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Seventy-eight verses built on one returning question — which of the Lord's bounties will you deny — standing in exactly thirty-one of them, and moving through made things: the sun and the moon, the two seas that meet, the two gardens, before closing by blessing the name of the Lord. It opens with the name this surah is called by.

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worded differently

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.

55:48
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.90. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.
Full of varieties.
Both furnished with branching trees
55:26
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.87. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.
Everyone upon it is perishing.
All on the earth shall pass away
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55:70
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.85. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.92.
In them are good and beautiful ones.
Therein shall be agreeable and beauteous damsels
55:72
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.85. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.93.
Companions, secluded in the tents.
Having fine black eyes; and kept in pavilions from public view
55:12
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.79. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.92.
And grains in the blades, and fragrant plants.
and grain with chaff and frequent shoots
More about this surahDerived
Verses
78
Words
351
Place
Medinan
Revelation position
97th of 114 in an ordering its source does not name
Opening letters
None
Bismillah
Carried by the surah, unnumbered
Word-by-word breakdown
65.5% of 351 words carry an analysis

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
0.62 across 78 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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