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Talal Itani· published 2012
God givesfirmness to those who believe, with the firm word, in this life, and in the Hereafter. And God leads the wicked astray. God does whatever He wills.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Allah confirmeth those who believe by a firm saying in the life of the world and in the Hereafter, and Allahsendeth wrong-doers astray. And Allahdoeth what He will
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
God answers those who believe with the sure word in this world's life and in the next; but God leads the wrong-doers astray; for God does what He will
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Those who believe shall God stablish by his steadfast word both in this life and in that which is to come: but the wicked shall He cause to err: God doth his pleasure
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
God shall confirm them who believe, by the stedfast word of faith, both in this life and in that which is to come: But God shall lead the wicked into error; for God doth that which He pleaseth
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
Allahu i forcon besimtarët me Fjalën e qëndrueshme, si në këtë jetë, ashtu dhe në botën tjetër, dhe Allahu i humb keqbërësit. Allahu bën çfarë të dojë.
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
আল্লাহ ঈমানদারদেরকে দুনিয়ার জীবনে ও আখিরাতে সুদৃঢ় বাণী (কালিমায় তায়্যিবাহ) দ্বারা অবিচল রাখেন। আর আল্লাহ যালিমদের পথভ্রষ্ট করেন। বস্তুত, আল্লাহ যা ইচ্ছা তা করেন।
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
Allah vjernike postojanom riječju učvršćuje u životu na ovome, a i na onome svijetu, a nepravedne u zabludu odvodi; Allah radi što hoće.
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
Allah vjernike postojanom riječju učvršćuje u životu na ovome, a i na onome svijetu, a nepravedne u zabludu odvodi; Allah radi što hoće.
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
Alla no tabintinira gooŋɗinɓe ɓeen konngol tabitungol, ka nguurandam aduna e ka laakara. Alla no majjina tooñooɓe ɓeen. Alla no waɗa ko o muuyi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ალლაჰი განამტკიცებს მორწმუნეებს მტკიცე სიტყვით [წმინდა სიტყვით: "არ არსებობს ღმერთი [თაყვანისცემის ღირსი] ალლაჰის გარდა და მუჰამმადი ალლაჰის შუამავალია"] ამქვეყნად და საიქიოში [სიკვდილისას და საფლავში ანგელოზების მიერ კითხვების დასმისას]. და ალლაჰი გზას აუბნევს უსამართლოებს, და ალლაჰი აკეთებს იმას, რაც ნებავს.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Allah festigt diejenigen (mit Standhaftigkeit), die glauben, durch das feste Wort im diesseitigen Leben und im Jenseits. Und Allah lässt die Ungerechten in die Irre gehen, und Allah tut, was Er will.
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
Ο Αλλάχ σταθεροποιεί τους πιστούς στον σταθερό Λόγο (λα ιλάχα ίλλα Αλλάχ -δεν υπάρχει άλλος θεός που αξίζει να λατρεύεται παρά μόνον ο Αλλάχ-) στην εγκόσμια ζωή και στη Μέλλουσα Ζωή. Ο Αλλάχ κάνει τους άδικους να παραστρατούν (μακριά από την καθοδήγηση), και ο Αλλάχ κάνει ό,τι θέλει.
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
अल्लाह ईमान लाने वालों को दृढ़ बात[12] के द्वारा दुनिया तथा आख़िरत में स्थिरता प्रदान करता है तथा अत्याचारियों को गुमराह कर देता है। और अल्लाह जो चाहता है, करता है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Rinsalda Allāh i credenti, nella vita terrena e nell’Aldilà, per mezzo della Parola irremovibile. E Allāh svia gli ingiusti, e Allāh in verità agisce come vuole.
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
27. Allahas sutvirtins tuos, kurie tiki, žodžiu, kuris tvirtas, šiame pasaulyje (t. y. jie garbins Allahą Vienintelį ir nieko kito), ir Amžinybėje. [1] Ir Allahas privers paklysti tuos, kurie yra Zalimūn (daugiadieviai ir nusidėjėliai), ir Allahas daro tai, ką Jis nori.
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
Warra amanan jecha gadi dhaabbataadhaan Rabbiin gadi (isaan) dhaaba. jireenya addunyaafi Aakhiraa keessattis. Rabbiin miidhaa hojjattoota ni jallisa. Rabbiin waan fedhe hojjata.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Аллах укрепляет тех, которые уверовали, твёрдым словом — в мирской жизни и в Последней, а несправедливых Аллах вводит в заблуждение. Аллах делает то, что пожелает.
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
Аллах учвршћује вернике постојаном речју у животу на овом свету, а и на Будућем свету, а незнанобошце одводи у заблуду; Аллах ради шта хоће.
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
Mwenyezi Mungu huwaimarisha wale walioamini kwa kauli ya imara katika uhai wa dunia na katika Akhera. Na Mwenyezi Mungu huwapoteza madhalimu. Na Mwenyezi Mungu hufanya apendavyo.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Gud befäster de troende med det fast förankrade ordet i detta liv och i det kommande. Och Gud leder de orättfärdiga vilse. Gud gör vad han vill.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Allah, iman edenleri hem dünya hayatında hem de ahirette sapasağlam bir söz ile sabit kılar, zalimleri ise saptırır. Ve Allah dilediğini yapar.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
ایمان والوں کو اللہ تعالیٰ پکی بات کے ساتھ مضبوط رکھتا ہے، دنیا کی زندگی میں بھی اور آخرت میں بھی[1] ، ہاں ناانصاف لوگوں کو اللہ بہکا دیتا ہے اور اللہ جو چاہے کر گزرے.
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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Talal Itani2012 It yields its fruits every season by the will of its Lord. God presents the parables to the people, so that they may reflect.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Giving its fruit at every season by permission of its Lord? Allah coineth the similitudes for mankind in order that they may reflect
Edward Henry Palmer1880 it gives its fruit at every season by the permission of its Lord - but God strikes out parables for men that haply they may be mindful
John Medows Rodwell1861 Yielding its fruit in all seasons by the will of its Lord. God setteth forth these similitudes to men that haply they may reflect
George Sale1734 which bringeth forth its fruit in all seasons, by the will of its Lord? God propoundeth parables unto men, that they may be instructed
Talal Itani2012 Have you not seen those who exchanged the blessing of God with blasphemy, and landed their people into the house of perdition?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Hast thou not seen those who gave the grace of Allah in exchange for thanklessness and led their people down to the Abode of Loss
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Dost not thou see those who have changed God's favours for misbelief, and have made their people to alight at the abode of perdition
John Medows Rodwell1861 Hast thou not beholden those who repay the goodness of God with infidelity, and sink their people into the abode of perdition
George Sale1734 Hast thou not considered those who have changed the grace of God to infidelity, and cause their people to descend into the house of perdition
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 —
0.67 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 Sale0.80
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.79
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.73
Talal Itani · George Sale0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.55
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.45
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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.