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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
O ye wives of the Prophet! Whosoever of you committeth manifest lewdness, the punishment for her will be doubled, and that is easy for Allah
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
O ye women of the prophet! whosoever of you commits manifest fornication, doubled shall be her tormenttwice; and that is easy unto God
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O wives of the prophet, whosoever of you shall commit a manifest wickedness, the punishment thereof shall be doubled unto her twofold; and this is easy with God
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
O gratë e Pejgamberit! Nëse ndokush nga ju do të bënte ndonjë paturpësi të hapur, dënimi do t'i dyfishohej. E, kjo për Allahun është e lehtë.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
হে নবী-পত্নীগণ! তোমাদের মধ্যে কেউ প্রকাশ্য অশ্লীলতায় (বা স্পষ্ট গুনাহে) লিপ্ত হলে তার জন্য শাস্তি দ্বিগুণ করে দেওয়া হবে। আর এ শাস্তি দেওয়া আল্লাহর জন্য খুবই সহজ।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
O žene Vjerovjesnikove, ako bi koja od vas očit grijeh učinila, kazna bi joj udvostručena bila, a to je Allahu lahko.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
O žene Vjerovjesnikove, ako bi koja od vas očit grijeh učinila, kazna bi joj udvostručena bila, a to je Allahu lako.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Eey mon yo suddiiɓe Annabiijo on ! Kala gadduɗo e mooɗon bone ɓannguɗo, lepte ɗen cowirante mo cowalle ɗiɗi! Ɗuum wonii ko newanii Alla.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ჰეი, მოციქულის ცოლებო! თუ თქვენგან რომელიმე ჩაიდენს აშკარა სიბილწეს [ცხად ცოდვას], მას სასჯელი გაუორმაგდება [ორჯერ მეტი, ვიდრე ჩვეულებრივ მორწმუნე ქალს]. და ეს ალლაჰისთვის ადვილია!
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Deutsch · German
O Frauen des Propheten, wer von euch etwas klar Abscheuliches begeht, derjenigen wird die Strafe verzweifacht. Und dies ist Allah ein Leichtes.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ω, σύζυγοι του Προφήτη! Αν μία από σας διέπραττε μία ξεκάθαρη επαίσχυντη πράξη, η τιμωρία (την Ημέρα της Κρίσεως) θα διπλασιαζόταν γι' αυτήν. Αυτό είναι εύκολο για τον Αλλάχ.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
ऐ नबी की पत्नियो! तुममें से जो खुला दुराचार करेगी, उसे दुगनी यातना दी जाएगी। और यह अल्लाह पर अति सरल है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
O donne del Profeta, a chi di voi commette una chiara nefandezza, verrà raddoppiata la punizione, e ciò è facile per Allāh.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
30. Pranašo žmonos, jei kuri iš jūsų atvirai atliktų neteisėtus lytinius santykius, kančia jai bus padvigubinta, ir tai labai lengva Allahui.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Yaa dubartiiwwan Nabiyyichaa! Isin irraa namni badii ifa galtuu taateen dhufe (raawwate), adabbiin dachaa lama isheetti godhama. Kun Rabbi irratti laafaa ta’eera.
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Русский · Russian
О жёны Пророка! Если кто-либо из вас совершит явную мерзость, ей будет удвоено наказание, и это для Аллаха легко.
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Српски · Serbian
О Веровесникове жене, ако би која од вас учинила очигледни грех, казна би јој била удвостручена, а то је Аллаху лако;
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Enyi wake wa Nabii, atakayefanya uchafu dhahiri miongoni mwenu, atazidishiwa adhabu mara mbili. Na hayo kwa Mwenyezi Mungu ni mepesi.
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Svenska · Swedish
Ni, profetens hustrur! Skulle någon av er göra sig skyldig till skamlösa handlingar ska hennes straff fördubblas. Det är lätt för Gud.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Ey Peygamber’in hanımları! Sizden kim apaçık bir hayasızlık işlerse, onun için azap iki kat artırılır. Bu, Allah için çok kolaydır.
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اردو · Urdu
اے نبی کی بیویو! تم میں سے جو بھی کھلی بے حیائی (کا ارتکاب) کرے گی اسے دوہرا دوہرا عذاب دیا جائے گا[1] ، اور اللہ تعالیٰ کے نزدیک یہ بہت ہی سہل (سی بات) ہے.
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 O Prophet! Say to your wives, "If you desire the life of this world and its finery, then let me compensate you, and release you kindly.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O Prophet! Say unto thy wives: If ye desire the world's life and its adornment, come! I will content you and will release you with a fair release
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O thou prophet! say to thy wives, 'If ye be desirous of the life of this world and its adornments, come, I will give you them to enjoy and I will let you range handsomely at large
John Medows Rodwell1861 O Prophet! say to thy wives, If ye desire this present life and its braveries, come then, I will provide for you, and dismiss you with an honourable dismissal
George Sale1734 O prophet, say unto thy wives, if ye seek this present life, and the pomp thereof, come, I will make a handsome provision for you, and I will dismiss you with an honourable dismission
Talal Itani2012 But if you desire God, His Messenger, and the Home of the Hereafter, then God has prepared for the righteous among you a magnificent compensation."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But if ye desire Allah and His messenger and the abode of the Hereafter, then lo! Allah hath prepared for the good among you an immense reward
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But if ye be desirous of God and His Apostle and of the abode of the hereafter, verily, God has prepared for those of you who do good a mighty hire
John Medows Rodwell1861 But if ye desire God and His Apostle, and a home in the next life, then, truly, hath God prepared for those of you who are virtuous, a great reward
George Sale1734 But if ye seek God and his apostle, and the life to come, verily God hath prepared for such of you as work righteousness, a great reward
Talal Itani2012 But whoever of you remains obedient to God and His Messenger, and acts righteously, We will give her a double reward; and We have prepared for her a generous provision.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And whosoever of you is submissive unto Allah and His messenger and doeth right, We shall give her her reward twice over, and We have prepared for her a rich provision
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But that one of you who is devoted to God and His Apostle and does right we will give her her hire twice over, and we have prepared for her a noble provision
John Medows Rodwell1861 But whoever of you shall obey God and His Apostle, and shall do that which is right, twice over will we give her her reward, and we have prepared for her a noble provision
George Sale1734 But whosoever of you shall be obedient unto God and his apostle, and shall do that which is right, We will give her reward twice, and We have prepared for her an honourable provision in paradise
Talal Itani2012 O wives of the Prophet! You are not like any other women, if you observe piety. So do not speak too softly, lest the sick at heart lusts after you, but speak in an appropriate manner.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye wives of the Prophet! Ye are not like any other women. If ye keep your duty (to Allah), then be not soft of speech, lest he in whose heart is a disease aspire (to you), but utter customary speech
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye women of the prophet! ye are not like any other women; if ye fear God then be not too complaisant in speech, or he in whose heart is sickness will lust after you; but speak a reasonable speech
John Medows Rodwell1861 O wives of the Prophet! ye are not as other women. If ye fear God, be not too complaisant of speech, lest the man of unhealthy heart should lust after you, but speak with discreet speech
George Sale1734 O wives of the prophet, ye are not as other women: If ye fear God, be not too complaisant in speech, lest he should covet, in whose heart is a disease of incontinence; but speak the speech which is convenient
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 —
0.54 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
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.59
Talal Itani · George Sale0.58
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.48
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.47
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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.