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Talal Itani· published 2012
Have you not considered those who were given a share of the Book? They believe in superstition and evilpowers, and say of those who disbelieve, "These are better guided on the way than the believers."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Hast thou not seen those unto whom a portion of the Scripture hath been given, how they believe in idols and false deities, and how they say of those (idolaters) who disbelieve: "These are more rightly guided than those who believe
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
Do ye not see those to whom a portion of the Book has been given? They believe in Gibt and Taghut, and they say of those who misbelieve, 'These are better guided in the way than those who believe
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Hast thou not observed those to whom a part of the Scriptures hath been given? They believe in Djibt and Thagout, and say of the infidels, "These are guided in a batterpath than those who hold the faith
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Hast thou not considered those to whom part of the scripture hath been given? They believe in false gods and idols, and say of those who believe not, these are more rightly directed in the way of truth, than they who believe on Mohammed
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
A nuk i ke parë ata të cilëve u është dhënë një pjesë (nga dija) e Librit sesi besojnë në besëtytni e hyjni të rreme dhe thonë për jobesimtarët: "Këta janë në rrugë më të drejtë se ata që besojnë (muslimanët)"?!
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
তুমি কি তাদেরকে দেখোনি যাদেরকে কিতাবের এক অংশ দেয়া হয়েছিল? তারা জিব্ত ও তাগূতে (২৪) বিশ্বাস করে। তারা কাফিরদের সম্বন্ধে বলে: ‘এরা মু’মিনদের তুলনায় অধিক সঠিক পথপ্রাপ্ত।’
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
Zar ne vidiš one kojima je dat udio u Knjizi kako u magiju i taguta – šejtana vjeruju, a onima koji ne vjeruju govore: “Ovi su na ispravnijem putu od onih koji vjeruju.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Zar ne vidiš one kojima je dat udio u Knjizi kako u magiju i taguta-sotonu[1] vjeruju, a za one koji ne vjeruju govore: "Ovi su na ispravnijem putu od onih koji vjeruju."
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
E mati a yiani ɓeen okkanooɓe geɗal ka Deftere, hiɓe gooŋɗina sanamuuji e bewinayɗi ɗin, hiɓe wi'ana ɓen heeferɓe : "Ko ɓee ɗoo ɓuri feewde laawol e dii ɓeya gooŋɗinɓe ? !".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ნუთუ შენ (ო, მოციქულო) არ გინახავს ისინი, ვისაც მიეცათ წიგნის ნაწილი [იუდეველები], — მათ სწამთ კერპების და ცრუღმერთების და ამბობენ ურწმუნოებზე: «ესენი უფრო სწორ გზაზე არიან, ვიდრე ისინი, ვინც ირწმუნეს».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Hast du nicht jene gesehen, denen ein Teil der Schrift gegeben wurde? Sie glauben an Zauberei und den Taghut (also falsche Gottheiten) und sagen über diejenigen, die ungläubig sind: „Diese da sind eher auf dem rechten Weg als die Gläubigen.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Δεν έχεις δει (ω, Προφήτη) εκείνους (τους Εβραίους) στους οποίους δόθηκε ένα μέρος του Βιβλίου (δηλ. από τη γνώση για την Τορά), που πιστεύουν σε είδωλα και ψεύτικους θεούς, και λένε στους άπιστους ότι είναι (δηλ. οι άπιστοι) πιο καθοδηγημένοι από τους πιστούς;
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
(ऐ नबी!) क्या आपने उन लोगों को नहीं देखा, जिन्हें पुस्तक का कुछ भाग दिया गया? वे मूर्तियों तथा शैतान पर ईमान (विश्वास) रखते हैं और काफ़िरों[42] के बारे में कहते हैं कि ये ईमान वालों से अधिक सीधी डगर पर हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Non vedi quelli che hanno avuto una parte del Libro credere nel Jibti e nel at-Ţaghūt, e dicono a quelli che non hanno creduto: «Questi sono guidati meglio dei credenti!»
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
51. Argi jūs nematėte tų, kuriems buvo duota dalis Rašto? Jie tiki Džibt ir Taghūt [10] ir sako netikintiesiems, kad jie yra geriau vedami, kalbant apie kelią, nei tikintieji (musulmonai).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Sila gara warra kitaaba irraa qooda kennamanii hin ilaallee? Isaan sihriifi xaaghuutatti amanu. Isaan kafaraniin ni jedhu: “Warra kanatu isaan amanan (Muslimoota) caalaa karaatti qajeeloodha."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Разве ты не видишь тех, кому была дарована часть из Писания? Они веруют в идолов и тагута и говорят о тех, кто отверг веру: «Эти — вернее путём, чем те, которые уверовали».
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
Зар не видиш оне којима је дат удео у Књизи како у магију и лажна божанства верују, а онима који не верују говоре: „Ови су на исправнијем путу од оних који верују.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Je, hukuwaona wale waliopewa fungu katika Kitabu? Wanaamini masanamu na Taghut! Na wanasema kuhusu wale waliokufuru kwamba hawa ndio walioongoka zaidi katika njia kuliko wale walioamini.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Känner du inte till de som har fått en del av skriften? De tror på vidskepelser och falska gudar och säger om de otrogna: ”Dessa är bättre vägledda än de troende.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Kendilerine kitaptan bir pay verilenleri görmüyor musun? Cibt’e ve Tâğût’a iman ediyorlar ve de kâfirler hakkında şöyle diyorlar: “Onlar, iman edenlerden daha doğru bir yoldadır."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
کیا آپ نے انہیں نہیں دیکھا جنہیں کتاب کا کچھ حصہ ملا؟ جو بت کا اور باطل معبود کا اعتقاد رکھتے ہیں اور کافروں کے حق میں کہتے ہیں کہ یہ لوگ ایمان والوں سے زیاده راه راست پر ہیں۔[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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not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
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Easy-read (simplified)alam tara ilaa lladheena yuzakkoona anfusahum bali llaahu yuzakkee man yashaa'u walaa yuzlamoona fateelaa
DIN 31635ʾalam tara ʾilā llaḏīna yuzakkūna ʾanfusahum bali llāhu yuzakkī man yašāʾu walā yuẓlamūna fatīlan
Talal Itani2012 Have you not considered those who claim purity for themselves? Rather, God purifies whom He wills, and they will not be wronged a whit.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Hast thou not seen those who praise themselves for purity? Nay, Allah purifieth whom He will, and they will not be wronged even the hair upon a date-stone
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Do ye not see those who purify themselves? nay, God purifies whom He will, and they shall not be wronged a straw
John Medows Rodwell1861 Hast thou not marked those who hold themselves to be righteous? But God holdeth righteous whom He will; and they shall not be wronged the husk of a date stone
George Sale1734 Hast thou not observed those who justify themselves? But God justifieth whomsoever He pleaseth, nor shall they be wronged a hair
Talal Itani2012 Those are they whom God has cursed. Whomever God curses, you will find no savior for him.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those are they whom Allah hath cursed, and he whom Allah hath cursed, thou (O Muhammad) wilt find for him no helper
Edward Henry Palmer1880 These are those whom God has cursed, and whom God has cursed no helper shall he find
John Medows Rodwell1861 These are they whom God hath cursed: and for him whom God hath cursed, thou shalt by on means find a helper
George Sale1734 Those are the men whom God hath cursed; and unto him whom God shall curse, thou shalt surely find no helper
DIN 31635ʾam lahum naṣībun mina l-mulki faʾiḏan lā yuʾtūna n-nāsa naqīran
Talal Itani2012 Or do they own a share of the kingdom? Then they would not give people a speck.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Or have they even a share in the Sovereignty? Then in that case, they would not give mankind even the speck on a date-stone
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Shall they have a portion of the kingdom? Why even then they would not give to men a jot
John Medows Rodwell1861 Shall they have a share in the kingdom who would not bestow on their fellow men even the speck in a date stone
George Sale1734 Shall they have a part of the kingdom, since even then they would not bestow the smallest matter on men
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 —
0.58 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
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.63
Talal Itani · George Sale0.63
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.43
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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.