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Talal Itani· published 2012
Among them are those who believe in it, and among them are those who do not believe in it. Your Lord is fully aware of the mischief-makers.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And of them is he who believeth therein, and of them is he who believeth not therein, and thy Lord is Best Aware of the corrupters
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
Of them are some who believe therein; and of them are some who do not believe therein; but thy Lord knows best who are corrupters
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
There are some of them who believe therein; and there are some of them who believe not therein: And thy Lord well knoweth the corruptdoers
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
Disa nga ata (do të) besojnë në të e disa nuk (do të) besojnë. Zoti yt i di më së miri shkatërrimtarët.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর তাদের (মুশরিকদের) মধ্যে কেউ কেউ (মৃত্যুর পূর্বে) কুরআনের প্রতি ঈমান আনবে এবং কেউ কেউ (মৃত্যু পর্যন্ত) তাতে ঈমান আনবে না। আর তোমার রব ফ্যাসাদ সৃষ্টিকারীদের(১৯) ব্যাপারে অধিক জ্ঞাত।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Ima ih koji u njega vjeruju, a ima ih koji ne vjeruju u njega. A Gospodar tvoj najbolje poznaje smutljivce.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Ima ih koji u njega vjeruju, a ima ih koji ne vjeruju u njega. A Gospodar tvoj najbolje poznaje smutljivce.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
No e maɓɓe gooŋɗinɗo nde, no e maɓɓe kadi mo gooŋɗinaa nde. Ko Joomi maa ɓuri anndude bonnooɓe ɓeen.
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ქართული · Georgian
და მათ შორის არიან ისეთნი, რომელთაც სწამთ იგი, და მათ შორის არიან ისეთნიც, რომელთაც არ სწამთ იგი. და შენი უფალი ყველაზე უკეთ იცნობს ბოროტების მქმნელთ.
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Deutsch · German
Und unter ihnen gibt es manche, die an ihn glauben, und unter ihnen gibt es manche, die nicht an ihn glauben. Dein Herr ist aber wissender über die Unheilstifter.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Και απ' αυτούς (τους ειδωλολάτρες) υπάρχουν εκείνοι που θα πιστέψουν σ' αυτό (το Κορ’άν), ενώ κάποιοι άλλοι απ' αυτούς δε θα πιστέψουν σ' αυτό (από πείσμα και αλαζονεία μέχρι να πεθάνουν). Και ο Κύριός σου (ω, Προφήτη) γνωρίζει καλύτερα εκείνους που σκορπίζουν το κακό (και επιμένουν στην απιστία, και θα τους τιμωρήσει γι' αυτήν).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
और उनमें से कुछ ऐसे हैं जो इस (क़ुरआन) पर ईमान लाते हैं और उनमें से कुछ ऐसे हैं जो इसपर ईमान नहीं लाते और आपका पालनहार बिगाड़ पैदा करने वालों को भली-भाँति जानने वाला है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Alcuni di loro ci credono, e altri no: il tuo Dio conosce meglio i malfattori.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
40. Ir tarp jų yra kai kurie, kurie tuo tiki. Ir tarp jų yra kai kurie, kurie tuo netiki. Ir jūsų Viešpats yra Visa Suvokiantis apie Mufsidūn (bloga darančiuosius, melagius).
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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.
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Русский · Russian
И среди них есть те, кто верует в него, и те, кто не верует в него. А твой Господь лучше знает творящих беззаконие.
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Српски · Serbian
Има их који верују у истинитост Кур'ана, а има их који не верују. А твој Господар најбоље познаје смутљивце.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na miongoni mwao kuna anayeiamini, na miongoni mwao kuna asiyeiamini. Na Mola wako Mlezi ndiye anayewajua vyema waharibifu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Bland dem finns de som kommer att tro på den och andra som aldrig kommer att göra det. Din Herre vet mycket väl vilka som sprider fördärv.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Aralarında ona (Kur'an'a) iman edenler de vardır, iman etmeyenler de. Rabbin ise fesat çıkaranları çok iyi bilir.
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اردو · Urdu
اور ان میں سے بعض ایسے ہیں جو اس پر ایمان لے آئیں گے اور بعض ایسے ہیں کہ اس پر ایمان نہ ﻻئیں گے۔ اور آپ کا رب مفسدوں کو خوب جانتا ہے.[1]
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.
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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
Talal Itani2012 If they accuse you of lying, say, "I have my deeds, and you have your deeds. You are quit of what I do, and I am quit of what you do."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if they deny thee, say: Unto me my work, and unto you your work. Ye are innocent of what I do, and I am innocent of what ye do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But if they call thee liar, say, 'I have my work, and ye have your work; ye are clear of what I work, and I am clear of what ye work
John Medows Rodwell1861 And if they charge thee with imposture, then SAY: My work for me, and your work for you! Ye are clear of that which I do, and I am clear of that which ye do
George Sale1734 If they accuse thee of imposture, say, I have my work, and ye have your work; ye shall be clear of that which I do, and I will be clear of that which ye do
DIN 31635waminhum man yastamiʿūna ʾilayka ʾafaʾanta tusmiʿu ṣ-ṣumma walaw kānū lā yaʿqilūna
Talal Itani2012 And among them are those who listen to you. But can you make the deaf hear, even though they do not understand?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And of them are some who listen unto thee. But canst thou make the deaf to hear even though they apprehend not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 There are some of them who listen to thee - canst thou make the deaf to hear, although they have no sense
John Medows Rodwell1861 And some of them lend a ready ear to thee: But wilt thou make the deaf to hear even though they understand not
George Sale1734 There are some of them who hearken unto thee; but wilt thou make the deaf to hear, although they do not understand
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 —
0.60 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Talal Itani · George Sale0.68
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.67
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.50
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.48
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
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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.