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Talal Itani· published 2012
Alif, Lam, Ra. A Scripture that We revealed to you, that you may bring humanity from darkness to light-with the permission of their Lord-to the path of the Almighty, the Praiseworthy.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Alif. Lam. Ra. (This is) a Scripture which We have revealed unto thee (Muhammad) that thereby thou mayst bring forth mankind from darkness unto light, by the permission of their Lord, unto the path of the Mighty, the Owner of Praise
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
A. L. M. A book which we have sent down to thee, to bring men forth from darkness into light, by permission of their Lord, unto the way of the mighty and praiseworthy one
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
ELIF. LAM. RA. This Book have we sent down to thee that by their Lord's permission thou mayest bring men out of darkness into light, into the path of the Mighty, the Glorious
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
AL. R. This book have We sent down unto thee, that thou mayest lead men forth from darkness into light, by the permission of their Lord, into the glorious and laudable way
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
Elif, lam, ra.[1] Këtë Libër ta zbritëm ty, që t'i nxjerrësh njerëzit nga errësirat në dritë, me lejen e Zotit të tyre, në rrugën e të Gjithëfuqishmit, të Lavdëruarit,
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বাংলা · Bengali
আলিফ-লাম-রা।(১) এই কিতাব, যা আমি তোমার প্রতি নাযিল করেছি, যাতে তুমি মানুষকে তাদের রবের অনুমতিক্রমে অন্ধকার (কুফরী) থেকে আলোর (ঈমানের) দিকে, পরাক্রমশালী সর্বপ্রশংসিত আল্লাহর পথে বের করে আনতে পারো।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Elif-lām-Ra. [1] Ovo je knjiga koju ti objavljujemo da ljude, dozvolom njihova Gospodara, izvedeš iz tmina na svjetlo, na put Silnoga i Hvaljenoga
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Elif-Lām-Ra.[1] Ovo je knjiga koju ti objavljujemo da ljude dozvolom njihova Gospodara izvedeš iz tmina na svjetlo, na put Silnoga i Hvaljenoga
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Alif, Laam, Raa.[1] (Ndee ko) deftere nde min njppini e maaɗa, fii yo yaltinir yimɓe ɓeen e niɓe faade e annoora, e duŋayee Joomi maɓɓe, haa e laawol pooluɗo, jettiniiɗo.
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ქართული · Georgian
ალიფ. ლამ. რა [1] წიგნი [ყურანი], რომელიც ჩვენ შენ გარდმოგივლინეთ (ო, შუამავალო), რათა ხალხი გამოიყვანო სიბნელიდან (უცოდინრობა და ურწმუნოება) ნათელში (ჭეშმარიტება და რწმენა) მათი უფლის ნებით, ყოვლად დიდებულის და საქებარის გზისკენ,
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Deutsch · German
Alif-Lam-Ra. [1] (Dies ist) ein Buch, das Wir zu dir hinabgesandt haben, damit du die Menschen mit der Erlaubnis ihres Herrn aus den Finsternissen ins Licht hinausführst, auf den Weg des Allmächtigen und Lobenswürdigen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Α, Λ, Ρ [Άλιφ-Λαμ-Ρα’, τρία ξεχωριστά αραβικά γράμματα που δε συνθέτουν καμία λέξη, αλλά έχουν σημασία, καθώς δεν υπάρχει τίποτα στο Κορ’άν που δεν έχει σημασία. Μόνο ο Αλλάχ γνωρίζει τη σημασία τους. Μπορεί να είναι μια ένδειξη ότι το Κορ’άν αποτελείται από αραβικά γράμματα τα οποία ξέρουν και μιλούν οι Άραβες, και έτσι ο Αλλάχ τους προκάλεσε και προκαλεί οποιονδήποτε άλλον που αμφιβάλλει για το Κορ’άν, να παρουσιάσει οποιοδήποτε παρόμοιο βιβλίο]. Αυτό είναι ένα Βιβλίο που σου στείλαμε (ω, Προφήτη), για να βγάλεις τους ανθρώπους από τα βάθη του σκότους στο φως, με την άδεια του Κυρίου τους, στο μονοπάτι του Αλ-‘Αζείζ (Ανίκητος, Παντοδύναμος), του Αλ-Χαμείντ (Άξιος κάθε επαίνου).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
अलिफ़॰ लाम॰ रा॰। (यह क़ुरआन) एक पुस्तक है, जिसे हमने आपकी ओर अवतरित किया है; ताकि आप लोगों को, उनके पालनहार की अनुमति से, अंधेरों से निकालकर प्रकाश की ओर ले आएँ, उस (अल्लाह) के रास्ते की ओर जो सब पर प्रभुत्वशाली, असीम प्रशंसा वाला है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
Ælif, Lǣ-ǣm, Rā ﴿الٓر﴾: Libro che abbiamo fatto scendere su di te, per far uscire la gente dall’oscurità alla luce, col permesso del loro Dio, verso il sentiero del Potente, il Lodevole,
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
1. Alif, Lam, Ra. [Šios raidės yra vienas iš Korano stebuklų, ir niekas kitas, tik Allahas (Vienintelis) žino jų reikšmę]. (Tai yra) Knyga, kurią Mes apreiškėme tau (Muchammedai ﷺ ), kad tu galėtum išvesti žmoniją iš (netikėjimo ir daugiadievystės) tamsos į (tikėjimo Allaho Vienumą ir islamiškąjį monoteizmą) šviesą jų Viešpaties Leidimu į Visagalio, visos Šlovės Savininko Kelią.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Alif Laam Raa (Inni) kitaaba gara keetti isa buufneedha. akka ati nama hayyama Gooftaa isaanitiin dukkana (kufrii) irraa gara ifaa (Islaamaa), gara karaa (Rabbii) injifataa, faarfamaa ta’ee baaftuuf. [1]
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Русский · Russian
Алиф. Лям. Ра. [Это] — Писание, которое Мы ниспослали тебе, чтобы ты вывел людей из тьмы к свету, с дозволения их Господа — на путь Могущественного, Достохвального,
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Српски · Serbian
Елиф-лам-ра.[1] Ово је књига коју ти објављујемо да људе дозволом њиховог Господара изведеш из тмина на светло, на пут Силнога и Хваљенога
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Alif Laam Raa.[1] Hiki ni Kitabu tulichokuteremshia ili uwatoe watu kwenye giza mbalimbali uwapeleke kwenye mwangaza, kwa idhini ya Mola wao Mlezi, uwafikishe kwenye Njia ya Mwenye nguvu, Msifika.
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Svenska · Swedish
Alif Lām Rā.[1] Detta är en skrift som vi har uppenbarat för dig för att du ska leda människorna från mörker till ljus, enligt deras Herres vilja; till den Allsmäktige, den Lovprisades väg,
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Türkçe · Turkish
Elif, Lâm, Râ.[1] Bu, Rabbinin izniyle insanları karanlıklardan nura, O güçlü ve övgüye layık olanın yoluna çıkarmak için sana indirdiğimiz bir kitaptır.
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اردو · Urdu
الرٰ! یہ عالی شان کتاب ہم نے آپ کی طرف اتاری ہے کہ آپ لوگوں کو اندھیروں سے اجالے کی طرف ﻻئیں[1] ، ان کے پروردگار کے حکم[2] سے، زبردست اور تعریفوں والے اللہ کی طرف.
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Easy-read (simplified)allaahi lladhee lahu maa fee s-samaawaati wamaa fee l-'ardi wawaylun lilkaafireena min 'adhaabin shadeed
DIN 31635allāhi llaḏī lahu mā fī s-samāwāti wamā fī l-ʾarḍi wawaylun lilkāfirīna min ʿaḏābin šadīdin
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 God-to whom belongs what is in the heavens and the earth. And woe to the disbelievers from a severe torment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah, unto Whom belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. and woe unto the disbelievers from an awful doom
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God is He whose is whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. Alas for the misbelievers, for their torment is keen
John Medows Rodwell1861 Of God; to whom belongeth whatever is in the Heavens and whatever is on the Earth: and woe! for their terrible punishment, to the infidels
George Sale1734 God is He unto whom belongeth whatsoever is in heaven and on earth: And woe be to the infidels, because a grievous punishment waiteth them
Talal Itani2012 Those who prefer the present life to the Hereafter, and repel from the path of God, and seek to make it crooked-these are far astray.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those who love the life of the world more than the Hereafter, and debar (men) from the way of Allah and would have it crooked: such are far astray
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Who love this world's life better than the next, and turn folks from the path of God, and crave to make it crooked; these are in remote error
John Medows Rodwell1861 Who love the life that now is, above that which is to come, and mislead from the way of God, and seek to make it crooked. These are in a far-gone error
George Sale1734 who love the present life above that which is to come, and turn men aside from the way of God, and seek to render it crooked: These are in an error far distant from the truth
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 —
0.59 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
Talal Itani · George Sale0.77
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.54
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.46
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.40
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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.