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Say, "Have you considered the sustenance God has sent down for you, some of which you made unlawful, and some lawful?" Say, "Did God give you permission, or do you fabricate lies and attribute them to God?"
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Compare translations (4)Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Say: Have ye considered what provision Allah hath sent down for you, how ye have made of it lawful and unlawful? Hath Allah permitted you, or do ye invent a lie concerning Allah
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
Let us see now what God has sent down to you of provision! and yet ye have made of it unlawful and lawful. Say, 'Does God permit you, or against God do ye forge lies
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
SAY: What think ye? of what God hath sent down to you for food, have ye made unlawful and lawful? SAY: Hath God permitted you? or invent ye on the part of God
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Say, tell me; of that which God hath sent down unto you for food, have ye declared part to be lawful, and other part to be unlawful? Say, hath God permitted you to make this distinction? Or do ye devise a lie concerning God
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: "Më tregoni për rrizkun që jua ka zbritur Allahu, një pjesë të të cilit e bëtë të ndaluar e një pjesë të lejuar!" Thuaju: "A ju ka dhënë leje Allahu për këtë apo po trilloni gënjeshtra për Allahun?"
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! তুমি এ মুশরিকদেরকে) বলো: ‘তোমরা কি ভেবে দেখেছ, আল্লাহ তোমাদের জন্য যে রিযক দিয়েছেন, তারপর তোমরা (নিজেদের খেয়াল-খুশি মতো) তার কিছু হালাল ও কিছু হারাম করেছ।’ বলো: ‘আল্লাহ কি তোমাদেরকে এটার অনুমতি দিয়েছেন, নাকি আল্লাহর ওপর তোমরা মিথ্যা রটনা করছ?’
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: "Kažite vi meni zašto neku hranu koju vam Allah daje smatrate zabranjenom, a drugu dopuštenom?" Reci: "Da li vam je to Allah dozvolio ili o Allahu laži iznosite?!"
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: "Kažite vi meni zašto neku hranu koju vam Allah daje smatrate zabranjenom, a drugu dopuštenom?" Reci: "Jeli vam je to Allah dozvolio ili o Allahu laži iznosite?!"
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 : "kaalaneekam, ɗuum ko Alla jippinani on e arsike, mbaɗɗɗon e mun ko harmi e ko dagii? -maaku : "Ko Alla duŋanii on? kaa ko e Alla pekintoɗon (penaale)?"
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
უთხარი: «რას იტყვით იმ სარჩოზე, რომელიც ალლაჰმა გიბოძათ, და თქვენ მისი ნაწილი აკრძალულად შერაცხეთ, ნაწილი კი ნებადართულად?» უთხარი: «ალლაჰმა დაგრთოთ ნება, თუ ალლაჰს ცილს სწამებთ?»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Sag: „Was meint ihr zu dem, was Allah für euch an Versorgung herabgesandt hat und was ihr dann als Verbotenes und Erlaubtes festgelegt habt?“ Sag: „Hat Allah es euch tatsächlich erlaubt, oder ersinnt ihr etwas gegen Allah?“
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, στους ειδωλολάτρες): «Πείτε μου γι' αυτά που σας έστειλε ο Αλλάχ από (επιτρεπτά και καλά) αγαθά, από τα οποία κάποια τα θέσατε ως απαγορευμένα (για σας και τα ορίσατε στα είδωλά σας), ενώ άλλα τα θέσατε ως επιτρεπτά (για σας).» Πες (τους): «Είναι ο Αλλάχ που σας επέτρεψε (να κάνατε αυτά) ή εναντίον του Αλλάχ επινοείτε ψέματα;»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
(ऐ नबी!) कह दें : क्या तुमने देखा जो अल्लाह ने तुम्हारे लिए रोज़ी उतारी है, फिर तुमने उसमें से कुछ को हराम और कुछ को हलाल ठहरा लिया? (आप उनसे) पूछें : क्या अल्लाह ने तुम्हें (इसकी) अनुमति दी है या तुम अल्लाह पर झूठा आरोप लगा रहे होॽ[19]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Di’: «Avete visto le provviste che Allāh ha fatto scendere per voi, alcune delle quali avete reso lecite e altre illecite?» Di’: «Allāh ve lo ha permesso o avete inventato menzogne su Allāh?»
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
59. Sakyk (Muchammedai ﷺ tiems daugiadieviams): „Pasakykite man, kokį aprūpinimą Allahas nuleido jums! O jūs padarėte jį leistinu ir neleistinu.“ Sakyk (Muchammedai ﷺ): „Ar Allahas leido jums (taip daryti), ar jūs sukuriate melą apie Allahą?“
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
Mee naaf himaa jedhi “ waan Rabbiin isiniif buuse hirerraa isin ergasii isa irraa dhorgamaafi hayyamamaa taasiftan san“, Sila (halaaleysuufii haraameysuu) Rabbitu isiniif hayyamemoo Rabbi irratti kijiba uumtanii odeessitu?”
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: «Что вы думаете об уделе, который Аллах ниспослал вам, а вы сами сделали часть его запретной, а часть — дозволенной?» Скажи: «Неужели Аллах позволил вам это, или же вы возводите на Аллаха ложь?»
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: „Кажите ви мени зашто неку храну коју вам Аллах даје сматрате забрањеном, а другу допуштеном?“ Реци: „Да ли вам је то Аллах дозволио или о Аллаху износите лажи?!“
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: Je, mnaonaje yale aliyowateremshia Mwenyezi Mungu katika riziki, basi mkafanya katika hizo nyingine haramu na nyingine halali. Sema, "Je, Mwenyezi Mungu aliwaruhusu, au mnamzulia Mwenyezi Mungu tu?"
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Säg: ”Berätta för mig om försörjningen som Gud har gett er, vilken ni sedan delar upp i tillåtna och förbjudna ting.” Säg: ”Har Gud gett er befogenhet till detta, eller är det så att ni diktar ihop lögner om Gud?”
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
(Ey Muhammed!) De ki: "Biliyor musunuz, Allah'ın size indirdiği rızıktan bir kısmını helâl, bir kısmını da haram kıldınız?" De ki: "Allah mı size izin verdi, yoksa Allah'a iftira mı ediyorsunuz?"
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 کہیے کہ یہ تو بتاؤ کہ اللہ نے تمہارے لیے جو کچھ رزق بھیجا تھا پھر تم نے اس کا کچھ حصہ حرام اور کچھ حلال قرار دے لیا[1] ۔ آپ پوچھیے کہ کیا تم کو اللہ نے حکم دیا تھا یا اللہ پر افترا ہی کرتے ہو؟
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)yaa ayyuhaa n-naasu qad jaa'atkum maw'izatun min rabbikum washifaa'un limaa fee s-sudoori wahudan warahmatun lilmu'mineen
DIN 31635yā ʾayyuhā n-nāsu qad ǧāʾatkum mawʿiẓatun min rabbikum wašifāʾun limā fī ṣ-ṣudūri wahudan waraḥmatun lilmuʾminīna
Talal Itani2012 O people! There has come to you advice from your Lord, and healing for what is in the hearts, and guidance and mercy for the believers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O mankind! There hath come unto you an exhortation from your Lord, a balm for that which is in the breasts, a guidance and a mercy for believers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye folk! there has come to you a warning from your Lord, and a balm for what is in your breasts, and a guidance and a mercy to believers
John Medows Rodwell1861 O men! now hath a warning come to you from your Lord, and a medicine for what is in your breasts, and a guidance and a mercy to believers
George Sale1734 O men, now hath an admonition come unto you from your Lord, and a remedy for the doubts which are in your breasts; and a direction, and mercy unto the true believers
DIN 31635qul bifaḍli llāhi wabiraḥmatihi fabiḏālika falyafraḥū huwa ḫayrun mimmā yaǧmaʿūna
Talal Itani2012 Say, "In God's grace and mercy let them rejoice. That is better than what they hoard."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: In the bounty of Allah and in His mercy: therein let them rejoice. It is better than what they hoard
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'By the grace of God and by His mercy,- and in that let them rejoice! It is better than that which they collect
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Through the grace of God and his mercy! and in this therefore let them rejoice: better is this than all ye amass
George Sale1734 Say, through the grace of God, and his mercy: Therein therefore let them rejoice; this will be better than what they heap together of worldly riches
Talal Itani2012 What will they think-those who fabricate lies and attribute them to God-on the Day of Resurrection? God is bountiful towards the people, but most of them do not give thanks.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And what think those who invent a lie concerning Allah (will be their plight) upon the Day of Resurrection? Lo! Allah truly is Bountiful toward mankind, but most of them give not thanks
Edward Henry Palmer1880 What will those who forge lies against God think on the resurrection day? Verily, God is Lord of grace towards men, but most of them do not give thanks
John Medows Rodwell1861 But what on the day of Resurrection will be the thought of those who invent a lie on the part of God? Truly God is full of bounties to man; but most of them give not thanks
George Sale1734 But what will be the opinion of those who devise a lie concerning God, on the day of the resurrection? Verily God is indued with beneficence towards mankind; but the greater part of them do not give thanks
DIN 31635wamā takūnu fī šaʾnin wamā tatlū minhu min qurʾānin walā taʿmalūna min ʿamalin ʾillā kunnā ʿalaykum šuhūdan ʾiḏ tufīḍūna fīhi wamā yaʿzubu ʿan rabbika min miṯqāli ḏarratin fī l-ʾarḍi walā fī s-samāʾi walā ʾaṣġara min ḏālika walā ʾakbara ʾillā fī kitābin mubīnin
Talal Itani2012 You do not get into any situation, nor do you recite any Quran, nor do you do anything, but We are watching over you as you undertake it. Not even the weight of an atom, on earth or in the sky, escapes your Lord, nor is there anything smaller or larger, but is in a clear record.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And thou (Muhammad) art not occupied with any business and thou recitest not a Lecture from this (Scripture), and ye (mankind) perform no act, but We are Witness of you when ye are engaged therein. And not an atom's weight in the earth or in the sky escapeth your Lord, nor what is less than that or greater than that, but it is (written) in a clear Book
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Nor shalt thou be in any affair, nor shalt thou recite concerning it a Qur'an - nor shall ye do a work, without our being witness against you, when ye are engaged therein: nor does the weight of an atom escape thy Lord in earth or in heaven; nor is there less than that or greater, but it is in the perspicuous Book
John Medows Rodwell1861 Thou shalt not be employed in affairs, nor shalt thou read a text out of the Koran, nor shall ye work any work, but we will be witnesses over you when ye are engaged therein: and not the weight of an atom on Earth or in Heaven escapeth thy Lord; nor is there aught that is less than this or greater, but it is in the perspicuous Book
George Sale1734 Thou shalt be engaged in no business, neither shalt thou be employed in meditating on any passage of the Koran; nor shall ye do any action, but We will be witnesses over you, when ye are employed therein. Nor is so much as the weight of an ant hidden from thy Lord, in earth or in heaven: Neither is there any thing lesser than that, or greater, but it is written in the perspicuous book
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 —
0.61 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
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.71
Talal Itani · George Sale0.68
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.55
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.48
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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.