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.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
If ye do good openly or keep it secret, or forgive evil, lo! Allah is ever Forgiving, Powerful
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
If ye display good or hide it, or pardon evil, verily, God is pardoning and powerful
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Whether ye publish a good action, or conceal it, or forgive evil, verily God is gracious and powerful
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
Nëse ju bëni ndonjë punë të mirë haptazi ose fshehurazi, ose falni (dikë) për ndonjë punë të keqe, atëherë Allahu është Shlyes i gjynaheve dhe i Plotfuqishëm.
Translated by the team of 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 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
তোমরা যদি সৎকাজ প্রকাশ্যে করো কিংবা গোপনে করো অথবা দোষত্রুটি ক্ষমা করে দাও, তবে আল্লাহও দোষ মোচনকারী, ক্ষমতাবান।
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
Bilo da vi dobro djelo javno učinite, ili ga sakrijete, ili nepravdu oprostite – pa Allah je Onaj Koji stalno poništava grijehe i svemoćan je.
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
Bilo da vi dobro djelo javno učinite, ili ga sakrijete, ili nepravdu oprostite – pa Allah je Onaj Koji stalno poništava grijehe i svemoćan je.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Si on peññinii moƴƴere, maa on cuuɗii nde maa on njaafima gah e bone, pellet, Alla seeraani jaafotooɗo kattanɗo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
თუ თქვენ გამოავლენთ სიკეთეს (ღიად გააკეთებთ კეთილ საქმეს) ან დაფარავთ მას (ფარულად გააკეთებთ), ან აპატიებთ ბოროტებას, მაშინ ნამდვილად ალლაჰი შემწყნარებელი, ყოვლისშემძლეა.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Ob ihr etwas Gutes offenlegt, oder es verbergt, oder etwas Schlechtes verzeiht - so ist Allah gewiss allverzeihend und allmächtig.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Εάν φανερώνετε κάτι καλό (είτε λόγια είτε πράξη) ή δεν το φανερώνετε, ή συγχωρήσετε κάποιο κακό, πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ είναι ‘Αφόου (Αυτός που δίνει άφεση για τα πάντα) και Καντείρ (Ικανός στα πάντα).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
यदि तुम कोई नेकी प्रकट करो या उसे छिपाओ, या किसी बुराई को क्षमा कर दो, तो निःसंदेह अल्लाह हमेशा से बहुत माफ़ करने वाला, सर्वशक्तिमान है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Sia che rendiate noto il bene che fate o che lo nascondiate, o che perdoniate il torto, Allāh è in verità Indulgente, Dominatore.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
149. Ar jūs (žmonės) atskleidžiate (gerais dėkingumo žodžiais) gerą poelgį (padarytą jums kaip kažkieno paslaugą), ar paslepiate jį, ar atleidžiate blogą, - iš tiesų, Allahas yra Visada Dažnai Atleidžiantis, Visa Galingas.
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
Если вы совершите добро открыто, или скроете его, или простите дурное, то, воистину, Аллах всегда был [и пребудет] снисходительным, всемогущим.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Било да ви добро дело учините јавно, или га сакријете, или неправду опростите - па Аллах стално брише грехе и свемоћан је.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Mkidhihirisha wema au mkiuficha, au mkiyasamehe mabaya, basi hakika Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mwingi wa kusamehe, Muweza mno.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Om ni gör goda handlingar, öppet eller i det dolda, eller om ni visar överseende med andras dåliga behandling, är Gud förvisso överseende och han har makt över allt.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Bir hayrı açıklar veya gizlerseniz, yahut bir kötülüğü affederseniz (bilin ki), Allah da çok affedicidir, her şeye hakkıyla gücü yetendir.
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اردو · Urdu
اگر تم کسی نیکی کو علانیہ کرو یا پوشیده، یا کسی برائی سے درگزر کرو[1] ، پس یقیناً اللہ تعالیٰ پوری معافی کرنے واﻻ اور پوری قدرت واﻻ ہے۔
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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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
same edition and their orthography differs.
Talal Itani2012 What would God accomplish by your punishment, if you have given thanks, and have believed? God is Appreciative and Cognizant.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 What concern hath Allah for your punishment if ye are thankful (for His mercies) and believe (in Him)? Allah was ever Responsive, Aware
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Why should God punish you, if ye are grateful and believe? for God is grateful and knowing
John Medows Rodwell1861 Why should God inflict a chastisement upon you, if ye are grateful, and believe? God is Grateful, Wise
George Sale1734 And how should God go about to punisth you, if ye be thankful and believe? For God is grateful and wise
Easy-read (simplified)laa yuhibbu llaahu l-jahra bis-soo'i mina l-qawli illaa man zulima wakaana llaahu samee'an 'aleemaa
DIN 31635lā yuḥibbu llāhu l-ǧahra bis-sūʾi mina l-qawli ʾillā man ẓulima wakāna llāhu samīʿan ʿalīman
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 God does not like the public uttering of bad language, unless someone was wronged. God is Hearing and Knowing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah loveth not the utterance of harsh speech save by one who hath been wronged. Allah is ever Hearer, Knower
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God loves not publicity of evil speech, unless one has been wronged; for God both hears and knows
John Medows Rodwell1861 God loveth not that evil be matter of public talk, unless any one hath been wronged: God it is who Heareth, Knoweth
George Sale1734 God loveth not the speaking ill of any one in public, unless he who is injured call for assistance; and God heareth and knoweth
Talal Itani2012 Those who disbelieve in God and His messengers, and want to separate between God and His messengers, and say, "We believe in some, and reject some," and wish to take a path in between.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! those who disbelieve in Allah and His messengers, and seek to make distinction between Allah and His messengers, and say: We believe in some and disbelieve in others, and seek to choose a way in between
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, those who disbelieve in God and His apostles desire to make a distinction between God and His apostles, and say, 'We believe in part and disbelieve in part, and desire to take a midway course between the two
John Medows Rodwell1861 Of a truth they who believe not on God and his Apostles, and seek to separate God from his Apostles, and say, "Some we believe, and some we believe not," and desire to take a middle way
George Sale1734 They who believe not in God, and his apostles, and would make a distinction between God and his apostles, and say, we believe in some of the prophets and reject others of them, and seek to take a middle way in this matter
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
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.84
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.72
Talal Itani · George Sale0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.42
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.40
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
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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.