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Talal Itani· published 2012
For them is good news in this life, and in the Hereafter. There is no alteration to the words of God. That is the supreme triumph.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Theirs are good tidings in the life of the world and in the Hereafter - There is no changing the Words of Allah - that is the Supreme Triumph
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
for them are good tidings in the life of this world, and in the future too; there is no changing the words of God! That is the mightyhappiness
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
shall receive good tidings in this life, and in that which is to come. There is no change in the words of God. This shall be great felicity
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
Për ta ka myzhde në këtë jetë dhe në botën tjetër. Nuk ka ndryshim në fjalët e Allahut. Kjo është fitorja e madhe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
তাদের জন্য সুসংবাদ রয়েছে দুনিয়ার জীবনে এবং আখিরাতেও। আল্লাহর বাণীসমূহে কোনো পরিবর্তন নেই। এটাই মহাসাফল্য।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
za njih su dobre vijesti i na ovom i na drugom svijetu – Allahove riječi niko ne može izmijeniti – to je, zaista, uspjeh veliki.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
za njih su dobre vijesti i na ovom i na drugom svijetu – Allahove riječi nitko ne može izmijeniti – to je, zaista, uspjeh veliki.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Hino woodani ɓe welo-welo ka nguurndam aduna e ka laakara. - Alaa bayloowo konnguɗi Alla ɗin -. Ko ɗum woni malal mawngal.
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ქართული · Georgian
მათთვის არის სასიხარულო ცნობა (ალლაჰისგან) ამქვეყნიურ ცხოვრებაში და საიქიოში. არ იცვლება ალლაჰის სიტყვები [ის არ არღვევს და არ ცვლის თავის აღთქმას]. ეს არის უდიდესი წარმატება!
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Deutsch · German
Für sie gibt es die frohe Botschaft im diesseitigen Leben und im Jenseits. Keine Abänderung gibt es für die Worte Allahs. Dies ist der gewaltige Erfolg.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Γι' αυτούς υπάρχουν τα χαρμόσυνα νέα στην εγκόσμια ζωή και στη Μέλλουσα Ζωή. Δεν υπάρχει αλλαγή στα Λόγια (ή στην υπόσχεση) του Αλλάχ. Πράγματι, αυτή είναι η μεγάλη επιτυχία.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
उन्हीं के लिए सांसारिक जीवन में शुभ सूचना है और आख़िरत में भी। अल्लाह की बातों के लिए कोई बदलाव नहीं है। यही बहुत बड़ी सफलता है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
per quelli c’è una buona notizia in questa vita e nell’Aldilà – non c’è cambiamento nelle parole di Allāh – quello è di certo il più grande trionfo.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
64. Jiems – geros žinios dabartinio pasaulio gyvenime (t. y. per gerus pačio asmens matomus sapnus arba parodytus kitiems), ir Amžinybėje. Jokio pokyčio negali būti Allaho Žodžiuose. Tai iš tiesų didžiausia sėkmė.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Isaaniif jireenya addunyaa keessattifii kan Aakhiraa keessattis gammachuutu jira. Jechoota Rabbii jijjiiraan hin jiru. Sun isumatu milkii guddaadha.
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Русский · Russian
Для них — благая весть и в мирской жизни, и в Последней, слова Аллаха неизменны. Это и есть великий успех.
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Српски · Serbian
њима припадају радосне вести и на овом и на Будућем свету - а Аллахове речи не може нико да измени - то је, заиста, велики успех.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Wao wana bishara njema katika uhai wa dunia na katika Akhera. Hakuna mabadiliko katika maneno ya Mwenyezi Mungu. Huko ndiko kufuzu kukubwa.
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Svenska · Swedish
De ska få glädjebud både i detta liv och i det kommande; Guds löften ändras inte. Detta är den väldiga segern!
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Türkçe · Turkish
Dünya hayatında da ahirette de müjde onlaradır. Allah’ın sözlerinde hiçbir değişme yoktur. Bu büyük kurtuluştur.
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اردو · Urdu
ان کے لیے دنیاوی زندگی میں بھی[1] اور آخرت میں بھی خوش خبری ہے اللہ تعالیٰ کی باتوں میں کچھ فرق ہوا نہیں کرتا۔ یہ بڑی کامیابی ہے.
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DIN 31635walā yaḥzunka qawluhum ʾinna l-ʿizzata lillāhi ǧamīʿan huwa s-samīʿu l-ʿalīmu
Talal Itani2012 And let not their sayings dishearten you. All power is God's. He is the Hearer, the Knower.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And let not their speech grieve thee (O Muhammad). Lo! power belongeth wholly to Allah. He is the Hearer, the Knower
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Let not their speech grieve thee; verily, power is wholly God's! He both hears and knows
John Medows Rodwell1861 And let not their discourse grieve thee: for all might is God's: the Hearer, the Knower, He
George Sale1734 Let not their discourse grieve thee; for all might belongeth unto God: He both heareth and knoweth
Easy-read (simplified)alaa inna lillaahi man fee s-samaawaati waman fee l-'ardi wamaa yattabi'u lladheena yad'oona min dooni llaahi shurakaa'a in yattabi'oona illaa z-zanna wa'in hum illaa yakhrusoon
DIN 31635ʾalā ʾinna lillāhi man fī s-samāwāti waman fī l-ʾarḍi wamā yattabiʿu llaḏīna yadʿūna min dūni llāhi šurakāʾa ʾin yattabiʿūna ʾillā ẓ-ẓanna waʾin hum ʾillā yaḫruṣūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Certainly, to God belongs everyone in the heavens and everyone on earth. Those who invoke other than God do not follow partners; they follow only assumptions, and they only guess.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! is it not unto Allah that belongeth whosoever is in the heavens and whosoever is in the earth? Those who follow aught instead of Allah follow not (His) partners. They follow only a conjecture, and they do but guess
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Is not, verily, whoever is in the heavens and whoever is in the earth God's? What then do they follow who call on associates other than God? Verily, they follow nothing but suspicion, and verily, they are telling naught but lies
John Medows Rodwell1861 Is not whoever is in the Heavens and the Earth subject to God? What then do they follow who, beside God, call upon deities they have joined with Him? They follow but a conceit, and they are but liars
George Sale1734 Is not whoever dwelleth in heaven and on earth, subject unto God? What therefore do they follow, who invoke idols, besides God? They follow nothing but a vain opinion; and they only utter lies
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 —
0.50 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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 · George Sale0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.56
Talal Itani · George Sale0.53
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.48
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.48
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.46
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.41
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.41
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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.