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Talal Itani· published 2012
And recite what was revealed to you from the Book of your Lord. There is no changing His words, and you will find no refuge except in Him.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And recite that which hath been revealed unto thee of the Scripture of thy Lord. There is none who can change His words, and thou wilt find no refuge beside Him
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
So, recite what thou art inspired with of the Book of thy Lord; there is no changing His words; nor shalt thou ever find a refuge beside Him
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Read that which hath been revealed unto thee, of the book of thy Lord, without presuming to make any change therein: There is none who hath power to change his words; and thou shalt not find any to fly to, besides Him, if thou attempt it
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
Lexo atë që të është shpallur nga Libri i Zotit tënd! Askush nuk mund t'i ndryshojë fjalët e Tij dhe kurrë nuk do të gjesh ndonjë strehë askund, përveçse tek Ai.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর (হে রাসূল!) তুমি তোমার রবের কিতাব থেকে যা তোমার প্রতি ওহী করা হয়েছে তা তিলাওয়াত করো। তাঁর বাণীসমূহের কোনো পরিবর্তনকারী নেই এবং তুমি তাঁকে ছাড়া কখনো কোনো আশ্রয়স্থল পাবে না।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
A ti kazuj iz Knjige Gospodara svoga ono što ti se objavljuje, Njegovim riječima nema preinačitelja, i ti, osim kod Njega, nećeš naći utočišta nikakva.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
A ti kazuj iz Knjige Gospodara svoga ono što ti se objavljuje, Njegovim riječima nema preinačitelja, i ti, osim kod Njega, nećeš naći utočišta nikakva.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Janngu ko wahayinaa e maaɗa ko immorde e deftere Joomi maa nden, alaa wattitoowo Daaluyeeji=konngudi Makko ɗin, a heɓataa ga makko fattorde.
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ქართული · Georgian
და წაიკითხე [ო, შუამავალო] ის, რაც ზეშთაგეგონა შენი ღმერთის წიგნიდან [ყურანიდან]. არავის ძალუძს შეცვალოს მისი სიტყვები, და შენ ვერასოდეს იპოვი მის გარდა თავშესაფარს და მფარველობას.
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Deutsch · German
Und verlies, was dir vom Buch deines Herrn (als Offenbarung) eingegeben worden ist. Es gibt niemanden, der Seine Worte abändern könnte, und du wirst außer (bei) Ihm keine Zuflucht finden.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Απάγγειλε (ω, Προφήτη, και ακολούθα) ό,τι αποκαλύφθηκε σε σένα από το Βιβλίο του Κυρίου σου. Ποτέ δε θα υπάρχει αλλαγή στα Λόγια Του (ό,τι υποσχέθηκε από ανταμοιβή ή τιμωρία, οπωσδήποτε θα πραγματοποιηθεί), και δε θα βρεις ποτέ κανένα καταφύγιο παρά μόνο σ' Αυτόν.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और आपके पालनहार की किताब में से आपकी ओर जो वह़्य की गई है, उसे पढ़ते रहें। उसकी बातों को कोई बदलने वाला नहीं है। और आप उसके सिवा कोई शरण लेने की जगह हरगिज़ नहीं पाएँगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E recita ciò che ti è stato già ispirato dal Libro del tuo Dio. Non c’è chi possa cambiare le Sue parole, e non troverai, all’infuori di Lui, nessun rifugio.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
27. Ir recituok, kas buvo apreikšta tau (Muchammedai ﷺ) iš Knygos (Korano) tavojo Viešpaties (t. y. recituok tai, suprask ir sek jo mokymais ir elkis pagal jo nurodymus bei skelbk tai žmonėms). Niekas negali pakeisti Jo Žodžių, ir nerasi tu nieko kito kaip prieglobsčio, išskyrus Jį.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Waan kitaaba Gooftaa keetii (Qur’aana) irraa gara keetti beeksisa godhame dubbisi, Jechoota Isaatiif jijjiiraan hin jiru. Isa malee iddoo itti dheeysitan hin argattu.
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Русский · Russian
И читай то, что ниспослано тебе откровением из Писания твоего Господа. Никто не изменит Его слов, и ты ни за что не найдёшь помимо Него прибежища.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
А ти казуј из Књиге свога Господара оно што ти се објављује, нико не може да измени Његове речи, и ти осим код Њега, нећеш наћи никакво уточиште.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na soma yale uliyofunuliwa katika Kitabu cha Mola wako Mlezi. Hakuna yeyote awezaye kubadilisha maneno yake. Wala nawe hutapata makimbilio yoyote isipokuwa kwake.
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Svenska · Swedish
Recitera det som har uppenbarats för dig ur din Herres skrift! Ingen kan ändra hans ord, och du kommer inte att finna någon tillflykt utom hos honom.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Rabbinin kitabından sana vahyedileni oku. O’nun kelimelerini değiştirecek hiçbir kimse yoktur. O’ndan başka asla bir sığınak da bulamazsın.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
تیری جانب جو تیرے رب کی کتاب وحی کی گئی ہے اسے پڑھتا ره[1] ، اس کی باتوں کو کوئی بدلنے واﻻ نہیں تو اس کے سوا ہرگزکوئی پناه کی جگہ نہ پائے گا.[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.
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Easy-read (simplified)quli llaahu a'lamu bimaa labithoo lahu ghaybu s-samaawaati wal-'ardi absir bihi wa'asmi' maa lahum min doonihi min waliyyin walaa yushriku fee hukmihi ahadaa
DIN 31635quli llāhu ʾaʿlamu bimā labiṯū lahu ġaybu s-samāwāti wal-ʾarḍi ʾabṣir bihi waʾasmiʿ mā lahum min dūnihi min waliyyin walā yušriku fī ḥukmihi ʾaḥadan
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Say, "God knows best how long they stayed." His is the mystery of the heavens and the earth. By Him you see and hear. They have no guardian apart from Him, and He shares His Sovereignty with no one.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: Allah is Best Aware how long they tarried. His is the Invisible of the heavens and the earth. How clear of sight is He and keen of hearing! They have no protecting friend beside Him, and He maketh none to share in His government
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'God knows best of their tarrying. His are the unseen things of the heavens and the earth - He can see! and hear!' They have no patron beside Him, nor does He let any one share in His judgment
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: God best knoweth how long they tarried: With Him are the secrets of the Heavens and of the Earth: Look thou and hearken unto Him alone. Man hath no guardian but Him, and none may bear part in his judgments
George Sale1734 Say, God best knoweth how long they continued there: Unto Him are the secrets of heaven and earth known; do thou make him to see and to hear. The inhabitants thereof have no protector besides Him; neither doth He suffer any one to have a share in the establishment or knowledge of his decree
Talal Itani2012 And content yourself with those who pray to their Lord morning and evening, desiring His Presence. And do not turn your eyes away from them, desiring the glitter of this world. And do not obey him whose heart We have made heedless of Our remembrance-so he follows his own desires-and his priorities are confused.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Restrain thyself along with those who cry unto their Lord at morn and evening, seeking His Countenance; and let not thine eyes overlook them, desiring the pomp of the life of the world; and obey not him whose heart We have made heedless of Our remembrance, who followeth his own lust and whose case hath been abandoned
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and keep thyself patient, with those who call upon their Lord morning and evening, desiring His face; nor let thine eyes be turned from them, desiring the adornment of the life of this world; and obey not him whose heart we have made heedless of remembrance of us, and who follows his lusts, for his affair is ever in advance (of the truth)
John Medows Rodwell1861 Be patient with those who call upon their Lord at morn and even, seeking his face: and let not thine eyes be turned away from them in quest of the pomp of this life; neither obey him whose heart we have made careless of the remembrance of Us, and who followeth his own lusts, and whose ways are unbridled
George Sale1734 Behave thy self with constancy towards those who call upon their Lord morning and evening, and who seek his favour; and let not thine eyes be turned away from them, seeking the pomp of this life; neither obey him whose heart We have caused to neglect the remembrance of us, and who followeth his lusts, and leaveth the truth behind him
Talal Itani2012 And say, "The truth is from your Lord. Whoever wills-let him believe. And whoever wills-let him disbelieve". We have prepared for the unjust a Fire, whose curtains will hem them in. And when they cry for relief, they will be relieved with water like molten brass, which scalds the faces. What a miserable drink, and what a terrible place.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: (It is) the truth from the Lord of you (all). Then whosoever will, let him believe, and whosoever will, let him disbelieve. Lo! We have prepared for disbelievers Fire. Its tent encloseth them. If they ask for showers, they will be showered with water like to molten lead which burneth the faces. Calamitous the drink and ill the resting-place
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But say, 'The truth is from your Lord, so let him who will, believe; and let him who will, disbelieve.' Verily, we have prepared for the evildoers a fire, sheets of which shall encompass them; and if they cry for help, they shall be helped with water like molten brass, which shall roast their faces: - an ill drink and an evil couch
John Medows Rodwell1861 And SAY: the truth is from your Lord: let him then who will, believe; and let him who will, be an infidel. But for the offenders we have got ready the fire whose smoke shall enwrap them: and if they implore help, helped shall they be with water like molten brass which shall scald their Wretched the drink! and an unhappy couch
George Sale1734 And say, the truth is from your Lord; wherefore let him who will, believe, and let him who will, be incredulous. We have surely prepared for the unjust hell fire, the flame and smoke whereof shall surround them like a pavilion: And if they beg relief, they shall be relieved with water like molten brass, which shall scald their faces; O how miserable a portion, and how unhappy a couch
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 —
0.61 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 · George Sale0.75
Talal Itani · George Sale0.74
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.58
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.58
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.51
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.46
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
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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.