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Talal Itani· published 2012
You are the best community that ever emerged for humanity: you advocate what is moral, and forbid what is immoral, and believe in God. Had the People of the Scripture believed, it would have been better for them. Among them are the believers, but most of them are sinners.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Ye are the best community that hath been raised up for mankind. Ye enjoin rightconduct and forbid indecency; and ye believe in Allah. And if the People of the Scripture had believed it had been better for them. Some of them are believers; but most of them are evil-livers
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 were the best of nations broughtforth unto man. Ye bid what is reasonable, and forbid what is wrong, believing in God. Had the people of the Book believed, it would have been better for them. There are believers among them, though most of them are sinners
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Ye are the best folk that hath been raised up unto mankind. Ye enjoin the Just, and ye forbid the Evil, and ye believe in God: And if the people of the Book had believed, it had surely been better for them! Believers there are among them, but most of them are perverse
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Ye are the best nation that hath been raised up unto mankind: Ye command that which is just, and ye forbid that which is unjust, and ye believe in God. And if they who have recieved the scriptures had believed, it had surely been the better for them: There are believers among them, but the greaterpart of them are transgressors
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 jeni bashkësia më e mirë e nxjerrë për njerëzimin: urdhëroni për mirë, ndaloni të keqen dhe e besoni Allahun. Sikur të besonin ithtarët e Librit, do të ishte më mirë për ta. Ndër ta ka besimtarë (që kanë pranuar Islamin), por shumica prej tyre janë jobesimtarë.
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বাংলা · Bengali
(হে উম্মতে মুহাম্মাদী!) তোমরাই শ্রেষ্ঠতম উম্মত, যাদেরকে মানব জাতির (কল্যাণের) জন্য বের করা হয়েছে। তোমরা সৎকাজের আদেশ করবে, অসৎকাজে নিষেধ করবে এবং আল্লাহর উপর ঈমান আনবে। আর আহলু কিতাবরা যদি (আল্লাহ ও তাঁর রাসূল ঈমান আনায়ন করতো, তবে তা ছিল তাদের (দুনিয়া ও আখিরাতের) জন্যে কল্যাণকর। যদিও তাদের মধ্যে কিছু সংখ্যক মু’মিন আছে; কিন্তু তাদের অধিকাংশই ফাসিক (৬১)।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Vi ste najbolji narod koji se ikada pojavio: tražite da se čini dobro, a odvraćate od zla, i vjerujete u Allaha! A kada bi sljedbenici Knjige vjerovali, bilo bi bolje za njih; među njima ima vjernika, ali – većina njih su buntovnici.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Vi ste najbolji narod koji se ikada pojavio: tražite da se čini dobro, a odvraćate od zla, i vjerujete u Allaha! A kada bi sljedbenici Knjige vjerovali, bilo bi bolje za njih; među njima ima vjernika, ali – većina njih su buntovnici.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
On laatike leñol ɓurngol moƴƴude yaltinanaangol yimɓe ɓen:hiɗon njamiraa ko moƴƴi haɗon ko kaɗo, koh bonii hoɗon goŋɗini AllaSi yimɓe Defte ɓen gooŋɗinno,ɗum laatotono moƴƴere wonannde ɓe.No e maɓɓe goŋɗinɓe, kono ko ɓuri ɗuuɗude ko e maɓɓe ko yaluɓeɗoftaare
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ქართული · Georgian
თქვენ (ო, მუჰამმადის თემო) გახდით საუკეთესო თემი, რომელიც ადამიანებისთვის იქნა წარმოჩენილი [რომ ისინი სწორი გზისკენ მიემართათ]: თქვენ ბრძანებთ სიკეთეს და კრძალავთ აუგს და გწამთ ალლაჰის. და რომ ერწმუნათ წიგნის ხალხს, ეს უეჭველად უკეთესი იქნებოდა მათთვის — როგორც ამქვეყნიურ ცხოვრებაში, ისე მარადიულ ცხოვრებაში. მათ შორის არიან მორწმუნენიც, მაგრამ მათი უმეტესობა ურჩია [ურწმუნოა].
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Deutsch · German
Ihr seid die beste Gemeinschaft, die für die Menschen hervorgebracht worden ist. Ihr gebietet das Rechte und verbietet das Verwerfliche und glaubt an Allah. Und würden die Leute der Schrift glauben, wäre es gewiss besser für sie. Unter ihnen gibt es Gläubige, aber die meisten von ihnen sind Frevler.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Είστε το καλύτερο έθνος που αναδείχθηκε για την ανθρωπότητα (στην πίστη και στις πράξεις σας, και οι πιο ωφέλιμοι για τους ανθρώπους): διατάζετε το καλό και απαγορεύετε το κακό, και πιστεύετε στον Αλλάχ. Και αν οι άνθρωποι του Βιβλίου (Εβραίοι και Χριστιανοί) είχαν πιστέψει, θα ήταν καλύτερα γι' αυτούς. Μερικοί απ' αυτούς είναι πιστοί, αλλά οι περισσότεροι είναι ανυπάκουοι (στον Αλλάχ).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तुम सर्वश्रेष्ठ समुदाय हो, जिसे लोगों के लिए निकाला गया है। तुम भलाई का आदेश देते हो और बुराई से रोकते हो और अल्लाह पर ईमान (विश्वास) रखते[59] हो। और यदि किताब वाले ईमान लाते, तो उनके लिए बेहतर होता। उनमें कुछ ईमान वाले भी हैं, लेकिन उनमें अधिकतर लोग अवज्ञाकारी ही हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Voi siete la migliore comunità per l’umanità: invitate a fare il bene e dissuadete dalla perdizione, e credete in Allāh. Se la gente del Libro credesse, sarebbe molto meglio per loro; c’è tra di loro chi è credente, ma la maggior parte sono dei trasgressori.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
110. Jūs [tikri tikintieji islamiškuoju monoteizmu ir tikri Pranašo Muchammedo ﷺ ir jo Sunnos pasekėjai] esate geriausi žmonės, kada nors išauginti žmonijai. Jūs įsakote Al-Marūf (t. y. islamiškąjį monoteizmą ir visa, ką islamas įsakė) ir draudžiate Al-Munkar (daugiadievystę, netikėjimą ir visa, ką islamas uždraudė), ir jūs tikite Allahą. Ir jei Rašto žmonės (judėjai ir krikščionys) būtų patikėję, tai būtų buvę jiems geriau. Tarp jų yra keli, kurie turi tikėjimą, tačiau dauguma jų yra Al-Fasikūn (nepaklusnūs Allahui ir maištaujantys prieš Allaho Įsakymą).
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Isin caaltuu ummata namaaf mul'ifamtee taataniittu.Toltutti ajajju; hamtuu irraas ni dhorgitu; Rabbitti ni amantu. Odoo warri kitaabaa amananii silaa gaarii isaaniif taha ture. Isaan irraa mu'uminoonnis ni jiru; garuu irra hedduun isaanii finciltoota. [25]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Вы являетесь лучшей из общин, выведенной к людям: вы повелеваете одобряемое, удерживаете от предосудительного и веруете в Аллаха. Если бы люди Писания уверовали, это было бы лучше для них. Среди них есть верующие, но большинство из них — нечестивцы.
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Српски · Serbian
Ви сте најбољи народ који се икада појавио: тражите да се чини добро, а одвраћате од зла, и верујете у Аллаха! А када би следбеници Књиге веровали, било би боље за њих; међу њима има верника, али – већина њих су неверници.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Nyinyi mmekuwa bora ya umma waliotolewa watu, kwa kuwa mnaamrisha mema na mnakataza maovu, na mnamuamini Mwenyezi Mungu. Na lau kuwa Watu wa Kitabu waliamini, ingelikuwa bora kwao. Miongoni mwao wako Waumini, lakini wengi wao ni wavukao mipaka.
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Svenska · Swedish
Ni är det bästa samfund som fått uppstå för människorna: ni påbjuder det goda, förbjuder det onda och tror på Gud. Om skriftens folk hade trott, hade det varit bättre för dem. Bland dem finns troende, men de flesta är trotsiga syndare.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Siz, insanlar için çıkarılmış en hayırlı ümmetsiniz. İyiliği emreder, kötülükten men eder ve Allah’a iman edersiniz. Kitap ehli de iman etseydi elbette kendileri için hayırlı olurdu. Onlardan iman edenler de var. Ama pek çoğu fasık kimselerdir.
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اردو · Urdu
تم بہترین امت ہو جو لوگوں کے لئے پیدا کی گئی ہے کہ تم نیک باتوں کا حکم کرتے ہو اور بری باتوں سے روکتے ہو، اور اللہ تعالیٰ پر ایمان رکھتے ہو[1] ، اگر اہل کتاب بھی ایمان ﻻتے تو ان کے لئے بہتر تھا، ان میں ایمان والے بھی ہیں[2] لیکن اکثر تو فاسق ہیں.
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 These are the revelations of God. We recite them to you in truth. God desires no injustice for mankind.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 These are revelations of Allah. We recite them unto thee in truth. Allah willeth no injustice to (His) creatures
Edward Henry Palmer1880 These are the signs of God. We recite them to you in truth, for God desires not wrong unto the worlds
John Medows Rodwell1861 These are the signs of God: we recite them to thee in truth: And God willeth not injustice to mankind
George Sale1734 These are the signs of God: We recite them unto thee with truth. God will not deal unjustly with his creatures
Talal Itani2012 To God belongs everything in the heavens and everything on earth, and to God all events are referred.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Unto Allah belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth; and unto Allah all things are returned
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God's is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and unto God affairs return
John Medows Rodwell1861 Whatever is in the Heavens, and whatever is on the Earth, is God's. And to God shall all things return
George Sale1734 And to God belongeth whatever is in heaven and on earth; and to God shall all things return
Talal Itani2012 They will do you no harm, beyond insulting you. And if they fight you, they will turn around and flee, then they will not be helped.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They will not harm you save a trifling hurt, and if they fight against you they will turn and flee. And afterward they will not be helped
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They shall surely not harm you save a hurt; and if they fight you, they shall show you their backs, then they shall not be helped
John Medows Rodwell1861 They will never inflict on you but a trifling damage; and if they do battle with you, they shall turn their backs to you: then they shall not be succoured
George Sale1734 They shall not hurt you, unless with a slight hurt; and if they fight against you, they shall turn their backs to you; and they shall not be helped
Easy-read (simplified)duribat 'alayhimu dh-dhillatu ayna maa thuqifoo illaa bihablin mina llaahi wahablin mina n-naasi wabaa'oo bighadabin mina llaahi waduribat 'alayhimu l-maskanatu dhaalika bi'annahum kaanoo yakfuroona bi'aayaati llaahi wayaqtuloona l-'anbiyaa'a bighayri haqqin dhaalika bimaa 'asaw wakaanoo ya'tadoon
DIN 31635ḍuribat ʿalayhimu ḏ-ḏillatu ʾayna mā ṯuqifū ʾillā biḥablin mina llāhi waḥablin mina n-nāsi wabāʾū biġaḍabin mina llāhi waḍuribat ʿalayhimu l-maskanatu ḏālika biʾannahum kānū yakfurūna biʾāyāti llāhi wayaqtulūna l-ʾanbiyāʾa biġayri ḥaqqin ḏālika bimā ʿaṣaw wakānū yaʿtadūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 They shall be humiliated wherever they are encountered, except through a rope from God, and a rope from the people; and they incurred wrath from God, and were stricken with misery. That is because they rejected God's revelations, and killed the prophets unjustly. That is because they rebelled and committed aggression.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Ignominy shall be their portion wheresoever they are found save (where they grasp) a rope from Allah and a rope from men. They have incurred anger from their Lord, and wretchedness is laid upon them. That is because they used to disbelieve the revelations of Allah, and slew the prophets wrongfully. That is because they were rebellious and used to transgress
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They are smitten with abasement wherever they be found, save for the rope of God and the rope of man; and they draw on themselves wrath from God. They are smitten, too, with poverty; that is because they did disbelieve in God's signs, and kill the prophets undeservedly. That is because they did rebel and did transgress
John Medows Rodwell1861 Shame shall be stamped upon them wherever found, unless they ally them with God and men! And the wrath of God will they incur, and poverty shall be stamped upon them! This - for that they believed not in the signs of God, and slew the prophets unjustly: This - because they rebelled, and became transgressors
George Sale1734 They are smitten with vileness wheresoever they are found; unless they obtain security by entering into a treaty with God, and a treaty with men: And they draw on themselves indignation from God, and they are afflicted with poverty. This they suffer, because they disbelieved the signs of God, and slew the prophets unjustly; this, because they were rebellious, and transgressed
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 —
0.55 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 · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.63
Talal Itani · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.56
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.52
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.40
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.38
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
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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.