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Talal Itani· published 2012
Say, "Shall we invoke besides God something that can neither benefit us nor harm us, and turn back on our heels after God has guided us; like someoneseduced by the devils and confused on earth, who has friends calling him to guidance: 'Come to us'?" Say, "The guidance of God is the guidance, and we are commanded to surrender to the Lord of the Universe."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Say: Shall we cry, instead of unto Allah, unto that which neither profiteth us nor hurteth us, and shall we turn back after Allah hath guided us, like one bewildered whom the devils have infatuated in the earth, who hath companions who invite him to the guidance (saying): Come unto us? Say: Lo! the guidance of Allah is Guidance, and we are ordered to surrender to the Lord of the Worlds
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
Say, 'Shall we call on what neither profits us nor harms us, and be thrown back upon our heels after God has guided us, like him whom Satan hath led away bewildered in the earth, who has companions who call him to guidance, "Come to us?" ' Say, 'Verily, God's guidance is the guidance, and we are bidden to resign ourselves unto the Lord of the worlds
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
SAY: Shall we, beside God, call upon those who can neither help nor hurt us? Shall we turn upon our heel after that God hath guided us? Like some bewildered man whom the Satans have spell-bound in the desert, though his companions call him to the true guidance, with, "Come to us!" SAY: Verily, guidance from God, that is the true guidance; and we are commanded to surrender ourselves to the Lord of the Worlds
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Say, 'Shall we call beside God, upon that which can neither profit us nor harm us, and shall we be turn back on our heels after God guided us? -- Like one whom the evil ones entice away, leaving him bewildered in the land, and who has companions who call him to guidance, saying, 'Come to us.' Say : 'Surely, the guidance of God is the only true guidance and we have been commanded to submit to the Lord of all the worlds
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
Thuaj: "A të lusim në vend të Allahut ata që nuk na bëjnë dobi e as dëm e të sprapsemi (duke u kthyer në mosbesim) pasi na ka udhëzuar Allahu, sikurse ai që është tunduar nga shejtanët e ka mbetur i hutuar në tokë, megjithëqë ai ka shokë që e thërrasin në rrugë të drejtë (duke thënë): "Eja me ne!?!" Thuaj: "Pa dyshim, udhëzimi i Allahut është udhëzimi i vërtetë dhe ne jemi urdhëruar t'i nënshtrohemi Zotit të botëve,
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বাংলা · Bengali
বল: ‘আমরা কি আল্লাহ ছাড়া এমন কিছুকে ডাকব, যা আমাদেরকে কোন উপকার করতে পারে না এবং ক্ষতিও করতে পারে না? আর আল্লাহ আমাদেরকে পথ দেখানোর পর আমাদেরকে কি ফিরানো হবে আমাদের পশ্চাতে সেই ব্যক্তির ন্যায়, যাকে শয়তান জমিনে এমন শক্তভাবে পেয়ে বসেছে যে, সে দিশেহারা? অথচ তার রয়েছে কিছু সহচর, যারা তাকে সত্য-সঠিক পথের দিকে আহ্বান করে বলে: ‘আমাদের কাছে আসো ।’ বলো: ‘আল্লাহর পথই সঠিক পথ। আর আমরা রাব্বুল আলামীনের আনুগত্য করতে আদিষ্ট হয়েছি।’
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Reci: "Zar da, pored Allaha, molimo one koji nam ne mogu nikakvu korist pribaviti ni neku štetu otkloniti, pa da budemo vraćeni svojoj prošlosti – a Allah nas je već uputio – i da budemo kao onaj koga su na Zemlji šejtani zaveli pa ništa ne zna, a koga drugovi njegovi zovu na Pravi put: 'Hodi nama!'" Reci: "Zaista je Allahova uputa – istinska uputa, i nama je naređeno da se Gospodaru svjetova predamo,
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Reci: "Zar da, pored Allaha, molimo one koji nam ne mogu nikakvu korist pribaviti ni neku štetu otkloniti, pa da budemo vraćeni svojoj prošlosti – a Allah nas je već uputio – i da budemo kao onaj koga su na Zemlji đavoli zaveli pa ništa ne zna, a koga drugovi njegovi zovu na Pravi put: 'Hodi nama!'" Reci: "Zaista je Allahova uputa – istinska uputa, i nama je naređeno da se Gospodaru svjetova predamo,
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Maaku : "E min nodday gah Alla kon ko nafataa min kadi lorrataa min? Min nduttitee e gaɗa-teppe amen ɓaawo nde Alla feewni amen, wano on mo seytaane fijiri ka leydi himo weemi, himo mari won diiɓe ɓe no nodda mo e peewal : "Ar e amen"? Maaku : "Pellet, peewal Alla ngal, ko ngaal woni peewal. Min njamiraama jebbilanagol Jom-Winndere ndeen,
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ქართული · Georgian
უთხარი (ო, მოციქულო): «ნუთუ ჩვენ დავიწყებთ მოწოდებას
ალლაჰის გარდა იმის მიმართ, რაც არ გვაძლევს სარგებელს
და არც გვაზიანებს? და (თუ ამას გავაკეთებთ), ნუთუ დავბრუნდებით უკან [გზასაცდენისკენ] მას შემდეგ, რაც ალლაჰმა გვიწინამძღვრა? და (ის, ვინც ბრუნდება გზასაცდენაში) ჰგავს იმას, ვინც სატანამ აცდუნა დედამიწაზე,
და ის დაბნეულია. მას ჰყავს თანამგზავრები, რომლებიც მოუწოდებენ (ჭეშმარიტი) გზისკენ: «მოდი ჩვენთან!». უთხარი (ო, მოციქულო): «ჭეშმარიტად, მხოლოდ ალლაჰის გზა არის (ნამდვილი) გზა, და ჩვენ ყველას გვებრძანა სრულად დავემორჩილოთ სამყაროთა უფალს».
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Deutsch · German
Sag: „Sollen wir anstatt Allahs anrufen, was uns nicht nützt und nicht schadet, und auf unseren Fersen kehrtmachen (und abtrünnig werden), nachdem Allah uns rechtgeleitet hat, wie derjenige, den die Satane auf der Erde verführt haben, so dass er verwirrt ist?“ Er hat Gefährten, die ihn zur Rechtleitung einladen (und sagen): „Komm zu uns!“ Sag: „Wahrlich, die Rechtleitung Allahs ist die (wahre) Rechtleitung. Und uns wurde befohlen, uns dem Herrn der Weltenbewohner zu ergeben.“
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Πες (ω, Προφήτη, στους ειδωλολάτρες ρωτώντας τους): «Είναι δυνατόν, να επικαλούμαστε εκτός από τον Αλλάχ αυτά (τα είδωλα), που δεν μπορούν ούτε να μας ωφελήσουν ούτε να μας βλάψουν και να επιστρέψουμε έτσι στην απιστία, αφού μας έχει καθοδηγήσει ο Αλλάχ;» Σαν εκείνον που οι διάβολοι τον παραπλάνησαν στη γη αφήνοντάς τον σαστισμένο, αν και έχει συντρόφους που τον καλούν στην καθοδήγηση (λέγοντας): «Έλα σε μας.» Πες (ω, Προφήτη): «Η καθοδήγηση του Αλλάχ είναι η (αληθινή) καθοδήγηση, και έχουμε διαταχθεί να υποταχθούμε στον Κύριο όλων των κόσμων,
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हिन्दी · Hindi
(ऐ नबी!) कह दीजिए : क्या हम अल्लाह के सिवा उसको पुकारें, जो न हमें लाभ पहुँचा सके और न हमें हानि पहुँचा सके और हम अपनी एड़ियों पर फेर दिए जाएँ, इसके बाद कि अल्लाह ने हमें मार्गदर्शन प्रदान किया है, उस व्यक्ति की तरह जिसे शैतानों ने धरती में बहका दिया, इस हाल में कि चकित है, उसके कुछ साथी हैं जो उसे सीधे मार्ग की ओर बुला रहे हैं कि हमारे पास चला आ।[53] आप कह दें कि निःसंदेह अल्लाह का दर्शाया हुआ मार्ग ही असल मार्ग है और हमें आदेश दिया गया है कि हम सारे संसारों के पालनहार के आज्ञाकारी हो जाएँ।
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Italiano · Italian
Di’: «Dovremmo invocare, all’infuori di Allāh, chi non può farci bene né male, e che ci fa ritornare sui nostri passi dopo che Allāh ci ha guidati sulla retta via? Come colui che fu tentato dai demoni in terra, indeciso?” Lui aveva amici che lo invitavano alla salvezza: «Vieni da noi!» Di’: «In verità la guida di Allāh è l’Unica Guida! Ci è stato ordinato di sottometterci al Dio dei Mondi!”
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
71. Sakyk (Muchammedai ﷺ ): „Argi mes šauksimės kitų šalia Allaho (netikrų dievybių), kurie negali mums padaryti nei ką gero, nei pakenkti, ir argi mes apsigręšime ant kulnų po to, kai Allahas išvedė mus (į tikrąjį monoteizmą)? - kaip tą, kurį Šajatin (šėtonai) paklaidino painiavos žemėje, jo kompanjonai kviečia jį į teisingą vedimą (sakydami): „Eikš pas mus!“ Sakyk: „Iš tiesų, Allaho Teisingas Vedimas yra vienintelis teisingas vedimas ir mums buvo liepta paklusti Alamyn (žmonijos, džinų ir viso, kas egzistuoja) Viešpačiui,
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Jedhi: "Sila nuti Rabbii gaditti waan nu hin fayyanneefi nu hin miine gabbarraa? Erga Rabbiin nu qajeelchee booda uf duuba deebinaa? akka isa dhama'aa ta'ee sheyxaanonni dachii keessa isa fuutee, kan isaaf hiriyoonni 'gara keenya kottu' (jechuun) gara qajeelumaa isa waaman jiranu (kan isaan hin hordofnee san) jedhi "Dhugumatti, qajeelfamni Rabbii isatu qajeelfama (sirrii)ti. Nuti Gooftaa aalamatiif akka islaamoynu (tole jennu) ajajamnee jirra".
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Русский · Russian
Скажи: «Неужели мы станем призывать, помимо Аллаха то, что не приносит нам пользы и не навредит нам, и будем обращены вспять после того, как Аллах наставил нас, — подобно тому, кого шайтаны соблазнили на земле, оставив в растерянности, хотя у него есть спутники, которые зовут его к верному руководству: “Иди к нам!”»? Скажи: «Воистину, руководство Аллаха — оно и есть верное руководство, и нам велено предаться Господу миров» —
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Српски · Serbian
Реци: „Зар да, поред Аллаха, молимо оне који не могу да нам прибаве никакву корист ни да отклоне неку штету, па да будемо враћени својој прошлости, а Аллах нас је већ упутио, и да будемо као онај кога су на Земљи завели ђаволи па ништа не зна, а кога другови његови зову на Прави пут: 'Дођи нама!'“ Реци: „Заиста је Аллахова упута – истинска упута, и нама је наређено да се Господару светова предамо,
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Sema: Je, tumuombe asiyekuwa Mwenyezi Mungu ambaye hatufai wala hatudhuru, na turejee nyuma baada ya Mwenyezi Mungu kwisha tuongoa? Tuwe kama ambao mashetani wamempumbaza katika ardhi, amechanganyikiwa? Anao marafiki wanaomwita aende kwenye uwongofu, wakimwambia: 'Njoo kwetu!' Sema: Hakika uongofu wa Mwenyezi Mungu ndio Uongofu. Nasi tumeamrishwa tusilimu kwa Mola Mlezi wa viumbe vyote.
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Svenska · Swedish
Säg: ”Ska vi vid Guds sida åkalla det som varken gynnar eller skadar oss och falla tillbaka i otro efter att Gud har väglett oss? Det vore som den som djävlarna fört vilse på jorden, helt förvirrad, medan hans vänner kallar honom till vägledning: ’Kom till oss!’” Säg: ”Guds vägledning är den sanna vägledningen, och vi har befallts att underkasta oss världarnas Herre,
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Türkçe · Turkish
De ki: “Allah’ı bırakıp bize fayda ve zarar vermeyen şeylere mi ibadet edelim? Allah bizi hidâyete kavuşturduktan sonra ökçelerimiz üzerine gerisin geriye mi döndürülelim?" Hani arkadaşları: “Bize gel!” diye hidâyete çağırdıkları halde, yeryüzünde şaşkın şaşkın dolaşırken, Şeytanların saptırdıkları kimse gibi mi olalım?” De ki: “Asıl hidâyet Allah’ın gösterdiği doğru yoldur. Ve biz âlemlerin Rabbine teslim olmakla emrolunduk.”
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اردو · Urdu
آپ کہہ دیجئے کہ کیا ہم اللہ تعالیٰ کے سوا ایسی چیز کو پکاریں کہ نہ وه ہم کو نفع پہنچائے اور نہ ہم کو نقصان پہنچائے اور کیا ہم الٹے پھر جائیں اس کے بعد کہ ہم کو اللہ تعالیٰ نے ہدایت کردی ہے، جیسے کوئی شخص ہو کہ اس کو شیطانوں نے کہیں جنگل میں بےراه کردیا ہو اور وه بھٹکتا پھرتا ہو، اس کے کچھ ساتھی بھی ہوں کہ وه اس کو ٹھیک راستہ کی طرف بلا رہے ہوں کہ ہمارے پاس آ[1] ۔ آپ کہہ دیجئے کہ یقینی بات ہے کہ راه راست وه خاص اللہ ہی کی راه ہے[2] اور ہم کو یہ حکم ہوا ہے کہ ہم پروردگار عالم کے پورے مطیع ہوجائیں۔
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Easy-read (simplified)wamaa 'alaa lladheena yattaqoona min hisaabihim min shay'in walaakin dhikraa la'allahum yattaqoon
DIN 31635wamā ʿalā llaḏīna yattaqūna min ḥisābihim min šayʾin walākin ḏikrā laʿallahum yattaqūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 The righteous are in no way accountable for them; it is only a reminder, that they may be careful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those who ward off (evil) are not accountable for them in aught, but the Reminder (must be given them) that haply they (too) may ward off (evil)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Those who fear are not bound to take account of them at all, but mind!- haply they may fear
John Medows Rodwell1861 Not that they who fear God are to pass any judgment upon them, but the object of recollection is that they may continue to fear Him
George Sale1734 And those who are righteous are not at all accountable for them, but their duty is to admonish them that they may fear God
Talal Itani2012 So leave alone those who take their religion for play and pastime, and whom the worldly life has deceived. But remind with it, lest a soul becomes damned on account of what it has earned. It has no helper or intercessor besides God. Even if it offers every equivalent, none will be accepted from it. These are the ones who are delivered to perdition by their actions. They will have a drink of scalding water, and a painful punishment, because they used to disbelieve.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And forsake those who take their religion for a pastime and a jest, and whom the life of the world beguileth. Remind (mankind) hereby lest a soul be destroyed by what it earneth. It hath beside Allah no protecting ally nor intercessor, and though it offer every compensation it will not be accepted from it. Those are they who perish by their own deserts. For them is drink of boiling water and a painful doom, because they disbelieved
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Leave those who have taken their religion for a play and a sport, whom this world's life hath deceived, and remind them thereby that a soul shall be given up for what it has earned; nor has it, beside God, patron or intercessor; and though it should compensate with the fullest compensation, it would not be accepted. Those who are given up for what they have gained, for them is a drink of boiling water, and grievous woe for that they have misbelieved
John Medows Rodwell1861 And quit those who make their religion a sport and a pastime, and whom this present life hath deceived: warn them hereby that every soul will be consigned to doom for its own works: patron or intercessor, beside God, shall it have none: and could it compensate with fullest compensation, it would not be accepted from it. They who for their deeds shall be consigned to doom - for them are draughts of boiling water, and a grievous torment; for that they believed not
George Sale1734 And leave alone those who take their religion to be a sport and a pastime, and whom worldly life has beguiled. And admonish people thereby lest a soul be consigned to perdition for what it has earned. It shall have no helper nor intercessor beside God; and even if it offer every ransom it shall not be accepted from it. These are they who have been delivered over to destruction for their own acts. They will have a drink of boiling water and a grievous punishment, because they disbelieved
Talal Itani2012 It is He who created the heavens and the earth in truth. On the Day when He says: "Be," it will be. His saying is the truth, and His is the sovereignty on the Day when the trumpet is blown. The Knower of secrets and declarations. He is the Wise, the Expert.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in truth. In the day when He saith: Be! it is. His Word is the Truth, and His will be the Sovereignty on the day when the trumpet is blown. Knower of the Invisible and the Visible, He is the Wise, the Aware
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He it is who has created the heavens and the earth in truth; and on the day when He says, 'BE,' then it is. His word is truth; to Him is the kingdom on the day when the trumpets shall be blown; the knower of the unseen and of the evident; He is wise and well aware
John Medows Rodwell1861 And it is He who hath created the Heavens and the Earth, in truth, and when He saith to a thing, "Be," it is. His word is the truth: and His the kingdom, on the day when there shall be a blast on the trumpet: He knoweth alike the unseen and the seen: and He is the Wise, the Cognisant
George Sale1734 And He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in accordance with the requirements of wisdom; and on the day when He will say, 'Be', it will be. His word is the truth, and His will be the Kingdom on the day when the trumpet will be blown. He is the Knower of the unseen and the seen. And He is the Wise, the All-Aware
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 —
0.60 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 · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.65
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · George Sale0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.54
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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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.