Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.77. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.84.Whether you keep your words secret, or declare them-He is Aware of the inner thoughts.
Speak ye secretly or openly, verily, He knows the nature of men's breasts
Al-Mulk الملك
- The Sovereignty
- 30 verses
- 333 words
- Meccan
- 77th of 114 in revelation order
In plain wordsEditorial
An editorial summary of the translations. Not a translation or tafsir.
Thirty verses turning to made things as evidence: death and life as a test, seven heavens without flaw, birds held up in the air. It opens by blessing the one in whose hand the kingdom lies — the word this surah is named for — and its closing verses are a run of instructions to say something.
Every verse as a number; tap one to open it. Shaded numbers mark verses where the translations differ most.
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.
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.74. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.85.But those before them did call the apostles liars, and what a change it was
And verily, those who flourish before you treated their prophets as liars: and how grievous my wrath
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Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.73. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.82.Then look again, and again, and your sight will return to you dazzled and exhausted.
Then twice more repeat the gaze: thy gaze shall return to thee dulled and weary
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.72. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.81.So they will acknowledge their sins. So away with the inmates of the Blaze.
And their sin shall they acknowledge: but, "Avaunt, ye dwellers in the flame
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.68. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.76.It almost bursts with fury. Every time a batch is thrown into it, its keepers will ask them, "Has no warner come to you?"
As it would burst with rage. Whenever a (fresh) host is flung therein the wardens thereof ask them: Came there unto you no warner
More about this surahDerived
- Verses
- 30
- Words
- 333
- Place
- Meccan
- Revelation position
- 77th of 114 in an ordering its source does not name
- Opening letters
- None
- Bismillah
- Carried by the surah, unnumbered
- Word-by-word breakdown
- 64.6% of 333 words carry an analysis
- 96
- 68
- 73
- 74
- 1
- 111
- 81
- 87
- 92
- 89
- 93
- 94
- 103
- 100
- 108
- 102
- 107
- 109
- 105
- 113
- 114
- 112
- 53
- 80
- 97
- 91
- 85
- 95
- 106
- 101
- 75
- 104
- 77
- 50
- 90
- 86
- 54
- 38
- 7
- 72
- 36
- 25
- 35
- 19
- 20
- 56
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 17
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 15
- 6
- 37
- 31
- 34
- 39
- 40
- 41
- 42
- 43
- 44
- 45
- 46
- 51
- 88
- 18
- 16
- 71
- 14
- 21
- 23
- 32
- 52
- 67
- 69
- 70
- 78
- 79
- 82
- 84
- 30
- 29
- 83
- 2
- 8
- 3
- 33
- 60
- 4
- 99
- 57
- 47
- 13
- 55
- 76
- 65
- 98
- 59
- 24
- 22
- 63
- 58
- 49
- 66
- 64
- 61
- 62
- 48
- 5
- 9
- 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
- 0.59 across 30 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
Sources for this page
Surah metadataTanzil Qur'an metadata ·quran-data.xml v1.0·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution — version not specified by the source·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
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