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Talal Itani· published 2012
So Exalted is God, the Ruler, the Real. There is no god except He, the Lord of the Noble Throne.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Now Allah be Exalted, the True King! There is no Allahsave Him, the Lord of the Throne of Grace
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
But exalted be God, the true; there is no god but He, the Lord of the noble throne
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Wherefore let GOD be exalted, the King, the Truth! There is no GOD besides him, the LORD of the honourable throne
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
I Lartësuar është Allahu, Sundimtari i Vërtetë! Askush nuk ka të drejtë të adhurohet përveç Tij, Zotit të Arshit fisnik.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
সুতরাং সত্যিকারের মালিক আল্লাহ মহিমান্বিত, তিনি ছাড়া কোনো (সত্য) ইলাহ নেই; তিনি সম্মানিত ‘আরশের রব।
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
I neka je uzvišen Allah, Vladar istiniti, nema drugog boga osim Njega, Gospodara Arša veličanstvenog!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
I neka je uzvišen Allah, Vladar istiniti, nema drugog boga osim Njega, Gospodara Arša veličanstvenog!
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Alla Toowii Laamɗo Goonguɗo On, dewetee- ɗo alah si wonaa Kaŋko Jooma Arsi Tedduki kin.
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ქართული · Georgian
უზენაესია ალლაჰი [და აღმატებულია ყოველივეზე; შორსაა იმისგან, რომ ჰყავდეს შვილი, სწორი ან რაიმე გასართობად შექმნას], ჭეშმარიტი მეუფე. არ არსებობს ღვთაება, გარდა მისი, და ის არის პატივდებული ტახტის უფალი [რომელიც მისი ქმნილებებიდან უდიდესია].
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Deutsch · German
So sei Allah erhaben, der König, der Wahre. Es gibt keinen Anbetungswürdigen außer Ihm, dem Herrn des ehrwürdigen Thrones.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ύψιστος είναι ο Αλλάχ (και Ανώτερος από ό,τι ατέλειες Του αποδίδουν οι άπιστοι), ο Αλ-Μάλικ (ο Βασιλιάς), ο Αλ-Χακκ (ο Ένας Αληθινός Θεός)! Δεν υπάρχει άλλος θεός που αξίζει να λατρεύεται παρά μόνον Αυτός, ο Κύριος του Ευγενούς Θρόνου.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तो बहुत ऊँचा है अल्लाह, जो सच्चा बादशाह है। उसके सिवा कोई सच्चा पूज्य नहीं, सम्मान वाले अर्श (सिंहासन) का रब है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Sia esaltato Allāh, il Sovrano, la Verità: non c’è divinità all’infuori di Lui, Dio del nobile Trono.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
116. Tad lai Išaukštintas būna Allahas, Tikrasis Karalius. La iliaha illa Huva (niekas neturi teisės būti garbinamas, tik Jis), Aukščiausio Sosto Viešpats.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Rabbiin mootii dhugaa ta’e, ol ta’e, Isa malee Gooftaan biraa hin jiru, Inni Gooftaa Arshii kabajamaati.
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Русский · Russian
Превыше Аллах, Истинный Владыка: нет божества кроме Него, — Господь Благородного Трона.
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Српски · Serbian
И нека је Узвишен Аллах, Истинити Владар, нема другог истинског бога осим Њега, Господара Престола дивног!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Ametukuka Mwenyezi Mungu, Mfalme wa Haki. Hakuna mungu yeyote isipokuwa Yeye, Mola Mlezi wa Kiti cha Enzi Kitukufu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Nej, upphöjd är Gud, den sanne Konungen; ingen är värd dyrkan utom han, den ädla tronens Herre!
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Türkçe · Turkish
Gerçek hükümdar olan Allah yüksektedir, yücedir. O’ndan başka hiç (hak) ilah yoktur. O, şerefli ve yüce Arş’ın Rabbidir.
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اردو · Urdu
اللہ تعالیٰ سچا بادشاه ہے وه بڑی بلندی واﻻ ہے[1] ۔ اس کے سوا کوئی معبود نہیں، وہی بزرگ عرش کا مالک ہے.[2]
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 Whoever invokes another god besides God-he has no proof thereof-his reckoning rests with his Lord. The disbelievers will not succeed.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He who crieth unto any other god along with Allah hath no proof thereof. His reckoning is only with his Lord. Lo! disbelievers will not be successful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and whoso calls upon another god with God has no proof of it, but, verily, his account is with his Lord; verily, the misbelievers shall not prosper
John Medows Rodwell1861 And whoso, together with God, shall call on another god, for whom he hath no proof, shall surely have to give account to his Lord. Aye, it shall fare ill with the infidels
George Sale1734 Whoever together with the true GOD shall invoke another god, concerning whom he hath no demonstrative proof, shall surely be brought to an account for the same before his LORD. Verily the infidels shall not prosper
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 —
0.50 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 Pickthall0.65
Talal Itani · George Sale0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.50
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.39
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.37
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.30
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
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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.