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Talal Itani· published 2012
So give the relative his rights, and the destitute, and the wayfarer. That is best for those who seek God'spresence. Those are the prosperous.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
So give to the kinsman his due, and to the needy, and to the wayfarer. That is best for those who seek Allah'sCountenance. And such are they who are successful
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
Then give to the kinsman his due, and to the poor and to the wayfarer; that is better for those who desire the face of God, and these it is who are prosperous
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
To him who is of kin to thee give his due, and to the poor and to the wayfarer: this will be best for those who seek the face of God; and with them it shall be well
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Give unto Him who is of kin to thee his reasonable due; and also to the poor, and the stranger: This is better for those who seek the face of God; and they shall prosper
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
Pra, jepja të afërmit, nevojtarit dhe udhëtarit të mbetur rrugës të drejtën e vet! Kjo është më e mirë për ata që kërkojnë kënaqësinë e Allahut. Mu ata janë të sukseshmit.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
অতএব আত্মীয়-স্বজনকে তাদের হক দিয়ে দাও এবং মিসকীন ও (সম্বলহারা) মুসাফিরকেও। এটি উত্তম তাদের জন্য, যারা আল্লাহর সন্তুষ্টি কামনা করে। আর তারাই তো সফলকাম।
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
Pa daj bližnjem pravo njegovo, i siromahu, i putniku namjerniku. To je bolje za one koji žele lice Allahovo. To su oni uspješni.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Pa daj bližnjem pravo njegovo, i siromahu, i putniku namjerniku. To je bolje za one koji žele lice Allahovo. To su oni uspješni.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Jonnu jom-ɓadiido o hakke makko on, e ɓilliiɓe e ɓii-laawol. Ɗuum ɓuri moƴƴude wonan'de ɓeen faalaaɓe yarluyee Alla on; ko ɓeen ngoni maloyteeɓe ɓen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
მაშ, მიეცი ნათესავს მისი უფლება [შეინარჩუნე მასთან ნათესაური კავშირი, გაუწიე დახმარება], ასევე მიეცი ღარიბს და მგზავრს [მისი უფლება]. ეს უმჯობესი საქმეა მათთვის, ვისაც ალლაჰის სახე [ხილვა] სურს. და სწორედ ასეთნი არიან ნეტარნი [ამ ქვეყანაშიც და მარადიულ ცხოვრებაშიც].
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
So lass dem Verwandten sein Recht zukommen, ebenso dem Bedürftigen und dem Sohn des Weges. Dies ist besser für diejenigen, die das Angesicht Allahs begehren. Und jene sind es, denen es wohl ergeht.
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
Δώσε, λοιπόν, στον συγγενή σου το δικαίωμά του (τηρώντας καλούς δεσμούς συγγένειας), και στον ενδεή και στον οδοιπόρο (δώσε του ελεημοσύνη). Αυτό είναι καλύτερο γι' εκείνους που επιζητούν την ευχαρίστηση του Αλλάχ, και εκείνοι είναι οι επιτυχημένοι.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
अतः रिश्तेदार को उसका हक़ दो, तथा निर्धन और यात्री को (भी)। यह उन लोगों के लिए बेहतर है, जो अल्लाह का चेहरा चाहते हैं और वही सफल होने वाले हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Riconosci il diritto del parente, del povero e del viandante, come dovuto: ciò è meglio per quelli che cercano il volto di Allāh, e sono quelli i trionfatori.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
38. Taigi suteik giminaičiui kas jam priklauso ir Al-Miskin (vargingiesiems) ir keliautojui. Tai geriausia tiems, kurie siekia Allaho Veido. Ir tai tie, kurie bus sėkmingieji.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Nama firaa, hiyyeessaafi kara deemaafis haqa isaa kenni. Isaan fuula Rabbii barbaadaniif (kajeelaniif) kanatu caala. Isaan sun isaanumatu milkaa’oodha.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Так отдавай же близкому родственнику его должное, и бедняку, и путнику. Это — лучше для тех, которые стремятся к Лику Аллаха. Такие и есть преуспевшие.
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
Зато подај ближњем право његово, и сиромаху и путнику! То је боље за оне који се настоје Аллаху умилити – они ће успети.
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
Basi mpe jamaa haki yake, na masikini, na msafiri. Hayo ni heri kwa wanaotaka uso wa Mwenyezi Mungu. Na hao ndio waliofaulu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Ge således till släktingen, den behövande och den nödställde resenären. Detta är det bästa för de som söker Guds ansikte, och dessa kommer det att gå väl.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Akrabaya, yoksula ve yolculara haklarını ver. Bu Allah’ın rızasını isteyenler için daha hayırlıdır. İşte onlar kurtuluşa erenlerdir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
پس قرابت دار کو مسکین کو مسافر کو ہر ایک کو اس کا حق دیجئے[1] ، یہ ان کے لئے بہتر ہے جو اللہ تعالیٰ کا منھ دیکھنا چاہتے ہوں[2]، ایسے ہی لوگ نجات پانے والے ہیں.
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Talal Itani2012 When We give people a taste of mercy, they rejoice in it. But when adversity befalls them, because of what their hands have perpetrated, they begin to despair.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when We cause mankind to taste of mercy they rejoice therein; but if an evil thing befall them as the consequence of their own deeds, lo! they are in despair
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when we have made men taste of mercy, they rejoice therein; and if there befall them evil for what their hands have sent before, behold! they are in despair
John Medows Rodwell1861 When we cause men to taste mercy they rejoice in it; but if, for that which their hands have aforetime wrought, evil befall them, they despair
George Sale1734 When We cause men to taste mercy, they rejoice therein; but if evil befalleth them, for that which their hands have before committed, behold, they despair
Easy-read (simplified)awalam yaraw anna llaaha yabsutu r-rizqa liman yashaa'u wayaqdiru inna fee dhaalika la'aayaatin liqawmin yu'minoon
DIN 31635ʾawalam yaraw ʾanna llāha yabsuṭu r-rizqa liman yašāʾu wayaqdiru ʾinna fī ḏālika laʾāyātin liqawmin yuʾminūna
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Talal Itani2012 Do they not see that God expands the provision for whomever He wills, or restricts it? Surely in this are signs for people who believe.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 See they not that Allah enlargeth the provision for whom He will, and straiteneth (it for whom He will). Lo! herein indeed are portents for folk who believe
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Have they not seen that God extends provision to whom He pleases, or doles it out? verily, in that are signs unto a people who believe
John Medows Rodwell1861 See they not that God bestoweth full supplies on whom He pleaseth and giveth sparingly to whom He pleaseth? Signs truly are there herein to those who believe
George Sale1734 Do they not see that God bestoweth provision abundantly on whom He pleaseth, and is sparing unto whom He pleaseth? Verily herein are signs unto people who believe
DIN 31635wamā ʾātaytum min riban liyarbuwa fī ʾamwāli n-nāsi falā yarbū ʿinda llāhi wamā ʾātaytum min zakātin turīdūna waǧha llāhi faʾūlāʾika humu l-muḍʿifūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 The usury you practice, seeking thereby to multiply people's wealth, will not multiply with God. But what you give in charity, desiring God's approval-these are the multipliers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That which ye give in usury in order that it may increase on (other) people's property hath no increase with Allah; but that which ye give in charity, seeking Allah's Countenance, hath increase manifold
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And what ye put out to usury that it may increase with the wealth of men, it shall not increase with God; but what ye put out in alms, desiring the face of God - these it is who shall gain double
John Medows Rodwell1861 Whatever ye put out at usury to increase it with the substance of others shall have no increase from God: but whatever ye shall give in alms, as seeking the face of God, shall be doubled to you
George Sale1734 Whatever ye shall give in usury, to be an increase of men's substance, shall not be increased by the blessing of God: But whatever ye shall give in alms, for God's sake, they shall receive a twofold reward
Easy-read (simplified)allaahu lladhee khalaqakum thumma razaqakum thumma yumeetukum thumma yuhyeekum hal min shurakaa'ikum man yaf'alu min dhaalikum min shay'in subhaanahu wata'aalaa 'ammaa yushrikoon
DIN 31635allāhu llaḏī ḫalaqakum ṯumma razaqakum ṯumma yumītukum ṯumma yuḥyīkum hal min šurakāʾikum man yafʿalu min ḏālikum min šayʾin subḥānahu wataʿālā ʿammā yušrikūna
Talal Itani2012 God is He who created you, then provides for you, then makes you die, then brings you back to life. Can any of your idols do any of that? Glorified is He, and Exalted above what they associate.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah is He Who created you and then sustained you, then causeth you to die, then giveth life to you again. Is there any of your (so-called) partners (of Allah) that doeth aught of that? Praised and Exalted be He above what they associate (with Him)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 It is God who created you and then provided for you; and then will make you die, and then will quicken you again; is there any of your partners who can do aught of that? Celebrated be His praises, and exalted be He above what they associate with Him
John Medows Rodwell1861 It is God who created you - then fed you - then will cause you to die - then will make you alive. Is there any of your companion-gods who can do aught of these things? Praise be to Him! and far be He exalted above the gods they join with Him
George Sale1734 It is God who hath created you, and hath provided food for you: Hereafter will He cause you to die; and after that will He raise you again to life. Is there any of your false gods, who is able to do the least of these things? Praise be unto Him; and far be He removed from what they associate with Him
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 —
0.61 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
Talal Itani · George Sale0.76
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.43
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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.