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Moreover this Koran could not have been devised by any but God: but it confirmeth what was revealed before it, and is a clearing up of the Scriptures - there is no doubt thereof - from the Lord of all creatures
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
This Quran could not have been produced by anyone other than God. In fact, it is a confirmation of what preceded it, and an elaboration of the Book. There is no doubt about it-it is from the Lord of the Universe.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And this Qur'an is not such as could ever be invented in despite of Allah; but it is a confirmation of that which was before it and an exposition of that which is decreed for mankind - Therein is no doubt - from the Lord of the Worlds
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
This Qur'an could not have been devised by any beside God; but it verifies that which was before it, and details the Book - there is no doubt therein - from the Lord of the worlds
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
This Koran could not have been composed by any except God; but it is a confirmation of that which was revealed before it, and an explanation of the scripture; there is no doubt thereof; sent down from the Lord of all creatures
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
Ky Kuran nuk mund të bëhet nga askush tjetër përveç Allahut, por ai është vërtetues i shpalljeve para tij dhe shpjegues i Librit, për të cilin nuk ka dyshim se është nga Zoti i botëve.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর এ আল-কুরআন আল্লাহ ছাড়া অন্য কারোর রচনা হওয়া সম্ভব নয়। বরং এটি পূর্বের নাযিলকৃত কিতাবগুলোর সত্যায়নকারী এবং সেগুলোর (সংক্ষিপ্ত বিধানের) বিস্তারিত বর্ণনাকারী। এতে কোনো সন্দেহ নেই যে, এটা সৃষ্টিকুলের রবের পক্ষ থেকে নাযিলকৃত।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Ovaj Kur’an nije izmišljen, od Allaha je – on potvrđuje ono prije njega i objašnjava propise, u njega nema sumnje, od Gospodara svjetova je!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Ovaj Kuran nije izmišljen, od Allaha je – on potvrđuje ono prije njega i objašnjava propise, u njega nema sumnje, od Gospodara svjetova je!
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Sellatah ka ndee Alqur'aanaa fefindiree gaanin Alla, si ko woni, ko nde gooŋginnde ko woni yeeso mayre, e fensitunde deftere, sikke alaa e mayre, ko nde immorde ka Jeyɗo winndere nden.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ეს ყურანი ვერ იქნებოდა მოგონილი ვინმეს მიერ ალლაჰის გარდა. იგი გადმოიცა იმის დასამოწმებლად, რაც ადრე იყო გამოცხადებული, და როგორც წიგნის განმარტება. არ არის ეჭვი იმაში, რომ ის სამყაროთა უფლისგანაა.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und dieser Quran kann keinesfalls ohne Allah ersonnen werden. (Er ist) dagegen die Bestätigung dessen, was vor ihm war, und die ausführliche Darlegung des Buches, an dem es keinen Zweifel gibt, vom Herrn der Weltenbewohner.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αυτό το Κορ’άν (ω, ειδωλολάτρες) δε θα μπορούσε να έχει επινοηθεί από οποιοδήποτε από τα δημιουργήματα του Αλλάχ (όπως ισχυριστήκατε ότι ο Προφήτης το επινόησε ή το έμαθε από άλλον άνδρα)! Αλλά είναι (η αποκάλυψη και) η επιβεβαίωση γι' αυτά (την Τορά και το Ιν-τζήλ -το πρωτότυπο Ευαγγέλιο του Ιησού) που ήταν πριν απ' αυτό, και μια πλήρη εξήγηση του Βιβλίου (όσων γράφτηκαν από τους νόμους, τις υποχρεωτικές πράξεις και τις απαγορεύσεις) - δεν υπάρχει καμία αμφιβολία σ' αυτό (το Κορ’άν) - (το οποίο) αποκαλύφθηκε από τον Κύριο όλων των κόσμων.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और यह क़ुरआन ऐसा नहीं है कि अल्लाह के अलावा किसी और द्वारा घड़ लिया जाए, बल्कि यह उसकी पुष्टि करता है, जो इससे पहले है और किताब का विवरण (अर्थात् हलाल एवं हराम तथा धर्म के नियमों की व्याख्या) है। इसमें कोई संदेह नहीं कि यह सारे संसारों के पालनहार की ओर से है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E non può questo Corano essere stato rivelato da altri che Allāh. Ma è una conferma di ciò che hanno tra le mani (i libri precedenti) e un chiarimento del Libro – non c’è dubbio – viene dal Dio dei Mondi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
37. Ir šis Koranas nėra toks, kuris galėtų kada nors būti sukurtas kieno nors kito, nei Allaho (dangų ir žemės Viešpaties). Tačiau tai yra (apreiškimo) patvirtinimas, kuris buvo prieš jį [t. y. Tauratas (Tora), ir Indžylis (Evangelija)], ir pilnas Knygos (t. y. įstatymų, paskelbtų žmonijai) paaiškinimas – kuriame nėra jokių abejonių – nuo Alamyn (žmonijos, džinų ir viso, kas egzistuoja) Viešpaties.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Qur’aanni kun Rabbii gaditti sobaan kan uumamu hin taane. Garuu dhugoomsaa (kitaabota) isa dura turaniitiifi addababaasaa kitaabaati, mamiin isa keessa hin jiru, Gooftaa aalamaarraa irraayi.
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Русский · Russian
Этот Коран не может быть вымыслом, [сочинённым] кем-либо помимо Аллаха. Напротив, он — подтверждение [истинности] того, что было до него, и разъяснение Писания. Нет в нём сомнения: он — от Господа миров.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Овај Кур'ан није измишљен, од Аллаха је - он потврђује оно што је објављено пре њега и објашњава прописе, нема сумње да је он Објава од Господара светова!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na haikuwa Qur-ani hii ni ya kuzuliwa kutoka kwa asiyekuwa Mwenyezi Mungu. Lakini ni usadikisho wa yale yaliyoitangulia, na ni maelezo ya kina ya Kitabu kisicho na shaka yoyote ndani yake, kutoka kwa Mola Mlezi wa viumbe vyote.
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Svenska · Swedish
Denna Koran kunde inte ha ställts samman av någon annan än Gud. Tvärtom är den en bekräftelse av det [som uppenbarats] före den och en klargörande utläggning av [tidigare] skrift. Den är utan minsta tvivel från världarnas Herre.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Bu Kur'an Allah'tandır. Başkası tarafından uydurulmuş bir (kitap) değildir. Ancak kendinden öncekini doğrulayan ve o kitabı açıklayandır. Onda şüphe yoktur, o âlemlerin Rabbindendir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور یہ قرآن ایسا نہیں ہے کہ اللہ (کی وحی) کے بغیر (اپنے ہی سے) گھڑ لیا گیا ہو۔ بلکہ یہ تو (ان کتابوں کی) تصدیق کرنے واﻻ ہے جو اس کے قبل (نازل) ہوچکی ہیں [1] اور کتاب (احکام ضروریہ) کی تفصیل بیان کرنے واﻻ ہے [2]اس میں کوئی بات شک کی نہیں [3]کہ رب العالمین کی طرف سے ہے.[4]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Easy-read (simplified)qul hal min shurakaa'ikum man yahdee ilaa l-haqqi quli llaahu yahdee lilhaqqi afaman yahdee ilaa l-haqqi ahaqqu an yuttaba'a amman laa yahiddee illaa an yuhdaa famaa lakum kayfa tahkumoon
DIN 31635qul hal min šurakāʾikum man yahdī ʾilā l-ḥaqqi quli llāhu yahdī lilḥaqqi ʾafaman yahdī ʾilā l-ḥaqqi ʾaḥaqqu ʾan yuttabaʿa ʾamman lā yahiddī ʾillā ʾan yuhdā famā lakum kayfa taḥkumūna
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Can any of your partners guide to the truth?" Say, "God guides to the truth. Is He who guides to the truth more worthy of being followed, or he who does not guide, unless he himself is guided? What is the matter with you? How do you judge?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: Is there of your partners (whom ye ascribe unto Allah) one that leadeth to the Truth? Say: Allah leadeth to the Truth. Is He Who leadeth to the Truth more deserving that He should be followed, or he who findeth not the way unless he (himself) be guided. What aileth you? How judge ye
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Is there any of your associates who guides unto the truth?' Say, 'God guides unto the truth.' Is then He who guides unto the truth more worthy to be followed, or he that guides not except he be himself guided? What ails you then, bow ye judge
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Is there any of the gods ye add to God who guideth into the truth? SAY: God guideth into the truth. Is He then who guideth into the truth the more worthy to be followed, or he who guideth not unless he be himself guided? What then hath befallen you that ye so judge
George Sale1734 Say, is there any of your companions who directeth unto the truth? Say, God directeth unto the truth. Whether is he therefore, who directeth unto the truth, more worthy to be followed; or he who directeth not, unless he be directed? What aileth you therefore, that ye judge as ye do
DIN 31635wamā yattabiʿu ʾakṯaruhum ʾillā ẓannan ʾinna ẓ-ẓanna lā yuġnī mina l-ḥaqqi šayʾan ʾinna llāha ʿalīmun bimā yafʿalūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Most of them follow nothing but assumptions; and assumptions avail nothing against the truth. God is fully aware of what they do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Most of them follow not but conjecture. Assuredly conjecture can by no means take the place of truth. Lo! Allah is Aware of what they do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But most of them follow only suspicion; verily, suspicion does not avail against the truth at all; verily, God knows what they do
John Medows Rodwell1861 And most of them follow only a conceit: - But a conceit attaineth to nought of truth! Verily God knoweth what they say
George Sale1734 And the greater part of them follow an uncertain opinion only; but a mere opinion attaineth not unto any truth. Verily God knoweth that which they do
Easy-read (simplified)am yaqooloona ftaraahu qul fa'too bisooratin mithlihi wad'oo mani stata'tum min dooni llaahi in kuntum saadiqeen
DIN 31635ʾam yaqūlūna ftarāhu qul faʾtū bisūratin miṯlihi wadʿū mani staṭaʿtum min dūni llāhi ʾin kuntum ṣādiqīna
Talal Itani2012 Or do they say, "He has forged it"? Say, "Then produce a single chapter like it, and call upon whomever you can, apart from God, if you are truthful."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Or say they: He hath invented it? Say: Then bring a surah like unto it, and call (for help) on all ye can besides Allah, if ye are truthful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Do they say, 'He hath devised it?' say then, 'Bring a surah like it,- and call, if ye can, on other than God, if ye do tell the truth
John Medows Rodwell1861 Do they say, "He hath devised it himself?" SAY: Then bring a Sura like it; and call on whom ye can beside God, if ye speak truth
George Sale1734 Will they say, Mohammed hath forged it? Answer, bring therefore a chapter like unto it; and call whom ye may to your assistance, besides God, if ye speak truth
DIN 31635bal kaḏḏabū bimā lam yuḥīṭū biʿilmihi walammā yaʾtihim taʾwīluhu kaḏālika kaḏḏaba llaḏīna min qablihim fānẓur kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu ẓ-ẓālimīna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 In fact, they deny what is beyond the limits of their knowledge, and whose explanation has not yet reached them. Thus those before them refused to believe. So note the consequences for the wrongdoers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Nay, but they denied that, the knowledge whereof they could not compass, and whereof the interpretation (in events) hath not yet come unto them. Even so did those before them deny. Then see what was the consequence for the wrong-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Yet they call that a lie, the knowledge of which they cannot compass, while its interpretation has not yet come to them; so did those before them charge with lying, and see what was the end of the unjust
John Medows Rodwell1861 But that which they embrace not in their knowledge have they charged with falsehood, though the explanation of it had not yet been given them. So those who were before them brought charges of imposture: But see what was the end of the unjust
George Sale1734 But they have charged that with falsehood, the knowledge whereof they do not comprehend, neither hath the interpretation thereof come unto them. In the same manner did those who were before them, accuse their prophets of imposture; but behold, what was the end of the unjust
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.57 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.61
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.49
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.