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Talal Itani· published 2012
Say, "O People of the Book, come to termscommon between us and you: that we worship none but God, and that we associate nothing with Him, and that none of us takes others as lords besides God." And if they turn away, say, "Bear witness that we have submitted."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Say: O People of the Scripture! Come to an agreement between us and you: that we shall worship none but Allah, and that we shall ascribe no partner unto Him, and that none of us shall take others for lords beside Allah. And if they turn away, then say: Bear witness that we are they who have surrendered (unto Him)
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
Say, 'O ye people of the Book, come to a wordlaid down plainly between us and you, that we will not serve other than God, nor associate aught with him, nor take each other for lords rather than God.' But if they turn back then say, 'Bear witness that we are resigned
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
SAY: O people of the Book! come ye to a just judgment between us and you - That we worship not aught but God, and that we join no other god with Him, and that the one of us take not the other for lords, beside God. Then if they turn their backs, SAY: Bear ye witness that we are Muslims
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Say, O ye who have received the scripture, come to a just determination between us and you; that we worship not any except God, and associate no creature with him; and that the one of us take not the other for lords, beside God. But if they turn back, say, bear witness that we are truebelievers
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
Thuaj: "O ithtarë të Librit! Ejani në një fjalë të drejtë për ne e ju: se do ta adhurojmë vetëm Allahun, se nuk do t'i shoqërojmë Atij asgjë në adhurim dhe se nuk do të marrim njëri-tjetrin për zota në vend të Allahut!" E, nëse ata kthejnë shpinën, atëherë thuaju: "Dëshmoni se ne jemi muslimanë (të nënshtruar ndaj Allahut)!"
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.
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বাংলা · Bengali
তুমি বল: ‘হে আহলে কিতাব! তোমরা এমন কথার দিকে আসো, যেটি আমাদের মধ্যে ও তোমাদের মধ্যে সমান। আর তা হচ্ছে, আমরা একমাত্র আল্লাহ ছাড়া অন্য কারো ইবাদাত করবো না। আর তার সাথে কোনো কিছুকেই শরীক করবো না এবং আমাদের কেউ আল্লাহ ছাড়া একে অন্যকে রব হিসেবে গ্রহণ করবো না।’ তারপর যদি তারা মুখ ফিরিয়ে নেয়, তবে বল: ‘তোমরা সাক্ষী থাকো যে, নিশ্চয় আমরা মুসলিম ।’
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.
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Reci: "O vi kojima je Knjiga data, dođite da se okupimo uz riječi koje mi i vi podjednako dijelimo: da nikoga osim Allaha ne obožavamo, da Mu ništa ne pridružujemo, i da jedni druge, pored Allaha, bogovima ne smatramo!" Pa, ako se oni okrenu, vi recite: "Budite svjedoci da smo mi muslimani!"
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Reci: "O vi kojima je Knjiga data, dođite da se okupimo uz riječi koje mi i vi podjednako dijelimo: da nikoga osim Allaha ne obožavamo, da Mu ništa ne pridružujemo, i da jedni druge, pored Allaha, bogovima ne smatramo!" Pa, ako se oni okrenu, vi recite: "Budite svjedoci da smo mi muslimani!"
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Maaku: "Hey yimɓe Defte, aree faade e konngol fotatngol hakkunde amen e mo'on : won de en ndewataa si wanaa Alla, en kafidataa Mo e huunde, wata yoga e me'en jogito yoga joomiraaɓe ko woori Alla". Si ɓe huccitii, wi'ee: "Seeditee won de menen ko men jebbiliiɓe".
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ქართული · Georgian
თქვი (ო, მოციქულო): «ო, წიგნის ხალხნო (იუდეველნო და ქრისტიანნო)! მოდით სიტყვაზე, რომელიც თანაბარია ჩვენთვის და თქვენთვის: რომ არ ვემსახუროთ და არ ვეთაყვანოთ არავის ალლაჰის გარდა, და არაფერი დავუდგინოთ მას თანაზიარად, და რომ არ ავიყვანოთ ჩვენგან ზოგიერთი სხვებს ღმერთებად ალლაჰის გარდა. ხოლო თუ ისინი ზურგს აქცევენ (უარს იტყვიან), მაშინ თქვით: «დაამოწმეთ, რომ ჩვენ ვართ მორჩილნი (მუსლიმები)».
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Deutsch · German
Sag: „O Leute der Schrift, kommt her zu einem zwischen uns und euch gleichen Wort: dass wir niemandem dienen außer Allah und Ihm nichts beigesellen und sich nicht die einen von uns die anderen zu Herren außer Allah nehmen.“ Doch wenn sie sich abkehren, dann sagt: „Bezeugt, dass wir (Allah ergebene) Muslime sind.“
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
Πες: «Ω, άνθρωποι του Βιβλίου (Εβραίοι και Χριστιανοί)! Ελάτε να συμφωνήσουμε σε έναν δίκαιο λόγο ανάμεσά μας: να μη λατρεύουμε παρά μόνο τον Αλλάχ, να μην αποδίδουμε εταίρους σ' Εκείνον (στη λατρεία) κι να μη λάβουμε κανέναν ανάμεσά μας ως Κύριο (όπως λαμβάνετε ανθρώπους ως αγίους υπακούοντας και λατρεύοντάς τους), εκτός από τον Αλλάχ.» Αν όμως στραφούν μακριά, τότε να πεις: «Να είστε μάρτυρες, ότι εμείς είμαστε Μουσουλμάνοι (υποτασσόμαστε στη Θεία Βούληση).»
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
(ऐ नबी!) कह दीजिए : ऐ किताब वालो! आओ एक ऐसी बात की ओर जो हमारे बीच और तुम्हारे बीच समान (बराबर) है; यह कि हम अल्लाह के सिवा किसी की इबादत न करें और उसके साथ किसी चीज़ को साझी न बनाएँ तथा हममें से कोई किसी को अल्लाह के सिवा रब न बनाए। फिर यदि वे मुँह फेर लें, तो कह दो कि तुम गवाह रहो कि हम (अल्लाह के) आज्ञाकारी[29] हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Di’: «O gente del Libro, venite per un giusto discorso tra noi e voi: non adoriamo altri se non Allāh e non paragoniamo a Lui nulla e non prendiamo mai tra di noi divinità all’infuori di Allāh! Se si tirano indietro, dite: «Testimoniate che in verità siamo musulmani!»
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
64. Sakyk (Muchammedai ﷺ ): „Rašto žmonės, susitarkime dėl žodžio, kuris yra teisingas tarp mūsų ir jūsų, kad mes negarbiname nieko, tik Allahą (Vienintelį) ir kad mes nepriskiriame Jam partnerių, ir kad niekas iš mūsų nelaikys kitų viešpačiais šalia Allaho. Tada, jei jie nusigręžia, sakyk: „Liudykime, kad esame musulmonai.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Jedhi: “yaa warra kitaabaa (tawraatiifii injiil)! Gara jecha nuufi isin jidduutti wal qixa taateetti kottaa. (Isiini) akka Rabbiin malee waan biraa hin gabbarre; Isatti waan biraa akka hin qindeessine, gariin keenyas garii Rabbiin malee gabbaramaa akka hin taasifanneedha. Yoo isaan (kana) irraa gara galan “akka nuti Muslimoota taane ragaa bahaa” jedhaan. [15]
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Русский · Russian
Скажи: «О люди Писания! Придите к слову, общему для нас и для вас: не поклоняться никому, кроме Аллаха, не придавать Ему сотоварищей и не считать друг друга господами наряду с Аллахом». Если же они отвернутся, то скажите: «Засвидетельствуйте, что мы — покорившиеся [Аллаху]».
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
Реци: „О ви којима је дата Књига, дођите да се окупимо уз речи које ми и ви узајамно делимо: да никога осим Аллаха не обожавамо, да Му у обожавању ништа не придружујемо, и да једни друге, поред Аллаха, боговима не сматрамо!“ Па, ако се они окрену, ви реците: „Будите сведоци да смо ми муслимани!“
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
Sema: 'Enyi Watu wa Kitabu! Njooni kwenye neno lililo sawa baina yetu na nyinyi: Ya kwamba tusimuabudu yeyote isipokuwa Mwenyezi Mungu, wala tusimshirikishe na chochote. Wala tusifanyane waungu sisi kwa sisi badala ya Mwenyezi Mungu.' Na wakigeuka, basi semeni: Shuhudieni ya kwamba sisi kwa hakika ni Waislamu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Säg: ”Skriftens folk! Låt oss enas kring ett gemensamt uttalande mellan oss och er: att vi inte dyrkar någon annan än Gud, att vi inte sätter något vid hans sida och att vi inte gör varandra till herrar i Guds ställe.” Men om de vänder sig bort, säg då: ”Vittna att vi är muslimer!”
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
De ki: “Ey kitap ehli! Bizimle sizin aranızda ortak bir söze gelin: Yalnız Allah’a ibadet edelim. O’na hiçbir şeyi ortak koşmayalım. Allah’ı bırakıp da kimimiz kimimizi ilâh edinmesin.” Eğer onlar yine yüz çevirirlerse, deyin ki: “Şahit olun, biz Müslümanlarız.”
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اردو · Urdu
آپ کہہ دیجئے کہ اے اہل کتاب! ایسی انصاف والی بات کی طرف آو جو ہم میں تم میں برابر ہے کہ ہم اللہ تعالیٰ کے سوا کسی کی عبادت نہ کریں نہ اس کے ساتھ کسی کو شریک بنائیں[1] ، نہ اللہ تعالیٰ کو چھوڑ کر آپس میں ایک دوسرے کو ہی رب بنائیں[2]۔ پس اگر وه منھ پھیر لیں تو تم کہہ دو کہ گواه رہو ہم تو مسلمان ہیں۔[3]
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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not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil
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DIN 31635ʾinna hāḏā lahuwa l-qaṣaṣu l-ḥaqqu wamā min ʾilāhin ʾillā llāhu waʾinna llāha lahuwa l-ʿazīzu l-ḥakīmu
Talal Itani2012 This is the narrative of truth: there is no god but God. God is the Mighty, the Wise.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! This verily is the true narrative. There is no Allah save Allah, and lo! Allah, He verily is, is the Mighty, the Wise
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, those are the true stories, and there is no god but God, and, verily, God He is the mighty, the wise
John Medows Rodwell1861 This recital is very truth, and there is no god but God; and verily God is the Mighty, the Wise
George Sale1734 Verily this is a true history: And there is no God, but God; and God is most mighty, and wise
Easy-read (simplified)yaa ahla l-kitaabi lima tuhaajjoona fee ibraaheema wamaa unzilati t-tawraatu wal-'injeelu illaa min ba'dihi afalaa ta'qiloon
DIN 31635yā ʾahla l-kitābi lima tuḥāǧǧūna fī ʾibrāhīma wamā ʾunzilati t-tawrātu wal-ʾinǧīlu ʾillā min baʿdihi ʾafalā taʿqilūna
Talal Itani2012 O People of the Book! Why do you argue about Abraham, when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed until after him? Will you not reason?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O People of the Scripture! Why will ye argue about Abraham, when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed till after him? Have ye then no sense
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O people of the Book, why do ye dispute about Abraham, when the law and the gospel were not revealed until after him? What! do ye not understand
John Medows Rodwell1861 O people of the Book! Why dispute about Abraham, when the Law and the Evangel were not sent down till after him? Do ye not then understand
George Sale1734 O ye to whom the scriptures have been given, why do ye dispute concerning Abraham, since the law and the gospel were not sent down until after him? Do ye not therefore understand
Talal Itani2012 Here you are-you argue about things you know, but why do you argue about things you do not know? God knows, and you do not know.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! ye are those who argue about that whereof ye have some knowledge: Why then argue ye concerning that whereof ye have no knowledge? Allah knoweth. Ye know not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Here ye are, disputing about what ye have some knowledge of; why then do ye dispute about what ye have no knowledge of? God knows and ye know not
John Medows Rodwell1861 Lo! ye are they who dispute about that in which ye have knowledge; but why dispute ye about that of which ye have no knowledge? God hath knowledge, but ye know nothing
George Sale1734 Behold ye are they who dispute concerning that which ye have some knowledge in; why therefore do ye dispute concerning that which ye have no knowledge of? God knoweth, but ye know not
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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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 Pickthall0.65
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.62
Talal Itani · George Sale0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.55
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.51
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.51
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.51
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.47
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.38
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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.