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Talal Itani· published 2012
The adulterer shall marry none but an adulteress or an idolatress; and the adulteress shall marry none but an adulterer or an idolater. That has been prohibited for the believers.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
The adulterer shall not marry save an adulteress or an idolatress, and the adulteress none shall marry save an adulterer or an idolater. All that is forbidden unto believers
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
And the whoremonger shall marry none but a whore or an idolatress; and the whore shall none marry but an adulterer or an idolater; God has prohibited this to the believers
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
The whoremonger shall not marry other than a whore or an idolatress; and the whore shall not marry other than a whoremonger or an idolater. Such alliances are forbidden to the faithful
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
The whoremonger shall not marry any other than a harlot, or an idolatress. And a harlot shall no mantake in marriage, except a whoremonger, or an idolater. And this kind of marriage is forbidden the true believers
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 përdali mund të martohet vetëm me ndonjë të përdalë ose idhujtare. Po ashtu, me të përdalën mund të martohet vetëm ndonjë i përdalë ose idhujtar. Ndërkaq, kjo është e ndaluar për besimtarët.
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
(অভ্যস্ত) ব্যভিচারী কেবল ব্যভিচারিণী অথবা মুশরিক নারীকে ছাড়া বিয়ে করবে না এবং (একইভাবে) ব্যভিচারিণীকে কেবল ব্যভিচারী অথবা মুশরিক পুরুষ ছাড়া বিয়ে করবে না। আর মু’মিনদের ওপর এটা হারাম করা হয়েছে।(২)
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
Bludnik se ne treba ženiti osim bludnicom ili mnogoboškinjom, a bludnica ne treba biti poželjna osim bludniku ili mnogobošcu – to je zabranjeno vjernicima.
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
Bludnik se ne treba ženiti osim bludnicom ili mnogoboškinjom, a bludnica ne treba biti poželjna osim bludniku ili mnogobošcu – to je zabranjeno vjernicima.
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
Gorko jinoowo on o resataa si wonaa debbo jonoowo maaɗum cirkoowo, debbo jinoowo on resata mo si wonaa gorko jinoowo ma cirkoowo, ɗum harminaama e dow gooŋɗinɓe ɓen.
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
მრუში (მორწმუნე) კაცი არავისზე დაქორწინდება, თუ არა მრუშ ქალზე ან მრავალღმერთიანზე. და მეძავი ქალი არავისზე გათხოვდება, თუ არა მეძავ კაცზე ან მრავალღმერთიანზე. და ეს [ასეთი ქორწინება] მორწმუნეთათვის აკრძალულია.
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
Ein Unzuchttreiber heiratet keine andere, außer eine Frau, die (auch) Unzucht begeht oder eine Götzendienerin. Und eine Unzuchttreiberin heiratet keinen anderen, außer einen Mann, der (auch) Unzucht begeht oder einen Götzendiener. Und den Gläubigen ist dies verboten.
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
Ο μοιχός δε διαπράττει μοιχεία παρά με μία μοιχαλίδα ή μία ειδωλολάτρισσα (που θεωρεί τη μοιχεία επιτρεπτή), και η μοιχαλίδα δε διαπράττει μοιχεία παρά με έναν μοιχό ή έναν ειδωλολάτρη (που θεωρεί τη μοιχεία επιτρεπτή)! Και απαγορεύεται αυτή (η μοιχεία) στους πιστούς.
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
व्यभिचारी नहीं विवाह[4] करेगा, परंतु किसी व्यभिचारिणी अथवा बहुदेववादी स्त्री से, तथा व्यभिचारिणी से नहीं विवाह करेगा, परंतु कोई व्यभिचारी अथवा बहुदेववादी। और यह ईमान वालों पर हराम (निषिद्ध) कर दिया गया है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
L’adultero non può unirsi che a un’adultera o idolatra ﴿الزَّانِي لَا يَنْكِحُ إلَّا زَانِيَةً أَوْ مُشْرِكَةً﴾, e all’adultera non può che unirsi un adultero o idolatra ﴿وَالزَّانِيَةُ لَا يَنْكِحُهَا إِلَّا زَانٍ أَوْ مُشْرِكٌ﴾, e ciò è stato proibito ai credenti.
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
3. Svetimautojas sanguliautojas neveda nieko kito, tik svetimautoją sanguliautoją arba Mušriką, o svetimautojos sanguliautojos neveda niekas, išskyrus svetimautojas sanguliautojas arba Mušrik [ir tai reiškia, kad vyras, sutinkantis vesti (turėti lytinius santykius su) Mušriką (daugiadievę, pagonę arba stabmeldę) arba parsidavėlę, tada tikrai jis yra arba svetimautojas sanguliautojas arba Mušrik (daugiadievis, pagonis arba stabmeldys). O moteris, kuri sutinka tuoktis (turėti lytinių santykių) su Mušrik (daugiadieviu, pagoniu arba stabmeldžiu) arba svetimautoju – sanguliautoju, tada ji arba parsidavėlė, arba Mušrika (daugiadievė, pagonė arba stabmeldė)]. Toks dalykas draudžiamas (islamiško monotiezmo) tikintiesiems .
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
Dhiirri sagaagalaan sagaagaltuu yookiin dubartii mushrika taate malee hin fuudhu, Dubartiin sagaagaltuunis dhiira sagaagalaa yookiin dhiira mushrika ta’e malee namni biraa ishee hin fuudhu, Sun mu’uminoota irratti dhorgamee jira.[3]
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
Прелюбодей женится только на прелюбодейке или придающей Аллаху сотоварищей, а прелюбодейка — на ней женится только прелюбодей или придающий сотоварищей. Запретно это для верующих.
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
Блудник се не жени осим са блудницом или незнанобошкињом, а са блудницом се жени само блудник или незнанобожац, а верницима је то забрањено.
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
Mwanamume mzinifu hamwoi ila mwanamke mzinifu au mwanamke mshirikina. Na mwanamke mzinifu haolewi ila na mwanamume mzinifu au mshirikina. Na hayo yameharamishwa kwa Waumini.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
En otuktig man gifter sig bara med en otuktig kvinna eller en avgudadyrkare, och en otuktig kvinna gifter sig bara med en otuktig man eller en avgudadyrkare. Sådana [äktenskap] är förbjudna för de troende.
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
Zina eden erkek, ancak zina eden veya Allah’a ortak koşan bir kadınla evlenir. Zina eden bir kadınla da ancak zina eden veya Allah’a ortak koşan bir erkek evlenir. Bu, Müminlere haram kılınmıştır.
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
زانی مرد بجز زانیہ یا مشرکہ عورت کے اور سے نکاح نہیں کرتا اور زناکار عورت بھی بجز زانی یا مشرک مرد کے اور سے نکاح نہیں کرتی اور ایمان والوں پر یہ حرام کردیا گیا.[1]
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
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DIN 31635sūratun ʾanzalnāhā wafaraḍnāhā waʾanzalnā fīhā ʾāyātin bayyinātin laʿallakum taḏakkarūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 A chapter that We have revealed, and made obligatory, and revealed in it clear Verses, that you may take heed.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 (Here is) a surah which We have revealed and enjoined, and wherein We have revealed plain tokens, that haply ye may take heed
Edward Henry Palmer1880 A chapter which we have sent down and determined, and have sent down therein manifest signs; haply ye may be mindful
John Medows Rodwell1861 A SURA which we have sent down and sanctioned! Clear signs have we sent down therein, that ye may take warning
George Sale1734 This sura have We sent down from heaven; and have ratified the same: And We have revealed therein evident signs, that ye may be warned
Talal Itani2012 The adulteress and the adulterer-whip each one of them a hundred lashes, and let no pity towards them overcome you regarding God's Law, if you believe in God and the Last Day. And let a group of believers witness their punishment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 The adulterer and the adulteress, scourge ye each one of them (with) a hundred stripes. And let not pity for the twain withhold you from obedience to Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a party of believers witness their punishment
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The whore and the whoremonger. Scourge each of them with a hundred stripes, and do not let pity for them take hold of you in God's religion, if ye believe in God and the last day; and let a party of the believers witness their torment
John Medows Rodwell1861 The whore and the whoremonger - scourge each of them with an hundred stripes; and let not compassion keep you from carrying out the sentence of God, if ye believe in God and the last day: And let some of the faithful witness their chastisement
George Sale1734 The whore, and the whoremonger, shall ye scourge with an hundred stripes. And let not compassion towards them prevent you from executing the judgment of God; if ye believe in God and the last day: And let some of the true believers be witnesses of their punishment
Talal Itani2012 Those who accuse chaste women, then cannot bring four witnesses, whip them eighty lashes, and do not ever accept their testimony. For these are the immoral.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And those who accuse honourable women but bring not four witnesses, scourge them (with) eighty stripes and never (afterward) accept their testimony - They indeed are evil-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 but those who cast (imputations) on chaste women and then do not bring four witnesses, scourge them with eighty stripes, and do not receive any testimony of theirs ever, for these are the workers of abomination
John Medows Rodwell1861 They who defame virtuous women, and bring not four witnesses, scourge them with fourscore stripes, and receive ye not their testimony for ever, for these are perverse persons
George Sale1734 But as to those who accuse women of reputation of whoredom, and produce not four witnesses of the fact, scourge them with fourscore stripes, and receive not their testimony for ever; for such are infamous prevaricators
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.76
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.73
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.66
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.46
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.42
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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.