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And those who, when they commit an indecency or wrong themselves, remember God and ask forgiveness for their sins-and who forgives sins except God? And they do not persist in their wrongdoing while they know.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And those who, when they do an evilthing or wrong themselves, remember Allah and implore forgiveness for their sins - Who forgiveth sins save Allah only? - and will not knowingly repeat (the wrong) they did
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
Those who when they do a crime, or wrong themselves, remember God, and ask forgiveness for their sins,- and who forgives sins save God?- and do not persevere in what they did, the while they know
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They who, after they have done a basedeed or committed a wrong against their own selves, remember God and implore forgiveness of their sins - and who will forgive sins but God only? - and persevere not in what they have wittingly done amiss
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And who, after they have committed a crime, or dealtunjustly with their own souls, remember God, and ask pardon for their sins, -- for who forgiveth sins except God? -- and persevere not in what they have done knowingly
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 cilët, kur bëjnë ndonjë vepër të turpshme ose i bëjnë padrejtësi vetvetes, e kujtojnë Allahun, i kërkojnë falje për gjynahet e tyre, - e kush i fal gjynahet përveç Allahut?, - dhe nuk këmbëngulin me vetëdije në mëkatet që kanë bërë.
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
আর যারা কোন অশ্লীল কাজ করে ফেললে কিংবা নিজেদের প্রতি যুলুম করলে(৭২) আল্লাহকে স্মরণ করে এবং নিজেদের গুনাহের জন্য আল্লাহর কাছে ক্ষমা প্রার্থনা করে। আল্লাহ ছাড়া আর কে গুনাহ ক্ষমা করতে পারে? আর তারা যা করে ফেলে, জেনে-বুঝে তারা তা বারবার করে না।
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 za one koji, kada učine nešto loše, ili sebi nepravdu nanesu, Allaha se sjete i oprost za grijehe svoje mole. A ko oprašta grijehe, ako ne Allah?! I za one koji u grijehu svjesno ne ustraju.
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 za one koji, kada učine nešto loše, ili sebi nepravdu učine, Allaha se sjete i oprost za grijehe svoje mole. A tko oprašta grijehe, ako ne Allah?! I za one koji u grijehu svjesno ne ustraju.
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 ɓen tawɓe si ɓe mbaɗii panŋkare maa ɓe tooñii ko'e maɓɓe, ɓe nganndita Alla ɓe insinanoo jbakkatuuji maɓɓe ɗin . E ko hommbo haforata si wanaa Alla? Hara ɓe deppitaaki e ko ɓe mbaɗi kon, tawa hiɓe nganndi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ხოლო ისინი, ვინც ჩაიდინეს საზიზღრობა [დიდი ცოდვა] ან საკუთარი თავი დაიჩაგრეს (მცირე ცოდვის ჩადენით), შემდეგ გაიხსენეს ალლაჰი და სთხოვეს მიტევება თავიანთი ცოდვებისთვის, და ვინ აპატიებს ცოდვებს ალლაჰის გარდა? — და ამასთან, არ იდგნენ ჯიუტად იმაში, რაც ჩაიდინეს, და ეს იციან.
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 diejenigen, die, wenn sie eine Abscheulichkeit begangen oder sich selbst Unrecht zugefügt haben, Allahs gedenken und dann für ihre Sünden um Vergebung bitten. Und wer sollte die Sünden vergeben außer Allah? Und (die) nicht auf dem beharren, was sie getan haben, wo sie (es) doch wissen.
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 οι οποίοι (ευσεβείς) αν διαπράξουν αισχρή αμαρτία ή αδικήσουν τον εαυτό τους (μέσω αμαρτιών), μνημονεύουν τον Αλλάχ και ζητούν συγχώρεση για τις αμαρτίες τους – και ποιος μπορεί να συγχωρέσει τις αμαρτίες εκτός από τον Αλλάχ; Και (οι οποίοι ευσεβείς) δεν επιμένουν σε ό,τι (αμαρτία) έκαναν, ενώ γνωρίζουν.
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
और वे ऐसे लोग हैं कि जब उनसे कोई जघन्य पाप हो जाता है या वे अपने ऊपर अत्याचार कर कर बैठते हैं, तो उन्हें अल्लाह याद आ जाता है। फिर वे अपने पापों के लिए क्षमा माँगते हैं, और अल्लाह के सिवा कौन है जो पापों का क्षमा करने वाला होॽ और वे अपने किए पर जान बूझकर अड़े नहीं रहते।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
e quelli che, ogni volta che compiono una nefandezza o fanno male a loro stessi, invocano Allāh e chiedono perdono per i loro peccati – e chi perdona i peccati all’infuori di Allāh? E che non perseverano su ciò che fanno, con consapevolezza.
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
135. O tiems, kurie atlikę ką nors gėdingo arba nusidėję blogiu, prisimena Allahą ir prašo atleidimo už jų nuodėmes, - ir niekas negali atleisti jų nuodėmių, tik Allahas – ir nebetęsia (blogio) ką jie padarė, nors ir žino.
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.
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
и которые, когда совершают мерзость или поступают несправедливо с самими собой, вспоминают Аллаха и просят прощения за свои грехи — а кто же прощает грехи, кроме Аллаха? — и не упорствуют в том, что совершили, зная это.
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 за оне који, када учине нешто лоше, или себи учине неправду, сете се Аллаха и опрост за грехе своје замоле. А ко опрашта грехе, ако не Аллах?! И за оне који у греху свесно не устрају.
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 wale ambao wanapofanya uchafu au wakazidhulumu nafsi zao, humtaja Mwenyezi Mungu; na hapo wanamwomba kufutiwa dhambi zao. Na ni nani anayefuta dhambi isipokuwa Mwenyezi Mungu? Na wala hawaendelei na waliyoyafanya hali ya kuwa wanajua.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
de som, om de begår en skamlös handling eller gör orätt mot sig själva, minns Gud och ber om förlåtelse för sina synder – och vem kan förlåta synder utom Gud? – och som inte envist fortsätter med sådana handlingar, trots att de vet bättre.
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
Yine onlar, bir günah işlediklerinde veya nefislerine zulmettiklerinde Allah’ı zikredip günahları için mağfiret dilerler. Allah’tan başka günahları kim bağışlar? Onlar, yaptıklarında bile bile ısrar etmezler.
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
جب ان سے کوئی ناشائستہ کام ہو جائے یا کوئی گناه کر بیٹھیں تو فوراً اللہ کا ذکر اور اپنے گناہوں کے لئے استغفار کرتے ہیں[1] ، فیالواقع اللہ تعالیٰ کے سوا اور کون گناہوں کو بخش سکتا ہے؟ اور وه لوگ باوجود علم کے کسی برے کام پر اڑ نہیں جاتے.
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 31635wasāriʿū ʾilā maġfiratin min rabbikum waǧannatin ʿarḍuhā s-samāwātu wal-ʾarḍu ʾuʿiddat lilmuttaqīna
Talal Itani2012 And race towards forgiveness from your Lord, and a Garden as wide as the heavens and the earth, prepared for the righteous.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And vie one with another for forgiveness from your Lord, and for a paradise as wide as are the heavens and the earth, prepared for those who ward off (evil)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And vie with one another for pardon from your Lord, and for Paradise, the breadth of which is as the heaven and the earth, prepared for those who fear
John Medows Rodwell1861 And vie in haste for pardon from your Lord, and a Paradise, vast as the Heavens and the Earth, prepared for the God-fearing
George Sale1734 And run with emulation to obtain remission from your Lord, and paradise, whose breadth equalleth the heavens and the earth, which is prepared for the godly
Talal Itani2012 Those who give in prosperity and adversity, and those who restrain anger, and those who forgive people. God loves the doers of good.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those who spend (of that which Allah hath given them) in ease and in adversity, those who control their wrath and are forgiving toward mankind; Allah loveth the good
Edward Henry Palmer1880 for those who expend in alms, in prosperity and adversity, for those who repress their rage, and those who pardon men; God loves the kind
John Medows Rodwell1861 Who give alms, alike in prosperity and in success, and who master their anger, and forgive others! God loveth the doers of good
George Sale1734 who give alms in prosperity and adversity; who bridle their anger, and forgive men: For God loveth the beneficent
Easy-read (simplified)oolaa'ika jazaa'uhum maghfiratun min rabbihim wajannaatun tajree min tahtihaa l-'anhaaru khaalideena feehaa wani'ma ajru l-'aamileen
DIN 31635ʾūlāʾika ǧazāʾuhum maġfiratun min rabbihim waǧannātun taǧrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru ḫālidīna fīhā waniʿma ʾaǧru l-ʿāmilīna
Talal Itani2012 Those-their reward is forgiveness from their Lord, and gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein forever. How excellent is the reward of the workers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 The reward of such will be forgiveness from their Lord, and Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide for ever - a bountiful reward for workers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 these have their reward:- pardon from their Lord, and gardens beneath which rivers flow, dwelling therein for aye; for pleasant is the hire of those who act like this
John Medows Rodwell1861 As for these! Pardon from their Lord shall be their recompense, and gardens 'neath which the rivers flow; for ever shall they abide therein: And goodly the reward of those who labour
George Sale1734 Their reward shall be pardon from their Lord, and gardens wherein rivers flow, they shall remain therein for ever: And how excellent is the reward of those who labour
DIN 31635qad ḫalat min qablikum sunanun fasīrū fī l-ʾarḍi fānẓurū kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu l-mukaḏḏibīna
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Talal Itani2012 Many societies have passed away before you. So travel the earth and note the fate of the deniers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Systems have passed away before you. Do but travel in the land and see the nature of the consequence for those who did deny (the messengers)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Incidents have passed before your time, go on then in the earth, and see what was the end of those who called (the prophets) liars
John Medows Rodwell1861 Already, before your time, have examples been made! Traverse the earth, then, and see what hath been the end of those who treat prophets as liars
George Sale1734 There have already been before you examples of punishment of infidels, therefore go through the earth, and behold what hath been the end of those who accuse God's apostles of imposture
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 —
0.63 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.76
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.74
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.72
Talal Itani · George Sale0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.38
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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.