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Talal Itani· published 2012
To Him belong the reins of the heavens and the earth. But those who blaspheme against the revelations of God-it is they who are the losers.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
His are the keys of the heavens and the earth, and they who disbelieve the revelations of Allah - such are they who are the losers
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
His are the keys of the heavens and the earth; and those who misbelieve in the signs of God, they it is who lose
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
His are the keys of heaven and earth: And they who believe not in the signs of God, they shall perish
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
Të Tij janë çelësat e qiejve dhe të Tokës. Ndërkaq, ata që mohojnë ajetet e Allahut, pikërisht ata janë të humburit.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আসমানসমূহ ও জমিনের চাবিসমূহ তাঁরই কাছে। আর যারা আল্লাহর আয়াতসমূহকে অস্বীকার করে, তারাই (দুনিয়া ও আখিরাতে) ক্ষতিগ্রস্ত।
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
U Njega su ključevi nebesa i Zemlje! A oni koji u Allahove dokaze ne vjeruju, oni će biti izgubljeni!
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
U Njega su ključevi nebesa i Zemlje! A oni koji u Allahove dokaze ne vjeruju, oni će biti izgubljeni!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko Kaŋko sottirɗe kammuuji ɗin e leydi ndin woodani. Yedduɓe aayeeje Allah ɓeen non, ko ɓen ngoni hayruɓe(pertuɓe) ɓen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
მას ეკუთვნის ცათა და მიწის გასაღებნი. ხოლო რომელთაც არ ირწმუნეს ალლაჰის აიათები, სწორედ ისინი არიან წაგებულნი.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Ihm gehören die Schlüssel der Himmel und der Erde. Diejenigen, die die Zeichen Allahs verleugnen, jene sind die Verlierer.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Σε Αυτόν ανήκουν τα κλειδιά (των θησαυρών) των ουρανών και της γης (και δίνει απ' αυτούς τους θησαυρούς σε όποιους θέλει). Όσο γι' αυτούς που αρνήθηκαν την πίστη στα Εδάφια (και τα Σημάδια) του Αλλάχ, εκείνοι είναι οι χαμένοι.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
आकाशों तथा धरती की कुंजियाँ[12] उसी के पास हैं तथा जिन लोगों ने अल्लाह की आयतों का इनकार किया, वही लोग घाटा उठाने वाले हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Lui ha il controllo dei cieli e della terra, e quelli che negano i Segni di Allāh sono i perdenti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
63. Jam priklauso dangų ir žemės raktai. Ir tie, kurie netiki Allaho Ajat (įrodymus, įkalčius, eilutes, ženklus, apreiškimus ir t. t.), tokie yra tie, kurie bus pralaimėtojai.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Furtuuwwan samiileefii dachii kan Isaati. Isaan keeyyattoota Rabbiitti kafaran, isaan sun hoonga’oon isaanuma.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Ему принадлежат ключи небес и земли. Те, которые отвергли знамения Аллаха — такие и есть потерпевшие убыток.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
код Њега су кључеви небеса и Земље! А они који у Аллахове доказе и знакове не верују - они ће заиста да буду губитници!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Yeye anazo funguo za mbingu na ardhi. Na wale waliozikataa Ishara za Mwenyezi Mungu, hao ndio wenye kuhasiri.
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Svenska · Swedish
Han äger nycklarna till himlarnas och jordens [skatter]. De som vägrar tro på Guds budskap är de verkliga förlorarna.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Göklerin ve yerin anahtarları O’nundur. Allah’ın ayetlerini inkâr edenler var ya, işte onlar ziyana uğrayanların ta kendileridir.
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اردو · Urdu
آسمانوں اور زمین کی کنجیوں کامالک وہی ہے[1] جن جن لوگوں نے اللہ کی آیتوں کا انکار کیا وہی خساره پانے والے ہیں.[2]
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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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 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
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Talal Itani2012 And God will save those who maintained righteousness to their place of salvation. No harm will touch them, nor will they grieve.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Allah delivereth those who ward off (evil) because of their deserts. Evil toucheth them not, nor do they grieve
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And God shall rescue those who fear Him, into their safe place; no evil shall touch them, nor shall they be grieved
John Medows Rodwell1861 But God shall rescue those who fear him into their safe retreat: no ill shall touch them, neither shall they be put to grief
George Sale1734 But God shall deliver those who shall fear Him, and shall set them in their place of safety: Evil shall not touch them, neither shall they be grieved
Easy-read (simplified)walaqad oohiya ilayka wa'ilaa lladheena min qablika la'in ashrakta layahbatanna 'amaluka walatakoonanna mina l-khaasireen
DIN 31635walaqad ʾūḥiya ʾilayka waʾilā llaḏīna min qablika laʾin ʾašrakta layaḥbaṭanna ʿamaluka walatakūnanna mina l-ḫāsirīna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 It was revealed to you, and to those before you, that if you idolize, your works will be in vain, and you will be of the losers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And verily it hath been revealed unto thee as unto those before thee (saying): If thou ascribe a partner to Allah thy work will fail and thou indeed wilt be among the losers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 When He has inspired thee and those before thee that, "If thou dost associate aught with Him, thy work will surely be in vain, and thou shalt surely be of those who lose
John Medows Rodwell1861 But now hath it been revealed to thee and to those who flourished before thee, - "Verily, if thou join partners with God, vain shall be all thy work, and thyself shalt be of those who perish
George Sale1734 Since it hath been spoken by revelation unto thee, and also unto the prophets who have been before thee, saying, verily if thou join any partners with God, thy work will be altogether unprofitable, and thou shalt certainly be one of those who perish
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 —
0.56 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 Sale0.73
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.73
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.48
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.21
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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.