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Talal Itani· published 2012
They were succeeded by generations who inherited the Scripture and chose the materials of this world, saying, "We will be forgiven." And should similar materialscome their way, they would again seize them. Did they not make a covenant to uphold the Scripture, and to not say about God except the truth? Did they not study its contents? But the Home of the Hereafter is better for the cautious; will you not understand?
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And a generation hath succeeded them who inherited the scriptures. They grasp the goods of this low life (as the price of evil-doing) and say: It will be forgiven us. And if there came to them (again) the offer of the like, they would accept it (and would sin again). Hath not the covenant of the Scripture been taken on their behalf that they should not speak aught concerningAllahsave the truth? And they have studied that which is therein. And the abode of the Hereafter is better, for those who ward off (evil). Have ye then no sense
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
But there succeeded them successors who inherited the Book! They take the goods of this lower world and say, 'It will be forgiven us.' But if the like goods came to them they would take them too! Was there not taken from them a covenant by the Book, that they should not say against God aught but the truth? Yet they study therein! But the abode of the future life is better for those who fear - do ye not then understand
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And they have had successors to succeed them: they have inherited the Book: they have received the passing good things of this lower world, and say, "It will be forgiven us." Yet if the like good things came to them again, they would again receive them. But hath there not been received on their part a covenant through the Scripture that they should speak nought of God but the truth? And yet they study its contents. But the mansion of the next world hath more value for those who fear God - Do ye not then comprehend
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Then there came after them an evil generation who inherited the Book. They take the paltry goods of this low world and say, 'It will be forgiven us.' But if there came to them similar goods again, they would take them. Was not the covenant of the Book taken from them, that they would not say of God anything but the truth? And they have studied what is therein. And the abode of the Hereafter is better for those who are righteous. Will you not then understand
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
Më pas ata u pasuan nga breza të tjerë që trashëguan Shkrimin, të cilët merrnin përfitime të ulëta dhe thoshin: "Do të na falen gjynahet." Kur u vinte ndonjë përfitim i ngjashëm, e merrnin atë. A nuk iu mor atyre një besëlidhje nga Libri që të mos thonë për Allahun asgjë përveç së vërtetës, madje ata kishin mësuar atë që përmbante ai? Por, bota tjetër është më e mirë për ata që i frikësohen Allahut. Si nuk e kuptoni?!
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বাংলা · Bengali
অতঃপর একটি নিকৃষ্ট দল একের পর এক তাদের স্থলাভিষিক্ত হয়েছে, যারা কিতাবের উত্তরাধিকারী হয়েছে, তারা এ নগণ্য (দুনিয়ার) সামগ্রী গ্রহণ করে। আর তারা বলে: ‘শীঘ্রই আমাদের ক্ষমা করে দেয়া হবে।’ কিন্তু পরক্ষণে যদি অনুরূপ সামগ্রী তাদের সামনে আসে তবে তারা তা গ্রহণ করবে। তাদের কাছ থেকে কি কিতাবের অঙ্গীকার নেয়া হয়নি যে, তারা আল্লাহর ব্যাপারে সত্য ছাড়া কোন কথা বলবে না? আর তারা তো কিতাবে যা আছে, তা পাঠ করেছে। যারা আল্লাহর আদেশ-নিষেধ মেনে তাঁকে ভয় করে চলে আখিরাতের আবাস তাদের জন্য উত্তম। তোমরা কি বুঝ না?
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I poslije njih ostala su pokoljenja koja su Knjigu naslijedila i koja su uzimala prolazna dobra ovoga nižeg svijeta, i govorila: "Bit će nam oprošteno!" A ako bi im opet dopalo šaka tako nešto, opet bi to prihvatili. Zar od njih nije uzet zavjet u Knjizi da će o Allahu samo istinu govoriti – a oni čitaju ono što je u njoj. Onaj svijet je bolji za one
koji se zabranjenog čuvaju; pa zar ne razumijete?!
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I poslije njih ostala su pokoljenja koja su Knjigu naslijedila i koja su uzimala prolazna dobra ovoga nižeg svijeta, i govorila: "Bit će nam oprošteno!" A ako bi im opet dopalo šaka tako nešto, opet bi to prihvatili. Zar od njih nije uzet zavjet u Knjizi da će o Allahu samo istinu govoriti – a oni čitaju ono što je u njoj. Onaj svijet je bolji za one koji se zabranjenog čuvaju; pa zar ne razumijete?!
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Lomtii ɓaawo maɓɓe lomtii ɓe (bonɓe), ɓe roni deftere nden, hiɓe ƴetta weeɓitanɗe oo aduna ɓe mbi'a : "Aray min njaaffee". Si weeɓitannde sugu mum arii e maɓɓe, ɓe ƴetta ɗum.hara ahadi deftere nden ƴettidaaka e maɓɓe, won de wata ɓe wowlu e Alla si wanaa goonga?! ɓe janngi ko woni e mayre. Ko galle laakara ɗen ɓuri moƴƴannde ɓen rentiiɓe. E on kakkiltaa?!
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ქართული · Georgian
და დარჩნენ მათ შემდეგ მემკვიდრეები, რომლებმაც მიიღეს წიგნი [თორა], რომლებიც იღებდნენ ამ ახლო ცხოვრების შემთხვევით სიკეთეებს და ამბობდნენ: «ჩვენ მოგვეტევება!» და თუ მათთან მოვიდოდა მსგავსი რამ [აკრძალული], ისინი მასაც აიღებდნენ (და ნებადართულად გამოაცხადებდნენ)! განა არ იყო მათგან აღებული აღთქმა წიგნის შესახებ, რომ ისინი ალლაჰზე მხოლოდ ჭეშმარიტებას იტყოდნენ და რომ შეისწავლიდნენ იმას, რაც მასშია დაწერილი [თორაში]? ხოლო მარადიული სამყოფელი უკეთესია მათთვის, ვისაც ეშინია ალლაჰის (სასჯელის). ნუთუ არ დაფიქრდებით?
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Deutsch · German
Dann folgten nach ihnen Nachfolger, die die Schrift erbten. Sie greifen nach den Glücksgütern des Niedrigen und sagen: „Es wird uns vergeben werden.“ Und wenn sich ihnen gleiche Glücksgüter bieten, greifen sie danach. Wurde denn nicht mit ihnen das Abkommen der Schrift getroffen, dass sie über Allah nur die Wahrheit sagen sollen? Sie haben doch das, was darin steht, erlernt. Und die jenseitige Wohnstätte ist besser für diejenigen, die (Allah) fürchten. Begreift ihr denn nicht?
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Στη συνέχεια (μετά απ' εκείνη τη γενιά που είχε κάποιους ενάρετους και κάποιους κακούς), τους διαδέχθηκαν άλλες γενιές από κακούς ανθρώπους που κληρονόμησαν το Βιβλίο (δηλ. τη γνώση γι' αυτό, αλλά δεν το εφάρμοσαν και παραβίασαν τις εντολές του), οι οποίοι έπαιρναν οποιοδήποτε κέρδος απ' αυτόν τον κόσμο (είτε επιτρεπτό, είτε απαγορευμένο, όπως τις δωροδοκίες κλπ. για να αλλάξουν και να διαστρεβλώσουν την κρίση και τα Λόγια του Αλλάχ στην Τορά), και είπαν: «Θα συγχωρεθούμε.» Και αν ένα παρόμοιο κέρδος τους ξαναερχόταν, το έπαιρναν. Μα δεν ανέλαβαν τη δέσμευση που είναι γραμμένη στην Τορά ότι δε θα λένε για τον Αλλάχ παρά μόνο την αλήθεια; Και είχαν διαβάσει ό,τι περιείχε μέσα του. Πράγματι, η Μέλλουσα Ζωή είναι καλύτερη γι' αυτούς που φυλάσσονται από την τιμωρία του Αλλάχ (τηρώντας τις εντολές Του). Μα δεν συλλογίζεστε;
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हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर उनके बाद उनकी जगह नालायक़ उत्तराधिकारी आए, जो पुस्तक के वारिस बने, वे इस तुच्छ संसार का सामान लेते हैं और कहते हैं कि हमें क्षमा कर दिया जाएगा। और यदि उनके पास इस जैसा और सामान भी आ जाए, तो उसे भी ले लेते हैं। क्या उनसे पुस्तक का दृढ़ वचन नहीं लिया गया था कि अल्लाह पर सत्य के सिवा कुछ नहीं कहेंगे, और उन्होंने जो कुछ उसमें था, पढ़ भी लिया था। और आख़िरत का घर (जन्नत) उन लोगों के लिए उत्तम है, जो अल्लाह से डरते हैं। तो क्या तुम नहीं[63] समझते?
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Italiano · Italian
Succedette dopo di loro una generazione che ereditò il Libro, che però prendeva, di questo, il godimento di questa vita, e dicevano: «Saremo perdonati!» E se fossero arrivati loro beni simili, li avrebbero goduti. Non è forse accettato da loro il patto del Libro? Cioè di non dire di Allāh altro che la verità? Hanno studiato ciò che contiene? L’Ultima Dimora è migliore per i timorati! Non riflettete?
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
169. Tada juos pakeitė (bloga) karta, kuri paveldėjo Knygą, tačiau jie pasirinko (sau) šio žemo gyvenimo gėrius (šio žemiškojo gyvenimo blogus malonumus), sakydami (kaip pasiteisinimą): „(Viskas) mums bus atleidžiama.“ Ir jei (vėl) panašus pasiūlymas (šio žemiškojo gyvenimo blogi malonumai) jiems pasitaikytų, jie (vėl) juos čiuptų (padarytų tas nuodėmes). Argi Knygos susitarimas nebuvo paimtas iš jų tam, kad jie nekalbėtų apie Allahą nieko kita, išskyrus tiesą? Ir jie studijavo tai, kas joje (Knygoje) yra. Ir Amžinybės namai yra geresni tiems, kurie yra Al-Mutakūn (dievobaimingi – žr. ają 2:2). Argi jūs tada nesuprantate?
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
bakka bu’oonni badaan kitaaba dhaalan bakka bu’an booda isaaniitii. Meeshaa dhihoo (adduniyaa)(hoosa) kana fudhataa, "fuulduratti nuuf dhiifama" jedhu, Yoo meeshaan san fakkaatu isaanitti dhufe ni fudhatu. Sila waadaan kitaabaa akka isaan Rabbiin irratti dhugaa malee hin dubbanne isaan irraa hin fuudhamnee? Waan isa keessa jiru dubbisanii jiran. Manni Aakhiraa isaan Rabbiin sodaataniif caalaadha, Sila isin hin xiinxaltanuu?
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Русский · Russian
И на смену им пришло другое поколение, которое унаследовало Писание. Они хватаются за тленные блага этого низменного мира и говорят: «Нам будет прощено». Если же им снова предложат подобное благо, — они также возьмут его.. Разве не был взят с них завет Писания о том, что они будут говорить об Аллахе только истину? Ведь они изучали то, что в нём [заключено]. Последняя обитель лучше для тех, которые богобоязненны. Неужели вы не разумеете?
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Српски · Serbian
И после њих остале су генерације које су Књигу наследиле и које су узимале пролазна добра овог материјалног света, и говориле: „Биће нам опроштено!“ А ако би им опет допало шака тако нешто, опет би то прихватили. Зар од њих није узет завет у Књизи да ће о Аллаху само истину да говоре - а они читају оно што је у њој. Будући свет је бољи за оне који настоје да се сачувају; па зар не разумете?
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi wakafuatia baada yao wafuatizi waliokirithi Kitabu. Wanachukua anasa za haya maisha duni, na wanasema, "Tutasitiriwa dhambi!" Na ikiwajia tena anasa mfano wake, wanaichukua pia. Je, halikuchukuliwa juu yao agano la Kitabu kuwa wasiseme juu ya Mwenyezi Mungu isipokuwa haki tu? Nao wamekwishasoma yale yaliyo humo. Na nyumba ya Akhera ni bora zaidi kwa wachao. Basi je, hamtii akilini?
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Svenska · Swedish
Efter dem kom usla efterträdare som fick skriften i arv. De tog för sig av denna världs vinning och sa: ”Vi kommer ändå att bli förlåtna!” Och om liknande vinningar erbjuds dem tar de dem igen. Har de inte bundit sig vid skriftens förbund att bara säga sanningen om Gud? De har ju studerat dess innehåll! Det kommande livets boning är bättre för de gudfruktiga. Förstår ni inte?
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Türkçe · Turkish
Onlardan sonra arkalarından kötü kimseler gelip yerlerine geçti. Kitaba da mirasçı oldular. Biz nasıl olsa bağışlanacağız diyerek, bu dünyanın geçici menfaatini alıyorlardı. Yine onlara, ona benzer bir menfaat daha gelse onu da alıyorlardı. Allah hakkında, gerçek dışında bir şey söylemeyeceklerine dair onlardan kitapta söz alınmamış mıydı? Ve onlar kitaptakini okuyup öğrenmemişler miydi? Takva sahipleri için ahiret yurdu çok hayırlıdır. Akletmiyor musunuz?
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اردو · Urdu
پھر ان کے بعد ایسے لوگ ان کے جانشین ہوئے[1] کہ کتاب کو ان سے حاصل کیا وه اس دنیائے فانی کا مال متاع لے لیتے ہیں[2] اور کہتے ہیں کہ ہماری ضرور مغفرت ہو جائے گی[3] حاﻻنکہ اگر ان کے پاس ویسا ہی مال متاع آنے لگے تو اس کو بھی لے لیں گے۔ کیا ان سے اس کتاب کے اس مضمون کا عہد نہیں لیا گیا کہ اللہ کی طرف بجز حق بات کے اور کسی بات کی نسبت نہ کریں[4]، اور انہوں نے اس کتاب میں جو کچھ تھا اس کو پڑھ لیا[5] اور آخرت واﻻ گھر ان لوگوں کے لیے بہتر ہے جو تقویٰ رکھتے ہیں، پھر کیا تم نہیں سمجھتے۔
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DIN 31635waʾiḏ taʾaḏḏana rabbuka layabʿaṯanna ʿalayhim ʾilā yawmi l-qiyāmati man yasūmuhum sūʾa l-ʿaḏābi ʾinna rabbaka lasarīʿu l-ʿiqābi waʾinnahu laġafūrun raḥīmun
Talal Itani2012 Your Lord has announced that, He would send against them, until the Day of Resurrection, those who would inflict terrible suffering upon them. Your Lord is swift in retribution, yet He is Forgiving and Merciful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And (remember) when thy Lord proclaimed that He would raise against them till the Day of Resurrection those who would lay on them a cruel torment. Lo! verily thy Lord is swift in prosecution and lo! verily He is Forgiving, Merciful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and then thy Lord proclaimed that He would surely send against them till the resurrection day, those who should wreak them evil torment; verily, thy Lord is quick at following up, but, verily, He is forgiving, merciful
John Medows Rodwell1861 and then thy Lord declared that until the day of the resurrection, he would surely send against them (the Jews) those who should evil entreat and chastise them: for prompt is thy Lord to punish; and He is Forgiving, Merciful
George Sale1734 And remember the time when thy Lord proclaimed that He would surely rise against them, till the Day of Resurrection, those who would afflict them with grievous torment. Surely, thy Lord is Quick in retribution and surely He is also Most forgiving, Merciful
Talal Itani2012 And We scattered them into communities on earth. Some of them righteous, and some of them short of that. And We tested them with fortunes and misfortunes, so that they may return.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And We have sundered them in the earth as (separate) nations. Some of them are righteous, and some far from that. And We have tried them with good things and evil things that haply they might return
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We cut them up in the earth into nations. Of them are the righteous, and of them are the reverse of that; we have tried them with good things and with bad things; haply they may return
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we have divided them upon the Earth as peoples: some of them are upright and some are otherwise; and by good things and by evil things have we proved them, to the intent that they might return to us
George Sale1734 And We broke them up into separate peoples in the earth. Among them are those that are righteous and among them are those that are otherwise. And We tried them with good things and bad things that they might return to good
Talal Itani2012 Those who adhere to the Scripture, and practice prayer-We will not waste the reward of the reformers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And as for those who make (men) keep the Scripture, and establish worship - lo! We squander not the wages of reformers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But those who hold fast by the Book and are steadfast in prayer - verily, we will not waste the hire of those who do right
John Medows Rodwell1861 And who hold fast the Book, and observe prayer: verily, we will not suffer the reward of the righteous to perish
George Sale1734 And as for those who hold fast by the Book and observe Prayer, surely, We suffer not the reward of the righteous to perish
Talal Itani2012 And when We suspended the mountain over them, as if it was an umbrella, and they thought it would fall on them: "Hold fast to what We have given you, and remember what it contains, so that you may be saved."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when We shook the Mount above them as it were a covering, and they supposed that it was going to fall upon them (and We said): Hold fast that which We have given you, and remember that which is therein, that ye may ward off (evil)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when we shook the mountain over them, as though it were a shadow, and they thought it would fall upon them (saying), 'Take ye what we have given you with firmness, and remember what is therein; haply ye may fear
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when we shook the mount over them as if it had been a shadow, and they thought it falling upon them, . . . "Receive, said we, with steadfastness what we have brought you, and remember what is therein to the end that ye may fear God
George Sale1734 And when We shook the mountain over them as though it were a covering and they thought it was going to fall on them, We said, 'Hold fast that which We have given you and remember what is therein that you may guard against evil
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 —
0.61 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 Pickthall0.72
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.67
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.66
Talal Itani · George Sale0.66
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.45
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.