Easy-read (simplified)wamaa kaana libasharin an yukallimahu llaahu illaa wahyan aw min waraa'i hijaabin aw yursila rasoolan fayoohiya bi'idhnihi maa yashaa'u innahu 'aliyyun hakeem
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.
It is not for any human that God should speak to him, except by inspiration, or from behind a veil, or by sending a messenger to reveal by His permission whatever He wills. He is All-High, All-Wise.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And it was not (vouchsafed) to any mortal that Allah should speak to him unless (it be) by revelation or from behind a veil, or (that) He sendeth a messenger to reveal what He will by His leave. Lo! He is Exalted, Wise
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
It is not for any mortal that God should speak to him, except by inspiration, or from behind a veil, or by sending an apostle and inspiring, by His permission, what He pleases; verily, He is high and wise
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is not for man that God should speak with him but by vision, or from behind a veil: Or, He sendeth a messenger to reveal, by his permission, what He will: for He is Exalted, Wise
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is not fit for man, that God should speak unto him otherwise than by private revelation, or from behind a veil, or by his sending of a messenger to reveal, by his permission, that which He pleaseth; for He is high and wise
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
Asnjë njeriu nuk i takon që Allahu t'i flasë, përveçse përmes shpalljes ose pas një perdeje, ose duke i çuar një të dërguar (melek) që t'i shpallë me lejen e Tij çfarë të dojë Ai. Vërtet, Ai është i Larti, i Urti.
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
কোন মানুষের পক্ষেই এটা সম্ভব নয় যে, আল্লাহ তার সাথে ওহীর মাধ্যম, পর্দার আড়াল অথবা কোন ফিরিশতা প্রেরণ ব্যতীত সরাসরি কথা বলবেন। তারপর আল্লাহ তার অনুমতি সাপেক্ষে, যা চান তাই-ই ওহী হিসেবে প্রেরণ করেন। তিনি (সত্তা ও গুণাবলিতে) সর্বোচ্চ, প্রজ্ঞাবান।
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
Nijednom čovjeku nije dato da mu se Allah obraća, osim objavom, ili iza zastora, ili da pošalje izaslanika, pa s dozvolom Njegovom objavi ono što On hoće. On je, zaista, uzvišen i mudar.
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
Nijednom čovjeku nije dato da mu se Allah obraća, osim objavom, ili iza zastora, ili da pošalje izaslanika, pa s dozvolom Njegovom objavi ono što On hoće. On je, zaista, uzvišen i mudar.
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
Sellantaa neɗɗaŋke, nde Allah yeewtata mo, si wonaa wahayu, maa e ɓaawo heedo, maa o immina Nulaaɗo (Malaa'ikaajo), on wayahina e duŋayee(sakkitoore) makko, ko ko O haaji. Pellet, ko O toowuɗo, Ñeeñɗo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და ალლაჰს არ უსაუბრია კაცთან, გარდა (მხოლოდ) ზეშთაგონების მეშვეობით, ან ფარდის მიღმა (როდესაც კაცმა ის გაიგონა, მაგრამ ვერ იხილა), ან გაგზავნა შუამავალი [ჯაბრაილ ანგელოზი], (რომელმაც) მისი (ალლაჰის) ნებით აუწყა ის, რაც ინება (ალლაჰმა). ჭეშმარიტად, იგი ამაღლებული, ბრძენია!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und es steht keinem menschlichen Wesen zu, dass Allah zu ihm spricht, außer durch das Eingeben (von Offenbarung) oder hinter einem Vorhang oder indem Er einen Boten sendet, der (ihm) dann mit Seiner Erlaubnis (als Offenbarung) eingibt, was Er will. Wahrlich, Er ist (hoch) erhoben und allweise.
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
Δεν εναπόκειται σε κανέναν άνθρωπο το να του μιλήσει ο Αλλάχ παρά μόνο μέσω αποκάλυψης, ή πίσω από ένα κάλυμμα, ή στέλνοντας έναν Άγγελο-Αγγελιαφόρο να αποκαλύψει με την άδειά Του ό,τι θέλει (ο Αλλάχ). Πράγματι, Αυτός είναι ‘Αλέι (Ύψιστος) και Χακείμ (Πάνσοφος).
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
और किसी मनुष्य के लिए संभव नहीं कि अल्लाह उससे बात करे, परंतु वह़्य[34] के द्वारा, अथवा पर्दे के पीछे से, अथवा यह कि कोई दूत (फ़रिश्ता) भेजे, फिर वह उसकी अनुमति से वह़्य करे, जो कुछ वह चाहे। निःसंदेह वह सबसे ऊँचा, पूर्ण हिकमत वाला है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E a nessun essere umano è permesso che gli parli Allāh, se non tramite l’ispirazione, o dietro un velo, o mandandogli un Messaggero a rivelargli, col Suo permesso, ciò che vuole: Lui è in verità il Sublime, il Saggio.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
51. Nesuteikta kiekvienam žmogui, kad Allahas kalbėtų su juo, nebent (tai būtų) Apreiškimu, arba iš už užsklandos, arba (kai) Jis siunčia Pasiuntinį kad apreikštų tai, ką Jis nori Savo Leidimu. Iš tiesų, Jis yra Aukščiausias, Išmintingiausias.
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 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Namaaf hintaane Rabbiin isa dubbisuun yoo wahyiin tahe malee, yookiin dahoo duubaan, yookiin ergamaa ergee hayyama Isaatiin waan fedhe itti buusuun malee. Inni ol aanaa, ogeessa. [4]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Не дано человеку, чтобы Аллах говорил с ним иначе, как через откровение или из-за завесы, или же Он посылает посланника, который с Его позволения внушает то, что Он пожелает. Воистину, Он — возвышенный, мудрый.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Ниједном човеку није дато да му се Аллах обраћа, осим објавом, или иза застора, или да пошаље изасланика, па са Његовом дозволом објави оно што Он хоће. Он је, заиста, Узвишен и Мудар.
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 haikuwa kwa mwanadamu kwamba Mwenyezi Mungu amsemeze ila kwa Wahyi (Ufunuo), au kwa nyuma ya kizuizi, au kumtuma Mjumbe. Naye humfunulia ayatakayo kwa idhini yake. Hakika Yeye ni Mtukufu, Mwenye hekima.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Gud talar inte till någon människa annat än genom ingivelse, bakom en slöja, eller genom att sända ett sändebud som på hans befallning förmedlar det han vill uppenbara; han är förvisso hög, vis.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Bir insanın, vahiy dışında veya perde arkasından ya da bir elçi gönderilmeksizin Allah ile konuşması mümkün değildir. İşte bu şekilde O, dilediğine kendi izni ile vahyeder. O; çok üstündür, Hakîm'dir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
ناممکن ہے کہ کسی بنده سے اللہ تعالیٰ کلام کرے مگر وحی کے ذریعہ یا پردے کے پیچھے سے یا کسی فرشتہ کو بھیجے اور وه اللہ کے حکم سے جو وه چاہے وحی[1] کرے، بیشک وه برتر ہے حکمت واﻻ ہے.
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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Easy-read (simplified)lillaahi mulku s-samaawaati wal-'ardi yakhluqu maa yashaa'u yahabu liman yashaa'u inaathan wayahabu liman yashaa'u dh-dhukoor
DIN 31635lillāhi mulku s-samāwāti wal-ʾarḍi yaḫluqu mā yašāʾu yahabu liman yašāʾu ʾināṯan wayahabu liman yašāʾu ḏ-ḏukūra
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. He creates whatever He wills. He grants daughters to whomever He wills, and He grants sons to whomever He wills.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Unto Allah belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth. He createth what He will. He bestoweth female (offspring) upon whom He will, and bestoweth male (offspring) upon whom He will
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, He creates what He pleases, He grants to whom He pleases females, and He grants to whom He pleases males, or He gives them in pairs, males and females
John Medows Rodwell1861 God's, the kingdom of the Heavens and of the Earth! He createth what He will! and he giveth daughters to whom He will, and sons to whom He will
George Sale1734 Unto God appertaineth the kingdom of heaven and earth: He createth that which He pleaseth; He giveth females unto whom He pleaseth, and He giveth males unto whom He pleaseth
Easy-read (simplified)wakadhaalika awhaynaa ilayka roohan min amrinaa maa kunta tadree maa l-kitaabu walaa l-'eemaanu walaakin ja'alnaahu nooran nahdee bihi man nashaa'u min 'ibaadinaa wa'innaka latahdee ilaa siraatin mustaqeem
DIN 31635wakaḏālika ʾawḥaynā ʾilayka rūḥan min ʾamrinā mā kunta tadrī mā l-kitābu walā l-ʾīmānu walākin ǧaʿalnāhu nūran nahdī bihi man našāʾu min ʿibādinā waʾinnaka latahdī ʾilā ṣirāṭin mustaqīmin
Talal Itani2012 We thus inspired you spiritually, by Our command. You did not know what the Scripture is, nor what faith is, but We made it a light, with which We guide whomever We will of Our servants. You surely guide to a straight path.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And thus have We inspired in thee (Muhammad) a Spirit of Our command. Thou knewest not what the Scripture was, nor what the Faith. But We have made it a light whereby We guide whom We will of Our bondmen. And lo! thou verily dost guide unto a right path
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And thus have we inspired thee by a spirit at our bidding; thou didst not know what the Book was, nor the faith: but we made it a light whereby we guide whom we will of our servants. And, verily, thou shalt surely be guided into the right way
John Medows Rodwell1861 Thus have we sent the Spirit (Gabriel) to thee with a revelation, by our command. Thou knewest not, ere this, what "the Book" was, or what the faith. But we have ordained it for a light: by it will we guide whom we please of our servants. And thou shalt surely guide into the right way
George Sale1734 Thus have We revealed unto thee a revelation, by our command. Thou didst not understand, before this, what the book of the Koran was, nor what the faith was: But We have ordained the same for a light; We will thereby direct such of our servants as We please: And thou shalt surely direct them into the right way
Talal Itani2012 The path of God, to whom belongs everything in the heavens and everything on earth. Indeed, to God all matters revert.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 The path of Allah, unto Whom belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. Do not all things reach Allah at last
Edward Henry Palmer1880 the way of God, whose is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth. Ay, to God affairs do tend
John Medows Rodwell1861 The way of God, whose is all that the Heaven and the Earth contain. Shall not all things return to God
George Sale1734 the way of God, unto whom belongeth whatever is heaven and in earth. Shall not all things return unto God
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 —
0.48 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.56
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.49
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.45
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.44
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.44
Talal Itani · George Sale0.43
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.36
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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.