Easy-read (simplified)qul innamaa a'izukum biwaahidatin an taqoomoo lillaahi mathnaa wafuraadaa thumma tatafakkaroo maa bisaahibikum min jinnatin in huwa illaa nadheerun lakum bayna yaday 'adhaabin shadeed
DIN 31635qul ʾinnamā ʾaʿiẓukum biwāḥidatin ʾan taqūmū lillāhi maṯnā wafurādā ṯumma tatafakkarū mā biṣāḥibikum min ǧinnatin ʾin huwa ʾillā naḏīrun lakum bayna yaday ʿaḏābin šadīdin
Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.
Talal Itani· published 2012
Say, "I offer you a singleadvice: devote yourselves to God, in pairs, or individually; and reflect. There is no madness in your friend. He is just a warner to you, before the advent of a severe punishment."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Say (unto them, OMuhammad): I exhort you unto one thing only: that ye awake, for Allah'ssake, by twos and singly, and then reflect: There is no madness in your comrade. He is naughtelse than a warner unto you in face of a terrificdoom
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
Say, 'I only admonish you of one thing, that ye should stand up before God in twos or singly, and then that ye reflect that there is no ginn in your companion. He is only a warner to you before the keentorment
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
SAY: One thing in sooth do I advise you: - that ye stand up before God two and two, or singly, and then reflect that in your fellowcitizen is no djinn: he is no other than your warner before a severe punishment
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Say, verily I advise you unto one thing, namely, that ye stand before God by two and two, and singly; and then considerseriously, and you will find that there is no madness in your companion Mohammed: He is no other than a warner unto you, sent before a severe punishment
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
Thuaj: "Në të vërtetë, unë ju këshilloj vetëm me një gjë: të ngriheni sinqerisht për Allahun, dy nga dy e një nga një dhe të mendoni, (që ta kuptoni) se shoku juaj (Muhamedi) nuk është i çmendur. Në të vërtetë ai vetëm po ju paralajmëron para një dënimi të rëndë."
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
হে রাসূল! বলো: ‘আমি তোমাদেরকে একটি বিষয়ে উপদেশ দিচ্ছি, তোমরা (প্রবৃত্তিমুক্ত হয়ে) আল্লাহর উদ্দেশ্যে দু’জন অথবা এক একজন করে দাঁড়িয়ে যাও, অতঃপর চিন্তা করে দেখো, তোমাদের সাথীর (মুহাম্মদের) মধ্যে কোন পাগলামি নেই। সে তো আসন্ন কঠোর শাস্তি সম্পর্কে তোমাদের একজন সতর্ককারী বৈ কিছু নয়।’
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
Reci: “Ja vam savjetujem samo jedno: ustanite iskreno prema Allahu, dvojica po dvojica, ili jedan po jedan, pa zatim razmislite da drug vaš nije lud. On vas samo prije teške patnje opominje.”
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
Reci: “Ja vam savjetujem samo jedno: ustanite iskreno prema Allahu, dvojica po dvojica, ili jedan po jedan, pa zatim razmislite da drug vaš nije lud. On vas samo prije teške patnje opominje.”
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
Maaku: "nganndee ko mi waajorta on, ko (hu'unde) wootere: "Ko nde daroranton Alla ɗiɗo ɗiɗo e gooto gooto, refti miijitoɗon. (Nganndon) wondiiɗo mon on aldaa e jinna: O wonaani, si wonaa jerrtinoowo on, e ko woni yeeso (mon), e lepte caɗtuɗe".
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
ქართული · Georgian
უთხარი (ო, მოციქულო) (ურწმუნოებს): «მე მხოლოდ ერთ რამეს შეგაგონებთ: რომ წარდგეთ ალლაჰის წინაშე ორ-ორნი და თითო-თითოდ, შემდეგ კი დაფიქრდეთ (ალლაჰის მოციქულზე); (მაშინ აღმოაჩენთ, რომ) თქვენს თანამოძმეში [მუჰამმადში] არ არის შეპყრობილობა. ჭეშმარიტად, ის მხოლოდ შემგონებელია თქვენთვის მკაცრი სასჯელის წინაშე!»
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 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Sag: „Ich ermahne euch nur zu einem: dass ihr euch zu zweit und einzeln um Allahs willen hinstellt und hierauf nachdenkt.“ Euer Gefährte leidet nicht an Besessenheit. Er ist euch ja nur ein Warner vor einer (bevorstehenden) strengen Strafe.
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
Πες (ω, Προφήτη): «Σας προτρέπω να κάνετε ένα πράγμα: να σταθείτε για χάρη του Αλλάχ (με ειλικρίνεια, εγκαταλείποντας τις επιθυμίες και τον φανατισμό σας), ανά δύο (για να συζητήσετε ο ένας με τον άλλον) και μεμονωμένα, και να αναλογιστείτε (τον χαρακτήρα του Μωχάμμαντ, που τον ξέρετε και ξέρετε την ειλικρίνειά του, και θα φτάσετε στο ότι) δεν υπάρχει τρέλα στον σύντροφό σας (τον Μωχάμμαντ). Πράγματι, δεν είναι παρά ένας προειδοποιητής για σας πριν από ένα αυστηρό μαρτύριο.»
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
आप कह दें : मैं बस तुम्हें एक बात की नसीहत करता हूँ कि तुम अल्लाह के लिए दो-दो तथा अकेले-अकेले खड़े हो जाओ। फिर सोचो। तुम्हारे साथी[40] में कोई पागलपन नहीं है। वह तो केवल तुम्हें एक कठोर यातना के आने से पहले डराने वाला है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Di’: «In verità vi consiglio una cosa sola: di alzarvi in preghiera, rivolgendovi ad Allāh in coppie o da soli, poi di meditare. Allora vi renderete conto che il vostro uomo non è per niente posseduto, perché lui non è altro che un ammonitore, inviato a voi per evitare una terribile punizione.”
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
46. Sakyk (jiems, Muchammedai ﷺ): „Aš raginu jus tik vienam (dalykui) – kad stotumėte jūs vardan Allaho poromis ir pavieniui, ir apmąstytumėte (savyje Pranašo ﷺ gyvenimo istoriją) – nėra pamišimo jūsų komapnjone (Muchammede ﷺ), jis yra tik perspėtojas jums siaubingos kančios akivaizdoje.“
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.
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 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Скажи: «Воистину, я увещеваю вас лишь об одном: встаньте ради Аллаха — по двое и поодиночке — затем поразмышляйте: нет в вашем товарище никакой одержимости. Он — не кто иной, как предостерегающий для вас перед суровым наказанием».
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
Реци: „Саветујем вам само једно: устаните према Аллаху, двојица по двојица, или један по један, па затим размислите да друг ваш није луд. Он вас само пре тешке патње упозорава.“
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
Sema: "Mimi ninawanasihi kwa jambo moja tu - ya kwamba msimame kwa ajili ya Mwenyezi Mungu, wawili wawili na mmoja mmoja; kisha mfikiri. Mwenzenu huyu hana wazimu. Yeye si chochote isipokuwa ni mwonyaji kwenu kabla ya kufika adhabu kali."
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Säg: ”Jag uppmanar er bara till en enda sak, nämligen att ni engagerar er för Guds skull, två och två eller var för sig, och överväger noga. Er landsman har inte förlorat förståndet – han är endast här för att varna er för ett strängt straff.”
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
De ki: “Ben size ancak bir öğüt veriyorum: Yalnızca Allah için ikişer ikişer, birer birer kalkınız. Sonra bu arkadaşınızda bir delilik olmadığını düşününüz. O ancak şiddetli bir azabın öncesinde sizi uyaran bir peygamberdir”
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
اردو · Urdu
کہہ دیجیئے! کہ میں تمہیں صرف ایک ہی بات کی نصیحت کرتا ہوں کہ تم اللہ کے واسطے (ضد چھوڑ کر) دو دو مل کر یا تنہا تنہا کھڑے ہو کر سوچو تو سہی، تمہارے اس رفیق کو کوئی جنون نہیں[1] ، وه تو تمہیں ایک بڑے (سخت) عذاب کے آنے سے پہلے ڈرانے واﻻ ہے.[2]
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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Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation,
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Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil
Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the
same edition and their orthography differs.
Easy-read (simplified)wakadhdhaba lladheena min qablihim wamaa balaghoo mi'shaara maa aataynaahum fakadhdhaboo rusulee fakayfa kaana nakeer
DIN 31635wakaḏḏaba llaḏīna min qablihim wamā balaġū miʿšāra mā ʾātaynāhum fakaḏḏabū rusulī fakayfa kāna nakīri
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Those before them also denied the Truth, yet they have not attained one-tenth of what We had given them. They rejected My messengers, so how was My disapproval?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those before them denied, and these have not attained a tithe of that which We bestowed on them (of old); yet they denied My messengers. How intense then was My abhorrence (of them)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Those before them said it was a lie, and these have not reached a tithe of what we had given them. And they said my apostles were liars, and how great a change was then
John Medows Rodwell1861 They also flourished before them, treated our apostles as impostors in like sort: but not to the tenth part of what we bestowed on them, have these attained. And yet when they charged my apostles with deceit, how terrible was my vengeance
George Sale1734 They who were before them in like manner accused their prophets of imposture: But these have not arrived unto the tenth part of the riches and strength which we had bestowed on the former: And they accused my apostles of imposture; and how severe was my vengeance
Easy-read (simplified)qul maa sa'altukum min ajrin fahuwa lakum in ajriya illaa 'alaa llaahi wahuwa 'alaa kulli shay'in shaheed
DIN 31635qul mā saʾaltukum min ʾaǧrin fahuwa lakum ʾin ʾaǧriya ʾillā ʿalā llāhi wahuwa ʿalā kulli šayʾin šahīdun
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Whatever compensation I have asked of you, is yours. My compensation comes only from God, and He is Witness over all things."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: Whatever reward I might have asked of you is yours. My reward is the affair of Allah only. He is Witness over all things
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'I do not ask you for it a hire; that is for yourselves; my hire is only from God, and He is witness over all
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: I ask not any wage from you: keep it for yourselves: my wage is from God alone. And He is witness over all things
George Sale1734 Say, I ask not of you any reward for my preaching; it is your own, either to give or not: My reward is to be expected from God alone; and he is witness over all things
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 —
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.74
Talal Itani · George Sale0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.63
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.53
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.45
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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.