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Talal Itani· published 2012
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.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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
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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And give to the orphans their property; substitute not worthlessthings of your own for their valuable ones, and devour not their property after adding it to your own; for this is a great crime
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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
Jepuani jetimëve pasurinë e tyre dhe mos e ndërroni hallallin me haram[1], as mos e hani pasurinë e tyre duke e përzier me pasurinë tuaj, sepse pa dyshim se ky është gjynah i madh.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর তোমরা ইয়াতীমদেরকে তাদের ধন-সম্পদ দিয়ে দাও এবং ভালো সম্পদের সাথে খারাপ সম্পদ বদল করো না। আর তোমরা তোমাদের সম্পদের সাথে তাদের সম্পদ মিশিয়ে গ্রাস করো না; নিশ্চয় এটা মহাপাপ ।
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
I siročadima imetke njihove dajte, ono što je loše i zabranjeno ne mijenjajte za ono što je lijepo i dopušteno, i imetke njihove s imecima vašim ne trošite. To je, doista, prestup veliki.
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
I siročadima imetke njihove dajte, ono što je loše i zabranjeno ne mijenjajte za ono što je lijepo i dopušteno, i imetke njihove s imetcima vašim ne trošite. To je, doista, prijestup veliki.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Jonne wonduɓe ɓen jawɗeele maɓɓe ɗen. Wata on waostondir soɓe ɗen ko laaɓi. Wata on ñaamu jawle maɓɓe ɗen [waɗton ɗum] e jawle maɓɓe ɗen. Pellet, ɗum laatike bakkaatu mawɗo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და მიეცით ობლებს (როცა ისინი სრულწლოვანებას მიაღწევენ) მათი ქონება (თუ ხედავთ, რომ ისინი შეძლებენ თავიანთი ქონების დაცვას). და ნუ შეცვლით (თქვენს) ცუდს კარგით. და ნუ შეჭამთ მათ ქონებას (ხრიკებით) თქვენს ქონებასთან შერევით. ჭეშმარიტად, ეს არის დიდი ცოდვა!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und gebt den Waisen ihren Besitz und tauscht nicht Schlechtes mit Gutem aus und (ver)zehrt nicht ihren Besitz zu eurem Besitz hinzu. Das ist wahrlich ein schweres Vergehen.
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
Και να δώσετε στα ορφανά τις περιουσίες τους (όταν φτάσουν την εφηβεία) και μην αντικαθιστάτε τα (δικά σας) κακά με τα (δικά τους) καλά. Και μην καταβροχθίζετε τις περιουσίες τους προσθέτοντάς τες στις δικές σας. Πράγματι, αυτή είναι τεράστια αμαρτία.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा अनाथों को उनका माल दे दो और पवित्र व हलाल चीज़ के बदले अपवित्र व हराम चीज़ न लो और उनके माल को अपने माल के साथ मिलाकर न खाओ। निःसंदेह यह बहुत बड़ा पाप है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E consegnate agli orfani le loro eredità, e non scambiate il cattivo con il buono, e non mangiate i loro beni, insieme ai vostri: questo è in verità un grande peccato!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
2. Ir duokite našlaičiams iš jų nuosavybės ir nekeiskite (savo) blogų daiktų su (jų) geraisiais. Ir neimkite jų turinio, (pridėdami jį) į savo turinį. Iš tiesų, tai didelė nuodėmė.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Yatiimotaaf qabeenyaalee isaanii kennaa. Gaggaarii fokkataan hin jijjiiratinaa. Qabeenya isaanii gara qabeenya keessaniitti (makuun) hin nyaatinaa. inni badii guddaa ta'eera.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Отдавайте сиротам их имущество и не заменяйте хорошее на мерзкое. И не пожирайте их имущество вместе со своим имуществом. Воистину, это является великим грехом.
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
И сирочадима имовине њихове дајте, не подмећите лоше за добро, и имовине њихове са имовинама вашим не трошите! То је, заиста, велики грех.
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
Na wapeni mayatima mali zao. Wala msibadilishe kibaya kwa kizuri. Wala msile mali zao pamoja na mali zenu. Hakika, yote hayo ni dhambi kubwa.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Ge de faderlösa deras tillgångar, och byt inte bort det goda mot det dåliga, förbruka inte deras tillgångar tillsammans med era egna. Detta är sannerligen en svår synd.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Yetimlere mallarını verin. Temizi pis olanla (helâli haramla) değişmeyin. Onların mallarını kendi mallarınıza katıp yemeyin. Çünkü bu, büyük bir günahtır.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور یتیموں کو ان کے مال دے دو اور پاک اور حلال چیز کے بدلے ناپاک اور حرام چیز نہ لو، اور اپنے مالوں کے ساتھ ان کے مال ملا کر کھا نہ جاؤ، بے شک یہ بہت بڑا گناه ہے۔[1]
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.
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Talal Itani2012 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.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 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 mutual favours, - and reverence the wombs that bare you. Verily is God watching over you
George Sale1734 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
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
Talal Itani2012 Give women their dowries graciously. But if they willingly forego some of it, then consume it with enjoyment and pleasure.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And give unto the women (whom ye marry) free gift of their marriage portions; but if they of their own accord remit unto you a part thereof, then ye are welcome to absorb it (in your wealth)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And give women their dowries freely; and if they are good enough to remit any of it of themselves, then devour it with good digestion and appetite
John Medows Rodwell1861 Give women their dowry freely; but if of themselves they give up aught thereof to you, then enjoy it as convenient, and profitable
George Sale1734 And give women their dowry freely; but if they voluntarily remit unto you any part of it, enjoy it with satisfaction and advantage
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 —
0.64 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 · John Medows Rodwell0.78
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.76
Talal Itani · George Sale0.68
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.67
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.61
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.50
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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.