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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
So set thy purposeresolutely for the right religion, before the inevitable day cometh from Allah. On that day mankind will be sundered
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
Set thy face steadfast to the standard religion, before there come a day from God which there is no averting; on that day shall they be parted into two bands
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Set thy face therefore towards the right religion, before the day cometh, which none can putback from God. On that day shall they be separated into two companies
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
Ktheje fytyrën nga feja e drejtë para se të vijë një Ditë e caktuar nga Allahu, e cila nuk mund të zmbrapset. Atë Ditë njerëzit do të ndahen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
সুতরাং হে রাসূল! তুমি তোমার নিজকে সরল-সঠিক দ্বীনের উপর কায়েম রাখো, আল্লাহর পক্ষ থেকে সেদিন আসার পূর্বে, যেদিন উপস্থিত হলে তাকে রুখে দেওয়ার কেউ থাকবে না, সেদিন মানুষ বিভক্ত হয়ে পড়বে।(১০)
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Zato ti upravi lice svoje pravoj vjeri prije nego što od Allaha dođe Dan koji niko neće moći odbiti. Taj dan će se oni razdvojiti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Zato ti upravi lice svoje pravoj vjeri prije nego što od Allaha dođe Dan koji nitko neće moći odbiti. Taj dan će se oni razdvojiti.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Feewtinir ye'eso maa ngon e diina po'occiiɗa kan, ado ñalaande arde immorde ka Alla nde ruttetaake. Nde ñalnde, ɓe seeday:
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ქართული · Georgian
და მიმართე შენი სახე [გული და მთელი არსება] მხოლოდ ჭეშმარიტ სარწმუნოებას, სანამ დადგება ის დღე, რომელსაც არ ჰყავს გამბრუნებელი ალლაჰისაგან [ვერავინ ვერ შეაჩერებს მის მოსვლას]. იმ დღეს გაიყოფიან (ორ ბანაკად).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
So richte dein Gesicht aufrichtig zur richtigen Religion hin, bevor ein Tag kommt, der von Allah nicht zurückgewiesen wird. An jenem Tag werden sie sich (in Gruppen) spalten.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Θέσε, λοιπόν, (ω, Προφήτη) το πρόσωπό σου με αφοσίωση προς την ορθή θρησκεία (το Ισλάμ), προτού έρθει μία Ημέρα από τον Αλλάχ, που τίποτε δεν μπορεί να την αποτρέψει. Εκείνη την Ημέρα οι άνθρωποι θα χωριστούν (σε πιστούς, και άπιστους).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
अतः आप अपना चेहरा सीधे धर्म पर स्थापित रखें, इससे पहले कि वह दिन आ जाए, जिसे अल्लाह की ओर से टलना नहीं है। उस दिन लोग अलग-अलग[17] हो जाएँगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Solleva il tuo volto, professando la giusta religione, prima che arrivi il giorno inevitabile, previsto da Allāh. Quel giorno si divideranno:
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
43. Taigi pasuk (Muchammedai ﷺ) savo veidą (į paklusimą Allahui, savo Viešpačiui) į tiesią ir teisingą religiją (islamiškąjį monoteizmą), prieš tai, kai ateis iš Allaho Diena, kurios niekas negali išvengti. Tą Dieną žmonės bus padalinti [(į dvi grupes) grupė Rojuje ir grupė Pragare].
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
fuula kee amantii sirrii ta’eef sirreessi,Guyyaan Rabbirraa deebi’uun isaaf hin jirre odoo hin dhufne duratti. Guyyaa san (gara jannataafi ibiddaatti) qoodamu.
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Русский · Russian
Так обрати же свой лик к верной религии, прежде чем наступит день от Аллаха, который нельзя отвратить. В тот день они разделятся.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Зато ти усмери своје лице правој вери, пре него што вољом Аллаховом дође Дан који нико неће моћи да одбије. Тог дана ће они да се раздвоје.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi uelekeze uso wako sawasawa kwenye Dini iliyonyooka kabla ya kufika Siku hiyo isiyozuilika, inayotoka kwa Mwenyezi Mungu. Siku hiyo watu watatengana.
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Svenska · Swedish
Vänd dig till den rätta tron innan en dag kommer som Gud inte ska hålla tillbaka. Den dagen ska människorna delas [in i två grupper].
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Allah tarafından (gelecek ve) geri çevirilmesi mümkün olmayan bir gün gelmeden yüzünü o dosdoğru dine çevir. O gün onlar bölük bölük ayrılacaklardır.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
پس آپ اپنا رخ اس سچے اور سیدھے دین کی طرف ہی رکھیں قبل اس کے کہ وه دن آجائے جس کا ٹل جانا اللہ تعالیٰ کی طرف سے ہے ہی نہیں[1] ، اس دن سب متفرق[2] ہو جائیں گے.
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 Corruption has appeared on land and sea, because of what people's hands have earned, in order to make them taste some of what they have done, so that they might return.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Corruption doth appear on land and sea because of (the evil) which men's hands have done, that He may make them taste a part of that which they have done, in order that they may return
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Trouble hath appeared in the land and the sea, for what men's hands have gained! to make them taste a part of that which they have done,- haply they may return
John Medows Rodwell1861 Destruction hath appeared by land and by sea on account of what men's hands have wrought, that it might make them taste somewhat of the fruit of their doings, that haply they might turn to God
George Sale1734 Corruption hath appeared by land and by sea, for the crimes which men's hands have committed; that it might make them to taste a part of the fruits of that which they have wrought, that peradventure they might turn from their evil ways
DIN 31635qul sīrū fī l-ʾarḍi fānẓurū kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu llaḏīna min qablu kāna ʾakṯaruhum mušrikīna
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Roam the earth, and observe the fate of those who came before. Most of them were idolaters."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say (O Muhammad, to the disbelievers): Travel in the land, and see the nature of the consequence for those who were before you! Most of them were idolaters
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Journey on in the land, and behold what was the end of those before you,- most of them were idolaters
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Journey through the land, and see what hath been the end of those who were before you! The greater part of them joined other gods with God
George Sale1734 Say, go through the earth, and see what hath been the end of those who have been before you: The greater part of them were idolaters
DIN 31635man kafara faʿalayhi kufruhu waman ʿamila ṣāliḥan faliʾanfusihim yamhadūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Whoever disbelieves, upon him falls his disbelief. And whoever acts righteously-they are preparing for themselves.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Whoso disbelieveth must (then) bear the consequences of his disbelief, while those who do right make provision for themselves
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He who misbelieves, upon him is his misbelief; but whoso does right, for themselves they are spreading couches
John Medows Rodwell1861 Unbelievers on whom shall be their unbelief; and they who have wrought righteousness, and prepared for themselves couches of repose
George Sale1734 Whoever shall have been an unbeliever, on Him shall his unbelief be charged; and whoever shall have done that which is right, shall spread themselves couches of repose in paradise
DIN 31635liyaǧziya llaḏīna ʾāmanū waʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti min faḍlihi ʾinnahu lā yuḥibbu l-kāfirīna
Talal Itani2012 So that He may reward those who have believed and done the righteous deeds out of His bounty. Indeed, He does not love the ungrateful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That He may reward out of His bounty those who believe and do good works. Lo! He loveth not the disbelievers (in His guidance)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 That He may reward those who believe and do right of His grace; verily, He loves not the misbelievers
John Medows Rodwell1861 That of his bounty He may reward those who have believed and wrought righteousness; for the unbelievers He loveth not
George Sale1734 that He may reward those who shall believe, and work righteousness, of his abundant liberality; for He loveth not the unbelievers
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 —
0.68 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 · John Medows Rodwell0.80
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.76
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.74
Talal Itani · George Sale0.74
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.55
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.53
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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.