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Talal Itani· published 2012
The Day when you will turn and flee, having no defender against God. Whomever God misguides has no guide."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
A day when ye will turn to flee, having no preserver from Allah: and he whom Allahsendeth astray, for him there is no guide
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
the day when ye shall turn your backs, fleeing, with no defender for you against God; for he whom God leads astray, for him there is no guide
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
The day when ye shall be turned back from the Judgment into hell. No protector shall ye have then against God. And he whom God shall mislead no guide shall there be for him
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
the day whereon ye shall be turned back from the tribunal, and driven to hell: Then shall ye have none to protect you against God. And he whom God shall cause to err, shall have no director
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
Ditën kur do të ktheni shpinën duke ikur, pa pasur askënd që t'ju mbrojë nga Allahu. E, atë që Allahu e çon në humbje, askush s'mund ta udhëzojë.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
সেদিন তোমরা পৃষ্ঠপ্রদর্শন করে পালাতে থাকবে; কিন্তু আল্লাহর (শাস্তি) থেকে তোমাদের রক্ষাকারী কেউ থাকবে না। আর আল্লাহ যাকে পথভ্রষ্ট করেন, তার জন্য কোনো পথপ্রদর্শক নেই।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
na Dan kad budete uzmičući bježali, kad vas od Allaha neće moći niko odbraniti. A onog koga Allah u zabludi ostavi, toga neće niko uputiti.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
na Dan kad budete uzmičući bježali, kad vas od Allaha neće moći nitko odbraniti. A onog koga Allah u zabludi ostavi, toga neće nitko uputiti.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ñalnde nduŋtindroyton, hoɗon ndoga, hara daɗndoowo on alanaa on e Allah". Kala mo Allah majjini, haray peewnoowo alanaa mo.
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ქართული · Georgian
იმ დღეს, როცა ზურგშექცეულნი გაიქცევით, არ გეყოლებათ ალლაჰისგან დამცველი. და ვისაც ალლაჰი გზას ააცდენს, მას არ ეყოლება გზის მაჩვენებელი.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
den Tag, an dem ihr den Rücken kehren werdet, wobei ihr vor Allah keinen Beschützer haben werdet. Und wen Allah in die Irre gehen lässt, so hat er keinen Rechtleiter.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Την Ημέρα που θα γυρίσετε φεύγοντας, μην έχοντας κανέναν να σας προστατεύσει από τον Αλλάχ. Πράγματι, όποιον τον κάνει ο Αλλάχ να παραστρατήσει, δεν υπάρχει κανείς που μπορεί να τον καθοδηγήσει.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
जिस दिन तुम पीठ फेरकर भागोगे। तुम्हें अल्लाह से कोई बचाने वाला न होगा। तथा जिसे अल्लाह राह से भटका दे, उसे राह दिखाने वाला कोई नहीं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
il Giorno in cui arretrerete, senza avere nessuno che vi protegga dalla punizione di Allāh, e chi Allāh svia non troverà nessuna guida!»
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
33. Dienos, kai jūs nusigręšite ir bėgsite, neturėdami jokio saugotojo nuo Allaho. Ir ką Allahas paklaidina, tam nėra jokio vedimo.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
(adabbii) guyyaa, kan Rabbi irraa tiksaan isiniif hin jirre taatanii of duuba deebitanuun (isin irratti sodaadha). Nama Rabbiin jallise qajeelchaan tokkolleen isaaf hin jiru.”
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Русский · Russian
Дня, когда вы обратитесь вспять, когда не будет у вас никакого защитника от Аллаха. Кого Аллах вводит в заблуждение — тому нет наставляющего [на путь]».
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Српски · Serbian
на Дан кад будете узмичући бежали, кад вас од Аллаха неће моћи нико одбранити. А оног кога Аллах у заблуди остави, тога неће нико упутити.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Siku mtakapogeuka kurudi nyuma. Hamtakuwa na wa kukulindeni kutokana na Mwenyezi Mungu. Na mwenye kuhukumiwa na Mwenyezi Mungu kupotea, basi huyo hana wa kumwongoa.
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Svenska · Swedish
en dag då ni vänder er för att fly, utan någon som kan skydda er från Gud. Den som Gud låter gå vilse har ingen som leder honom rätt.”
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Türkçe · Turkish
O gün arkanızı döner, kaçarsınız. Fakat, sizi Allah’tan koruyacak hiçbir şey yoktur. Allah kimi saptırırsa, artık onu doğru yola iletecek de yoktur.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
جس دن تم پیٹھ پھیر کر لوٹو گے[1] ، تمہیں اللہ سے بچانے واﻻ کوئی نہ ہوگا اور جسے اللہ گمراه کر دے اس کا ہادی کوئی نہیں.[2]
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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DIN 31635miṯla daʾbi qawmi nūḥin waʿādin waṯamūda wallaḏīna min baʿdihim wamā llāhu yurīdu ẓulman lilʿibādi
Talal Itani2012 Like the fate of the people of Noah, and Aad, and Thamood, and those after them. God wants no injustice for the servants.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 A plight like that of Noah's folk, and A'ad and Thamud, and those after them, and Allah willeth no injustice for (His) slaves
Edward Henry Palmer1880 the like of the wont of the people of Noah and 'Ad and Haman, and of those after them; for God desires not injustice for His servants
John Medows Rodwell1861 The like of the state of the people of Noah and Ad and Themoud, And of those who came after them; yet God willeth not injustice to his servants
George Sale1734 a condition like that of the people of Noah, and the tribes of Ad, and Thamud, and of those who have lived after them: For God willeth not that any injustice be done unto his servants
Easy-read (simplified)walaqad jaa'akum yoosufu min qablu bil-bayyinaati famaa ziltum fee shakkin mimmaa jaa'akum bihi hattaa idhaa halaka qultum lan yab'atha llaahu min ba'dihi rasoolan kadhaalika yudillu llaahu man huwa musrifun murtaab
DIN 31635walaqad ǧāʾakum yūsufu min qablu bil-bayyināti famā ziltum fī šakkin mimmā ǧāʾakum bihi ḥattā ʾiḏā halaka qultum lan yabʿaṯa llāhu min baʿdihi rasūlan kaḏālika yuḍillu llāhu man huwa musrifun murtābun
Talal Itani2012 Joseph had come to you with clear revelations, but you continued to doubt what he came to you with. Until, when he perished, you said, "God will never send a messenger after him." Thus God leads astray the outrageous skeptic.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And verily Joseph brought you of old clear proofs, yet ye ceased not to be in doubt concerning what he brought you till, when he died, ye said: Allah will not send any messenger after him. Thus Allah deceiveth him who is a prodigal, a doubter
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Joseph came to you before with manifest signs, but ye ceased not to doubt concerning what he brought you, until, when he perished, ye said, "God will not send after him an apostle;" thus does God lead astray him who is extravagant, a doubter
John Medows Rodwell1861 Moreover, Joseph had come to you before with clear tokens, but ye ceased not to doubt of the message with which he came to you, until when he died, ye said, 'God will by no means raise up an apostle after him.' " Thus God misleadeth him who is the transgressor, the doubter
George Sale1734 Joseph came unto you, before Moses, with evident signs; but ye ceased not to doubt of the religion which he preached unto you, until, when he died, ye said, God will by no means send another apostle, after him. Thus doth God cause him to err, who is a transgressor, and a sceptic
Talal Itani2012 Those who argue against God's revelations, without any proof having come to them-a heinous sin in the sight of God, and of those who believe. Thus God seals the heart of every proud bully.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those who wrangle concerning the revelations of Allah without any warrant that hath come unto them, it is greatly hateful in the sight of Allah and in the sight of those who believe. Thus doth Allah print on every arrogant, disdainful heart
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Those who wrangle concerning the signs of God without authority having come to them are greatly hated by God and by those who believe; thus does God set a stamp upon the heart of every tyrant too big with pride
John Medows Rodwell1861 They who gainsay the signs of God without authority having come to them, are greatly hated by God and by those who believe. Thus God sealeth up every proud, contumacious heart
George Sale1734 They who dispute against the signs of God, without any authority which hath come unto them, are in great abomination with God, and with those who believe. Thus doth God seal up every proud and stubborn heart
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 —
0.70 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 · George Sale0.81
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.81
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.77
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.76
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.71
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.61
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.53
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
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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.