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Talal Itani· published 2012
Muhammad is not the father of any of your men; but he is the Messenger of God, and the seal of the prophets. God is Cognizant of everything.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Muhammad is not the father of any man among you, but he is the messenger of Allah and the Seal of the Prophets; and Allah is ever Aware of all things
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
Mohammed is not the father of any of your men, but the Apostle of God, and the Seal of the Prophets; for God all things doth know
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Mohammed is not the father of any man among you; but the apostle of God, and the seal of the prophets: And God knoweth all things
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
Muhamedi nuk është babai i asnjërit prej burrave nga mesi juaj, por është i Dërguari i Allahut dhe pejgamberi i fundit. Allahu është i Gjithëdijshëm për çdo gjë.
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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
মুহাম্মাদ তোমাদের কোনো পুরুষের পিতা নয়; তবে তিনি আল্লাহর রাসূল ও সর্বশেষ নবী। আর আল্লাহ সকল বিষয়ে সর্বজ্ঞ।
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
Muhammed nije roditelj nijednom od vaših ljudi, nego je Allahov Poslanik i posljednji Vjerovjesnik – a Allah sve dobro zna.
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 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Muhammed nije roditelj nijednom od vaših ljudi, nego je Allahov Poslanik i posljednji Vjerovjesnik – a Allah sve dobro zna.
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
Fulfulde · Fulani
Muhammadu wonaani baaba hay goot e worɓe mon, ko [o] woni, ko Nulaaɗo Alla e timmoode Annabaaɓe. Alla laatike gannduɗo kala hu'unde.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
არ არის მუჰამმედი არავისი მამა თქვენი კაცებიდან, არამედ იგია ალლაჰის შუამავალი და შუამავალთა ბეჭედი [ბოლო შუამავალი]. ჭეშმარიტად, ალლაჰი ყოვლისმცოდნეა.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Muhammad ist nicht der Vater irgend jemandes von euren Männern, sondern der Gesandte Allahs und das Siegel der Propheten. Und Allah ist über alles wissend.
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 Μωχάμμαντ δεν είναι ο πατέρας κανενός από τους άνδρες σας, αλλά είναι ο Αγγελιαφόρος του Αλλάχ, και ο τελευταίος των προφητών. Πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ είναι για τα πάντα, Παντογνώστης.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
मुहम्मद तुम्हारे पुरुषों में से किसी के पिता[27] नहीं हैं। बल्कि वह अल्लाह के रसूल और नबियों के समापक[28] हैं। और अल्लाह प्रत्येक वस्तु को भली-भाँति जानने वाला है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Muħammed non è stato padre di nessuno dei vostri uomini, ma Messaggero di Allāh e ultimo dei profeti. E Allāh è l’Onnisciente.
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
40. Muchammedas ( ﷺ) nėra nė vieno iš jūsų vyrų tėvas, tačiau jis yra Allaho Pasiuntinys ir paskutinis iš Pranašų. Ir Allahas yra Visa Žinantis apie viską.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Muhammad dhiirota keessan irraa abbaa nama tokkoos hin taane. Garuu inni ergamaa Rabbiitiifi xumura nabiyyootaati. Rabbiin waan hunda beekaa ta’eera.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Мухаммад не был отцом кого-либо из ваших мужчин, но он является Посланником Аллаха и печатью пророков. Аллах всегда был [и пребудет] знающим обо всём.
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
Мухаммед није родитељ ниједном од ваших људи, него је Аллахов посланик и печат - последњи веровесник, а Аллах све добро зна.
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
Muhammad si baba wa yeyote katika wanaume wenu, bali ni Mtume wa Mwenyezi Mungu na Mwisho wa Manabii, na Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mwenye kujua vyema kila kitu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Muhammed är inte far till någon av era män, utan Guds sändebud och den sista [och slutgiltiga] av alla profeter. Gud har full vetskap om allting.
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
Muhammed, sizin adamlarınızdan kimsenin babası değildir fakat o Allah’ın Rasulü ve nebilerin sonuncusudur. Allah, her şeyi hakkıyla bilir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
(لوگو) تمہارے مردوں میں سے کسی کے باپ محمد ﴿صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم﴾ نہیں[1] لیکن آپ اللہ تعالیٰ کے رسول ہیں اور تمام نبیوں کے ختم کرنے والے[2]، اور اللہ تعالی ہر چیز کا (بخوبی) جاننے واﻻ 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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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DIN 31635mā kāna ʿalā n-nabiyyi min ḥaraǧin fīmā faraḍa llāhu lahu sunnata llāhi fī llaḏīna ḫalaw min qablu wakāna ʾamru llāhi qadaran maqdūran
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 There is no blame on the Prophet regarding what God has ordained for him. Such is the pattern of God among those who passed before. The command of God is an absolute decree.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 There is no reproach for the Prophet in that which Allah maketh his due. That was Allah's way with those who passed away of old - and the commandment of Allah is certain destiny
Edward Henry Palmer1880 There is no hindrance to the prophet about what God has ordained for him;-(such was) the course of God with those who have passed away before,- and God's bidding is a decreed decree
John Medows Rodwell1861 No blame attacheth to the prophet where God hath given him a permission. Such was the way of God with those prophets who flourished before thee; for God's behest is a fixed decree
George Sale1734 No crime is to be charged on the prophet, as to what God hath allowed him, conformable to the ordinance of God with regard to those who preceded him, -- for the command of God is a determinate decree
Talal Itani2012 Those who deliver the messages of God, and fear Him, and never fear anyone except God. God is sufficient as a reckoner.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Who delivered the messages of Allah and feared Him, and feared none save Allah. Allah keepeth good account
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Those who preach God's messages and fear Him and fear not any one except God,- but God is good enough at reckoning up
John Medows Rodwell1861 Who fulfilled the mission with which God had charged them, and feared Him, and feared none but God. And God taketh a sufficient account
George Sale1734 who brought the messages of God, and feared him, and feared none besides God: And God is a sufficient accountant
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 —
0.43 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 · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Talal Itani · George Sale0.58
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.48
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.46
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.40
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.38
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.29
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.14
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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.