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Talal Itani· published 2012
And those who, when they spend, are neither wasteful nor stingy, but choose a middlecourse between that.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And those who, when they spend, are neither prodigal nor grudging; and there is ever a firmstation between the two
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 those who when they spend are neither extravagant nor miserly, but who ever take their stand between the two
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And who, when they bestow, are neither profuse, nor niggardly; but observe a just medium between these
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
Kur shpenzojnë, nuk janë dorëshpuar e as dorështrënguar, por janë mesatarë.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর তারা যখন নিজেদের সম্পদ ব্যয় করে তখন অপব্যয় করে না এবং কার্পণ্যও করে না; বরং মাঝামাঝি অবস্থানে থাকে।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
i oni koji, kad udjeljuju, ne rasipaju i ne škrtare, već se u tome drže sredine,
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Hrvatski · Croatian
i oni koji, kad udjeljuju, ne rasipaju i ne škrtare, već se u tome drže sredine;
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Fulfulde · Fulani
E ɓeen tawɓe si ɓe nafkii ɓe fantintaa ɓe ɓittintaa kadi, [ɓe] ngoni ñiiɓɓe hakkunde ɗuum.
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ქართული · Georgian
და ისინი, რომლებიც, როცა ხარჯავენ, არც ფუჭად ფლანგავენ და არც ძუნწობენ; არამედ მათი ხარჯვა ამ ორს შორის ზომიერია.
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Deutsch · German
Und (sie sind) diejenigen, die, wenn sie ausgeben, weder maßlos (verschwenderisch) noch knauserig sind, sondern einen Mittelweg dazwischen (einhalten).
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Και οι οποίοι (ενάρετοι) όταν ξοδεύουν δε σπαταλούν, ούτε τσιγκουνεύονται, αλλά τηρούν μετριοπαθή τρόπο μεταξύ τους.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा वे लोग कि जब खर्च करते हैं, तो न फ़िज़ूल-खर्ची करते है और न ख़र्च करने में तंगी करते हैं, और (उनका ख़र्च) इसके बीच में मध्यम होता है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
E quelli che, quando spendono, non sprecano né sono avari, e in ciò c’è moderatezza.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
67. Ir tie, kurie, kai jie leidžia, nėra nei išlaidūs nei šykštuoliai, tačiau laikosi vidurio (kelio) tarp to (šių kraštutinumų).
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Ammas (gabroonni Rabbii) isaan yeroo arjooman hinqisaasne kan hin doynoomne kan gidduu kanatti (kennaan isaanii) sirrii ta’eedha.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И те, которые, расходуя, не бывают расточительными и не скупятся, а держатся между этим меры.
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Српски · Serbian
и они који, кад удељују, не расипају и не шкртаре, већ се у томе држе средине;
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na wale ambao wanapotoa matumizi, hawatumii kwa fujo wala hawafanyi ubahili, bali wanakuwa katikati baina ya hayo.
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Svenska · Swedish
De varken överdriver eller snålar i sitt givande, utan följer en väg däremellan.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Ve onlar ki mallarını infak ettiklerinde israf da etmezler, cimrilik de etmezler. Bunun arasında orta bir yol tutarlar.
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اردو · Urdu
اور جو خرچ کرتے وقت بھی نہ تو اسراف کرتے ہیں نہ بخیلی، بلکہ ان دونوں کے درمیان معتدل طریقے پر خرچ کرتے ہیں.[1]
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Talal Itani2012 And those who do not implore besides God any other god, and do not kill the soul which God has made sacred-except in the pursuit of justice-and do not commit adultery. Whoever does that will face penalties.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And those who cry not unto any other god along with Allah, nor take the life which Allah hath forbidden save in (course of) justice, nor commit adultery - and whoso doeth this shall pay the penalty
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and who call not upon another god with God; and kill not the soul which God has prohibited save deservedly; and do not commit fornication: for he who does that shall meet with a penalty
John Medows Rodwell1861 Those who call on no other gods with God, nor slay whom God hath forbidden to be slain, except for a just cause, and who commit not fornication (for he who doth this shall meet the reward of his wickedness)
George Sale1734 and who invoke not another god together with the true God; neither slay the soul, which God hath forbidden to be slain, unless for a just cause
DIN 31635yuḍāʿaf lahu l-ʿaḏābu yawma l-qiyāmati wayaḫlud fīhi muhānan
Talal Itani2012 The punishment will be doubled for him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will dwell therein in humiliation forever.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 The doom will be doubled for him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein disdained for ever
Edward Henry Palmer1880 doubled for him shall be the torment on the resurrection day, and he shall be therein for aye despised
John Medows Rodwell1861 Doubled to him shall be the torment on the day of Resurrection; and in it shall he remain, disgraced, for ever
George Sale1734 And who are not guilty of fornication. His punishment shall be doubled unto him on the day of resurrection; and he shall remain therein, covered with ignominy, for ever
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 —
0.61 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
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
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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.