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Say, 'O ye folk! if ye are in doubt concerning my religion, I will not worship those ye worship other than God; but I worship God, who takes you to Himself, and I am bidden to be of the believers
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
Say, "O people, if you are in doubt about my religion-I do not serve those you serveapart from God. But I serve God, the one who will terminate your lives. And I was commanded to be of the believers."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Say (O Muhammad): O mankind! If ye are in doubt of my religion, then (know that) I worship not those whom ye worship instead of Allah, but I worship Allah Who causeth you to die, and I have been commanded to be of the believers
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
John Medows Rodwell1808–1900 · published 1861
SAY: O men! if ye are in doubt as to my religion, verily I worship not what ye worship beside God; but I worship God who will cause you to die: and I am commanded to be a believer
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Say, O men of Mecca, if ye be in doubt concerning my religion, verily I worship not the idols which ye worship, besides God; but I worship God, who will cause you to die: And I am commanded to be one of the true believers
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
Thuaj: "O njerëz, nëse dyshoni në fenë time, atëherë dijeni se unë nuk adhuroj ata që i adhuroni ju në vend të Allahut, por e adhuroj Allahun, i Cili jua merr shpirtrat. Unë jam urdhëruar të jem prej besimtarëve."
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
(হে রাসূল!) বলো: ‘হে মানুষ, তোমরা যদি আমার দীনের (ইসলামের) ব্যাপারে সন্দেহে থাকো, তবে (জেনে রাখো) আল্লাহ ছাড়া তোমরা যার ‘ইবাদত করো, আমি তার ‘ইবাদাত করি না; বরং আমি ‘ইবাদাত করি সেই আল্লাহর, যিনি তোমাদের মৃত্যু দেন। আর আমি মু’মিনদের অন্তর্ভুক্ত হওয়ার জন্য আদেশপ্রাপ্ত হয়েছি।’
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
Reci: "O ljudi, ako imate sumnje spram vjere moje – pa, ja neću obožavati one koje vi, mimo Allaha, obožavate, već ću ibadet činiti Allahu, Koji će vam duše uzeti. Meni je naređeno da budem vjernik.”
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
Reci: "O ljudi, ako imate sumnje spram vjere moje – pa, ja neću obožavati one koje vi, mimo Allaha, obožavate, već ću obožavati Allaha, Koji će vam duše uzeti. Meni je naređeno da budem vjernik.”
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
Maaku: "eeheymon yimɓe, si on wonii e sikkitaare e diina am, (miin) mi rewataa ɗiin ɗi dewoton gaa nin Alla; ko mi rewata, ko Alla oon baroowo on. mi yamiraama nde mi laatotoo e gooŋɗinɓe ɓen".
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
თქვი: «ჰეი, ხალხო, თუ ჩემს სარწმუნოებაში ეჭვი გეპარებათ, მე არ ვცემ თაყვანს იმათ, ვისაც თქვენ ალლაჰის ნაცვლად ეთაყვანებით, არამედ თაყვანს ვცემ ალლაჰს, რომელიც მოგაკვდინებთ. და მე მებრძანა, რომ ვიყო მორწმუნეთაგანი».
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
Sag: „O ihr Menschen, wenn ihr über meine Religion im Zweifel seid, so diene ich nicht denjenigen, denen ihr anstatt Allahs dient, sondern ich diene Allah, Der euch sterben lässt. Und mir ist befohlen worden, einer der Gläubigen zu sein.“
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
Πες (ω, Προφήτη): «Ω, άνθρωποι (ειδωλολάτρες)! Αν έχετε αμφιβολία για τη θρησκεία μου (στην οποία σας καλώ), τότε (ας ξέρετε ότι) εγώ δε λατρεύω εκείνους που λατρεύετε εκτός του Αλλάχ (από είδωλα, τα οποία δεν μπορούν ούτε να ακούν, ούτε να βλέπουν, ούτε να μιλούν. Πώς λοιπόν να έχετε αμφιβολία στη θρησκεία μου, αντί στη θρησκεία σας;)! Αλλά λατρεύω τον Αλλάχ, που σας αφαιρεί τη ζωή, και έχω διαταχθεί να είμαι ένας από τους πιστούς!
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
आप कह दें : ऐ लोगो! यदि तुम मेरे धर्म के बारे में किसी संदेह में हो, तो मैं उनकी इबादत नहीं करता, जिनकी तुम अल्लाह को छोड़कर इबादत करते हो, बल्कि मैं उस अल्लाह की इबादत करता हूँ, जो तुम्हें मौत देता है और मुझे आदेश दिया गया है कि मैं ईमान वालों में से जाऊँ।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Di’: “O gente, se siete in dubbio sulla mia religione, io non adoro ciò che adorate all’infuori di Allāh, ma adoro Allāh, Colui che vi fa morire, e mi è stato ordinato di essere tra i credenti”.
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
104. Sakyk (Muchammedai ﷺ): „Žmonija, jei jūs abejojate mano religija (islamu), tada (žinokite, kad) aš niekada negarbinsiu tų, kuriuos jūs garbinate šalia Allaho. Tačiau aš garbinu Allahą, Kuris priverčia jus mirti, ir man įsakyta būti vienu iš tikinčiųjų.
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
jedhi “isin Yaa ilmaan namaa! Yoo amantii kiyya irraa shakkii keessa taatan, isaan isin Rabbii gaditti gabbartan san ani hin gabbaru; garuu Rabbii isa isin ajjeesun gabbara. Ani mu’uminoota irraa ta’uuttin ajajame” (jedhi).
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
Скажи: «О люди! Если вы в сомнении о моей религии, то [знайте, что] я не поклоняюсь тем, которым вы поклоняетесь наряду с Аллахом, но поклоняюсь Аллаху, Который лишает вас жизни. И мне велено быть из числа верующих.
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
Реци: „О људи, ако сумњате у моју веру - па, ја нећу да обожавам оне које ви, мимо Аллаха, обожавате, већ ћу да обожавам Аллаха, Који ће да вас усмрти и душе вам узме. Мени је наређено да будем од искрених верника.
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
Sema: Enyi watu! Ikiwa nyinyi mko katika shaka juu ya Dini yangu, basi mimi siwaabudu mnaowaabudu nyinyi badala ya Mwenyezi Mungu. Lakini mimi namwabudu Mwenyezi Mungu anayewafisha. Na nimeamrishwa kwamba niwe miongoni mwa Waumini.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Säg: ”Människor! Om ni tvivlar på min tro, [ska ni veta att] jag inte dyrkar dem som ni dyrkar vid Guds sida. Jag dyrkar Gud som tar era liv, och jag har beordrats att vara troende.”
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
De ki: Ey İnsanlar! Benim dinimden şüphede iseniz; bilin ki ben Allah’tan başka ibadet ettiklerinize ibadet etmem, ancak sizi öldürecek olan Allah’a ibadet ederim. Ben, Müminlerden olmakla emrolundum.
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
آپ کہہ دیجئے[1] کہ اے لوگو! اگر تم مرے دین کی طرف سے شک میں ہو تو میں ان معبودوں کی عبادت نہیں کرتا جن کی تم اللہ کو چھوڑ کر عبادت کرتے ہو[2]، لیکن ہاں اس اللہ کی عبادت کرتا ہوں جو تمہاری جان قبض کرتا ہے[3]۔ اور مجھ کو یہ حکم ہوا ہے کہ میں ایمان ﻻنے والوں میں سے ہوں.
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
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Easy-read (simplified)fahal yantaziroona illaa mithla ayyaami lladheena khalaw min qablihim qul faantaziroo innee ma'akum mina l-muntazireen
DIN 31635fahal yantaẓirūna ʾillā miṯla ʾayyāmi llaḏīna ḫalaw min qablihim qul fāntaẓirū ʾinnī maʿakum mina l-muntaẓirīna
Talal Itani2012 Do they expect anything but the likes of the days of those who passed away before them? Say, "Then wait, I will be waiting with you."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 What expect they save the like of the days of those who passed away before them? Say: Expect then! I am with you among the expectant
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Do they await aught but the like of the days of those who passed away before them?' Say, 'Wait ye then! verily, I am with you one of those who wait
John Medows Rodwell1861 What then can they expect but the like of such days of wrath as befel those who flourish before them? SAY: WAIT; I too will wait with you
George Sale1734 Do they therefore expect any other than some terrible judgment, like unto the judgments which have fallen on those who have gone before them? Say, wait ye the issue; and I also will wait with you
Talal Itani2012 Then We save Our messengers and those who believe. It is binding on Us to save the believers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then shall We save Our messengers and the believers, in like manner (as of old). It is incumbent upon Us to save believers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then we will save our apostles and those who believe; thus is it due from us to save believers
John Medows Rodwell1861 Then will we deliver our apostles and those who believe. Thus is it binding on us to deliver the faithful
George Sale1734 Then will We deliver our apostles and those who believe. Thus is it a justice due from Us, that We should deliver the true believers
Easy-read (simplified)wa'an aqim wajhaka lilddeeni haneefan walaa takoonanna mina l-mushrikeen
DIN 31635waʾan ʾaqim waǧhaka lilddīni ḥanīfan walā takūnanna mina l-mušrikīna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 And dedicate yourself to the true religion-a monotheist-and never be of the polytheists.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And, (O Muhammad) set thy purpose resolutely for religion, as a man by nature upright, and be not of those who ascribe partners (to Allah)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And, 'Make steadfast thy face to the religion as a 'Hanif; and be not of the idolaters
John Medows Rodwell1861 And set thy face toward true religion, sound in faith, and be not of those who join other gods with God
George Sale1734 And it was said unto me, set thy face towards the true religion, and be orthodox; and by no means be one of those who attribute companions unto God
Easy-read (simplified)walaa tad'u min dooni llaahi maa laa yanfa'uka walaa yadurruka fa'in fa'alta fa'innaka idhan mina z-zaalimeen
DIN 31635walā tadʿu min dūni llāhi mā lā yanfaʿuka walā yaḍurruka faʾin faʿalta faʾinnaka ʾiḏan mina ẓ-ẓālimīna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 And do not call, apart from God, on what neither benefits you nor harms you. If you do, you are then one of the wrongdoers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And cry not, beside Allah, unto that which cannot profit thee nor hurt thee, for if thou didst so then wert thou of the wrong-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and call not besides God on what can neither profit thee nor harm thee; for if thou dost, verily, thou art then of the unjust
John Medows Rodwell1861 Neither invoke beside God that which can neither help nor hurt thee: for if thou do, thou wilt certainly then be one of those who act unjustly
George Sale1734 neither invoke, besides God, that which can neither profit thee nor hurt thee: For if thou do, thou wilt then certainly become one of the unjust
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.53 on a scale
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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 · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.53
Talal Itani · George Sale0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.48
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.39
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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.