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Talal Itani· published 2012
We have explained in this Quran in various ways, that they may remember, but it only adds to their rebellion.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
We verily have displayed (Our warnings) in this Qur'an that they may takeheed, but it increaseth them in naughtsave aversion
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
Now have we turned it in various ways in this Qur'an, so let them bear in mind; but it will only increase them in aversion
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And now have we used various arguments and repetitions in this Koran, that they may be warned; yet it only rendereth them more disposed to fly from the truth
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
Ne kemi bërë shpjegime të hollësishme në këtë Kuran, në mënyrë që ata të marrin mësim. Megjithatë, kjo vetëm ua shtoi largimin.
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 অবশ্যই আমি এ কুরআনে (মানুষের জন্য বিভিন্ন বিধান, উপদেশ ও দৃষ্টান্তের) বিস্তারিত ব্যাখ্যা দিয়েছি, যাতে তারা উপদেশ গ্রহণ করে; কিন্তু তা কেবল তাদের বিমুখতাই বৃদ্ধি করে।
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
Mi u ovom Kur’anu objašnjavamo da bi oni pouku izvukli, ali ih on sve više otuđuje.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Mi u ovom Kuranu objašnjavamo da bi oni pouku izvukli, ali ih on sve više otuđuje.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Gooŋɗii min fensitii e nder ndee Alqur'aanaare fii yo ɓe mbaactor, ɗum ɓeydaani ɓe si wonaa woɗɗitagol.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ჩვენ უკვე განვმარტეთ ამ ყურანში (დადგენილებები, მაგალითები და შეგონებები), რათა მათ [ადამიანებმა] შეგონება მიიღონ, მაგრამ მხოლოდ კიდევ უფრო ზრდის მათ ზიზღს (რწმენისადმი).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und Wir haben ja bereits in diesem Quran (vieles) verdeutlicht, damit sie bedenken. Aber das mehrt in ihnen nur die Abneigung.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Πράγματι, εξηγούμε σ' αυτό το Κορ’άν (τους κανόνες, τις νουθεσίες και τα παραδείγματα) για να λάβουν νουθεσία (οι άνθρωποι), αλλά αυτή (η εξήγηση και η διασαφήνιση) δεν τους αυξάνει (τους άπιστους) παρά σε φυγή (από την αλήθεια).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और हमने इस क़ुरआन में विभिन्न प्रकार से (तथ्यों का) वर्णन किया है, ताकि लोग शिक्षा ग्रहण करें, परन्तु इससे उनकी घृणा (सत्य से दूरी) ही में वृद्धि होती है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E abbiamo chiarito in questo Corano affinché ricordino, ma non aumenterà se non il loro rifiuto.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
41. Ir iš tiesų, Mes išaiškinome [Mūsų Pažadus, Įspėjimus ir (pateikėme daugybę) pavyzdžių] šiame Korane, kad jie (netikintieji) atkreiptų dėmėsį, tačiau tai padidina juose nieko vertą pasibjaurėjimą.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Dhugumatti, Nuti Qur’aana kana keessatti akka (isaan) gorfamaniif (gorsa) ifa goonee jirra. Dheefa malee homaa isaaniif hin dabalu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Действительно, Мы разъяснили в этом Коране [истину] разными способами, чтобы они вняли напоминанию, но это лишь усиливает в них отвращение.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
У Кур'ану смо мноштво опомена навели да би они поуку извукли, али њима Кур'ан само одбојност повећава.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na tumekwishabainisha katika Qur'ani hii ili wapate kukumbuka. Lakini haikuwazidisha ila kuwa mbali nayo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Vi har varierat [budskapet] i denna Koran så att de ska ta det till sig, men det ökar bara deras avoghet.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Bu Kur’an’da, öğüt alsınlar diye ayrıntılı olarak açıklamalar yaptık. Fakat, bu onların sadece kaçışlarını artırdı.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
ہم نے تو اس قرآن میں ہر ہر طرح بیان[1] فرما دیا کہ لوگ سمجھ جائیں لیکن اس سے انہیں تو نفرت ہی بڑھتی ہے.
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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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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DIN 31635ḏālika mimmā ʾawḥā ʾilayka rabbuka mina l-ḥikmati walā taǧʿal maʿa llāhi ʾilāhan ʾāḫara fatulqā fī ǧahannama malūman madḥūran
Talal Itani2012 That is some of the wisdom your Lord has revealed to you. Do not set up with God another god, or else you will be thrown in Hell, rebuked and banished.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 This is (part) of that wisdom wherewith thy Lord hath inspired thee (O Muhammad). And set not up with Allah any other god, lest thou be cast into hell, reproved, abandoned
Edward Henry Palmer1880 That is something of what thy Lord has inspired thee with of wisdom; do not then put with God other gods, or thou wilt be thrown into hell reproached and outcast
John Medows Rodwell1861 This is a part of the wisdom which thy Lord hath revealed to thee. Set not up any other god with God, lest thou be cast into Hell, rebuked, cast away
George Sale1734 These precepts are a part of the wisdom which thy Lord hath revealed unto thee. Set not up any other god as equal unto God, lest thou be cast into hell, reproved and rejected
DIN 31635ʾafaʾaṣfākum rabbukum bil-banīna wāttaḫaḏa mina l-malāʾikati ʾināṯan ʾinnakum lataqūlūna qawlan ʿaẓīman
Talal Itani2012 Has your Lord favored you with sons, while choosing for Himself daughters from among the angels? You are indeed saying a terrible thing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Hath your Lord then distinguished you (O men of Makka) by giving you sons, and hath chosen for Himself females from among the angels? Lo! verily ye speak an awful word
Edward Henry Palmer1880 What! has your Lord chosen to give you sons, and shall He take for Himself females from among the angels? verily, ye are speaking a mighty speech
John Medows Rodwell1861 What! hath your Lord prepared sons for you, and taken for himself daughters from among the angels? Indeed, ye say a dreadful saying
George Sale1734 Hath your Lord preferably granted unto you sons, and taken for himself daughters from among the angels? Verily in asserting this ye utter a grievous saying
DIN 31635qul law kāna maʿahu ʾālihatun kamā yaqūlūna ʾiḏan llabtaġaw ʾilā ḏī l-ʿarši sabīlan
Talal Itani2012 Say, "If there were other gods with Him, as they say, they would have sought a way to the Lord of the Throne."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say (O Muhammad, to the disbelievers): If there were other gods along with Him, as they say, then had they sought a way against the Lord of the Throne
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Were there with Him other gods, as ye say, then would they seek a way against the Lord of the throne
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: If, as ye affirm, there were other gods with Him, they would in that case seek occasion against the occupant of the throne
George Sale1734 Say unto the idolaters, if there were other gods with him, as ye say, they would surely seek an occasion of making some attempt against the possessor of the throne
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 —
0.76 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 Rodwell0.84
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.84
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.79
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.78
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.78
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.77
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.72
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.71
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.70
Talal Itani · George Sale0.69
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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.