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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Thankful for His bounties; He chose him and He guided him unto a straight path
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
thankful for His favours; He chose him and He guided him unto the right way
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
He was also grateful for his benefits: Wherefore God chose him, and directed him into the right 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
Ishte mirënjohës ndaj dhuntive të Allahut. Ai e zgjodhi atë dhe e udhëzoi në rrugë të drejtë.
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বাংলা · Bengali
সে ছিল আল্লাহর নি‘আমতরাজির কৃতজ্ঞতা আদায়কারী। তিনি তাকে (নবুওয়াতের জন্য) বাছাই করেছেন এবং তাকে সরল-সঠিক পথে পরিচালিত করেছেন।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I bio je zahvalan na blagodatima Njegovim; On je njega izabrao i na Pravi put izveo.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I bio je zahvalan na blagodatima Njegovim; On je njega izabrao i na Pravi put izveo.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
jettatnooɗo dokke makko ɗin. [Alla] suɓike mo, O feewni mo e laawol poocciingol.
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ქართული · Georgian
მადლიერი მისი წყალობებისთვის; მან აირჩია იგი (რათა ყოფილიყო ერთ-ერთი მოციქულთაგანი) და დააგინა იგი სწორ გზაზე.
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Deutsch · German
dankbar (war er) für Seine Gunsterweisungen. Er hatte ihn erwählt und zu einem geraden Weg rechtgeleitet.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Ήταν ευγνώμων για τις χάρες Του (Αλλάχ). (Ο Αλλάχ) τον επέλεξε (ως Αγγελιαφόρο) και τον καθοδήγησε στον ίσιο δρόμο.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
वह उसके अनुग्रहों के प्रति आभार प्रकट करने वाले थे। उस (अल्लाह) ने उन्हें चुन लिया और सीधे रास्ते की ओर उनका मार्गदर्शन किया।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
ed essendo grato dei Suoi molteplici favori, fu prescelto e guidato ad una retta via.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
121. (Jis buvo) dėkingas už Jo (Allaho) Malones. Jis (Allahas) pasirinko jį (artimu draugu) ir vedė jį į Teisingą Kelią (islamiškąjį monotiezmą – nei judaizmą, nei krikščionybę [7]).
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Qananiiwwan Isaatiif galatoomfataa ture. (Rabbiin) isa filatee gara karaa sirrii isa qajeelche.
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Русский · Russian
[Он был] благодарным за Его дары. Он избрал его и наставил на прямой путь.
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Српски · Serbian
И био је захвалан на Његовим благодатима; њега је Аллах изабрао и на Прави пут упутио.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Mwenye kuzishukuru neema zake. Yeye alimteua, na akamwongoa kwenye njia iliyonyooka.
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Svenska · Swedish
Han visade alltid tacksamhet för [Guds] välsignelser. Ja, [Gud] valde ut honom och ledde honom på den rätta vägen.
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Türkçe · Turkish
O, (Allah’ın) nimetlerine şükredendi. Allah, onu seçmiş ve doğru yola iletmişti.
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اردو · Urdu
اللہ تعالیٰ کی نعمتوں کے شکر گزار تھے، اللہ نے انہیں اپنا برگزیده کر لیا تھا اور انہیں راه راست سجھا دی تھی.
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Easy-read (simplified)thumma inna rabbaka lilladheena 'amiloo s-soo'a bijahaalatin thumma taaboo min ba'di dhaalika wa'aslahoo inna rabbaka min ba'dihaa laghafoorun raheem
DIN 31635ṯumma ʾinna rabbaka lillaḏīna ʿamilū s-sūʾa biǧahālatin ṯumma tābū min baʿdi ḏālika waʾaṣlaḥū ʾinna rabbaka min baʿdihā laġafūrun raḥīmun
Talal Itani2012 But towards those who do wrongs in ignorance, and then repent afterwards and reform, your Lord thereafter is Forgiving and Merciful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then lo! thy Lord - for those who do evil in ignorance and afterward repent and amend - lo! (for them) thy Lord is afterward indeed Forgiving, Merciful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then, verily, thy Lord to those who have done evil in ignorance and then repented after that and done aright,- verily, thy Lord afterwards is forgiving and merciful
John Medows Rodwell1861 To those who have done evil in ignorance, then afterwards have repented and amended, verily thy Lord is in the end right gracious, merciful
George Sale1734 Moreover thy Lord will be favourable unto those who do evil through ignorance; and afterwards repent and amend: Verily unto these will thy Lord be gracious and merciful, after their repentance
Easy-read (simplified)thumma awhaynaa ilayka ani tabi' millata ibraaheema haneefan wamaa kaana mina l-mushrikeen
DIN 31635ṯumma ʾawḥaynā ʾilayka ʾani tabiʿ millata ʾibrāhīma ḥanīfan wamā kāna mina l-mušrikīna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Then We inspired you: "Follow the religion of Abraham, the Monotheist. He was not an idol-worshiper."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And afterward We inspired thee (Muhammad, saying): Follow the religion of Abraham, as one by nature upright. He was not of the idolaters
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then we inspired thee, 'Follow the faith of Abraham, a 'Hanif, for he was not of the idolaters
John Medows Rodwell1861 We have moreover revealed to thee that thou follow the religion of Abraham, the sound in faith. He was not of those who join gods with God
George Sale1734 We have also spoken unto thee, O Mohammed, by revelation, saying, follow the religion of Abraham, who was othodox, and was no idolater
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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
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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 Sale0.75
Talal Itani · George Sale0.75
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.57
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.47
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.44
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.40
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.27
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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.