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Talal Itani· published 2012
Say, "My Lord projects the truth. He is the Knower of the Unseen."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Say: Lo! my Lord hurleth the truth. (He is) the Knower of Things Hidden
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, 'Verily, my Lord hurls forth the truth; and He wellknows the unseen
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Say, verily my Lord sendeth down the truth to his prophets: He is the knower of secrets
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: "Zoti im shpall të Vërtetën. Ai është i Njohësi i të gjitha fshehtësive."
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
বলো: ‘নিশ্চয় আমার রব সত্য দিয়ে (অসত্যকে) আঘাত করেন। তিনি যাবতীয় গায়িব সম্পর্কে পরিজ্ঞাত।’
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: “Gospodar moj pobjeđuje istinom, On dobro zna i sve ono što je skriveno.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Reci: “Gospodar moj pobjeđuje istinom, On dobro zna i sve ono što je skriveno.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Maaku: "pellet, Joomi am ko nerlortooɗo [meere nden, hujjaaji] goonga ka, timminɗo anndugol wirniiɗi".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
უთხარი [ო, შუამავალო]: «ჭეშმარიტად, ჩემი უფალი ამარცხებს [სიყალბეს] სიმართლით, და ის არის დაფარულის მცოდნე».
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: „Wahrlich, mein Herr kommt (wörtl. schleudert) mit der Wahrheit, (Er,) der Allwisser der verborgenen Dinge.“
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): «Ο Κύριός μου στέλνει την αλήθεια (στους Αγγελιαφόρους και εξαλείφει το ψεύδος) και είναι ο Παντογνώστης των αοράτων.»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
आप कह दें : मेरा पालनहार सत्य द्वारा (असत्य पर) चोट करता है। वह परोक्ष (ग़ैब) की बातों का खूब जानने वाला है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Di’: «In verità il mio Dio Si scaglia con la Verità (sul male), ed è il Conoscitore dell’Ignoto.”
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
48. Sakyk (Muchammedai ﷺ): „Iš tiesų Mano Viešpats nuleidžia (Apreiškimą ir padaro akivaizdžią) tiesą (t. y. šį Apreiškimą, kuris pasiekė mane), Visa Žinantysis apie Al-Ghaib (Nematomą).
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 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
“Rabbiin kiyya dhugaa ni buusa (Inni) beekaa iccitiiwwan hundaati” jedhiin.
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 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Реци: “Господар мој побеђује истином, Он добро зна и све оно што је веома скривено.”
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: "Hakika Mola wangu Mlezi anaondoa upotovu kwa haki. Yeye ndiye Mwenye kujua vyema ya ghaibu."
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Säg: ”Min Herre slungar sanningen [mot allt falskt] och han är den som känner till allt dolt.”
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: "Rabbim; hak olanı (batılın üzerine) bırakır, bütün gaybleri tamamıyla bilendir."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
کہہ دیجیئے! کہ میرا رب حق (سچی وحی) نازل فرماتا ہے وه [1] ہر غیب کا 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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5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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Easy-read
Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation,
not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
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)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
Talal Itani2012 Say, "I offer you a single advice: 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."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say (unto them, O Muhammad): I exhort you unto one thing only: that ye awake, for Allah's sake, by twos and singly, and then reflect: There is no madness in your comrade. He is naught else than a warner unto you in face of a terrific doom
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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 keen torment
John Medows Rodwell1861 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 fellow citizen is no djinn: he is no other than your warner before a severe punishment
George Sale1734 Say, verily I advise you unto one thing, namely, that ye stand before God by two and two, and singly; and then consider seriously, 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
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
Talal Itani2012 Say, "If I err, I err only to my own loss; but if I am guided, it is by what my Lord inspires me. He is Hearing and Near."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: If I err, I err only to my own loss, and if I am rightly guided it is because of that which my Lord hath revealed unto me. Lo! He is Hearer, Nigh
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'If I err I only err against myself; and if I am guided it is all what my Lord inspires me; verily, He is the hearing, the nigh
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: If I err, verily to my own cost only shall I err: but if I have guidance, it will be of my Lord's revealing, for He is the Hearer, the near at hand
George Sale1734 Say, if I err, verily I shall err only against my own soul; But if I be rightly directed, it will be by that which my Lord revealeth unto me; for he is ready to hear, and nigh unto those who call upon him
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 —
0.57 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 · George Sale0.74
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.61
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.55
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Talal Itani · George Sale0.50
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.47
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.40
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
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13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC
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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.