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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Say (OMuhammad, unto mankind): I warn you only by the Inspiration. But the deaf hear not the call when they are warned
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
Say, 'I only warn you by inspiration;' but the deaf hear not the call when they are warned
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Say, I only preach unto you the revelation of God: But the deaf will not hear thy call, whenever they are preached unto
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
Thuaj: "Në të vërtetë, unë ju paralajmëroj vetëm me shpallje." Por, të shurdhrit nuk e dëgjojnë thirrjen kur paralajmërohen.
Translated by the team of 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 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
(হে রাসূল!) বলো, আমি তো কেবল আমার প্রতি প্রেরিত ওয়াহীর মাধ্যমে তোমাদেরকে (আল্লাহর শাস্তি সম্পর্কে) সতর্ক করি। কিন্তু বধিররা যখন তাদের সতর্ক করা হয়, সে আহ্বান শোনে না।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Reci: “Ja vas opominjem Objavom!”, ali gluhi ne čuju poziv kad se opominju.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Reci: “Ja vas opominjem Objavom!” ali gluhi ne čuju poziv kad se opominju.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Maaku: "Anndu ko mi woni jeertinirde on ko Wahyu on, [kono] paho on nanataa noddaandu ndu, si ɓe njertinaama".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
უთხარი [ო, შუამავალო]: «მე მხოლოდ გამაფრთხილებელი გახლავართ თქვენთვის (სასჯელის შესახებ) გამოცხადებით (ალლაჰისგან) [არაფერს ვამბობ საკუთარი სურვილით]». მაგრამ არ ესმით მომწოდებლის მოწოდება ყრუ ხალხს, როცა აფრთხილებენ.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Sag: „Ich warne euch ja nur mit der Eingebung. Aber die Tauben hören nicht den Ruf, wenn sie gewarnt werden.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Πες (ω, Προφήτη, στους ανθρώπους): «Σας προειδοποιώ (για την τιμωρία του Αλλάχ) μόνο με την αποκάλυψη (το Κορ’άν).» Αλλά οι κωφοί δεν ακούν την κλήση όταν προειδοποιούνται.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
(ऐ नबी!) आप कह दें कि मैं तो तुम्हें केवल वह़्य के साथ डराता हूँ। और बहरे पुकार को नहीं सुनते, जब कभी डराए जाते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Di’: «In verità non faccio che ammonirvi con l’ispirazione!» Ma i sordi non sentono l’appello quando vengono ammoniti.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
45. Sakyk (Muchammedai ﷺ): „Aš įspėju jus tik apreiškimu (iš Allaho, o ne religijos mokslininkų ar kitų nuomonės). Tačiau kurti (kurie aklai seka religijos mokslininkais ir kitais) negirdės kvietimo, (netgi) kai jie yra perspėjami [t. y. reikia sekti tik Koranu ir Sunna (teisinėmis tradicijomis, įsakymais, garbinimo būdais, Pranašo Muchammedo ﷺ žodžiais, kaip elgėsi Pranašo ﷺ kompanjonai)].
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Русский · Russian
Скажи: «Воистину, я лишь предостерегаю вас Откровением». Но глухие не слышат зова, когда их предостерегают.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Реци: „Ја вас упозоравам Објавом!“ Али, глуви не чују позив када се упозоравају.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Sema: Mimi ninawaonya kwa ufunuo (wahyi). Na viziwi hawasikii wito wanapoonywa.
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Svenska · Swedish
Säg: ”Min varning grundar sig endast på ren uppenbarelse.” Men de döva hör inte kallelsen när de varnas.
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Türkçe · Turkish
De ki: “Ben sizi ancak vahiy ile uyarıyorum.” Ama sağırlar uyarıldıkları vakit çağrıyı işitmezler.
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اردو · Urdu
کہہ دیجئے! میں تو تمہیں اللہ کی وحی کے ذریعہ آگاه کر رہا ہوں مگر بہرے لوگ بات نہیں سنتے جبکہ انہیں آگاه کیا جائے.[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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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DIN 31635ʾam lahum ʾālihatun tamnaʿuhum min dūninā lā yastaṭīʿūna naṣra ʾanfusihim walā hum minnā yuṣḥabūna
Talal Itani2012 Or do they have gods who can defend them against Us? They cannot help themselves, nor will they be protected from Us.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Or have they gods who can shield them from Us? They cannot help themselves nor can they be defended from Us
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Have they gods to defend them against us? These cannot help themselves, nor shall they be abetted against us
John Medows Rodwell1861 Have they gods beside Us who can defend them? For their own succour have they no power; neither shall the gods they join with God screen them from Us
George Sale1734 Have they gods who will defend them, besides us? They are not able to help themselves; neither shall they be assisted against us by their companions
DIN 31635bal mattaʿnā hāʾulāʾi waʾābāʾahum ḥattā ṭāla ʿalayhimu l-ʿumuru ʾafalā yarawna ʾannā naʾtī l-ʾarḍa nanquṣuhā min ʾaṭrāfihā ʾafahumu l-ġālibūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 We have given these enjoyments, and their ancestors, until time grew long upon them. Do they not see how We gradually reduce the land from its extremities? Are they then the victors?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Nay, but We gave these and their fathers ease until life grew long for them. See they not how we aim to the land, reducing it of its outlying parts? Can they then be the victors
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Nay, but we have granted enjoyment to these men and to their fathers whilst life was prolonged. Do they not see that we come to the land and shorten its borders? Shall they then prevail
John Medows Rodwell1861 Yes! we have given these men and their fathers enjoyments so long as their life lasted. What! see they not that we come to a land and straiten its borders Is it they who are the conquerors
George Sale1734 But We have permitted these men and their fathers to enjoy worldly prosperity, so long as life was continued unto them. Do they not perceive that We come unto the land of the unbelievers, and straiten the borders thereof? Shall they therefore be the conquerors
DIN 31635walaʾin massathum nafḥatun min ʿaḏābi rabbika layaqūlunna yā waylanā ʾinnā kunnā ẓālimīna
Talal Itani2012 And when a breath of your Lord's punishment touches them, they say, "Woe to us, we were truly wicked."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if a breath of thy Lord's punishment were to touch them, they assuredly would say: Alas for us! Lo! we were wrong-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But if a blast of the torment of thy Lord touches them, they will surely say, 'O, woe is us! verily, we were wrong-doers
John Medows Rodwell1861 Yet if a breath of thy Lord's chastisement touch them, they will assuredly say, "Oh! woe to us! we have indeed been offenders
George Sale1734 Yet if the least breath of the punishment of thy Lord touch them, they will surely say, alas for us! Verily we have been unjust
Talal Itani2012 We will set up the scales of justice for the Day of Resurrection, so that no soul will suffer the least injustice. And even if it be the weight of a mustard-seed, We will bring it up. Sufficient are We as Reckoners.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And We set a just balance for the Day of Resurrection so that no soul is wronged in aught. Though it be of the weight of a grain of mustard seed, We bring it. And We suffice for reckoners
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We will place just balances upon the resurrection day, and no soul shall be wronged at all, even though it be the weight of a grain of mustard seed, we will bring it; for we are good enough at reckoning up
John Medows Rodwell1861 Just balances will we set up for the day of the resurrection, neither shall any soul be wronged in aught; though, were a work but the weight of a grain of mustard seed, we would bring it forth to be weighed: and our reckoning will suffice
George Sale1734 We will appoint just balances for the day of resurrection; neither shall any soul be injured at all: Although the merit or guilt of an action be of the weight of a grain of mustard-seed only, We will produce it publicly; and there will be sufficient accountants with Us
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.53 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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 Sale0.66
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.50
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.30
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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.