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Talal Itani· published 2012
All that. Whoever venerates the sanctities of God-it is good for him with his Lord. All livestock are permitted to you, except what is recited to you. So stayaway from the abomination of idols, and stayaway from perjury.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
That (is the command). And whoso magnifieth the sacred things of Allah, it will be well for him in the sight of his Lord. The cattle are lawful unto you save that which hath been told you. So shun the filth of idols, and shun lyingspeech
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
That do. And whoso magnifies the sacred things of God it is better for him with his Lord. 'Cattle are lawful for you, except what is recited to you; and avoid the abomination of idols, and avoid speaking falsely
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
This do. And he that respecteth the sacred ordinances of God, this will be best for him with his Lord. The flesh of cattle is allowed you, save of those alreadyspecified to you. Shun ye, therefore, the pollutions of idols; and shun ye the word of falsehood
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
This let them do. And whoever shall regard the sacred ordinances of God; this will be better for him in the sight of his Lord. All sorts of cattle are allowed you to eat, except what hath been read unto you, in formerpassages of the Koran, to be forbidden. But depart from the abomination of idols, and avoid speaking that which is false: Being orthodox in respect to God
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
Kështu pra! E kush i madhëron shenjtëritë e Allahut, kjo është më e mirë për të te Zoti i vet. Të gjitha bagëtitë janë të lejuara për ju, përveç atyre që ju janë shpallur (se janë të ndaluara). Prandaj, largojuni ndyrësisë së idhujve dhe largojuni fjalëve të rreme,
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বাংলা · Bengali
এটিই (হজ্জের) বিধান(১৬)। আর কেউ আল্লাহ কর্তৃক নির্ধারিত পবিত্র বিষয়সমূহকে সম্মান করে তার রবের নিকট তা-ই তার জন্য উত্তম। আর তোমাদের জন্য হালাল করা হয়েছে চতুষ্পদ জন্তু; তবে যা তোমাদের কাছে (আলকুরআন) তিলাওয়াত করে জানানো হয়েছে সেগুলো ছাড়া। সুতরাং মূর্তিপূজার অপবিত্রতা থেকে বিরত থাকো এবং মিথ্যা কথা পরিহার করো।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
To je tako! A ko Allahove zabrane smatra velikim, pa to će mu biti dobro kod Gospodara njegova – a dozvoljena vam je stoka, osim one koja vam se spominje – pa klonite se prljavštine kumira i klonite se lažna govora.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
To je tako! A tko Allahove zabrane smatra velikim, pa to će mu biti dobro kod Gospodara njegova – a dozvoljena vam je stoka, osim one koja vam se spominje – pa klonite se prljavštine kumira i klonite se lažna govora.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɗuum [ko njamiraɗon], kala mawninɗo Hurumji Alla ɗi tawat ɗuum ko moƴƴere makko ka Joomi makko. Daginanaama on neemoraaɗi ɗin, si wonaa kon ko janngaa e taweede mo'on, ngoɗɗitee coɓɗii ɗi immorde e sanamuuji, ngoɗɗitoɗon kadi konngol fenaande ngol.
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ქართული · Georgian
ეს[1] არის ის, რაც ალლაჰმა დააწესა, ამიტომ პატივი ეცით მას. და ვინც პატივს სცემს ალლაჰის საზღვრებსა და აკრძალვებს, ეს მისთვის უკეთესია თავისი უფლის წინაშე. და თქვენთვის ნებადართულია პირუტყვი, გარდა იმისა, რაც თქვენთვის იკითხება (ყურანში) როგორც აკრძალული [მაგალითად, ლეში და სხვა აკრძალული საკვები]. მაშ, ერიდეთ კერპების სიბილწეს, და ერიდეთ ცრუ სიტყვებს.
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Deutsch · German
Dies (ist so). Und wenn einer die unantastbaren Dinge Allahs hoch ehrt, so ist es besser für ihn bei seinem Herrn. Und erlaubt ist euch das Vieh, außer dem, was euch verlesen wird. So meidet den Greuel der Götzen, und meidet die falsche Aussage.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αυτό (έχει διατάξει ο Αλλάχ), και όποιος σέβεται τις τελετουργίες (της θρησκείας) του Αλλάχ (και σέβεται ό,τι όρισε ο Αλλάχ ως ιερό, και απέχει από ό,τι απαγόρεψε κατά την κατάσταση Ιχράμ), αυτό θα είναι καλύτερο γι' αυτόν σε ανταμοιβή από τον Κύριό του. Σας επιτρέπεται να καταναλώσετε τα βοοειδή, εκτός απ' αυτά που σας απαγγέλθηκαν (ότι απαγορεύονται). Αποφύγετε λοιπόν την ακαθαρσία της ειδωλολατρίας και αποφύγετε το ψεύδος,
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हिन्दी · Hindi
ये (हमारे आदेश) हैं। और जो कोई अल्लाह के निषेधों (मर्यादाओं) का सम्मान करे, तो यह उसके लिए, उसके पालनहार के पास बेहतर है। और तुम्हारे लिए चौपाए हलाल (वैध) कर दिए गए हैं, सिवाय उनके जो तुम्हें पढ़कर सुनाए जाते[21] हैं। अतः मूर्तियों की गंदगी से बचो तथा झूठी बात से बचो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
In verità, chi osserva i precetti di Allāh, ciò sarà meglio per lui presso il suo Dio. Vi è stato permesso il bestiame, tranne ciò che vi è stato indicato. Evitate la sporcizia degli idoli e allontanatevi dal dire il falso,
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
30. Tai (Manasik – nustatytos Hadžo prievolės yra pareigos, kurias žmonės turi Allahui) ir kas gerbia neliečiamus Allaho dalykus, tada tai geriau jam prieš jo Viešpatį. Galvijai yra leistini jums, išskyrus tuos (kurie bus) paminėti jums (kaip išimtys). Taigi venkite stabų (garbinimo) bjaurasties ir venkite melo (klaidingų teiginių).
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Русский · Russian
Таково веление. Кто почитает святыни Аллаха, тому это лучше у его Господа. И дозволен вам скот, кроме того, о чём вам читается. Сторонитесь же скверны — идолов — и избегайте лживых речей,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Ето толико! А ко поштује Аллахове светиње, уживаће милост Господара свог. А дозвољена вам је стока, осим оне о којој вам је речено – па клоните се идола поганих и клоните се лажног говора!
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Ni hivyo! Na anayevitukuza vitakatifu vya Mwenyezi Mungu, basi hayo ndiyo heri yake mbele ya Mola wake Mlezi. Na mmehalalishiwa wanyama wa mifugo ila wale mliosomewa. Basi jiepusheni na uchafu wa masanamu, na jiepusheni na usemi wa uongo.
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Svenska · Swedish
Så är det. Den som visar aktning för Guds helgade bud gör något som är bättre för honom inför sin Herre. All boskap är tillåten för er [att äta], förutom det som har nämnts. Håll er borta från avgudars orenhet och avstå från lögnaktigt tal.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Bu böyle. Kim Allah’ın hürmet edilmesini emrettiği şeyleri tazim ederse bu, Rabbi katında kendisi için bir hayırdır. (Haram olduğu) size okunanların dışında kalan hayvanlar size helâl kılındı. Şu halde pisliğin ta kendisi olan putlardan uzak durun ve yalan söylemekten de kaçının.
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اردو · Urdu
یہ ہے اور جو کوئی اللہ کی حرمتوں[1] کی تعظیم کرے اس کے اپنے لئے اس کے رب کے پاس بہتری ہے۔ اور تمہارے لئے چوپائے جانور حلال کر دیئے گئے بجز ان کے جو تمہارے سامنے[2] بیان کیے گئے ہیں پس تمہیں بتوں کی گندگی سے بچتے رہنا چاہئے[3] اور جھوٹی بات سے بھی پرہیز کرنا چاہئے.[4]
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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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 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
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same edition and their orthography differs.
Easy-read (simplified)liyashhadoo manaafi'a lahum wayadhkuroo sma llaahi fee ayyaamin ma'loomaatin 'alaa maa razaqahum min baheemati l-'an'aami fakuloo minhaa wa'at'imoo l-baa'isa l-faqeer
DIN 31635liyašhadū manāfiʿa lahum wayaḏkurū sma llāhi fī ʾayyāmin maʿlūmātin ʿalā mā razaqahum min bahīmati l-ʾanʿāmi fakulū minhā waʾaṭʿimū l-bāʾisa l-faqīra
Talal Itani2012 That they may witness the benefits for themselves, and celebrate the name of God during the appointed days, for providing them with the animal livestock. So eat from it, and feed the unfortunate poor.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That they may witness things that are of benefit to them, and mention the name of Allah on appointed days over the beast of cattle that He hath bestowed upon them. Then eat thereof and feed therewith the poor unfortunate
Edward Henry Palmer1880 that they may witness advantages for them, and may mention the name of God for the stated days over what God has provided them with of brute beasts, then eat thereof and feed the badly off, the poor
John Medows Rodwell1861 That they may bear witness of its benefits to them, and may make mention of God's name on the appointed days, over the brute beasts with which He hath supplied them for sustenance: Therefore eat thereof yourselves, and feed the needy, the poor
George Sale1734 that they may be witnesses of the advantages which accrew to them from the visiting this holy place, and may commemorate the name of God on the appointed days, in gratitude for the brute cattle which He hath bestowed on them. Wherefore eat thereof, and feed the needy, and the poor
Talal Itani2012 Being true to God, without associating anything with Him. Whoever associates anything with God-it is as though he has fallen from the sky, and is snatched by the birds, or is swept away by the wind to a distant abyss.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Turning unto Allah (only), not ascribing partners unto Him; for whoso ascribeth partners unto Allah, it is as if he had fallen from the sky and the birds had snatched him or the wind had blown him to a far-off place
Edward Henry Palmer1880 being 'Hanifs to God, not associating aught with Him; for he who associates aught with God, it is as though he had fallen from heaven, and the birds snatch him up, or the wind blows him away into a far distant place
John Medows Rodwell1861 Sound in faith Godward, uniting no god with Him; for whoever uniteth gods with God, is like that which falleth from on high, and the birds snatch it away, or the wind wafteth it to a distant place
George Sale1734 associating no other god with Him; for whoever associateth any other with God, is like that which falleth from heaven, and which the birds snatch away, or the wind bloweth to a far distant place
Easy-read (simplified)dhaalika waman yu'azzim sha'aa'ira llaahi fa'innahaa min taqwaa l-quloob
DIN 31635ḏālika waman yuʿaẓẓim šaʿāʾira llāhi faʾinnahā min taqwā l-qulūbi
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 So it is. Whoever venerates the sacraments of God-it is from the piety of the hearts.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That (is the command). And whoso magnifieth the offerings consecrated to Allah, it surely is from devotion of the hearts
Edward Henry Palmer1880 That - and he who makes grand the symbols of God, they come from piety of heart
John Medows Rodwell1861 This do. And they who respect the rites of God, perform an action which proceedeth from piety of heart
George Sale1734 This is so. And whoso maketh valuable offerings unto God; verily they proceed from the piety of men's hearts
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
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.75
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.74
Talal Itani · George Sale0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.70
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.65
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.53
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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.