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10:17

فَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنِ ٱفْتَرَىٰ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًا أَوْ كَذَّبَ بِـَٔايَٰتِهِۦٓ إِنَّهُۥ لَا يُفْلِحُ ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)faman azlamu mimmani ftaraa 'alaa llaahi kadhiban aw kadhdhaba bi'aayaatihi innahu laa yuflihu l-mujrimoon

DIN 31635faman ʾaẓlamu mimmani ftarā ʿalā llāhi kaḏiban ʾaw kaḏḏaba biʾāyātihi ʾinnahu lā yufliḥu l-muǧrimūna

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Source Tanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) · Uthmani, Version 1.1
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yes
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contradictory
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cleared
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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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translation
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yes
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no
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cleared
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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
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1930 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
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None — public domain work
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yes
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yes
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not applicable — no licence exists
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cleared
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Source Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an · 1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
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1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
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None — public domain work
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translation
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Public domain — copyright term expired
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— none published —
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yes
Modification
yes
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not applicable — no licence exists
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cleared
Retrieved
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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
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1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
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None — public domain work
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translation
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Public domain — copyright term expired
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— none published —
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yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
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cleared
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24 August 2026
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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
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1734 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
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None — public domain work
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translation
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Public domain — copyright term expired
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— none published —
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yes
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yes
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not applicable — no licence exists
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24 August 2026
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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
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Simple, Version 1.1
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Tanzil Project
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canonical text
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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yes
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contradictory
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read verbatim
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cleared
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Digest
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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

The translators word this verse differently

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

Who doeth greater wrong than he who inventeth a lie concerning Allah and denieth His revelations? Lo! the guilty never are successful

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

Who is more unjust than he who forges against God a lie, or says His signs are lies? verily, the sinners shall not prosper

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

And who is more unjust than he who coineth a lie against God, or treateth his signs as lies? Surely the wicked shall not prosper

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

And who is more unjust than he who deviseth a lie against God, or accuseth his signs of falsehood? Surely the wicked shall not prosper

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

E kush është më i padrejtë se ai që trillon gënjeshtra për Allahun ose i përgënjeshtron ajetet e Tij? Me të vërtetë, keqbërësit nuk do të shpëtojnë.

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

অতএব, যে ব্যক্তি আল্লাহ সম্পর্কে মিথ্যা রটায় বা আল্লাহর আয়াতসমূহকে মিথ্যা প্রতিপন্ন করে, তার চেয়ে বড় যালিম আর কে হতে পারে! নিশ্চয় (সীমারেখা অতিক্রমকারী) অপরাধীরা সফলকাম হবে না।

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

Pa ima li onda većeg nepravednika od onoga koji o Allahu laži iznosi ili koji Njegove ajete i znakove smatra neistinitim? Prestupnici, doista, neće uspjeti!

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

Pa ima li onda većeg nepravednika od onoga koji o Allahu laži iznosi ili koji Njegove ajete i znakove smatra neistinitim? Prestupnici, doista, neće uspjeti!

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

Alaa ɓurɗo tooñude haa hewta on pekifindiiɗo fenaande e hoore Alla, maa o yenni aayeeje makko ɗeen. Si ko woni, o malnatah bonɓe 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

და ვინაა უფრო უსამართლო იმაზე, ვინც სიცრუეს თხზავს ალლაჰის შესახებ ან ცრუდ რაცხავს მის ნიშნებს (აიათებს)? ჭეშმარიტად, არ იქნებიან წარმატებულნი დამნაშავენი [მრავალღმერთიანნი].

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

Wer ist nun ungerechter, als wer gegen Allah eine Lüge ersinnt oder Seine Zeichen für Lüge erklärt? Wahrlich, den Ungerechten wird es nicht wohl ergehen.

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

Ποιος είναι πιο άδικος απ' εκείνον που επινοεί ψέματα εναντίον του Αλλάχ ή διαψεύδει τα Εδάφιά Του; Πράγματι, οι κακοί δε θα επιτύχουν ποτέ.

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

फिर उससे बढ़कर अत्याचारी कौन होगा, जो अल्लाह पर झूठा आरोप लगाए अथवा उसकी आयतों को झुठलाएॽ निःसंदेह अपराधी लोग सफल नहीं होते।

Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5

Italiano · Italian

Chi è più ingiusto di colui che crea menzogne su Allāh o nega i Suoi Segni? In verità i criminali non trionferanno!

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

17. Taigi, kas elgiasi blogiau nei tas, kuris sukuria melą apie Allahą arba neigia Jo Ajat (įrodymus, įkalčius, eilutes, pamokas, ženklus, apreiškimus ir t.t.)? Tikrai, Mudžrimūn (nusikaltėliai, nusidėjėliai, netikintieji ir daugiadieviai) niekada nebus sėkmingi!

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

Nama Rabbi irratti kijiba uume yookiin kan keeyyattoota Isaa sobsiise caalaa namni miidhaa hojjate eenyu? (hinjiru). Dhugumatti badii raawwattoonni hin milkaa’anu.

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

И кто же несправедливее того, кто измыслил на Аллаха ложь или счёл ложью Его аяты? Воистину, не преуспеют преступные.

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

Нико није неправеднији од онога који о Аллаху износи лажи или који Његове речи сматра неистинитим! Неверници заиста неће успети.

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

Basi ni nani aliye dhalimu zaidi kuliko yule anayemzulia uongo Mwenyezi Mungu na akazikadhibisha Ishara zake? Hakika hawafaulu wahalifu.

Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5

Svenska · Swedish

Vem är mer orättfärdig än den som diktar ihop lögner om Gud eller vägrar tro på hans tecken? De obotfärdiga syndarna kommer det aldrig gå väl.

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

Allah adına yalan uydurandan veya Allah'ın ayetlerini yalan sayandan daha zalim kim olabilir? Suçlular kesinlikle kurtuluşa eremezler.

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

سو اس شخص سے زیاده کون ﻇالم ہوگا جو اللہ پرجھوٹ باندھے یا اس کی آیتوں کو جھوٹا بتلائے، یقیناً ایسے مجرموں کو اصلاً فلاح نہ ہوگی

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

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10:15

وَإِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ ءَايَاتُنَا بَيِّنَٰتٍ قَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَرْجُونَ لِقَآءَنَا ٱئْتِ بِقُرْءَانٍ غَيْرِ هَٰذَآ أَوْ بَدِّلْهُ قُلْ مَا يَكُونُ لِىٓ أَنْ أُبَدِّلَهُۥ مِن تِلْقَآئِ نَفْسِىٓ إِنْ أَتَّبِعُ إِلَّا مَا يُوحَىٰٓ إِلَىَّ إِنِّىٓ أَخَافُ إِنْ عَصَيْتُ رَبِّى عَذَابَ يَوْمٍ عَظِيمٍ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)wa'idhaa tutlaa 'alayhim aayaatunaa bayyinaatin qaala lladheena laa yarjoona liqaa'anaa ti biqur'aanin ghayri haadhaa aw baddilhu qul maa yakoonu lee an ubaddilahu min tilqaa'i nafsee in attabi'u illaa maa yoohaa ilayya innee akhaafu in 'asaytu rabbee 'adhaaba yawmin 'azeem

DIN 31635waʾiḏā tutlā ʿalayhim ʾāyātunā bayyinātin qāla llaḏīna lā yarǧūna liqāʾanā ʾti biqurʾānin ġayri hāḏā ʾaw baddilhu qul mā yakūnu lī ʾan ʾubaddilahu min tilqāʾi nafsī ʾin ʾattabiʿu ʾillā mā yūḥā ʾilayya ʾinnī ʾaḫāfu ʾin ʿaṣaytu rabbī ʿaḏāba yawmin ʿaẓīmin

Talal Itani2012 And when Our clear revelations are recited to them, those who do not hope to meet Us say, "Bring a Quran other than this, or change it." Say, "It is not for me to change it of my own accord. I only follow what is revealed to me. I fear, if I disobeyed my Lord, the torment of a terrible Day."

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when Our clear revelations are recited unto them, they who look not for the meeting with Us say: Bring a Lecture other than this, or change it. Say (O Muhammad): It is not for me to change it of my accord. I only follow that which is inspired in me. Lo! if I disobey my Lord I fear the retribution of an awful Day

Edward Henry Palmer1880 But when our evident signs are recited to them, those who hope not for our meeting say, 'Bring a Qur'an other than this; or change it.' Say, 'It is not for me to change it of my own accord; I do not follow aught but what I am inspired with; verily, I fear, if I rebel against my Lord, the torment of a mighty day

John Medows Rodwell1861 But when our clear signs are recited to them, they who look not forward to meet Us, say, "Bring a different Koran from this, or make some change in it." SAY: It is not for me to change it as mine own soul prompteth. I follow only what is revealed to me: verily, I fear, if I rebel against my Lord, the punishment of a great day

George Sale1734 When our evident signs are recited unto them, they who hope not to meet us at the resurrection, say, bring a different Koran from this; or make some change therein. Answer, it is not fit for me, that I should change it at my pleasure: I follow that only which is revealed unto me. Verily I fear, if I should be disobedient unto my Lord, the punishment of the great day

10:16

قُل لَّوْ شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ مَا تَلَوْتُهُۥ عَلَيْكُمْ وَلَآ أَدْرَىٰكُم بِهِۦ فَقَدْ لَبِثْتُ فِيكُمْ عُمُرًا مِّن قَبْلِهِۦٓ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ

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Easy-read (simplified)qul law shaa'a llaahu maa talawtuhu 'alaykum walaa adraakum bihi faqad labithtu feekum 'umuran min qablihi afalaa ta'qiloon

DIN 31635qul law šāʾa llāhu mā talawtuhu ʿalaykum walā ʾadrākum bihi faqad labiṯtu fīkum ʿumuran min qablihi ʾafalā taʿqilūna

Talal Itani2012 Say, "Had God willed, I would not have recited it to you, and He would not have made it known to you. I have lived among you for a lifetime before it. Do you not understand?"

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: If Allah had so willed I should not have recited it to you nor would He have made it known to you. I dwelt among you a whole lifetime before it (came to me). Have ye then no sense

Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Had God pleased, I should not have recited it to you, nor taught you therewith. I have tarried a lifetime amongst you before it;- have ye not then any sense

John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Had God so pleased, I had not recited it to you, neither had I taught it to you. Already have I dwelt among you for years, ere it was revealed to me. Understand ye not

George Sale1734 Say, if God had so pleased, I had not read it unto you, neither had I taught you the same. I have already dwelt among you to the age of forty years, before I received it. Do ye not therefore understand

10:17 — the verse above

10:18

وَيَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا يَضُرُّهُمْ وَلَا يَنفَعُهُمْ وَيَقُولُونَ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ شُفَعَٰٓؤُنَا عِندَ ٱللَّهِ قُلْ أَتُنَبِّـُٔونَ ٱللَّهَ بِمَا لَا يَعْلَمُ فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَلَا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ سُبْحَٰنَهُۥ وَتَعَٰلَىٰ عَمَّا يُشْرِكُونَ

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Easy-read (simplified)waya'budoona min dooni llaahi maa laa yadurruhum walaa yanfa'uhum wayaqooloona haa'ulaa'i shufa'aa'unaa 'inda llaahi qul atunabbi'oona llaaha bimaa laa ya'lamu fee s-samaawaati walaa fee l-'ardi subhaanahu wata'aalaa 'ammaa yushrikoon

DIN 31635wayaʿbudūna min dūni llāhi mā lā yaḍurruhum walā yanfaʿuhum wayaqūlūna hāʾulāʾi šufaʿāʾunā ʿinda llāhi qul ʾatunabbiʾūna llāha bimā lā yaʿlamu fī s-samāwāti walā fī l-ʾarḍi subḥānahu wataʿālā ʿammā yušrikūna

Talal Itani2012 And they worship, besides God, what neither harms them nor benefits them. And they say, "These are our intercessors with God." Say, "Are you informing God about what He does not know in the heavens or on earth?" Glorified be He, High above the associations they make.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They worship beside Allah that which neither hurteth them nor profiteth them, and they say: These are our intercessors with Allah. Say: Would ye inform Allah of (something) that He knoweth not in the heavens or in the earth? Praised be He and High Exalted above all that ye associate (with Him)

Edward Henry Palmer1880 They worship beside God what can neither harm them nor profit them, and they say, 'These are our intercessors with God!' Say, 'Will ye inform God of aught in the heavens or the earth, that He knows not of?' Celebrated be His praise! and exalted be He, above what they associate with Him

John Medows Rodwell1861 And they worship beside God, what cannot hurt or help them; and say, "These are our advocates with God!" SAY: Will ye inform God of aught in the Heavens and in the Earth which he knoweth not? Praise be to Him! High be He exalted above the deities they join with Him

George Sale1734 They worship besides God, that which can neither hurt them nor profit them, and they say, these are our intercessors with God. Answer, will ye tell God that which He knoweth not, neither in heaven nor in earth? Praise be unto Him! And far be that from Him, which they associate with Him

10:19

وَمَا كَانَ ٱلنَّاسُ إِلَّآ أُمَّةً وَٰحِدَةً فَٱخْتَلَفُوا۟ وَلَوْلَا كَلِمَةٌ سَبَقَتْ مِن رَّبِّكَ لَقُضِىَ بَيْنَهُمْ فِيمَا فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَ

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Easy-read (simplified)wamaa kaana n-naasu illaa ummatan waahidatan fakhtalafoo walawlaa kalimatun sabaqat min rabbika laqudiya baynahum feemaa feehi yakhtalifoon

DIN 31635wamā kāna n-nāsu ʾillā ʾummatan wāḥidatan faḫtalafū walawlā kalimatun sabaqat min rabbika laquḍiya baynahum fīmā fīhi yaḫtalifūna

The translators word this verse differently

Talal Itani2012 Mankind was a single community; then they differed. Were it not for a prior decree from your Lord, the matters over which they had disputed would have been settled.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Mankind were but one community; then they differed; and had it not been for a word that had already gone forth from thy Lord it had been judged between them in respect of that wherein they differ

Edward Henry Palmer1880 People were but one nation once, then they disagreed; and had it not been for thy Lord's word already passed, there would have been decided between them that concerning which they disagreed

John Medows Rodwell1861 Men were of one religion only: then they fell to variance: and had not a decree (of respite) previously gone forth from thy Lord, their differences had surely been decided between them

George Sale1734 Men were professors of one religion only, but they dissented therefrom; and if a decree had not previously issued from thy Lord, deferring their punishment, verily the matter had been decided between them, concerning which they disagreed

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

فَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنِ افْتَرَىٰ عَلَى اللَّهِ كَذِبًا أَوْ كَذَّبَ بِآيَاتِهِ إِنَّهُ لَا يُفْلِحُ الْمُجْرِمُونَ

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 — 0.65 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 0.81
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale 0.78
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell 0.78
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 0.78
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell 0.77
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer 0.76
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale 0.43
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell 0.38
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.
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13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC
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SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

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

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