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
You worship idols besides God, and you fabricatefalsehoods. Those you worship, instead of God, cannot provide you with livelihood. So seek your livelihood from God, and worship Him, and thank Him. To Him you will be returned."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Ye serve instead of Allah only idols, and ye only invent a lie. Lo! those whom ye serve instead of Allah own no provision for you. So seek your provision from Allah, and serve Him, and give thanks unto Him, (for) unto Him ye will be broughtback
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
Ye only serve beside God idols and do create a lie; verily, those whom ye serve beside God cannot control for themselves provision; then crave provision with God, and serve Him, and give thanks to Him; unto Him shall ye return
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Ye only worship idols beside God, and are the authors of a lie. Those whom ye worship beside God can give you no supplies: seek, then, your supplies from God; and serve Him and give Him thanks. To Him shall ye return
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Ye only worship idols besides God, and forge a lie. Verily those which ye worship, besides God, are not able to make any provision for you: Seek therefore your provision from God; and serve Him, and give thanks unto Him; unto Him shall ye return
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
Ju adhuroni në vend të Allahut vetëm idhuj dhe trilloni gënjeshtra. Në të vërtetë, ata që ju i adhuroni në vend të Allahut nuk kanë kanë mundësi t'ju furnizojnë. Pra, kërkojeni furnizimin prej Allahut dhe adhurojeni e falënderojeni vetëm Atë, sepse tek Ai do të ktheheni.
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
তোমরা তো আল্লাহ ছাড়া কেবল মূর্তিগুলোরই ইবাদত করছ এবং মিথ্যা উদ্ভাবন করছ। নিশ্চয় তোমরা আল্লাহ ছাড়া যাদের ইবাদত করো, তারা তোমাদের জন্য কোনো রিযিকের মালিক নয়। সুতরাং তোমরা আল্লাহর কাছেই রিযিক তালাশ কর, তাঁরই ইবাদত করো এবং তাঁর প্রতি কৃতজ্ঞতা প্রকাশ করো। তাঁরই কাছেই তোমরা প্রত্যাবর্তিত হবে।
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
Vi, mimo Allaha, kumire obožavate i laži smišljate. Oni koje vi, mimo Allaha, obožavate ne mogu vas nikakvom opskrbom opskrbiti; vi opskrbu od Allaha tražite i Njemu ibadet činite i Njemu zahvalni budite! Njemu ćete se vratiti.”
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
Vi, mimo Allaha, kumire obožavate i laži smišljate. Oni koje vi, mimo Allaha, obožavate ne mogu vas nikakvom opskrbom opskrbiti; vi opskrbu od Allaha tražite i Njega obožavajte i Njemu zahvalni budite! Njemu ćete se vratiti.”
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
Anndee ko ndewoton kon ga Alla, ko sanamuuji, hoɗon taƴa fenaande. Pellet, ɗin ɗi ndewoton ga Alla, ɗi waawaa on arsikude; ɗaɓɓiree arsike on ka Alla, rewon mo, ƴetton Mo. Ko ka makko woni rutteteɗon.
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
ნამდვილად, თქვენ [ო, ჩემო ხალხო] თაყვანს სცემთ ალლაჰის მაგივრად კერპებს და იგონებთ სიცრუეს [კერპებს ღმერთებს უწოდებთ]. ნამდვილად, ისინი, ვისაც თქვენ თაყვანს სცემთ ალლაჰის გარდა, არ ფლობენ თქვენთვის სარჩოს. სარჩო ეძიეთ ალლაჰთან და თაყვანი ეცით [მხოლოდ] მას, და ემადლიერეთ მას, რადგან მასთან დაბრუნდებით!
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
Ihr dient anstatt Allahs nur Götzen und schafft (dabei nur) ungeheuerliche Lüge. Wahrlich, diejenigen, denen ihr anstatt Allahs dient, verfügen für euch keine Versorgung. So sucht darum bei Allah die Versorgung und dient Ihm und dankt Ihm. Zu Ihm werdet ihr zurückgebracht.
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
Αυτά που λατρεύετε εκτός από τον Αλλάχ, είναι μόνο είδωλα, και κατασκευάζετε ψέματα (ότι αξίζουν τη λατρεία). Πράγματι, αυτοί που λατρεύετε εκτός από τον Αλλάχ, δεν έχουν καμία δύναμη να σας παρέχουν αγαθά. Γι' αυτό αναζητήστε τα αγαθά μόνο από τον Αλλάχ, λατρέψτε Τον και να είστε ευγνώμονες προς Αυτόν. Προς Αυτόν θα επιστρέψετε όλοι.
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
तुम अल्लाह के सिवा कुछ मूर्तियों ही की तो पूजा करते हो और तुम घोर झूठ गढ़ते हो। निःसंदेह अल्लाह के सिवा जिनकी तुम पूजा करते हो, वे तुम्हारे लिए किसी रोज़ी के मालिक नहीं हैं। अतः तुम अल्लाह के पास ही रोज़ी तलाश करो और उसकी इबादत करो और उसका शुक्र करो। तुम उसी की तरफ़ लौटाए जाओगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
In verità voi adorate, all’infuori di Allāh, degli idoli e inventate bugie. In verità quelli che adorate all’infuori di Allāh non possiedono per voi nessun sostentamento. Chiedete il sostentamento ad Allāh, e adorateLo, e ringraziateLo, perché a Lui tornerete».
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
17. „Jūs garbinate šalia Allaho tik stabus ir jūs tik kuriate melą. Iš itesų, tie, kuriuos jūs garbinate šalia Allaho, neturi galios suteikti jums išlaikymą. Taigi siekite savo išlaikymo iš Allaho (Vienintelio), ir garbinkite Jį (Vienintelį) ir būkite Jam dėkingi. Pas Jį (Vienintelį) jūs būsite sugrąžinti.
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
“Wanti isin Rabbii gaditti gabbartan taabotuma qofa; kijiba uumtan. warri isin Rabbiin alatti gabbartan soorata isiniif kennuutti dandeettii hin qaban. Soorata Rabbuma biraa barbaadaa. Isa gabbaraas. Galatas Isaaf galchaa. Garuma Isaa deebifamtu.
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
Воистину, вы поклоняетесь помимо Аллаха лишь идолам и измышляете ложь. Воистину, те, которым вы поклоняетесь помимо Аллаха, не властны даровать вам удел. Так ищите же удел у Аллаха, поклоняйтесь Ему, и благодарите Его. К Нему вы будете возвращены».
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
Ви, мимо Аллаха, обожавате идоле и смишљате лажи. Они које ви, мимо Аллаха, обожавате не могу никаквом опскрбом да вас опскрбе; ви тражите опскрбу од Аллаха и Њега обожавајте и Њему будите захвални! Њему ћете да се вратите.
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
Hakika nyinyi mnaabudu tu masanamu badala ya Mwenyezi Mungu, na mnazua uzushi. Hakika hao mnaowaabudu badala ya Mwenyezi Mungu hawawamilikii riziki yoyote. Basi tafuteni riziki kutoka kwa Mwenyezi Mungu, na mumuabudu Yeye, na mumshukuru Yeye. Kwake Yeye ndiko mtarudishwa.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Det ni tillber i stället för Gud är inget annat än gudabilder och det ni påstår [om deras rätt till dyrkan] är ren lögn. Dessa som ni dyrkar i Guds ställe kan inte ge er försörjning! Nej, sök er försörjning från Gud och dyrka och tacka honom – till honom ska ni alla samlas åter."
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
“Siz, Allah’ı bırakarak ancak putlara tapıyorsunuz ve yalan uyduruyorsunuz. Allah’ı bırakarak taptıklarınızın size hiçbir rızık vermeye güçleri yetmez. Öyle ise rızkı Allah’ın katında arayın. O’na ibadet edin ve O’na şükredin. Siz yalnız O’na döndürüleceksiniz.”
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
تم تو اللہ تعالیٰ کے سوا بتوں کی پوجا پاٹ کر رہے ہو اور جھوٹی باتیں دل سے گھڑ لیتے ہو[1] ۔ سنو! جن جنکی تم اللہ تعالیٰ کے سوا پوجا پاٹ کر رہے ہو وه تو تمہاری روزی کے مالک نہیں پس تمہیں چاہئے کہ تم اللہ تعالیٰ ہی سے روزیاں طلب کرو اور اسی کی عبادت کرو اور اسی کی شکر گزاری[2] کرو اور اسی کی طرف تم لوٹائے جاؤ گے.[3]
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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Talal Itani2012 And Abraham, when he said to his people, "Worship God, and fear Him. That is better for you, if you only knew.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Abraham! (Remember) when he said unto his folk: Serve Allah, and keep your duty unto Him; that is better for you if ye did but know
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Abraham when he said to his people, 'Serve God and fear Him, that is better for you if ye did but know
John Medows Rodwell1861 And Abraham; when he said to his people, "Worship God and fear Him. This will be best for you, if ye have knowledge
George Sale1734 We also sent Abraham; when he said unto his people, serve God, and fear Him: This will be better for you; if ye understand
DIN 31635waʾin tukaḏḏibū faqad kaḏḏaba ʾumamun min qablikum wamā ʿalā r-rasūli ʾillā l-balāġu l-mubīnu
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 If you disbelieve, communities before you have also disbelieved. The Messenger is only responsible for clear transmission.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But if ye deny, then nations have denied before you. The messenger is only to convey (the message) plainly
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And if ye say it is a lie, nations before you called (the apostles) liars too; but an apostle has only his plain message to preach
John Medows Rodwell1861 Suppose that ye treat me as a liar! nations before you have treated God's messenger as a liar; but open preaching is his only duty
George Sale1734 If ye charge me with imposture, verily sundry nations before you likewise charged their prophets with imposture: But public preaching only is incumbent on an apostle
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 —
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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 · Edward Henry Palmer0.83
Talal Itani · George Sale0.74
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.72
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.56
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.50
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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.