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Talal Itani· published 2012
Except those who repent, and reform, and proclaim. Those-I will accept their repentance. I am the Acceptor of Repentance, the Merciful.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Except those who repent and amend and make manifest (the truth). These it is toward whom I relent. I am the Relenting, the Merciful
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
Save those who turn and do right and make (the signs) manifest; these will I turn to again, for I am easy to be turned and merciful
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But as for those who repent and amend, and make known what they concealed, I will be turned unto them, for I am easy to be reconciled and merciful
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
Përveç atyre që pendohen, përmirësohen dhe e bëjnë të qartë (atë që kishin fshehur). Të këtillëve ua pranoj pendimin, ngaqë Unë jam Pranuesi i pendimit, Mëshirëploti.
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বাংলা · Bengali
তবে যারা তাওবা করেছে (১১), নিজেদেরকে সংশোধন করেছে এবং সত্যকে সুস্পষ্টভাবে বর্ণনা করেছে। আমি তাদের তাওবা কবুল করি। আর একমাত্র আমিই অধিক তাওবা কবুলকারী, পরম দয়ালু।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Izuzeti će biti samo oni koji se pokaju i poprave, i to javno ispolje; takvima ću Ja oprostiti, a Ja sam stalni Primatelj pokajanja, Milostivi.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Izuzeti će biti samo oni koji se pokaju i poprave, i to javno ispolje; takvima ću Ja oprostiti, a Ja sam stalni Primatelj pokajanja, Milostivi.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Si wanaa ɓen tuubuɓe ɓe moƴƴini ɓe ɓaŋngini: Mi Jaɓanay ɓen ɗon tuubuubuyee, ko miin woni Jaɓoowo tuubabuya, yurmotooɗo.
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ქართული · Georgian
გარდა იმათისა (მათგან), ვინც მოინანია, გამოასწორა (თავისი საქმეები) და (კვლავ) განმარტა. ასეთთა მონანიებას მე მივიღებ, რადგან მე ვარ მონანიების მიმღები, შემწყალებელი.
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Deutsch · German
Ausgenommen sind diejenigen, die bereuen und (ihre Taten) verbessern und klar machen. Jene, so nehme Ich ihre Reue an, und Ich bin ja der Reue-Annehmende und der Barmherzige.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Εκτός απ' αυτούς (τους Χριστιανούς και τους Εβραίους λόγιους) που στράφηκαν με μεταμέλεια (προς τον Αλλάχ) και διόρθωσαν (τις πράξεις τους), και φανέρωσαν (την αλήθεια που απέκρυπταν). Γι' αυτούς, θα δεχτώ τη μεταμέλειά τους. Και στ’ αλήθεια, είμαι ο Ατ-Ταουάμπ (Αυτός που αποδέχεται τη μεταμέλεια), ο Αρ-Ραχείμ (Πολυεύσπλαχνος).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
परंतु वे लोग जिन्होंने तौबा कर ली और सुधार कर लिया और खोलकर बयान कर दिया, तो ये लोग हैं जिनकी मैं तौबा स्वीकार करता हूँ और मैं ही बहुत तौबा क़बूल करने वाला, अत्यंत दयावान् हूँ।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
tranne quelli che si sono pentiti e hanno fatto il bene e hanno evidenziato il Vero; a quelli perdonerò i peccati, e sono il Perdonatore, il Misericordioso.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
160. Išskyrus tuos, kurie gailisi ir daro gerus darbus, ir atvirai pripažįsta (tiesą, kurią jie nuslėpė). Šie! Aš priimsiu jų atgailą. Ir Aš esu Tas, Kuris priima atgailą, Gailestingiausiasis.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
warra tawbatanii, hojii isaanii tolchan, (dhugaa dhoksan san) ifa baasan malee. warra san tawbaa isaanii irraan qeebala, Ani akkaan tawba-qeebalaa, akkaan rahmata godhaadha.
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Русский · Russian
Кроме тех, которые покаялись, стали совершать праведные деяния и разъяснять истину. У таких Я приму покаяние, ибо Я — Принимающий покаяние, Милующий.
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Српски · Serbian
Изузети ће да буду само они који се покају и поправе, и то јавно испоље; таквима ћу Ја да опростим, а Ја сам Онај који прима покајања, Милостиви.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Isipokuwa wale waliotubu, wakatengeneza na wakabainisha. Basi hao nitapokea toba yao, na Mimi ni Mwingi wa kupokea toba, Mwenye kurehemu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Utom de som visar ånger, korrigerar [sina handlingar] och klargör [vad de har dolt] – deras ånger kommer jag att godta. Det är jag som ständigt godtar ånger, den Barmhärtige.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Ancak tövbe edip ıslah edenler ve gizlediklerini beyan edenler bundan müstesnadır. Çünkü ben onların tövbelerini kabul ederim. Zira ben tövbeleri çokça kabul edip pek çok merhamet edenim.
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اردو · Urdu
مگر وه لوگ جو توبہ کرلیں اور اصلاح کرلیں اور بیان کردیں، تو میں ان کی توبہ قبول کرلیتا ہوں اور میں توبہ قبول کرنے واﻻ اور رحم وکرم کرنے واﻻ ہوں۔
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Talal Itani2012 Safa and Marwa are among the rites of God. Whoever makes the Pilgrimage to the House, or performs the Umrah, commits no error by circulating between them. Whoever volunteers good-God is Appreciative and Cognizant.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! (the mountains) As-Safa and Al-Marwah are among the indications of Allah. It is therefore no sin for him who is on pilgrimage to the House (of Allah) or visiteth it, to go around them (as the pagan custom is). And he who doeth good of his own accord, (for him) lo! Allah is Responsive, Aware
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, Zafa and Merwah are of the beacons of God, and he who makes the pilgrimage unto the House, or visits it, it is no crime for him to compass them both about; and he who obeys his own impulse to a good work,- God is grateful and doth know
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily, Safa and Marwah are among the monuments of God: whoever then maketh a pilgrimage to the temple, or visiteth it, shall not be to blame if he go round about them both. And as for him who of his own accord doeth what is good - God is Grateful, Knowing
George Sale1734 Moreover Safa and Merwah are two of the monuments of God: Whoever therefore goeth on pilgrimage to the temple of Mecca or visiteth it, it shall be no crime in him if he compass them both. And as for him who voluntarily performeth a good work; verily God is grateful and knowing
Easy-read (simplified)inna lladheena yaktumoona maa anzalnaa mina l-bayyinaati wal-hudaa min ba'di maa bayyannaahu lilnnaasi fee l-kitaabi oolaa'ika yal'anuhumu llaahu wayal'anuhumu llaa'inoon
DIN 31635ʾinna llaḏīna yaktumūna mā ʾanzalnā mina l-bayyināti wal-hudā min baʿdi mā bayyannāhu lilnnāsi fī l-kitābi ʾūlāʾika yalʿanuhumu llāhu wayalʿanuhumu llāʿinūna
Talal Itani2012 Those who suppress the proofs and the guidance We have revealed, after We have clarified them to humanity in the Scripture-those-God curses them, and the cursers curse them.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! Those who hide the proofs and the guidance which We revealed, after We had made it clear to mankind in the Scripture: such are accursed of Allah and accursed of those who have the power to curse
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, those who hide what we have revealed of manifest signs and of guidance after we have manifested it to men in the Book, them God shall curse, and those who curse shall curse them too
John Medows Rodwell1861 They who conceal aught that we have sent down, either of clear proof or of guidance, after what we have so clearly shewn to men in the Book, God shall curse them, and they who curse shall curse them
George Sale1734 They who conceal any of the evident signs, or the direction which we have sent down, after what we have manifested unto men in the scripture, God shall curse them; and they who curse shall curse them
Talal Itani2012 But as for those who reject faith, and die rejecting-those-upon them is the curse of God, and of the angels, and of all humanity.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! Those who disbelieve, and die while they are disbelievers; on them is the curse of Allah and of angels and of men combined
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, those who misbelieve and die while still in misbelief, on them is the curse of God, and of the angels, and of mankind altogether
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily, they who are infidels and die infidels, - these! upon them shall be the malison of God and of angels and of all men
George Sale1734 Surely they who believe not, and die in their unbelief, upon them shall be the curse of God, and of the angels, and of all men
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 —
0.68 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 · George Sale0.76
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.75
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.74
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.74
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.61
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.48
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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.