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Talal Itani· published 2012
While those who believe, and work righteousness, and believe in what was sent down to Muhammad-and it is the truth from their Lord-He remits their sins, and relieves their concerns.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And those who believe and do good works and believe in that which is revealed unto Muhammad - and it is the truth from their Lord - He riddeth them of their ill-deeds and improveth their state
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
But those who believe and do right and believe in what is revealed to Mohammed,- and it is the truth from their Lord,- He will cover for them their offences and set right their mind
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But whoso believe, and do things that are right, and believe in what hath been sent down to MUHAMMAD - for it is the truth from their Lord - their sins will He cancel, and dispose their hearts aright
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But as to those who believe, and work righteousness, and believe in the revelation which hath been sent down unto Mohammed, -- for it is the truth from their Lord, -- He will expiate their evil deeds from them, and will dispose their heart aright
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
Ndërkaq, atyre që besojnë, bëjnë vepra të mira dhe besojnë në atë që i është shpallur Muhamedit, – e cila është e vërteta nga Zoti i tyre, – Ai do t'ua shlyejë gjynahet dhe do t'ua përmirësojë gjendjen.
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
আর যারা ঈমান এনেছে, সৎকর্ম করেছে এবং মুহাম্মাদের প্রতি যা নাযিল করা হয়েছে তাতে বিশ্বাস স্থাপন করেছে, বস্তুত তা তাদের রবের পক্ষ হতে (প্রেরিত) চিরন্তন সত্য, তিনি তাদের থেকে তাদের মন্দ কাজগুলো দূর করে দিবেন এবং তিনি তাদের (ইহকালীন ও পরকালীন) কার্যাদি সংশোধন করে দিবেন।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
A onima koji vjeruju i dobra djela čine i vjeruju u ono što se objavljuje Muhammedu – a to je istina od Gospodara njihova – On će preko hrđavih postupaka njihovih preći i prilike će njihove poboljšati.
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
A onima koji vjeruju i dobra djela čine i vjeruju u ono što se objavljuje Muhammedu – a to je istina od Gospodara njihova – On će preko hrđavih postupaka njihovih preći i prilike će njihove poboljšati.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Gooŋɗinɓe ɓen ɓe ngolli golle moƴƴe, ɓe ngooŋɗini ko jippinaa kon e Muhammad - on goonga immorɗo e Joomi maɓɓe - O yawtanii ɓe bonɗi maɓɓe ɗin, O moƴƴinii fiyaaku maɓɓe oon.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ხოლო ისინი, რომლებმაც ირწმუნეს (ალლაჰი), აკეთებდნენ კეთილ საქმეებს და ირწმუნეს ის, რაც მუჰამმადს [ყურანი] ჩამოევლინა — და ეს უეჭველად ჭეშმარიტებაა მათი უფლისგან — ის წაშლის მათ ცუდ საქმეებს და გამოასწორებს მათ მდგომარეობას (ამქვეყნად და მარადიულ ცხოვრებაში).
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Deutsch · German
Denjenigen aber, die glauben und rechtschaffene Taten verrichten und an das glauben, was auf Muhammad hinabgesandt worden ist - und es ist (ja) die Wahrheit von ihrem Herrn -, tilgt Er ihre schlechten Taten und bessert ihren Gemütszustand.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Όσο γι' αυτούς που πιστεύουν, πράττουν ενάρετες πράξεις και πιστεύουν σε ό,τι στάλθηκε στον Μωχάμμαντ, -το οποίο είναι η αλήθεια από τον Κύριό τους-, (ο Αλλάχ) θα συγχωρήσει τις αμαρτίες τους και θα βελτιώσει την κατάστασή τους.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा जो लोग ईमान लाए और उन्होंने अच्छे कर्म किए और उस पर ईमान लाए जो मुहम्मद पर उतारा गया और वही उनके रब की ओर से सत्य है, उसने उनसे उनके बुरे कर्मों को दूर कर दिया और उनके हाल को ठीक कर दिया।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E a quelli che hanno creduto e hanno fatto il bene, e hanno creduto in ciò che è stato fatto discendere su Muħammed ﴿مُحَمَّدٍ﴾ - ed è la verità dal loro Dio - ha perdonato i peccati e ha corretto il loro animo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
2. Bet tie, kurie tikėjo ir darė gerus darbus, ir tikėjo tuo, kas buvo siųsta Muchammedui ﷺ , o tai yra tiesa iš Viešpaties, Jis atleis jų nuodėmes ir pagerins jų padėtį.
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.
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Русский · Russian
А тем, которые уверовали, совершали праведные деяния и уверовали в то, что ниспослано Мухаммаду, — а это истина от их Господа, — Он сотрёт их дурные деяния и исправит их положение.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
А онима који верују и раде добра дела и верују у оно што се објављује Мухаммеду, а то је истина од њиховог Господара, Он ће им њихова лоша дела опростити и њихово стање поправити.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na wale walioamini, na wakatenda mema, na wakaamini yale aliyoteremshiwa Muhammad - nayo ni Haki iliyotoka kwa Mola wao Mlezi - atawafutia makosa yao na ataitengeneza hali yao.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Men de troende som handlar rättfärdigt och tror på den sanning som deras Herre har uppenbarat för Muhammed kommer han att rena från deras synder och förbättra deras tillstånd.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
İman edip salih amel işleyenlerin ve Rableri tarafından hak olarak Muhammed'e indirilen kitaba iman edenlerin kötülüklerini Allah örter ve durumlarını ıslah eder.
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اردو · Urdu
اور جو لوگ ایمان ﻻئے اور اچھے کام کیے اور اس پر بھی ایمان ﻻئے جو محمد ﴿صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم﴾ پر اتاری گئی[1] ہے اور دراصل ان کے رب کی طرف سے سچا (دین) بھی وہی ہے، اللہ نے ان کے گناه دور کر دیئے[2] اور ان کے حال کی اصلاح کر دی.[3]
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.
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DIN 31635ḏālika biʾanna llaḏīna kafarū tabaʿū l-bāṭila waʾanna llaḏīna ʾāmanū tabaʿū l-ḥaqqa min rabbihim kaḏālika yaḍribu llāhu lilnnāsi ʾamṯālahum
Talal Itani2012 That is because those who disbelieve follow falsehoods, while those who believe follow the truth from their Lord. God thus cites for the people their examples.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That is because those who disbelieve follow falsehood and because those who believe follow the truth from their Lord. Thus Allah coineth their similitudes for mankind
Edward Henry Palmer1880 That is because those who misbelieve follow falsehood, and those who believe follow the truth from their Lord. Thus does God set forth for men their parables
John Medows Rodwell1861 This - because the infidels followed vanity, while those who believe, followed the truth from their Lord. Thus to men doth God set forth their likenesses
George Sale1734 This will He do, because those who believe not follow vanity, and because those who believe follow the truth from their Lord. Thus God propoundeth unto men their examples
Talal Itani2012 When you encounter those who disbelieve, strike at their necks. Then, when you have routed them, bind them firmly. Then, either release them by grace, or by ransom, until war lays down its burdens. Had God willed, He could have defeated them Himself, but He thus tests some of you by means of others. As for those who are killed in the way of God, He will not let their deeds go to waste.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Now when ye meet in battle those who disbelieve, then it is smiting of the necks until, when ye have routed them, then making fast of bonds; and afterward either grace or ransom till the war lay down its burdens. That (is the ordinance). And if Allah willed He could have punished them (without you) but (thus it is ordained) that He may try some of you by means of others. And those who are slain in the way of Allah, He rendereth not their actions vain
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when ye meet those who misbelieve - then striking off heads until ye have massacred them, and bind fast the bonds! Then either a free grant (of liberty) or a ransom until the war shall have laid down its burdens. That!- but if God please He would conquer them - but (it is) that He may try some of you by the others. And those who are slain in God's cause, their works shall not go wrong
John Medows Rodwell1861 When ye encounter the infidels, strike off their heads till ye have made a great slaughter among them, and of the rest make fast the fetters. And afterwards let there either be free dismissals or ransomings, till the war hath laid down its burdens. Thus do. Were such the pleasure of God, he could himself take vengeance upon them: but He would rather prove the one of you by the other. And whoso fight for the cause of God, their works he will not suffer to miscarry
George Sale1734 When ye encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads, until ye have made a great slaughter among them; and bind them in bonds: And either give them a free dismission afterwards, or exact a ransom; until the war shall have laid down its arms. This shall ye do: Verily if God pleased, He could take vengeance on them, without your assistance; but He commandeth you to fight his battles, that He may prove the one of you by the other. And as to those who fight in defence of God's true religion, God will not suffer their works to perish
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.63
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Talal Itani · George Sale0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.56
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.54
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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.