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O ye who believe! Obey Allah and obey the messenger, and render not your actions vain
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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
O you who believe! Obey God, and obey the Messenger, and do not let your deedsgo to waste.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
O true believers, obey God; and obey the apostle: And render not your works of no effect
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
O ju që besoni! Bindjuni Allahut dhe bindjuni të Dërguarit e mos i prishni veprat tuaja!
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
হে মু’মিনগণ! তোমরা আল্লাহর আনুগত্য করো এবং রাসূলের আনুগত্য করো। আর তোমরা তোমাদের আমলসমূহ বিনষ্ট করো না।
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
O vjernici, pokoravajte se Allahu i pokoravajte se Poslaniku, i ne ništite djela svoja!
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
O vjernici, pokoravajte se Allahu i pokoravajte se Poslaniku, i ne ništite djela svoja!
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
Eey mon yo gooŋɗinɓe! ɗoftee Allah, ɗoftoɗon Nulaaɗo on, wata on mbonnu golle mon ɗeen.
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
ჰეი, თქვენ, რომელთაც ირწმუნეთ! იყავით მორჩილნი ალლაჰისა [გააკეთეთ ის, რაც მან ბრძანა თავის წიგნში], და
მორჩილნი შუამავლისა [გააკეთეთ ის, რაც ალლაჰმა ბრძანა თავისი შუამავლის მეშვეობით], და ნუ ქმნით თქვენს ნამოქმედარს ამაოდ.
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
O die ihr glaubt, gehorcht Allah und gehorcht dem Gesandten und macht eure Taten nicht zunichte.
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
Ω, εσείς που πιστεύετε! Υπακούστε τον Αλλάχ και υπακούστε τον Αγγελιαφόρο και μην κάνετε τις πράξεις σας να γίνουν μάταιες (με την ανυπακοή).
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
ऐ लोगो जो ईमान लाए हो! अल्लाह का आज्ञापालन करो और रसूल का आज्ञापालन करो[12] तथा अपने कर्मों को व्यर्थ न करो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
O credenti! Obbedite ad Allh e obbedite al Suo Messaggero, e non rendete vane le vostre azioni!
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
33. O jūs kurie tikite! Pakluskite Allahui ir pakluskite Pranašui (Muchammedui ﷺ) ir neleiskite savo darbams tapti beverčiais.
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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
О вы, которые уверовали! Повинуйтесь Аллаху и повинуйтесь Посланнику, и не делайте тщетными свои деяния.
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
О ви који верујете, покоравајте се Аллаху и покоравајте се Посланику, и не поништавајте своја дела!
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.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Troende! Lyd Gud och lyd sändebudet, och låt inte era goda handlingar gå förlorade.
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
Ey iman edenler! Allah’a itaat edin, Peygamber'e itaat edin ve amellerinizi boşa çıkarmayın.
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
اے ایمان والو! اللہ کی اطاعت کرو اور رسول کا کہا مانو اور اپنے اعمال کو غارت نہ کرو.[1]
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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same edition and their orthography differs.
DIN 31635walanabluwannakum ḥattā naʿlama l-muǧāhidīna minkum waṣ-ṣābirīna wanabluwa ʾaḫbārakum
Talal Itani2012 We will certainly test you, until We know those among you who strive, and those who are steadfast, and We will test your reactions.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And verily We shall try you till We know those of you who strive hard (for the cause of Allah) and the steadfast, and till We test your record
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But we will try you until we know those among you who fight strenuously and the patient; and we will try the reports concerning you
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we will surely test you, until we know the valiant and the steadfast among you: and we will test the reports of your conduct
George Sale1734 And We will try you, until We know those among you who fight valiantly, and who persevere with constancy; and We will try the reports of your behaviour
Easy-read (simplified)inna lladheena kafaroo wasaddoo 'an sabeeli llaahi washaaqqoo r-rasoola min ba'di maa tabayyana lahumu l-hudaa lan yadurroo llaaha shay'an wasayuhbitu a'maalahum
DIN 31635ʾinna llaḏīna kafarū waṣaddū ʿan sabīli llāhi wašāqqū r-rasūla min baʿdi mā tabayyana lahumu l-hudā lan yaḍurrū llāha šayʾan wasayuḥbiṭu ʾaʿmālahum
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Those who disbelieve, and hinder from the path of God, and oppose the Messenger after guidance has become clear to them-they will not hurt God in the least, but He will nullify their deeds.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! those who disbelieve and turn from the way of Allah and oppose the messenger after the guidance hath been manifested unto them, they hurt Allah not a jot, and He will make their actions fruitless
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, those who misbelieve and turn folks off God's path, and break with the Apostle after the guidance that has been manifested to them, cannot harm God at all, and their works shall be void
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily they who believe not, and turn others from the way of God, and separate from the Apostle after that "the guidance" hath been clearly shewn them, shall in no way injure God: but their works shall he bring to nought
George Sale1734 Verily those who believe not, and turn away men from the way of God, and make opposition against the apostle, after the divine direction hath been manifested unto them, shall not hurt God at all; but He shall make their works to perish
Talal Itani2012 Those who disbelieve, and hinder from God's path, and then die as disbelievers-God will not forgive them.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! those who disbelieve and turn from the way of Allah and then die disbelievers, Allah surely will not pardon them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, those who misbelieve and turn folks off God's path, and then die misbelievers, God will not pardon them
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily those who believe not, and who pervert others from the way of God, and then die in unbelief, God will not forgive
George Sale1734 Verily those who believe not, and who turn away men from the way of God, and then die, being unbelievers, God will by no means forgive
Talal Itani2012 So do not waver and call for peace while you have the upper hand. God is with you, and He will not waste your efforts.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 So do not falter and cry out for peace when ye (will be) the uppermost, and Allah is with you, and He will not grudge (the reward of) your actions
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then faint not, nor cry for peace while ye have the upper hand; for God is with you and will not cheat you of your works
John Medows Rodwell1861 Be not fainthearted then; and invite not the infidels to peace when ye have the upper hand: for God is with you, and will not defraud you of the recompense of your works
George Sale1734 Faint not therefore, neither invite your enemies to peace, while ye are the superior: For God is with you, and will not defraud you of the merit of your works
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 —
0.57 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 · John Medows Rodwell0.73
Talal Itani · George Sale0.72
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.59
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.44
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.44
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.38
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
As at
13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC
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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.