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Talal Itani· published 2012
Those who do not know say, "If only God would speak to us, or a sign would come to us." Thus said those who were before them. Their hearts are alike. We have made the signs clear for people who are certain.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And those who have no knowledge say: Why doth not Allah speak unto us, or some sign come unto us? Even thus, as they now speak, spake those (who were) before them. Their hearts are all alike. We have made clear the revelations for people who are sure
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 those who do not know (the Scriptures) say, 'Unless God speak to us, or there comes a sign.' So spake those before them like unto their speech. Their hearts are all alike. We have made manifest the signs unto a people that are sure
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And they who have no knowledge say, "Unless God speak to us, or thou shew us a sign . . . !" So, with like words, said those who were before them: their hearts are alike: Clear signs have we already shewn for those who have firmfaith
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And they who know not the scriptures say, unless God speak unto us, or thou shew us a sign, we will not believe. So said those before them, according to their saying: Their hearts resemble each other. We have already shewn manifest signs unto people who firmlybelieve
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
Ata që nuk kanë dije thonë: "Përse të mos na flasë Allahu neve ose së paku të na vijë ndonjë shenjë (mrekulli)?!" Njësoj thoshin edhe ata që ishin para tyre. Zemrat e tyre i ngjajnë njëra-tjetrës. Ndërkohë, Ne i kemi sqaruar shenjat Tona për ata që binden.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর যারা কিছু জানে না তারা বলে: ‘আল্লাহ আমাদের সাথে কথা বলেন না কেন? অথবা আমাদের কাছে কোন নিদর্শন কেন আসে না?’ এভাবে তাদের পূর্ববর্তী তাদের মতো কথা বলতো। তাদের সকলের অন্তর একই রকম। অবশ্যই আমি নিদর্শনসমূহকে সুস্পষ্টভাবে বর্ণনা করেছি, সেসব লোকদের জন্য, যারা দৃঢ়বিশ্বাস রাখে।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
A oni koji ne znaju, govore: "Trebalo bi da Allah s nama razgovara, ili da nam kakav dokaz dođe!" Tako su gotovo istim riječima govorili i oni prije njih; srca su im slična! A Mi dokaze objašnjavamo ljudima koji čvrsto vjeruju.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
A oni koji ne znaju, govore: "Trebalo bi da Allah s nama razgovara, ili da nam kakav dokaz dođe!" Tako su gotovo istim riječima govorili i oni prije njih; srca su im slična! A Mi dokaze objašnjavamo ljudima koji čvrsto vjeruju.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɓe nganndaa ɓee mbi'a mate Alla haaldataa he min wolla o addana min maande, ko noon adinooɓe maɓɓe mbi'noo ɓerɗe maɓɓe nanndii , goonga tigi min laɓɓinii maandeeji ɗii wonande yimɓe yananaaɓe ɓee .
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ქართული · Georgian
ხოლო მათ, ვინც არაფერი იციან (შუამავალთა მისიის შესახებ), თქვეს: «ნეტავ ალლაჰმა გაგვესაუბროს (და თქვას, რომ ეს კაცი ნამდვილად მისი შუამავალია) ან მოგვივლინოს ნიშანი!» მათ წინაპრებმაც იგივე თქვეს, მათი სიტყვების მსგავსად, მათი გულები ერთნაირია [წინანდელი და ამჟამინდელი ურწმუნოებისა]. ჩვენ უკვე განვუმარტეთ ნიშნები იმ ხალხისთვის, ვინც დარწმუნებულია [რწმენაში].
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und diejenigen, die nicht Bescheid wissen, sagen: „Würde Allah doch nur zu uns sprechen oder käme zu uns ein Zeichen!“ Gleiche Worte sprachen schon diejenigen, die vor ihnen waren. Ihre Herzen ähneln sich. Wir haben die Zeichen deutlich gemacht für Leute, die (fest) überzeugt sind.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Και αυτοί που δεν έχουν γνώση (από Εβραίους, Χριστιανούς και ειδωλολάτρες) είπαν (στον Μωχάμμαντ): «Γιατί δεν μας μιλά ο Αλλάχ (απευθείας χωρίς κανέναν διαμεσολαβητή), ούτε έρχεται σ' εμάς κάποιο σημάδι (θαύμα);» Έτσι, έλεγαν παρόμοια λόγια και εκείνοι που ήταν πριν απ' αυτούς. Οι καρδιές τους είναι παρόμοιες. Πράγματι, φανερώσαμε τα σημάδια σ' αυτούς που πιστεύουν με βεβαιότητα.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा उन लोगों ने कहा जो ज्ञान[60] नहीं रखते : अल्लाह हमसे बात क्यों नहीं करता? या हमारे पास कोई निशानी क्यों नहीं आती? इसी प्रकार उन लोगों ने जो इनसे पूर्व थे, इनकी बात जैसी बात कही। इनके दिल एक-दूसरे जैसे हो गए हैं। निःसंदेह हमने उन लोगों के लिए निशानियाँ खोलकर बयान कर दी हैं, जो विश्वास करते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
E dissero quelli che non sanno: “Se solo Allāh parlasse con noi o ci venisse un Segno!” Quelli che li avevano preceduti dissero lo stesso: i loro cuori erano simili. Abbiamo già mostrato i Nostri Segni a un popolo convinto.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
118. O tie, kurie neišmano, sako: „Kodėl Allahas nekalba su mumis (akis į akį) arba kodėl mums nepasirodo ženklas?“ Taip sakė žmonės iki jų, panašios reikšmės žodžius. Jų širdys vienodos. Mes tikrai paruošėme aiškius ženklus žmonėms, kurie tvirtai tiki.
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Русский · Russian
Те, которые не ведают, сказали: «Если бы только Аллах заговорил с нами или пришло к нам знамение!» Подобные слова говорили и те, которые были до них. Их сердца схожи между собой. Мы уже разъяснили знамения для людей убеждённых.
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Српски · Serbian
А они који не знају, говоре: "Требало би да Аллах с нама разговара, или да нам какав доказ дође!" Тако су готово истим речима говорили и они пре њих; срца су им слична! А Ми доказе објашњавамо људима који чврсто верују.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na walisema wale wasiojua kitu: ʻMbona Mwenyezi Mungu hasemi nasi au zikatufikia Ishara.ʼ Kama hivyo walisema wale waliokuwa kabla yao mfano wa kauli yao hii. Nyoyo zao zimefanana. Hakika Sisi tumeziweka wazi Ishara kwa watu wenye yakini.
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Svenska · Swedish
De okunniga säger: ”Varför talar inte Gud till oss eller ger oss ett tecken?” Så sa deras föregångare innan dem; deras hjärtan liknar varandra. Vi har dock klargjort tecknen för de människor som är övertygade [om sanningen].
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Türkçe · Turkish
Bilmeyenler: "Ne olur Allah bizimle konuşsa veya bize bir mucize gelse?" demektedirler. Onlardan öncekiler de tıpkı onların söyledikleri gibi söylemişlerdi. Kalpleri (nasıl da) birbirine benzemiş. Oysa biz, iyice bilmek isteyen bir toplum için ayetlerimizi apaçık göstermişizdir.
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اردو · Urdu
اسی طرح بے علم لوگوں نے بھی کہا کہ خود اللہ تعالیٰ ہم سے باتیں کیوں نہیں کرتا، یا ہمارے پاس کوئی نشانی کیوں نہیں آتی؟[1] اسی طرح ایسی ہی بات ان کے اگلوں نے بھی کہی تھی، ان کے اور ان کے دل یکساں ہوگئے[2] ہم نے تو یقین والوں کے لئے نشانیاں بیان کردیں
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Easy-read (simplified)waqaaloo takhadha llaahu waladan subhaanahu bal lahu maa fee s-samaawaati wal-'ardi kullun lahu qaanitoon
DIN 31635waqālū taḫaḏa llāhu waladan subḥānahu bal lahu mā fī s-samāwāti wal-ʾarḍi kullun lahu qānitūna
Talal Itani2012 And they say, "God has begotten a son." Be He glorified. Rather, His is everything in the heavens and the earth; all are obedient to Him.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And they say: Allah hath taken unto Himself a son. Be He glorified! Nay, but whatsoever is in the heavens and the earth is His. All are subservient unto Him
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They say, 'God takes unto Himself a son.' Celebrated be His praise! Nay, His is what is in the heavens and the earth, and Him all things obey
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they say, "God hath a son:" No! Praise be to Him! But - His, whatever is in the Heavens and the Earth! All obeyeth Him
George Sale1734 They say, God hath begotten children: God forbid! To him belongeth whatever is in heaven, and on earth; all is possessed by him
Talal Itani2012 We have sent you with the truth-bringing good news, and giving warnings. You will not be questioned about the inmates of Hell.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! We have sent thee (O Muhammad) with the truth, a bringer of glad tidings and a warner. And thou wilt not be asked about the owners of hell-fire
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We have sent thee with the truth, a bearer of good tidings and of warning, and thou shalt not be questioned as to the fellows of hell
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily, with the Truth have we sent thee, a bearer of good tidings and a warner: and of the people of Hell thou shalt not be questioned
George Sale1734 we have sent thee in truth, a bearer of good tidings, and a preacher; and thou shalt not be questioned concerning the companions of hell
Easy-read (simplified)walan tardaa 'anka l-yahoodu walaa n-nasaaraa hattaa tattabi'a millatahum qul inna hudaa llaahi huwa l-hudaa wala'ini taba'ta ahwaa'ahum ba'da lladhee jaa'aka mina l-'ilmi maa laka mina llaahi min waliyyin walaa naseer
DIN 31635walan tarḍā ʿanka l-yahūdu walā n-naṣārā ḥattā tattabiʿa millatahum qul ʾinna hudā llāhi huwa l-hudā walaʾini tabaʿta ʾahwāʾahum baʿda llaḏī ǧāʾaka mina l-ʿilmi mā laka mina llāhi min waliyyin walā naṣīrin
Talal Itani2012 The Jews and the Christians will not approve of you, unless you follow their creed. Say, "God's guidance is the guidance." Should you follow their desires, after the knowledge that has come to you, you will have in God neither guardian nor helper.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And the Jews will not be pleased with thee, nor will the Christians, till thou follow their creed. Say: Lo! the guidance of Allah (Himself) is Guidance. And if thou shouldst follow their desires after the knowledge which hath come unto thee, then wouldst thou have from Allah no protecting guardian nor helper
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The Jews will not be satisfied with thee, nor yet the Christians, until thou followest their creed. Say, 'God's guidance is the guidance;' and if thou followest their lusts after the knowledge that has come to thee, thou hast not then from God a patron or a help
John Medows Rodwell1861 But until thou follow their religion, neither Jews nor Christians will be satisfied with thee. SAY: Verily, guidance of God, - that is the guidance! And if, after "the Knowledge" which hath reached thee, thou follow their desires, thou shalt find neither helper nor protector against God
George Sale1734 But the Jews will not be pleased with thee, neither the Christians, until thou follow their religion; say, the direction of God is the true direction. And verily if thou follow their desires, after the knowledge which hath been given thee, thou shalt find no patron or protector against God
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 —
0.57 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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 · George Sale0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · George Sale0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.53
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.51
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.50
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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.