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Talal Itani· published 2012
But if you slip after the proofs have come to you, know that God is Powerful and Wise.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And if ye slideback after the clear proofs have come unto you, then know that Allah is 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
And if ye slip after that the manifest signs have come to you, then know that God is the mighty, the wise
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
If ye have slipped after the declarations of our will have come unto you, know that God is 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
E, nëse shmangeni edhe pasi ju kanë ardhur dëshmitë e qarta, atëherë dijeni se Allahu është i Gjithëfuqishëm, i Urtë.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
অতঃপর তোমাদের কাছে সুস্পষ্ট প্রমাণাদি আসার পরও যদি তোমাদের পদস্খলন ঘটে, তবে জেনে রাখো, নিশ্চয় আল্লাহ মহাপরাক্রমশালী, প্রজ্ঞাময়।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
A ako posrnete, nakon što su vam došli jasni dokazi, onda znajte da je Allah, zaista, silan i mudar.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
A ako posrnete, nakon što su vam došli jasni dokazi, onda znajte da je Allah, zaista, silan i mudar.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Si on ooñike ɓaawo ko ari on he ɓannginaaɗe (laɓɓinaaɗe), nganndee pellet, Alla ko fooluɗo Ñeeñuɗo (ñeeñɗuɗo).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ხოლო თუ გადაუხვევთ (ჭეშმარიტ გზას) მას შემდეგ,
რაც თქვენთან მოვიდა ნათელი სასწაულები [ცხადი მტკიცებულებები ყურანიდან და სუნნადან], მაშინ იცოდეთ, რომ ალლაჰი ძლევამოსილი, ბრძენია.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Wenn ihr aber strauchelt, nachdem die klaren Beweise zu euch gekommen sind, so wisst, dass Allah allmächtig und allweise ist.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Και αν αποκλίνετε (από τον δρόμο της αλήθειας) αφού σας έχουν έλθει οι σαφείς αποδείξεις, τότε να ξέρετε ότι ο Αλλάχ είναι ‘Αζείζ (Παντοδύναμος, Ανίκητος), Χακείμ (Πάνσοφος).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर यदि इसके बाद फिसल जाओ कि तुम्हारे पास स्पष्ट दलीलें[128] आ चुकीं, तो जान लो कि निःसंदेह अल्लाह अत्यंत प्रभुत्वशाली, पूर्ण ह़िकमत वाला[129] है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Ma se cadete in tentazione, dopo che vi sono arrivate le Evidenze, sappiate che in verità Allāh è Potente, Saggio.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
209. Tada, jei jūs svyruojate po to, kai aiškūs ženklai (Pranašas Muchammedas ﷺ ir šis Koranas bei islamas) atėjo pas jus, žinokite, kad Allahas yra Visagalis, Visa Išmanantis.
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.
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 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
А если вы отступитесь после того, как пришли к вам ясные знамения, то знайте, что Аллах — могущественный, мудрый.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
А ако посрнете, након што су вам дошли јасни докази, онда знајте да је Аллах, заиста, силан и мудар.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na mkiteleza baada ya kufikiwa na hoja zilizo wazi, basi jueni kuwa Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mwenye nguvu, Mwenye hekima.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Men om ni skulle avvika [från rätt väg], efter det att de klara bevisen nått er, ska ni veta att Gud är allsmäktig, vis.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Eğer size apaçık deliller geldiği halde yine de hata ederseniz, bilin ki Allah Azîz'dir, Hakîm'dir.
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اردو · Urdu
اگر تم باوجود تمہارے پاس دلیلیں آجانے کے بھی پھسل جاؤ تو جان لو کہ اللہ تعالیٰ 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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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DIN 31635wamina n-nāsi man yašrī nafsahu btiġāʾa marḍāti llāhi wallāhu raʾūfun bil-ʿibādi
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 And among the people is he who sells himself seeking God's approval. God is kind towards the servants.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And of mankind is he who would sell himself, seeking the pleasure of Allah; and Allah hath compassion on (His) bondmen
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And there is among men one who selleth his soul craving, those things that are pleasing unto God and God is kind unto His servants
John Medows Rodwell1861 A man, too, there is who selleth his very self out of desire to please God: and God is good to his servants
George Sale1734 There is also a man who selleth his soul for the sake of those things which are pleasing unto God; and God is gracious unto his servants
Talal Itani2012 O you who believe! Enter into submission, wholeheartedly, and do not follow the footsteps of Satan; he is to you an outright enemy.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye who believe! Come, all of you, into submission (unto Him); and follow not the footsteps of the devil. Lo! he is an open enemy for you
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who believe! enter ye into the peace, one and all, and follow not the footsteps of Satan; verily, to you he is an open foe
John Medows Rodwell1861 O believers! enter completely into the true religion, and follow not the steps of Satan, for he is your declared enemy
George Sale1734 O true believers, enter into the true religion wholly, and follow not the steps of Satan, for he is your open enemy
Easy-read (simplified)hal yanzuroona illaa an ya'tiyahumu llaahu fee zulalin mina l-ghamaami wal-malaa'ikatu waqudiya l-'amru wa'ilaa llaahi turja'u l-'umoor
DIN 31635hal yanẓurūna ʾillā ʾan yaʾtiyahumu llāhu fī ẓulalin mina l-ġamāmi wal-malāʾikatu waquḍiya l-ʾamru waʾilā llāhi turǧaʿu l-ʾumūru
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Are they waiting for God Himself to come to them in the shadows of the clouds, together with the angels, and thus the matter is settled? All things are returned to God.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Wait they for naught else than that Allah should come unto them in the shadows of the clouds with the angels? Then the case would be already judged. All cases go back to Allah (for judgment)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 What can they expect but that God should come unto them in the shadow of a cloud, and the angels too? But the thing is decreed, and unto God do things return
John Medows Rodwell1861 What can such expect but that God should come down to them overshadowed with clouds, and the angels also, and their doom be sealed? And to God shall all things return
George Sale1734 Do the infidels expect less than that God should come down to them overshadowed with clouds, and the angels also? But the thing is decreed, and to God shall all things return
Easy-read (simplified)sal banee israa'eela kam aataynaahum min aayatin bayyinatin waman yubaddil ni'mata llaahi min ba'di maa jaa'athu fa'inna llaaha shadeedu l-'iqaab
DIN 31635sal banī ʾisrāʾīla kam ʾātaynāhum min ʾāyatin bayyinatin waman yubaddil niʿmata llāhi min baʿdi mā ǧāʾathu faʾinna llāha šadīdu l-ʿiqābi
Talal Itani2012 Ask the Children of Israel how many clear signs We have given them. Whoever alters the blessing of God after it has come to him-God is severe in retribution.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Ask of the Children of Israel how many a clear revelation We gave them! He who altereth the grace of Allah after it hath come unto him (for him), lo! Allah is severe in punishment
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Ask the children of Israel how many a manifest sign we gave to them; and whoso alters God's favours after that they have come to him, then God is keen at following up
John Medows Rodwell1861 Ask the children of Isreal how many clear signs we have given them. But if any man shall alter the boon of God after it shall have reached him, assuredly God will be vehement in punishing him
George Sale1734 Ask the children of Israel how many evident signs we have shewed them; and whoever shall change the grace of God, after it shall have come unto him, verily God will be severe in punishing him
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 —
0.46 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Talal Itani · George Sale0.52
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.48
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.48
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.46
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.44
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.44
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.39
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.36
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
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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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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.