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Say, verily I am only a man as ye are. It is revealed unto me that your God is one only God: Let him therefore who hopeth to meet his Lord, work a righteous work; and let him not make any other to partake in the worship of his Lord
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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
Say, "I am only a human being like you, being inspired that your god is One God. Whoever hopes to meet his Lord, let him work righteousness, and never associateanyone with the service of his Lord."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Say: I am only a mortal like you. My Lord inspireth in me that your Allah is only One Allah. And whoever hopeth for the meeting with his Lord, let him do righteous work, and make none sharer of the worship due unto his Lord
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
Say, 'I am only a mortal like yourselves; I am inspired that your God is only one God. Then let him who hopes to meet his Lord act righteous acts, and join none in the service of his Lord
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
SAY: In sooth I am only a man like you. It hath been revealed to me that your God is one only God: let him then who hopeth to meet his Lord work a righteous work: nor let him give any other creature a share in the worship of his Lord
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Thuaj: "Unë jam vetëm një njeri si ju; më është shpallur se Zoti juaj është një Zot i Vetëm. Prandaj, kushdo që shpreson takimin me Zotin e vet, le të bëjë vepra të mira dhe të mos i shoqërojë askënd në adhurim Zotit të vet."
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
(হে রাসূল!) তুমি বলো: ‘আমি তোমাদের মতোই একজন মানুষ। আমার নিকট ওয়াহী প্রেরণ করা হয় যে, তোমাদের ইলাহই এক ইলাহ। সুতরাং যে তার রবের সাক্ষাৎ কামনা করে, সে যেন সৎকর্ম করে এবং তার রবের ইবাদাতে কাউকে শরীক না 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
Reci: “Ja sam čovjek kao i vi, meni se objavljuje da je vaš Bog – jedan Bog. Pa ko se nada susretu s Gospodarom svojim, neka čini dobra djela i neka u ibadetu Gospodaru svome nikoga ne pridružuje.”
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
Reci: “Ja sam čovjek kao i vi, meni se objavljuje da je vaš Bog – jedan Bog. Pa tko se nada susretu s Gospodarom svojim, neka čini dobra djela i neka u obožavanju Gospodaru svome nikoga ne pridružuje.”
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
Maaku: "Pellet min, ko mi ɓanndiŋke yeru mon, no wahayineede e am. Pellet, deweteeɗo mon o ko deweteeɗo Gooto, kala jortiiɗo kawroyde e Joomi makko yo o gollu golle moƴƴe wota o kafidu e dewal Joomi makko hay e gooto".
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
უთხარი [ო, შუამავალო] [მრავალღმერთიანებს]: «მე მხოლოდ ადამიანი ვარ თქვენი მსგავსი და ზეშთამეგონა, რომ თქვენი ღმერთი ერთადერთი ღმერთია. და იმან, ვინც იმედოვნებს თავის ღმერთთან შეხვედრას, დაე, მართალი საქმე აკეთოს და ნურავის დაუდგენს თანაზიარად თავის უფლის თაყვანისცემაში [დაე, მიუძღვნას თავისი მსახურება მხოლოდ ალლაჰს]».
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
Sag: „Ich bin ja nur ein menschliches Wesen gleich euch; mir wird (als Offenbarung) eingegeben, dass euer Anbetungswürdiger ein einziger Anbetungswürdiger ist. Wer nun auf die Begegnung mit seinem Herrn hofft, der soll rechtschaffen handeln und beim Dienst (Anbetung) an seinem Herrn (Ihm) niemanden beigesellen.“
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
Πες (ω, Μωχάμμαντ): «Πράγματι, είμαι μόνο ένας άνθρωπος σαν και εσάς. Μου έχει αποκαλυφθεί ότι ο Θεός σας είναι μόνο Ένας Θεός (ο Αλλάχ). Έτσι, όποιος ελπίζει στη συνάντηση με τον Κύριό του, ας πράττει ενάρετες πράξεις και να μην αποδίδει στον Κύριό του κανέναν εταίρο στη λατρεία.»
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
आप कह दे : मैं तो तुम्हारे जैसा ही एक मनुष्य हूँ, मेरी ओर प्रकाशना (वह़्य) की जाती है कि तुम्हारा पूज्य केवल एक ही पूज्य है। अतः जो कोई अपने पालनहार से मिलने की आशा रखता हो, उसके लिए आवश्यक है कि वह अच्छे कर्म करे और अपने पालनहार की इबादत में किसी को साझी न बनाए।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Di’: “In verità io sono un uomo come voi: mi è stato ispirato che in verità il vostro Dio è un Dio Unico! Chi si aspetta di incontrare il suo Dio, faccia opere di bene e non accomuni nessuno a Lui nell’adorare il suo Dio!
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
110. Sakyk (Muchammedai ﷺ): „Aš esu tik žmogus kaip ir jūs. Man buvo apreikšta, kad jūsų Ilah (Dievas) yra Vienas Ilah (Dievas, t. y. Allahas). Taigi kas tikisi Susitikimo su savo Viešpačiu, lai daro teisingus darbus ir nepriskiria partnerių garbinime savo Viešpačiui.“
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.
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
Скажи: «Воистину, я — лишь человек, подобный вам; мне внушается, что ваш Бог — Бог единственный. Так пусть же тот, кто надеется на встречу со своим Господом, совершает праведное и не придаёт никого в сотоварищи в поклонении своему Господу».
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
Реци: „Ја (Мухаммед) сам човек као и ви, мени се објављује да је ваш Бог - један Бог. Па ко се нада сусрету са својим Господаром, нека ради добра дела и нека поред свог Господара никога не обожава!“
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
Sema, "Hakika mimi ni mwanadamu tu kama nyinyi. Ninaletewa ufunuo (wahyi) kwamba Mungu wenu ni Mungu Mmoja tu. Kwa hivyo, mwenye kutaraji kukutana na Mola wake Mlezi, basi na atende matendo mema, wala asimshirikishe yeyote katika ibada ya Mola wake Mlezi."
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Säg: ”Jag är bara en människa som ni, men det har uppenbarats för mig att er Gud är en enda Gud. Låt därför den som fruktar mötet med sin Herre handla rättfärdigt och inte dyrka någon vid sin Herres sida.”
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
De ki: "Ben de ancak sizin gibi bir insanım! Bana ilahınızın sadece tek ilah olduğu vahyediliyor. Kim Rabbine kavuşmayı umuyorsa, salih amel işlesin ve Rabbine ibadetinde kimseyi ortak koşmasın!"
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
اردو · Urdu
آپ کہہ دیجئے کہ میں تو تم جیسا ہی ایک انسان ہوں[1] - (ہاں) میری جانب وحی کی جاتی ہے کہ سب کا معبود صرف ایک ہی معبود ہے[2]، تو جسے بھی اپنے پروردگار سے ملنے کی آرزو ہو اسے چاہئے کہ نیک اعمال کرے اور اپنے پروردگار کی عبادت[3] میں کسی کو بھی شریک نہ کرے.
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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Easy-read (simplified)qul law kaana l-bahru midaadan likalimaati rabbee lanafida l-bahru qabla an tanfada kalimaatu rabbee walaw ji'naa bimithlihi madadaa
DIN 31635qul law kāna l-baḥru midādan likalimāti rabbī lanafida l-baḥru qabla ʾan tanfada kalimātu rabbī walaw ǧiʾnā bimiṯlihi madadan
Talal Itani2012 Say, "If the ocean were ink for the words of my Lord, the ocean would run out, before the words of my Lord run out," even if We were to bring the like of it in addition to it.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: Though the sea became ink for the Words of my Lord, verily the sea would be used up before the words of my Lord were exhausted, even though We brought the like thereof to help
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Were the sea ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would surely fail before the words of my Lord fail; aye, though we brought as much ink again
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Should the sea become ink, to write the words of my Lord, the sea would surely fail ere the words of my Lord would fail, though we brought its like in aid
George Sale1734 Say, if the sea were ink to write the words of my Lord, verily the sea would fail, before the words of my Lord would fail; although We added another sea like unto it as a farther supply
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.58
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.58
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.48
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.40
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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.