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12:46

يُوسُفُ أَيُّهَا ٱلصِّدِّيقُ أَفْتِنَا فِى سَبْعِ بَقَرَٰتٍ سِمَانٍ يَأْكُلُهُنَّ سَبْعٌ عِجَافٌ وَسَبْعِ سُنۢبُلَٰتٍ خُضْرٍ وَأُخَرَ يَابِسَٰتٍ لَّعَلِّىٓ أَرْجِعُ إِلَى ٱلنَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)yoosufu ayyuhaa s-siddeequ aftinaa fee sab'i baqaraatin simaanin ya'kuluhunna sab'un 'ijaafun wasab'i sunbulaatin khudrin wa'ukhara yaabisaatin la'allee arji'u ilaa n-naasi la'allahum ya'lamoon

DIN 31635yūsufu ʾayyuhā ṣ-ṣiddīqu ʾaftinā fī sabʿi baqarātin simānin yaʾkuluhunna sabʿun ʿiǧāfun wasabʿi sunbulātin ḫuḍrin waʾuḫara yābisātin laʿallī ʾarǧiʿu ʾilā n-nāsi laʿallahum yaʿlamūna

EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

TranslationsSource fact

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.

Talal Itani · published 2012

"Joseph, O man of truth, inform us concerning seven fat cows being eaten by seven lean ones, and seven green spikes, and others dried up, so that I may return to the people, so that they may know."

Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Talal Itani, ClearQuran ·ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB·Talal Itani / ClearQuran.com ·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International·retrieved 7 Sep 2026

Translation by Talal Itani, ClearQuran.com https://clearquran.com

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 1875–1936 · published 1930

(And when he came to Joseph in the prison, he exclaimed): Joseph! O thou truthful one! Expound for us the seven fat kine which seven lean were eating and the seven green ears of corn and other (seven) dry, that I may return unto the people, so that they may know

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

Joseph! O thou truth teller! explain to us the seven fat kine which seven lean devoured; and the seven green ears of corn and others dry. Haply I may go back to the men, haply they then may know

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

Joseph, man of truth! teach us of the seven fat kine which seven lean devoured, and of the seven green ears, and other withered, that I may return to the men, and that they may be informed

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 he went to the prison, and said, O Joseph, thou man of veracity, teach us the interpretation of seven fat kine, which seven lean kine devourd, and of seven green ears of corn; and other seven withered ears, which the king saw in his dream; that I may return unto the men who have sent me, that peradventure they may understand the same

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

(Shërbëtori tha:) "O i drejti Jusuf! Na trego (kuptimin e një ëndrre) për shtatë lopë të majme, që gëlltiten nga shtatë të dobëta, si dhe për shtatë kallinj të gjelbër e shtatë të tjerë të tharë, në mënyrë që të kthehem te njerëzit e ta dinë edhe ata!"

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

(সে কারাগারে গিয়ে বলল:) ‘হে ইউসুফ, হে সত্যবাদী! আপনি আমাদের (সেই লোকের স্বপ্নের) ব্যাখ্যা দিন, (যে স্বপ্নে দেখেছে যে), সাতটি মোটা তাজা গাভি, যাদের খাচ্ছে সাতটি ক্ষীণকায় গাভি এবং সাতটি সবুজ শিষ ও অপর সাতটি শুষ্ক শিষ সম্পর্কে, যাতে আমি লোকদের কাছে ফিরে যেতে পারি, যেনো তারা (স্বপ্নের ব্যাখ্যা ও আপনার মান-মর্যাদা সম্পর্কে) জানতে পারে।’

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

"Jusufe, o ti koji si uvijek iskren, protumači nam šta znači: sedam mršavih krava pojede sedam debelih; i sedam klasova zelenih i sedam drugih sasušenih – pa da se vratim ljudima, da bi oni saznali."

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

"Josipe, o ti koji si uvijek iskren, protumači nam što znači: sedam mršavih krava pojede sedam debelih; i sedam klasova zelenih i sedam drugih sasušenih – pa da se vratim ljudima, da bi oni saznali."

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

Yuusufu, an yo gooŋɗuɗo! haalani min fii na'i jeeɗiɗi payɗi, na ñaama pooƴuɗi jeeɗiɗi ɗin, e butaali jeeɗiɗi kecci e goɗɗi jooruɗi, mbelejo'o mi ruttoo ka yimɓe ɓen, belejo'o, ɓe ngannday".

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

(ღვინის მსხმელი წავიდა იუსუფთან და უთხრა მას): «ო, იუსუფ! ო, სიმართლის მატარებელო! აგვიხსენი (ეს სიზმარი) იმ შვიდ მსუქან ძროხაზე, რომლებსაც შვიდი გამხდარი ძროხა ჭამს, და შვიდ მწვანე თავთავზე და სხვებზე — (კიდევ შვიდ) გამხმარ თავთავზე, რათა დავბრუნდე ხალხთან [მეფესთან, მის გარემოცვასთან და სწავლულებთან], რომლებიც შეიკრიბნენ სიზმრის ახსნისთვის, და რათა მათ იცოდნენ (მისი მნიშვნელობა და აღიარონ შენი ღირსება)».

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

(Er sagte:) „Yusuf, o du Wahrhaftiger, gib uns Auskunft über sieben fette Kühe, die von sieben mageren gefressen werden, und über sieben grüne Ähren und (sieben) andere dürre, damit ich zu den Leuten zurückkehre, auf dass sie wissen mögen.“

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

(Είπε): «Ω, Ιωσήφ, εσύ που είσαι ειλικρινής! Πες μας για επτά μεγάλες αγελάδες που τις έφαγαν επτά αδύνατες, και επτά πράσινα στάχυα και άλλα επτά ξερά, ώστε να επιστρέψω στους ανθρώπους (στον βασιλιά και σ' εκείνους που είναι γύρω του) και να μάθουν (την ερμηνεία αυτού του ονείρου και να καταλάβουν την αξία σου).»

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

ऐ यूसुफ़! ऐ सत्यवादी! हमें सात मोटी गायों के बारे में बताओ, जिन्हें सात दुबली गाएँ खा रही हैं और सात हरी बालियाँ हैं और सात सूखी, ताकि मैं लोगों के पास वापस जाऊँ, ताकि वे जान लें।[13]

Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5

Italiano · Italian

»Yūsuf, o tu veritiero, dacci l’interpretazione di sette giovenche grasse mangiate da sette magre, e sette spighe verdi e altrettante secche, così che possa tornare dalla gente, affinché sappiano».

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

46. (Jis tarė): „Jusufai (Juozapai), tiesos žmogau, paaiškink mums (sapną) apie septynias storas karves, kurias rijo septynios liesos (karvės), ir apie septynias žalių javų varpas ir (septynias) kitas – sausas, kad aš galėčiau grįžti pas žmones ir kad jie sužinotų.“

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

(Innis ni jedhe): “Yaa Yuusufii dhugaa dubbataa taate! Sa’oota gabbatoo torba kan (sa’oonni) huqqatoon torba isaan nyaataniifi sootalloo (mataa midhaanii) magariisaa torbaafi kan biraas gogaa (torba) (namni manaamaan argee) hiika (abjuu kanaa) akka beekanuuf gara ummataa (tiifii mootichaa) deebi’ee isaanitti himuun koo ni kajeelamaa nuuf himi.

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

«Юсуф, о правдивейший! Разъясни нам [сон] о семи тучных коровах, которых поедают семь тощих, и о семи зелёных колосьях и [семи] других — сухих. Быть может, я вернусь к людям — быть может, они узнают [это]».

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

“Јосифе, о ти који си увек искрен, протумачи нам шта значи: седам мршавих крава поједе седам дебелих; и седам класова зелених и седам других сасушених - па да се вратим људима, да би они сазнали.“

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

Yusuf! Ewe mkweli! Tueleze ni nini maana ya ng'ombe saba wanene kuliwa na ng'ombe saba waliokonda. Na mashuke saba mabichi na mengine makavu, ili nirejee kwa watu ili wapate kujua.

Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5

Svenska · Swedish

”Josef, du som alltid talar sanning! Ge oss besked om sju feta kor som äts av sju magra, och sju gröna ax och andra torra, så att jag kan återvända till folket och de får kännedom om dig.”

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

(Zindana varınca), “Yûsuf! Ey doğru sözlü! Rüyada yedi semiz ineği yedi zayıf ineğin yemesi, bir de yedi yeşil başakla diğer yedi kuru başak hakkında bize yorum yap. Ümid ederim ki (vereceğin bilgi ile) insanlara dönerim de onlar da (senin değerini) bilirler” dedi.

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

اے یوسف! اے بہت بڑے سچے یوسف! آپ ہمیں اس خواب کی تعبیر بتلایئے کہ سات موٹی تازی گائیں ہیں جنہیں سات دبلی پتلی گائیں کھا رہی ہیں اور سات بالکل سبز خوشے ہیں اور سات ہی دوسرے بالکل خشک ہیں، تاکہ میں واپس جاکر ان لوگوں سے کہوں کہ وه سب جان لیں.

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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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

shown so it's never read alone

12:44

قَالُوٓا۟ أَضْغَٰثُ أَحْلَٰمٍ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِتَأْوِيلِ ٱلْأَحْلَٰمِ بِعَٰلِمِينَ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)qaaloo adghaathu ahlaamin wamaa nahnu bita'weeli l-'ahlaami bi'aalimeen

DIN 31635qālū ʾaḍġāṯu ʾaḥlāmin wamā naḥnu bitaʾwīli l-ʾaḥlāmi biʿālimīna

Talal Itani2012 They said, "Jumbles of dreams, and we know nothing of the interpretation of dreams."

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They answered: Jumbled dreams! And we are not knowing in the interpretation of dreams

Edward Henry Palmer1880 Said they, 'Confused dreams, and naught of the exposition of such dreams know we

John Medows Rodwell1861 They said, "They are confused dreams, nor know we aught of the unravelling of dreams

George Sale1734 They answered, they are confused dreams; neither are we skilled in the interpretation of such kind of dreams

12:45

وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِى نَجَا مِنْهُمَا وَٱدَّكَرَ بَعْدَ أُمَّةٍ أَنَا۠ أُنَبِّئُكُم بِتَأْوِيلِهِۦ فَأَرْسِلُونِ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)waqaala lladhee najaa minhumaa waaddakara ba'da ummatin anaa unabbi'ukum bita'weelihi fa'arsiloon

DIN 31635waqāla llaḏī naǧā minhumā wāddakara baʿda ʾummatin ʾanā ʾunabbiʾukum bitaʾwīlihi faʾarsilūni

The translators word this verse differently

Talal Itani2012 The one who was released said, having remembered after a time, "I will inform you of its interpretation, so send me out."

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And he of the two who was released, and (now) at length remembered, said: I am going to announce unto you the interpretation, therefore send me forth

Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then he who had escaped of those twain said,- remembering after a while,- 'Verily, I will inform you of the interpretation thereof, so send me

John Medows Rodwell1861 And he of the twain who had been set at large, said, "I will tell you the interpretation; let me go for it

George Sale1734 And Joseph's fellow-prisoner who had been delivered, said, (for he remembered Joseph after a certain space of time) I will declare unto you the interpretation thereof; wherefore let me go unto the person who will interpret it unto me

12:46 — the verse above

12:47

قَالَ تَزْرَعُونَ سَبْعَ سِنِينَ دَأَبًا فَمَا حَصَدتُّمْ فَذَرُوهُ فِى سُنۢبُلِهِۦٓ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا مِّمَّا تَأْكُلُونَ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)qaala tazra'oona sab'a sineena da'aban famaa hasadttum fadharoohu fee sunbulihi illaa qaleelan mimmaa ta'kuloon

DIN 31635qāla tazraʿūna sabʿa sinīna daʾaban famā ḥaṣadttum faḏarūhu fī sunbulihi ʾillā qalīlan mimmā taʾkulūna

Talal Itani2012 He said, "You will farm for seven consecutive years. But whatever you harvest, leave it in its spikes, except for the little that you eat."

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He said: Ye shall sow seven years as usual, but that which ye reap, leave it in the ear, all save a little which ye eat

Edward Henry Palmer1880 He said, 'Ye shall sow for seven years, as is your wont; but what ye reap, let it remain in the ear, except a little whereof ye shall eat

John Medows Rodwell1861 He said, "Ye shall sow seven years as is your wont, and the corn which ye reap leave ye in its ear, except a little of which ye shall eat

George Sale1734 Joseph answered, ye shall sow seven years as usual: And the corn which ye shall reap, do ye leave in its ear, except a little whereof ye may eat

12:48

ثُمَّ يَأْتِى مِنۢ بَعْدِ ذَٰلِكَ سَبْعٌ شِدَادٌ يَأْكُلْنَ مَا قَدَّمْتُمْ لَهُنَّ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا مِّمَّا تُحْصِنُونَ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)thumma ya'tee min ba'di dhaalika sab'un shidaadun ya'kulna maa qaddamtum lahunna illaa qaleelan mimmaa tuhsinoon

DIN 31635ṯumma yaʾtī min baʿdi ḏālika sabʿun šidādun yaʾkulna mā qaddamtum lahunna ʾillā qalīlan mimmā tuḥṣinūna

Talal Itani2012 Then after that will come seven difficult ones, which will consume what you have stored for them, except for the little that you have preserved.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then after that will come seven hard years which will devour all that ye have prepared for them, save a little of that which ye have stored

Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then there shall come after that seven severe (years) which shall devour what ye have put by before for them, save a little of what ye shall preserve

John Medows Rodwell1861 Then after that shall come seven grievous years which shall eat what ye have stored for them, except a little which ye shall have kept

George Sale1734 Then shall there come, after this, seven grievous years of famine, which shall consume what ye shall have laid up as a provision for the same, except a little which ye shall have kept

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

يُوسُفُ أَيُّهَا الصِّدِّيقُ أَفْتِنَا فِي سَبْعِ بَقَرَاتٍ سِمَانٍ يَأْكُلُهُنَّ سَبْعٌ عِجَافٌ وَسَبْعِ سُنبُلَاتٍ خُضْرٍ وَأُخَرَ يَابِسَاتٍ لَّعَلِّي أَرْجِعُ إِلَى النَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ

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 — 0.60 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
Talal Itani · George Sale 0.72
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale 0.65
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 0.63
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer 0.63
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell 0.60
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell 0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale 0.56
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale 0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell 0.51

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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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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7 sources stand behind this page. Each is listed once, in the order the page first cites it, with the licence it was cleared under and what was actually read. Nothing on this page rests on a source that is not here.

Source Tanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) · Uthmani, Version 1.1
Edition
Uthmani, Version 1.1
Custodian
Tanzil Project
Layer
canonical text
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Commercial use
yes
Modification
contradictory
Licence text
read verbatim
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
203f0f1bf3158b1e5be4ab9f8f6870e5…
Located at
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
Edition
ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB
Custodian
Talal Itani / ClearQuran.com
Layer
translation
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
Commercial use
yes
Modification
no
Licence text
terms page read
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
7 September 2026
Digest
70b0a8bb6f862f43670f7da1c0da59a4…
Located at
https://www.clearquran.com/downloads/quran-in-english-clearquran.epub
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
Edition
1930 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
Layer
translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
aaff752d4349005282d977eebb863982…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-mohammedmarmadu.json

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.

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Source Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an · 1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Edition
1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
Layer
translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
32b2330e332339ace53509539efe9040…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-edwardhenrypalm.json
Convention
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
Edition
1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
Layer
translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
91423dea6a6dccc192457870ed2c08fb…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-johnmedowsrodwe.json
Convention
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
Edition
1734 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
Layer
translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
05b679f5df49b0579e65f4b83b4c7235…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-georgesale.json
Convention
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
Edition
Simple, Version 1.1
Custodian
Tanzil Project
Layer
canonical text
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Commercial use
yes
Modification
contradictory
Licence text
read verbatim
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
d9b5bad94e4725191aa8da9a0404bd8e…
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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