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Talal Itani· published 2012
The Jews say, "God's hand is tied." It is their hands that are tied, and they are cursed for what they say. In fact, His hands are outstretched; He gives as He wills. Certainly, what was revealed to your from your Lord will increase many of them in defiance and blasphemy. And We placed between them enmity and hatred, until the Day of Resurrection. Whenever they kindle the fire of war, God extinguishes it. And they strive to spread corruption on earth. God does not love the corrupters.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
The Jews say: Allah's hand is fettered. Their hands are fettered and they are accursed for saying so. Nay, but both His hands are spread out wide in bounty. He bestoweth as He will. That which hath been revealed unto thee from thy Lord is certain to increase the contumacy and disbelief of many of them, and We have cast among them enmity and hatred till the Day of Resurrection. As often as they light a fire for war, Allah extinguisheth it. Their effort is for corruption in the land, and Allah loveth not corrupters
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 Jews say, - 'God's hand is fettered;' their hands are fettered and they are cursed for what they said; nay! His hands are outspread, He expends how He pleases! and that which has been sent down to thee from thy Lord will surely increase many of them in their rebellion and misbelief, for we have cast amongst them enmity and hatred till the resurrection day. Whenever they light a fire for war, God puts it out; they strive for corruption in the earth, but God loves not the corrupt
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
The hand of God," say the Jews, "is chained up." Their own hands shall be chained up - and for that which they have said shall they be cursed. Nay! outstretched are both His hands! At His own pleasure does He bestow gifts. That which hath been sent down to thee from thy Lord will surely increase the rebellion and unbelief of many of them; and we have put enmity and hatred between them that shall last till the day of the Resurrection. Oft as they kindle a beacon fire for war shall God quench it! and their aim will be to abetdisorder on the earth: but God loveth not the abettors of disorder
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Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
The Jews say, the hand of God is tied up. Their hands shall be tied up, and they shall be cursed for that which they have said. Nay, his hands are both stretchedforth; He bestoweth as He pleaseth: That which hath been sent down unto thee from thy Lord shall increase the transgression and infidelity of many of them; and we have put enmity and hatred between them, until the day of resurrection. So often as they shall kindle a fire for war, God shall extinguish it; and they shall set their minds to actcorruptly in the earth, but God loveth not the corrupt doers
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
Hebrenjtë thonë: "Dora e Allahut është e shtrënguar!" U shtrëngofshin duart e tyre dhe mallkuar qofshin për atë që thonë! Përkundrazi, të dy duart e Tij janë të shtrira: dhuron si të dojë. Ajo që të është shpallur ty nga Zoti yt shumicës prej tyre do t'ua shtojë mosbindjen e mosbesimin. Ne kemi futur armiqësi e urrejtje ndërmjet tyre deri në Ditën e Kiametit. Sa herë që ata ndezin zjarrin e luftës, Allahu ua shuan atë. Ata përpiqen pareshtur të bëjnë shkatërrime në tokë, por Allahu nuk i do shkatërrimtarët.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর ইয়াহূদীরা বলে: ‘ আল্লাহর হাত সংকুচিত’। মূলত তাদের হাতই আবদ্ধ করা হয়েছে এবং তারা যা বলে, সে জন্য তারা অভিশপ্ত। বরং আল্লাহর উভয় হাতইঅবাধ প্রসারিত; যেভাবে ইচ্ছা তিনি দান করেন। আর তোমার রবের কাছ থেকে যা তোমার প্রতি নাযিল করা হয়েছে, তা অবশ্যই তাদের অনেকের অবাধ্যতা ও কুফরী বৃদ্ধি করবে। ফলে আমি তাদের মধ্যে কিয়ামত পর্যন্ত স্থায়ী শত্রুতা ও বিদ্বেষ ঢেলে দিয়েছি। যখনই তারা যুদ্ধের আগুন জ্বালায় তখনই আল্লাহ তা নিভিয়ে দেন এবং তারা দুনিয়ায় বিপর্যয় সৃষ্টি করে বেড়ায়। আর আল্লাহ বিপর্যয় সৃষ্টিকারীদেরকে ভালোবাসেন না।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Jevreji govore: "Allahova ruka je stisnuta!" Stisnute bile ruke njihove i prokleti bili zbog toga što govore! Naprotiv, obje ruke Njegove su pružene, On udjeljuje koliko hoće. A to što ti objavljuje Gospodar tvoj pojačat će kod mnogih od njih osionost i nevjerovanje. Mi smo ubacili među njih neprijateljstvo i mržnju sve do Kijametskog dana. Kad god pokušaju potpaliti ratnu vatru, Allah je ugasi. Oni nastoje na Zemlji smutnju praviti, a Allah ne voli smutljivce.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Židovi govore: "Allahova ruka je stisnuta!" Stisnute bile ruke njihove i prokleti bili zbog toga što govore! Naprotiv, obje ruke Njegove su pružene, On udjeljuje koliko hoće. A to što ti objavljuje Gospodar tvoj pojačat će kod mnogih od njih osionost i nevjerovanje. Mi smo ubacili među njih neprijateljstvo i mržnju sve do Sudnjeg dana. Kad god pokušaju potpaliti ratnu vatru, Allah je ugasi. Oni nastoje na Zemlji smutnju praviti, a Allah ne voli smutljivce.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Alyahhuda'en mba i': "Junngo Alla ngon ko ñobbaango Juuɗe maɓɓe ɗeen ñobbaama, ɓe kuɗiraama kon ko ɓe kaali ! Si ko woni, Juuɗe Makko ɗen [ɗiɗi] ko fortaaɗe, Homo Nafqira no O Muuyiri. Pellet, ko Jippinaa kon e maa immorde ka Joomi, ɓeyday ko heewi e maɓɓe bewre e keeferaaku. Men Wernii hakkunde maɓɓe ngañngu e konnaagu haa Ñande Darngal. Tuma kala ɓe kuɓɓi yiite fii hare, Alla Ɗannina nge. Heɓe yaha ka leydi bonnugol. Alla non Yiɗaa bonnooɓe ɓe.
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ქართული · Georgian
და თქვეს იუდეველებმა (გვალვისა და მოსავლის ნაკლებობის დროს): «ალლაჰის ხელი შეკრულია!» [ამით ისინი გულისხმობდნენ, თითქოს ალლაჰი ძუნწია და მათ უხვ საზრდოს არ აძლევს.] მათი ხელებია შეკრული, და დაწყევლილნი არიან იმის გამო, რაც თქვეს. არა! [ასე არ არის!] მისი ორივე ხელი გაშლილია [ის გულუხვია]: ის ხარჯავს ისე, როგორც ინებებს. და ჭეშმარიტად, ბევრ მათგანს ის, რაც შენზე ჩამოევლინა (ო, მოციქულო) შენი უფლისგან, მხოლოდ კიდევ უფრო უმატებს თავგასულობას [ცოდვებში გადაჭარბებას] და ურწმუნოებას. და ჩვენ ჩავაგდეთ მათ შორის მტრობა და სიძულვილი აღდგომის დღემდე. ყოველ ჯერზე, როდესაც ისინი ომის ცეცხლს ანთებენ, ალლაჰი აქრობს მას. და ისინი ცდილობენ დედამიწაზე უწესრიგობის გავრცელებას, ხოლო ალლაჰს არ უყვარს ისინი, ვინც უწესრიგობას ავრცელებს.
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Deutsch · German
Und die Juden sagten: „Die Hand Allahs ist geschlossen.“ Ihre (eigenen) Hände seien geschlossen und sie seien verflucht für das, was sie sagen. Vielmehr sind Seine beiden Hände (weit) ausgestreckt; (und) Er gibt aus, wie Er will. Und was zu dir (als Offenbarung) von deinem Herrn hinabgesandt worden ist, wird sicherlich bei vielen von ihnen die Auflehnung und den Unglauben noch mehren. Und Wir haben unter ihnen Feindschaft und Hass erregt bis zum Tag der Auferstehung. Jedes Mal, wenn sie ein Feuer zum Krieg anzünden, löscht Allah es aus. Und sie bemühen sich, auf der Erde Unheil zu stiften. Aber Allah liebt nicht die Unheilstifter.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Και οι Εβραίοι είπαν: «Το Χέρι του Αλλάχ είναι σφιχτό (δηλ. κράτησε από μας τις χάρες και τη γενναιοδωρία Του).» Ας σφιχτούν τα χέρια τους (από το να πράττουν το καλό) και καταραμένοι να είναι γι’ αυτό που είπαν. Στ’ αλήθεια, τα δύο Χέρια Του είναι απλωμένα (με το καλό και τη γενναιοδωρία) και δίνει όπως θέλει. Και αυτό που σου έχει σταλεί από τον Κύριό σου, θα αυξήσει πολλούς απ' αυτούς (λόγω της ζήλιας και του φθόνου τους) σε παράβαση και απιστία! Έχουμε ρίξει μεταξύ τους (των αιρέσεων τους) εχθρότητα και μίσος μέχρι την Ημέρα της Ανάστασης. Όποτε ανάβουν φωτιά για πόλεμο, ο Αλλάχ τη σβήνει (σκορπίζοντας τη συγκέντρωσή τους και αφαιρώντας τη δύναμή τους). Διαδίδουν το κακό στη γη, και ο Αλλάχ δεν αγαπάει εκείνους που διαδίδουν το κακό.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा यहूदियों ने कहा कि अल्लाह का हाथ बँधा[38] हुआ है। उनके हाथ बाँधे गए और उनपर ला'नत की गई, उसके कारण जो उन्होंने कहा। बल्कि उसके दोनों हाथ खुले हुए हैं। वह जैसे चाहता है, खर्च करता है। और निश्चय जो कुछ (ऐ रसूल!) आपकी ओर आपके पालनहार की तरफ़ से उतारा गया है, वह उनमें से बहुत-से लोगों को सरकशी (उद्दंडता) और कुफ़्र में अवश्य बढ़ा देगा। तथा हमने उनके बीच क़ियामत के दिन तक शत्रुता और द्वेष डाल दिया। जब कभी वे लड़ाई की कोई आग भड़काते हैं, अल्लाह उसे बुझा[39] देता है। तथा वे धरती में उपद्रव का प्रयास करते रहते हैं और अल्लाह उपद्रव करने वालों से प्रेम नहीं करता।
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Italiano · Italian
E dissero gli ebrei: «La mano di Allāh è ormai legata!» Sono legate invece le loro mani, e sono maledetti per quello che hanno detto! Invece le Sue mani sono protese e Lui dona come vuole. Ciò che ti è stato fatto discendere aumenterà la loro malvagità e miscredenza. E abbiamo gettato tra di loro discordia e odio fino al Giorno del Giudizio. Ogni volta che accenderanno un fuoco di guerra, Allāh lo spegnerà: faranno di tutto per diffondere in terra la perversità, e Allāh non ama i corruttori.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
64. Judėjai sako: „Allaho Ranka yra surišta (t. y. Jis neduoda ir neleidžia iš Savo Dosnumo).“ Lai jų rankos būna surištos ir lai jie būna prakeikti dėl to, ką jie sakė. Ne, abi Jo Rankos [12] yra plačiai ištiestos. Jis leidžia (iš Savo Dosnumo) kaip Jis nori. Iš tiesų, Apreiškimas, atėjęs pas jus iš jūsų Viešpaties (Allaho) padidina daugumoje jų atkaklų pasipriešinimą ir netikėjimą. Mes įkurdinome nesantaiką ir neapykantą tarp jų iki Prikėlimo Dienos. Kaskart, kai jie užkuria karo laužą, Allahas jį užgesina. Ir jie (visada) stengiasi daryti nedorybes žemėje.
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Русский · Russian
Иудеи сказали: «Рука Аллаха скована!» Скованы их руки, и прокляты они за то, что сказали! Нет, напротив: Обе Его Руки широко распростёрты, Он расходует, как пожелает. И [клянусь:] то, что было ниспослано тебе от твоего Господа, непременно увеличит во многих из них бесчинство и неверие. Мы посеяли между ними вражду и ненависть до Дня воскресения. Всякий раз, как они разжигают огонь войны, Аллах гасит его. Они стремятся творить беззаконие на земле, но Аллах не любит творящих беззаконие.
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Српски · Serbian
Јевреји говоре: „Аллахова рука је стиснута!“ Стиснуте биле њихове руке и проклети били због тога што говоре! Напротив, обе Његове руке су пружене, Он удељује колико хоће. А то што ти објављује твој Господар појачаће код многих од њих осионост и неверовање. Ми смо убацили међу њима непријатељство и мржњу све до Судњег дана. Кад год покушају да потпале ратну ватру, Аллах је угаси. Они настоје да на Земљи праве смутњу, а Аллах не воли смутљивце.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na Mayahudi walisema: 'Mkono wa Mwenyezi Mungu umefumba.' Mikono yao ndiyo iliyofumba, na wamelaaniwa kwa sababu ya waliyoyasema. Bali mikono yake iko wazi. Hutoa apendavyo. Kwa yakini yaliyoteremshwa kwako kutoka kwa Mola wako Mlezi yatawazidishia wengi katika wao uasi na kufuru. Na Sisi tumewatilia uadui na chuki baina yao mpaka Siku ya Kiyama. Kila mara wanapowasha moto wa vita, Mwenyezi Mungu anauzima. Na wanajitahidi kuleta uharibifu katika ardhi. Na Mwenyezi Mungu hawapendi waharibifu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Judarna har sagt: ”Guds hand är bunden.” Deras händer är bundna, och de är fördömda för vad de sagt! Nej, båda hans händer är utsträckta; han ger som han vill. Det som har uppenbarats för dig från din Herre leder många av dem till ännu större överträdelser och djupare otro. Och vi har låtit fiendskap och hat uppstå bland dem fram till uppståndelsens dag. Var gång de tänder krigets eldar, släcks de av Gud. De strävar efter att sprida fördärv på jorden, och Gud tycker inte om de som sprider fördärv.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Yahudiler: "Allah’ın eli bağlıdır/sıkıdır" dediler. Söylediklerinden ötürü elleri bağlandı ve onlara lanet edildi! Oysa Allah’ın her iki eli de açıktır, nasıl dilerse verir. Elbette Rabbinden sana indirilenler, onların çoğunun azgınlığını ve küfrünü arttıracaktır. Onların arasına kıyamete kadar (sürecek) düşmanlık ve kin saldık. Savaş ateşini ne zaman körükleseler Allah onu söndürür. Yeryüzünde bozgunculuğa koşarlar. Allah bozguncuları sevmez.
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اردو · Urdu
اور یہودیوں نے کہا کہ اللہ تعالیٰ کے ہاتھ بندھے ہوئے ہیں[1] ۔ انہی کے ہاتھ بندھے ہوئے ہیں اور ان کے اس قول کی وجہ سے ان پر لعنت کی گئی، بلکہ اللہ تعالیٰ کے دونوں ہاتھ کھلے ہوئے ہیں۔ جس طرح چاہتا ہے خرچ کرتا ہے اور جو کچھ تیری طرف تیرے رب کی جانب سے اتارا جاتا ہے وه ان میں سے اکثر کو تو سرکشی اور کفر میں اور بڑھا دیتا ہے اور ہم نے ان میں آپس میں ہی قیامت تک کے لئے عداوت اور بغض ڈال دیا ہے، وه جب کبھی لڑائی کی آگ کو بھڑکانا چاہتے ہیں تو اللہ تعالیٰ اسے بجھا دیتا ہے[2]، یہ ملک بھر میں شر وفساد مچاتے پھرتے ہیں[3] اور اللہ تعالیٰ فسادیوں سے محبت نہیں کرتا۔
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Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the
same edition and their orthography differs.
Talal Itani2012 You see many of them competing with one another in sin and hostility, and their consuming of what is illicit. What they have been doing is truly evil.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And thou seest many of them vying one with another in sin and transgression and their devouring of illicit gain. Verily evil is what they do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Thou wilt see many of them vieing in sin and enmity, and in eating unlawful things, - evil is it that they have done
John Medows Rodwell1861 Many of them shalt thou see hastening together to wickedness and malice, and to eat unlawful things. Shame on them for what they have done
George Sale1734 Thou shalt see many of them hastening unto iniquity and malice, and to eat things forbidden; and woe unto them for what they have done
Talal Itani2012 Why do the rabbis and the priests not prevent them from speaking sinfully and from consuming forbidden wealth? Evil is what they have been doing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Why do not the rabbis and the priests forbid their evil-speaking and their devouring of illicit gain? Verily evil is their handiwork
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The masters and their doctors prohibit them from speaking sin and eating unlawful things, - evil is what they have performed
John Medows Rodwell1861 Had not their doctors and teachers forbidden their uttering wickedness, and their eating unlawful food, bad indeed would have been their doings
George Sale1734 Unless their doctors and priests forbid them uttering wickedness, and eating things forbidden; woe unto them for what they shall have committed
Talal Itani2012 Had the People of the Scriputure believed and been righteous, We would have remitted their sins, and admitted them into the Gardens of Bliss.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 If only the People of the Scripture would believe and ward off (evil), surely We should remit their sins from them and surely We should bring them into Gardens of Delight
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But did the people of the Book believe and fear, we would cover their offences, and we would make them enter into gardens of pleasure
John Medows Rodwell1861 But if the people of the Book believe and have the fear of God, we will surely put away their sins from them, and will bring them into gardens of delight
George Sale1734 More, if they who have received the scriptures believe, and fear God, We will surely expiate their sins from them, and We will lead them into gardens of pleasure
Easy-read (simplified)walaw annahum aqaamoo t-tawraata wal-'injeela wamaa unzila ilayhim min rabbihim la'akaloo min fawqihim wamin tahti arjulihim minhum ummatun muqtasidatun wakatheerun minhum saa'a maa ya'maloon
DIN 31635walaw ʾannahum ʾaqāmū t-tawrāta wal-ʾinǧīla wamā ʾunzila ʾilayhim min rabbihim laʾakalū min fawqihim wamin taḥti ʾarǧulihim minhum ʾummatun muqtaṣidatun wakaṯīrun minhum sāʾa mā yaʿmalūna
Talal Itani2012 Had they observed the Torah, and the Gospel, and what was revealed to them from their Lord, they would have consumed amply from above them, and from beneath their feet. Among them is a moderate community, but evil is what many of them are doing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 If they had observed the Torah and the Gospel and that which was revealed unto them from their Lord, they would surely have been nourished from above them and from beneath their feet. Among them there are people who are moderate, but many of them are of evil conduct
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and were they steadfast in the law and the gospel, and what has been sent down to them from their Lord, they should eat from above them and below them. Amongst them are a nation who are moderate, but many of them - bad is what they do
John Medows Rodwell1861 and if that they observe the law and the Evangel, and what hath been sent down to them from their Lord, they shall surely have their fill of good things from above them and from beneath their feet. Some there are among them who act aright; but many of them - how evil are their doings
George Sale1734 and if they observe the law, and the gospel, and the other scriptures which have been sent down unto them from their Lord, they shall surely eat of good things both from above them, and from under their feet. Among them there are people who act uprightly; but how evil is that which many of them do work
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 —
0.54 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
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Talal Itani · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.58
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.51
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.51
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.51
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.43
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
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characterise what the difference means. The renderings are placed
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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.