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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
As for that which We inspire in thee of the Scripture, it is the Truth confirming that which was (revealed) before it. Lo! Allah is indeedObserver, Seer of His slaves
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
What we have inspired thee with of the Book is true, verifying what was before it; verily, God of His servants is well aware and sees
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
That which We have revealed unto thee of the book of the Koran, is the truth, confirming the scriptures which were revealed before it: For God knoweth and regardeth his servants
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
Libri që të shpallëm ty (o Muhamed) është e vërteta që vërteton atë që është shpallur para tij. Me të vërtetë, Ai i di dhe i sheh mirë robërit e Vet.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
হে নবী! আমি যে কিতাব তোমার কাছে ওয়াহী করেছি, তা সত্য , এটা তার পূর্ববর্তী কিতাবসমূহের সত্যায়নকারীও। নিশ্চয় আল্লাহ তাঁর বান্দাদের ব্যাপারে সম্যক অবহিত, সর্বদ্রষ্টা।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
A ono što iz Knjige objavljujemo sušta je istina, ona potvrđuje da su istinite i one prije nje. – Allah, zaista, o robovima Svojim sve zna i On sve vidi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
A ono što iz Knjige objavljujemo sušta je istina, ona potvrđuje da su istinite i one prije nje. Allah, zaista, o robovima Svojim sve zna i On sve vidi.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Kon ko Min wahayini e maaɗa e deftere nden, ko ɗuum woni goonga, gooŋɗinde e ɗen won'ɗe ye'eso mayre. Pellet, Alla ko kumpitiiɗo deentuɗo jiyaaɓe makko ɓen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ხოლო, რაც ჩვენ შთაგაგონეთ შენ [ო, მოციქულო] წიგნიდან [ყურანიდან], ეს არის ჭეშმარიტება, რომელიც ადასტურებს იმას რაც [იქნა გარდმოვლენილი] მის წინათ. ჭეშმარიტად, ალლაჰი თავის მორჩილთა შესახებ ყოვლისმცოდნე, მხედველია.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und was Wir dir vom Buch (als Offenbarung) eingegeben haben, ist die Wahrheit, das bestätigend, was vor ihm war. Wahrlich, Allah ist ja über Seine Diener kundig und sehend.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αυτό που σου αποκαλύψαμε (ω, Προφήτη) από το Βιβλίο (το Κορ’άν), είναι η αλήθεια που επιβεβαιώνει ό,τι αποκαλύφθηκε πριν απ' αυτό (από Θεία Βιβλία). Πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ είναι για τους δούλους Του, Χαμπείρ (Αυτός που γνωρίζει πλήρως τα πάντα) και Μπασείρ (Αυτός που βλέπει τα πάντα).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
और हमने आपकी ओर जिस किताब की वह़्य (प्रकाशना) की है, वही सर्वथा सच है और अपने से पहले की पुस्तकों की पुष्टि करने वाली है। निःसंदेह अल्लाह अपने बंदों की पूरी खबर रखने वाला, सब कुछ देखने वाला है।[12]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E quello che ti abbiamo ispirato del Libro è la Verità, a conferma di ciò che c’era prima: in verità Allāh è Conoscitore e Osservatore dei Suoi servi.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
31. O tai, ką Mes apreiškėme tau (Muchammedai ﷺ) iš Knygos (Korano), tai yra (visiška) tiesa [kad tu (Muchammedai ﷺ) ir tavo pasekėjai turi elgtis pagal jos instrukcijas], patvirtinanti tai, kas buvo (apreikšta) prieš tai. Iš tiesų, Allahas yra tikrai Visa Žinantis, ir Visa Matantis apie Savo vergus.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Kitaaba (Qur’aana) irraa waani Nuti gara keetti buufne isatu dhugaadha, (kitaabban) isa duraa kan dhugoomsuudha. Rabbiin gabroota isaa akkaan beekaa, argaadha.
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Русский · Russian
То, что Мы внушили тебе из Писания, — это и есть истина, подтверждающая то, что было прежде. Воистину, Аллах — видящий и сведущий о Своих рабах.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
А оно што ти из Књиге објављујемо сушта је истина, она потврђује да су истините и оне пре ње. Аллах, заиста, о својим створењима све у потпуности зна и све добро види.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na hayo tuliyokufunulia kutoka Kitabuni ni Kweli, yenye kusadikisha yale yaliyokuwa kabla yake. Hakika Mwenyezi Mungu kwa waja wake ni Mwenye habari na Mwenye kuona.
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Svenska · Swedish
Det vi har uppenbarat för dig ur skriften är sanningen, som bekräftar de tidigare [uppenbarelserna]. Gud är väl medveten och har full insikt om sina tjänare.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Sana vahyettiğimiz kitap (Kur’an), kendinden öncekini tasdik eden hak kitaptır. Şüphesiz Allah, (kullarından) hakkıyla haberdardır. Onları hakkıyla görür.
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اردو · Urdu
اور یہ کتاب جو ہم نے آپ کے پاس وحی کے طور پر بھیجی ہے یہ بالکل ٹھیک[1] ہے جو کہ اپنے سے پہلی کتابوں کی بھی تصدیق کرتی ہے[2]۔ اللہ تعالیٰ اپنے بندوں کی پوری خبر رکھنے واﻻ خوب دیکھنے واﻻ ہے.[3]
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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DIN 31635ʾinna llaḏīna yatlūna kitāba llāhi waʾaqāmū ṣ-ṣalāta waʾanfaqū mimmā razaqnāhum sirran waʿalāniyatan yarǧūna tiǧāratan lan tabūra
Talal Itani2012 Those who recite the Book of God, and perform the prayer, and spend of what We have provided for them, secretly and publicly, expect a trade that will not fail.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! those who read the Scripture of Allah, and establish worship, and spend of that which We have bestowed on them secretly and openly, they look forward to imperishable gain
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, those who recite the Book of God, and are steadfast in prayer, and give alms of what we have bestowed in secret and in public, hope for the merchandise that shall not come to naught
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily they who recite the Book of God, and observe prayer, and give alms in public and in private from what we have bestowed upon them, may hope for a merchandise that shall not perish
George Sale1734 Verily they who read the book of God, and are constant at prayer, and give alms out of what We have bestowed on them, both in secret and openly, hope for a merchandize which shall not perish
Easy-read (simplified)liyuwaffiyahum ujoorahum wayazeedahum min fadlihi innahu ghafoorun shakoor
DIN 31635liyuwaffiyahum ʾuǧūrahum wayazīdahum min faḍlihi ʾinnahu ġafūrun šakūrun
Talal Itani2012 He will pay them their dues in full, and will increase them from His bounty. He is Forgiving and Appreciative.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That He will pay them their wages and increase them of His grace. Lo! He is Forgiving, Responsive
Edward Henry Palmer1880 that He may pay them their hire, and give them increase of His grace; verily, He is forgiving, grateful
John Medows Rodwell1861 God will certainly pay them their due wages, and of his bounty increase them: for He is Gracious, Grateful
George Sale1734 That God may fully pay them their wages, and make them a superabundant addition of his liberality; for He is ready to forgive the faults of his servants, and to requite their endeavours
DIN 31635ṯumma ʾawraṯnā l-kitāba llaḏīna ṣṭafaynā min ʿibādinā faminhum ẓālimun linafsihi waminhum muqtaṣidun waminhum sābiqun bil-ḫayrāti biʾiḏni llāhi ḏālika huwa l-faḍlu l-kabīru
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Talal Itani2012 Then We passed the Book to those of Our servants whom We chose. Some of them wrong their souls, and some follow a middle course, and some are in the foremost in good deeds by God's leave; that is the greatest blessing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then We gave the Scripture as inheritance unto those whom We elected of Our bondmen. But of them are some who wrong themselves and of them are some who are lukewarm, and of them are some who outstrip (others) through good deeds, by Allah's leave. That is the great favour
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then we gave the Book for an inheritance to those whom we chose of our servants, and of them are some who wrong themselves, and of them are some who take a middle course, and of them are some who vie in good works by the permission of their Lord; that is great grace
John Medows Rodwell1861 Moreover, we have made the Book an heritage to those of our servants whom we have chosen. Some of them injure themselves by evil deeds; others keep the midway between good and evil; and others, by the permission of God, outstrip in goodness; this is the great merit
George Sale1734 And We have given the book of the Koran in heritage unto such of our servants as We have chosen: Of them there is one who injureth his own soul; and there is another of them who keepeth the middle way; and there is another of them who out-strippeth others in good works, by the permission of God. This is the great excellence
Easy-read (simplified)jannaatu 'adnin yadkhuloonahaa yuhallawna feehaa min asaawira min dhahabin walu'lu'an walibaasuhum feehaa hareer
DIN 31635ǧannātu ʿadnin yadḫulūnahā yuḥallawna fīhā min ʾasāwira min ḏahabin waluʾluʾan walibāsuhum fīhā ḥarīrun
Talal Itani2012 The Gardens of Eden, which they will enter. They will be adorned therein with gold bracelets and pearls, and their garments therein will be of silk.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Gardens of Eden! They enter them wearing armlets of gold and pearl and their raiment therein is silk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Gardens of Eden shall they enter, adorned therein with bracelets of gold and pearls; and their garments therein shall be silk
John Medows Rodwell1861 Into the gardens of Eden shall they enter: with bracelets of gold and pearl shall they be decked therein, and therein shall their raiment be of silk
George Sale1734 They shall be introduced into gardens of perpetual abode; they shall be adorned therein with bracelets of gold and pearls, and their cloathing therein shall be of silk
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 —
0.66 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 Pickthall0.77
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.75
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.74
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Talal Itani · George Sale0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.63
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.61
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.40
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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.