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Talal Itani· published 2012
God, there is no god but He, His are the Most Beautiful Names.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Allah! There is no Allahsave Him. His are the most beautiful names
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
God, there is no god but He! His are the excellent names
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
God! There is no god but he: He hath most excellent names
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
Allahu është Ai përveç të Cilit nuk ka zot që meriton të adhurohet. Ai ka emrat më të bukur.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আল্লাহ, তিনি ছাড়া কোনো (সত্য) ইলাহ নেই; তাঁরই জন্যে রয়েছে সুন্দরতম নামসমূহ।
Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Dawah Association in Rabwah, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Allah, drugog boga osim Njega nema, najljepša imena ima!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Allah, drugog boga osim Njega nema, najljepša imena ima!
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Alla deweteeɗo alaa si wonaa Kaŋko, no woodani mo Inɗe moƴƴe ɗe.
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ქართული · Georgian
არ არის ღვთაება [თაყვანისცემის ღირსი], გარდა მისი (ალლაჰისა)! მას ეკუთვნის უმშვენიერესი სახელები!
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Deutsch · German
Allah - es gibt keinen Anbetungswürdigen außer Ihm. Sein sind die schönsten Namen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αλλάχ! Δεν υπάρχει άλλος θεός που αξίζει να λατρεύεται παρά μόνον Αυτός. Σ' Αυτόν ανήκουν τα Ομορφότερα Ονόματα.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
अल्लाह वह है जिसके सिवा कोई पूज्य नहीं, सबसे अच्छे नाम उसी के हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Allāh, non c’è divinità all’infuori di Lui; a Lui appartengono gli attributi più alti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
8. Allahas! La ilaha illa Huva (niekas neturi teisės būti garbinamas, išskyrus Jį)! Jam priklauso Geriausi Vardai.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Rabbiin dhugaan gabbaramaan isa malee hin jiru. Maqoonni babbareedoon isaaf tahe. [3]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Аллах — нет божества, кроме Него. У Него — самые прекрасные имена.
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Српски · Serbian
Аллах, истинског бога осим Њега нема, најлепша имена има.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Mwenyezi Mungu! Hakuna mungu yeyote isipokuwa Yeye. Yeye ana majina mazuri zaidi.
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Svenska · Swedish
Gud – ingen är värd dyrkan utom han! Honom tillhör de vackraste och mest fullkomliga namnen.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Allah odur ki Ondan başka (hak) ilâh yoktur. En güzel isimler yalnız Onundur.
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اردو · Urdu
وہی اللہ ہے جس کے سوا کوئی معبود نہیں، بہترین نام اسی کے ہیں.[1]
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 To Him belongs everything in the heavens and the earth, and everything between them, and everything beneath the soil.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Unto Him belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth, and whatsoever is between them, and whatsoever is beneath the sod
Edward Henry Palmer1880 His are what is in the heavens, and what is in the earth, and what is between the two, and what is beneath the ground
John Medows Rodwell1861 His, whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth, and whatsoever is between them both, and whatsoever is beneath the humid soil
George Sale1734 Unto him belongeth whatsoever is in heaven and on earth, and whatsoever is between them, and whatsoever is under the earth
DIN 31635waʾin taǧhar bil-qawli faʾinnahu yaʿlamu s-sirra waʾaḫfā
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 If you speak aloud-He knows the secret, and the most hidden.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if thou speakest aloud, then lo! He knoweth the secret (thought) and (that which is yet) more hidden
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And if thou art public in thy speech - yet, verily, he knows the secret, and more hidden still
John Medows Rodwell1861 Thou needest not raise thy voice: for He knoweth the secret whisper, and the yet more hidden
George Sale1734 If thou pronounce thy prayers with a loud voice, know that it is not necessary in respect to God; for he knoweth that which is secret, and what is yet more hidden
Talal Itani2012 When he saw a fire, he said to his family, "Stay; I have noticed a fire; Perhaps I can bring you a torch therefrom, or find some guidance by the fire."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 When he saw a fire and said unto his folk: Lo! Wait! I see a fire afar off. Peradventure I may bring you a brand therefrom or may find guidance at the fire
Edward Henry Palmer1880 When he saw the fire and said to his family, 'Tarry ye; verily, I perceive a fire! Haply I may bring you therefrom a brand, or may find guidance by the fire
John Medows Rodwell1861 When he saw a fire, and said to his family, "Tarry ye here, for I perceive a fire: Haply I may bring you a brand from it, or find at the fire a guide
George Sale1734 When he saw fire, and said unto his family, tarry ye here; for I perceive fire: Peradventure I may bring you a brand thereout, or may find a direction in our way by the fire
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 · George Sale0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
Talal Itani · George Sale0.43
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.43
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.40
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.38
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.38
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.33
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.23
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
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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.