Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.80. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.91.at seeing himself get rich
Because he seeth himself possessed of riches
Al-Alaq العلق
- The Clot
- 19 verses
- 72 words
- Meccan
- 1st of 114 in revelation order
In plain wordsEditorial
An editorial summary of the translations. Not a translation or tafsir.
Nineteen verses opening with an instruction to read or recite, qualified by whose name it is to be done in, and taking its name from what verse 2 says man was made of. It closes on a different subject: someone who obstructs another at prayer, and an instruction not to obey him.
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: 0.79. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.91.Do you see how he disbelieved and turned away?
What thinkest thou; if he accuse the divine revelations of falsehood, and turn his back
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Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.78. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.93.Do you think he is upon guidance?
What thinkest thou; if he follow the right direction
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.77. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.92.Have you seen him who prevents?
What thinkest thou of him that holdeth back
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.71. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.91.In fact, man oversteps all bounds.
Nay, verily, man is indeed outrageous
More about this surahDerived
- Verses
- 19
- Words
- 72
- Place
- Meccan
- Revelation position
- 1st of 114 in an ordering its source does not name
- Opening letters
- None
- Bismillah
- Carried by the surah, unnumbered
- Word-by-word breakdown
- 59.7% of 72 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
- 0.58 across 19 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
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