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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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
You are only a warner.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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
Ti je vetëm paralajmërues.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
তুমি তো একজন সতর্ককারী মাত্র।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Tvoje je samo da opominješ.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Tvoje je samo da opominješ.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Aan a wonaani, si wonaa jerrtinoowo.
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ქართული · Georgian
რადგან შენ [ო, მუჰამმად] მხოლოდ შემგონებელი ხარ.
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Deutsch · German
Du bist nur ein Warner.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Δεν είσαι (ω, Προφήτη) παρά ένας προειδοποιητής.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
आप तो मात्र एक डराने वाले हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
Tu non sei che un ammonitore.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
23. Tu (Muchammedai ﷺ) esi tik perspėtojas (t. y. tavo pareiga tik perduoti Allaho Žinią žmonijai, tačiau teisingas vedimas priklauso Allahui).
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Ati akeekkachiisaa malee waan biraa hin taane.
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Русский · Russian
Ты — не кто иной, как предостерегающий.
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Српски · Serbian
твоје је само да опомињеш.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Hukuwa wewe isipokuwa ni mwonyaji.
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Svenska · Swedish
du är endast en varnare.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Sen sadece bir uyarıcısın.
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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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Easy-read (simplified)wamaa yastawee l-'ahyaa'u walaa l-'amwaatu inna llaaha yusmi'u man yashaa'u wamaa anta bimusmi'in man fee l-quboor
DIN 31635wamā yastawī l-ʾaḥyāʾu walā l-ʾamwātu ʾinna llāha yusmiʿu man yašāʾu wamā ʾanta bimusmiʿin man fī l-qubūri
Talal Itani2012 Nor are equal the living and the dead. God causes whomever He wills to hear, but you cannot make those in the graves hear.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Nor are the living equal with the dead. Lo! Allah maketh whom He will to hear. Thou canst not reach those who are in the graves
Edward Henry Palmer1880 nor are the living equal with the dead; verily, God causes whom He pleases to hear, and thou canst not make those who are in their graves hear
John Medows Rodwell1861 Nor are the living and the dead the same thing! God indeed shall make whom He will to hearken, but thou shalt not make those who are in their graves to hearken
George Sale1734 Neither shall the living and the dead be held equal. God shall cause him to hear whom He pleaseth: But thou shalt not make those to hear who are in their graves
DIN 31635ʾinnā ʾarsalnāka bil-ḥaqqi bašīran wanaḏīran waʾin min ʾummatin ʾillā ḫalā fīhā naḏīrun
Talal Itani2012 We sent you with the truth; a bearer of good news, and a warner. There is no community but a warner has passed through it.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! We have sent thee with the Truth, a bearer of glad tidings and a warner; and there is not a nation but a warner hath passed among them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, we have sent thee in truth a herald of glad tidings and a warner; and there is no nation but its warner has passed away with it
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily we have sent thee with the truth; a bearer of good tidings and a warner; nor hath there been a people unvisited by its warner
George Sale1734 Verily We have sent thee with truth, a bearer of good tidings, and a denouncer of threats. There hath been no nation, but a preacher hath in past times been conversant among them
DIN 31635waʾin yukaḏḏibūka faqad kaḏḏaba llaḏīna min qablihim ǧāʾathum rusuluhum bil-bayyināti wabiz-zuburi wabil-kitābi l-munīri
Talal Itani2012 If they disbelieve you, those before them also disbelieved. Their messengers came to them with the clear proofs, with the Psalms, and with the Enlightening Scripture.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if they deny thee, those before them also denied. Their messengers came unto them with clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty), and with the Psalms and the Scripture giving light
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And if they called thee liar, those before thee called their apostles liars too, who came to them with manifest signs, and the Scriptures, and the illuminating Book
John Medows Rodwell1861 And if they treat thee as a liar, so did those who were before them threat their Apostles who came to them with the proofs of their mission, and with the Scriptures and with the enlightening Book
George Sale1734 If they charge thee with imposture, they who were before them likewise charged their apostles with imposture. Their apostles came unto them with evident miracles, and with divine writings, and with the enlightening book
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 —
0.71 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
Talal Itani · George Sale0.91
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.91
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.83
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.80
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.80
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.75
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.75
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.00
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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.