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Talal Itani· published 2012
He has forbidden you carrion, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and anythingconsecrated to other than God. But if anyone is compelled by necessity, without being deliberate or malicious, then God is Forgiving and Merciful.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
He hath forbidden for you only carrion and blood and swineflesh and that which hath been immolated in the name of any other than Allah; but he who is driventhereto, neither craving nor transgressing, lo! then Allah is 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
He has only forbidden you that which dies of itself, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and that which is devoted to other than God; but he who is forced, neither revolting nor transgressing, it is no sin for him: verily, God is forgiving and merciful
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Forbidden to you is that only which dieth of itself, and blood, and swine's flesh, and that which hath been slain in the name of any other than God: but if any be forced, and neither lust for it nor wilfully transgress, then verily God is forgiving, gracious
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
He hath only forbidden you that which dieth of it self, and blood, and swine's flesh, and that which hath been slain in the name of any, besides God. But unto him who shall be compelled by necessity to eat of these things, not lusting nor wilfully transgressing, God will surely 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
Në të vërtetë, Ai jua ka ndaluar vetëm ngordhësirën, gjakun, mishin e derrit dhe atë që është therur jo në emër të Allahut. Por, nëse ndokush detyrohet të hajë diçka prej tyre, pa dashur të mëkatojë dhe pa i kaluar kufijtë, atëherë Allahu është 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
আল্লাহ তো তোমাদের ওপর হারাম করেছেন মৃত জন্তু, রক্ত, শূকরের গোশত এবং যে জন্তুর যবহকালে আল্লাহ ব্যতীত অন্য কারও নাম নেয়া হয়েছে। কিন্তু যে নিরুপায় হয়ে, অবাধ্য ও সীমালঙ্ঘনকারী না হয়ে; কারণ, আল্লাহ অতি ক্ষমাশীল, পরম দয়ালু।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
On vam zabranjuje jedino strv, i krv, i svinjsko meso, i onu stoku koja je zaklana u nečije drugo, a ne u Allahovo ime. A onom ko bude primoran, ali ne iz želje, samo toliko da utoli glad – pa Gospodar tvoj će, zaista, oprostiti i samilostan biti.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
On vam zabranjuje jedino strv, i krv, i svinjsko meso, i onu stoku koja je zaklana u nečije drugo, a ne u Allahovo ime. A onom tko bude primoran, ali ne iz želje, samo toliko da utoli glad – pa Gospodar tvoj će, zaista, oprostiti i samilostan biti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
nganndee ko o Harminani on, ko jiiba, e ƴiiƴam (rufaaɗam), e teewu kose, e [huunde hirsiraande] daginiraande ko woori Allah. Kala on duñaaɗo [e ñaamugol ɗuum] hara wonaa ɓewɗo wonaa jaggi- tuɗo,nganndee pellet, Allah ko jaatooɗo jurmotooɗo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
მან თქვენთვის აკრძალა მხოლოდ ლეში [ის ცხოველი, რომელიც მოკვდა და არაა დაკლული], და (ცხოველიდან გამოღვრილი) სისხლი, და ღორის ხორცი, და იმ ცხოველის ხორცი, (რომელიც) დაკლულია ალლაჰის გარდა სხვისთვის. ხოლო ვინც იძულებული გახდება (შიმშილის დროს, რათა არ მოკვდეს), სურვილისა და ზედმეტობის გარეშე [არ განიცდის სიამოვნებას და არ ნაყრდება], – მაშინ (ჭეშმარიტად) ალლაჰი მპატიობელი, შემწყალებელია!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Verboten hat Er euch nur (den Genuss von) Verendetem, Blut, Schweinefleisch und dem, worüber ein anderer (Name) als Allah(s) angerufen worden ist. Wer sich nun in einer Zwangslage befindet, ohne zu begehren oder das Maß zu überschreiten, für den ist es keine Sünde. Wahrlich, Allah ist 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
Στ’ αλήθεια, σας απαγόρεψε (να καταναλώνετε) μόνο τα νεκρά (ζώα και πουλιά που δε σφαγιάστηκαν σύμφωνα με τον Ισλαμικό τρόπο), το αίμα, τη σάρκα του χοίρου και οποιοδήποτε ζώο που κατά τη σφαγή του αναφέρθηκε το όνομα άλλου εκτός από του Αλλάχ. Όποιος όμως αναγκάστηκε (να καταναλώσει κάτι απ' αυτά, π.χ. επειδή χάθηκε στην έρημο και κόντεψε να πεθάνει), χωρίς να το καταναλώσει από επιθυμία, ούτε να υπερβεί (το όριο της αναγκαιότητας), τότε ο Αλλάχ είναι Γαφούρ (Αυτός που συγχωρεί τα πάντα) και Ραχείμ (Πολυεύσπλαχνος).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
अल्लाह ने तुमपर जो चीज़ें हराम की हैं, वे यह हैं - मुर्दार, (बहता) रक्त, सूअर का मांस तथा वह वस्तु जिसपर अल्लाह के सिवा किसी और का नाम पुकारा जाए।[53] फिर जो (इन वस्तुओं को खाने पर) विवश हो जाए, जबकि वह न (हराम के उपयोग की) इच्छा रखता हो और न आवश्यकता की सीमा से आगे[54] बढ़ रहा हो, तो उसपर कोई दोष नहीं। अल्लाह अति क्षमाशील, अत्यंत दयावान् है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Vi ha proibito in verità di mangiare la carogna, il sangue e la carne di maiale, oltre a ciò che è stato sacrificato all’infuori di Allāh. Chi vi è costretto, senza averne colpa o essere trasgressore, in verità sappia che Allāh è Perdonatore, Misericordioso.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
115. Jis uždraudė jums tik Al-Maita (mirusių gyvulių mėsą), kraują, kiaulės mėsą ir bet kokį gyvulį, paskerstą kaip auką kam nors kitam, nei Allahas (arba paskerstą stabams arba tokį, kurio skerdimo metu nebuvo paminėtas Allaho Vardas). Tačiau, jei jis verčiamas būtinybės, neturėdamas noro nepaklusti, ir neperžengdamas ribų – tada Allahas yra Dažnai Atleidžiantis, Gailestingiausiasis.
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Русский · Russian
Воистину, Он запретил вам лишь мертвечину, кровь, мясо свиньи и то, что заколото с именем не Аллаха. Кто же оказался вынужден, не желая этого и не преступая границ, — то воистину, Аллах — прощающий, милующий.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Он вам забрањује једино стрв, и крв, и свињско месо, и ону стоку која је заклана у нечије друго, а не у Аллахове име. А оном ко буде приморан, али не из жеље, него само толико да утоли глад – па Господар твој ће, заиста, да опрости и самилостан да буде.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Hakika amewaharimishia tu nyamafu, na damu, na nyama ya nguruwe, na mnyama aliyechinjwa kwa ajili ya asiyekuwa Mwenyezi Mungu. Lakini anayelazimishwa bila ya kuasi, wala kuvuka mipaka, basi hakika Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mwingi wa kusamehe, Mwingi wa kurehemu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Han har endast förbjudit er [kött av] självdöda djur, blod, svinkött och sådant som slaktats för andra än Gud. Men den som av nöd tvingas [bryta dessa förbud], utan avsikt att trotsa eller gå till överdrift, ska finna att Gud är 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
Allah size, ölmüş hayvanı-leşi, kanı, domuz etini, Allah'tan başkası adına kesilen hayvanı haram kıldı. Kim bu haram kılınan şeylerden yemeye mecbur kalırsa, helâl saymayarak, zarurî ihtiyaç sınırını aşmadan yiyebilir. Şüphesiz ki Allah çok bağışlayandır, çok merhamet edendir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
تم پر صرف مردار اور خون اور سور کا گوشت اور جس چیز پر اللہ کے سوا دوسرے کا نام پکارا جائے حرام ہیں[1] ، پھر اگر کوئی شخص بے بس کر دیا جائے نہ وه خواہشمند ہو اور نہ حد سے گزرنے واﻻ ہو تو یقیناً اللہ بخشنے واﻻ رحم کرنے واﻻ ہے.[2]
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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DIN 31635walaqad ǧāʾahum rasūlun minhum fakaḏḏabūhu faʾaḫaḏahumu l-ʿaḏābu wahum ẓālimūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 A messenger from among them had come to them, but they denounced him, so the punishment seized them in the midst of their wrongdoing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And verily there had come unto them a messenger from among them, but they had denied him, and so the torment seized them while they were wrong-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And there came to them an apostle from amongst themselves, but they called him a liar, and the torment seized them, while yet they were unjust
John Medows Rodwell1861 Moreover, an apostle of their own people came to them, and they treated him as an impostor. So chastisement overtook them because they were evil doers
George Sale1734 And now is an apostle come unto the inhabitants of Mecca from among themselves; and they accuse him of imposture: Wherefore a punishment shall be inflicted on them, while they are acting unjustly
Talal Itani2012 Eat of the lawful and good things God has provided for you, and be thankful for God's blessings, if it is Him that you serve.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 So eat of the lawful and good food which Allah hath provided for you, and thank the bounty of your Lord if it is Him ye serve
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Eat, then, from what God has provided you with, things lawful and good, and give thanks for the favours of God, if it be Him ye serve
John Medows Rodwell1861 Of what God hath supplied you eat the lawful and good, and be grateful for the favours of God, if ye are his worshippers
George Sale1734 Eat of what God hath given you for food, that which is lawful and good; and be thankful for the favours of God, if ye serve Him
Talal Itani2012 And do not say of falsehood asserted by your tongues, "This is lawful, and this is unlawful," in order to invent lies and attribute them to God. Those who invent lies and attribute them to God will not succeed.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And speak not, concerning that which your own tongues qualify (as clean or unclean), the falsehood: "This is lawful, and this is forbidden," so that ye invent a lie against Allah. Lo! those who invent a lie against Allah will not succeed
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And say not of the lie your tongues pronounce, 'This is lawful, and this is unlawful,' forging against God a lie; verily, those who forge against God a lie shall not prosper
John Medows Rodwell1861 And say not with a lie upon your tongue, "This is lawful and this is forbidden:" for so will ye invent a lie concerning God: but they who invent a lie of God shall not prosper
George Sale1734 And say not that wherein your tongues utter a lie; this is lawful, and this is unlawful; that ye may devise a lie concerning God: For they who devise a lie concerning God, shall not prosper
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.76
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.71
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.55
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.53
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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.