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
Our Lord, and raise up among them a messenger, of themselves, who will recite to them Your revelations, and teach them the Book and wisdom, and purify them. You are the Almighty, the Wise."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Our Lord! And raise up in their midst a messenger from among them who shall recite unto them Thy revelations, and shall instruct them in the Scripture and in wisdom and shall make them grow. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Mighty, Wise
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
Lord! and send them an apostle from amongst themselves, to read to them Thy signs and teach them the Book and wisdom, and to purify them; verily, Thou art the mighty and the wise
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O our Lord! raise up among them an apostle who may rehearse thy signs unto them, and teach them 'the Book,' and Wisdom, and purify them: for thou art the Mighty, the Wise
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Lord, send them likewise an Apostle from among them, who may declare thy signs unto them, and teach them the book of the Koran and wisdom, and may purify them; for thou art mighty and wise
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
Zoti ynë! Dërgo nga gjiri i tyre një të dërguar që t'ua lexojë ajetet e Tua, t'ua mësojë Librin e Urtësinë dhe t'i pastrojë (nga gjynahet), sepse njëmend Ti je i Gjithëfuqishmi, i Urti."
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বাংলা · Bengali
‘হে আমাদের রাব! আর আপনি তাদের মধ্য থেকে তাদের কাছে একজন রাসূল পাঠান, যিনি আপনার আয়াতসমূহ তাদের কাছে তিলাওয়াত করে শোনাবেন ; তাদেরকে (আল্লাহর) কিতাব ও হিকমত শিক্ষা দিবেন এবং তাদেরকে পরিশুদ্ধ করবেন। নিশ্চয় আপনি পরাক্রমশালী, প্রজ্ঞাময়।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Gospodaru naš, pošalji među njih poslanika, jednoga od njih, koji će im ajete Tvoje kazivati, Knjizi i mudrosti ih poučiti i očistiti ih! Ti si, doista, Silni i Mudri!"
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Gospodaru naš, pošalji među njih poslanika, jednoga od njih, koji će im ajete Tvoje kazivati, Knjizi i mudrosti ih poučiti i očistiti ih! Ti si, doista, Silni i Mudri!"
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
Jooma amen waɗ e maɓɓe nulaaɗo ombo janngina ɓe aayeeje maa o anndina ɓe Kur'aana maa oo e sunna oo, o laɓɓina ɓe ko Aaan tigi woni jaaliiɗo ñeeñɗuɗo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
უფალო ჩვენო! წარგზავნე მათთან შუამავალი მათივე წრიდან, ვინც წაუკითხავს შენს აიათებს, ასწავლის წიგნს (ყურანს) და სიბრძნეს (სუნნას) და განწმინდავს მათ. ჭეშმარიტად, შენ ხარ ძლევამოსილი, ბრძენი.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Unser Herr, schicke zu ihnen einen Gesandten von ihnen, der ihnen Deine Worte verliest, sie das Buch und die Weisheit lehrt und sie läutert. Wahrlich, Du bist ja der (All)mächtige und der (All)weise.“
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
Κύριέ μας! Και στείλε ανάμεσά τους (δηλ. στους απογόνους μας) έναν αγγελιαφόρο απ' αυτούς, ο οποίος θα απαγγείλει σ' αυτούς τα Εδάφιά Σου, και θα τους διδάξει το Βιβλίο (το Κορ'άν) και την Αλ-Χίκμα (τη Σούννα -παράδοση- του Προφήτη Μωχάμμαντ), και θα τους εξαγνίσει. Στ’ αλήθεια, είσαι ο Αλ-‘Αζείζ (Παντοδύναμος, Ανίκητος), ο Αλ-Χακείμ (Πάνσοφος).»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
ऐ हमारे पालनहार! और उनमें उन्हीं में से एक रसूल भेज, जो उनपर तेरी आयतें पढ़े, और उन्हें पुस्तक (क़ुरआन) तथा ह़िकमत (सुन्नत) की शिक्षा दे और उन्हें पाक करे। निःसंदेह तू ही सब पर प्रभुत्वशाली, पूर्ण हिकमत वाला है।[65]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Dio nostro, invia a loro un Messaggero tra loro stessi che reciti loro i Tuoi precetti e insegni loro il Libro e la Saggezza e li purifichi; in verità Tu sei il Potente, il Saggio.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
129. „Mūsų Viešpatie, atsiųsk jiems Pasiuntinį iš jų pačių tarpo (ir tikrai Allahas atsakė į jų maldavimą, atsiųsdamas Muchammedą ﷺ ), kuris recituos jiems Tavo Eilutes ir mokys juos Knygos (šio Korano) ir Al-Hikma (visiško islamo įstatymų ir teisės išmanymo arba išminties arba Pranašavimo), ir apvalys juos. Iš tiesų, Tu esi Visagalis, Visa Išmanantis.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Gooftaa keenya! Ergamaa isaan irraa ta’e isaan keessatti ergi, kan keeyyattoota kee isaan irratti qara’u, kan kitaabaafi ogummaa isaan barsiisu, kan isaan qulqulleessu. Ati Situ akkaan injifataa, ogeessa." (nabi muhammad s.a.w. ergamuun kadhaa sun qeebalamte).
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Русский · Russian
Господь наш! Отправь к ним посланника из их среды, который будет читать им Твои знамения, и научит их Писанию и мудрости, и очистит их. Воистину, Ты — Могущественный, Мудрый».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Господару наш, пошаљи међу њих посланика, једнога од њих, који ће им речи Твоје казивати, Књизи и мудрости их поучити и очистити их! Ти си, заиста, Силни и Мудри!"
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Ewe Mola Mlezi wetu! Waletee Mtume anayetokana na wao, awasomee Aya zako, na awafundishe Kitabu na hekima na awatakase. Hakika Wewe ndiye Mwenye nguvu, Mwenye hekima.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Herre! Låt ett sändebud träda fram bland dem, ur deras egna led, som reciterar dina verser för dem, och som undervisar dem i skriften och [den profetiska] visdomen och som renar dem. Du är sannerligen den Allsmäktige, den Vise.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Rabbimiz! İçlerinden senin ayetlerini onlara okuyan, kitap ve hikmeti öğreten ve onları (şirkten) arındıran bir rasûl gönder. Şüphesiz Aziz ve Hakim olan ancak sensin.
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اردو · Urdu
اے ہمارے رب! ان میں انہی میں سے رسول بھیج[1] جو ان کے پاس تیری آیتیں پڑھے، انہیں کتاب وحکمت[2] سکھائے اور انہیں پاک کرے[3]، یقیناً تو غلبہ واﻻ اور حکمت واﻻ 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.
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DIN 31635waʾiḏ yarfaʿu ʾibrāhīmu l-qawāʿida mina l-bayti waʾismāʿīlu rabbanā taqabbal minnā ʾinnaka ʾanta s-samīʿu l-ʿalīmu
Talal Itani2012 As Abraham raises the foundations of the House, together with Ishmael, "Our Lord, accept it from us, You are the Hearer, the Knower.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when Abraham and Ishmael were raising the foundations of the House, (Abraham prayed): Our Lord! Accept from us (this duty). Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Hearer, the Knower
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when Abraham raised up the foundations of the House with Ishmael, 'Lord! receive it from us, verily, thou art hearing and dost know
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when Abraham, with Ismael, raised the foundations of the House, they said, "O our Lord! accept it from us; for thou art the Hearer, the Knower
George Sale1734 And when Abraham and Ismael raised the foundations of the house, saying, Lord, accept it from us, for thou art he who heareth and knoweth
Talal Itani2012 Our Lord, and make us submissive to You, and from our descendants a community submissive to You. And show us our rites, and accept our repentance. You are the Acceptor of Repentance, the Merciful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Our Lord! And make us submissive unto Thee and of our seed a nation submissive unto Thee, and show us our ways of worship, and relent toward us. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Relenting, the Merciful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Lord! and make us too resigned unto Thee, and of our seed also a nation resigned unto Thee, and show us our rites, and turn towards us, verily, Thou art easy to be turned and merciful
John Medows Rodwell1861 O our Lord! make us also Muslims, and our posterity a Muslim people; and teach us our holy rites, and be turned towards us, for thou art He who turneth, the Merciful
George Sale1734 Lord, make us also resigned unto thee, and of our posterity a people resigned unto thee, and shew us our holy ceremonies, and be turned unto us, for thou art easy to be reconciled, and merciful
DIN 31635waman yarġabu ʿan millati ʾibrāhīma ʾillā man safiha nafsahu walaqadi ṣṭafaynāhu fī d-dunyā waʾinnahu fī l-ʾāḫirati lamina ṣ-ṣāliḥīna
Talal Itani2012 Who would forsake the religion of Abraham, except he who fools himself? We chose him in this world, and in the Hereafter he will be among the righteous.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And who forsaketh the religion of Abraham save him who befooleth himself? Verily We chose him in the world, and lo! in the Hereafter he is among the righteous
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Who is averse from the faith of Abraham save one who is foolish of soul? for we have chosen him in this world, and in the future he is surely of the righteous
John Medows Rodwell1861 And who but he that hath debased his soul to folly will mislike the faith of Abraham, when we have chosen him in this world, and in the world to come he shall be of the Just
George Sale1734 Who will be averse to the religion of Abraham, but he whose mind is infatuated? Surely we have chosen him in this world, and in that which is to come he shall be one of the righteous
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 · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.74
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.71
Talal Itani · George Sale0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.68
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.44
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.38
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
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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13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC
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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.