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God bears witness that there is no god but He, as do the angels, and those endowed with knowledge-upholding justice. There is no god but He, the Mighty, the Wise.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Allah (Himself) is Witness that there is no Allahsave Him. And the angels and the men of learning (too are witness). Maintaining His creation in justice, there is no Allahsave Him the Almighty, the Wise
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
God bears witness that there is no god but He, and the angels, and those possessed of knowledge standing up for justice. There is no God but He, the mighty, the wise
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
God witnesseth that there is no god but He: and the angels, and men endued with knowledge, stablished in righteousness, proclaim "There is no god but He, the Mighty, the Wise
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
God hath born witness that there is no God but he; and the angels, and those who are endowed with wisdomprofess the same; who executeth righteousness; there is no God but he; the mighty, the wise
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
Allahu dëshmon se askush nuk meriton të adhurohet përveç Tij, e edhe melekët dhe dijetarët (dëshmojnë) dhe se Ai është Mbajtësi i drejtësisë. S'ka të adhuruar me të drejtë përveç Tij. Ai është i Gjithëfuqishmi, i Urti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আল্লাহ সাক্ষ্য দিচ্ছেন যে, তিনি ছাড়া কোনো (সত্য) ইলাহ নেই, আর ফিরিশতা ও জ্ঞানীগণও। আল্লাহ ন্যায় ও ইনসাফের ওপর প্রতিষ্ঠিত। তিনি ছাড়া কোনো (সত্য) ইলাহ নেই। তিনি মহা পরাক্রমশালী, মহা প্রজ্ঞাময়।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Allah svjedoči da nema istinskog boga osim Njega, a i meleki i učeni, postupajući pravedno. Nema boga osim Njega, Silnog i Mudrog.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Allah svjedoči da nema drugog boga osim Njega, a i anđeli i učeni, postupajući pravedno. Nema boga osim Njega, Silnog i Mudrog.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Alla Seedike wonde reweteeɗo alaa si wanaa kaŋko, Malaa'ika en kadi, e joomiraaɓe ganndal ɓen, ko o daraniiɗo nunɗal. reweteeɗo alaa si wanaa Kaŋko, on fooluɗo ñeeñuɗo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ამოწმებს (თავად) ალლაჰი, რომ არ არსებობს ღვთაება, მის გარდა; და ანგელოზებმაც და მცოდნეებმაც სამართლიანად დაამოწმეს; არ არის ღვთაება, მის გარდა, ძლევამოსილისა, ბრძენისა.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Allah bezeugt, dass es keinen Anbetungswürdigen gibt außer Ihm; und (ebenso bezeugen) die Engel und diejenigen, die Wissen besitzen; der Wahrer der Gerechtigkeit. Es gibt keinen Anbetungswürdigen außer Ihm, dem Allmächtigen und Allweisen.
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
Ο Αλλάχ μαρτυρά (μέσω των Εδαφίων και των σημαδιών Του στο σύμπαν) ότι δεν υπάρχει άλλος θεός που αξίζει να λατρεύεται παρά μόνον Αυτός, και (μαρτυρούν το ίδιο) οι άγγελοι και εκείνοι που έχουν γνώση. Καθιερώνει τη δικαιοσύνη (στα πάντα). Δεν υπάρχει άλλος θεός που αξίζει να λατρεύεται παρά μόνον Αυτός, ο Αλ-‘Αζείζ (Παντοδύναμος, Ανίκητος), ο Αλ-Χακείμ (Πάνσοφος).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
अल्लाह ने गवाही दी कि निःसंदेह उसके सिवा कोई पूज्य नहीं, तथा फ़रिश्तों और ज्ञान वालों ने भी, इस हाल में कि वह न्याय को क़ायम करने वाला है। उसके सिवा कोई इबादत के लायक़ नहीं, सब पर प्रभुत्वशाली, पूर्ण हिकमत वाला है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Allāh ha dichiarato che non c’è divinità all’infuori di Lui, e anche gli angeli e gli uomini sapienti lo hanno dichiarato: non c’è divinità all’infuori di Lui, il Potente, il Sapiente!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
18. Allahas liudija, kad La ilaha illa Huva (niekas neturi teisės būti garbinamas, tik Jis), ir angelai, ir turintys žinių (taip pat šitai liudija). (Jis visada) prižiūri Savo kūriniją Teisingai. La ilaha illa Huva (niekas neturi teisės būti garbinamas, tik Jis), Visagalis, Visa Išmanantis.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Rabbiin akka Isa malee dhugaan gabbaramaan hin jirre ragaa ba’e; maleeykonniifi warri beekumsaas (ragaa ba’aniiru) haqaan dhaabbataa ta’ee, isa malee haqaan gabbaramaan hin jiru. injifataa, ogeessa . [4]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Аллах засвидетельствовал, что нет божества, кроме Него, а также ангелы и обладающие знанием, — неуклонно поддерживая справедливость. Нет божества, кроме Него, Он — Могущественный, Мудрый.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Аллах сведочи да нема другог бога осим Њега, а и анђели и учени, поступајући праведно. Нема бога осим Њега, Силног и Мудрог.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Mwenyezi Mungu alishuhudia kuwa hakika hakuna mungu isipokuwa Yeye, na pia (walishuhudia) Malaika, na wenye elimu akisimamisha uadilifu. Hakuna mungu isipokuwa Yeye Mwenye nguvu, Mwenye hekima.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Gud vittnar – liksom änglarna och de som har kunskap – att ingen är värd dyrkan utom han, den som upprätthåller rättvisan. Ingen är värd dyrkan utom han, den Allsmäktige, den Vise.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Allah şahittir ki kendisinden başka (ibadet edilmeye layık hak) bir ilah yoktur. Melekler ve adaleti ayakta tutan ilim sahipleri de (buna şahittir.) O’ndan başka (hak) ilah yoktur. O, Aziz'dir, Hakim'dir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اللہ تعالیٰ، فرشتے اور اہل علم اس بات کی گواہی دیتے ہیں کہ اللہ کے سوا کوئی معبود نہیں[1] اور وه عدل کو قائم رکھنے واﻻ ہے، اس غالب اور حکمت والے کے سوا کوئی عبادت کے ﻻئق 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 31635aṣ-ṣābirīna waṣ-ṣādiqīna wal-qānitīna wal-munfiqīna wal-mustaġfirīna bil-ʾasḥāri
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 The patient, and the truthful, and the reverent, and the charitable, and the seekers of forgiveness at dawn.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 The steadfast, and the truthful, and the obedient, those who spend (and hoard not), those who pray for pardon in the watches of the night
Edward Henry Palmer1880 the patient, the truthful, the devout, and those who ask for pardon at the dawn
John Medows Rodwell1861 The patient, and the truthful, the lowly, and the charitable, and they who seek pardon at each daybreak
George Sale1734 The patient, and the lovers of truth, and the devout, and the almsgivers, and those who ask pardon early in the morning
Talal Itani2012 Religion with God is Islam. Those to whom the Scripture was given differed only after knowledge came to them, out of envy among themselves. Whoever rejects the signs of God-God is quick to take account.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! religion with Allah (is) the Surrender (to His Will and Guidance). Those who (formerly) received the Scripture differed only after knowledge came unto them, through transgression among themselves. Whoso disbelieveth the revelations of Allah (will find that) lo! Allah is swift at reckoning
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, (the true) religion in God's sight is Islam, and those to whom the Book was given disagreed not until after that there was given to them knowledge, through mutual envy. But whoso disbelieves in God's signs, truly God is quick at reckoning up
John Medows Rodwell1861 The true religion with God is Islam: and they to whom the Scriptures had been given, differed not till after "the knowledge" had come to them, and through mutual jealousy. But as for him who shall not believe in the signs of God - God will be prompt to reckon with him
George Sale1734 Verily the true religion in the sight of God, is Islam; and they who had received the scriptures dissented not therefrom, until after the knowledge of God's unity had come unto them, out of envy among themselves; but whosoever believeth not in the signs of God, verily God will be swift in bringing him to account
Talal Itani2012 If they argue with you, say, "I have surrendered myself to God, and those who follow me." And say to those who were given the Scripture, and to the unlearned, "Have you surrendered?" If they have surrendered, then they are guided; but if they turn away, then your duty is to convey. God is Seeing of the servants.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if they argue with thee, (O Muhammad), say: I have surrendered my purpose to Allah and (so have) those who follow me. And say unto those who have received the Scripture and those who read not: Have ye (too) surrendered? If they surrender, then truly they are rightly guided, and if they turn away, then it is thy duty only to convey the message (unto them). Allah is Seer of (His) bondmen
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And if they would dispute with thee, then say, 'I turn my face with resignation unto God, and whoso follows me.' And say to those who have been given the Book, unto the Gentiles, 'Are ye, too, resigned' and if they are resigned, then are they guided. But if they turn their backs, then thou hast only to preach, and God looks on his servants
John Medows Rodwell1861 If they shall dispute with thee, then SAY: I have surrendered myself to God, as have they who follow me. SAY to those who have received the Book, and to the common folk, Do ye surrender yourselves unto God? If they become Muslims, then are they guided aright: but if they turn away - thy duty is only preaching; and God's eye is on His servants
George Sale1734 If they dispute with thee, say, I have resigned my self unto God, and he who followeth me doth the same: And say unto them who have received the scriptures, and to the ignorant, do ye profess the religion of Islam? Now if they embrace Islam, they are surely directed; but if they turn their backs, verily unto thee belongeth preaching only; for God regardeth his servants
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 —
0.59 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.74
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.72
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.56
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.52
Talal Itani · George Sale0.48
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.37
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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.