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Talal Itani· published 2012
God commands justice, and goodness, and generosity towards relatives. And He forbids immorality, and injustice, and oppression. He advises you, so that you may take heed.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Lo! Allah enjoineth justice and kindness, and giving to kinsfolk, and forbiddeth lewdness and abomination and wickedness. He exhorteth you in order that ye may take heed
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
Verily, God bids you do justice and good, and give to kindred (their due), and He forbids you to sin, and do wrong, and oppress; He admonishes you, haply ye may be mindful
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Verily, God enjoineth justice and the doing of good and gifts to kindred, and he forbiddeth wickedness and wrong and oppression. He warneth you that haply ye may be mindful
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Verily God commandeth justice, and the doing of good, and the giving unto kindred what shall be necessary; and He forbiddeth wickedness, and iniquity, and oppression: He admonisheth you that ye may remember
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
Me të vërtetë, Allahu urdhëron drejtësinë, mirësinë e ndihmën ndaj të afërmve dhe ndalon turpërinë, punët e këqija e padrejtësinë. Ai ju këshillon që të merrni mësim.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
নিশ্চয় আল্লাহ ইনসাফ(২৯), সদাচার(৩০) ও নিকট আত্মীয়দের দান করার আদেশ দেন এবং তিনি আশ্লীলতা, মন্দ কাজ ও সীমালঙ্ঘন থেকে নিষেধ করেন। তিনি তোমাদেরকে উপদেশ দেন, যাতে তোমরা শিক্ষা গ্রহণ করতে পারো।
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 zahtijeva da se svačije pravo poštuje, dobro čini, i da se bližnjima udjeljuje, a razvrat i sve što je odvratno i nasilje zabranjuje – da pouku primite, On vas savjetuje.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Allah zahtijeva da se svačije pravo poštuje, dobro čini, i da se bližnjima udjeljuje, a razvrat i sve što je odvratno i nasilje zabranjuje – da pouku primite, On vas savjetuje.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Tabitii Alla yamirii nuunɗal, e moƴƴingol, e moƴƴagol e joomiraaɓe ɓadondiral. homo haɗa gaay e pan-kare, e ko añinii, e bewre. homo waajoo on, mbeleejo'o, on mbaajitoray.
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ქართული · Georgian
ჭეშმარიტად, ალლაჰი მოგიწოდებთ სამართლიანობას, სიკეთესა და ქველმოქმედებას ახლობელთა მიმართ, და გიკრძალავთ მრუშობას, გასაკიცხ ქმედებასა და შურს, ის შეგაგონებთ თქვენ, რათა გახსოვდეთ (ალლაჰის ბრძანებები) (და შეასრულოთ ისინი)!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Wahrlich, Allah gebietet Gerechtigkeit, Gutes zu tun und den Verwandten zu geben; und Er verbietet das Schändliche, das Verwerfliche und die Gewalttätigkeit. Er ermahnt euch, auf dass ihr bedenken möget.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Στ’ αλήθεια, ο Αλλάχ διατάζει τη δικαιοσύνη, την καλοσύνη (και την τέλεση της λατρείας με τον καλύτερο τρόπο), και την τήρηση των δεσμών συγγένειας και των δικαιωμάτων των συγγενών, και απαγορεύει κάθε αισχρή πράξη, κάθε απαγορευμένη πράξη (στο Ισλάμ), και κάθε είδους καταπίεση. Σας νουθετεί, ίσως και να το λάβετε υπόψη.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
निःसंदेह अल्लाह न्याय और उपकार और निकटवर्तियों को देने का आदेश देता है और अश्लीलता और बुराई और सरकशी से रोकता है। वह तुम्हें नसीहत करता है, ताकि तुम नसीहत हासिल करो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
In verità Allh ordina la giustizia e la carità, e di fare del bene ai consanguinei, e dissuade dalla nefandezza, dall’atto riprovevole e dalla trasgressione. Lui vi avverte, così che ricordiate.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
90. Iš tiesų, Allahas įsako Al-Adl (t. y. teisingumą ir negarbinimą nieko kito, tik Allahą Vienintelį – islamiškąjį monoteizmą) ir Al-Ihsan [t. y. būti kantriems, atliekant savo pareigas Allahui, absoliučiai tik dėl Allaho ir pagal Pranašo ﷺ suną (teisines tradicijas) tobuliausiu būdu] ir (pagalbos) davimą pažįstamiems ir giminėms [5] (t. y. viso to, ką Allahas įsakė jums jiem suteikti, pvz. turtą, jų lankymą, jų priežiūrą ir globą bei bet kokią kitą pagalbą), ir draudžia Al-Fahša (t. y. visus blogus poelgius, pvz. neleistinus lytinius santykius, nepaklusnumą tėvams, daugiadievystę, melavimą, melagingus liudijimus, neteisėtą gyvybės atėmimą) ir Al-Munkar (t. y. viską, ką draudžia islamo teisė – visų rūšių daugiadievystę, netikėjimą ir visų rūšių blogus poelgius) ir Al-Baghi (t. y. visų rūšių priespaudą). Jis perspėja jus tam, kad būtumėte atidūs.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Воистину, Аллах повелевает справедливость, добродетельное отношение и одаривание близкого родственника, и запрещает мерзости, предосудительное и беззаконие. Он увещевает вас, — быть может, вы внемлете напоминанию.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Аллах, заиста, наређује правду, доброчинство и помагање ближњих, а разврат, све што је одвратно и насиље забрањује; Он вас саветује како бисте узели поуку.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Hakika Mwenyezi Mungu anaamrisha kufanya uadilifu, na hisani, na kuwapa jamaa, na anakataza uchafu, na uovu, na dhuluma. Anawaaidhi ili mpate kukumbuka.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Gud påbjuder rättvisa och godhet samt generositet mot närstående, och han förbjuder skamlösa handlingar, ondska och förtryck. Han förmanar er så att ni ska tänka efter och ta till er.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Şüphesiz Allah; adaleti, iyilik yapmayı, yakınlara yardım etmeyi emreder; hayâsızlığı, fenalık ve azgınlığı da yasaklar. O, düşünüp tutasınız diye size öğüt veriyor.
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اردو · Urdu
اللہ تعالیٰ عدل کا، بھلائی کا اور قرابت داروں کے ساتھ سلوک کرنے کا حکم دیتا ہے اور بےحیائی کے کاموں، ناشائستہ حرکتوں اور ﻇلم وزیادتی سے روکتا ہے[1] ، وه خود تمہیں نصیحتیں کر رہا ہے کہ تم نصیحت حاصل کرو.
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 Those who disbelieve and obstruct from God's path-We will add punishment to their punishment, on account of the mischief they used to make.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 For those who disbelieve and debar (men) from the way of Allah, We add doom to doom because they wrought corruption
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Those who misbelieve and turn folks off God's path, we will add torment to their torment, for that they were evildoers
John Medows Rodwell1861 As for those who were infidels and turned others aside from the way of God, to them we will add punishment on punishment for their corrupt doings
George Sale1734 As for those who shall have been infidels, and shall have turned aside others from the way of God, We will add unto them punishment upon punishment, because they have corrupted others
Talal Itani2012 On the Day when We raise in every community a witness against them, from among them, and bring you as a witness against these. We have revealed to you the Book, as an explanation of all things, and guidance, and mercy and good news for those who submit.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And (bethink you of) the day when We raise in every nation a witness against them of their own folk, and We bring thee (Muhammad) as a witness against these. And We reveal the Scripture unto thee as an exposition of all things, and a guidance and a mercy and good tidings for those who have surrendered (to Allah)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And on the day when we will raise up in every nation a witness against them from among themselves, and we will bring thee as a witness against these;- for we have sent down to thee a book explaining clearly everything, and a guidance, and a mercy, and glad tidings to the believers
John Medows Rodwell1861 And one day we will summon up in every people a witness against them from among themselves; and we will bring thee up as a witness against these Meccans: for to thee have we sent down the Book which cleareth up everything, a guidance, and mercy, and glad tidings to those who resign themselves to God (to Muslims)
George Sale1734 On a certain day We will raise up in every nation a witness against them, from among themselves; and We will bring thee, O Mohammed, as a witness against these Arabians. We have sent down unto thee the book of the Koran, for an explication of every thing necessary both as to faith and practice, and a direction, and mercy, and good tidings unto the Moslems
Talal Itani2012 Fulfill God's covenant when you make a covenant, and do not break your oaths after ratifying them. You have made God your guarantor, and God knows what you do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Fulfil the covenant of Allah when ye have covenanted, and break not your oaths after the asseveration of them, and after ye have made Allah surety over you. Lo! Allah knoweth what ye do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Fulfill God's covenant when ye have covenanted, and break not your oaths after asseverating them, for ye thereby make God your surety; verily, God knows what ye do
John Medows Rodwell1861 Be faithful in the covenant of God when ye have covenanted, and break not your oaths after ye have pledged them: for now have ye made God to stand surety for you. Verily, God hath knowledge of what ye do
George Sale1734 Perform your covenant with God, when ye enter into covenant with Him; and violate not your oaths, after the ratification thereof; since ye have made God a witness over you. Verily God knoweth that which ye do
Talal Itani2012 And do not be like her who unravels her yarn, breaking it into pieces, after she has spun it strongly. Nor use your oaths as means of deception among you, because one community is more prosperous than another. God is testing you thereby. On the Day of Resurrection, He will make clear to you everything you had disputed about.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And be not like unto her who unravelleth the thread, after she hath made it strong, to thin filaments, making your oaths a deceit between you because of a nation being more numerous than (another) nation. Allah only trieth you thereby, and He verily will explain to you on the Day of Resurrection that wherein ye differed
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And be not like her who unravels her yarn, fraying it out after she hath spun it close, by taking your oaths for mutual intrigue, because one nation is more numerous than another; God only tries you therewith, but He will make manifest to you on the resurrection day that whereon ye did dispute
John Medows Rodwell1861 And, because you are a more numerous people than some other people, be not like her who unravelleth the thread which she had strongly spun, by taking your oaths with mutual perfidy. God is making trial of you in this: and in the day of resurrection he will assuredly clear up to you that concerning which ye are now at variance
George Sale1734 And be not like unto her who undoeth that which she hath spun, untwisting it after she hath twisted it strongly; taking your oaths between you deceitfully, because one party is more numerous than another party. Verily God only tempteth you therein; and He will make that manifest unto you, on the day of resurrection, concerning which ye now disagree
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 —
0.72 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
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.82
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.81
Talal Itani · George Sale0.79
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.78
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.77
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.75
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.72
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.47
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sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
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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.