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
And to recite the Quran." Whoever is guided-is guided to his own advantage. And whoever goes astray, then say, "I am one of the warners."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And to recite the Qur'an. And whoso goethright, goethright only for (the good of) his own soul; and as for him who goeth astray - (Unto him) say: Lo! I am only a warner
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 to recite the Qur'an; and he who is guided he is only guided for himself; and he who errs,- say, 'I am only of those who warn
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
and to rehearse the Koran: He who shall be directed thereby, will be directed to his own advantage; and to him who shall go astray, say, verily I am a warner only
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
dhe të lexoj Kuranin. Kushdo që ndjek rrugën e drejtë, e ka për të mirën e vet, ndërsa atij që humbet, thuaji: "Unë jam vetëm paralajmërues."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
‘আর (আমাকে আরো আদেশ করা হয়েছে) আমি যেন আল কুরআন তিলাওয়াত করি। অতঃপর যে হিদায়াত লাভ করলো, সে নিজের জন্যই হিদায়াত লাভ করলো। আর যে পথভ্রষ্ট হলো তাকে তুমি বলো: ‘আমি তো (আল্লাহর শাস্তি থেকে) একজন সতর্ককারী মাত্র।’
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
i da Kur’an kazujem." Onaj ko bude išao Pravim putem, na Pravom je putu za svoje dobro; a onom ko je u zabludi ti reci: “Ja samo opominjem.”
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
i da Kuran kazujem. Onaj tko bude išao Pravim putem, na Pravom je putu za svoje dobro; a onom tko je u zabludi ti reci: “Ja samo opominjem.”
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
E yo mi janngu Alqur'aanaare ndeen, mo feewii ko hoore-makko o feewani, mo majjii kadi maaku: "Min dey, ko mi jiyaaɗo e jeertinooɓe ɓeen.
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
და ვიკითხო ყურანი (ადამიანებისთვის). ხოლო ვინც დაადგება ჭეშმარიტ გზას, ის დაადგება მას საკუთარი თავისთვის; ხოლო ვინც შეცდება [გადაუხვევს ჭეშმარიტებას], მაშინ უთხარი (ო, მოციქულო): «ჭეშმარიტად, მე მხოლოდ შემგონებელი ვარ».
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
und den Quran zu verlesen.“ Wer sich nun rechtleiten lässt, der ist nur zu seinem eigenen Vorteil rechtgeleitet. Und wenn einer irregeht, dann sag: „Ich gehöre ja nur zu den Warnenden.“
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
και να απαγγέλλω το Κορ’άν.» Έτσι, όποιος καθοδηγείται, καθοδηγείται μόνο για το καλό του. Και όποιος παραστρατήσει, τότε πες (ω, Προφήτη): «Εγώ είμαι μόνο ένας από τους προειδοποιητές.»
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
तथा यह कि मैं क़ुरआन पढ़कर सुनाऊँ। फिर जो सीधी राह पर आया, वह अपने ही लिए राह पर आता है और जो गुमराह हुआ, तो आप कह दें कि मैं तो बस डराने वालों में से हूँ।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
e di recitare il Corano: chi segue la retta via lo fa, in verità, a suo vantaggio. E a chi si è sviato, di’: “Io sono, in verità, tra gli ammonitori”.
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
92. Ir kad recituočiau Koraną, tada tas, kas gauna teisingą vedimą, gauna jį dėl savo paties gero. O kas paklysta, sakyk (jam): „Aš esu tik vienas iš perspėtojų.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Qur’aana dubbisuuttis (ajajameera). Namni qajeele, kan inni qajeelu lubbuma isaatiifi. Nama jallate “Ani akeekkachiiftota irraayi malee kan biraa hin taane” jedhiin.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
и [мне велено] читать Коран». И кто следует прямым путём, тот следует лишь для себя, а если кто впал в заблуждение, то скажи: «Воистину, я — лишь один из предостерегающих».
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
и да казујем Кур'ан; онај ко буде ишао Правим путем на Правом путу је за своје добро, а ономе који је у заблуди ти реци: "Ја само упозоравам.“
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
Na niisome Qur-ani. Na mwenye kuongoka, basi ameongoka kwa faida ya nafsi yake. Na mwenye kupotea, basi sema, "Hakika mimi ni miongoni mwa waonyaji."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
och att recitera Koranen.” Den som följer den rätta vägen gör det endast för sitt eget bästa, men säg till de som gått vilse: ”Jag är enbart en varnare.”
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
Ve Kur'an'ı okumam da (emrolundu). Kim hidayet bulursa ancak kendi lehine hidayet bulur. Kim de sapıklığa düşerse De ki: “Ben ancak uyarıcılardanım."
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
اور میں قرآن کی تلاوت کرتا رہوں، جو راه راست پر آجائے وه اپنے نفع کے لیے راه راست پر آئے گا۔ اور جو بہک جائے تو کہہ دیجئے! کہ میں تو صرف ہوشیار کرنے والوں میں سے ہوں.[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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5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation,
not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil
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Easy-read (simplified)waman jaa'a bis-sayyi'ati fakubbat wujoohuhum fee n-naari hal tujzawna illaa maa kuntum ta'maloon
DIN 31635waman ǧāʾa bis-sayyiʾati fakubbat wuǧūhuhum fī n-nāri hal tuǧzawna ʾillā mā kuntum taʿmalūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 But whoever brings evil-their faces will be tumbled into the Fire. Will you be rewarded except for what you used to do?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And whoso bringeth an ill-deed, such will be flung down on their faces in the Fire. Are ye rewarded aught save what ye did
Edward Henry Palmer1880 but those who bring an evil deed shall be thrown down upon their faces in the fire. Shall ye be rewarded save for what ye have done
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they who shall present themselves with evil shall be flung downward on their faces into the fire. Shall ye be rewarded but as ye have wrought
George Sale1734 But whoever shall have wrought evil, shall be thrown on their faces into hell fire. Shall ye receive the reward of any other than of that which ye shall have wrought
Easy-read (simplified)innamaa umirtu an a'buda rabba haadhihi l-baldati lladhee harramahaa walahu kullu shay'in wa'umirtu an akoona mina l-muslimeen
DIN 31635ʾinnamā ʾumirtu ʾan ʾaʿbuda rabba hāḏihi l-baldati llaḏī ḥarramahā walahu kullu šayʾin waʾumirtu ʾan ʾakūna mina l-muslimīna
Talal Itani2012 "I was commanded to worship the Lord of this town, who has sanctified it, and to Whom everything belongs; and I was commanded to be of those who submit.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 (Say): I (Muhammad) am commanded only to serve the Lord of this land which He hath hallowed, and unto Whom all things belong. And I am commanded to be of those who surrender (unto Him)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 I am bidden to serve the Lord of this country who has made it sacred, and whose are all things; and I am bidden to be of those who are resigned
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Specially am I commanded to worship the Lord of this land, which He hath sanctified. All things are His: and I am commanded to be one of those who surrender them to God (a Muslim)
George Sale1734 Verily I am commanded to worship the Lord of this territory of Mecca, Who hath sanctified the same: Unto Him belong all things. And I am commanded to be a Moslem
Talal Itani2012 And say, "Praise belongs to God; He will show you His signs, and you will recognize them. Your Lord is not heedless of what you do."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And say: Praise be to Allah Who will show you His portents so that ye shall know them. And thy Lord is not unaware of what ye (mortals) do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And say, ' Praise be to God, He will show you His signs, and ye shall recognise them; for thy Lord is not heedless of what ye do
John Medows Rodwell1861 And as to him who erreth, SAY, I truly am a warner only.And SAY, Praise be to God! He will shew you His signs, and ye shall acknowledge them: and of what ye do, thy Lord is not regardless
George Sale1734 And say, praise be unto God! He will shew you his signs, and ye shall know them: And thy Lord is not regardless of that which they 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 —
0.72 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 · John Medows Rodwell0.83
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.79
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.78
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.75
Talal Itani · George Sale0.71
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.70
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.62
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
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13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC
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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.