Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.
Talal Itani· published 2012
As for those who disbelieve and repel from God's path and from the Sacred Mosque-which We have designated for all mankind equally, whether residing therein or passing through-and seek to commitsacrilege therein-We will make him taste of a painful punishment.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Lo! those who disbelieve and bar (men) from the way of Allah and from the Inviolable Place of Worship, which We have appointed for mankind together, the dweller therein and the nomad: whosoever seeketh wrongfulpartiality therein, him We shall cause to taste a painful doom
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
Verily, those who misbelieve and who turn men away from God's path and the Sacred Mosque, which we have made for all men alike, the dweller therein, and the stranger, and he who desires therein profanation with injustice, we will make him taste grievous woe
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But those who believe not, and seduceothers from the way of God, and from the Holy Mosque which we have appointed to all men, alike for those who abide therein, and for the stranger; And those who seek impiously to profane it, we will cause to taste a grievous punishment
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But they who shall disbelieve, and obstruct the way of God, and hinder men from visiting the holy temple of Mecca, which We have appointed for a place of worship unto all men: The inhabitant thereof, and the stranger have an equalright to visit it: And whosoever shall seek impiously to profane it, We will cause him to taste a grievous torment
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
Ndërkaq, ata që nuk besojnë dhe pengojnë (njerëzit) nga rruga e Allahut e nga Xhamia e Shenjtë, - të cilën e kemi bërë për të gjithë njerëzit, pa dallim, si për vendësit, ashtu dhe për vizitorët, - dhe ata që synojnë të bëjnë padrejtësi në të, Ne do t'i bëjmë të shijojnë dënim të dhembshëm.
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
নিশ্চয় যারা কুফরী করে এবং আল্লাহর পথে চলতে ও মসজিদে হারামে যেতে বাধা দেয়, যাকে আমি স্থানীয় ও বহিরাগত সকলের জন্য সমান করেছি(১০)। আর যে ব্যক্তি ইচ্ছাকৃতভাবে অন্যায়ভাবে সেখানে পাপ কাজ করতে চায়, তাকে আমি যন্ত্রণাদায়ক শাস্তি আস্বাদন করাবো।
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
Nevjernicima i onima koji odvraćaju od Allahova puta i Časnog hrama – a Mi smo ga namijenili svim ljudima, kako za mještanina tako i za došljaka – i onom ko u njemu bilo kakvo nasilje učini dat ćemo da patnju nesnosnu iskusi.
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
Nevjernicima i onima koji odvraćaju od Allahova puta i Časnog hrama – a Mi smo ga namijenili svim ljudima, kako za mještanina tako i za došljaka – i onom tko u njemu bilo kakvo nasilje učini dat ćemo da patnju nesnosnu iskusi.
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
Fulfulde · Fulani
Pellet, ɓeen yedduɓe heɓe faddaade gah Laawol Alla ngol e Juulirde Horminnde nden, nden nde Min mbaɗani ɗum yimɓe ɓen, no fota ter ñiiɓuɗo on e mayre e liigotooɗo on. Kala paalaaɗo ooñorde e mayre tooñe, Min meeɗinat mo immorde e Lepte mu'usɗe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ჭეშმარიტად, რომელნიც გახდნენ ურწმუნონი და სხვებსაც აბრკოლებდნენ ალლაჰის გზიდან [მისდამი სრული მორჩილებისგან] და წმინდა აკრძალული მეჩეთისგან [როდესაც არ შეუშვეს შუამავალი და მორწმუნენი ჰუდაიბიის წელს] რომელიც ჩვენ დავადგინეთ [მორწმუნე] ხალხისათვის თანასწორად განურჩევლად იმისა, მასში ცხოვრობენ ისინი იქ თუ მომთაბარეობენ. და ვინც მოისურვებს იქ [აკრძალულ მეჩეთში] მართალი გზისგან განდგომას უსამართლოდ, ჩვენ ვაგემოვნებთ მას მტკივნეულ სასჯელს.
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 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Wahrlich, diejenigen, die ungläubig sind und vom Weg Allahs abhalten und (auch) von der geschützten (Haram-)Gebetsstätte, die Wir für die Menschen bestimmt haben, gleich ob sie dort ansässig sind oder nur (zeitweilig) zu ihr kommen (, werden ihre Strafe bekommen). Und wer beabsichtigt, dort etwas Abwegiges zu Unrecht (zu begehen), den werden Wir von einer schmerzhaften Strafe kosten lassen.
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 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Πράγματι, εκείνοι που αρνούνται την πίστη και αποτρέπουν τους ανθρώπους από τον δρόμο του Αλλάχ και από το Ιερό Τζαμί που το κάναμε για τους (πιστούς) ανθρώπους, -στο οποίο είναι ίσοι (στο να μένουν μέσα του και στη Μάκκα) ο κάτοικος σ' αυτό (δηλ. στη Μάκκα) και ο επισκέπτης (που έρχεται από μακριά)-, και όποιος θέλει να παρεκκλίνει από την αλήθεια, διαπράττοντας αδικία (αμαρτίες) μέσα του (στο Τζαμί), θα τους κάνουμε να γευτούν ένα οδυνηρό μαρτύριο.
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 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
निःसंदेह वे लोग जिन्होंने कुफ़्र किया[14] और वे अल्लाह के मार्ग से और उस मस्जिदे-हराम से रोकते हैं, जिसे हमने सब लोगों के लिए इस तरह बनाया है कि उसमें रहने वाले और बाहर से आने वाले बराबर हैं और जो भी उसमें किसी अत्याचार के साथ सत्य से दूरी का इरादा करेगा, हम उसे दुःखदायी यातना चखाएँगे।[15]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
In verità i miscredenti sbarrano il sentiero di Allāh e del Masjid Al-Ħarām ﴿الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ﴾, che abbiamo istituito per l’umanità – da noi dedicata, ugualmente, a tutti gli uomini, sia quelli di passaggio che i residenti – e a chi osa profanarla con ingiustizia, faremo assaggiare una dolorosa punizione.
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 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
25. Iš tiesų, tie, kurie netikėjo ir kliudė (žmonėms) nuo Allaho Kelio, ir nuo Al Masdžid Al Haram (Mekkoje), kurią Mes padarėme (atvirą) (visiems) žmonėms, jos gyventojai ir šalies lankytojai yra lygūs ten [kalbant apie jos neliečiamumą ir piligriminę kelionę (Hadž ir Umra)] – ir kas palinksta į blogus darbus ten arba daryti blogą (t. y. praktikuoti daugiadievystę arba palikti islamiškąjį monoteizmą), jį Mes priversime paragauti skausmingą kančią.
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 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
isaannan kafaranii, karaa Rabbiitiifi masjiida kabajamaa irraa namoota dhorgan kan namoota (Makkaan) keessa jiraataniifi kan biyyoota biraa irraa dhufaniif wal qixa goone irraa (namoota) dhorgan (hoonga’an). Namni isa keessatti miidhaan jallachuu barbaade azaaba laalessaa irraa isa dhandhamsiifna.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Воистину, те, которые отвергли веру и отвращают от пути Аллаха и от Заповедной Мечети, которую Мы устроили для людей, [где] равны пребывающий там и пришлый... А тому, кто вознамерится в ней к уклонению по несправедливости, Мы дадим вкусить мучительное наказание.
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
Заиста ћемо онима који не верују и одвраћају од Аллаховог пута и Часне Кабе, коју смо одредили за све људе - једнако за мештанина и за посетиоца, и ономе ко у њој било какво насиље учини, дати да искуси болну патњу.
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
Hakika wale waliokufuru na wakazuilia njia ya Mwenyezi Mungu na Msikiti Mtakatifu, ambao tumeufanya kwa ajili ya watu wote sawasawa, kwa wakaao humo na wageni. Na kila atakayetaka kufanya upotovu humo kwa dhuluma, basi tutamwonjesha adhabu chungu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
De som framhärdar i otro och hindrar andra från Guds väg och från den heliga moskén, som vi har gjort [till ett vallfärdsmål] för alla människor, både bofasta och besökare, och de som vill avvika från tron genom att synda där; [alla dessa] ska vi låta möta ett smärtsamt straff.
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 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Muhakkak kâfirlere, Allah'ın yolundan, yerli ve yolcu bütün insanlar için eşit kılınan Mescid-i Haram'dan alıkoyanlara ve de orada zulüm ile haktan sapmak isteyenlere, elim bir azaptan tattırırız.
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
اردو · Urdu
جن لوگوں نے کفر کیا اور اللہ کی راه سے روکنے لگے اور اس حرمت والی مسجد سے[1] بھی جسے ہم نے تمام لوگوں کے لئے مساوی کر دیا ہے وہیں کے رہنے والے ہوں یا باہر کے ہوں[2]، جو بھی ﻇلم کے ساتھ وہاں الحاد کا اراده کرے[3] ہم اسے درد ناک عذاب چکھائیں گے.
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
About these translations
5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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Easy-read
Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation,
not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil
Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
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Easy-read (simplified)inna llaaha yudkhilu lladheena aamanoo wa'amiloo s-saalihaati jannaatin tajree min tahtihaa l-'anhaaru yuhallawna feehaa min asaawira min dhahabin walu'lu'an walibaasuhum feehaa hareer
DIN 31635ʾinna llāha yudḫilu llaḏīna ʾāmanū waʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti ǧannātin taǧrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru yuḥallawna fīhā min ʾasāwira min ḏahabin waluʾluʾan walibāsuhum fīhā ḥarīrun
Talal Itani2012 But God will admit those who believe and do good deeds into Gardens beneath which rivers flow. They will be decorated therein with bracelets of gold and pearls, and their garments therein will be of silk.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! Allah will cause those who believe and do good works to enter Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they will be allowed armlets of gold, and pearls, and their raiment therein will be silk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, God will make those who believe and do right enter into gardens beneath which rivers flow; they shall be bedecked therein with bracelets of gold and with pearls, and their garments therein shall be of silk
John Medows Rodwell1861 But God will bring in those who shall have believed, and done the things that are right, into gardens 'neath which the rivers flow. Adorned shall they be therein with golden bracelets and with pearls, and their raiment therein shall be of silk
George Sale1734 God will introduce those who shall believe, and act righteously, into gardens through which rivers flow: They shall be adorned therein with bracelets of gold, and pearls; and their vestures therein shall be silk
Talal Itani2012 We showed Abraham the location of the House: "Do not associate anything with Me; and purify My House for those who circle around, and those who stand to pray, and those who kneel and prostrate."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And (remember) when We prepared for Abraham the place of the (holy) House, saying: Ascribe thou no thing as partner unto Me, and purify My House for those who make the round (thereof) and those who stand and those who bow and make prostration
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when we established for Abraham the place of the House, (saying), 'Associate naught with me, but cleanse my House for those who make the circuits, for those who stand to pray, for those who bow, and for those too who adore
John Medows Rodwell1861 And call to mind when we assigned the site of the House to Abraham and said: "Unite not aught with Me in worship, and cleanse My House for those who go in procession round it, and who stand or bow in worship
George Sale1734 Call to mind when We gave the site of the house of the Caaba for an abode unto Abraham, saying, do not associate any thing with Me; and cleanse my house for those who compass it, and who stand up, and who bow down to worship
DIN 31635waʾaḏḏin fī n-nāsi bil-ḥaǧǧi yaʾtūka riǧālan waʿalā kulli ḍāmirin yaʾtīna min kulli faǧǧin ʿamīqin
Talal Itani2012 And announce the pilgrimage to humanity. They will come to you on foot, and on every transport. They will come from every distant point.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And proclaim unto mankind the pilgrimage. They will come unto thee on foot and on every lean camel; they will come from every deep ravine
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And proclaim amongst men the Pilgrimage; let them come to you on foot and on every slim camel, from every deep pass
John Medows Rodwell1861 And proclaim to the peoples a PILGRIMAGE: Let them come to thee on foot and on every fleet camel, arriving by every deep defile
George Sale1734 And proclaim unto the people a solemn pilgrimage; let them come unto thee on foot, and on every lean camel, arriving from every distant road
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 —
0.68 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
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.78
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.76
Talal Itani · George Sale0.75
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.65
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.53
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
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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13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC
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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.