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Talal Itani· published 2012
Say, "The Holy Spirit has brought it down from your Lord, truthfully, in order to stabilize those who believe, and as guidance and good news for those who submit."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Say: The holy Spirit hath delivered it from thy Lord with truth, that it may confirm (the faith of) those who believe, and as guidance and good tidings for those who have surrendered (to Allah)
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
Say, 'The Holy Spirit brought it down from thy Lord in truth, to stablish those who believe, and for a guidance and glad tidings to those who are resigned
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
SAY: The Holy Spirit hath brought it down with truth from thy Lord, that He may stablish those who have believed, and as guidance and glad tidings to the Muslims
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Say, the holy spirit hath brought the same down from thy Lord with truth; that He may confirm those who believe, and for a direction and good tidings unto the Moslems
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
Thuaju: "Atë (Kuranin) e zbriti Shpirti i Dëlirë (Xhibrili) nga Zoti yt, me të vërtetën, për t'i forcuar ata që besojnë dhe si udhërrëfyes e përgëzim për muslimanët."
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 রাসূল! তুমি তাদেরকে) বলো: ‘রূহুল কুদুস (জিবরীল) একে তোমার রবের পক্ষ হতে যথাযথভাবে নাযিল করেছেন, যারা ঈমান এনেছে তাদেরকে (ঈমানের ওপর) সুদৃঢ় করার জন্যে, উপরন্তু এটি (তাদের জন্যে) হিদায়াত ও মুসলিমদের জন্যে সুসংবাদস্বরূপ।
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
Reci: “Od Gospodara tvog objavljuje ga melek Džibril kao istinu, da još više učvrsti vjernike u vjerovanju, i da bude putokaz i radosna vijest svim muslimanima.”
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
Reci: “Od Gospodara tvog objavljuje ga anđeo Gabrijel kao istinu, da još više učvrsti vjernike u vjerovanju, i da bude putokaz i radosna vijest svim muslimanima.”
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
Maaku: "Ko jippini ndee, ko [Jibriilu] Fittaanndu Laaɓndu ndun, immorde ka Joomi maa, fii yo o tabintin ɓeen gooŋɗinɓe, e [fii yo nde won] peewal, e welo-welo wonan´de juulɓe ɓeen".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
უთხარი: «ჩამოავლინა იგი წმინდა სულმა შენი უფლისგან ჭეშმარიტებით, მორწმუნეთა განსამტკიცებლად, ხელმძღვანელობად და სამახარობლოდ მუსლიმთათვის».
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
Sag: „Hinabgesandt (und offenbart) hat ihn der Heilige Geist von deinem Herrn mit der Wahrheit, um diejenigen, die glauben, zu festigen, und als Rechtleitung und frohe Botschaft für die (Allah ergebenen) Muslime.“
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
Πες (ω, Μωχάμμαντ στους άπιστους) ότι (αυτό το Κορ’άν δεν το επινόησες και μετά το απέδωσες στον Αλλάχ, όπως ισχυρίζονται ψευδώς, αλλά) το έφερε το άγιο πνεύμα (ο Άγγελος Γαβριήλ) από τον Κύριό σου με την αλήθεια, για να σταθεροποιήσει τους πιστούς (στην πίστη τους) και ως καθοδήγηση και χαρμόσυνα νέα για τους Μουσουλμάνους.
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
आप कह दें कि इसे रूह़ुल क़ुदुस[45] ने आपके पालनहार की ओर से सत्य के साथ थोड़ा-थोड़ा करके उतारा है। ताकि उन लोगों के पाँव जमा दे, जो ईमान लाए। तथा आज्ञाकारियों के लिए मार्गदर्शन और शुभ सूचना हो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Di’: «L’ha fatto scendere l’Angelo Jibrīl (lo spirito santo) dal tuo Dio con la Verità, per rafforzare quelli che hanno creduto e come Guida e Buon Annuncio per i musulmani.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
102. Sakyk (Muchammedai ﷺ ) Ruh-ul-Kudūs [Džibrylis (Gabrielius)] atnešė jį (Koraną) iš jūsų Viešpaties su tiesa, kad jis sutvirtintų ir sustiprintų tuos, kurie tiki (t. y. jų Tikėjimą), ir kaip teisingą vedimą ir gerą žinią tiems, kurie nusižemino (Allahui kaip musulmonai).
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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.
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Русский · Russian
Скажи: «Низвёл его Святой Дух от твоего Господа с истиной — чтобы укрепить тех, кто уверовал, и как руководство и благую весть для мусульман».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Реци: „Од твог Господара спушта га анђео Гаврило као истину, да још више учврсти вернике, и да буде упута и радосна вест онима који су Аллаху предани.“
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
Sema: Ameiteremsha Roho Mtakatifu kutoka kwa Mola wako Mlezi kwa haki, ili iwaimarishe wale walioamini, na kuwa ni uongofu, na bishara kwa Waislamu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Säg: ”Helighetens ande har förmedlat [Koranen] från din Herre med sanningen, för att stärka de troende, och som vägledning och glädjebud för muslimerna.”
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Türkçe · Turkish
Ey Muhammed! De ki: ''Rûhu’l-Kudüs (Cebrâîl), iman edenleri sağlamlaştırmak, Müslümanlara doğru yolu göstermek ve onlara bir müjde olmak üzere Kur’an’ı Rabbinden hak olarak indirdi.''
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اردو · Urdu
کہہ دیجئے کہ اسے آپ کے رب کی طرف سے جبرائیل حق کے ساتھ لے کر آئے ہیں[1] تاکہ ایمان والوں کو اللہ تعالیٰ استقامت عطا فرمائے[2] اور مسلمانوں کی رہنمائی اور بشارت ہو جائے.[3]
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.
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DIN 31635waʾiḏā baddalnā ʾāyatan makāna ʾāyatin wallāhu ʾaʿlamu bimā yunazzilu qālū ʾinnamā ʾanta muftarin bal ʾakṯaruhum lā yaʿlamūna
Talal Itani2012 When We substitute a verse in place of another verse-and God knows best what He reveals-they say, "You are an impostor." But most of them do not know.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when We put a revelation in place of (another) revelation, - and Allah knoweth best what He revealeth - they say: Lo! thou art but inventing. Most of them know not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And whenever we change one verse for another,- God knows best what He sends down. They say, 'Thou art but a forger!' - Nay, most of them do not know
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when we change one (sign) verse for another, and God knoweth best what He revealeth, they say, "Thou art only a fabricator." Nay! but most of them have no knowledge
George Sale1734 When We substitute in the Koran an abrogating verse in lieu of a verse abrogated, -- and God best knoweth the fitness of that which He revealeth, -- the infidels say, thou art only a forger of these verses: But the greater part of them know not truth from falsehood
Talal Itani2012 We are well aware that they say, "It is a human being who is teaching him." But the tongue of him they allude to is foreign, while this is a clear Arabic tongue.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And We know well that they say: Only a man teacheth him. The speech of him at whom they falsely hint is outlandish, and this is clear Arabic speech
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We knew that they said, 'It is only some mortal who teaches him.' - The tongue of him they lean towards is barbarous, and this is plain Arabic
John Medows Rodwell1861 We also know that they say, "Surely a certain person teacheth him." But the tongue of him at whom they hint is foreign, while this Koran is in the plain Arabic
George Sale1734 We also know that they say, verily, a certain man teacheth him to compose the Koran. The tongue of the person unto whom they incline, is a foreign tongue; but this, wherein the Koran is written, is the perspicuous Arabic tongue
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 —
0.54 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 Sale0.65
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.57
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.54
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.49
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.47
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.43
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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.