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24:19

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يُحِبُّونَ أَن تَشِيعَ ٱلْفَٰحِشَةُ فِى ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ فِى ٱلدُّنْيَا وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ وَٱللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)inna lladheena yuhibboona an tashee'a l-faahishatu fee lladheena aamanoo lahum 'adhaabun aleemun fee d-dunyaa wal-'aakhirati wallaahu ya'lamu wa'antum laa ta'lamoon

DIN 31635ʾinna llaḏīna yuḥibbūna ʾan tašīʿa l-fāḥišatu fī llaḏīna ʾāmanū lahum ʿaḏābun ʾalīmun fī d-dunyā wal-ʾāḫirati wallāhu yaʿlamu waʾantum lā taʿlamūna

EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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Source Tanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) · Uthmani, Version 1.1
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Uthmani, Version 1.1
Custodian
Tanzil Project
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canonical text
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Commercial use
yes
Modification
contradictory
Licence text
read verbatim
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
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Located at
https://tanzil.net/pub/download/index.php?quranType=uthmani&outType=xml
Convention
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.

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Source Talal Itani, ClearQuran · ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB
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ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB
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Talal Itani / ClearQuran.com
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translation
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Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
Commercial use
yes
Modification
no
Licence text
terms page read
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
7 September 2026
Digest
70b0a8bb6f862f43670f7da1c0da59a4…
Located at
https://www.clearquran.com/downloads/quran-in-english-clearquran.epub
Convention
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.

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Source Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran · 1930 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Edition
1930 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
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None — public domain work
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translation
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Public domain — copyright term expired
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— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
aaff752d4349005282d977eebb863982…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-mohammedmarmadu.json

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.

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Source Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an · 1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Edition
1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
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translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
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Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-edwardhenrypalm.json
Convention
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.

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Source John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an · 1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Edition
1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
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translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
91423dea6a6dccc192457870ed2c08fb…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-johnmedowsrodwe.json
Convention
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.

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Source George Sale, English translation of the Qur'an · 1734 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Edition
1734 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
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translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
05b679f5df49b0579e65f4b83b4c7235…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-georgesale.json
Convention
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.

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Source Tanzil Qur'an text (Simple) · Simple, Version 1.1
Edition
Simple, Version 1.1
Custodian
Tanzil Project
Layer
canonical text
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Commercial use
yes
Modification
contradictory
Licence text
read verbatim
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
d9b5bad94e4725191aa8da9a0404bd8e…
Located at
https://tanzil.net/pub/download/index.php?quranType=simple&outType=xml
Convention
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.

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TranslationsSource fact

The translators word this verse differently

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

Those who love to see immorality spread among the believers-for them is a painful punishment, in this life and in the Hereafter. God knows, and you do not know.

Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Talal Itani, ClearQuran ·ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB·Talal Itani / ClearQuran.com ·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International·retrieved 7 Sep 2026

Translation by Talal Itani, ClearQuran.com https://clearquran.com

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 1875–1936 · published 1930

Lo! those who love that slander should be spread concerning those who believe, theirs will be a painful punishment in the world and the Hereafter. Allah knoweth. Ye know not

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 Palmer 1840–1882 · published 1880

Verily, those who love that scandal should go abroad amongst those who believe, for them is grievous woe in this world and the next; for God knows, but ye do not know

Sources

Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired

Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an ·1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

John Medows Rodwell 1808–1900 · published 1861

But as for those who love that foul calumnies should go forth against those who believe, a grievous chastisement awaits them In this world and in the next. And God hath knowledge, but ye have not

Sources

Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired

John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an ·1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

George Sale 1697–1736 · published 1734

Verily they who love that scandal be published of those who believe, shall receive a severe punishment both in this world, and in the next. God knoweth, but ye know not

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

Në të vërtetë, ata që duan të përhapet pandershmëria në mesin e besimtarëve, do të kenë një dënim të dhembshëm në këtë botë dhe në botën tjetër. Allahu di e ju nuk dini.

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 এটা পছন্দ করে যে, মু’মিনদের মধ্যে অশ্লীলতা ছড়িয়ে পড়ুক, তাদের জন্য দুনিয়া ও আখিরাতে রয়েছে যন্ত্রণাদায়ক শাস্তি। আর আল্লাহ জানেন এবং তোমরা জানো না।

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

One koji vole da se o vjernicima šire bestidne glasine čeka teška kazna i na ovom i na onom svijetu; Allah sve zna, a vi ne znate.

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

One koji vole da se o vjernicima šire bestidne glasine čeka teška kazna i na ovom i na onom svijetu; Allah sve zna, a vi ne znate.

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 yiɗɓe yo bone ɗen sa'ako e [hoore] ɓen gooŋɗinɓe; no woodani ɓe Lepte muusɗe ka aduna e ka Laakara. Alla no Anndi, onon on nganndah.

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

ქართული · Georgian

ჭეშმარიტად, მათ, ვისაც უყვარს, რომ მორწმუნეთა შესახებ უზნეობა [ცილისწამება მრუშობაზე] გავრცელდეს, მტანჯველი სასჯელი ელით ამქვეყნად და მარადიულ ცხოვრებაში, თუ არ მოინანიებენ. ხოლო ალლაჰმა იცის, თქვენ კი არ იცით.

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 es lieben, dass sich das Abscheuliche unter denjenigen, die glauben, verbreitet, für sie gibt es schmerzhafte Strafe im Diesseits und Jenseits. Und Allah weiß, ihr aber wisst nicht.

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 τους αρέσει να διαδίδονται συκοφαντίες για τους πιστούς αποδίδοντάς τους επαίσχυντες πράξεις, θα λάβουν μία οδυνηρή τιμωρία στην εγκόσμια ζωή και στη Μέλλουσα Ζωή. Πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ γνωρίζει και εσείς δε γνωρίζετε.

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 जो लोग चाहते हैं कि ईमान वालों के अंदर अश्लीलता[14] फैले, उनके लिए दुनिया एवं आख़िरत में दुःखदायी यातना है, तथा अल्लाह जानता[15] है और तुम नहीं जानते।

Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5

Italiano · Italian

In verità quelli che desiderano che si diffonda la nefandezza tra i fedeli, avranno una dolorosa punizione, in questa vita e nell’Aldilà, e Allāh sa e voi non sapete.

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

19. Iš tiesų, tie, kurie mėgsta, kad neleisitini lytiniai santykiai (nusikaltimas) būtų praktikuojami tarp tų, kurie tiki, jie turės skausmingą kančią šiame pasaulyje ir Amžinybėje. Ir Allahas žino, o jūs nežinote.

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

isaan gochi fokkataan warra amanan keessatti tamsa’uu jaallatan, isaaniif addunyaafi Aakhiraa keessatti adabbii laalessaa ta’etu (isaaniif) jira. Rabbiin nibeeka; isin hin beektanu.

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 1.0.0

Русский · Russian

Воистину, те, которые любят, чтобы мерзость распространялась среди тех, которые уверовали, — для них мучительное наказание в этом мире и в Последней жизни. Аллах знает, а вы не знаете.

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 онима који воле да се о верницима шире бестидне гласине чека болна казна и на овом свету и на Будућем; Аллах зна, а ви не знате.

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

Kwa hakika wale wanaopenda uenee uchafu kwa walioamini, watapata adhabu chungu katika dunia na Akhera. Na Mwenyezi Mungu anajua na nyinyi hamjui.

Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5

Svenska · Swedish

För de som finner glädje i att osedlighet sprids bland de troende väntar ett smärtsamt straff både i detta liv och i det kommande. Gud vet, men ni vet inte.

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

İman edenler arasında fuhşun (kötülüklerin) yayılmasını arzu edenlere, dünya ve ahirette acı bir azap vardır. Allah bilir, siz bilmezsiniz.

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

جو لوگ مسلمانوں میں بےحیائی پھیلانے کے آرزومند رہتے ہیں ان کے لئے دنیا اور آخرت میں دردناک عذاب ہیں[1] ، اللہ سب کچھ جانتا ہے اور تم کچھ بھی نہیں جانتے.

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.

Which translations appear here is set by copyright: they are the ones whose rights could be documented and cleared. The selection is not a judgement that these are the best.

About 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 Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the same edition and their orthography differs.

The verses around this oneSource fact

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24:17

يَعِظُكُمُ ٱللَّهُ أَن تَعُودُوا۟ لِمِثْلِهِۦٓ أَبَدًا إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)ya'izukumu llaahu an ta'oodoo limithlihi abadan in kuntum mu'mineen

DIN 31635yaʿiẓukumu llāhu ʾan taʿūdū limiṯlihi ʾabadan ʾin kuntum muʾminīna

Talal Itani2012 God cautions you never to return to the like of it, if you are believers.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah admonisheth you that ye repeat not the like thereof ever, if ye are (in truth) believers

Edward Henry Palmer1880 God admonishes you that ye return not to the like of it ever, if ye be believers

John Medows Rodwell1861 God hath warned you that ye go not back to the like of this for ever, if ye be believers

George Sale1734 God warneth you, that ye return not to the like crime for ever; if ye be true believers

24:18

وَيُبَيِّنُ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمُ ٱلْـَٔايَٰتِ وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)wayubayyinu llaahu lakumu l-'aayaati wallaahu 'aleemun hakeem

DIN 31635wayubayyinu llāhu lakumu l-ʾāyāti wallāhu ʿalīmun ḥakīmun

Talal Itani2012 God explains the Verses to you. God is Knowing and Wise.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And He expoundeth unto you the revelations. Allah is Knower, Wise

Edward Henry Palmer1880 and God manifests to you the signs, for God is knowing, wise

John Medows Rodwell1861 And God maketh His signs clear to you: for God is Knowing, Wise

George Sale1734 And God declareth unto you his signs; for God is knowing and wise

24:19 — the verse above

24:20

وَلَوْلَا فَضْلُ ٱللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَتُهُۥ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ رَءُوفٌ رَّحِيمٌ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)walawlaa fadlu llaahi 'alaykum warahmatuhu wa'anna llaaha ra'oofun raheem

DIN 31635walawlā faḍlu llāhi ʿalaykum waraḥmatuhu waʾanna llāha raʾūfun raḥīmun

Talal Itani2012 Were it not for God's grace upon you, and His mercy, and that God is Clement and Merciful.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy unto you, and that Allah is Clement, Merciful, (ye had been undone)

Edward Henry Palmer1880 And but for God's grace upon you, and His mercy, and that God is kind and compassionate

John Medows Rodwell1861 And but for the goodness of God towards you and His Mercy, and that God is Kind, Merciful

George Sale1734 Had it not been for the indulgence of God towards you, and his mercy, and that God is gracious and merciful, ye had felt his vengeance

24:21

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَا تَتَّبِعُوا۟ خُطُوَٰتِ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنِ وَمَن يَتَّبِعْ خُطُوَٰتِ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنِ فَإِنَّهُۥ يَأْمُرُ بِٱلْفَحْشَآءِ وَٱلْمُنكَرِ وَلَوْلَا فَضْلُ ٱللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَتُهُۥ مَا زَكَىٰ مِنكُم مِّنْ أَحَدٍ أَبَدًا وَلَٰكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُزَكِّى مَن يَشَآءُ وَٱللَّهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)yaa ayyuhaa lladheena aamanoo laa tattabi'oo khutuwaati sh-shaytaani waman yattabi' khutuwaati sh-shaytaani fa'innahu ya'muru bil-fahshaa'i wal-munkari walawlaa fadlu llaahi 'alaykum warahmatuhu maa zakaa minkum min ahadin abadan walaakinna llaaha yuzakkee man yashaa'u wallaahu samee'un 'aleem

DIN 31635yā ʾayyuhā llaḏīna ʾāmanū lā tattabiʿū ḫuṭuwāti š-šayṭāni waman yattabiʿ ḫuṭuwāti š-šayṭāni faʾinnahu yaʾmuru bil-faḥšāʾi wal-munkari walawlā faḍlu llāhi ʿalaykum waraḥmatuhu mā zakā minkum min ʾaḥadin ʾabadan walākinna llāha yuzakkī man yašāʾu wallāhu samīʿun ʿalīmun

The translators word this verse differently

Talal Itani2012 O you who believe! Do not follow Satan's footsteps. Whoever follows Satan's footsteps-he advocates obscenity and immorality. Were it not for God's grace towards you, and His mercy, not one of you would have been pure, ever. But God purifies whomever He wills. God is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye who believe! Follow not the footsteps of the devil. Unto whomsoever followeth the footsteps of the devil, lo! he commandeth filthiness and wrong. Had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy unto you, not one of you would ever have grown pure. But Allah causeth whom He will to grow. And Allah is Hearer, Knower

Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who believe! follow not the footsteps of Satan, for he who follows the footsteps of Satan, verily, he bids you sin and do wrong; and but for God's grace upon you and His mercy, not one of you would be ever pure; but God purifies whom He will, for God both hears and knows

John Medows Rodwell1861 O ye who believe! follow not the steps of Satan, for whosoever shall follow the steps of Satan, he will enjoin on him what is base and blameworthy; and but for the goodness of God towards you, and His mercy, no one of you had been cleansed for ever: but God maketh whom He will to be clean, and God Heareth, Knoweth

George Sale1734 O true believers, follow not the steps of the devil: For whosoever shall follow the steps of the devil, he will command him filthy crimes, and that which is unlawful. If it were not for the indulgence of God, and his mercy towards you, there had not been so much as one of you cleansed from his guilt for ever: But God cleanseth whom he pleaseth; for God both heareth and knoweth

Sources

EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Uthmani, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

Parallel edition — Simple, Version 1.1

إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُحِبُّونَ أَن تَشِيعَ الْفَاحِشَةُ فِي الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

Analysis detailsDerived

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 — 0.64 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 · John Medows Rodwell 0.74
Talal Itani · George Sale 0.73
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell 0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 0.69
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 0.68
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale 0.64
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer 0.63
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale 0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale 0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell 0.50

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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SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

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