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Talal Itani· published 2012
That was a community that has passed; for them is what they have earned, and for you is what you have earned; and you will not be questioned about what they used to do.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Those are a people who have passed away. Theirs is that which they earned, and yours is that which ye earn. And ye will not be asked of what they used to do
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
That is a nation that has passed away, theirs is what they gained; and yours shall be what ye have gained; ye shall not be questioned as to that which they have done
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
That people have now passed away; they have the reward of their deeds, and ye shall have the meed of yours: but of their doings ye shall not be questioned
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
That people are now passed away, they have what they have gained, and ye shall have what ye gain; and ye shall not be questioned concerning that which they have done
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
Ajo shoqëri tashmë ka kaluar; ata do të marrin atë që kanë merituar e ju do të merrni atë që meritoni dhe nuk do të pyeteni për veprat e tyre.
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বাংলা · Bengali
সেটি ছিলো এমন এক উম্মাহ, যারা অতীত হয়ে গেছে। তারা যা অর্জন করেছে তা তাদের-ই জন্যে। আর তোমরা যা অর্জন করেছো তার প্রতিফল তোমাদের-ই। তারা যা করত সে সম্পর্কে তোমাদেরকে কোন প্রশ্ন করা হবে না।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Taj narod je bio i nestao; njemu pripada ono što je zaslužio, a vama što ste zaslužili, i vi nećete biti pitani za ono što su oni radili.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Taj je narod prošao; njemu pripada ono što je zaslužio, a vama što ste zaslužili, i vi nećete biti pitani za ono što su oni radili.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ngool ko leñol jawtungol engol heɓa ko ngol fagginoo, onon ne oɗon keɓa ko paggi-ɗon on naamnetaake ko ɓe ngollatnoo.
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ქართული · Georgian
ეგ არის თემი – აწ გარდასული. მათია ის, რაც მოიხვეჭეს და თქვენია ის, რაც მოიხვეჭეთ. არ მოგეკითხებათ თქვენ ის, რასაც ისინი აკეთებდნენ.
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Deutsch · German
Dies ist eine Gemeinschaft, die schon vergangen ist; ihr kommt zu, was sie verdient hat, und euch, was ihr verdient habt. Und ihr werdet nicht danach befragt werden, was jene zu tun pflegten.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αυτό ήταν ένα έθνος που έχει περάσει. Θα έχει (τις συνέπειες για) ό,τι έκανε και εσείς θα έχετε (τις συνέπειες για) ό,τι κάνατε. Και δεν θα ρωτηθείτε για ό,τι έκαναν.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
यह एक समुदाय था, जो गुज़र चुका। उसके लिए वह है जो उसने कमाया, और तुम्हारे लिए वह है जो तुमने कमाया। और तुमसे उसके बारे में नहीं पूछा जाएगा, जो वे किया करते थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Loro sono una comunità estinta. A loro quello che hanno guadagnato, e a voi quello che avete guadagnato, e non sarete interrogati sulle loro azioni.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
134. Tai buvo bendruomenė, kuri išnyko. Jie gaus atlyginimą už tai, ką jie įgijo, o jūs – už tai, ką jūs įgijote. Ir jūs nebūsite klausinėjami apie tai, ką jie darė.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Isheen sun ummata dabarte, Isheedhaaf mindaa waan carraaqqatteettu jira; Isiniifis mindaa waan carraaqqattaniitu jira, Isin waan isaan kan hojjatan tahan irraa hin gaafatamtan.
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Русский · Russian
Это — община, которая уже миновала. Ей — то, что она приобрела, а вам — то, что вы приобрели, и вы не будете спрошены о том, что они совершали.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Тај је народ прошао; њему припада оно што је заслужио, а вама што сте заслужили, и ви нећете бити питани за оно што су они радили.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Hao ni watu waliokwishapita. Watapata waliyoyachuma, nanyi mtapata mtakayoyachuma; wala hamtaulizwa nyinyi waliyokuwa wakiyafanya wao.
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Svenska · Swedish
Detta är ett samfund vars tid är förbi. De ska lönas efter vad de har gjort och ni ska lönas efter vad ni har gjort. Och ni ska inte tillfrågas om vad de brukade göra.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Onlar bir ümmetti gelip, geçti. Onların kazandıkları kendilerinin, sizin kazandıklarınız sizindir. Siz onların yaptıklarından sorumlu tutulacak değilsiniz.
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اردو · Urdu
یہ جماعت تو گزر چکی، جو انہوں نے کیا وه ان کے لئے ہے اور جو تم کرو گے تمہارے لئے ہے۔ ان کے اعمال کے بارے میں تم نہیں پوچھے جاؤ گے۔[1]
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Talal Itani2012 And Abraham exhorted his sons, and Jacob, "O my sons, God has chosen this religion for you, so do not die unless you have submitted."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 The same did Abraham enjoin upon his sons, and also Jacob, (saying): O my sons! Lo! Allah hath chosen for you the (true) religion; therefore die not save as men who have surrendered (unto Him)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Abraham instructed his sons therein, and Jacob (saying), 'O my sons! verily, God has chosen for you a religion, do not therefore die unless ye be resigned
John Medows Rodwell1861 And this to his children did Abraham bequeath, and Jacob also, saying, "O my children! truly God hath chosen a religion for you; so die not unless ye be also Muslims
George Sale1734 And Abraham bequeathed this religion to his children, and Jacob did the same, saying, my children, verily God hath chosen this religion for you, therefore die not, unless ye also be resigned
Talal Itani2012 Or were you witnesses when death approached Jacob, and he said to his sons, "What will you worship after Me?" They said, "We will worship your God, and the God of your fathers, Abraham, Ishmael, and Isaac; One God; and to Him we submit."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Or were ye present when death came to Jacob, when he said unto his sons: What will ye worship after me? They said: We shall worship thy god, the god of thy fathers, Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac, One Allah, and unto Him we have surrendered
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Were ye then witnesses when Jacob was facing death, when he said to his sons, 'What will ye serve when I am gone?' They said, 'We will serve thy God, the God of thy fathers Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, one God; and we are unto Him resigned
John Medows Rodwell1861 Were ye present when Jacob was at the point of death? when he said to his sons, "Whom will ye worship when I am gone?" They said, "We will worship thy God and the God of thy fathers Abraham and Ismael and Isaac, one God, and to Him are we surrendered (Muslims)
George Sale1734 Were ye present when Jacob was at the point of death? When he said to his sons, whom will ye worship after me? They answered, we will worship thy God, and the God of thy fathers Abraham, and Ismael, and Isaac, one God, and to him will we be resigned
Easy-read (simplified)waqaaloo koonoo hoodan aw nasaaraa tahtadoo qul bal millata ibraaheema haneefan wamaa kaana mina l-mushrikeen
DIN 31635waqālū kūnū hūdan ʾaw naṣārā tahtadū qul bal millata ʾibrāhīma ḥanīfan wamā kāna mina l-mušrikīna
Talal Itani2012 And they say, "Be Jews or Christians, and you will be guided." Say, "Rather, the religion of Abraham, the Monotheist; he was not an idolater."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And they say: Be Jews or Christians, then ye will be rightly guided. Say (unto them, O Muhammad): Nay, but (we follow) the religion of Abraham, the upright, and he was not of the idolaters
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They say, 'Be ye Jews or Christians so shall ye of Abraham be guided.' Say, 'Not so! but the faith of Abraham the 'Hanif, be was not of the idolaters
John Medows Rodwell1861 They say, moreover, "Become Jews or Christians that ye may have the true guidance." SAY: Nay! the religion of Abraham, the sound in faith, and not one of those who join gods with God
George Sale1734 They say, become Jews or Christians that ye may be directed. Say, nay, we follow the religion of Abraham the orthodox, who was no idolater
Talal Itani2012 Say, "We believe in God; and in what was revealed to us; and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs; and in what was given to Moses and Jesus; and in what was given to the prophets-from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and to Him we surrender."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say (O Muslims): We believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto us and that which was revealed unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received, and that which the prophets received from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and unto Him we have surrendered
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say ye, 'We believe in God, and what has been revealed to us, and what has been revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Tribes, and what was brought to Moses and Jesus, and what was brought unto the Prophets from their Lord; we will not distinguish between any one of them, and unto Him are we resigned
John Medows Rodwell1861 Say ye: "We believe in God, and that which hath been sent down to us, and that which hath been sent down to Abraham and Ismael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes: and that which hath been given to Moses and to Jesus, and that which was given to the prophets from their Lord. No difference do we make between any of them: and to God are we resigned (Muslims)
George Sale1734 Say, we believe in God, and that which hath been sent down unto us, and that which hath been sent down unto Abraham, and Ismael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which was delivered unto Moses, and Jesus, and that which was delivered unto the prophets from their Lord: We make no distinction between any of them, and to God are we resigned
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 —
0.62 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
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.78
Talal Itani · George Sale0.74
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.61
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.46
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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.