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Talal Itani· published 2012
Whatever charity you give, or a pledge you fulfill, God knows it. The wrongdoers have no helpers.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Whatever alms ye spend or vow ye vow, lo! Allah knoweth it. Wrong-doers have no helpers
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
Whatever expense ye expend, or vow ye vow, God knows it; but the unjust have no helpers
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And whatever alms ye shall give, or whatever vow ye shall vow, verily God knoweth it; but the ungodly shall have none to help them
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
Çfarëdo të mire që dhuroni dhe çfarëdo zotimi që bëni, Allahu e di mirë, ndërkaq për të padrejtët nuk ka ndihmës.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর তোমরা যা কিছু ব্যয় করো অথবা যে কোন মানত করো তা অবশ্যই আল্লাহ জানেন। আর যালিমদের জন্য কোন সাহায্যকারী নেই।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Za sve što potrošite ili se zavjetujete Allah, sigurno, zna! A onima koji su nepravedni nema pomagača!
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Za sve što potrošite ili se zavjetujete Allah sigurno zna! A nepravednima nema pomagača!
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Kala ko tottirɗ-on he nafake wolla takku-ɗon e takkere pellet Alla na anndi ɗuum, woodanaani tooñooɓe wallooɓe.
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ქართული · Georgian
და რასაც არ უნდა ხარჯავდეთ (მოწყალების სახით) ქონებიდან — ბევრს თუ ცოტას — (ალლაჰის კმაყოფილების მოსაპოვებლად), ან რომელ აღთქმასაც არ უნდა დებდეთ, ჭეშმარიტად, ალლაჰმა იცის ეს. და არ ეყოლებათ უსამართლოებს დამხმარენი.
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Deutsch · German
Und was immer ihr an Spende ausgebt oder als Gelübde ablegt, so weiß es ja Allah. Und die Ungerechten werden keine Helfer haben.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Και ό,τι ελεημοσύνη ξοδεύετε (για χάρη του Αλλάχ) ή ό,τι τάμα κάνετε (π.χ. το να δίνετε χρήματα σε ελεημοσύνη) - πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ το γνωρίζει. Και για τους άδικους δεν θα υπάρχουν υποστηρικτές.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा तुम जो भी दान करो अथवा मन्नत[179] मानो, तो निःसंदेह अल्लाह उसे जानता है और अत्याचारियों के लिए कोई सहायक नहीं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
E ogni elemosina che avete fatto, o ogni voto a cui avete adempiuto, in verità Allāh di ciò è Sapiente, e gli ingiusti non hanno sostenitori.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
270. Ir visa, ką jūs išleidžiate (pavyzdžiui, dėl Sadaka – labdaros vardan Allaho), ir kad ir kokius pažadus jūs duodate, - būkite tikri, Allahas žino visa tai. O Zalimūn (nusidėjėliams) nėra padėjėjų.
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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.
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Русский · Russian
Что бы вы ни израсходовали, или какой бы обет вы ни дали — воистину, Аллах знает об этом. У несправедливых нет помощников.
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Српски · Serbian
За све што потрошите или се заветујете Аллах сигурно зна! А неправедницима нема помагача!
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na chochote mnachotoa au nadhiri mnazoweka, basi hakika Mwenyezi Mungu anajua hayo. Na madhalimu hawana wowote wa kuwanusuru.
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Svenska · Swedish
Gud har full vetskap om allt ni skänker och alla löften ni avlägger. Men de orättfärdiga har inga som kan skydda dem [från Guds straff].
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Türkçe · Turkish
Yaptığınız her harcamayı ve adadığınız her adağı muhakkak Allah bilir. O gün zalimler için hiç bir yardımcı yoktur.
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اردو · Urdu
تم جتنا کچھ خرچ کرو یعنی خیرات اور جو کچھ نذر مانو[1] اسے اللہ تعالیٰ بخوبی جانتا ہے، اور ﻇالموں کا کوئی مددگار نہیں۔
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Talal Itani2012 Satan promises you poverty, and urges you to immorality; but God promises you forgiveness from Himself, and grace. God is Embracing and Knowing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 The devil promiseth you destitution and enjoineth on you lewdness. But Allah promiseth you forgiveness from Himself with bounty. Allah is All-Embracing, All-knowing
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The devil promises you poverty and bids you sin, but God promises you pardon from Him and grace, for God both embraces and knows
John Medows Rodwell1861 Satan menaceth you with poverty, and enjoineth base actions: but God promiseth you pardon from himself and abundance: God is All-bounteous, Knowing
George Sale1734 The devil threateneth you with poverty, and commandeth you filthy covetousness, but God promiseth you pardon from himself and abundance: God bounteous and wise
DIN 31635yuʾtī l-ḥikmata man yašāʾu waman yuʾta l-ḥikmata faqad ʾūtiya ḫayran kaṯīran wamā yaḏḏakkaru ʾillā ʾūlū l-ʾalbābi
Talal Itani2012 He gives wisdom to whomever He wills. Whoever is given wisdom has been given much good. But none pays heed except those with insight.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He giveth wisdom unto whom He will, and he unto whom wisdom is given, he truly hath received abundant good. But none remember except men of understanding
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He bringeth wisdom unto whom He will, and he who is brought wisdom is brought much good; but none will remember save those endowed with minds
John Medows Rodwell1861 He giveth wisdom to whom He will: and he to whom wisdom is given, hath had much good given him; but none will bear it in mind, except the wise of heart
George Sale1734 He giveth wisdom unto whom he pleaseth, and he unto whom wisdom is given, hath received much good: But none will consider, except the wise of heart
Talal Itani2012 If you give charity openly, that is good. But if you keep it secret, and give it to the needy in private, that is better for you. It will atone for some of your misdeeds. God is cognizant of what you do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 If ye publish your almsgiving, it is well, but if ye hide it and give it to the poor, it will be better for you, and will atone for some of your ill-deeds. Allah is Informed of what ye do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 If ye display your almsgiving, then well is it; but if ye hide it and bring it to the poor, then is it better for you, and will expiate for you your evil deeds; for God of what ye do is well aware
John Medows Rodwell1861 Give ye your alms openly? it is well. Do ye conceal them and give them to the poor? This, too, will be of advantage to you, and will do away your sins: and God is cognisant of your actions
George Sale1734 If ye make your alms to appear, it is well; but if ye conceal them, and give them unto the poor, this will be better for you, and will atone for your sins: And God is well informed of that which ye do
Easy-read (simplified)laysa 'alayka hudaahum walaakinna llaaha yahdee man yashaa'u wamaa tunfiqoo min khayrin fali'anfusikum wamaa tunfiqoona illaa btighaa'a wajhi llaahi wamaa tunfiqoo min khayrin yuwaffa ilaykum wa'antum laa tuzlamoon
DIN 31635laysa ʿalayka hudāhum walākinna llāha yahdī man yašāʾu wamā tunfiqū min ḫayrin faliʾanfusikum wamā tunfiqūna ʾillā btiġāʾa waǧhi llāhi wamā tunfiqū min ḫayrin yuwaffa ʾilaykum waʾantum lā tuẓlamūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Their guidance is not your responsibility, but God guides whom He wills. Any charity you give is for your own good. Any charity you give shall be for the sake of God. Any charity you give will be repaid to you in full, and you will not be wronged.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 The guiding of them is not thy duty (O Muhammad), but Allah guideth whom He will. And whatsoever good thing ye spend, it is for yourselves, when ye spend not save in search of Allah's Countenance; and whatsoever good thing ye spend, it will be repaid to you in full, and ye will not be wronged
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Thou art not bound to guide them; but God guides whom He will; and whatever good ye expend it is for yourselves, and do not expend save craving for God's face. And what ye expend of good, it shall be repaid you, and ye shall not be wronged
John Medows Rodwell1861 Their guidance is not thine affair, O Muhammad; but God guideth whom he pleaseth. And the good that ye shall give in alms shall redound unto yourselves; and ye shall not give but as seeking the face of God; and whatever good thing ye shall have given in alms, shall be repaid you, and ye shall not be wronged
George Sale1734 The direction of them belongeth not unto thee; but God directeth whom he pleaseth. The good that ye shall give in alms shall redound unto your selves; and ye shall not give unless out of desire of seeing the face of God. And what good thing ye shall give in alms, it shall be repaid you, and ye shall not be treated unjustly
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 —
0.66 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 · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.76
Talal Itani · George Sale0.76
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.70
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.59
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.55
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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.