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
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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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
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.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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
John Medows Rodwell1808–1900 · published 1861
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
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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
Kështu, Ne të shpallëm ty një Shpirt (Kuranin) me urdhrin Tonë. Ti nuk e dije ç'është Libri e as besimi, por Ne e bëmë atë (Kuranin) dritë me të cilën udhëzojmë kë të duam nga robërit Tanë. Me të vërtetë, ti udhëzon në rrugë të drejtë,
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বাংলা · Bengali
অনুরূপভাবে আমি তোমার কাছে আমার নির্দেশ থেকে ‘রূহ’ (আল-কুরআন)কে ওহী যোগে প্রেরণ করেছি। তুমি জানতে না কিতাব কী এবং ঈমান কী? কিন্তু আমি একে (আল-কুরআনকে) আলো বানিয়েছি, যার মাধ্যমে আমি আমার বান্দাদের মধ্যে যাকে ইচ্ছা হিদায়াত দান করি। আর নিশ্চয় তুমি সরল পথের দিক নির্দেশনা দাও।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Tako Mi i tebi objavljujemo Kur’an iz odredbe Naše. Ti nisi znao šta je Knjiga, niti šta je vjerovanje, ali smo je Mi učinili svjetlom pomoću kojeg upućujemo one robove Naše koje želimo. Ti, zaista, ukazuješ na Pravi put,
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Tako Mi i tebi objavljujemo Kuran iz odredbe Naše. Ti nisi znao što je Knjiga, niti što je vjerovanje, ali smo je Mi učinili svjetlom pomoću kojeg upućujemo one robove Naše koje želimo. Ti, zaista, ukazuješ na Pravi put,
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko wano non Min mbayayinir e maaɗa, ruuhu on [Alqur'aana] e yamiroore Amen. A anndaano ko woni deftere, maa gooŋɗinal; si ko woni, Min mbaɗunde ndaygu, ngu Min peewwnirta on mo Min muuyani e jiyaaɓe Amen ɓen. Pellet, ko a feewnoowo e laawol Pocciingol,
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ქართული · Georgian
და აი, ასე შთაგაგონეთ შენ სული (ყურანი) ჩვენი ბრძანებით. შენ არ იცოდი, რა იყო წიგნი და არც რწმენა, მაგრამ ჩვენ იგი (ყურანი) ვქმენით სინათლედ, რომლითაც ვადგენთ სწორ გზაზე ჩვენს მონათაგან იმას, ვისაც ვინებებთ. და უეჭველად, შენ მიუთითებ სწორ გზაზე.
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Deutsch · German
Und auf diese Weise haben Wir dir Geist (damit ist der Quran gemeint) von Unserem Befehl (als Offenbarung) eingegeben. Du wusstest (vorher) weder, was das Buch noch, was der Glaube ist; doch haben Wir es zu einem Licht gemacht, mit dem Wir rechtleiten, wen Wir wollen von Unseren Dienern. Und du leitest ja fürwahr zu einem geraden Weg,
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Και έτσι (όπως αποκαλύψαμε στους προηγούμενους Προφήτες), αποκαλύψαμε σε σένα (ω, Μωχάμμαντ) μία αποκάλυψη (και έλεος) από τις Εντολές Μας. Ούτε γνώριζες τι είναι το Βιβλίο (τα Θεϊκά Βιβλία), ούτε γνώριζες τι είναι η πίστη. Αλλά το κάναμε (το Κορ’άν) ως ένα φως, μέσω του οποίου καθοδηγούμε όποιον θέλουμε από τους δούλους Μας. Πράγματι, εσύ (ω, Μωχάμμαντ) καθοδηγείς (και καλείς τους ανθρώπους) προς τον ίσιο δρόμο,
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हिन्दी · Hindi
और इसी प्रकार हमने आपकी ओर अपने आदेश से एक रूह़ (क़ुरआन) की वह़्य की। आप नहीं जानते थे कि पुस्तक क्या है और न यह कि ईमान[35] क्या है। परंतु हमने उसे एक ऐसा प्रकाश बनाया दिया है, जिसके द्वारा हम अपने बंदों में से जिसे चाहते हैं, मार्ग दिखाते हैं। और निःसंदेह आप सीधी राह[36] की ओर मार्गदर्शन करते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E così ti abbiamo ispirato un Nostro Corano, per Nostro ordine. Non sapevi cosa fosse il Libro, né la Fede, ma ne abbiamo fatto una Luce con cui Noi guidiamo chi vogliamo tra i Nostri servi. E tu in verità guidi alla Retta Via:
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
52. Ir taip Mes siuntėme tau (Muchammedai ﷺ) Mūsų Įsakymo Rūh (Apreiškimą ir Gailestingumą). Ar tu nežinojai nei kas yra Knyga, nei kas yra Tikėjimas? Tačiau mes padarėme tai (šį Koraną) šviesa, kuria Mes vedame iš Savo vergų, ką Mes norime. Ir iš tiesų, tu (Muchammedai ﷺ) tikrai vedi (žmoniją) į Tiesų Kelią (t. y. Allaho islamiškojo monoteizmo religiją).
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Akka kanatti (Qur’aana) ruuhii ajaja keenya irraa ta’e gara keetti wahyii goone. Kitaabaafi iimaanni maal akka ta’an kan beektu hin turre. Garuu ifaa isa goone kan gabroota keenya irraa nama feene ittiin qajeelchinu. Ati gara karaa qajeelaatti (islaamummatti) ni qajeelchita (niyaamta).
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Русский · Russian
И так Мы внушили тебе дух [Откровение] по Нашему велению. Ты не знал ни что такое Писание, ни что такое вера. Однако Мы сделали его светом, посредством которого наставляем на верный путь тех из Наших рабов, кого пожелаем. И, воистину, ты непременно наставляешь на прямой путь —
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Српски · Serbian
Тако Ми и теби објављујемо Кур'ан одредбом Нашом. Ти ниси знао шта је Књига, нити си познавао верске прописе, али смо је Ми учинили светлом помоћу којег упућујемо оне Наше слуге које желимо. А Ти, заиста, указујеш на Прави пут,
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na namna hivi tumekufunulia Qur-ani kwa amri yetu. Ulikuwa hujui Kitabu ni nini, wala Imani. Lakini tumekifanya kuwa ni Nuru ambayo kwayo tunamwongoa tumtakaye katika waja wetu. Na hakika wewe unaongoza kwenye Njia iliyonyooka.
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Svenska · Swedish
Så har vi också sänt dig en livgivande uppenbarelse genom vår befallning. Du hade tidigare ingen kunskap om skriften eller tron, men vi gjorde den till ett ljus genom vilket vi vägleder dem vi vill av våra tjänare. Ja, du leder i sanning till den raka vägen –
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Türkçe · Turkish
İşte bu şekilde sana da emrimizden bir ruhu/Kur'an'ı vahyettik. Sen kitap nedir, iman nedir bilmezdin. Fakat biz onu kullarımızdan dilediğimizi kendisiyle doğru yola eriştirdiğimiz bir nur kıldık. Şüphesiz sen, dosdoğru bir yolu göstermektesin.
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اردو · Urdu
اور اسی طرح ہم نے آپ کی طرف اپنے حکم سے روح کو اتارا ہے[1] ، آپ اس سے پہلے یہ بھی نہیں جانتے تھے کہ کتاب اور ایمان کیا چیز ہے[2]؟ لیکن ہم نے اسے نور بنایا، اس کے ذریعہ سے اپنے بندوں میں سے جسے چاہتے ہیں، ہدایت دیتے ہیں[3]، بیشک آپ راه راست کی رہنمائی کر رہے ہیں.
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5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation,
not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
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Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
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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
Talal Itani2012 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.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 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
George Sale1734 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
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
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.72
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.65
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.46
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.45
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.44
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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.