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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
These are the portents of Allah which We recite unto thee (Muhammad) with truth. Then in what fact, after Allah and His portents, will they 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
These are the signs of God which we recite to thee in truth; and in what newstory after God and His signs will they believe
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
These are the signs of God; We rehearse them unto thee with truth. In what revelation therefore will they believe, after they have rejected God and his signs
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
Këto janë ajetet e Allahut, të cilat po t'i lexojmë me vërtetësi. Atëherë, cilave fjalë pas fjalëve të Allahut e ajeteve të Tij do t'i besojnë ata?!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
এগুলো আল্লাহর আয়াত, আমি তা যথাযথভাবেই তোমার কাছে তিলাওয়াত করছি। অতএব আল্লাহ ও তাঁর আয়াতের পর আর কোন বাণীতে তারা বিশ্বাস করবে?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
To su Allahovi ajeti i znakovi koje ti kao istinu navodimo, pa u koje će, ako ne u Allahove riječi i znakove Njegove, oni vjerovati?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
To su Allahovi ajeti i znakovi koje ti kao istinu navodimo, pa u koje će, ako ne u Allahove riječi i znakove Njegove, oni vjerovati?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɗiin ko Ma'andeeji Allah ɗi Min njanngirante hoore goonga. E ko holɗum e yewtere ɓe gooŋɗinta, ɓaawo [yewtere] Allah nden e Aayeeje makko ɗeen?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ეს ალლაჰის აიათებია, რომლებსაც ჭეშმარიტებით გიკითხავთ შენ. მაშ, ალლაჰისა და მისი აიათების შემდეგ რომელი სიტყვის ირწმუნებენ ისინი?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Jene sind die Zeichen Allahs, die Wir dir der Wahrheit entsprechend verlesen. An welche Aussage nach (derjenigen) Allah(s) und Seinen Zeichen wollen sie denn (sonst) glauben?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αυτά είναι τα Εδάφια (και τα Σημάδια) του Αλλάχ που απαγγέλλουμε σε σένα (ω, Προφήτη) με την αλήθεια. Σε ποια άλλα λόγια μετά από τα Λόγια του Αλλάχ και τα Εδάφια (και τα Σημάδια) Του, θα πιστέψουν;
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
ये अल्लाह की आयतें हैं, जो हम तुम्हें हक़ के साथ सुना रहे हैं। फिर अल्लाह तथा उसकी आयतों के बाद वे किस बात ईमान लाएँगे?
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Quelli sono Segni di Allāh, che ti recitiamo in tutta verità. E in quale Parola, oltre quella di Allāh e i Suoi Segni loro credono?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
6. Tai yra Allaho Ajat (įrodymai, įkalčiai, eilutės, pamokos, apreiškimai ir t. t.), kuriuos Mes recituojame tau (Muchammedai ﷺ) teisingai. Tad kuriuo žodžiu po Allaho ir Jo Ajat jie tikės?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Это знамения Аллаха, которые Мы читаем тебе с истиной. И в какой же рассказ после [слов] Аллаха и Его знамений они уверуют?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
То су Аллахове речи и докази које ти као истину наводимо, па у које ће, ако не у Аллахове речи и Његове доказе да верују?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Hizi ni Aya za Mwenyezi Mungu tunakusomea kwa haki; basi hadithi gani watakayoiamini baada ya Mwenyezi Mungu na Aya zake?
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Svenska · Swedish
Dessa är Guds tecken, som vi förmedlar till dig i fullaste sanning. Men om de inte tror på Gud och hans tecken, vilket budskap ska de då tro på!
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Türkçe · Turkish
İşte bunlar, sana hak olarak okuduğumuz Allah’ın ayetleridir. Artık Allah’tan ve onun ayetlerinden sonra hangi söze inanacaklar?
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اردو · Urdu
یہ ہیں اللہ کی آیتیں جنہیں ہم آپ کو راستی سے سنا رہے ہیں، پس اللہ تعالیٰ اور اس کی آیتوں کے بعد یہ کس بات پر ایمان ﻻئیں گے.[1]
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Easy-read (simplified)wafee khalqikum wamaa yabuththu min daabbatin aayaatun liqawmin yooqinoon
DIN 31635wafī ḫalqikum wamā yabuṯṯu min dābbatin ʾāyātun liqawmin yūqinūna
Talal Itani2012 And in your own creation, and in the creatures He scattered, are signs for people of firm faith.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And in your creation, and all the beasts that He scattereth in the earth, are portents for a folk whose faith is sure
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and in your creation and the beasts that are spread abroad are signs to a people who are sure
John Medows Rodwell1861 And in your own creation, and in the beasts which are scattered abroad are signs to the firm in faith
George Sale1734 And in the creation of yourselves, and of the beasts which are scattered over the face of the earth, are signs unto people of sound judgment
DIN 31635waḫtilāfi llayli wan-nahāri wamā ʾanzala llāhu mina s-samāʾi min rizqin faʾaḥyā bihi l-ʾarḍa baʿda mawtihā wataṣrīfi r-riyāḥi ʾāyātun liqawmin yaʿqilūna
Talal Itani2012 And in the alternation of night and day, and in the sustenance God sends down from the sky, with which He revives the earth after its death, and in the circulation of the winds, are marvels for people who reason.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And the difference of night and day and the provision that Allah sendeth down from the sky and thereby quickeneth the earth after her death, and the ordering of the winds, are portents for a people who have sense
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and in the alternation of night and day, and the provision that God has sent down from heaven and quickened thereby the earth after its death, and in the veering of the winds are signs unto a people who have sense
John Medows Rodwell1861 And in the succession of night and day, and in the supply which God sendeth down from the Heaven whereby He giveth life to the earth when dead, and in the change of the winds, are signs for a people of discernment
George Sale1734 and also in the vicissitude of night and day, and the rain which God sendeth down from heaven, whereby He quickeneth the earth after it hath been dead: In the change of the winds also are signs, unto people of understanding
Talal Itani2012 Who hears God's revelations being recited to him, yet he persists arrogantly, as though he did not hear them. Announce to him a painful punishment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Who heareth the revelations of Allah recited unto him, and then continueth in pride as though he heard them not. Give him tidings of a painful doom
Edward Henry Palmer1880 who hears God's signs sent to him, then persists in being big with pride as though he heard them not - so give him the glad-tidings of grievous woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 Who heareth the signs of God recited to him, and then, as though he heard them not, persisteth in proud disdain! Apprise him of an afflictive punishment
George Sale1734 who heareth the signs of God, which are read unto him, and afterwards proudly persisteth in infidelity, as though he heard them not: -- Denounce unto him a painful punishment
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 —
0.51 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 Sale0.64
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.56
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.48
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.47
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.44
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.43
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.43
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.41
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
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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.