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Talal Itani· published 2012
Say, "I was prohibited from worshiping those you invoke besides God, now that clear revelations have come to me from my Lord; and I was commanded to submit to the Lord of the Worlds."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Say (OMuhammad): I am forbidden to worship those unto whom ye cry beside Allah since there have come unto me clear proofs from my Lord, and I am commanded to surrender to the Lord of the Worlds
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
Say, 'Verily, I am forbidden to serve those whom ye call on beside God, since there have come to me manifestsigns from my Lord, and I am bidden to be resigned unto the Lord of the worlds
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
SAY: Verily I am forbidden to worship what ye call on beside God, after that the clear tokens have come to me from my Lord, and I am bidden to surrender myself to the Lord of the Worlds
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Say, verily I am forbidden to worship the deities which ye invoke, besides God, after that evident proofs have come unto me from my Lord; and I am commanded to resign myself unto the Lord of all creatures
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
Thuaj: "Mua më është ndaluar t'i adhuroj ata që i adhuroni në vend të Allahut, meqë mua më kanë ardhur prova të qarta nga Zoti im dhe jam urdhëruar t'i nënshtrohem Zotit të botëve."
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
হে রাসূল! বল: ‘তোমরা আল্লাহ ছাড়া যাদেরকে ডাক, তাদের ইবাদাত করতে আমাকে নিষেধ করা হয়েছে, যেহেতু আমার রবের পক্ষ থেকে আমার কাছে সুস্পষ্ট প্রমাণাদি এসেছে। আর আমি আদিষ্ট হয়েছি সৃষ্টিকুলের রবের নিকট আত্মসমর্পণ করতে।’
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
Reci: “Meni je zabranjeno obožavati one koje vi mimo Allaha molite, pošto su mi došli jasni dokazi od Gospodara moga, a naređeno mi je da se predam Gospodaru svjetova.”
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
Reci: “Meni je zabranjeno obožavati one koje vi mimo Allaha molite, pošto su mi došli jasni dokazi od Gospodara moga, a naređeno mi je da se predam Gospodaru svjetova.”
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
Maaku: "Miin mi haɗaama dewugol ɗiin ɗi noddoton ga Allah, tuma nde ɓannganduyeeji ɗin ari e am, immorde e Joomi am, mi yamiraama kadi, nde mi jebbilantoo, Jeyɗo winndere ndeen".
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
უთხარი (მრავალღმერთიანებს): «მე ამეკრძალა თაყვანი ვცე მათ, რომელთაც თქვენ მოუხმობთ ალლაჰის გარდა, მას შემდეგ, რაც ჩემთან მოვიდა ცხადი მტკიცებულებანი ჩემი უფლისგან. და მე ნაბრძანები მაქვს, რომ დავემორჩილო სამყაროთა უფალს».
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
Sag: „Mir wurde verboten, als die klaren Zeichen von meinem Herrn zu mir kamen, denjenigen zu dienen, die ihr anstatt Allahs anruft; und mir wurde befohlen, mich dem Herrn der Weltenbewohner zu ergeben.“
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
Πες (ω, Προφήτη): «Μου έχει απαγορευτεί να λατρεύω αυτούς που τους επικαλείστε (και τους λατρεύετε) εκτός από τον Αλλάχ, αφού μου ήρθαν οι ξεκάθαρες αποδείξεις από τον Κύριό μου. Και έχω διαταχθεί να υποταχθώ μόνο στον Κύριο όλων των κόσμων.»
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
आप कह दें : निःसंदेह मुझे इस बात से रोक दिया गया है कि मैं उनकी इबादत करूँ, जिन्हें तुम अल्लाह के सिवा पुकारते हो, जबकि मेरे पास मेरे पालनहार की ओर से स्पष्ट प्रमाण आ गए। तथा मुझे आदेश दिया गया है कि मैं सारे संसारों के पालनहार का आज्ञाकारी रहूँ।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Di’: “In verità mi è stato proibito di adorare quelli che invocate all’infuori di Allh, quando mi sono scese le Evidenze dal mio Dio, e mi è stato ordinato di sottomettermi al Dio dei Mondi.
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
66. Sakyk (Muchammedai ﷺ): „Man buvo uždrausta garbinti tuos, kuriuos jūs garbinate šalia Allaho, nes pasiekė mane įrodymai iš mano Viešpaties. Ir man įsakyta paklusti (islame) Alamyn (žmonijos, džinų ir visko kas egzistuoja) Viešpačiui.
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
Скажи: «Воистину, мне запрещено поклоняться тем, к которым вы взываете помимо Аллаха, после того как ко мне пришли ясные знамения от моего Господа. И мне велено покориться Господу миров».
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
Реци: „Мени је забрањено да обожавам оне које ви мимо Аллаха молите, након што су ми дошли јасни докази од мога Господара, и наређено ми је да се предам Господару светова.“
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
Sema: Mimi nimekatazwa kuwaabudu hao mnaowaomba badala ya Mwenyezi Mungu, ziliponijia hoja zilizo dhahiri kutokana na Mola wangu Mlezi. Na nimeamrishwa nisilimu kwa Mola wa walimwengu wote.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Säg: ”Jag har förbjudits att dyrka de som ni åkallar vid Guds sida, då de klara bevisen från min Herre har nått mig. Och jag har beordrats att underkasta mig världarnas Herre.”
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
De ki: "Rabbimden bana apaçık deliller gelince, Allah’tan başka dua ettiklerinize ibadet etmek bana yasak kılındı ve âlemlerin Rabbine teslim olmakla emrolundum."
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
آپ کہہ دیجئے! کہ مجھے ان کی عبادت سے روک دیا گیا ہے جنہیں تم اللہ کے سوا پکار رہے ہو[1] اس بنا پر کہ میرے پاس میرے رب کی دلیلیں پہنچ چکی ہیں، مجھے یہ حکم دیا گیا ہے کہ میں تمام جہانوں کے رب کا تابع فرمان ہو جاؤں.[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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Talal Itani2012 It is God who made the earth a habitat for you, and the sky a structure. And He designed you, and designed you well; and He provided you with the good things. Such is God, your Lord; so Blessed is God, Lord of the Worlds.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah it is Who appointed for you the earth for a dwelling-place and the sky for a canopy, and fashioned you and perfected your shapes, and hath provided you with good things. Such is Allah, your Lord. Then blessed be Allah, the Lord of the Worlds
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God it is who has made for you the earth as a resting-place, and a heaven as building, and has formed you and made excellent your forms; and has provided you with good things! there is God for you!- your Lord! then blessed be God, the Lord of the worlds
John Medows Rodwell1861 It is God who hath given you the earth as a sure foundation, and over it built up the Heaven, and formed you, and made your forms beautiful, and feedeth you with good things. This is God your Lord. Blessed then be God the Lord of the Worlds
George Sale1734 It is God who hath given you the earth for a stable floor, and the heaven for a ceiling: And who hath formed you, and made your forms beautiful; and feedeth you with good things. This is God, your Lord. Wherefore blessed be God, the Lord of all creatures
DIN 31635huwa l-ḥayyu lā ʾilāha ʾillā huwa fadʿūhu muḫliṣīna lahu d-dīna l-ḥamdu lillāhi rabbi l-ʿālamīna
Talal Itani2012 He is the Living One. There is no god except He. So pray to Him, devoting your religion to Him. Praise be to God, the Lord of the Worlds.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He is the Living One. There is no Allah save Him. So pray unto Him, making religion pure for Him (only). Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He is the living One, there is no god but He! then call on Him, being sincere in your religion to Him; praise be to God, the Lord of the worlds
John Medows Rodwell1861 He is the Living One. No God is there but He. Call then upon Him and offer Him a pure worship. Praise be to God the Lord of the Worlds
George Sale1734 He is the living God: There is no God but He. Wherefore call upon Him, exhibiting unto Him the pure religion. Praise be unto God, the Lord of all creatures
Easy-read (simplified)huwa lladhee khalaqakum min turaabin thumma min nutfatin thumma min 'alaqatin thumma yukhrijukum tiflan thumma litablughoo ashuddakum thumma litakoonoo shuyookhan waminkum man yutawaffaa min qablu walitablughoo ajalan musamman wala'allakum ta'qiloon
DIN 31635huwa llaḏī ḫalaqakum min turābin ṯumma min nuṭfatin ṯumma min ʿalaqatin ṯumma yuḫriǧukum ṭiflan ṯumma litabluġū ʾašuddakum ṯumma litakūnū šuyūḫan waminkum man yutawaffā min qablu walitabluġū ʾaǧalan musamman walaʿallakum taʿqilūna
Talal Itani2012 It is He who created you from dust, then from a seed, then from an embryo, then He brings you out as an infant, then He lets you reach your maturity, then you become elderly-although some of you die sooner-so that you may reach a predetermined age, so that you may understand.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He it is Who created you from dust, then from a drop (of seed) then from a clot, then bringeth you forth as a child, then (ordaineth) that ye attain full strength and afterward that ye become old men - though some among you die before - and that ye reach an appointed term, that haply ye may understand
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He it is who created you from the earth, then from a clot, then from congealed blood, then He brings you forth a child; then ye reach to puberty; then do ye become old men,- though of you there are some who are taken away before,- that ye may reach an appointed time, and haply ye may have some sense
John Medows Rodwell1861 He it is who created you of the dust, then of the germs of life, then of thick blood, then brought you forth infants: then he letteth you reach your full strength, and then become old men (but some of you die first), and reach the ordained term. And this that haply ye may understand
George Sale1734 It is He who first created you of dust, and afterwards of seed, and afterwards of coagulated blood; and afterwards brought you forth infants out of your mothers wombs: Then He permitteth you to attain your age of full strength, and afterwards to grow old men, -- but some of you die before that age, -- and to arrive at the determined period of your life; that peradventure ye may understand
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 —
0.56 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 · Edward Henry Palmer0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.64
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.51
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.49
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.46
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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.