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Talal Itani· published 2012
He to whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, who took to Himself no son, who never had a partner in His kingship; who created everything and determined its measure.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
He unto Whom belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth, He hath chosen no son nor hath He any partner in the Sovereignty. He hath created everything and hath meted out for it a measure
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
whose is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and who has not taken to Himself a son, and who has no partner in His kingdom, and created everything, and then decreed it determinately
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
His the Kingdom of the Heavens and of the Earth! No son hath He begotten! No partner hath He in his Empire! All things hath He created, and decreeing hath decreed their destinies
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Unto whom belongeth the kingdom of heaven and of earth: Who hath begotten no issue; and hath no partner in his kingdom: Who hath created all things; and disposed the sameaccording to his determinate will
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
Atij i takon sundimi i qiejve dhe i Tokës; Ai nuk ka lindur kurrë fëmijë dhe nuk ka ortak në sundimin e Tij. Ai ka krijuar çdo gjë dhe e ka përcaktuar saktësisht.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
তিনি ঐ সত্ত্বা যার অধিকারে রয়েছে আসমানসমূহ ও জমিনের মালিকানা। আর তিনি কোনো সন্তান গ্রহণ করেননি এবং সার্বভৌমত্বে তাঁর কোনো শরীক নেই। তিনি সবকিছু সৃষ্টি করেছেন। অতঃপর তা যথাযোগ্য অনুপাতে নির্ধারণ করেছেন।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Onaj Kome pripada vlast na nebesima i na Zemlji, Koji nema djeteta, Koji u vlasti nema ortaka i Koji je sve stvorio i kako treba uredio!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Onaj Kome pripada vlast na nebesima i na Zemlji, Koji nema djeteta, Koji u vlasti nema ortaka i Koji je sve stvorio i kako treba uredio!
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Oon mo woodanii ɗum Laamu kammuuji ɗin e leydi ndin, o jogitaaki ɓiɗɗo laatanaaki mo kadi kafidaaɗo ka Laamu. O tagii kala hu'unde O eɓɓindiinde e eɓɓugol.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
იგია, რომელსაც ეკუთვნის მეუფება ცათა და ქვეყნისა. მას არ ჰყავს ძე და არ ჰყოლია მოზიარე მეუფებაში. მან ყოველი ქმნილება შექმნა და თითოეულს თავისი ზუსტი საზომი დაუწესა,
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Deutsch · German
Er, Dem die Herrschaft der Himmel und der Erde gehört, Der Sich kein Kind genommen hat und Der keinen Teilhaber an der Herrschaft hat und alles erschaffen und ihm dabei sein rechtes Maß gegeben hat.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αυτός στον Οποίον ανήκει το Βασίλειο (και η Κυριαρχία) των ουρανών και της γης, και δεν απέκτησε κανέναν υιό, ούτε έχει κανέναν εταίρο στο Βασίλειό Του. Δημιούργησε κάθε πράγμα, και καθόρισε τη δημιουργία του με ακρίβεια (σύμφωνα με τις κατάλληλες αναλογίες του).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
(वह अस्तित्व) जिसके लिए आकाशों तथा धरती का राज्य है, तथा उसने (अपने लिए) कोई संतान नहीं बनाई, और न कभी राज्य में उसका कोई साझी रहा है। तथा उसने प्रत्येक वस्तु की उत्पत्ति की, फिर उसका उचित अंदाज़ा निर्धारित किया।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Colui che possiede il Regno dei cieli e della terra, e che non ha preso un figlio, e che non ha nessun simile nel Suo Dominio e Colui che ha creato tutte le cose e le ha predisposte nel modo migliore!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
2. Tas, Kuriam priklauso dangų ir žemės valdžia, ir Kuris nepagimdė jokio sūnaus (vaikų ar palikuonių) ir Kuriam nėra jokio partnerio valdžioje. Jis sukūrė viską ir nustatė tai tiksliai pagal jiems priklausančius matmenis.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
[Inni] Isa mootummaan samiileefi dachii Isaaf ta’e; ilma kan hin godhatin; kan mootummaa [isaa] keessatti waahelli Isaaf hin jirreefi waan hundaa uumee (akka isaaniin maluun) likkeessuu likkeesse.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Тот, Кому принадлежит владычество небес и земли, Кто не взял Себе дитя и у Кого нет сотоварища во владычестве, Кто сотворил всё сущее и определил всему меру.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Онај Коме припада власт на небесима и на Земљи, Који нема детета, Који у власти нема ортака и Који је све створио и како треба уредио!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Ambaye ni wake ufalme wa mbingu na ardhi, wala hakuwa na mwana, wala hakuwa na mshirika katika ufalme, na akaumba kila kitu na akakikadiria kwa kipimo.
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Svenska · Swedish
han som äger herraväldet över himlarna och jorden; som inte har en son och som inte har någon vid sin sida i herraväldet. Han har skapat allting och gett det dess rätta mått.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Göklerin ve yerin hükümranlığı O'na mahsustur. Hiçbir oğul edinmemiştir ve hükümranlıkta hiçbir ortağı yoktur. Her şeyi o yaratmış ve bir düzen içinde O takdir etmiştir.
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اردو · Urdu
اسی اللہ کی سلطنت ہے آسمانوں اور زمین کی[1] اور وه کوئی اوﻻد نہیں رکھتا[2]، نہ اس کی سلطنت میں کوئی اس کا ساجھی ہے[3] اور ہر چیز کو اس نے پیدا کرکے ایک مناسب اندازه ٹھہرا دیا ہے.[4]
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DIN 31635tabāraka llaḏī nazzala l-furqāna ʿalā ʿabdihi liyakūna lilʿālamīna naḏīran
Talal Itani2012 Blessed is He who sent down the Criterion upon His servant, to be a warning to humanity.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Blessed is He Who hath revealed unto His slave the Criterion (of right and wrong), that he may be a warner to the peoples
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Blessed be He who sent down the Discrimination to His servant that he might be unto the world a warner
John Medows Rodwell1861 BLESSED be He who hath sent down AL FURKAN (the illumination) on his servant, that to all creatures he may be a warner
George Sale1734 Blessed be he who hath revealed the Forkan unto his servant, that he may be a preacher unto all creatures
Talal Itani2012 And yet, instead of Him, they produce for themselves gods that create nothing, but are themselves created; that have no power to harm or benefit themselves; and no power over life, death, or resurrection.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Yet they choose beside Him other gods who create naught but are themselves created, and possess not hurt nor profit for themselves, and possess not death nor life, nor power to raise the dead
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And they take beside Him gods who create not aught, but are themselves created, and cannot control for themselves harm or profit, and cannot control death, or life, or resurrection
John Medows Rodwell1861 Yet have they adopted gods beside Him which have created nothing, but were themselves created: And no power have they over themselves for evil or for good, nor have they power of death, or of life, or of raising the dead
George Sale1734 Yet have they taken other gods besides Him; which have created nothing, but are themselves created: And are able neither to avert evil from, nor to procure good unto themselves; and have not the power of death, or of life, or of raising the dead
Talal Itani2012 Those who disbelieve say, "This is nothing but a lie that he made up, and others have helped him at it." They have committed an injustice and a perjury.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those who disbelieve say: This is naught but a lie that he hath invented, and other folk have helped him with it, so that they have produced a slander and a lie
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And those who misbelieve say, 'This is nothing but a lie which he has forged, and another people hath helped him at it;' but they have wrought an injustice and a falsehood
John Medows Rodwell1861 And the infidels say, "This Koran is a mere fraud of his own devising, and others have helped him with it, who had come hither by outrage and lie
George Sale1734 And the unbelievers say, this Koran is no other than a forgery which he hath contrived; and other people have assisted him therein: But they utter an unjust thing, and a falsehood
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
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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
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.70
Talal Itani · George Sale0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.53
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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.