Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.
Talal Itani· published 2012
And do not kill the soul which God has madesacred, except in the course of justice. If someone is killed unjustly, We have given his next of kin certain authority. But he should not be excessive in killing, for he will be supported.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And slay not the life which Allah hath forbidden save with right. Whoso is slain wrongfully, We have given power unto his heir, but let him not commitexcess in slaying. Lo! he will be helped
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
And slay not the soul that God has forbidden you, except for just cause; for he who is slain unjustly we have given his next of kin authority; yet let him not exceed in slaying; verily, he is ever helped
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Neither slay any one whom God hath forbidden you to slay, unless for a just cause: and whosoever shall be slain wrongfully, to his heir have we given powers; but let him not outstep bounds in putting the manslayer to death, for he too, in his turn, will be assisted and avenged
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Neither slay the soul which God hath forbidden you to slay, unless for a just cause; and whosoever shall be slain unjustly, We have given his heir power to demandsatisfaction; but let him not exceed the bounds of moderation in putting to death the murderer in too cruel a manner, or by revenging his friend'sblood on any other than the person who killed him; since he is assisted by this law
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
Mos vritni askënd që e ka ndaluar Allahu të vritet, përveçse me të drejtë. Nëse dikush vritet padrejtësisht, Ne i kemi dhënë trashëgimtarit të tij pushtet (për shpagim), por ai nuk duhet të kalojë kufijtë në vrasje, sepse ai tashmë është i ndihmuar.
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
আর আল্লাহ যাকে হত্যা করা হারাম করেছেন, তোমরান্যায়সংগত কারণ ছাড়া।(১৩) তাকে হত্যা করো না, যে অন্যায়ভাবে নিহত হয়, আমি অবশ্যই (এর প্রতিকারের জন্য ) তার অভিভাবককে (কিসাস গ্রহণের) ক্ষমতা দিয়েছি। সুতরাং হত্যার ব্যাপারে সে সীমালঙ্ঘন করবে না।(১৪) নিশ্চয় সে হবে সাহায্যপ্রাপ্ত।
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
I ne ubijajte nikog koga je Allah zabranio ubiti, osim kad pravda zahtijeva! A ako je neko, ni kriv ni dužan, ubijen, onda njegovu nasljedniku dajemo vlast, ali neka ni on ne prekoračuje granicu u ubijanju, ta njemu je data vlast.
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
I ne ubijajte nikog koga je Allah zabranio ubiti, osim kad pravda zahtijeva! A ako je neko, ni kriv ni dužan, ubijen, onda njegovu nasljedniku dajemo vlast, ali neka ni on ne prekoračuje granicu u ubijanju, ta njemu je data vlast.
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
Wota on mbar woŋkii, ki Allah harmini kin [bargol], si wonaa sabu hakkee. Mo tooñaama waraama, min waɗanii heftuɓe e makko ɓe doole wota non o fantin ka bargol. Pellet Kaŋko o wonii ballaaɗo.
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
ქართული · Georgian
და ნუ მოკლავთ სულს, რაც აკრძალა ალლაჰმა [მოკვლა], თუ არა - მხოლოდ სამართლიანობის აღსადგენად [1], და ვინც მოიკლა უსამართლოდ, ჩვენ დავუდგინეთ მის ახლობელს [მემკვიდრეს ან მმართველს] უფლება (შურისგებისა) [რათა მოითხოვოს მკვლელის სიკვდილით დასჯა ან დააკისროს მას სისხლის გამოსასყიდის გადახდა] და ზღვარს ნუ გადავა მკვლელობაში, და ჭეშმარიტად, იგი შეწევნილ იქნება [2].
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
Und tötet nicht die Seele, die Allah verboten hat (zu töten), außer aus einem rechtmäßigen Grund. Wer nun zu Unrecht getötet wird, dessen nächstem Verwandten haben Wir Ermächtigung erteilt (, Recht einzufordern); doch soll er nicht maßlos im Töten sein, denn ihm wird gewiss geholfen.
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
Μη σκοτώνετε καμία ψυχή για την οποία ο Αλλάχ έχει απαγορεύσει οποιαδήποτε επίθεση, εκτός για δίκαιους λόγους (αν το δίκαιο το απαιτεί - όπως την ψυχή ενός δολοφόνου). Όποιος όμως σκοτώθηκε άδικα, έχουμε δώσει στον κληρονόμο (ή τον κηδεμόνα) του την εξουσία (να ζητήσει από τον δικαστή, τη θανατική ποινή για τον δολοφόνο ή την αποζημίωση -σε κάποιες περιπτώσεις-). Αλλά δεν πρέπει να υπερβαίνει τα όρια στα αντίποινα (όπως το να ζητήσει τη δολοφονία δύο ή περισσότερων αθώων από την οικογένεια του δολοφόνου για τον δολοφονημένο). Πράγματι, θα λάβει την υποστήριξη (μέχρι να λάβει το δικαίωμά του).
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
और किसी (ऐसे) प्राणी को क़त्ल न करो, जिसे (क़त्ल करना) अल्लाह ने हराम किया है, परंतु अधिकार[20] के साथ। और जिसे अन्यायपूर्ण रूप से क़त्ल कर दिया जाए, तो हमने उसके उत्तराधिकारी को (बदला लेने का) अधिकार[21] दिया है। अतः वह क़त्ल (बदला लेने) में सीमा से आगे[22] न बढ़े। निश्चय वह मदद किया हुआ है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E non uccidete nessuna anima – cosa che Allāh ha proibito – se non secondo giustizia. E a chi è stato ucciso senza alcun motivo, abbiamo dato al suo erede la possibilità di vendicarsi: che non esageri nell’uccidere, in verità è sostenuto dal diritto.
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
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
33. Ir nežudykite nieko, kieno žudymą Allahas uždraudė, nebent yra teisėta priežastis. Ir kas yra nužudomas neleistinai (mazlūman – tyčia, priešiškai ir engiant, ir ne dėl klaidos), Mes suteikėme jo įpėdiniams valdžią [reikalauti kisas - lygybės teisės bausmėje, arba atleisti, arba priimti dija (kraujo pinigus)]. Tačiau, neleiskite jam peržengti ribų atimant gyvybę (t. y. jis neturėtų žudyti nieko daugiau, tik patį žudiką). Iš tiesų, jam padeda (islamo teisė).
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 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Lubbuu Rabbiin (ajjeessuu) haraama godhe haqaan malee hin ajjeesinaa. Nama roorroon ajjeefame nama isa dhaaluuf aangoo (dhiiga gaafachuu isaaf) goonee jirra. Ajjeechaa keessatti daangaa hin dabrin. inni tumsamaa ta’eera. [5]
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
И не убивайте душу, которую Аллах запретил, иначе как по праву. А кто убит несправедливо — Мы даровали его близкому власть [возмездия]; и пусть он не преступает меры в убийстве. Воистину, ему оказана помощь.
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
Српски · Serbian
И не убијајте никога кога је Аллах забранио, осим када је то законом оправдано! А ако је неко, ни крив ни дужан, убијен, онда његовом наследнику или старатељу дајемо власт, али нека ни он не прекорачује границу у убијању. Он је, заиста, од Аллаха потпомогнут.
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
Wala msiuwe nafsi ambayo Mwenyezi Mungu amekataza isipokuwa kwa haki. Na aliyeuliwa kwa kudhulumiwa, basi hakika tumempa msimamizi wake mamlaka. Lakini asipitilize kiasi katika kuua. Kwani yeye anasaidiwa.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Döda inte någon som Gud har förbjudit er [att döda], utom med rättslig grund. Om någon dödas med orätt, har vi gett hans anhöriga rätt [till rättvis vedergällning]; men de får inte överdriva i sin blodshämnd. Han har redan fått hjälp [av Gud genom att finna den skyldige].
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’ın haram kıldığı bir cana, hak ile olmadıkça asla kıymayın! Kim, haksız yere öldürülürse, onun velisine (katil hakkında) bir yetki verdik. Fakat, o da öldürme/kısas konusunda aşırıya gitmesin. Çünkü ona/veliye yardım edilmiştir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور کسی جان کو جس کا مارنا اللہ نے حرام کردیا ہے ہرگز ناحق قتل نہ کرنا[1] اور جو شخص مظلوم ہونے کی صورت میں مار ڈاﻻ جائے ہم نے اس کے وارث کو طاقت دے رکھی ہے پس اسے چاہیئے کہ مار ڈالنے میں زیادتی نہ کرے بےشک وه مدد کیا گیا 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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Which translations appear here is set by copyright: they are the ones whose rights could be documented and cleared. The selection is not a judgement that these are the best.
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Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation,
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Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil
Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the
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Talal Itani2012 And do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We provide for them, and for you. Killing them is a grave sin.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Slay not your children, fearing a fall to poverty, We shall provide for them and for you. Lo! the slaying of them is great sin
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And slay not your children for fear of poverty; we will provide for them; beware! for to slay them is ever a great sin
John Medows Rodwell1861 Kill not your children for fear of want: for them and for you will we provide. Verily, the killing them is a great wickedness
George Sale1734 Kill not your children for fear of being brought to want; We will provide for them and for you: Verily the killing them is a great sin
Talal Itani2012 And do not go near the orphan's property, except with the best of intentions, until he has reached his maturity. And honor your pledge, because the pledge involves responsibility.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Come not near the wealth of the orphan save with that which is better till he come to strength; and keep the covenant. Lo! of the covenant it will be asked
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And draw not near to the wealth of the orphan, save to improve it, until he reaches the age of puberty, and fulfil your compacts; verily, a compact is ever enquired of
John Medows Rodwell1861 And touch not the substance of the orphan, unless in an upright way, till he attain his age of strength: And perform your covenant; verily the covenant shall be enquired of
George Sale1734 And meddle not with the substance of the orphan, unless it be to improve it, until he attain his age of strength: And perform your covenant; for the performance of your covenant shall be inquired into hereafter
Talal Itani2012 And give full measure when you measure, and weigh with accurate scales. That is fair, and the best determination.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Fill the measure when ye measure, and weigh with a right balance; that is meet, and better in the end
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And give full measure when ye measure out, and weigh with a right balance; that is better and a fairer determination
John Medows Rodwell1861 And give full measure when you measure, and weigh with just balance. This will be better, and fairest for settlement
George Sale1734 And give full measure, when you measure ought; and weigh with a just balance. This will be better, and more easy for determining every man's due
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 —
0.69 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 · John Medows Rodwell0.79
Talal Itani · George Sale0.77
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.76
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.72
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.66
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.63
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.51
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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.