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Talal Itani· published 2012
"My Lord, they have led many people astray. Whoever follows me belongs with me; and whoever disobeys me-You are Forgiving and Merciful.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
My Lord! Lo! they have led many of mankind astray. But whoso followeth me, he verily is of me. And whoso disobeyeth me - Still Thou art Forgiving, Merciful
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
My Lord, verily, they have led many men astray; but he who follows me, verily, he is of me; but he who rebels against me,- verily, thou art pardoning, merciful
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
For many men, O my Lord, have they led astray. But whosoever shall follow me, he truly shall be of me; and whosoever shall disobey me. . . . Thou truly art Gracious, Merciful
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
for they, O Lord, have seduced a greatnumber of men. Whoever therefore shall follow me, he shall be of me: And whosoever shall disobey me; verily thou wilt be gracious and merciful
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
Zoti im, ata çuan në humbje shumë njerëz! Kushdo që më ndjek mua, ai është prej meje, ndërsa për atë që më kundërshton, Ti je vërtet Falës i Madh e Mëshirëplotë.
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
‘হে আমার রব! নিশ্চয় এসব মূর্তি অনেক মানুষকে পথভ্রষ্ট করেছে।(১৫) সুতরাং যে ব্যক্তি (আল্লাহর তাওহীদ ও আনুগত্যের ক্ষেত্রে) আমার অনুসরণ করবে, নিশ্চয় সে আমার দলভুক্ত, আর যে (আল্লাহর তাওহীদ ও আনুগত্যের ক্ষেত্রে) আমার বিরুদ্ধাচরণ করবে, তবে নিশ্চয় আপনি ক্ষমাশীল, পরম দয়ালু।’
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Oni su, Gospodaru moj, mnoge ljude na stranputicu naveli. Onaj ko bude mene slijedio – moje je vjere, a onaj ko bude protiv mene ustajao, pa – Ti si, uistinu, Onaj Koji oprašta grijehe i milostiv si.
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
Oni su, Gospodaru moj, mnoge ljude na stranputicu naveli. Onaj tko bude mene slijedio – moje je vjere, a onaj tko bude protiv mene ustajao, pa – Ti si, uistinu, Onaj Koji oprašta grijehe i milostiv si.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Joomi am, kañji (sanamuuji ɗiin), ɗi majjinii ko ɗuuɗi e yimɓe ɓen. Kala jokkuɗo kam, oon ɗoon ko jeyidaaɗo e am. Kala noon jedduɗo kam, haray Aan ko A jaafotooɗo, jurmotooɗo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
უფალო! ჭეშმარიტად, მათ [კერპებმა] ბევრი ადამიანი აცდუნეს, ხოლო ვინც ჩემს გზას მიჰყვება, ნამვილად ის ჩემგანია. ხოლო ვინც მე არ მემორჩილება (მიუხედავად იმისა, რომ მორწმუნეა)... მაშინ უეჭველად, შენ ხომ მიმტევებელი (და) მოწყალე ხარ!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Mein Herr, sie haben ja viele von den Menschen in die Irre geführt. Wer mir nun folgt, der gehört fürwahr zu mir; und wer sich mir widersetzt, so bist Du ja allvergebend und barmherzig.
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
Κύριέ μου! Πράγματι, αυτά (τα είδωλα) παραπλάνησαν πολλούς ανθρώπους [που νόμιζαν ότι τα αγάλματα που έφτιαξαν για τους αποθανόντες ενάρετους θα είναι οι διαμεσολαβητές τους προς τον Αλλάχ, αλλά με τον πάροδο του χρόνου, τα λάτρευαν]. Όποιος λοιπόν με ακολουθεί, είναι από μένα (δηλ. από τους οπαδούς μου). Αλλά όποιος με παρακούει, τότε πράγματι, Εσύ είσαι (για όποιους θέλεις) Γαφούρ (Αυτός που συγχωρεί τα πάντα) και Ραχείμ (Πολυεύσπλαχνος).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
ऐ मेरे पालनहार! निःसंदेह इन्होंने बहुत-से लोगों को गुमराह कर दिया। अतः जो मेरे पीछे चला, वह मुझसे है और जिसने मेरी अवज्ञा की, तो निश्चय तू अत्यंत क्षमाशील, बड़ा दयावान् है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Dio mio, in verità loro hanno sviato molta gente! Chi mi seguirà sarà dei miei, e chi si opporrà, in verità sei Perdonatore, Misericordioso.
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
36. Mano Viešpatie, jie tikrai paklaidino daugybę iš žmonijos. Tačiau tas, kas seka manimi, tikrai yra iš mano tarpo. Ir kas nepaklūsta man, vis tiek Tu esi tikrai Dažnai Atleidžiantis, Gailestingiausiasis.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Gooftaa kiyya! isaan nama hedduu jallisanii jiru; Namni na hordofe, inni anarraayyi. Nama na dide Ati araaramaa, rahmata godhaadha.
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
Господь мой! Воистину, они ввели в заблуждение многих людей. А кто последует за мной, тот — из моих. А кто ослушается меня, то, воистину, Ты — прощающий, милующий.
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
Они су, мој Господару, многе људе на странпутицу навели. Онај ко буде мене следио - моје је вере, а онај ко буде против мене устајао, па - Ти си, уистину, Онај Који опрашта грехе и милостив си.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Ewe Mola wangu Mlezi! Hakika hayo yamewapoteza wengi wa watu. Basi aliyenifuata mimi, huyo hakika ni miongoni mwangu. Na aliyeniasi, hakika Wewe ni Mwingi wa kusamehe, Mwingi wa kurehemu.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Herre! Dessa [avgudabilder] har verkligen lett många människor vilse. Den som följer mig är min [trosfrände], men om någon trotsar mig, är du förvisso ständigt förlåtande, barmhärtig.
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
“Rabbim! Çünkü o putlar insanlardan birçoğunu saptırdılar. Artık kim bana uyarsa, o bendendir. Kim de bana karşı gelirse, şüphesiz sen çok bağışlayan, çok merhamet edensin.''
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اے میرے پالنے والے معبود! انہوں نے بہت سے لوگوں کو راه سے بھٹکا دیا ہے[1] ۔ پس میری تابعداری کرنے واﻻ میرا ہے اور جو میری نافرمانی کرے تو تو بہت ہی معاف اور کرم کرنے واﻻ ہے.
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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Easy-read (simplified)wa'aataakum min kulli maa sa'altumoohu wa'in ta'uddoo ni'mata llaahi laa tuhsoohaa inna l-'insaana lazaloomun kaffaar
DIN 31635waʾātākum min kulli mā saʾaltumūhu waʾin taʿuddū niʿmata llāhi lā tuḥṣūhā ʾinna l-ʾinsāna laẓalūmun kaffārun
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Talal Itani2012 And He has given you something of all what you asked. And if you were to count God's blessings, you would not be able to enumerate them. The human being is unfair and ungrateful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And He giveth you of all ye ask of Him, and if ye would count the bounty of Allah ye cannot reckon it. Lo! man is verily a wrong-doer, an ingrate
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and brought you of everything ye asked Him: but if ye try to number God's favours, ye cannot count them;- verily, man is very unjust and ungrateful
John Medows Rodwell1861 of everything which ye ask Him, giveth He to you; and if ye would reckon up the favours of God, ye cannot count them! Surely man is unjust, ungrateful
George Sale1734 He giveth you of every thing which ye ask him; and of ye attempt to reckon up the favours of God, ye shall not be able to compute the same. Surely man is unjust and ungrateful
Talal Itani2012 Recall that Abraham said, "O my Lord, make this land peaceful, and keep me and my sons from worshiping idols."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when Abraham said: My Lord! Make safe this territory, and preserve me and my sons from serving idols
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when Abraham said, 'My Lord, make this land safe, and turn me and my sons away from serving idols
John Medows Rodwell1861 ABRAHAM said, "O Lord make this land secure, and turn aside me and my children from serving idols
George Sale1734 Remember when Abraham said, O Lord, make this land a place of security; and grant that I and my children may avoid the worship of idols
Easy-read (simplified)rabbanaa innee askantu min dhurriyyatee biwaadin ghayri dhee zar'in 'inda baytika l-muharrami rabbanaa liyuqeemoo s-salaata faj'al af'idatan mina n-naasi tahwee ilayhim warzuqhum mina th-thamaraati la'allahum yashkuroon
DIN 31635rabbanā ʾinnī ʾaskantu min ḏurriyyatī biwādin ġayri ḏī zarʿin ʿinda baytika l-muḥarrami rabbanā liyuqīmū ṣ-ṣalāta faǧʿal ʾafʾidatan mina n-nāsi tahwī ʾilayhim warzuqhum mina ṯ-ṯamarāti laʿallahum yaškurūna
Talal Itani2012 "Our Lord, I have settled some of my offspring in a valley of no vegetation, by Your Sacred House, our Lord, so that they may perform the prayers. So make the hearts of some people incline towards them, and provide them with fruits, that they may be thankful."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Our Lord! Lo! I have settled some of my posterity in an uncultivable valley near unto Thy holy House, our Lord! that they may establish proper worship; so incline some hearts of men that they may yearn toward them, and provide Thou them with fruits in order that they may be thankful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O our Lord! verily, I have made some of my seed dwell in a valley without corn, by thy Sacred House. O our Lord! let them be steadfast in prayer and make the hearts of men yearn towards them, and provide them with fruits, haply they may give thanks
John Medows Rodwell1861 O our Lord! verily I have settled some of my offspring in an unfruitful valley, nigh to thy holy house; O our Lord, that they may strictly observe prayer! Make thou therefore the hearts of men to yearn toward them, and supply them with fruits that they may be thankful
George Sale1734 O Lord, I have caused some of my offspring to settle in an unfruitful valley, near thy holy house, O Lord, that they may be constant at prayer. Grant, therefore, that the hearts of some men may be affected with kindness towards them; and do thou bestow on them all sorts of fruits; that they may give thanks
Easy-read (simplified)rabbanaa innaka ta'lamu maa nukhfee wamaa nu'linu wamaa yakhfaa 'alaa llaahi min shay'in fee l-'ardi walaa fee s-samaa'
DIN 31635rabbanā ʾinnaka taʿlamu mā nuḫfī wamā nuʿlinu wamā yaḫfā ʿalā llāhi min šayʾin fī l-ʾarḍi walā fī s-samāʾi
Talal Itani2012 "Our Lord, You know what we conceal and what we reveal. And nothing is hidden from God, on earth or in the heaven."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Our Lord! Lo! Thou knowest that which we hide and that which we proclaim. Nothing in the earth or in the heaven is hidden from Allah
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O our Lord! verily, Thou knowest what we hide and what we publish; for naught is hid from God in the earth or in the sky
John Medows Rodwell1861 O our Lord! thou truly knowest what we hide and what we bring to light; nought on earth or in heaven is hidden from God
George Sale1734 O Lord, thou knowest whatsoever we conceal, and whatsoever we publish; for nothing is hidden from God, either on earth, or in heaven
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 —
0.64 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 Sale0.82
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.75
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.74
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.68
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.47
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.