert, und Bäche mit Wein, der köstlich ist für die (davon) Trinkenden, und Bäche mit geklärtem Honig. Und sie haben darin von allen Früchten und Vergebung von ihrem Herrn. (Sind diese denn) jemandem gleich, der im (Höllen)feuer ewig verweilt und dem heißes Wasser zu trinken gegeben wird, das seine Gedärme zerreißt?
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Η περιγραφή του Παραδείσου που έχει υποσχεθεί στους ενάρετους (που φυλάσσονται από την τιμωρία Του τηρώντας τις εντολές Του), είναι ότι: έχει ποτάμια από νερό που δεν αλλάζει (η οσμή ή η γεύση του λόγω της πάροδου του χρόνου), ποτάμια από γάλα που δεν αλλάζει η γεύση του (επειδή δε βγαίνει από άρμεγμα κανενός ζώου), ποτάμια από κρασί που είναι νόστιμο για όσους το πίνουν και ποτάμια από αγνό μέλι απαλλαγμένο από κάθε ακαθαρσία. Θα έχουν εκεί κάθε είδους καρπών και συγχώρεση από τον Κύριό τους. (Θα είναι οι κάτοικοι του Παραδείσου) ίσοι μ' εκείνους που θα μείνουν στη Φωτιά για πάντα, και θα τους δωθεί να πιουν ζεματιστό νερό που θα σχίζει τα έντερά τους;
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हिन्दी · Hindi
उस जन्नत की विशेषता, जिसका वादा परहेज़गारों से किया गया है, यह है कि उसमें कई नहरें ऐसे पानी की हैं जो खराब होने वाला नहीं, और कई नहरें दूध की हैं जिनका स्वाद नहीं बदला, और कई नहरें शराब की हैं जो पीने वालों के लिए स्वादिष्ट है, और कई नहरें ख़ूब साफ़ किए हुए शहद की हैं। और उनके लिए उसमें हर प्रकार के फल और उनके पालनहार की ओर से बड़ी क्षमा है। (क्या ये परहेज़गार) उनके समान हैं, जो सदैव आग (जहन्नम) में रहने वाले हैं तथा जिन्हें खौलता हुआ पानी पिलाया जाएगा, जो उनकी आँतों के टुकड़े-टुकड़े कर देगा?
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Italiano · Italian
L’esempio del Paradiso promesso ai devoti: dove scorreranno fiumi d’acqua non contaminata e fiumi di latte dal gusto inalterabile e fiumi di vino, che sarà delizia dei bevitori e fiumi di miele filtrato, e dove avranno frutti di ogni genere e il perdono del loro Dio. Sono forse comparabili a coloro che sono stati condannati al Fuoco, ai quali è stato dato da bere acqua bollente, che ha straziato i loro intestini?
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
15. Aprašymas Rojaus, kuris buvo pažadėtas Mutakūn (pamaldiesiems, žiūrėti ają 2:2), (yra toks), jog jame yra gaivaus vandens upės, ir pieno upės, kurių skonis niekada nekinta, ir vyno upės, skanios iš jų geriantiesiems, ir upės iš tyro medaus. Jiems jame yra įvairiausių vaisių ir atleidimas iš jų Viešpaties. (Argi jie) kaip tie, kurie gyvens amžinai Ugnyje ir gers iš verdančio vandens, kuris jiems išplėš vidurius?
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Русский · Russian
[Вот] описание Рая, который был обещан богобоязненным: в нём — реки из воды, не портящейся, и реки из молока, вкус которого не меняется, и реки из вина, приятного пьющим, и реки из очищенного мёда. Для них там — всевозможные плоды и прощение от их Господа. [Неужели они подобны тем,] кто вечно пребывает в адском огне и кого поят кипятком, разрывающим их внутренности?
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Српски · Serbian
Изглед Раја који је обећан богобојазнима: у њему су реке од неустајале воде и реке од млека непромењеног укуса, и реке од вина, пријатног онима који пију, и реке од процеђеног меда, и у њему за њих има разноврсног воћа, а уз то и опрост од њиховог Господара. Зар су такви исти као они који ће у Ватри да вечно бораве, који ће узаврелом водом да буду појени, која ће црева да им кида?!
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Mfano wa Bustani ya mbinguni waliyoahidiwa wacha Mungu, ina mito ya maji yasiyovunda, na mito ya maziwa yasiyoharibika ladha yake, na mito ya mvinyo wenye ladha kwa wanywao, na mito ya asali iliyosafishwa. Na wao humo watakuwa na kila namna ya matunda, na maghfira kutoka kwa Mola wao Mlezi. Basi hao ni kama watakaodumu Motoni na wakinyweshwa maji yanayochemka ya kuwakatakata matumbo yao?
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Svenska · Swedish
Detta är beskrivningen av det paradis som lovats de gudfruktiga: där rinner floder med evigt friskt vatten, floder av mjölk vars smak förblir oförändrad, floder av vin – ljuvligt för de som dricker därav – och floder av klaraste honung. Där har de alla slags frukter och förlåtelse från sin Herre. Kan den [som lovats detta paradis] jämställas med den som är dömd till den eviga elden, där han får dricka skållhett vatten som sliter sönder hans inälvor?
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Türkçe · Turkish
Muttakilere vadedilen Cennet'in misali (şudur): İçinde bozulmayan su ırmakları, tadı bozulmayan süt ırmakları ve içenlere lezzet veren şarap ırmakları, süzme bal ırmakları... Onlara, orada her türlü meyve ve Rablerinden bağışlanma vardır. O; ebedi ateşte kalacak, kaynar su içirilip bağırsakları parça parça olacak kimseler gibi olur mu?
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اردو · Urdu
اس جنت کی صفت جس کا پرہیزگاروں سے وعده کیا گیا ہے، یہ ہے کہ اس میں پانی کی نہریں ہیں جو بدبو کرنے واﻻ نہیں[1] ، اور دودھ کی نہریں ہیں جن کا مزه نہیں بدﻻ[2] اور شراب کی نہریں ہیں جن میں پینے والوں کے لئے بڑی لذت ہے[3] اور نہریں ہیں شہد کی جو بہت صاف ہیں[4] اور ان کے لئے وہاں ہر قسم کے میوے ہیں اور ان کے رب کی طرف سے مغفرت ہے، کیا یہ مثل اس کے ہیں جو ہمیشہ آگ میں رہنے واﻻ ہے؟ اور جنہیں گرم کھولتا ہوا پانی پلایا جائے گا جو ان کی آنتوں کو ٹکڑے ٹکڑے کر دے گا.[5]
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Easy-read (simplified)waka'ayyin min qaryatin hiya ashaddu quwwatan min qaryatika llatee akhrajatka ahlaknaahum falaa naasira lahum
DIN 31635wakaʾayyin min qaryatin hiya ʾašaddu quwwatan min qaryatika llatī ʾaḫraǧatka ʾahlaknāhum falā nāṣira lahum
Talal Itani2012 How many a town was more powerful than your town which evicted you? We destroyed them, and there was no helper for them.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And how many a township stronger than thy township (O Muhammad) which hath cast thee out, have We destroyed, and they had no helper
Edward Henry Palmer1880 How many a city, stronger than thy city which has driven thee out, have we destroyed, and there was none to help them
John Medows Rodwell1861 And how many cities were mightier in strength than thy city, which hath thrust thee forth! We destroyed them, and there was none to help them
George Sale1734 How many cities were more mighty in strength than thy city which hath expelled thee; yet have We destroyed them, and there was none to help them
DIN 31635ʾafaman kāna ʿalā bayyinatin min rabbihi kaman zuyyina lahu sūʾu ʿamalihi wāttabaʿū ʾahwāʾahum
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Is he who stands upon evidence from his Lord, like someone whose evil deed is made to appear good to him? And they follow their own desires?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Is he who relieth on a clear proof from his Lord like those for whom the evil that they do is beautified while they follow their own lusts
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Is he who rests upon a manifest sign from his Lord like him, the evil of whose works is made seemly to him, and who follow their lusts
John Medows Rodwell1861 Shall he who followeth the clear teaching of his Lord be as he, the evil of whose doings hath been made to seem good to him, or like those who follow their own lusts
George Sale1734 Shall he, therefore, who followeth the plain declaration of his Lord, be as he whose evil works have been dressed up for him by the devil; and who follow their own lusts
DIN 31635waminhum man yastamiʿu ʾilayka ḥattā ʾiḏā ḫaraǧū min ʿindika qālū lillaḏīna ʾūtū l-ʿilma māḏā qāla ʾānifan ʾūlāʾika llaḏīna ṭabaʿa llāhu ʿalā qulūbihim wāttabaʿū ʾahwāʾahum
Talal Itani2012 Among them are those who listen to you, but when they leave your presence, they say to those given knowledge, "What did he say just now?" Those are they whose hearts God has sealed, and they follow their own desires.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Among them are some who give ear unto thee (Muhammad) till, when they go forth from thy presence they say unto those who have been given knowledge: What was that he said just now? Those are they whose hearts Allah hath sealed, and they follow their own lusts
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Some of them there are who listen to thee, until when they go forth from thee they say to those who have been given the knowledge, 'What is this which he says now?' These are those on whose hearts God his set a stamp and who follow their lusts
John Medows Rodwell1861 Some of them indeed hearken to thee, until when they go out from thee, they say with sneers to those to whom "the knowledge" hath been given, "What is this he said?" These are they whose hearts God hath sealed up, and who follow their own lusts
George Sale1734 Of the unbelievers there are some who give ear unto thee, until, when they go out from thee, they say, by way of derision, unto those to whom knowledge hath been given, what hath he said now? These are they whose hearts God hath sealed up, and who follow their own lusts
DIN 31635wallaḏīna htadaw zādahum hudan waʾātāhum taqwāhum
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 As for those who are guided, He increases them in guidance, and He has granted them their righteousness.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 While as for those who walk aright, He addeth to their guidance, and giveth them their protection (against evil)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But those who are guided, He guides them the more, and gives them the due of their piety
John Medows Rodwell1861 But as to those who have the guidance, He will increase their guidance, and He will teach them what to fear
George Sale1734 But as to those who are directed, God will grant them a more ample direction, and He will instruct them what to avoid
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Talal Itani · George Sale0.70
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.53
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.51
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.48
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.
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.