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
Bad women are for bad men, and bad men are for bad women, and good women are for good men, and good men are for good women. Those are acquitted of what they say. There is forgiveness for them, and a generous provision.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Vile women are for vile men, and vile men for vile women. Good women are for good men, and good men for good women; such are innocent of that which people say: For them is pardon and a bountiful provision
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
The vile women to the vile men, and the vile men to the vile women; and the good women to the good men, and the good men to the good women: these are clear of what they say to them - forgiveness and a noble provision
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Bad women for bad men, and bad men for bad women; but virtuous women for virtuous men, and virtuous men for virtuous women! These shall be cleared from calumnies; theirs shall be forgiveness and an honourable provision
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
The wicked women should be joined to the wicked men, and the wicked men to the wicked women; but the good women should be married to the good men, and the good men to the good women. These shall be cleared from the calumnies which slanderersspeak of them: They shall obtain pardon, and an honourable provision
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
Gratë e pandershme janë për burrat e pandershëm dhe burrat e pandershëm janë për gratë e pandershme. Gratë e ndershme janë për burrat e ndershëm dhe burrat e ndershëm janë për gratë e ndershme. Këta janë të pastër nga ajo që thonë (shpifësit). Për ta do të ketë falje dhe furnizim bujar.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
দুশ্চরিত্রা নারীরা দুশ্চরিত্র পুরুষদের জন্য এবং দুশ্চরিত্র পুরুষরা দুশ্চরিত্রা নারীদের জন্য। আর সচ্চরিত্রা নারীরা সচ্চরিত্র পুরুষদের জন্য এবং সচ্চরিত্র পুরুষরা সচ্চরিত্রা নারীদের জন্য; (নিকৃষ্ট) লোকেরা যা বলে, তারা তা থেকে মুক্ত ও পবিত্র। তাদের জন্য রয়েছে ক্ষমা ও সম্মানজনক রিযক (জান্নাত)।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Nevaljale žene su za nevaljale muškarce, a nevaljali muškarci su za nevaljale žene; čestite žene su za čestite muškarce, a čestiti muškarci su za čestite žene. Oni nisu krivi za ono što o njima govore, njih čeka oprost i veliko obilje.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Nevaljale žene su za nevaljale muškarce, a nevaljali muškarci su za nevaljale žene; čestite žene su za čestite muškarce, a čestiti muškarci su za čestite žene. Oni nisu krivi za ono što o njima govore, njih čeka oprost i veliko obilje.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Rewɓe soɓɓe ɓen ko fii worɓe soɓɓe ɓen. Worɓe soɓɓe ɓen ko fii rewɓe soɓuɓe ɓen. Rewɓe laaɓɓe ɓen ko fii worɓe laaɓɓe ɓen, worɓe laaɓuɓe ɓen ko fii rewɓe laaɓuɓe ɓen. Ɓee ɗoo ko hisnaaɓe e kon ko ɓe wowlata, no woodani ɓe haforaneede e arsike tedduɗo.
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ქართული · Georgian
ბილწი ქალები — ბილწი კაცებისთვის, ბილწი კაცები კი ბილწი ქალებისთვის, კეთილი ქალები — კეთილი კაცებისთვის, და კეთილი კაცები კი კეთილი ქალებისთვის. ისინი უდანაშაულონი არიან იმაში, რასაც მათ შესახებ ამბობენ, და მათთვისაა პატიება და კეთილი სარჩო.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Die schlechten Frauen gehören zu schlechten Männern, und die schlechten Männer gehören zu schlechten Frauen. Die guten Frauen gehören zu guten Männern, und die guten Männer gehören zu guten Frauen. Jene sind freigesprochen von dem, was man (über sie) redet. Für sie gibt es Vergebung und ehrenvolle Versorgung.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Οι κακές (λέξεις και συκοφαντίες) είναι από τους κακούς (ανθρώπους), και οι κακοί (άνθρωποι) είναι αυτοί που λένε τις κακές (λέξεις και συκοφαντίες), και οι καλές (λέξεις) είναι από τους καλούς (ανθρώπους), και οι καλοί (άνθρωποι) είναι αυτοί που λένε τις καλές (λέξεις). Εκείνοι (οι καλοί άνθρωποι) είναι αθώοι από όσα λένε (οι συκοφάντες γι’ αυτούς). Θα έχουν συγχώρεση και γενναιόδωρα αγαθά.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
अपवित्र स्त्रियाँ, अपवित्र पुरुषों के लिए हैं तथा अपवित्र पुरुष, अपवित्र स्त्रियों के लिए हैं। और पवित्र स्त्रियाँ, पवित्र पुरुषों के लिए हैं तथा पवित्र पुरुष, पवित्र स्त्रियों[17] के लिए हैं। ये लोग उससे बरी किए हुए हैं, जो वे कहते हैं। इनके लिए बड़ी क्षमा तथा सम्मान वाली जीविका है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Le malvagie si addicono ai malvagi, e i malvagi si addicono alle malvagie[78]. E le buone ai buoni, e i buoni alle buone; quelli sono discolpati dalle maldicenze altrui e avranno perdono e un buon sostentamento.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
26. Blogi pareiškimai yra blogiems žmonėms (arba blogos moterys blogiems vyrams) ir blogi žmonės yra blogiems pareiškimams (arba blogi vyrai blogoms moterims). Geri pareiškimai yra geriems žmonėms (arba geros moterys geriems vyrams) ir geri žmonės geriems pareiškimams (arba geri vyrai geroms moterims): tokie (geri žmonės) yra nekalti dėl (visų) blogų pareiškimų, kuriuos jie sako. Jiems yra Atleidimas ir Rizkun Karim (dosnus išlaikymas, t. y. Rojus).
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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
Порочные женщины — для порочных мужчин, и порочные мужчины — для порочных женщин. А чистые женщины — для чистых мужчин, и чистые мужчины — для чистых женщин. Они непричастны к тому, что [о них] говорят. Для них — прощение и щедрый удел.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Неваљале жене припадају неваљалим мушкарцима, а неваљали мушкарци припадају неваљалим женама; честите жене припадају честитим мушкарцима, а честити мушкарци припадају честитим женама. Они нису криви за оно што о њима говоре, њих чека опрост и велико обиље.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Wanawake waovu ni wa wanaume waovu, na wanaume waovu ni wa wanawake waovu. Na wanawake wema ni wa wanaume wema, na wanaume wema ni wa wanawake wema. Hao wameepushwa na hayo wanayoyasema; wao watapata msamaha na riziki ya ukarimu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Omoraliska kvinnor är för omoraliska män, och omoraliska män är för omoraliska kvinnor. Och goda kvinnor är för goda män, och goda män är för goda kvinnor. Dessa är oskyldiga till vad som sagts om dem. För dem väntar förlåtelse och en ädel försörjning.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Kötü kadınlar kötü erkeklere, kötü erkekler kötü kadınlara, temiz kadınlar temiz erkeklere, temiz erkekler de temiz kadınlara yaraşır. Bunlar (temiz kadınlar ve erkekler), (iftiracıların) söylediklerinden çok uzaktırlar ve onlar için bir bağışlanma ve güzel bir rızık vardır.
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اردو · Urdu
خبیﺚ عورتیں خبیﺚ مردوں کے ﻻئق ہیں اور خبیﺚ مرد خبیﺚ عورتوں کے ﻻئق ہیں اور پاک عورتیں پاک مردوں کے ﻻئق ہیں اور پاک مرد پاک عورتوں کے ﻻئق ہیں[1] ۔ ایسے پاک لوگوں کے متعلق جو کچھ بکواس (بہتان باز) کر رہے ہیں وه ان سے بالکل بری ہیں، ان کے لئے بخشش ہے اور عزت والی روزی.[2]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Talal Itani2012 O you who believe! Do not enter homes other than your own, until you have asked permission and greeted their occupants. That is better for you, that you may be aware.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye who believe! Enter not houses other than your own without first announcing your presence and invoking peace upon the folk thereof. That is better for you, that ye may be heedful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who believe! enter not into houses which are not your own houses, until ye have asked leave and saluted the people thereof, that is better for you; haply ye may be mindful
John Medows Rodwell1861 O ye who believe! enter not into other houses than your own, until ye have asked leave, and have saluted its inmates. This will be best for you: haply ye will bear this in mind
George Sale1734 O true believers, enter not any houses, besides your own houses, until ye have asked leave, and have saluted the family thereof: This is better for you; peradventure ye will be admonished
Talal Itani2012 And if you find no one in them, do not enter them until you are given permission. And if it is said to you, "Turn back," then turn back. That is more proper for you. God is aware of what you do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if ye find no-one therein, still enter not until permission hath been given. And if it be said unto you: Go away again, then go away, for it is purer for you. Allah knoweth what ye do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And if ye find no one therein, then do not enter them until permission is given you, and if it be said to you, 'Go back!' then go back, it is purer for you; for God of what ye do doth know
John Medows Rodwell1861 And if ye find no one therein, then enter it not till leave be given you; and if it be said to you, "Go ye back," then go ye back. This will be more blameless in you, and God knoweth what ye do
George Sale1734 And if ye shall find no person in the houses, yet do not enter them, until leave be granted you: And if it be said unto you, return back; do ye return back. This will be more decent for you; and God knoweth that which ye do
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 —
0.70 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.85
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.81
Talal Itani · George Sale0.80
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.77
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.77
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.50
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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.