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Talal Itani· published 2012
For every congregation We have appointed acts of devotion, which they observe. So do not let them dispute with you in this matter. And invite to your Lord; you are upon a straight guidance.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Unto each nation have We givensacred rites which they are to perform; so let them not dispute with thee of the matter, but summon thou unto thy Lord. Lo! thou indeed followest right guidance
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
For every nation have we made rites which they observe; let them not then dispute about the matter, but call upon thy Lord; verily, thou art surely in a right guidance
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
To every people have we appointed observances which they observe. Therefore, let them not dispute this matter with thee, but bid them to thy Lord, for thou art on the right way
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Unto the professors of every religion have We appointed certain rites, which they observe. Let them not therefore dispute with thee concerning this matter; but invite them unto thy Lord: For thou followest the right direction
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
Për çdo popull Ne caktuam ritet fetare që ata ndjekin, prandaj mos i lejo ata të grinden me ty për këtë çështje! Dhe thirri te Zoti yt, se, pa dyshim, ti je në rrugë të drejtë!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আমি প্রত্যেক জাতির জন্য শরী‘আহ (ইবাদাতের নিয়ম-কানুন) নির্ধারণ করে দিয়েছি, যা তারা অনুসরণ করে। সুতরাং ( হে রাসূল!) তারা যেনো তোমার সাথে এ ব্যাপারে (তোমার শরী‘আহর ব্যাপারে) কোনো বিতর্ক না করে। আর তুমি তোমার রবের দিকে ডাকো। নিশ্চয় তুমি সরল-সঠিক পথেই রয়েছ।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Svakoj vjerskoj zajednici propisali smo vjerozakon prema kojem se trebala vladati, i ne dozvoli, nikako, da se s tobom o tome raspravljaju. Ti pozivaj svom Gospodaru jer ti si, uistinu, na Pravom putu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Svakoj vjerskoj zajednici propisali smo vjerozakon prema kojem se trebala vladati, i ne dozvoli, nikako, da se s tobom o tome raspravljaju. Ti pozivaj svom Gospodaru jer ti si, uistinu, na Pravom putu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Min mbaɗanii kala mofte laawol ngol ɓe ndewata e mu'un, wata ɓe pooɗondir e maaɗa e fiyaake on, noddu fa'ade ka Joomi maaɗa. Pellet, an haɗa e hoore Laawol Pocciingol.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ყოველ თემს დავუდგინეთ ღვთისმსახურების წესები და ისინი ასრულებენ ამას. და არ გეკამათონ ამ საქმეზე. მოუხმე შენი უფლისაკენ. ჭეშმარიტად, შენ [ო, მუჰამმად] სწორ გზაზე დგახარ.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Für jede Gemeinschaft haben Wir einen (gesetzlichen) Ritus festgelegt, den sie (zu) vollziehen (haben); so sollen sie keinesfalls mit dir über die Angelegenheit streiten. Und rufe zu deinem Herrn, (denn) du befindest dich gewiss auf einer geraden Rechtleitung.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Για κάθε (προηγούμενο πιστό) έθνος ορίσαμε (κανόνες στη θρησκεία, και) τελετουργίες (για να θυσιάζουν οι πιστοί κατά το προσκύνημα, βοοειδή), τις οποίες (τελετουργίες) ακολουθούσαν. Έτσι, (ω, Προφήτη) ας μη διαφωνούν μαζί σου (οι ειδωλολάτρες) σ' αυτό το θέμα (της θυσίας που προσφέρεις στις ημέρες της θυσίας στο προσκύνημα, λέγοντας σε σένα: «Γιατί τρώτε τα βοοειδή που θυσιάζετε και σκοτώνετε και δεν τρώτε τα νεκρά βοοειδή που τα σκότωσε ο Αλλάχ;»). Κάλεσε λοιπόν (τους ειδωλολάτρες) προς τον Κύριό σου (και τη θρησκεία Του, και στο να υπακούν την εντολή Του με το να μην τρώνε τα νεκρά βοοειδή και να μη θυσιάζουν για τα είδωλα). Πράγματι, εσύ είσαι σε ίσια καθοδήγηση (ενώ οι ειδωλολάτρες βρίσκονται στη πλάνη).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
(ऐ नबी!) हमने प्रत्येक समुदाय के लिए इबादत की एक विधि निर्धारित की है, जिसके अनुसार वे इबादत करने वाले हैं। अतः वे आपसे इस मामले में हरगिज़ विवाद न करें। और आप अपने पालनहार की ओर लोगों को बुलाएँ। निःसंदेह आप तो निश्चय सीधी राह पर हैं।[36]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Per ogni comunità stabilimmo il rito da seguire: non osino disputare con te su questo. E invoca il tuo Dio: in verità tu sei sulla retta via!
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
67. Kiekvienai tautai Mes paskyrėme religinius ritualus [t. y. galvijų skerdimą trimis apsistojimo Minoje (Mekkoje) dienomis, Hadž (piligriminės kelionės) metu], kuriais jie turi sekti. Tad lai jie (pagonys) nesiginčija su jumis dėl reikalų (t. y. valgyti jūsų paskerstus galvijus arba nevalgyti galvijų, kuriuos Allahas numarina jų naturalia mirtimi), tačiau kvieskite juos pas savo Viešaptį. Iš tiesų tu (Muchammedai ﷺ) tikrai esi (tikrame) teisingame vedime (t. y. teisingoje islamiškojo monoteizmo religijoje).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Ummata hundaaf seera amantii kan isaan irratti hojjatan taasifnee jirra. (mushrikoonni) dhimma kana irratti akka siin hin falmine. Gara Gooftaa keetiitti waami. Ati karaa qajeelaa irra jirta.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Для каждой общины Мы установили обряд, который они совершают. Так пусть же они не вступают с тобой в споры об этом деле. И призывай к своему Господу, воистину, ты следуешь прямому руководству.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Свакој заједници прописали смо верозакон према којем је требало да се влада; и не дозволи, никако, да са тобом о томе расправљају. Ти позивај своме Господару, ти си, уистину, на Правом путу.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Kila umma tumewawekea ibada zao wanazozishika. Basi wasizozane nawe katika jambo hili. Na waite watu kwenda kwa Mola wako Mlezi. Hakika wewe uko kwenye uongofu ulionyooka.
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Svenska · Swedish
För varje samfund föreskrev vi ett religiöst regelverk som de skulle följa. Låt dem inte tvista med dig om detta, utan kalla dem till din Herre; du är sannerligen på rätt väg.
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
Her ümmete uygulamakta oldukları bir ibadet yolu belirledik. Öyleyse, bu iş/din hususunda seninle tartışmasınlar. Rabbine davet et. Hiç kuşkusuz sen, dosdoğru bir yol üzerindesin.
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اردو · Urdu
ہر امت کے لئے ہم نے عبادت کا ایک طریقہ مقرر کر دیا ہے، جسے وه بجا ﻻنے والے[1] ہیں پس انہیں اس امر میں آپ سے جھگڑا نہ کرنا چاہئے[2] آپ اپنے پروردگار کی طرف لوگوں کو بلائیے۔ یقیناً آپ ٹھیک ہدایت پر ہی ہیں.[3]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Talal Itani2012 Do you not see that God made everything on earth subservient to you? How the ships sail at sea by His command? That He holds up the sky lest it falls on earth-except by His permission? God is Gracious towards the people, Most Merciful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Hast thou not seen how Allah hath made all that is in the earth subservient unto you? And the ship runneth upon the sea by His command, and He holdeth back the heaven from falling on the earth unless by His leave. Lo! Allah is, for mankind, Full of Pity, Merciful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Hast thou not seen that God has subjected for you what is in the earth, and the ship that runs on in the sea at His bidding, and He holds back the sky from falling on the earth save at His bidding? verily, God to men is gracious, merciful
John Medows Rodwell1861 Seest thou not that God hath put under you whatever is in the earth; and the ships which traverse the sea at His bidding? And He holdeth back the heaven that it fall not on the earth, unless He permit it! for God is right Gracious to mankind, Merciful
George Sale1734 Dost thou not see that God hath subjected whatever is in the earth to your service, and also the ships which sail in the sea, by his command? And He with-holdeth the heaven that it fall not on the earth, unless by his permission: For God is gracious unto mankind, and merciful
Talal Itani2012 And it is He who gives you life, then makes you die, then revives you. The human being is unappreciative.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And He it is Who gave you life, then He will cause you to die, and then will give you life (again). Lo! man is verily an ingrate
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He it is who quickens you, then makes you die, then will He quicken you again - verily, man is indeed ungrateful
John Medows Rodwell1861 And He it is who hath given you life, then will cause you to die, then will give you life - of a truth man is all ungrateful
George Sale1734 It is He who hath given you life, and will hereafter cause you to die; afterwards He will again raise you to life, at the resurrection: But man is surely ungrateful
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 —
0.59 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 · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.64
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.53
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.42
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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.