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Talal Itani· published 2012
And do not be like those who separated and disputed after the clear proofs came to them; for them is a great punishment.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And be ye not as those who separated and disputed after the clear proofs had come unto them. For such there is an awfuldoom
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
Be not like those who parted in sects and disagreed after there came to them manifest signs; for them is mightywoe
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And be ye not like those who have formeddivisions, and fallen to variance after the clear proofs have come to them. These! a terriblechastisement doth await them
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And be not as they who are divided, and disagree in matters of religion, after manifest proofs have been brought unto them: They shall suffer a great torment
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
Mos u bëni si ata që u përçanë e ranë në kundërshti pasi u erdhën dëshmitë e qarta, sepse për ta do të ketë dënim të madh,
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বাংলা · Bengali
তোমরা তাদের মতো হয়ো না, যারা তাদের নিকট সুস্পষ্ট নিদর্শনসমূহ আসার পরও পরস্পর বিচ্ছিন্ন হয়ে গেছে ও নিজেদের মধ্যে বিভেদ করেছে। আর তাদের জন্য রয়েছে ।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I ne budite kao oni koji su se razjedinili i razišli, nakon što su im jasni dokazi već došli! Njima pripada patnja velika.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I ne budite kao oni koji su se razjedinili i razišli, nakon što su im Jasni dokazi već došli! Njima pripada patnja velika.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Wata on laato hona ɓen sertuɓe lurri ɓaawo nde laaɓtuɗiɗin ari e maɓɓe. Ɓen ɗon, no woodani ɓe lepte muusuɗe.
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ქართული · Georgian
და ნუ იქნებით (ო, მორწმუნენო) იმათ მსგავსნი — [წიგნის ხალხის მსგავსნი], რომლებიც გაიყვნენ (ჯგუფებად და პარტიებად) და ჩავარდნენ განხეთქილებაში (თავიანთი სარწმუნოების საფუძვლებში), მას შემდეგ, რაც მათთან მოვიდა ნათელი სასწაულები [როცა ჭეშმარიტება უკვე ნათელი გახდა]. და ასეთთათვის გამზადებულია დიდი სასჯელი.
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Deutsch · German
Und seid nicht wie jene, die auseinander gingen und uneinig wurden, nachdem die klaren Beweise zu ihnen gekommen waren. Und für jene gibt es gewaltige Strafe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Μην είστε σαν εκείνους που διαιρέθηκαν (σε ομάδες και αιρέσεις) και διαφώνησαν μεταξύ τους (στη θρησκεία τους) αφού τους είχαν έλθει οι σαφείς αποδείξεις. Και εκείνοι θα έχουν ένα επώδυνο μαρτύριο.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा उनके[58] समान न हो जाओ, जो संप्रदायों में बट गए, और उनके पास स्पष्ट निशानियाँ आ जाने के पश्चात आपस में मतभेद कर बैठे, और उन्हीं के लिए बड़ी यातना है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
E non siate tra quelli che si sono divisi e hanno discordato dopo che vennero loro le Evidenze, e a quelli è riservata una grande punizione.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
105. Ir nebūkite kaip tie, kurie susiskirstė ir ginčijosi tarpusavyje po to, kai jiems atėjo aiškūs įrodymai. Tai yra tie, kuriems bus siaubinga kančia.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Akka warra erga ragoonni ifa ta’an isaanitti dhufee booda addaan faca’aniifi wal dhabanii hin ta’inaa, Warra san isaaniif adabbii laalessaatu jira.
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Русский · Russian
И не будьте как те, которые разделились и впали в разногласия после того, как к ним явились ясные знамения. Именно такие — им уготовано великое наказание.
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Српски · Serbian
И не будите као они који су се разјединили и разишли, након што су им Јасни докази већ дошли! Њима припада патња велика.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Wala msiwe kama wale waliotengana na wakahitilafiana baada ya kufikiwa na hoja zilizo wazi. Na hao ndio wana adhabu kubwa.
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Svenska · Swedish
Och var inte som de som splittrades och blev oense efter att de klara bevisen nått dem. För dem väntar ett oerhört straff,
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Türkçe · Turkish
Kendilerine apaçık deliller geldikten sonra parçalanıp ayrılığa düşenler gibi olmayın. İşte onlar için büyük bir azap vardır.
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اردو · Urdu
تم ان لوگوں کی طرح نہ ہو جانا جنہوں نے اپنے پاس روشن دلیلیں آ جانے کے بعد بھی تفرقہ ڈاﻻ[1] ، اور اختلاف کیا، انہیں لوگوں کے لئے بڑا عذاب ہے.
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.
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Talal Itani2012 And hold fast to the rope of God, altogether, and do not become divided. And remember God's blessings upon you; how you were enemies, and He reconciled your hearts, and by His grace you became brethren. And you were on the brink of a pit of fire, and He saved you from it. God thus clarifies His revelations for you, so that you may be guided.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And hold fast, all of you together, to the cable of Allah, and do not separate. And remember Allah's favour unto you: How ye were enemies and He made friendship between your hearts so that ye became as brothers by His grace; and (how) ye were upon the brink of an abyss of fire, and He did save you from it. Thus Allah maketh clear His revelations unto you, that haply ye may be guided
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Take tight hold of God's rope altogether, and do not part in sects; but remember the favours of God towards you, when ye were enemies and He made friendship between your hearts, and on the morrow ye were, by His favour, brothers. Ye were on the edge of a pit of fire, but he rescued you therefrom. Thus does God show to you His signs, perchance ye may be guided
John Medows Rodwell1861 And hold ye fast by the cord of God, all of you, and break not loose from it; and remember God's goodness towards you, how that when ye were enemies, He united your hearts, and by his favour ye became brethren; And when ye were on the brink of the pit of fire, he drew you back from it. Thus God clearly sheweth you his signs that ye may be guided
George Sale1734 And cleave all of you unto the covenant of God, and depart not from it, and remember the favour of God towards you: Since ye were enemies, and he reconciled your hearts, and ye became companions and brethren by his favour: And ye were on the brink of a pit of fire, and he delivered you thence. Thus God declareth unto you his signs, that ye may be directed
Talal Itani2012 And let there be among you a community calling to virtue, and advocating righteousness, and deterring from evil. These are the successful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And there may spring from you a nation who invite to goodness, and enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency. Such are they who are successful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and that there may be of you a nation who shall invite to good, and bid what is reasonable, and forbid what is wrong; these are the prosperous
John Medows Rodwell1861 And that there may be among you a people who invite to the Good, and enjoin the Just, and forbid the Wrong. These are they with whom it shall be well
George Sale1734 Let there be people among you, who invite to the best religion; and command that which is just, and forbid that which is evil; and they shall be happy
Talal Itani2012 On the Day when some faces will be whitened, and some faces will be blackened. As for those whose faces are blackened: "Did you disbelieve after your belief?" Then taste the punishment for having disbelieved.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 On the Day when (some) faces will be whitened and (some) faces will be blackened; and as for those whose faces have been blackened, it will be said unto them: Disbelieved ye after your (profession of) belief? Then taste the punishment for that ye disbelieved
Edward Henry Palmer1880 on the day when faces shall be whitened and faces shall be blackened. As for those whose faces are blackened,- 'Did ye misbelieve after your faith, then taste the torment for your misbelief
John Medows Rodwell1861 On THE DAY when faces shall turn white, and faces shall turn black! And as to those whose faces shall have turned black ". . . .What! after your belief have ye become infidels? Taste then the chastisement, for that ye have been unbelievers
George Sale1734 On the day of resurrection some faces shall become white, and other faces shall become black. And unto them whose faces shall become black, God will say, have ye returned unto your unbelief, after ye had believed? Therefore taste the punishment, for that ye have been unbelievers
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 —
0.70 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
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.79
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.79
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.78
Talal Itani · George Sale0.76
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.76
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.60
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.55
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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.