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Compare translations (4)Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Is he who knoweth that what is revealed unto thee from thy Lord is the truth like him who is blind? But only men of understandingheed
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
Is he who knows that naught but the truth is sent down upon thee from thy Lord like him who is blind? Only those possessed of minds will remember
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Shall he then who knoweth that what hath been sent down to thee from thy Lord is the truth, act like him who is blind? Men of insight only will bear this in mind
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Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Shall he therefore, who knoweth that what hath been sent down unto thee from thy Lord, is truth, be rewarded as he who is blind? The prudent only will consider
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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
A mund të jetë ai që e di se ajo që të është shpallur nga Zoti yt është e vërtetë njësoj me atë që është i verbër?! Në të vërtetë, mësim marrin vetëm mendarët,
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বাংলা · Bengali
যে ব্যক্তি এ কথা জানে যে, তোমার রবের পক্ষ থেকে তোমার প্রতি যা নাযিল হয়েছে, তা সত্য, সে কি তার মতো, যে (এ ব্যাপারে) অন্ধ?(৫) বুদ্ধিমানরাই শুধু উপদেশ গ্রহণ করে।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Zar je onaj koji zna da je istina ono što ti se objavljuje od Gospodara tvoga kao onaj koji je slijep?! A pouku primaju samo oni koji razum imaju,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Zar je onaj koji zna da je istina ono što ti se objavljuje od Gospodara tvoga kao onaj koji je slijep?! A pouku primaju samo oni koji razum imaju,
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Fulfulde · Fulani
E ko on gannduɗo won´de ko jippinaa ko e maaɗa immorde ka Joomi maa ko goonga, wa'ata wa on ɓumɗo? Anndu ko waajitotoo, ko joomiraaɓe-haqqillaaji ɓeen,
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ქართული · Georgian
განა ის, ვინც იცის, რომ შენთვის (ო, შუამავალო) შენი უფლისგან გამოცხადებული ჭეშმარიტებაა (და სჯერა მისი), იგივეა, რაც ის, ვინც ჭეშმარიტებისთვის ბრმაა [ვინც მას ვერ ხედავს და, შესაბამისად, არ სჯერა მისი]? მაგრამ მხოლოდ გონიერნი ისმენენ (გაფრთხილებებს),
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Deutsch · German
Ist etwa derjenige, der weiß, dass das, was zu dir von deinem Herrn (als Offenbarung) hinabgesandt worden ist, die Wahrheit ist, wie derjenige, der blind ist? Jedoch bedenken nur diejenigen, die Verstand besitzen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Είναι αυτός που γνωρίζει, ότι αυτό που σου στάλθηκε από τον Κύριό σου είναι η αλήθεια, ίσος μ' αυτόν που είναι τυφλός; Θα το λάβουν υπόψη (και ως νουθεσία) μόνο εκείνοι που έχουν (υγιή) μυαλά (για να το συλλογιστούν).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर क्या वह व्यक्ति जो जानता है कि जो कुछ आपके पालनहार की ओर से आपपर उतारा गया है, वही सत्य है, उस व्यक्ति के समान है, जो अंधा है? उपदेश तो बुद्धि और समझ वाले ही स्वीकार करते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Chi è consapevole che in verità ciò che ti è stato fatto scendere dal tuo Dio è la Verità, può essere paragonato al cieco? In verità a ricordarlo sono quelli che hanno intelletto,
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
19. Argi tada tas, kuris žino, kad tai, kas tavojo Viešpaties buvo atskleista tau (Muchammedai ﷺ ), yra tiesa, turėtų būti kaip tas, kuris yra aklas? Tačiau tik suvokiantys žmonės kreipia į tai dėmesį.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Sila namni wanti Gooftaa kee irraa gara keetti bu’e dhugaa ta’uu isaa beeku akka nama jaamaatii?(lakki walhinqixxaatan) kangorfamu warreen sammuu qaban qofa.
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Русский · Russian
Неужели тот, кто знает, что ниспосланное тебе от твоего Господа, — истина, подобен тому, кто слеп? Воистину, внимают напоминанию лишь обладатели разума,
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Српски · Serbian
Зар је онај који зна да је истина оно што ти се објављује од твога Господара као онај који је слеп?! А поуку примају само они који имају разум,
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Je, anayejua ya kwamba yale yaliyoteremshwa kwako kutoka kwa Mola wako Mlezi ni Haki ni sawa na aliye kipofu? Hakika wenye akili ya hali ya juu tu ndio wanaokumbuka.
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Svenska · Swedish
Kan den som vet att det som uppenbarats för dig från din Herre är sanningen, likställas med den som är blind? Endast de med förstånd tar till sig av förmaningen;
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Türkçe · Turkish
Rabbinden sana indirilenin hak olduğunu bilen kimse, (O'na iman etmeyen) kör kimse gibi midir? (Bunu) ancak akıl sahipleri anlar.
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اردو · Urdu
کیا وه ایک شخص جو یہ علم رکھتا ہو کہ آپ کی طرف آپ کے رب کی جانب سے جو اتارا گیا ہے وه حق ہے، اس شخص جیسا ہو سکتا ہے جو اندھا ہو[1] نصیحت تو وہی قبول کرتے ہیں جو عقلمند ہوں.[2]
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Talal Itani2012 He sends down water from the sky, and riverbeds flow according to their capacity. The current carries swelling froth. And from what they heat in fire of ornaments or utensils comes a similar froth. Thus God exemplifies truth and falsehood. As for the froth, it is swept away, but what benefits the people remains in the ground. Thus God presents the analogies.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He sendeth down water from the sky, so that valleys flow according to their measure, and the flood beareth (on its surface) swelling foam - from that which they smelt in the fire in order to make ornaments and tools riseth a foam like unto it - thus Allah coineth (the similitude of) the true and the false. Then, as for the foam, it passeth away as scum upon the banks, while, as for that which is of use to mankind, it remaineth in the earth. Thus Allah coineth the similitudes
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He sends down from the sky water, and the water-courses flow according to their bulk, and the torrent bears along the floating scum: and from what they set fire to, craving ornaments or utensils, comes a scum like that;- thus does God hit the truth and the falsehood;- and as for the scum it is thrown off, and as for what profits man it stays on the earth. Thus does God strike out parables
John Medows Rodwell1861 He sendeth down the rain from Heaven: then flow the torrents in their due measure, and the flood beareth along a swelling foam. And from the metals which are molten in the fire for the sake of ornaments or utensils, a like scum ariseth. In this way doth God depict (set forth) truth and falsehood. As to the foam, it is quickly gone: and as to what is useful to man, it remaineth on the earth. Thus doth God set forth comparisons
George Sale1734 He causeth water to descend from heaven, and the brooks flow according to their respective measure, and the floods bear the floating froth: And from the metals which they melt in the fire, seeking to cast ornaments or vessels for use, there ariseth a scum like unto it: Thus God setteth forth truth and vanity. But the scum is thrown off, and that which is useful to mankind remaineth on the earth. Thus doth God put forth parables
Talal Itani2012 For those who respond to their Lord is the best. But as for those who do not respond to Him, even if they possessed everything on earth, and twice as much, they could not redeem themselves with it. Those will have the worst reckoning; and their home is Hell-a miserable destination.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 For those who answered Allah's call is bliss; and for those who answered not His call, if they had all that is in the earth, and therewith the like thereof, they would proffer it as ransom. Such will have a woeful reckoning, and their habitation will be hell, a dire abode
Edward Henry Palmer1880 For those who respond to their Lord is good; but those who respond not to Him, had they all that is in the earth and the like thereof as well, they would give it for a ransom; these shall have an evil reckoning up! and their resort is hell,- an evil couch shall it be
John Medows Rodwell1861 To those who respond to their Lord shall be an excellent reward; but those who respond not to his call, had they all that the earth containeth twice over, they would surely give it for their ransom. Evil their reckoning! and Hell their home! And wretched the bed
George Sale1734 Unto those who obey their Lord, shall be given the most excellent reward: But those who obey Him not, although they were possessed of whatever is in the whole earth and as much more, they would give it all for their ransom. These will be brought to a terrible account: Their abode shall be hell; an unhappy couch shall it be
Talal Itani2012 And those who join what God has commanded to be joined, and fear their Lord, and dread the dire reckoning.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Such as unite that which Allah hath commandeth should be joined, and fear their Lord, and dread a woeful reckoning
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and those who attain what God has bidden to be attained, and dread their Lord and fear the evil reckoning up
John Medows Rodwell1861 And who join together what God hath bidden to be joined, and who fear their Lord, and dread an ill reckoning
George Sale1734 and who join that which God hath commanded to be joined, and who fear their Lord, and dread an ill account
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lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.68
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.51
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.50
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.49
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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.