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Talal Itani· published 2012
And exhort your people to pray, and patientlyadhere to it. We ask of you no sustenance, but it is We who sustain you. The goodending is that for righteousness.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And enjoin upon thy people worship, and be constant therein. We ask not of thee a provision: We provided for thee. And the sequel is for righteousness
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
Bid thy people prayer, and persevere in it; we do not ask thee to provide. We will provide, and the issue shall be to piety
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Enjoin prayer on thy family, and persevere therein. We ask not of thee to find thine own provision - we will provide for thee, and a happy issue shall there be to piety
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Command thy family to observe prayer; and do thou persevere therein. We require not of thee that thou labour to gainnecessary provisions for thyself and family: We will provide for thee; for the prosperous issue shall attend on piety
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
Urdhëroje familjen tënde që të falin namazin dhe bëhu i qëndrueshëm në këtë! Ne nuk po të kërkojmë ndonjë ushqim, përkundrazi, jemi Ne që të ushqejmë. E përfundimi i mirë u takon të devotshmëve.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর (হে রাসূল! তুমি) তোমার পরিবার-পরিজনকে সালাত আদায়ের আদেশ দাও এবং নিজেও তার ওপর অবিচল থাক। আমি তোমার কাছে (তোমার নিজের জন্য অথবা অন্য কারো জন্য) কোনো রিযক চাই না। আমিই তোমাকে রিযক দেই। আর (দুনিয়া ও আখিরাতের) উত্তম পরিণাম তো মুত্তাকীদের জন্য।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Naredi porodici svojoj da obavlja namaz i ustraj u tome! Mi ne tražimo od tebe opskrbu, Mi tebe opskrbljujemo! A samo za bogobojaznost lijep ishod sljeduje.
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 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Naredi obitelji svojoj da obavlja molitvu i ustraj u tome! Mi ne tražimo od tebe opskrbu, Mi tebe opskrbljujemo! A samo za bogobojaznost lijep ishod sljeduje.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Yamir ɓeynguure maaɗa nden Juulde nden munñitoraa e ɗum, Min laɓndaaki ma arsike ko Minen arsikaymaa. Battane [moƴƴe] ɗen kadi wonanii hulooɓe Alla ɓen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და უბრძანე [ო, შუამავალო] შენს ოჯახს ლოცვის [შესრულება] და იყავი მომთმენი მასზე. ჩვენ არ გთხოვთ სარჩოს, სარჩოს თვითონ მოგცემთ. ხოლო კეთილი დასასრული ღვთისმოშიშთათვისაა.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und ordne deinen Angehörigen an, das Gebet (zu verrichten), und sei beharrlich darin. Wir fordern keine Versorgung von dir; Wir versorgen dich. Und das (gute) Ende gehört der Furcht (vor Allah).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Διάταξε την οικογένειά σου να τελούν την προσευχή, και να είσαι σταθερός με υπομονή κατά την τέλεσή της (τηρώντας τους πυλώνες και τους κανόνες της). Δε σου ζητάμε αγαθά (από σένα για τον εαυτό σου ή για κανέναν άλλον), αλλά είμαστε Εμείς που παρέχουμε αγαθά σε σένα (και σε όλους τους άλλους). Πράγματι, η καλύτερη κατάληξη είναι για (αυτούς που τηρούν) την ευσέβεια (και φυλάσσονται από την τιμωρία του Αλλάχ, τηρώντας τις εντολές Του).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और आप अपने घरवालों को नमाज़ का आदेश दें और स्वयं भी उसपर स्थित रहें, हम आपसे कोई जीविका नहीं माँगते, हम ही आपको जीविका प्रदान करते हैं और अच्छा परिणाम परहेज़गारी का है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E ordina ai tuoi di celebrare la preghiera e persevera costantemente in essa: non ti chiediamo sostentamento, perché siamo Noi a dartelo. L’esito finale dipende dalla devozione!
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
132. Ir įsakyk As-Salat (maldą) savo šeimai, ir būk kantrus jas [t. y. Salat (maldas)] atlikdamas. Mes neprašome tavęs aprūpinimo (t. y. mums ką nors duoti), Mes aprūpiname tave. Ir gera pabaiga (t. y. Rojus) yra Mutakūn (dievobaimingiesiems – žr. ają 2:2).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Maatii tee salaatatti ajaji; isiirratti obsi, Nuti hiree sin gaafannu, Nutu sii hira. Booddeen (gaariin) warra Rabbi sodaatuufi. [21]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Вели своей семье совершать молитву и стойко держись её. Мы не просим у тебя удела — Мы наделяем тебя уделом, и благой итог — за богобоязненностью.
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
Српски · Serbian
Нареди породици својој да молитву обављају и буди у томе стрпљив и устрајан! Ми не тражимо од тебе да сам себе опскрбљујеш, Ми ћемо те опскрбити! А само богобојазнима припада леп завршетак.
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 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na waamrishe ahali zako kuswali, na usubiri juu yake. Sisi hatukuombi wewe riziki, bali Sisi ndio tunakuruzuku. Na mwisho mwema ni kwa ucha Mungu.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Uppmana din familj att förrätta bönen och håll själv fast vid den. Vi begär inte någon försörjning från dig; det är vi som försörjer dig. Den goda utgången är för de gudfruktiga.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Sen aile halkına namazı emret, kendin de sabırla ona devam et. Senden rızık istemiyoruz. Biz seni rızıklandırıyoruz. Güzel akıbet ise takva sahiplerinindir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اپنے گھرانے کے لوگوں پرنماز کی تاکید رکھ اور خود بھی اس پر جما ره[1] ، ہم تجھ سے روزی نہیں مانگتے، بلکہ ہم خود تجھے روزی دیتے ہیں، آخر میں بول باﻻ پرہیزگاری ہی کا 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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Talal Itani2012 So bear patiently what they say, and celebrate the praises of your Lord before the rising of the sun, and before its setting. And during the hours of the night glorify Him, and at the borders of the day, that you may be satisfied.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Therefor (O Muhammad), bear with what they say, and celebrate the praise of thy Lord ere the rising of the sun and ere the going down thereof. And glorify Him some hours of the night and at the two ends of the day, that thou mayst find acceptance
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Bear patiently then what they say, and celebrate the praises of thy Lord before the rising of the sun, and before its setting, and at times in the night celebrate them; and at the ends of the day; haply thou mayest please (Him)
John Medows Rodwell1861 Put up then with what they say; and celebrate the praise of thy Lord before the sunrise, and before its setting; and some time in the night do thou praise him, and in the extremes of the day, that thou haply mayest please Him
George Sale1734 Wherefore do thou, O Mohammed, patiently bear that which they say; and celebrate the praise of thy Lord before the rising of the sun, and before the setting thereof, and praise him in the hours of the night, and in the extremities of the day, that thou mayest be well pleased with the prospect of receiving favour from God
Talal Itani2012 And do not extend your glance towards what We have given some classes of them to enjoy-the splendor of the life of this world-that We may test them thereby. Your Lord's provision is better, and more lasting.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And strain not thine eyes toward that which We cause some wedded pairs among them to enjoy, the flower of the life of the world, that We may try them thereby. The provision of thy Lord is better and more lasting
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And do not strain after what we have provided a few of them with - the flourish of the life of this world, to try them by; but the provision of thy Lord is better and more lasting
John Medows Rodwell1861 And strain not thine eye after what We have bestowed on divers of them - the braveries of this world - that we may thereby prove them. The portion which thy Lord will give, is better and more lasting
George Sale1734 And cast not thine eyes on that which we have granted divers of the unbelievers to enjoy, namely, the splendor of this present life, that we may prove them thereby: For the provision of thy Lord is better, and more permanent
Easy-read (simplified)waqaaloo lawlaa ya'teenaa bi'aayatin min rabbihi awalam ta'tihim bayyinatu maa fee s-suhufi l-'oolaa
DIN 31635waqālū lawlā yaʾtīnā biʾāyatin min rabbihi ʾawalam taʾtihim bayyinatu mā fī ṣ-ṣuḥufi l-ʾūlā
Talal Itani2012 And they say, "Why does he not bring us a miracle from his Lord?" Were they not given enough miracles in the former scriptures?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And they say: If only he would bring us a miracle from his Lord! Hath there not come unto them the proof of what is in the former scriptures
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They say, 'Unless he bring us a sign from his Lord - What! has there not come to them the manifest sign of what was in the pages of yore
John Medows Rodwell1861 But they say, "If he come not to us with a sign from his Lord . . .!" But have not clear proofs for the Koran come to them, in what is in the Books of old
George Sale1734 The unbelievers say, unless he come unto us with a sign from his Lord, we will not believe on him. Hath not a plain declaration come unto them, of that which is contained in the former volumes of scripture, by the revelation of the Koran
Easy-read (simplified)walaw annaa ahlaknaahum bi'adhaabin min qablihi laqaaloo rabbanaa lawlaa arsalta ilaynaa rasoolan fanattabi'a aayaatika min qabli an nadhilla wanakhzaa
DIN 31635walaw ʾannā ʾahlaknāhum biʿaḏābin min qablihi laqālū rabbanā lawlā ʾarsalta ʾilaynā rasūlan fanattabiʿa ʾāyātika min qabli ʾan naḏilla wanaḫzā
Talal Itani2012 Had We destroyed them with a punishment before him, they would have said, "Our Lord, if only You had sent us a messenger, we would have followed Your revelations before we were humiliated and disgraced."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if we had destroyed them with some punishment before it, they would assuredly have said: Our Lord! If only Thou hadst sent unto us a messenger, so that we might have followed Thy revelations before we were (thus) humbled and disgraced
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But had we destroyed them with torment before it, they would have said, 'Unless Thou hadst sent to us an apostle, that we might follow Thy signs before we were abased and put to shame
John Medows Rodwell1861 And had We destroyed them by a chastisement before its time, they would surely have said, "O our Lord! How could we believe if thou didst not send unto us an Apostle that we might follow thy signs ere that we were humbled and disgraced
George Sale1734 If we had destroyed them by a judgment before the same had been revealed, they would have said, at the resurrection, O Lord, how could we believe since thou didst not send unto us an apostle, that we might follow thy signs, before we were humbled and covered with shame
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 —
0.72 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 Rodwell0.87
Talal Itani · George Sale0.86
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.82
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.80
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.76
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.74
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.61
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
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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.