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Talal Itani· published 2012
Like those before you. They were more powerful than you, and had more wealth and children. They enjoyed their share, and you enjoyed your share, as those before you enjoyed their share. And you indulged, as they indulged. It is they whose works will fail in this world and in the Hereafter. It is they who are the losers.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Even as those before you who were mightier than you in strength, and more affluent than you in wealth and children. They enjoyed their lotawhile, so ye enjoy your lotawhile even as those before you did enjoy their lotawhile. And ye prate even as they prated. Such are they whose works have perished in the world and the Hereafter. Such are they who are the losers
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
Ye are like those who were before you. They were stronger than you and more abundant in wealth and children; they enjoyed their portion then, and ye enjoy your portion, as they enjoyed their portion before you; and ye discuss as they discussed. Their works are vain in this world and the next, and they it is who lose
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Ye act like those who flourished before you. Mightier were they than you in prowess, and more abundant in wealth and children, and they enjoyed their portion: so ye also enjoy your portion, as they who were before you enjoyed theirs; and ye hold discourses like their discourses. These! vain their works both for this world and for that which is to come! These! they are the lost ones
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
As they who have been before you, so are ye. They were superior to you in strength, and had more abundance of wealth and of children; and they enjoyed their portion in this world; and ye also enjoy your portion here, as they who have preceded you, enjoyed their portion. And ye engage your selves in vain discourses, like unto those wherein they engaged themselves. The works of these are vain both in this world, and in that which is to come; and these are they who perish
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
Ju (o dyfytyrësh) jeni si ata para jush, që ishin më të fuqishëm se ju dhe kishin pasuri e fëmijë më shumë se ju. Ata u gëzuan me hisen e tyre (në këtë botë), e edhe ju u gëzuat me hisen tuaj, mu ashtu si u gëzuan ata që ishin para jush me hisen e tyre; dhe u lëshuat (në mosbesim) sikurse ata. Këtyre u janë asgjësuar veprat, në këtë botë dhe në tjetrën, e pikërisht këta janë të humburit.
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বাংলা · Bengali
তোমাদের আচরণ তোমাদের পূর্ববর্তীদের মতোই। তারা ছিল তোমাদের চেয়ে অধিক শক্তিশালী, ধন-সম্পদ ও সন্তানাদিতে অধিক। ফলে তারা তাদের অংশ ভোগ করেছে, আর তোমরাও তোমাদের অংশ ভোগ করেছো, যেমনিভাবে তোমাদের পূর্বে যারা ছিল, তারা তাদের অংশ ভোগ করেছে। আর তোমরাও (ধর্মকে অবজ্ঞা করে) খেল-তামাশায় মত্ত হয়েছো, যেমনিভাবে তারাও মত্ত হয়েছিলো। দুনিয়া ও আখিরাতে এদের আমলসমূহ নষ্ট হয়ে গিয়েছে। আর তারাই ক্ষতিগ্রস্ত।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Vi ste kao i oni prije vas! Oni su jači od vas bili i više su blaga i djece imali i slatkim su životom živjeli, a i vi slatkim životom živite isto onako kao što su oni prije vas živjeli; i vi se upuštate u nevaljalštine, kao što su se i oni upuštali. To su oni čija će djela biti poništena i na ovom i na onom svijetu – njima propast predstoji.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Vi ste kao i oni prije vas! Oni su jači od vas bili i više su blaga i djece imali i slatkim su životom živjeli, a i vi slatkim životom živite isto onako kao što su oni prije vas živjeli; i vi se upuštate u nevaljalštine, kao što su se i oni upuštali. To su oni čija će djela biti poništena i na ovom i na onom svijetu – njima propast predstoji.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
[Hiɓe mba'i] wano ɓeen adinooɓe on : ɓe laatinoke ɓurɓe on saɗtude doole, ɓurɓe on ɗuuɗude jawɗeele e ɓiɗɓe. Ɓe dakmitori [ontuma] e geɗal maɓɓe ngal dakmitorɗon geɗal mon ngal wano adinooɓe on ɓen dakmitornoo geɗal maɓɓe ngal, jnumpirɗon wano ɓe njumpirnoo. ɓeen ɗoon, golle maɓɓe ɗen poɓii(njirbii) aduna e laakara. Ko ɓeen ɗoon ngoni hayruɓe(perduɓe) ɓen.
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ქართული · Georgian
(და თქვენც, ო ორპიროებო), თქვენი საქმეებითა და მდგომარეობით ჰგავხართ იმათ (ურწმუნოებს), რომლებიც იყვნენ თქვენამდე! ისინი უფრო ძლიერები იყვნენ თქვენზე (სხეულის) ძალით და მდიდარნი ქონებითა და შვილებით, და მათაც ისევე ისარგებლეს თავიანთი წილით (ამქვეყნიური სარგებლისაგან). თქვენც ისარგებლეთ თქვენი წილით, როგორც ისარგებლეს მათ, რომლებიც იყვნენ თქვენამდე, თავიანთი წილით და თქვენც ისევე ჩაეფალით ამაოებაში, როგორც ისინი ჩაეფლნენ. აი, მათ, რომელთა საქმეებიც ამქვეყნადაც და იმქვეყნადაც ფუჭი გახდა. და აი, ისინი არიან წაგებულნი.
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Deutsch · German
(Es ist) wie mit denen, die vor euch waren. Sie hatten stärkere Kraft als ihr und mehr Besitz und Kinder. So genossen sie ihren Anteil, und dann habt ihr euren Anteil genossen, wie diejenigen, die vor euch waren, ihren Anteil genossen haben. Und ihr habt (schweifende) Gespräche geführt, wie sie (auch schweifende) Gespräche führten. Die Werke jener sind im Diesseits und im Jenseits hinfällig und jene sind die Verlierer.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
(Ω, υποκριτές), (είστε στην απιστία και το χλευασμό) σαν εκείνους (από τα προηγούμενα έθνη) που ήταν πριν από σας, οι οποίοι ήταν πιο ισχυροί από σας και είχαν περισσότερα πλούτη και παιδιά (από σας). Απόλαυσαν το μερίδιό τους (από τις απολαύσεις της εγκόσμιας ζωής). Επίσης και εσείς απολαύσατε το μερίδιό σας, όπως εκείνοι που ήταν πριν από σας, απόλαυσαν το μερίδιό τους. Και έχετε επιδοθεί σε ψέματα (εναντίον του Αλλάχ και του Αγγελιαφόρου Του, και διαψεύσατε τον Αγγελιαφόρο και χλευάσατε τους πιστούς) όπως και εκείνοι (έκαναν πριν, με τους Αγγελιαφόρους και τους πιστούς). Τέτοιοι είναι εκείνοι των οποίων οι πράξεις έχουν γίνει μάταιες στην εγκόσμια ζωή και στη Μέλλουσα Ζωή. Και εκείνοι είναι οι χαμένοι.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
उन लोगों की तरह जो तुमसे पहले थे। वे शक्ति में तुमसे ज़्यादा मज़बूत तथा धन और संतान में तुमसे अधिक थे। तो उन्होंने अपने भाग का आनंद लिया। फिर तुमने अपने भाग का आनंद लिया, जैसे तुमसे पूर्व के लोगों ने आनंद लिया था और तुम (झूठ और असत्य के अंदर) घुसे, जैसे वे घुसे थे। यही लोग हैं, जिनके कर्म दुनिया एवं आखिरत में अकारथ हो गए और यही घाटा उठाने वाले लोग हैं।
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Italiano · Italian
Voi siete come quelli che vi hanno preceduto: erano più forti di voi, con più beni e figli: loro hanno goduto della loro parte come voi avete goduto della vostra; come loro, voi discutete nell’ingiustizia. Le loro azioni sono vane in questo mondo e nel prossimo, e loro sono i perdenti.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
69. Kaip ir tie, kurie buvo iki jūsų: jie buvo stipresni nei jūs galioje, ir gausesni turtu bei vaikais. Jie mėgavosi savo dalimi (kurį laiką), taigi mėgaukitės savo dalimi (kurį laiką) kaip tie, kurie iki jūsų mėgavosi savo dalimi (kurį laiką). Ir jūs įsitraukėte į žaidimus ir pramogas (ir melavimą apie Allahą ir Jo Pasiuntinį Muchammedą ﷺ) kaip ir jie įsitraukė į žaidimus ir pramogas. Tokie yra tie, kurių poelgiai yra beverčiai šiame pasaulyje ir Amžinybėje. Tokie yra tie, kurie yra pralaimėtojai.
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Русский · Russian
Как и те, которые были до вас: они были мощнее вас силой и больше имуществом и детьми; и они наслаждались своей долей, а вы наслаждались своей долей, как насладились своей долей те, которые были до вас, и вы предавались пустословию так же, как предавались они. Такие — их дела тщетны в этом мире и в Последней жизни. И такие — они и есть потерпевшие убыток.
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Српски · Serbian
Ви сте као и они пре вас. Они су били јачи од вас и више су имали блага и деце, и живели су слатким животом, а и ви живите слатким животом, исто онако, као што су живели они пре вас, и ви се упуштате у неваљалштине као што су се и они упуштали. То су они чија ће дела да буду поништена и на овом и на оном свету, и они су заиста губитници.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Ni kama wale waliokuwa kabla yenu. Walikuwa wana nguvu na mali na watoto zaidi kuwaliko nyinyi. Basi walistareheka kwa fungu lao, na nyinyi mnastareheka kwa fungu lenu, kama walivyostareheka kwa fungu lao wale waliokuwa kabla yenu. Na nyinyi mkazama katika maovu kama wao walivyozama. Hao, matendo yao yaliharibika katika dunia na Akhera; na hao ndio waliohasiri.
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Svenska · Swedish
[Ni skenbart troende] är som de före er. De var dock starkare, rikare och hade fler barn. De njöt av sin lott, och ni har njutit av er lott som de före er njöt av sin. Och precis som de ägnade sig åt meningslöst tal gör även ni det. Deras gärningar gick förlorade i detta liv och det kommande. Dessa är förlorarna.
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Türkçe · Turkish
(Ey münafıklar!) Siz de kendinizden öncekiler gibisiniz. Onlar sizden daha kuvvetliydiler, malları ve evlatları da daha çoktu. Nasiplerine düşenin tadını çıkardılar. Sizden öncekilerin nasiplerinden faydalandıkları gibi siz de nasibinize düşenden yararlandınız. Onların daldıkları gibi siz de (batıla) daldınız. İşte bunlar, dünyada ve ahirette yaptıkları amelleri boşa gidenlerdir. İşte onlar hüsrana uğrayanlardır.
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اردو · Urdu
مثل ان لوگوں کے جو تم سے پہلے تھے[1] ، تم میں سے وه زیاده قوت والے تھے اور زیاده مال واوﻻد والے تھے پس وه اپنا دینی حصہ برت گئے پھر تم نے بھی اپنا حصہ برت لیا[2] جیسے تم سے پہلے کے لوگ اپنے حصے سے فائده مند ہوئے تھے اور تم نے بھی اسی طرح مذاقانہ بحﺚ کی جیسے کہ انہوں نے کی تھی[3]۔ ان کے اعمال دنیا اور آخرت میں غارت ہوگئے۔ یہی لوگ نقصان پانے والے ہیں۔[4]
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DIN 31635al-munāfiqūna wal-munāfiqātu baʿḍuhum min baʿḍin yaʾmurūna bil-munkari wayanhawna ʿani l-maʿrūfi wayaqbiḍūna ʾaydiyahum nasū llāha fanasiyahum ʾinna l-munāfiqīna humu l-fāsiqūna
Talal Itani2012 The hypocrite men and hypocrite women are of one another. They advocate evil, and prohibit righteousness, and withhold their hands. They forgot God, so He forgot them. The hypocrites are the sinners.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 The hypocrites, both men and women, proceed one from another. They enjoin the wrong, and they forbid the right, and they withhold their hands (from spending for the cause of Allah). They forget Allah, so He hath forgotten them. Lo! the hypocrites, they are the transgressors
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The hypocrites, men and women, some of them follow others, bidding what is wrong and forbidding what is right, and they clench their hands. They forget God and He forgets them! Verily, the hypocrites, they are the doers of abomination
John Medows Rodwell1861 Hypocritical men and women imitate one another. They enjoin what is evil, and forbid what is just, and shut up their hands. They have forgotten God, and He hath forgotten them. Verily, the hypocrites are the perverse doers
George Sale1734 Hypocritical men and women are the one of them of the other: They command that which is evil, and forbid that which is just, and shut their hands from giving alms. They have forgotten God; wherefore He hath forgotten them: Verily the hypocrites are those who act wickedly
Talal Itani2012 God has promised the hypocrite men and hypocrite women, and the disbelievers, the Fire of Hell, abiding therein forever. It is their due. And God has cursed them. They will have a lasting punishment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah promiseth the hypocrites, both men and women, and the disbelievers fire of hell for their abode. It will suffice them. Allah curseth them, and theirs is lasting torment
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God has promised unto the hypocrites, men and women, and unto the misbelievers, hell-fire, to dwell therein for aye; it is enough for them! God shall curse them, and theirs shall be enduring woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 God promiseth the hypocritical men and women, and the unbelievers, the fire of Hell - therein shall they abide - this their sufficing portion! And God hath cursed them, and a lasting torment shall be theirs
George Sale1734 God denounceth unto the hypocrites, both men and women, and to the unbelievers, the fire of hell; they shall remain therein for ever: This will be their sufficient reward; God hath cursed them, and they shall endure a lasting torment
Talal Itani2012 Have they not heard the stories of those before them? The people of Noah, and Aad, and Thamood; and the people of Abraham, and the inhabitants of Median, and the Overturned Cities? Their messengers came to them with the clear proofs. God never wronged them, but they used to wrong their own selves.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Hath not the fame of those before them reached them - the folk of Noah, A'ad, Thamud, the folk of Abraham, the dwellers of Midian and the disasters (which befell them)? Their messengers (from Allah) came unto them with proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty). So Allah surely wronged them not, but they did wrong themselves
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Did there not come to them the declaration of those who were before them? of the people of Noah and 'Ad and Thamud, and of the people of Abraham, and the people of Midian? and of the overturned (cities)? Their apostles came to them with manifest signs; for God would not wrong them, but it was themselves they wronged
John Medows Rodwell1861 Hath not the history reached them of those who were before them? - of the people of Noah, and of Ad, and of Themoud, and of the people of Abraham, and of the inhabitants of Madian, and of the overthrown cities? Their apostles came to them with clear proofs of their mission: God would not deal wrongly by them, but they dealt wrongly by themselves
George Sale1734 Have they not been acquainted with the history of those who have been before them? Of the people of Noah, and of Ad, and of Thamud, and of the people of Abraham, and of the inhabitants of Madian, and of the cities which were overthrown? Their apostles came unto them with evident demonstrations: And God was not disposed to treat them unjustly; but they dealt unjustly with their own souls
Talal Itani2012 The believing men and believing women are friends of one another. They advocate virtue, forbid evil, perform the prayers, practice charity, and obey God and His Messenger. These-God will have mercy on them. God is Noble and Wise.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And the believers, men and women, are protecting friends one of another; they enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and they establish worship and they pay the poor-due, and they obey Allah and His messenger. As for these, Allah will have mercy on them. Lo! Allah is Mighty, Wise
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And the believers, men and women, are some the patrons of others; they bid what is reasonable, and forbid what is wrong, and are steadfast in prayer, and give alms, and obey God and His Apostle. On these will God have mercy; verily, God is mighty, wise
John Medows Rodwell1861 The faithful of both sexes are mutual friends: they enjoin what is just, and forbid what is evil; they observe prayer, and pay the legal impost, and they obey God and His Apostle. On these will God have mercy: verily, God is Mighty, Wise
George Sale1734 And the faithful men, and the faithful women are friends one to another: They command that which is just, and they forbid that which is evil; and they are constant at prayer, and pay their appointed alms; and they obey God, and his apostle: Unto these will God be merciful; for He is mighty and wise
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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.63
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.57
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.47
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.45
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.44
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.
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
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.