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Talal Itani· published 2012
We sent down upon you the Book for mankind in truth. He who followsguidance does so for the good of his soul. And he who strays in error does so to its detriment. You are not their overseer.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Lo! We have revealed unto thee (Muhammad) the Scripture for mankind with truth. Then whosoever goethright it is for his soul, and whosoever strayeth, strayeth only to its hurt. And thou art not a warder over them
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
Verily, we have sent down to thee the Book for men in truth; and whosoever is guided it is for his own soul: but whoso goesastray it is against them, and thou art not a guardian for them
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Assuredly we have sent down the Book to thee for man and for the ends of truth. Whoso shall be guided by it - it will be for his own advantage, and whoso shall err, shall only err to his own loss. But not to thy keeping are they entrusted
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Verily We have revealed unto thee the book of the Koran, for the instruction of mankind, with truth. Whoso shall be directed thereby, shall be directed to the advantage of his own soul; and whoso shall err, shall only err against the same: And thou art not a guardian over them
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
Ne ta shpallëm ty Librin me të vërtetën për njerëzit. Kushdo që ndjek udhëzimin, e ka për të mirën e vet, e kush humb rrugën, ai humb në dëm të vet. Ti (o Muhamed) nuk je përgjegjës për ta.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
হে রাসূল! নিশ্চয় আমি মানবজাতির জন্য তোমার প্রতি যথাযথভাবে এ কিতাব আল কুরআন নাযিল করেছি। তাই যে সৎপথ অবলম্বন করে, সে তা নিজের জন্যই করে এবং যে পথভ্রষ্ট হয় সে নিজের ক্ষতির জন্যই পথভ্রষ্ট হয়। আর তুমি তাদের তত্ত্বাবধায়ক নও।(২৩)
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
Mi ti objavljujemo Knjigu zbog svih ljudi – samu istinu. Onaj ko bude išao Pravim putem sebi će koristiti, a onaj ko bude išao stranputicom sebi će nauditi, a ti nisi za njihovu uputu zadužen.
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
Mi ti objavljujemo Knjigu zbog svih ljudi – samu istinu. Onaj ko bude išao Pravim putem sebi će koristiti, a onaj tko bude išao stranputicom sebi će nauditi, a ti nisi za njihovu uputu zadužen.
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
Min njippinirii deftere nden e maaɗa, fii yimɓe ɓeen, e hoore goonga. Kala peewuɗo, ko hoore makko [o feewani]; kala kadi majjuɗo, ko hoore makko o majjani. A wonaani wakiil e dow maɓɓe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ჭეშმარიტად, ჩვენ გარდმოგივლინეთ შენ (ო, შუამავალო) წიგნი (ყურანი) ხალხისთვის ჭეშმარიტებით. ვინც სწორ გზას დაადგება, თავისთვისვე დაადგება, ხოლო ვინც გზას ასცდება, თავისდა საზიანოდ ასცდება. და შენ (ო, შუამავალო) არ ხარ მათზე პასუხისმგებელი.
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
Wahrlich, Wir haben für die Menschen das Buch mit der Wahrheit auf dich hinabgesandt. Wer sich nun rechtleiten lässt, so (tut er das) zu seinem eigenen Vorteil; und wer in die Irre geht, so geht er nur zu seinem eigenen Nachteil in die Irre. Und du bist nicht (als) Sachwalter über sie (eingesetzt).
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
Πράγματι, αποκαλύψαμε σε σένα (ω, Προφήτη) το Βιβλίο, με την αλήθεια, για (να καθοδηγήσει) τους ανθρώπους. Όποιος, λοιπόν, καθοδηγείται, θα είναι προς το όφελός του, αλλά όποιος παραστρατεί, θα είναι εις βάρος του. Δεν είσαι υπεύθυνος (ή κηδεμόνας) γι' αυτούς.
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
वास्तव में, हमने ही आपपर यह पुस्तक लोगों के लिए सत्य के साथ उतारी है। अब जिसने सीधा मार्ग ग्रहण किया, तो अपने लिए, तथा जो भटका, तो वह भटककर अपना नुकसान करता है। तथा आप उनके ज़िम्मेवार नहीं हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
In verità Noi abbiamo fatto discendere su di te il Libro con la verità per gli uomini; chi lo segue lo farà per la propria anima e chi si allontana lo farà contro di questa, e tu non sei loro protettore.
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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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
41. Iš tiesų, Mes nuleidome tau (Muchammedai ﷺ) Knygą (šį Koraną) žmonijai su tiesa. Taigi kas priima vedimą, tai tik dėl savęs pačio, o kas nuklysta, tas nuklysta tik dėl savo (paties) praradimo.O tu (Muchammedai ﷺ) nesi Vakil (patikėtojas ar reikalų valdytojas ar saugotojas) jų.
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
Воистину, Мы ниспослали тебе Писание для людей с истиной. И кто последовал верным путём — самому себе во благо, а кто впал в заблуждение — воистину, тот заблуждается лишь против самого себя. И ты для них — вовсе не попечитель.
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
Ми теби, заиста, објављујемо Књигу саму истину за све људе; онај ко буде ишао Правим путем - себи ће да користи, а онај ко буде ишао странпутицом - себи ће да науди, ти ниси задужен за њихову упуту.
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
Hakika Sisi tumekuteremshia Kitabu kwa ajili ya watu wote kwa Haki. Kwa hivyo, mwenye kuongoka, ni kwa faida ya nafsi yake. Na mwenye kupotoka, bila ya shaka amepotoka kwa hasara yake. Na wewe si mlinzi juu yao.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Vi har uppenbarat denna skrift till dig med sanningen, [som en vägledning] för människorna. Den som följer vägledningen gör det för sitt eget bästa, och den som går vilse skadar endast sig själv. Du är inte satt att vaka över dem.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Şüphesiz biz bu kitabı sana, insanlar için hak olarak indirdik. Artık kim doğru yolu seçerse kendi lehinedir. Kim de saparsa ancak kendi aleyhine sapmış olur. Sen onların üzerinde vekil değilsin.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
آپ پر ہم نے حق کے ساتھ یہ کتاب لوگوں کے لیے نازل فرمائی ہے، پس جو شخص راه راست پر آجائے اس کے اپنے لیے نفع ہے اور جو گمراه ہوجائے اس کی گمراہی کا (وبال) اسی پر ہے، آپ ان کے ذمہ دار نہیں.[1]
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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Talal Itani2012 God takes the souls at the time of their death, and those that have not died during their sleep. He retains those for which He has decreed death, and He releases the others until a predetermined time. In that are signs for people who reflect.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah receiveth (men's) souls at the time of their death, and that (soul) which dieth not (yet) in its sleep. He keepeth that (soul) for which He hath ordained death and dismisseth the rest till an appointed term. Lo! herein verily are portents for people who take thought
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God takes to Himself souls at the time of their death; and those which do not die (He takes) in their sleep; and He holds back those on whom He has decreed death, and sends others back till their appointed time;- verily, in that are signs unto a people who reflect
John Medows Rodwell1861 God taketh souls unto Himself at death; and during their sleep those who do not die: and he retaineth those on which he hath passed a decree of death, but sendeth the others back till a time that is fixed. Herein are signs for the reflecting
George Sale1734 God taketh unto himself the souls of men at the time of their death; and those which die not He also taketh in their sleep: And He withholdeth those on which He hath passed the decree of death, but sendeth back the others till a determined period. Verily herein are signs unto people who consider
DIN 31635ʾami taḫaḏū min dūni llāhi šufaʿāʾa qul ʾawalaw kānū lā yamlikūna šayʾan walā yaʿqilūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Or have they chosen intercessors other than God? Say, "Even though they have no power over anything, and are devoid of reason?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Or choose they intercessors other than Allah? Say: What! Even though they have power over nothing and have no intelligence
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Do they take besides God intercessors? Say, 'What! though they have no control over anything and have no sense
John Medows Rodwell1861 Have they taken aught beside God as intercessors? SAY: What! though they have no power over anything, neither do they understand
George Sale1734 Have the Koreish taken idols for their intercessors with God? Say, what, although they have not dominion over any thing, neither do they understand
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 —
0.69 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 · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.80
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.79
Talal Itani · George Sale0.79
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.75
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.74
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.56
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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.