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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
But it is clear revelations in the hearts of those who have been given knowledge, and none deny Our revelationssavewrong-doers
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
Nay, but it is evident signs in the breasts of those who are endued with knowledge, and none but the unjust would gainsay our signs
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But the same is evident signs in the breasts of those who have receivedunderstanding: For none reject our signs, except the unjust
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
Përkundrazi, ato janë ajete të qarta në zemrat e atyre që u është dhënë dija. Ajetet Tona i mohojnë vetëm të padrejtët.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
বরং যাদেরকে জ্ঞান দেয়া হয়েছে, তাদের অন্তরে এটি একটি সুষ্পষ্ট নিদর্শন। আর যালিমরা ছাড়া আমার আয়াতসমূহকে কেউ অস্বীকার করে না।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Međutim, on – Kur’an je sačinjen od ajeta jasnih; u grudima su onih kojima je znanje dato; a Naše ajete samo nepravedni osporavaju.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Međutim, on – Kuran je sačinjen od ajeta jasnih; u grudima su onih kojima je znanje dato; a Naše ajete samo nepravedni osporavaju.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Si ko woni, ko nde Aayeeje ɓannguɗe e ɓerɗe ɓen okkaaɓe ganndal. Yeddataa aayeeje Amen ɗen, si wonaa tooñɓe ɓeen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
პირიქით, ეს [ყურანი] არის მხოლოდ ნათელი სასწაული იმათ მკერდში, ვისაც მინიჭებული აქვს ცოდნა, და ჩვენს სასწაულებს უარყოფენ მხოლოდ უსამართლონი.
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Deutsch · German
Vielmehr sind es klare Zeichen in den Brüsten derjenigen, denen das Wissen gegeben worden ist. Und nur die Ungerechten verleugnen Unsere Zeichen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Όχι (δεν υπάρχει αμφιβολία στο Κορ’άν), αλλά αυτό (το Κορ’άν) είναι ξεκάθαρα Εδάφια στα στήθη εκείνων στους οποίους δόθηκε γνώση, και δεν απορρίπτουν τα Σημάδια (και τα Εδάφια) Μας παρά μόνο οι άδικοι.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
बल्कि यह (क़ुरआन) स्पष्ट आयतें हैं, उन लोगों के सीनों में जिन्हें ज्ञान दिया गया है तथा हमारी आयतों का इनकार वही लोग करते हैं, जो अत्याचारी हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
invece si tratta di chiari e miracolosi Segni, nei petti di quelli che hanno ricevuto la conoscenza, e non negano i Nostri Segni se non gli ingiusti.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
49. Ne, bet jie, aiškūs Ajat [t. y. Pranašo Muchammedo ﷺ aprašymas ir savybės, užrašytos Taurate (Toroje) ir Indžylyje (Evangelijoje)] yra išsaugoti krūtinėse tų, kuriems buvo suteiktas žinojimas (iš Rašto žmonių tarpo). Ir niekas tik Zalimūn (daugiadieviai ir bloga darantieji) neigia Mūsų Ajat (įrodymus, įkalčius, eilutes, pamokas, ženklus, apreiškimus ir t. t.).
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Garuu inni keeyyattoota ifa ta’an kan qomoota warra beekumsa kennamani keessa jiruudha. keeyyattoota keenya hinmormu Miidhaa hojjattoota malee.
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Русский · Russian
Нет, напротив, это — ясные знамения [хранимые] в груди тех, которым было даровано знание, и отвергают Наши знамения лишь несправедливые.
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Српски · Serbian
Међутим, Кур'ан је сачињен од јасних речи; у грудима су оних којима је дато знање, а Наше речи негирају само неправедници,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Bali hii (Qur-ani) ni Ishara zilizo wazi katika vifua vya wale waliopewa elimu. Na hawazikatai Ishara zetu isipokuwa madhalimu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Faktum är att denna [skrift] består av klara verser som bevaras i de insiktsfullas bröst, och det är endast de orättfärdiga som förnekar våra budskap.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Hayır! O (Kur'an), bilgi verilen kimselerin gönüllerinde olan apaçık belgelerdir. Ayetlerimizi ancak zalimler bile bile inkâr eder.
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اردو · Urdu
بلکہ یہ (قرآن) تو روشن آیتیں ہیں جو اہل علم کے سینوں میں محفوظ ہیں[1] ، ہماری آیتوں کا منکر بجز ﻇالموں کے اور کوئی نہیں.
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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DIN 31635wakaḏālika ʾanzalnā ʾilayka l-kitāba fallaḏīna ʾātaynāhumu l-kitāba yuʾminūna bihi wamin hāʾulāʾi man yuʾminu bihi wamā yaǧḥadu biʾāyātinā ʾillā l-kāfirūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Likewise, We revealed to you the Scripture. Those to whom We gave the Scripture believe in it, and some of these believe in it. None renounce Our communications except the disbelievers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 In like manner We have revealed unto thee the Scripture, and those unto whom We gave the Scripture aforetime will believe therein; and of these (also) there are some who believe therein. And none deny Our revelations save the disbelievers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Thus did we send down to thee the Book; and every one to whom we have given the Book believes therein. But these will not believe therein; though none gainsay our signs except the misbelievers
John Medows Rodwell1861 Thus have we sent down the Book of the Koran to thee: and they to whom we have given the Book of the law believe in it: and of these Arabians there are those who believe in it: and none, save the Infidels, reject our signs
George Sale1734 Thus have We sent down the book of the Koran unto thee: And they unto whom We have given the former scriptures, believe therein; and of these Arabians also there is who believeth therein: And none reject our signs, except the obstinate infidels
Easy-read (simplified)wamaa kunta tatloo min qablihi min kitaabin walaa takhuttuhu biyameenika idhan llartaaba l-mubtiloon
DIN 31635wamā kunta tatlū min qablihi min kitābin walā taḫuṭṭuhu biyamīnika ʾiḏan llartāba l-mubṭilūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 You did not read any scripture before this, nor did you write it down with your right hand; otherwise the falsifiers would have doubted.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And thou (O Muhammad) wast not a reader of any scripture before it, nor didst thou write it with thy right hand, for then might those have doubted, who follow falsehood
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Thou couldst not recite before this any book, nor write it with thy right hand, for in that case those who deem it vain would have doubted
John Medows Rodwell1861 Thou didst not recite any book (of revelation) before it: with that right hand of thine thou didst not transcribe one: else might they who treat it as a vain thing have justly doubted
George Sale1734 Thou couldest not read any book before this; neither couldest thou write it with thy right hand: Then had the gainsayers justly doubted of the divine original thereof
DIN 31635waqālū lawlā ʾunzila ʿalayhi ʾāyātun min rabbihi qul ʾinnamā l-ʾāyātu ʿinda llāhi waʾinnamā ʾanā naḏīrun mubīnun
Talal Itani2012 And they said, "If only a miracle from his Lord was sent down to him." Say, "Miracles are only with God, and I am only a clear warner."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And they say: Why are not portents sent down upon him from his Lord? Say: Portents are with Allah only, and I am but a plain warner
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They say, 'Unless there be sent down upon him signs from his Lord -;' say, 'Verily, signs are with God, and, verily, I am an obvious warner
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they say, "Unless a sign be sent down to him from his Lord. . . ." SAY: Signs are in the power of God alone. I am only a plain spoken warner
George Sale1734 They say, unless a sign be sent down unto him from his Lord, we will not believe. Answer, signs are in the power of God alone; and I am no more than a public preacher
Talal Itani2012 Does it not suffice them that We revealed to you the Scripture, which is recited to them? In that is mercy and a reminder for people who believe.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Is it not enough for them that We have sent down unto thee the Scripture which is read unto them? Lo! herein verily is mercy, and a reminder for folk who believe
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Is it not enough for them that we have sent down to thee the Book which thou dost recite to them? verily, in that is a mercy and a reminder to a people who believe
John Medows Rodwell1861 Is it not enough for them that we have sent down to thee the Book to be recited to them? In this verily is a mercy and a warning to those who believe
George Sale1734 Is it not sufficient for them that We have sent down unto thee the book of the Koran, to be read unto them? Verily herein is a mercy, and an admonition unto people who believe
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.63 on a scale
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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
Talal Itani · George Sale0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.66
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.55
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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.