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Talal Itani· published 2012
O Prophet! Tell your wives, and your daughters, and the women of the believers, to lengthen their garments. That is more proper, so they will be recognized and not harassed. God is Forgiving and Merciful.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
O Prophet! Tell thy wives and thy daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloakscloseround them (when they go abroad). That will be better, so that they may be recognised and not annoyed. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful
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 thou prophet! tell thy wives and thy daughters, and the women of the believers, to let down over them their outer wrappers; that is nearer for them to be known and that they should not be annoyed; but God is forgiving, merciful
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O Prophet! speak to thy wives and to thy daughters, and to the wives of the Faithful, that they let their veilsfalllow. Thus will they more easily be known, and they will not be affronted. God is Indulgent, Merciful
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O prophet, speak unto thy wives, and thy daughters, and the wives of the true believers, that they cast their outer garments over them when they walk abroad; this will be more proper, that they may be known to be matrons of reputation, and may not be affronted by unseemlywords or actions. God is gracious and merciful
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 Pejgamber, thuaju grave e bijave të tua dhe grave të besimtarëve që t'i lëshojnë mbulesat mbi trupat e tyre. Kështu është më afër që ato të njihen (si gra të dëlira) e të mos ngacmohen. Allahu është Falës i Madh e Mëshirëplotë.
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বাংলা · Bengali
হে নবী! তুমি তোমার স্ত্রীগণ, কন্যাগণ এবং মুমিন নারীদেরকে বলো, তারা যেন তাদের জিলবাবের কিছু অংশ নিজেদের ওপর টেনে নেয়।(৩০) এতে তাদেরকে সহজে (স্বাধীন নারী হিসাবে) চেনা যাবে, ফলে তাদেরকে (পরাধীন নারীর মতো) কষ্ট দেওয়া হবে না। আর আল্লাহ অতীব ক্ষমাশীল, পরম দয়ালু।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
O Vjerovjesniče, reci ženama svojim, i kćerima svojim, i ženama vjernika neka spuste haljine svoje niza se. Tako će se najlakše prepoznati pa neće napastvovane biti. A Allah prašta i samilostan je.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
O Vjerovjesniče, reci ženama svojim, i kćerima svojim, i ženama vjernika neka spuste haljine svoje niza se. Tako će se najlakše prepoznati pa neće napastvovane biti. A Allah prašta i samilostan je.
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
Ko Annabiijo! Maakan suddiiɓe maa ɓeen, e jiwɓe maa ɓen, e genndiraaɓe gooŋɗinɓe ɓen, nde ɓe joltinta e maɓɓe, wutteeji maɓɓe ɗin: ko ɗuum ɓurata ɓaɗtaade, nde ɓe annditetee, hara ɓe lorraaka. Alla laatike kaforoowo, jurmotooɗo .
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ო, შუამავალო! უთხარი შენს ცოლებს, შენს ქალიშვილებს და მორწმუნეთა ქალებს, რომ ჩამოიფარონ თავიანთი მოსასხამები [დაიფარონ ისე, რომ მხოლოდ თვალები დარჩეს ხილული, რათა დაინახონ გზა, როცა საჭიროების გამო გამოდიან]. ეს უკეთესია, რათა ისინი შეიცნონ [როგორც თავისუფალი და ღვთისმოსავი ქალები] და მათ არ მიაყენონ შეურაცხყოფა. ხოლო ალლაჰი მაპატიებელი, შემწყალებელია.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
O Prophet, sag deinen Gattinnen und deinen Töchtern und den Frauen der Gläubigen, sie sollen etwas von ihrem Überwurf über sich herunterziehen. Dies ist eher geeignet, dass sie erkannt und so nicht belästigt werden. Und Allah ist allvergebend und barmherzig.
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
Ω, Προφήτη! Πες στις συζύγους και στις κόρες σου και στις γυναίκες των πιστών να καλυφθούν καλά με τους μανδύες (τζιλμπάμπ) τους, έτσι ώστε να αναγνωρίζονται (ως έντιμες και σεβάσμιες γυναίκες) και να μην παρενοχλούνται. Πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ είναι Γαφούρ (Αυτός που συγχωρεί τα πάντα) και Ραχείμ (Πολυεύσπλαχνος).
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! अपनी पत्नियों, अपनी बेटियों और ईमान वाले लोगों की स्त्रियों से कह दें कि वे अपने ऊपर अपनी चादरें डाल लिया करें। यह इसके अधिक निकट है कि वे पहचान ली जाएँ, फिर उन्हें कष्ट न पहुँचाया[43] जाए। और अल्लाह बहुत क्षमा करने वाला, अत्यंत दयावान् है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
O Profeta, di’ alle tue mogli, alle tue figlie e alle donne dei credenti di coprirsi con i loro veli: ciò le fa riconoscere meglio, così non verranno importunate, e Allāh è il Perdonatore, il Misericordioso.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
59. Pranaše, pasakyk savo žmonoms ir savo dukroms, ir tikinčiųjų moterims užsitraukti savo apsiaustus (skraistes) ant viso savo kūno (t. y. visiškai save uždengti, išskyrus akis arba vieną akį kelio matymui). Tai bus geriau, kad jos bus žinomos (kaip laisvos gerbiamos moterys), kad nebūtų erzinamos. Ir Allahas yra Visada Atleidžiantis, Gailestingiausiasis.
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.
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Русский · Russian
О Пророк! Скажи своим жёнам, твоим дочерям и женщинам верующих мужчин, чтобы они опускали на себя свои покрывала. Так им будет легче быть узнанными, и они не подвергнутся обидам. Аллах всегда был [и пребудет] прощающим, милующим.
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
О Веровесниче, реци својим супругама, и својим кћерима, и женама верника нека спусте хаљине своје низа се. Тако ће најлакше да се препознају па неће да буду напаствоване. А Аллах прашта и самилостан је.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Ewe Nabii, waambie wake zako, na binti zako, na wake za Waumini wajiteremshie nguo zao. Hivyo ni karibu zaidi kuweza kutambulikana kwa hivyo wasiudhiwe. Na Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mwenye kusamehe, Mwenye kurehemu.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Profet! Säg till dina hustrur och dina döttrar och de troendes kvinnor att de ska svepa in sig i heltäckande plagg så att de känns igen [för sin kyskhet och återhållsamhet] och inte blir ofredade. Gud är ständigt förlåtande, barmhärtig.
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
Ey Nebi zevcelerine, kızlarına ve Müminlerin hanımlarına de ki: “Cilbâblarını üzerlerine giysinler.” Bu onların tanınıp, incitilmemeleri için daha uygundur. Allah; çok bağışlayandır, çok merhamet edendir.
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اردو · Urdu
اے نبی! اپنی بیویوں سے اور اپنی صاحبزادیوں سے اور مسلمانوں کی عورتیں سے کہہ دو کہ وه اپنے اوپر اپنی چادریں لٹکا لیا کریں[1] ، اس سے بہت جلد ان کی شناخت ہو جایا کرے گی پھر نہ ستائی جائیں گی[2]، اور اللہ تعالیٰ بخشنے واﻻ مہربان ہے.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Talal Itani2012 Those who insult God and His Messenger, God has cursed them in this life and in the Hereafter, and has prepared for them a demeaning punishment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! those who malign Allah and His messenger, Allah hath cursed them in the world and the Hereafter, and hath prepared for them the doom of the disdained
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, those who annoy God and His Apostle, God will curse them in this world and the next, and prepare for them shameful woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily, they who affront God and His Apostle, the curse of God is on them in this world, and in the world to come: and He hath prepared for them a shameful chastisement
George Sale1734 As to those who offend God and his apostle, God shall curse them in this world and in the next; and He hath prepared for them a shameful punishment
Talal Itani2012 Those who harm believing men and believing women, for acts they did not commit, bear the burden of perjury and a flagrant sin.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And those who malign believing men and believing women undeservedly, they bear the guilt of slander and manifest sin
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And those who annoy the believers for what they have not earned, such have to bear (the guilt of) calumny and obvious sin
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they who shall affront believing men and believing women, for no fault of theirs, they shall surely bear the guilt of slander, and of a clear wrong
George Sale1734 And they who shall injure the true believers of either sex, without their deserving it, shall surely bear the guilt of calumny and a manifest injustice
Talal Itani2012 If the hypocrites, and those with sickness in their hearts, and the rumormongers in the City, do not desist, We will incite you against them; then they will not be your neighbors there except for a short while.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 If the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, and the alarmists in the city do not cease, We verily shall urge thee on against them, then they will be your neighbours in it but a little while
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Surely if the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a sickness and the insurrectionists in Medinah do not desist, we will surely incite thee against them. Then they shall not dwell near thee therein save for a little while
John Medows Rodwell1861 If the Hypocrites, and the men of tainted heart, and the stirrers of sedition in Medina desist not, we will surely stir thee up against them. Then shall they not be suffered to dwell near thee therein, but a little while
George Sale1734 Verily if the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is an infirmity, and they who raise disturbances in Medina, do not desist; we will surely stir thee up against them, to chastise them: Henceforth they shall not be suffered to dwell near thee therein, except for a little time
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 —
0.58 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.58
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.58
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.53
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
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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.