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68:49

لَّوْلَآ أَن تَدَٰرَكَهُۥ نِعْمَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِۦ لَنُبِذَ بِٱلْعَرَآءِ وَهُوَ مَذْمُومٌ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)lawlaa an tadaarakahu ni'matun min rabbihi lanubidha bil-'araa'i wahuwa madhmoom

DIN 31635lawlā ʾan tadārakahu niʿmatun min rabbihi lanubiḏa bil-ʿarāʾi wahuwa maḏmūmun

EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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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
Edition
Uthmani, Version 1.1
Custodian
Tanzil Project
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canonical text
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Commercial use
yes
Modification
contradictory
Licence text
read verbatim
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
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Located at
https://tanzil.net/pub/download/index.php?quranType=uthmani&outType=xml
Convention
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.

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Source Talal Itani, ClearQuran · ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB
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ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB
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Talal Itani / ClearQuran.com
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translation
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Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
Commercial use
yes
Modification
no
Licence text
terms page read
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
7 September 2026
Digest
70b0a8bb6f862f43670f7da1c0da59a4…
Located at
https://www.clearquran.com/downloads/quran-in-english-clearquran.epub
Convention
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.

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Source Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran · 1930 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Edition
1930 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
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translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
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— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
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Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-mohammedmarmadu.json

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Source Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an · 1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Edition
1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
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translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
32b2330e332339ace53509539efe9040…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-edwardhenrypalm.json
Convention
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.

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Source John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an · 1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Edition
1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
Layer
translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
91423dea6a6dccc192457870ed2c08fb…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-johnmedowsrodwe.json
Convention
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.

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Source George Sale, English translation of the Qur'an · 1734 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Edition
1734 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
Layer
translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
05b679f5df49b0579e65f4b83b4c7235…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-georgesale.json
Convention
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.

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Source Tanzil Qur'an text (Simple) · Simple, Version 1.1
Edition
Simple, Version 1.1
Custodian
Tanzil Project
Layer
canonical text
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Commercial use
yes
Modification
contradictory
Licence text
read verbatim
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
d9b5bad94e4725191aa8da9a0404bd8e…
Located at
https://tanzil.net/pub/download/index.php?quranType=simple&outType=xml
Convention
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.

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TranslationsSource fact

Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 1875–1936 · published 1930

Had it not been that favour from his Lord had reached him he surely had been cast into the wilderness while he was reprobate

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 Palmer 1840–1882 · published 1880

Had it not been that grace from his Lord reached him, he would have been cast out on the naked (shore) and blamed the while

Sources

Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired

Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an ·1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

John Medows Rodwell 1808–1900 · published 1861

Had not favour from his Lord reached him, cast forth would he have been on the naked shore, overwhelmed with shame

Sources

Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired

John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an ·1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

George Sale 1697–1736 · published 1734

Had not grace from his Lord reached him, he had surely been cast forth on the naked shore, covered with shame

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

Sikur të mos e kishte kapluar mirësia e Zotit të vet, do të hidhej në shkretëtirë, i qortuar.

Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5

বাংলা · Bengali

যদি তার রবের অনুগ্রহ তার কাছে না পৌঁছত, তাহলে সে নিন্দিত অবস্থায় উন্মুক্ত প্রান্তরে নিক্ষিপ্ত হতো।

Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Dawah Association in Rabwah, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2

Bosanski · Bosnian

i da ga nije stigla Allahova blagodat, na pusto mjesto bi izbačen bio i prijekor bi zaslužio,

Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.

From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4

Hrvatski · Croatian

i da ga nije stigla Allahova blagodat, na pusto mjesto bi izbačen bio i prijekor bi zaslužio,

Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1

Fulfulde · Fulani

Si tawno moƴƴere immorde e Joomi makko hewtitanooki mo, ko pellet, o bugeteno e wulaa hara ko o pelniiɗo.

Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2

ქართული · Georgian

და რომ არა მისი უფლის წყალობა, იგი ვეშაპის მუცლიდან იქნებოდა გადაგდებული უკაცრიელ ადგილას (სადაც დაიღუპებოდა), და იქნებოდა გაკიცხული.

Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7

Deutsch · German

Hätte ihn nicht eine Gunstgabe von seinem Herrn rechtzeitig erreicht, wäre er sicherlich auf das kahle Land geworfen worden und er wäre hierbei zu tadeln.

Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15

Ελληνικά · Greek

Αν δεν του είχε φτάσει η Εύνοια από τον Κύριό του, θα πεταγόταν (από το στομάχι του μεγάλου ψαριού) στη γυμνή γη ως κατηγορούμενος (για το ότι έφυγε χωρίς την άδεια του Αλλάχ, αλλά ο Αλλάχ δέχτηκε τη μεταμέλειά του και έκανε το ψάρι να τον πετάξει στη γη χωρίς να είναι κατηγορούμενος, και του παρείχε μέσα για την ανάρρωσή του).

Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2

हिन्दी · Hindi

और यदि उसके पालनहार की अनुकंपा ने उसे संभाल न लिया होता, तो निश्चय वह चटियल मैदान में इस दशा में फेंक दिया जाता कि वह निंदित होता।

Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5

Italiano · Italian

se non l’avesse soccorso una grazia di Allāh, sarebbe stato rigettato sulla terra nuda, e rimproverato.

Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2

Lietuvių · Lithuanian

49. Jei ne jo Viešpaties Malonė (t. y. gailestingumas), apėmusi jį, jis būtų išmestas ant pliko kranto, pasmerktas.

Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8

Afaan Oromoo · Oromo

Odoo ni'imaan Gooftaa isaa irraa taate isa dhaqqabuu baattee, silaa komatamaa ta'eeti dirree biqiltuu hin qabne irratti darbama ture.

Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0

Русский · Russian

Если бы не милость его Господа, он непременно был бы выброшен на пустынный берег порицаемым.

Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1

Српски · Serbian

и да га није стигла Аллахова милост, на пусто место би био избачен и прекор би заслужио,

Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4

Kiswahili · Swahili

Kama isingelimfikia neema kutoka kwa Mola wake Mlezi, bila ya shaka angelitupwa ufukweni naye ni mwenye kulaumiwa.

Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5

Svenska · Swedish

Hade han inte nåtts av sin Herres nåd, skulle han ha kastats upp på en öde strand, fortfarande lastad med skam.

Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2

Türkçe · Turkish

Şayet Rabbinden ona bir nimet yetişmemiş olsaydı, o mutlaka kınanmış bir hâlde ıssız bir yere atılacaktı.

Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4

اردو · Urdu

اگر اسے اس کے رب کی نعمت نہ پالیتی تو یقیناً وه برے حالوں میں چٹیل میدان میں ڈال دیا جاتا.[1]

Translated by Muhammad Ibrahim Junagarhi, developed under the supervision of the Rowwad Translation Center. The original translation is available for the purpose of expressing opinion, evaluation, and continuous development.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3

About these translations

5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.

Which translations appear here is set by copyright: they are the ones whose rights could be documented and cleared. The selection is not a judgement that these are the best.

About easy-read

Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation, not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading. Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the same edition and their orthography differs.

The verses around this oneSource fact

shown so it's never read alone

68:47

أَمْ عِندَهُمُ ٱلْغَيْبُ فَهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)am 'indahumu l-ghaybu fahum yaktuboon

DIN 31635ʾam ʿindahumu l-ġaybu fahum yaktubūna

The translators word this verse differently

Talal Itani2012 Or do they know the future, and so they write it down?

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Or is the Unseen theirs that they can write (thereof)

Edward Henry Palmer1880 Or have they the knowledge of the unseen, so that they write

John Medows Rodwell1861 Are the secret things within their ken? Do they copy them from the Book of God

George Sale1734 Are the secrets of futurity with them; and do they transcribe the same from the table of God's decrees

68:48

فَٱصْبِرْ لِحُكْمِ رَبِّكَ وَلَا تَكُن كَصَاحِبِ ٱلْحُوتِ إِذْ نَادَىٰ وَهُوَ مَكْظُومٌ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)fasbir lihukmi rabbika walaa takun kasaahibi l-hooti idh naadaa wahuwa makzoom

DIN 31635faṣbir liḥukmi rabbika walā takun kaṣāḥibi l-ḥūti ʾiḏ nādā wahuwa makẓūmun

Talal Itani2012 So wait patiently for the Decision of your Lord, and do not be like the Fellow of the Fish who cried out in despair.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But wait thou for thy Lord's decree, and be not like him of the fish, who cried out in despair

Edward Henry Palmer1880 But wait patiently for the judgment of thy Lord, and be not like the fellow of the fish, when he cried out as he was choking with rage

John Medows Rodwell1861 Patiently then await the judgment of thy Lord, and be not like him who was in the fish, when in deep distress he cried to God

George Sale1734 Wherefore patiently wait the judgment of thy Lord: And be not like him who was swallowed by the fish; when he cried unto God, being inwardly vexed

68:49 — the verse above

68:50

فَٱجْتَبَٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَجَعَلَهُۥ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰلِحِينَ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)fajtabaahu rabbuhu faja'alahu mina s-saaliheen

DIN 31635faǧtabāhu rabbuhu faǧaʿalahu mina ṣ-ṣāliḥīna

Talal Itani2012 But his Lord chose him, and made him one of the righteous.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But his Lord chose him and placed him among the righteous

Edward Henry Palmer1880 But his Lord elected him, and made him of the pious

John Medows Rodwell1861 But his Lord chose him and made him of the just

George Sale1734 But his Lord chose him, and made him one of the righteous

68:51

وَإِن يَكَادُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَيُزْلِقُونَكَ بِأَبْصَٰرِهِمْ لَمَّا سَمِعُوا۟ ٱلذِّكْرَ وَيَقُولُونَ إِنَّهُۥ لَمَجْنُونٌ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)wa'in yakaadu lladheena kafaroo layuzliqoonaka bi'absaarihim lammaa sami'oo dh-dhikra wayaqooloona innahu lamajnoon

DIN 31635waʾin yakādu llaḏīna kafarū layuzliqūnaka biʾabṣārihim lammā samiʿū ḏ-ḏikra wayaqūlūna ʾinnahu lamaǧnūnun

Talal Itani2012 Those who disbelieve almost stab you with their glances when they hear the message, and say, "He is crazy!"

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And lo! those who disbelieve would fain disconcert thee with their eyes when they hear the Reminder, and they say: Lo! he is indeed mad

Edward Henry Palmer1880 The misbelievers well-nigh upset thee with their looks when they hear the reminder, and they say, 'Surely he is mad

John Medows Rodwell1861 Almost would the infidels strike thee down with their very looks when they hear the warning of the Koran. And they say, "He is certainly possessed

George Sale1734 It wanteth little but that the unbelievers strike thee down with their malicious looks, when they hear the admonition of the Koran; and they say, he is certainly distracted

Sources

EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Uthmani, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

Parallel edition — Simple, Version 1.1

لَّوْلَا أَن تَدَارَكَهُ نِعْمَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِ لَنُبِذَ بِالْعَرَاءِ وَهُوَ مَذْمُومٌ

EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

Analysis detailsDerived

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 — 0.56 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 · George Sale 0.79
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell 0.72
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer 0.66
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell 0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale 0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale 0.46
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell 0.43
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale 0.29

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.

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SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

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