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Talal Itani· published 2012
When you read the Quran, seek refuge with God from Satan the outcast.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And when thou recitest the Qur'an, seek refuge in Allah from Satan the outcast
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
When thou dost read the Qur'an, ask refuge with God from Satan the pelted one
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
When thou readest the Koran, have recourse unto God, that He may preserve thee from Satan drivenaway with stones
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
Kur dëshiron të lexosh Kuranin, lute Allahun të të mbrojë nga shejtani i mallkuar!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
সুতরাং (হে মু’মিন!) যখন তুমি আল-কুরআন তিলাওয়াত করবে, তখন আল্লাহর কাছে বিতাড়িত (অভিশপ্ত) শয়তান হতে আশ্রয় চাও।
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
Kad hoćeš učiti Kur’an, zatraži od Allaha zaštitu od šejtana prokletog,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Kad hoćeš učiti Kuran, zatraži od Allaha zaštitu od vraga prokletoga,
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Si a janngay Alqur'aana, moolor Alla seytaane diiwaaɗo on.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და როცა წაიკითხავ ყურანს შეეფარე ალლაჰს ქვით ჩაქოლილი სატანისგან [მისი ბოროტებისგან].
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Wenn du nun den Quran vorträgst (und liest), dann suche Zuflucht bei Allah vor dem gesteinigten Satan.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Όταν θα διαβάζεις (ω, πιστέ) το Κορ’άν, αναζήτα (πρώτα) καταφύγιο στον Αλλάχ από τον καταραμένο Σατανά (και τους ψιθύρους του).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
अतः जब तुम क़ुरआन पढ़ने लगो, तो धिक्कारे हुए शैतान से अल्लाह की शरण[44] माँग लिया करो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Se leggi il Corano, rifugiati presso Allāh da Satana il lapidato!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
98. Taigi, kai nori recituoti Koraną, prašyk Allaho prieglobsčio nuo Šaitan (Šėtono), atstumtojo (prakeiktojo).
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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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Когда ты читаешь Коран, прибегай к защите Аллаха от изгнанного шайтана.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Када будеш хтео да учиш Кур'ан, затражи Аллахову заштиту од проклетог ђавола,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na unaposoma Qur-ani, mwombe Mwenyezi Mungu akulinde kutokana na Shetani aliyelaaniwa.
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Svenska · Swedish
Innan du börjar läsa Koranen, sök då skydd hos Gud från den förkastade Satan.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
قرآن پڑھنے کے وقت راندے ہوئے شیطان سے اللہ کی پناه طلب کرو.[1]
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5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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Talal Itani2012 What you have runs out, but what is with God remains. We will reward those who are patient according to the best of their deeds.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That which ye have wasteth away, and that which Allah hath remaineth. And verily We shall pay those who are steadfast a recompense in proportion to the best of what they used to do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 What ye have is spent, but what God has endures; and we will recompense the patient with their hire for the best deeds they have done
John Medows Rodwell1861 All that is with you passeth away, but that which is with God abideth. With a reward meet for their best deeds will we surely recompense those who have patiently endured
George Sale1734 That which is with you will fail; but that which is with God is permanent: And We will surely reward those who shall persevere, according to the utmost merit of their actions
Easy-read (simplified)man 'amila saalihan min dhakarin aw unthaa wahuwa mu'minun falanuhyiyannahu hayaatan tayyibatan walanajziyannahum ajrahum bi'ahsani maa kaanoo ya'maloon
DIN 31635man ʿamila ṣāliḥan min ḏakarin ʾaw ʾunṯā wahuwa muʾminun falanuḥyiyannahu ḥayātan ṭayyibatan walanaǧziyannahum ʾaǧrahum biʾaḥsani mā kānū yaʿmalūna
Talal Itani2012 Whoever works righteousness, whether male or female, while being a believer, We will grant him a good life-and We will reward them according to the best of what they used to do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Whosoever doeth right, whether male or female, and is a believer, him verily we shall quicken with good life, and We shall pay them a recompense in proportion to the best of what they used to do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Whoso acts aright, male or female, and is a believer, we will quicken with a goodly life; and we will recompense them with their hire for the best deeds they have done
John Medows Rodwell1861 Whoso doeth that which is right, whether male or female, if a believer, him will we surely quicken to a happy life, and recompense them with a reward meet for their best deeds
George Sale1734 Whoso worketh righteousness, whether he be male or female, and is a true believer, We will surely raise him to a happy life; and We will give them their reward, according to the utmost merit of their actions
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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.83
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.82
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.82
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.78
Talal Itani · George Sale0.77
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.74
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.64
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.56
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sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
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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.