يُرِيدُ ٱللَّهُ لِيُبَيِّنَ لَكُمْ وَيَهْدِيَكُمْ سُنَنَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ وَيَتُوبَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ
Easy-read (simplified)yureedu llaahu liyubayyina lakum wayahdiyakum sunana lladheena min qablikum wayatooba 'alaykum wallaahu 'aleemun hakeem
DIN 31635yurīdu llāhu liyubayyina lakum wayahdiyakum sunana llaḏīna min qablikum wayatūba ʿalaykum wallāhu ʿalīmun ḥakīmun
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
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.
God intends to make things clear to you, and to guide you in the ways of those before you, and to redeem you. God is Most Knowing, Most Wise.
Talal Itani, ClearQuran ·ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB·Talal Itani / ClearQuran.com ·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International·retrieved 7 Sep 2026
Translation by Talal Itani, ClearQuran.com https://clearquran.com
Allah would explain to you and guide you by the examples of those who were before you, and would turn to you in mercy. Allah is Knower, Wise
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
God wishes to explain to you and to guide you into the ordinances of those who were before you, and to turn towards you, for God is knowing, wise
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an ·1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
God desireth to make this known to you, and to guide you into the ways of those who have been before you, and to turn Him unto you in mercy. And God is Knowing, Wise
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an ·1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
God is willing to declare these things unto you and to direct you according to the ordinances of those who have gone before you, and to be merciful unto you. God is knowing and wise
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
Allahu dëshiron t'jua sqarojë e t'ju udhëzojë në rrugën e atyre që ishin para jush e t'jua pranojë pendimin. Allahu është i Gjithëdijshëm, i Urtë.
আল্লাহ তোমাদের কাছে বিশদভাবে বর্ণনা করতে চান। তিনি তোমাদের পূর্ববর্তীদের রীতি-নীতি ও পথ তোমাদেরকে অবহিত করতে এবং তোমাদেরকে ক্ষমা করতে চান। আর আল্লাহ সর্বজ্ঞ, প্রজ্ঞাময়।
Allah vam želi objasniti i uputiti vas putevima kojima su išli oni prije vas i oprostiti vam. Allah je Onaj Koji sve zna i mudar je.
Allah vam želi objasniti i uputiti vas putevima kojima su išli oni prije vas i oprostiti vam. Allah je Onaj Koji sve zna i mudar je.
Allaahu O o faala Ɓann laɓɓinanade on O Feewna on e laabi ɓeya adinooɓe on, O Jaɓana on tuubuubuyee. Alla ko gannduɗo, Ñeeñɗo.
ალლაჰს სურს განგიმარტოთ (ჭეშმარიტი რწმენის დადგენილებები), გაგიძღვეთ იმათ გზებზე (მოციქულთა და მართალთა), რომლებიც თქვენამდე იყვნენ, და მიიღოს თქვენი სინანული. და ჭეშმარიტად, ალლაჰი ყოვლისმცოდნე, ბრძენია!
Allah will es euch verdeutlichen und euch nach den Gesetzmäßigkeiten derer rechtleiten, die vor euch waren, und eure Reue annehmen. Und Allah ist allwissend und allweise.
Ο Αλλάχ θέλει (με τη θέσπιση αυτών των διατάξεων) να κάνει σαφές σ’ εσάς (τους νόμους της θρησκείας Του, και τι σας ωφελεί σ’ αυτή τη ζωή και στη Μέλλουσα Ζωή), και να σας καθοδηγήσει στους τρόπους εκείνων (των προφητών) που προηγήθηκαν απ’ εσάς (ώστε να τους ακολουθείτε), και να δεχτεί τη μεταμέλειά σας. Πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ είναι ‘Αλείμ (Παντογνώστης) και Χακείμ (Πάνσοφος).
अल्लाह चाहता है कि तुम्हारे लिए स्पष्ट कर दे और तुम्हें उन लोगों के तरीक़ों का मार्गदर्शन करे जो तुमसे पहले हुए हैं और तुम्हारी तौबा क़बूल करे। अल्लाह सब कुछ जानने वाला, हिकमत वाला है।
Allāh vuole chiarirvi e guidarvi sui sentieri di quelli che vi hanno preceduti, e perdonarvi i peccati, e Allāh è in verità Sapiente, Saggio.
26. Allahas nori paaiškinti (kas yra leistina ir kas yra draudžiama) jums ir parodyti jums kelius tų, kurie buvo iki jūsų, ir priimti jūsų atgailą. Ir Allahas yra Visa Žinantis, Visa Išmanantis.
Rabbiin (waan eeyyamamaafi dhorgamaa ta’an) isiniif ibsuu barbaada, karaalee warra isin dura turanii isin qajeelchuufi tawbaa keessan qeebaluu (barbaada). Rabbiin beekaa, ogeessa.
Аллах желает разъяснить вам и повести вас путями тех, которые были до вас, и принять ваше покаяние. Аллах — знающий, мудрый.
Аллах жели да вам објасни и упути вас путевима којима су ишли они пре вас, и да вам опрости. Аллах све зна и мудар је.
Mwenyezi Mungu anataka kwamba awabainishie, na awaongoze nyendo za wale waliokuwa kabla yenu, na akubali toba zenu. Na Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mwenye kujua, Mwenye hekima.
Gud vill klargöra för er och vägleda er till de levnadssätt som följdes av dem före er, och leda er till omvändelse. Gud är allvetande, vis.
Allah size (hükümlerini) açıklamak, sizden öncekilerin yollarına hidayet etmek ve tevbenizi kabul buyurmak ister. Allah her şeyi bilendir, hikmet sahibidir
اللہ تعالیٰ چاہتا ہے کہ تمہارے واسطے خوب کھول کر بیان کرے اور تمہیں تم سے پہلے کے (نیک) لوگوں کی راه پر چلائے اور تمہاری توبہ قبول کرے، اور اللہ تعالیٰ جاننے واﻻ حکمت واﻻ ہے۔
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.
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.
shown so it's never read alone
وَٱلْمُحْصَنَٰتُ مِنَ ٱلنِّسَآءِ إِلَّا مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَٰنُكُمْ كِتَٰبَ ٱللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَأُحِلَّ لَكُم مَّا وَرَآءَ ذَٰلِكُمْ أَن تَبْتَغُوا۟ بِأَمْوَٰلِكُم مُّحْصِنِينَ غَيْرَ مُسَٰفِحِينَ فَمَا ٱسْتَمْتَعْتُم بِهِۦ مِنْهُنَّ فَـَٔاتُوهُنَّ أُجُورَهُنَّ فَرِيضَةً وَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِيمَا تَرَٰضَيْتُم بِهِۦ مِنۢ بَعْدِ ٱلْفَرِيضَةِ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ عَلِيمًا حَكِيمًا
Easy-read (simplified)wal-muhsanaatu mina n-nisaa'i illaa maa malakat aymaanukum kitaaba llaahi 'alaykum wa'uhilla lakum maa waraa'a dhaalikum an tabtaghoo bi'amwaalikum muhsineena ghayra musaafiheena famaa stamta'tum bihi minhunna fa'aatoohunna ujoorahunna fareedatan walaa junaaha 'alaykum feemaa taraadaytum bihi min ba'di l-fareedati inna llaaha kaana 'aleeman hakeemaa
DIN 31635wal-muḥṣanātu mina n-nisāʾi ʾillā mā malakat ʾaymānukum kitāba llāhi ʿalaykum waʾuḥilla lakum mā warāʾa ḏālikum ʾan tabtaġū biʾamwālikum muḥṣinīna ġayra musāfiḥīna famā stamtaʿtum bihi minhunna faʾātūhunna ʾuǧūrahunna farīḍatan walā ǧunāḥa ʿalaykum fīmā tarāḍaytum bihi min baʿdi l-farīḍati ʾinna llāha kāna ʿalīman ḥakīman
The translators word this verse differently
And all married women, except those you rightfully possess. This is God's decree, binding upon you. Permitted for you are those that lie outside these limits, provided you seek them in legal marriage, with gifts from your property, seeking wedlock, not prostitution. If you wish to enjoy them, then give them their dowry-a legal obligation. You commit no error by agreeing to any change to the dowry. God is All-Knowing, Most Wise.
And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess. It is a decree of Allah for you. Lawful unto you are all beyond those mentioned, so that ye seek them with your wealth in honest wedlock, not debauchery. And those of whom ye seek content (by marrying them), give unto them their portions as a duty. And there is no sin for you in what ye do by mutual agreement after the duty (hath been done). Lo! Allah is ever Knower, Wise
and married women, save such as your right hands possess,- God's Book against you! - but lawful for you is all besides this, for you to seek them with your wealth, marrying them and not fornicating; but such of them as ye have enjoyed, give them their hire as a lawful due; for there is no crime in you about what ye agree between you after such lawful due, verily, God is knowing and wise
Forbidden to you also are married women, except those who are in your hands as slaves: This is the law of God for you. And it is allowed you, beside this, to seek out wives by means of your wealth, with modest conduct, and without fornication. And give those with whom ye have cohabited their dowry. This is the law. But it shall be no crime in you to make agreements over and above the law. Verily, God is Knowing, Wise
Ye are also forbidden to take to wife free women who are married, except those women whom your right hands shall possess as slaves. This is ordained you from God. Whatever is beside this, is allowed you; that ye may with your substance provide wives for your selves, acting that which is right, and avoiding whoredom. And for the advantage which ye receive from them, give them their reward, according to what is ordained: But it shall be no crime in you to make any other agreement among your selves, after the ordinance shall be complied with; for God is knowing and wise
وَمَن لَّمْ يَسْتَطِعْ مِنكُمْ طَوْلًا أَن يَنكِحَ ٱلْمُحْصَنَٰتِ ٱلْمُؤْمِنَٰتِ فَمِن مَّا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَٰنُكُم مِّن فَتَيَٰتِكُمُ ٱلْمُؤْمِنَٰتِ وَٱللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِإِيمَٰنِكُم بَعْضُكُم مِّنۢ بَعْضٍ فَٱنكِحُوهُنَّ بِإِذْنِ أَهْلِهِنَّ وَءَاتُوهُنَّ أُجُورَهُنَّ بِٱلْمَعْرُوفِ مُحْصَنَٰتٍ غَيْرَ مُسَٰفِحَٰتٍ وَلَا مُتَّخِذَٰتِ أَخْدَانٍ فَإِذَآ أُحْصِنَّ فَإِنْ أَتَيْنَ بِفَٰحِشَةٍ فَعَلَيْهِنَّ نِصْفُ مَا عَلَى ٱلْمُحْصَنَٰتِ مِنَ ٱلْعَذَابِ ذَٰلِكَ لِمَنْ خَشِىَ ٱلْعَنَتَ مِنكُمْ وَأَن تَصْبِرُوا۟ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ وَٱللَّهُ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ
Easy-read (simplified)waman lam yastati' minkum tawlan an yankiha l-muhsanaati l-mu'minaati famin maa malakat aymaanukum min fatayaatikumu l-mu'minaati wallaahu a'lamu bi'eemaanikum ba'dukum min ba'din faankihoohunna bi'idhni ahlihinna wa'aatoohunna ujoorahunna bil-ma'roofi muhsanaatin ghayra musaafihaatin walaa muttakhidhaati akhdaanin fa'idhaa uhsinna fa'in atayna bifaahishatin fa'alayhinna nisfu maa 'alaa l-muhsanaati mina l-'adhaabi dhaalika liman khashiya l-'anata minkum wa'an tasbiroo khayrun lakum wallaahu ghafoorun raheem
DIN 31635waman lam yastaṭiʿ minkum ṭawlan ʾan yankiḥa l-muḥṣanāti l-muʾmināti famin mā malakat ʾaymānukum min fatayātikumu l-muʾmināti wallāhu ʾaʿlamu biʾīmānikum baʿḍukum min baʿḍin fānkiḥūhunna biʾiḏni ʾahlihinna waʾātūhunna ʾuǧūrahunna bil-maʿrūfi muḥṣanātin ġayra musāfiḥātin walā muttaḫiḏāti ʾaḫdānin faʾiḏā ʾuḥṣinna faʾin ʾatayna bifāḥišatin faʿalayhinna niṣfu mā ʿalā l-muḥṣanāti mina l-ʿaḏābi ḏālika liman ḫašiya l-ʿanata minkum waʾan taṣbirū ḫayrun lakum wallāhu ġafūrun raḥīmun
The translators word this verse differently
If any of you lack the means to marry free believing women, he may marry one of the believing maids under your control. God is well aware of your faith. You are from one another. Marry them with the permission of their guardians, and give them their recompense fairly-to be protected-neither committing adultery, nor taking secret lovers. When they are married, if they commit adultery, their punishment shall be half that of free women. That is for those among you who fear falling into decadence. But to practice self-restraint is better for you. God is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful.
And whoso is not able to afford to marry free, believing women, let them marry from the believing maids whom your right hands possess. Allah knoweth best (concerning) your faith. Ye (proceed) one from another; so wed them by permission of their folk, and give unto them their portions in kindness, they being honest, not debauched nor of loose conduct. And if when they are honourably married they commit lewdness they shall incur the half of the punishment (prescribed) for free women (in that case). This is for him among you who feareth to commit sin. But to have patience would be better for you. Allah is Forgiving, Merciful
But whosoever of you cannot go the length of marrying marriageable women who believe, then take of what your right hands possess, of your maidens who believe;- though God knows best about your faith. Ye come one from the other; then marry them with the permission of their people, and give them their hire in reason, they being chaste and not fornicating, and not receivers of paramours. But when they are married, if they commit fornication, then inflict upon them half the penalty for married women; that is for whomsoever of you fears wrong; but that ye should have patience is better for you, and God is forgiving and merciful
And whoever of you is not rich enough to marry free believing women, then let him marry such of your believing maidens as have fallen into your hands as slaves; God well knoweth your faith. Ye are sprung the one from the other. Marry them, then, with the leave of their masters, and give them a fair dower: but let them be chaste and free from fornication, and not entertainers of lovers
Whoso among you hath not means sufficient that he may marry free women, who are believers, let him marry with such of your maid-servants whom your right hands possess, as are true believers; for God well knoweth your faith. Ye are the one from the other: Therefore marry them with the consent of their masters; and give them their dower according to justice; such as are modest, not guilty of whoredom, nor entertaining lovers. And when they are married, if they be guilty of adultery, they shall suffer half the punishment which is appointed for the free women. This is allowed unto him among you, who feareth to sin by marrying free women; but if ye abstain from marrying slaves, it will be better for you; God is gracious and merciful
4:26 — the verse above
وَٱللَّهُ يُرِيدُ أَن يَتُوبَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَيُرِيدُ ٱلَّذِينَ يَتَّبِعُونَ ٱلشَّهَوَٰتِ أَن تَمِيلُوا۟ مَيْلًا عَظِيمًا
Easy-read (simplified)wallaahu yureedu an yatooba 'alaykum wayureedu lladheena yattabi'oona sh-shahawaati an tameeloo maylan 'azeemaa
DIN 31635wallāhu yurīdu ʾan yatūba ʿalaykum wayurīdu llaḏīna yattabiʿūna š-šahawāti ʾan tamīlū maylan ʿaẓīman
The translators word this verse differently
God intends to redeem you, but those who follow their desires want you to turn away utterly.
And Allah would turn to you in mercy; but those who follow vain desires would have you go tremendously astray
God wishes to turn towards you, but those who follow their lusts wish that ye should swerve with a mighty swerving
God desireth thus to turn him unto you: but they who follow their own lusts, desire that with great swerving should ye swerve! God desireth to make your burden light: for man hath been created weak
God desireth to be gracious unto you; but they who follow their lusts, desire that ye should turn aside from the truth with great deviation
يُرِيدُ ٱللَّهُ أَن يُخَفِّفَ عَنكُمْ وَخُلِقَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ ضَعِيفًا
Easy-read (simplified)yureedu llaahu an yukhaffifa 'ankum wakhuliqa l-'insaanu da'eefaa
DIN 31635yurīdu llāhu ʾan yuḫaffifa ʿankum waḫuliqa l-ʾinsānu ḍaʿīfan
God intends to lighten your burden, for the human being was created weak.
Allah would make the burden light for you, for man was created weak
God wishes to make it light for you, for man was created weak
God desireth thus to turn him unto you: but they who follow their own lusts, desire that with great swerving should ye swerve! God desireth to make your burden light: for man hath been created weak
God is minded to make His religion light unto you: For man was created weak
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Uthmani, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
يُرِيدُ اللَّهُ لِيُبَيِّنَ لَكُمْ وَيَهْدِيَكُمْ سُنَنَ الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ وَيَتُوبَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَاللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
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 — 0.59 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.
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
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.
SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CLEARED. Parallel edition, held in ayah_text_variants. It sits alongside the Uthmani spine for search normalisation and is never used to correct it.
Qur'anic text from the Tanzil Project. Copyright (C) 2007-2026 Tanzil Project License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Source: tanzil.net · Updates: tanzil.net/updates/ https://tanzil.net/updates/