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
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.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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
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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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
Pastaj, Ne ua lamë Librin në trashëgim robërve Tanë të zgjedhur. Në mesin e tyre ka disa që i bëjnë padrejtësi vetvetes, disa që janë mesatarë dhe disa që, me lejen e Allahut, prijnë në vepra të mira. Kjo është dhuntia e madhe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
অতঃপর আমি এ কিতাবটির উত্তরাধিকারী করেছি, আমার বান্দাদের মধ্যে তাদেরকে (উম্মতে মুহাম্মদীকে), যাদেরকে আমি মনোনীত করেছি। তারপর তাদের কেউ কেউ নিজের প্রতি যুলমকারী এবং কেউ কেউ মধ্যপন্থা অবলম্বনকারী। আবার তাদের কেউ কেউ আল্লাহর অনুমতিসাপেক্ষে কল্যাণকর কাজে অগ্রগামী। এটাই হলো মহা অনুগ্রহ।(১৭)
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Mi ćemo učiniti da Knjigu poslije naslijede oni Naši robovi koje Mi izaberemo. Bit će onih koji će se prema sebi ogriješiti, bit će onih čija će dobra i loša djela podjednako teška biti, i bit će i onih koji će, Allahovom voljom, svojim dobrim djelima druge nadmašiti. I to je blagodat velika.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Mi ćemo učiniti da Knjigu poslije naslijede oni Naši robovi koje Mi izaberemo. Bit će onih koji će se prema sebi ogriješiti, bit će onih čija će dobra i loša djela podjednako teška biti, i bit će i onih koji će, Allahovom voljom, svojim dobrim djelima druge nadmašiti. I to je blagodat velika.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Refti Min ndonini deftere nden, ɓen ɓe Min cuɓii e jiyaaɓe Amen. Hino e maɓɓe tooñɓe hoore-mun, mum hino e maɓɓe hakindinɗo, hino e maɓɓe foolondirooɓe e moƴƴereeji, duŋayee Alla; ko ɗum woni ɓural mawnungal ngal.
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ქართული · Georgian
შემდეგ ჩვენ წიგნი ვუანდერძეთ მსახურთაგან მათ, ვინც ავირჩიეთ. მათ შორის არიან ისინი, ვინც საკუთარ თავს უსამართლოდ ექცევა; მათ შორის არიან ზომიერნიც; და მათ შორის არიან ისეთებიც, რომლებიც ალლაჰის ნებით სხვებს კეთილ საქმეებში უსწრებენ. ეს [წიგნის ბოძება და ამ თემის არჩევა] უდიდესი წყალობაა!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Hierauf haben Wir das Buch denjenigen von Unseren Dienern zum Erbe gegeben, die Wir auserwählten. Mancher von ihnen tut sich demnach selbst Unrecht, mancher von ihnen zeigt ein gemäßigtes Verhalten, und mancher von ihnen geht mit den guten Dingen mit der Erlaubnis Allahs voran. Dies ist ja die große Huld.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Έπειτα δώσαμε το Βιβλίο (το Κορ’άν) σ' αυτούς (τους Μουσουλμάνους) που επιλέξαμε από τους δούλους Μας, αλλά απ' αυτούς μερικοί αδικούν τον εαυτό τους (με τις αμαρτίες), μερικοί είναι μετριοπαθείς (και τελούν τις υποχρεωτικές πράξεις λατρείας, αλλά αφήνουν κάποιες προαιρετικές), και μερικοί με την άδεια (και την καθοδήγηση) του Αλλάχ σπεύδουν προς τις καλές πράξεις (είτε υποχρεωτικές, είτε προαιρετικές). Αυτό (ότι επιλέξαμε τους Μουσουλμάνους το να λάβουν το Κορ’άν) είναι η μεγάλη χάρη (και η μεγάλη γενναιοδωρία).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर हमने इस पुस्तक का उत्तराधिकारी उन लोगों को बनाया, जिन्हें हमने अपने बंदों[13] में से चुन लिया। तो उनमें से कुछ लोग अपने ऊपर अत्याचार करने वाले हैं, और उनमें से कुछ लोग मध्यमार्गी हैं, और उनमें से कुछ लोग अल्लाह की अनुमति से भलाई के कामों में आगे निकल जाने वाले हैं। यही महान अनुग्रह है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Poi abbiamo fatto ereditare il Libro a quelli che abbiamo eletto tra i Nostri servi, tra cui c’è chi fa un torto a se stesso, chi è moderato e chi, per volere di Allāh , si affretta a fare il bene; quella è la grazia migliore:
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
32. Tada Mes davėme Knygą (Koraną) kaip palikimą tiems iš Mūsų vergų, kuriuos Mes pasirinkome (Muchammedo ﷺ pasekėjus). Tada iš jų yra kai kurie, kurie nuskriaudžia patys save, ir iš jų yra kai kurie, kurie seka vidurio keliu, ir iš jų yra kai kurie, kurie, Allaho Leidimu, yra pirmiausi geruose darbuose. Tai (Korano paveldėjimas) – tai iš tiesų didžiulė malonė.
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
Затем Мы дали Писание в наследие тем из Наших рабов, которых Мы избрали. Среди них есть несправедливые к самим себе, есть умеренные и есть опережающие в добрых делах с дозволения Аллаха. Это и есть великая милость.
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Српски · Serbian
Ми ћемо учинити да Књигу после наследе оне Наше слуге које Ми изаберемо. Биће оних који ће се према себи огрешити, биће оних чија ће добра и лоша дела подједнако тешка бити, и биће и оних који ће, Аллаховом вољом, својим добрим делима друге надмашити. И то је благодат велика.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Kisha tumewarithisha Kitabu hao ambao tuliwateua miongoni mwa waja wetu. Kati yao yupo aliyejidhulumu, na yupo wa katikati, na yupo aliyetangulia katika mambo ya heri, kwa idhini ya Mwenyezi Mungu. Hiyo ndiyo fadhila kuu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Sedan överlåter vi skriften till de utvalda bland våra tjänare. Av dessa finns de som gör orätt mot sig själva, andra som följer en medelväg, och vissa som, med Guds tillåtelse, skyndar till goda handlingar. Detta är den stora välsignelsen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Sonra bu kitaba, kullarımızdan seçtiğimizi mirasçı kılarız. Onlardan (insanlardan) kimi kendisine zulmeder, kimi ortadadır, kimi de Allah’ın izniyle hayırlarda öne geçmek için yarışır. İşte büyük fazilet budur.
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اردو · Urdu
پھر ہم نے ان لوگوں کو (اس) کتاب[1] کا وارث بنایا جن کو ہم نے اپنے بندوں میں سے پسند فرمایا۔ پھر بعضے تو ان میں اپنی جانوں پر ﻇلم کرنے والے ہیں[2] اور بعضے ان میں متوسط درجے کے ہیں[3] اور بعضے ان میں اللہ کی توفیق سے نیکیوں میں ترقی کئے چلے جاتے ہیں[4]۔ یہ بڑا فضل ہے.[5]
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 (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
Easy-read (simplified)walladhee awhaynaa ilayka mina l-kitaabi huwa l-haqqu musaddiqan limaa bayna yadayhi inna llaaha bi'ibaadihi lakhabeerun baseer
DIN 31635wallaḏī ʾawḥaynā ʾilayka mina l-kitābi huwa l-ḥaqqu muṣaddiqan limā bayna yadayhi ʾinna llāha biʿibādihi laḫabīrun baṣīrun
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 What We inspired in you, of the Book, is the truth, confirming what preceded it. God is Well-Informed of His servants, All-Seeing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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 indeed Observer, Seer of His slaves
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 And that which we have revealed to thee of the Book is the very Truth, confirmatory of previous Scriptures: for God knoweth and beholdeth his servants
George Sale1734 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
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
Talal Itani2012 And they will say, "Praise God, who has lifted all sorrow from us. Our Lord is Most Forgiving, Most Appreciative.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And they say: Praise be to Allah Who hath put grief away from us. Lo! Our Lord is Forgiving, Bountiful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and they shall say, 'Praise belongs to God, who has removed from us our grief; verily, our Lord is forgiving, grateful
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they shall say, "Praise be to God who hath put away sorrow from us. Verily our Lord is Gracious, Grateful
George Sale1734 And they shall say, praise be unto God, who hath taken away sorrow from us! Verily our Lord is ready to forgive the sinners, and to reward the obedient
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 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 Sale0.79
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.77
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.72
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.69
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.65
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.47
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
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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.