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
O people! Fear your Lord, who created you from a single soul, and created from it its mate, and propagated from them many men and women. And revere God whom you ask about, and the parents. Surely, God is Watchful over you.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
O mankind! Be careful of your duty to your Lord Who created you from a single soul and from it created its mate and from them twain hath spread abroad a multitude of men and women. Be careful of your duty toward Allah in Whom ye claim (your rights) of one another, and toward the wombs (that bare you). Lo! Allah hath been a watcher over you
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
O ye folk! fear your Lord, who created you from one soul, and created therefrom its mate, and diffused from them twain many men and women. And fear God, in whose name ye beg of one another, and the wombs; verily, God over you doth watch
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O MEN! fear your Lord, who hath created you of one man (nafs, soul), and of him created his wife, and from these twain hath spread abroad so many men and WOMEN. And fear ye God, in whose name ye ask mutualfavours, - and reverence the wombs that bare you. Verily is God watching over you
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O men, fear your Lord, who hath created you out of one man, and out of him created his wife, and from them two hath multiplied many men, and women: And fear God by whom ye beseech one another; and respect women who have born you, for God is watching over you
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
O njerëz! Kijeni frikë Zotin tuaj, i Cili ju krijoi prej një njeriu të vetëm dhe prej tij krijoi bashkëshorten e tij dhe nga ata të dy nxori shumë burra e gra. Kijeni frikë Allahun me emrin e të Cilit përbetoheni dhe ruajini lidhjet farefisnore. Me të vërtetë, Allahu është Mbikëqyrësi juaj.
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বাংলা · Bengali
হে মানুষেরা! তোমরা তোমাদের রবকে ভয় করো, যিনি তোমাদেরকে এক ব্যক্তি (আদম) থেকে সৃষ্টি করেছেন ও তার থেকেই তার স্ত্রী (হাওয়া)কে সৃষ্টি করেছেন এবং তাদের দুজন থেকে অসংখ্য নর-নারী (সৃষ্টি করে পৃথিবীতে) ছড়িয়ে দিয়েছেন। আর তোমরা আল্লাহর তাকওয়া অবলম্বন করো যাঁর দোহাই দিয়ে তোমরা একে অপরের কাছে নিজ নিজ অধিকার দাবী করো এবং আত্মীয়তার বন্ধন ছিন্ন করা থেকে দূরে থাকো। নিশ্চয় আল্লাহ তোমাদের উপর পর্যবেক্ষক।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
O ljudi, bojte se Gospodara svoga, Koji vas je stvorio od jedne osobe, od koje je njen par stvorio, a od njih dvoje mnoge muškarce i žene rasijao. Bojte se Allaha, čijim imenom jedni druge molite, i čuvajte rodbinske veze. Allah vas, doista, nadzire.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
O ljudi, bojte se Gospodara svoga, Koji vas je stvorio od jedne osobe, od koje je njen par stvorio, a od njih dvoje mnoge muškarce i žene rasijao. Bojte se Allaha, čijim imenom jedni druge molite, i čuvajte rodbinske veze. Allah vas, doista, nadzire.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
EEHEY mon yimɓe! Kulee Joomi mon On Takɗo on immorde e woŋkii goooti, O Tagi immorde e makki debbo makki, O Saaki immorde e ɓen ɗiɗo worɓe ɗuuɗuɓe e rewɓe. KUlee Alla On Mo naamnanirton sabu mun, [rentoɗon kadi] e enɗammaaje ɗen. Pellet, Alla Laatike e dow mon Deenoowo.
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ქართული · Georgian
ჰეი, ადამიანებო! ერიდეთ (სასჯელს) თქვენი უფლისას, რომელმაც შეგქმნათ თქვენ ერთი ადამიანისგან [ადამისგან], და შექმნა მისგან მისი წყვილი [ჰავა], და ამ ორისგან გაავრცელა (დედამიწაზე) მრავალი კაცი და ქალი. და ერიდეთ (სასჯელის) ალლაჰის, რომლის სახელითაც ერთმანეთს ევედრებით, და (ერიდეთ) ნათესაური კავშირების გაწყვეტას. ჭეშმარიტად, ალლაჰი თქვენზე მეთვალყურეა!
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Deutsch · German
O ihr Menschen, fürchtet euren Herrn, Der euch aus einem einzigen Wesen erschuf, und aus ihm erschuf Er seine Gattin und ließ aus beiden viele Männer und Frauen sich ausbreiten. Und fürchtet Allah, in Dessen (Namen) ihr einander bittet, und die Verwandtschaftsbande. Wahrlich, Allah wacht über euch.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ω, άνθρωποι! Φυλαχθείτε από την τιμωρία του Κυρίου σας (μέσω της τήρησης των εντολών Tου), ο Οποίος σας έπλασε από ένα άτομο (τον Αδάμ), και απ' αυτόν (τον Αδάμ) έπλασε τη σύζυγό του (την Εύα), και απ' αυτούς τους δύο έπλασε πολλούς άνδρες και γυναίκες. Έτσι, φυλαχθείτε από την τιμωρία του Αλλάχ, στο Όνομα (χάρη) του Οποίου ζητάτε ο ένας (κάτι) από τον άλλο (λέγοντας για χάρη του Αλλάχ να κάνεις αυτό) και μην διακόπτετε τους συγγενικούς δεσμούς. Στ’ αλήθεια, ο Αλλάχ είναι Παρατηρητής πάνω σας.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
ऐ लोगो! अपने[1] उस पालनहार से डरो, जिसने तुम्हें एक जीव (आदम) से पैदा किया तथा उसी से उसके जोड़े (हव्वा) को पैदा किया और उन दोनों से बहुत-से नर-नारी फैला दिए। उस अल्लाह से डरो, जिसके माध्यम से तुम एक-दूसरे से माँगते हो, तथा रिश्ते-नाते को तोड़ने से डरो। निःसंदेह अल्लाह तुम्हारा निरीक्षक है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
O uomini, temete il vostro Dio, che vi ha creati da una sola anima e da essa estrasse la sua compagna, e da entrambe diffuse una moltitudine di maschi e femmine[37]. E temete Allāh, il cui nome vi invocate a vicenda, e osservate i legami di sangue: in verità Allāh è vostro Vigilante!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
1. Žmonės, būkite paklusnūs savo Viešpačiui, Kuris sukūrė jus iš vienintelio žmogaus (Adamo (Adomo)), ir iš jo Jis sukūrė jo žmoną [Hauva (Ievą)], ir iš jų abiejų Jis sukūrė daugybę vyrų ir moterų. Ir bijokite Allaho, per Kurį jūs reikalaujate (savo abipusių teisių), ir (nenutraukite santykių su) įsčiomis (giminystės). Iš tiesų, Allahas yra jūsų Stebėtojas.
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Русский · Russian
О люди! Бойтесь вашего Господа, Который сотворил вас из одной души, и сотворил из неё её пару, и из них обоих распространил множество мужчин и женщин. И бойтесь Аллаха, [именем] Которого вы просите друг друга, и [остерегайтесь разрыва] родственных уз. Воистину, Аллах всегда был и [пребудет][29] над вами наблюдающим.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
О људи, бојте се Господара свога, Који вас је створио од једне особе (Адама), и од те особе пар створио, а од њих двоје многе мушкарце и жене расејао. Бојте се Аллаха, чијим именом једни друге молите, и чувајте родбинске везе. Аллах вас, заиста, надзире.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Enyi watu! Mcheni Mola wenu Mlezi ambaye aliwaumba kutokana na nafsi moja, na akamuumba mkewe kutoka kwayo. Na akaeneza kutokana na wawili hao wanaume wengi na wanawake. Na mcheni Mwenyezi Mungu ambaye kwaye mnaomba, na jamaa zenu. Hakika, Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mwenye kuwaangalia.
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Svenska · Swedish
Människor! Frukta er Herre, som skapade er från en enda varelse och som av den skapade dess make, och som från dessa lät män och kvinnor sprida sig i stort antal. Frukta Gud, i vars namn ni vädjar till varandra [om hjälp], och värna släktskapsbanden. Gud vakar ständigt över er.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Ey insanlar! Sizi bir tek nefisten yaratan ve ondan da eşini yaratan; ikisinden birçok erkek ve kadın (meydana getirip) yayan Rabbinize karşı gelmekten sakının. Kendisi adına birbirinizden dilekte bulunduğunuz Allah’a karşı gelmekten ve akrabalık bağlarını koparmaktan sakının. Şüphesiz Allah, üzerinizde bir gözetleyicidir.
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اردو · Urdu
اے لوگو! اپنے پروردگار سے ڈرو، جس نے تمہیں ایک جان سے پیدا کیا[1] اور اسی سے اس کی بیوی کو پیدا کرکے ان دونوں سے بہت سے مرد اور عورتیں پھیلا دیں، اس اللہ سے ڈرو جس کے نام پر ایک دوسرے سے مانگتے ہو اور رشتے ناطے توڑنے سے بھی بچو[2] بے شک اللہ تعالیٰ تم پر نگہبان ہے۔
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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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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 give orphans their properties, and do not substitute the bad for the good. And do not consume their properties by combining them with yours, for that would be a serious sin.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Give unto orphans their wealth. Exchange not the good for the bad (in your management thereof) nor absorb their wealth into your own wealth. Lo! that would be a great sin
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And give unto the orphans their property, and give them not the vile in exchange for the good, and devour not their property to your own property; verily, that were a great sin
John Medows Rodwell1861 And give to the orphans their property; substitute not worthless things of your own for their valuable ones, and devour not their property after adding it to your own; for this is a great crime
George Sale1734 And give the orphans when they come to age their substance; and render them not in exchange bad for good: And devour not their substance, by adding it to your own substance; for this is a great sin
Talal Itani2012 If you fear you cannot act fairly towards the orphans-then marry the women you like-two, or three, or four. But if you fear you will not be fair, then one, or what you already have. That makes it more likely that you avoid bias.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if ye fear that ye will not deal fairly by the orphans, marry of the women, who seem good to you, two or three or four; and if ye fear that ye cannot do justice (to so many) then one (only) or (the captives) that your right hands possess. Thus it is more likely that ye will not do injustice
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But if ye fear that ye cannot do justice between orphans, then marry what seems good to you of women, by twos, or threes, or fours; and if ye fear that ye cannot be equitable, then only one, or what your right hands possess. That keeps you nearer to not being partial
John Medows Rodwell1861 And if ye are apprehensive that ye shall not deal fairly with orphans, then, of other women who seem good in your eyes, marry but two, or three, or four; and if ye still fear that ye shall not act equitably, then one only; or the slaves whom ye have acquired: this will make justice on your part easier
George Sale1734 And if ye fear that ye shall not act with equity towards orphans of the female sex, take in marriage of such other women as please you, two, or three, or four, and not more. But if ye fear that ye cannot act equitably towards so many, marry one only, or the slaves which ye shall have acquired. This will be easier, that ye swerve not from righteousness
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 —
0.63 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.71
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Talal Itani · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.63
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.53
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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.