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Talal Itani· published 2012
We have revealed to you the Scripture, with the truth, so that you judge between people in accordance with what God has shown you. And do not be an advocate for the traitors.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Lo! We reveal unto thee the Scripture with the truth, that thou mayst judge between mankind by that which Allahshoweth thee. And be not thou a pleader for the treacherous
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 revealed to thee the Book in truth that thou mayest judge between men of what God has shown thee; so be not with the treacherous a disputant
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Verily, we have sent down the Book to thee with the truth, thou that mayest judge between men according as God hath given thee insight: But with the deceitful ones dispute not
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
We have sent down unto thee the book of the Koran with truth; that thou mayest judge between men through that wisdom which God sheweth thee therein; and be not an advocate for the fraudulent
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
Me të vërtetë, Ne ta shpallëm ty Librin me të vërtetën, që të gjykosh ndërmjet njerëzve ashtu siç të ka mësuar Allahu. Prandaj, mos u bëj mbrojtës i tradhtarëve!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
(হে রাসূল!) আমি তোমার প্রতি সত্যসহ কিতাব (আল কুরআন) নাযিল করেছি, যাতে আল্লাহ তোমাকে যে সঠিক পথ দেখিয়েছেন, সে অনুযায়ী তুমি মানুষের মধ্যে বিচার মীমাংসা করতে পারো। আর (সে ক্ষেত্রে) তুমি খিয়ানতকারীদের পক্ষে তর্ক করো না।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Mi tebi objavljujemo Knjigu s istinom, da ljudima sudiš onako kako ti Allah pokazuje i ne budi branilac izdajicama.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Mi tebi objavljujemo Knjigu s Istinom, da ljudima sudiš onako kako ti Allah pokazuje i ne budi branilac izdajicama.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Minen min njippinirii Deftere nde e maaɗaa e hoore goonga fii yo a ñaawir hakkunde yimɓe ɓen kon ko Alla Hollu maa. Wata on wonan jamfotooɓe ɓen beeñdoowo.
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ქართული · Georgian
ჭეშმარიტად, ჩვენ ჩამოგივლინეთ შენ (ო, მოციქულო) წიგნი [ყურანი] ჭეშმარიტებით, რათა განსაჯო ადამიანებს შორის ისე, როგორც ალლაჰმა გიჩვენა [შთაგაგონა]. და ნუ იქნები გამყიდველთა და მოღალატეთათვის დამცველი.
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Deutsch · German
Wahrlich, Wir haben dir das Buch mit der Wahrheit hinabgesandt, damit du zwischen den Menschen richtest mit dem, was Allah dir gezeigt hat. Und sei ja kein Verfechter der Verräter!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Πράγματι, σου στείλαμε (ω, Προφήτη) το Βιβλίο (το Κορ’άν) με την αλήθεια, για να κρίνεις μεταξύ των ανθρώπων, σύμφωνα με όσα σου έχει διδάξει ο Αλλάχ. Μην είσαι λοιπόν συνήγορος εκείνων που εξαπατούν (τον εαυτό τους, οι οποίοι είναι από τον λαό του Τού‘μα μπιν Ουμπάιρικ), [Ο Τού‘μα μπιν Ουμπάιρικ έκλεψε μια ασπίδα και την έκρυψε στο σπίτι ενός Εβραίου, και όταν έμαθαν οι άνθρωποι για την κλοπή, ορκίστηκε ο Τού‘μα ότι δεν ήταν αυτός που την έκλεψε, και στη συνέχεια, κατηγόρησε τον Εβραίο. Έτσι ο λαός του Τού‘μα ζήτησε από τον Προφήτη να υπερασπιστεί τον Τού‘μα και να τον αθωώσει).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
(ऐ नबी!) हमने आपकी ओर सत्य पर आधारित पुस्तक अवतरित की है, ताकि आप लोगों के बीच उसके अनुसार फ़ैसला करें, जो अल्लाह ने आपको दिखाया है और आप ख़यानत करने वालों के तरफ़दार न बनें।[71]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
In verità ti abbiamo fatto discendere il Libro con la verità, perché tu giudichi tra gli uomini secondo ciò che Allāh ti ha insegnato, e non essere mai difensore dei traditori!
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
105. Iš tiesų, Mes nuleidome tau (Muchammedai ﷺ ) Knygą (šį Koraną) tiesoje, kad tu spręstumei tarp žmonių pagal tai, ką Allahas parodė tau (t. y. išmokė tave per Dieviškąjį Apreiškimą), taigi nebūk užtarėjas išdavikams.
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Русский · Russian
Воистину, Мы ниспослали тебе Писание с истиной, чтобы ты судил между людьми согласно тому, что показал тебе Аллах. И не будь защитником для изменников.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Ми теби објављујемо Књигу с Истином, да људима судиш онако како ти Аллах показује па не буди бранилац издајицама.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Hakika Sisi tumekuteremshia Kitabu hiki kwa haki ili uhukumu baina ya watu kwa kile alichokuonyesha Mwenyezi Mungu. Wala usiwe mtetezi wa mahaini.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Vi har sänt ned skriften till dig med sanningen, för att du ska döma mellan människorna enligt det som Gud har lärt dig. Försvara då inte bedragarna.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Şüphesiz biz, sana kitabı insanlar arasında Allah’ın sana gösterdiği şekilde hüküm veresin diye hak olarak indirdik. Hainlerin savunucusu olma!
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اردو · Urdu
یقیناً ہم نے تمہاری طرف حق کے ساتھ اپنی کتاب نازل فرمائی ہے تاکہ تم لوگوں میں اس چیز کے مطابق فیصلہ کرو جس سے اللہ نے تم کو شناسا کیا ہے[1] اور خیانت کرنے والوں[2] کے حمایتی نہ بنو۔
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Talal Itani2012 When you have completed the prayer, remember God, standing, or sitting, or on your sides. And when you feel secure, perform the prayer. The prayer is obligatory for believers at specific times.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 When ye have performed the act of worship, remember Allah, standing, sitting and reclining. And when ye are in safety, observe proper worship. Worship at fixed times hath been enjoined on the believers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But when ye have fulfilled your prayer, remember God standing and sitting and lying on your sides; and when ye are in safety then be steadfast in prayer; verily, prayer is for the believers prescribed and timed
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when ye shall have ended the prayer, make mention of God, standing, and sitting, and reclining: and as soon as ye are secure, observe prayer; for to the faithful, prayer is a prescribed duty, and for stated hours
George Sale1734 And when ye shall have ended your prayer, remember God, standing, and sitting, and lying on your sides. But when ye are secure from danger, complete your prayer; for prayer is commanded the faithful, and appointed to be said at the stated times
Talal Itani2012 And do not falter in the pursuit of the enemy. If you are aching, they are aching as you are aching, but you expect from God what they cannot expect. God is Knowledgeable and Wise.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Relent not in pursuit of the enemy. If ye are suffering, lo! they suffer even as ye suffer and ye hope from Allah that for which they cannot hope. Allah is ever Knower, Wise
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And do not give way in pursuit of the people; if ye suffer they shall surely suffer too, even as ye suffer; and ye hope from God, but they hope not! and God is knowing, wise
John Medows Rodwell1861 Slacken not in pursuit of the foe. If ye suffer, assuredly they suffer also as ye suffer; but ye hope from God for what they cannot hope! And God is Knowing, Wise
George Sale1734 Be not negligent in seeking out the unbelieving people, though ye suffer some inconvenience; for they also shall suffer, as ye suffer, and ye hope for a reward from God which they cannot hope for; and God is knowing and wise
DIN 31635walā tuǧādil ʿani llaḏīna yaḫtānūna ʾanfusahum ʾinna llāha lā yuḥibbu man kāna ḫawwānan ʾaṯīman
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 And do not argue on behalf of those who deceive themselves. God does not love the deceitful sinner.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And plead not on behalf of (people) who deceive themselves. Lo! Allah loveth not one who is treacherous and sinful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And wrangle not for those who defraud themselves; for God loves not him who is a fraudulent sinner
John Medows Rodwell1861 And plead not with us for those who are self-deceivers; for God loveth not him who is deceitful, criminal
George Sale1734 Dispute not for those who deceive one another, for God loveth not him who is a deceiver or unjust
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 —
0.65 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.77
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.76
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Talal Itani · George Sale0.66
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.60
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.53
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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.