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Talal Itani· published 2012
Whoever obeys God and His Messenger, and fears God, and is conscious of Him-these are the winners.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
He who obeyeth Allah and His messenger, and feareth Allah, and keepethduty (unto Him): such indeed are the victorious
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 whoso obeys God and His Apostle and dreads God and fears Him, these it is who are the happy
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Whoever shall obey God and his apostle, and shall fear God, and shall be devout towards Him; these shall enjoygreatfelicity
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
Ata që i binden Allahut dhe të Dërguarit të Tij, i druhen Allahut dhe i frikësohen Atij, e pikërisht ata janë fitimtarët.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর যে কেউ আল্লাহ ও তাঁর রাসূলের আনুগত্য করে, আল্লাহকে ভয় করে এবং (আল্লাহর আদেশ-নিষেধ মেনে) তাঁর তাকওয়া অবলম্বন করে, (দুনিয়া ও আখিরাতের কল্যাণ পেয়ে) তারাই হবে কৃতকার্য।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Oni koji se Allahu i Poslaniku Njegovu budu pokoravali, koji se Allaha budu bojali i koji od Njega budu strahovali – oni će postići ono što budu željeli.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Oni koji se Allahu i Poslaniku Njegovu budu pokoravali, koji se Allaha budu bojali i koji od Njega budu strahovali – oni će postići ono što budu željeli.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Kala ɗoftiiɗo Alla e nulaaɗo makko on o kuli Alla o rentii [e Lepte makko ɗen] haray ɓen ɗon ko kamɓe ngoni malaaɓe ɓen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და ის, ვინც ემორჩილება ალლაჰსა და მის შუამავალს, უფრთხის ალლაჰს და ეშინია მისი [სასჯელის]. აი, სწორედ ისინი არიან გამარჯვებულნი.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und wer Allah und Seinem Gesandten gehorcht, Allah fürchtet und sich vor Ihm hütet, so sind jene die Siegreichen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Όποιος υπακούει τον Αλλάχ και τον Αγγελιαφόρο Του, και φοβάται τον Αλλάχ και φυλάσσεται από την τιμωρία Του (τηρώντας τις εντολές Του), τέτοιοι πράγματι είναι οι κερδισμένοι.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा जो अल्लाह और उसके रसूल की आज्ञा का पालन करे और अल्लाह का भय रखे और उसकी (यातना से) डरे, तो यही लोग सफल होने वाले हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E colui che obbedisce ad Allāh e al Suo Messaggero e teme Allāh e Gli è devoto, quelli sono i vittoriosi.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
52. O kas paklūsta Allahui ir Jo Pasiuntiniui ( ﷺ), bijo Allaho ir atlieka savo pareigas (Jam), tokie yra sėkmingieji.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Namni Allaahfi ergamaa Isaa tole jedhee, Allaaha sodaatee, Isa eeggate, isaan sun isaanumatu milkaawoodha.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Кто повинуется Аллаху и Его Посланнику, и страшится Аллаха благоговейным страхом, и боится Его, — такие — они и есть достигшие успеха.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Они који се Аллаху и Његовом Посланику буду покоравали, који се буду бојали Аллаха и Њега се чували - то су они који су успели и који су спашени!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na wenye kumtii Mwenyezi Mungu na Mtume wake, na wakamwogopa Mwenyezi Mungu na wakamcha, basi hao ndio wenye kufuzu.
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Svenska · Swedish
De som lyder Gud och hans sändebud, och som bävar inför Gud och fruktar honom – det är de som är de sanna vinnarna.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Kim Allah’a ve Rasûlüne itaat eder, Allah'tan korkar ve O'na karşı gelmekten sakınırsa; işte onlar kurtuluşa erenlerin ta kendileridir.
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اردو · Urdu
جو بھی اللہ تعالیٰ کی، اس کے رسول کی فرماں برداری کریں، خوف الٰہی رکھیں اور اس کے عذابوں سے ڈرتے رہیں، وہی نجات پانے والے ہیں.[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.
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Easy-read (simplified)afee quloobihim maradun ami rtaaboo am yakhaafoona an yaheefa llaahu 'alayhim warasooluhu bal oolaa'ika humu z-zaalimoon
DIN 31635ʾafī qulūbihim maraḍun ʾami rtābū ʾam yaḫāfūna ʾan yaḥīfa llāhu ʿalayhim warasūluhu bal ʾūlāʾika humu ẓ-ẓālimūna
Talal Itani2012 Is there sickness in their hearts? Or are they suspicious? Or do they fear that God may do them injustice? Or His Messenger? In fact, they themselves are the unjust.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Is there in their hearts a disease, or have they doubts, or fear they lest Allah and His messenger should wrong them in judgment? Nay, but such are evil-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Is there a sickness in their hearts, or do they doubt, or do they fear lest God and His Apostle should deal unfairly by them?- Nay, it is they who are unjust
John Medows Rodwell1861 What! are they diseased of heart? Do they doubt? Are they afraid that God and His Apostles will deal unfairly with them? Nay, themselves are the unjust doers
George Sale1734 Is there an infirmity in their hearts? Do they doubt? Or do they fear lest God and his apostle act unjustly towards them? But themselves are the unjust doers
Talal Itani2012 The response of the believers, when they are called to God and His Messenger in order to judge between them, is to say, "We hear and we obey." These are the successful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 The saying of (all true) believers when they appeal unto Allah and His messenger to judge between them is only that they say: We hear and we obey. And such are the successful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The speech of the believers, when they are called to God and His Apostle to judge between them, is only to say, 'We hear and we obey;' and these it is who are the prosperous
John Medows Rodwell1861 The words of the believers, when called to God and His Apostle that He may judge between them, are only to say, "We have heard, and we obey:" these are they with whom it shall be well
George Sale1734 The saying of the true believers, when they are summoned before God and his apostle, that He may judge between them, is no other than that they say, we have heard, and do obey: And these are they who shall prosper
Talal Itani2012 And they swear by God with their solemn oaths, that if you commanded them, they would mobilize. Say, "Do not swear. Obedience will be recognized. God is experienced with what you do."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They swear by Allah solemnly that, if thou order them, they will go forth. Say: Swear not; known obedience (is better). Lo! Allah is Informed of what ye do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They swear by God with their most strenuous oath that hadst Thou ordered them they would surely go forth. Say, 'Do not swear - reasonable obedience; verily, God knows what ye do
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they have sworn by God, with a most solemn oath, that if thou give them the word, they will certainly march forth. Say: swear ye not: of more worth is obedience. Verily, God is well aware of what ye do
George Sale1734 They swear by God, with a most solemn oath, that if thou commandest them, they will go forth from their houses and possessions. Say, swear not to a falsehood: Obedience is more requisite: And God is well acquainted with that which ye do
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Obey God and obey the Messenger." But if they turn away, then he is responsible for his obligations, and you are responsible for your obligations. And if you obey him, you will be guided. It is only incumbent on the Messenger to deliver the Clarifying Message.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: Obey Allah and obey the messenger. But if ye turn away, then (it is) for him (to do) only that wherewith he hath been charged, and for you (to do) only that wherewith ye have been charged. If ye obey him, ye will go aright. But the messenger hath no other charge than to convey (the message) plainly
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Obey God and obey the Apostle; but if ye turn your backs he has only his burden to bear, and ye have only your burden to bear. But if ye obey him, ye are guided; but the Apostle has only his plain message to deliver
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Obey God and obey the Apostle. Suppose that ye turn back, still the burden of his duty is on him only, and the burden of your duty rests on you. If ye obey Him, ye shall have guidance: but plain preaching is all that devolves upon the Apostle
George Sale1734 Say, obey God, and obey the apostle: But if ye turn back, verily it is expected of him that he perform his duty, and of you that ye perform your duty; and if ye obey him, ye shall be directed: But the duty of our apostle is only public preaching
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 —
0.73 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.90
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.83
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.79
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.78
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.77
Talal Itani · George Sale0.76
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.72
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.57
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.55
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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.