Easy-read (simplified)qul maa kuntu bid'an mina r-rusuli wamaa adree maa yuf'alu bee walaa bikum in attabi'u illaa maa yoohaa ilayya wamaa anaa illaa nadheerun mubeen
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.
Talal Itani· published 2012
Say, "I am not different from the other messengers; and I do not know what will be done with me, or with you. I only follow what is inspired in me, and I am only a clear warner."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Say: I am no new thing among the messengers (of Allah), nor know I what will be done with me or with you. I do but follow that which is inspired in me, and I am but a plain warner
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, 'I am not an innovator among the apostles; nor do I know what will be done with me or with you if I follow aught but what I am inspired with; nor am I aught but a plain warner
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
SAY: I am no apostle of new doctrines: neither know I what will be done with me or you. Only what is revealed to me do I follow, and I am only charged to warnopenly
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Say, I am not singular among the apostles; neither do I know what will be done with me or with you hereafter: I follow no other than what is revealed unto me; neither am I any more than a public warner
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: "Unë nuk jam i pari prej të dërguarve dhe nuk e di çfarë do të ndodhë me mua ose me ju. Unë ndjek vetëm atë që më shpallet dhe unë jam vetëm një paralajmërues i qartë."
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
বলো, ‘আমি রাসূলদের মধ্যে নতুন নই (১) । আর আমি জানি না আমার ও তোমাদের ব্যাপারে কী আচরণ করা হবে। আমার প্রতি যা ওহী করা হয়, আমি কেবল তারই অনুসরণ করি। আর আমি একজন সুস্পষ্ট সতর্ককারী মাত্র।’
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: “Ja nisam prvi poslanik i ne znam šta će biti sa mnom ili s vama. Ja slijedim samo ono što mi se objavljuje i samo sam dužan otvoreno opominjati.”
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: “Ja nisam prvi poslanik i ne znam što će biti sa mnom ili s vama. Ja slijedim samo ono što mi se objavljuje i samo sam dužan otvoreno opominjati.”
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: "Mi wonaa adano e Nulaaɓe ɓeen; mi anndaa kadi ko waɗetee mi, maa ko waɗeteɗon. Mi jokkaa si wonaa ko wahayinaa kon e am; mi laataaki si wonaa jeertinoowo ɓanngina".
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
თქვი (ო, შუამავალო): «მე არ ვარ სიახლე [პირველი] შუამავალთა შორის (რომლებიც ალლაჰმა გაგზავნა ხალხთან), და არ ვიცი, რა მოხდება ჩემთან და თქვენთან (ამქვეყნად). მე მხოლოდ იმას მივყვები, რაც ჩემთვისაა შთაგონებული; და მე მხოლოდ ცხადი გამაფრთხილებელი ვარ».
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: „Ich bin nicht der Neubeginn (und der erste) unter den Gesandten, und ich weiß nicht, was mit mir, und auch nicht, was mit euch geschehen wird. Ich folge nur dem, was mir (als Offenbarung) eingegeben wird, und ich bin nur ein deutlicher Warner.“
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): «Δεν είμαι ο πρώτος Αγγελιαφόρος (για να σας φανεί περίεργο το κάλεσμα μου προς εσάς), ούτε ξέρω τι θα συμβεί σε μένα ή σε σας (στο μέλλον στην εγκόσμια ζωή). Δεν ακολουθώ παρά μόνο ό,τι μου αποκαλύπτεται, και δεν είμαι παρά ένας προειδοποιητής που προειδοποιεί με ξεκάθαρο τρόπο.»
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 कि मैं रसूलों में से कोई अनोखा (रसूल) नहीं हूँ और न मैं यह जानता हूँ कि मेरे साथ क्या किया जाएगा[6] और न (यह कि) तुम्हारे साथ क्या (किया जाएगा)। मैं तो केवल उसी का अनुसरण करता हूँ जो मेरी ओर वह़्य (प्रकाशना) की जाती है और मैं तो केवल खुला डराने वाला हूँ।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Di’: «Io non sono un’eccezione tra i Messaggeri, e non so che ne sarà di me e di voi: io seguo solo ciò che mi è stato ispirato e sono solo un chiaro ammonitore».
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
9. Sakyk: „Aš nesu pirmasis (Dievo) pasiuntinys, ir aš nežinau, kas bus padaryta su jumis ar su manimi. Aš teseku tuo, kas yra man atskleista, ir tesu tas, kuris aiškiai perspėja.“
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
(Yaa Muhammad!) jedhi: “Ani ergamtoota irraa isa jalaqabaatii (kan fakkii hinqabnee) miti. Waan anaafi isin irratti dalagamuuf jiru hin beeku. Waan gara kiyyatti wahyii godhamu malee (wanta biraa) hin hordofu. Ani sodaachisaa ifa bahaadha malee waan biraatii miti.”
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: «Я не [являюсь] чем-то небывалым среди посланников, и я не знаю, что будет со мной и с вами. Я следую лишь тому, что внушается мне, и я — лишь ясный предостерегающий».
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: „Ја нисам први посланик и не знам шта ће да буде са мном или са вама; ја следим само оно што ми се објављује, и ја сам само јасни опомињач.“
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 si kitu kigeni miongoni mwa Mitume. Wala sijui nitakavyofanywa mimi wala nyinyi. Mimi nafuata niliyofunuliwa tu kwa Wahyi, wala mimi si chochote ila ni mwonyaji wa wazi wazi.'
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Säg: ”Jag är inte det första sändebudet och jag vet inte vad som ska hända mig eller er. Jag följer bara det som uppenbaras för mig och jag är endast en klar varnare.”
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: "Ben, rasullerin ilki değilim. Bana ve size neler yapılacak bilmiyorum. Ben, ancak bana vahyedilene tabi oluyorum. Ben, apaçık bir uyarıcıdan başka bir şey değilim."
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 میں کوئی بالکل انوکھا پیغمبر تو نہیں[1] نہ مجھے یہ معلوم ہے کہ میرے ساتھ اور تمہارے ساتھ کیا کیا جائے گا[2]۔ میں تو صرف اسی کی پیروی کرتا ہوں جو میری طرف وحی بھیجی جاتی ہے اور میں تو صرف علیاﻻعلان آگاه کر دینے واﻻ ہوں.
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 When Our revelations are recited to them, plain and clear, those who disbelieve say of the truth when it has come to them, "This is obviously magic."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when Our clear revelations are recited unto them, those who disbelieve say of the Truth when it reacheth them: This is mere magic
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when our evident signs are recited to them, those who misbelieve say of the truth when it comes to them, 'This is obvious magic
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when our clear signs are recited to them, they who believe not say of the truth when it cometh to them, "This is plain sorcery
George Sale1734 When our evident signs are rehearsed unto them, the unbelievers say of the truth, when it cometh unto them, this is a manifest piece of sorcery
Easy-read (simplified)am yaqooloona ftaraahu qul ini ftaraytuhu falaa tamlikoona lee mina llaahi shay'an huwa a'lamu bimaa tufeedoona feehi kafaa bihi shaheedan baynee wabaynakum wahuwa l-ghafooru r-raheem
DIN 31635ʾam yaqūlūna ftarāhu qul ʾini ftaraytuhu falā tamlikūna lī mina llāhi šayʾan huwa ʾaʿlamu bimā tufīḍūna fīhi kafā bihi šahīdan baynī wabaynakum wahuwa l-ġafūru r-raḥīmu
Talal Itani2012 Or do they say, "He invented it himself"? Say, "If I invented it myself, there is nothing you can do to protect me from God. He knows well what you are engaged in. He is sufficient witness between me and you. He is the Forgiver, the Merciful."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Or say they: He hath invented it? Say (O Muhammad): If I have invented it, still ye have no power to support me against Allah. He is Best Aware of what ye say among yourselves concerning it. He sufficeth for a witness between me and you. And He is the Forgiving, the Merciful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Or do they say, 'He has forged it?' Say, 'If I have forged ye cannot obtain for me aught from God; He knows best what ye utter concerning it; He is witness enough between me and you, and He is the forgiving, the merciful
John Medows Rodwell1861 Will they say, "He hath devised It?" SAY: If I have devised the Koran, then not one single thing shall ye ever obtain for me from God! He best knoweth what ye utter in its regard! Witness enough is He between me and you! And He is the Gracious, the Merciful
George Sale1734 Will they say, Mohammed hath forged it? Answer, if I have forged it, verily ye shall not obtain for me any favour from God: He well knoweth the injurious language which ye utter concerning it: He is a sufficient witness between me and you; and He is gracious and merciful
Easy-read (simplified)qul ara'aytum in kaana min 'indi llaahi wakafartum bihi washahida shaahidun min banee israa'eela 'alaa mithlihi fa'aamana wastakbartum inna llaaha laa yahdee l-qawma z-zaalimeen
DIN 31635qul ʾaraʾaytum ʾin kāna min ʿindi llāhi wakafartum bihi wašahida šāhidun min banī ʾisrāʾīla ʿalā miṯlihi faʾāmana wastakbartum ʾinna llāha lā yahdī l-qawma ẓ-ẓālimīna
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Have you considered? What if it is from God and you disbelieve in it? A witness from the Children of Israel testified to its like, and has believed, while you turned arrogant. God does not guide the unjust people."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Bethink you: If it is from Allah and ye disbelieve therein, and a witness of the Children of Israel hath already testified to the like thereof and hath believed, and ye are too proud (what plight is yours)? Lo! Allah guideth not wrong-doing folk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Have ye considered, if it is from God and ye have disbelieved therein, and a witness from the children of Israel testifies to the conformity of it, and he believes while ye are too big with pride? Verily, God guides not the unjust people
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: What think ye? If this Book be from God, and ye believe it not, and a witness of the children of Israel witness to its conformity with the Law, and believe, while ye proudly disdain it . . . ? Ah! God guideth not the people guilty of such a wrong
George Sale1734 Say, what is your opinion? If this book be from God, and ye believe not therein; and a witness of the children of Israel bear witness to its consonancy with the law, and believeth therein; and ye proudly reject the same: Are ye not unjust doers? Verily God directeth not unjust people
Easy-read (simplified)waqaala lladheena kafaroo lilladheena aamanoo law kaana khayran maa sabaqoonaa ilayhi wa'idh lam yahtadoo bihi fasayaqooloona haadhaa ifkun qadeem
DIN 31635waqāla llaḏīna kafarū lillaḏīna ʾāmanū law kāna ḫayran mā sabaqūnā ʾilayhi waʾiḏ lam yahtadū bihi fasayaqūlūna hāḏā ʾifkun qadīmun
Talal Itani2012 Those who disbelieve say to those who believe, "If it were anything good, they would not have preceded us to it." And since they were not guided by it, they will say, "This is an ancient lie."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And those who disbelieve say of those who believe: If it had been (any) good, they would not have been before us in attaining it. And since they will not be guided by it, they say: This is an ancient lie
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And those who misbelieve say of those who believe, 'If it had been good, they would not have been beforehand with us therein;' and when they are not guided thereby, then will they say, 'This is an old-fashioned lie
John Medows Rodwell1861 But the infidels say of the believers, "If it were a good Book they would not have been before us in believing it:" And not having submitted to guidance, they proceed to say, "It is an old lying legend
George Sale1734 But those who believe not, say of the true believers, if the doctrine of the Koran had been good, they had not embraced the same before us. And when they are not guided thereby, they say, this is an antiquated lie
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 —
0.53 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
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.67
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.57
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.51
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.50
Talal Itani · George Sale0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.45
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.44
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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.