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
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.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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, 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 midwaycourse between the two
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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
Pa dyshim, ata që e mohojnë Allahun dhe të dërguarit e Tij, që dëshirojnë të ndajnë Allahun nga të dërguarit e Tij dhe që thonë: "Ne i besojmë disa e disa nuk i besojmë", duke dashur të zgjedhin kështu një rrugë të ndërmjetme,
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
নিশ্চয় যারা আল্লাহ ও তাঁর রাসূলগণের সাথে কুফরী করে এবং আল্লাহ ও তাঁর রাসূলগণের মধ্যে (ঈমানের ব্যাপারে) পার্থক্য করতে চায়(৫৫) উপরন্তু তারা বলে: ‘আমরা কতক-এর ওপর ঈমান আনি এবং কতকের সাথে কুফরী করি।’ আর তারা এ দুয়ের (ঈমান ও কুফরীর) মধ্যবর্তী ভিন্ন একটি পথ অবলম্বন করতে চায়।(৫৬)
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
Oni koji u Allaha i poslanike Njegove ne vjeruju i žele između Allaha i poslanika Njegovih u vjerovanju napraviti razliku, te govore: "U neke vjerujemo, a u neke ne vjerujemo", i žele između to dvoje iznaći put neki,
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
Oni koji u Allaha i poslanike Njegove ne vjeruju i žele između Allaha i poslanika Njegovih u vjerovanju napraviti razliku, te govore: "U neke vjerujemo, a u neke ne vjerujemo", i žele između to dvoje iznaći put neki,
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
Pellet, ɓeen won ɓe e yeddude Alla e Nulaaɓe Makko ɓeen, heɓe paala nde ɓe ceernndata hakkunde Alla e Nulaaɓe Makko ɓeen, heɓe mbia :"Miɗen gooŋɗina yoga min njedda yoga", heɓe paala jogitaade hakkunde ɗuum ɗoon laawol.
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
ქართული · Georgian
ჭეშმარიტად, ისინი (იუდეველები, ქრისტიანები და სხვები), რომლებიც არ ირწმუნებენ ალლაჰს და მის მოციქულებს და სურთ განასხვაონ ალლაჰი და მისი მოციქულები (ანუ ირწმუნონ ალლაჰი და უარყონ მისი მოციქულები) და ამბობენ: «ჩვენ გვწამს ზოგიერთი (შუამავლის) და არ გვწამს სხვების», და სურთ ამ ორ მდგომარეობას შორის იპოვონ (რაღაც) შუა გზა.
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, diejenigen, die Allah und Seine Gesandten verleugnen und zwischen Allah und Seinen Gesandten einen Unterschied machen wollen und sagen: „Wir glauben an die einen und verleugnen die anderen“, und einen Weg dazwischen einschlagen wollen,
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, εκείνοι που δεν πιστεύουν στον Αλλάχ και στους Αγγελιαφόρους Του, και θέλουν να κάνουν διάκριση (στην πίστη) μεταξύ του Αλλάχ και των Αγγελιαφόρων Του (δηλ. το να πιστέψουν στον Αλλάχ, αλλά και να αρνούνται κάποιους από τους Αγγελιαφόρους Του, κάτι που σημαίνει ότι αρνούνται και τον Αλλάχ που τους έστειλε), και λένε: «Εμείς πιστεύουμε σε μερικούς (Αγγελιαφόρους) και αρνούμαστε μερικούς.», θέλοντας να πάρουν έναν δρόμο στο ενδιάμεσο (μεταξύ της πίστης και της απιστίας, νομίζοντας ότι αυτό θα τους σώσει),
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
निःसंदेह जो लोग अल्लाह और उसके रसूलों के साथ कुफ़्र करते हैं और चाहते हैं कि अल्लाह तथा उसके रसूलों के बीच अंतर करें तथा कहते हैं कि हम कुछ पर ईमान रखते हैं और कुछ का इनकार करते हैं और चाहते हैं कि इसके बीच कोई राह[96] अपनाएँ।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
In verità quelli che negano Allāh e il Suo Messaggero e desiderano fare distinzione tra Allāh e i suoi Messaggeri e dicono: “Crediamo in una parte e neghiamo l’altra”, e desiderano trovare una via di mezzo,
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
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
150. Iš tiesų, tie, kurie netiki Allahą ir Jo Pasiuntinį ir nori daryti skirtumą tarp Allaho ir Jo Pasiuntinių (tikėdami Allahą ir netikėdami Jo Pasiuntinius), sakydami: „Mes tikime kai kuriais, tačiau atstumiame kitus.“ ir nori pasirinkti tarpinį kelią, -
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, те, которые отвергают Аллаха и Его посланников, желают провести различие между Аллахом и Его посланниками, говорят: «Мы веруем в одних и не веруем в других» и желают избрать некий промежуточный путь.
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
Они који у Аллаха и Његове посланике не верују и желе да између Аллаха и Његових посланика у веровању направе разлику, па говоре: „У неке верујемо, а у неке не верујемо“, и желе да између тога некакав став заузму,
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, wale wanaomkufuru Mwenyezi Mungu na Mitume wake, na wanataka kufarikisha baina ya Mwenyezi Mungu na Mitume wake, na wanasema: 'Wengine tunawaamini na wengine tunawakufuru.' Na wanataka kushika njia iliyo kati ya hayo.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
De som förkastar tron på Gud och hans sändebud, och vill skilja mellan Gud och hans sändebud, och säger: ”Vi tror på några men förkastar andra”, och försöker slå in på en väg däremellan –
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
Türkçe · Turkish
Allah’ı ve rasûllerini inkâr edenler, Allah ile rasûllerinin arasını ayırmak isteyenler; "Bir kısmına iman eder; bir kısmını inkâr ederiz” diyerek (iman ile küfür) arasında bir yol tutmak isterler.
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
اردو · Urdu
جو لوگ اللہ کے ساتھ اور اس کے پیغمبروں کے ساتھ کفر کرتے ہیں اور جو لوگ یہ چاہتے ہیں کہ اللہ اور اس کے رسولوں کے درمیان فرق رکھیں اور جو لوگ کہتے ہیں کہ بعض نبیوں پر تو ہمارا ایمان ہے اور بعض پر نہیں اور چاہتے ہیں کہ اس کے اور اس کے بین بین کوئی راه نکالیں۔
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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
About these translations
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.
Which translations appear here is set by copyright: they are the ones whose rights could be documented and cleared. The selection is not a judgement that these are the best.
About easy-read
Easy-read
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.
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 As for those who believe in God and His messengers, and make no distinction between any of them-He will give them their rewards. God is Forgiver and Merciful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But those who believe in Allah and His messengers and make no distinction between any of them, unto them Allah will give their wages; and Allah was ever Forgiving, Merciful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But those who believe in God and His apostles, and who do not make a distinction between any one of them,- to these we will give their hire, for God is forgiving and merciful
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they who believe on God and his Apostles, and make no difference between them these! we will bestow on them their reward at last. God is Gracious, Merciful
George Sale1734 But they who believe in God and his apostles, and make no distinction between any of them, unto those will we surely give their reward; and God is gracious and merciful
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 —
0.60 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
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.56
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.49
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.
As at
13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC
Gate
verify/divergence_gate.py re-derives and fails on drift
The platform does not say which is right, and does not
characterise what the difference means. The renderings are placed
together so the difference is visible; reading it is the reader's work.
7 sources
stand behind this page. Each is listed once, in the order the page first
cites it, with the licence it was cleared under and what was actually read.
Nothing on this page rests on a source that is not here.
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.