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Talal Itani· published 2012
O you who believe! Do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet, and do not speak loudly to him, as you speak loudly to one another, lest your works be in vain without you realizing.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
O ye who believe! Lift not up your voices above the voice of the Prophet, nor shout when speaking to him as ye shout one to another, lest your works be rendered vain while ye perceive not
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
O ye who believe! raise not your voices above the voice of the prophet, and do not speak loud to him as ye speak loud to one another, lest your works become vain, while ye do not perceive
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O Believers! raise not your voices above the voice of the Prophet, neither speak loud to him as ye speak loud one to another, lest your works come to nought, and ye unaware of it
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O true believers, raise not your voices above the voice of the prophet; neither speak loud unto him in discourse, as ye speak loud unto one another, lest your works become vain, and ye perceive it not
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! Mos e ngrini zërin tuaj mbi zërin e Pejgamberit dhe mos iu drejtoni atij me zë të lartë, siç i drejtoheni njëri-tjetrit, që të mos ju asgjësohen veprat tuaja pa e ndier ju fare!
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.
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বাংলা · Bengali
হে তোমরা যারা ঈমান এনেছ! তোমরা নবীর আওয়াজের ওপর তোমাদের আওয়াজ উঁচু করো না এবং তোমরা নিজেরা পরস্পর যেমন উচ্চস্বরে কথা বল, তাঁর সাথে সেরকম উচ্চস্বরে কথা বলো না। এ আশঙ্কায় যে তোমাদের সকল আমল-নিষ্ফল হয়ে যাবে; অথচ তোমরা উপলব্ধিও করতে পারবে না।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
O vi koji vjerujete, ne dižite glasove svoje iznad Vjerovjesnikova glasa i ne razgovarajte s njim glasno, kao što glasno jedan s drugim razgovarate, da ne bi bila poništena vaša djela, a da vi i ne osjetite.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
O vi koji vjerujete, ne dižite glasove svoje iznad Vjerovjesnikova glasa i ne razgovarajte s njim glasno, kao što glasno jedan s drugim razgovarate, da ne bi bila poništena vaša djela, a da vi i ne osjetite.
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 ɓen gooŋɗinɓe ! wota on toownu hitooji mon e dow hito Annabaajo on, wota on ewnor mo kadi konngol, wano no yoga mon ewnorta yoga, sakko golle mon ɗen mbonata, hara on so'aa-anndude.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ჰეი, თქვენ, რომელთაც ირწმუნეთ! ნუ აიმაღლებთ თქვენს ხმებს შუამავლის ხმაზე მაღლა და ნუ მიმართავთ მას ხმამაღლა, როგორც ერთმანეთს მიმართავთ, რათა ფუჭი არ გახდეს თქვენი საქმეები ისე, რომ ვერც კი მიხვდეთ.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
O die ihr glaubt, erhebt nicht eure Stimmen über die Stimme des Propheten, und sprecht nicht so laut zu ihm, wie ihr (sonst) laut zueinander sprecht, auf dass (nicht) eure Werke hinfällig werden, ohne dass ihr es merkt.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ω, εσείς που πιστεύετε! Μην υψώνετε τις φωνές σας πάνω από τη φωνή του Προφήτη, ούτε να του μιλάτε με υψηλή φωνή όπως μιλάτε δυνατά ο ένας στον άλλον (ούτε να τον καλείτε με το όνομα του «ω, Μωχάμμαντ», όπως καλεί ο ένας σας τον άλλον, αλλά αποκαλέστε τον «ω, Αγγελιαφόρε του Αλλάχ»), ώστε να μη γίνουν οι καλές πράξεις σας μάταιες, χωρίς να το καταλάβετε.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
ऐ लोगो जो ईमान लाए हो! अपनी आवाज़ें, नबी की आवाज़ से ऊँची न करो और न आपसे ऊँची आवाज़ में बात करो, जैसे तुम एक-दूसरे से ऊँची आवाज़ में बात करते हो। ऐसा न हो कि तुम्हारे कर्म व्यर्थ हो जाएँ और तुम्हें पता (भी) न हो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
O credenti, non alzate la voce al di sopra di quella del Profeta e non parlategli ad alta voce come fate tra di voi, e non vadano compromesse le vostre azioni, senza che ve ne accorgiate.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
2. O jūs, kurie tikite! Nekelkite savo balso prieš Pranašo (ﷺ) balsą, ir nekalbėkite su juo triukšmingai, kaip kalbate vienas su kitu. Arba jūsų darbai taps beverčiais jums to nežinant.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Yaa warra amantan! Sagaleewwan keessan sagalee Nabiyyichaa irra ol hin kaasinaa. haasa’a isa irratti ol hin fuudhinaa, akka olfuudhinsa gariin keessan garii irratti (olfuudhutti). Akka dalagaawwan keessan hin banneef jecha odoo isin hin beekne. [2]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
О вы, которые уверовали! Не повышайте свои голоса над голосом Пророка и не обращайтесь к нему громко, как одни из вас обращаются друг к другу, — иначе окажутся тщетными ваши деяния, тогда как вы не осознаёте этого.
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, не дижите своје гласове изнад Веровесниковог гласа и не разговарајте са њим гласно, као што гласно један са другим разговарате, да не би била поништена ваша дела, а да ви то и не приметите.
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
Enyi mlioamini! Msinyanyue sauti zenu kuliko sauti ya Nabii, wala msiseme naye kwa kelele kama mnavyosemezana nyinyi kwa nyinyi, visije vitendo vyenu vikaharibika, na hali hamtambui.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Troende! Överrösta inte profeten och tilltala honom inte med samma höga ton som ni använder er emellan, för då kan era gärningar omintetgöras utan att ni anar det.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Ey iman edenler! Sesinizi, Peygamberin sesi üzerine yükseltmeyin. Birbirinize yüksek sesle konuştuğunuz gibi onunla da öyle yüksek sesle konuşmayın. Yoksa siz farkında olmadan amelleriniz boşa gider.
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اردو · Urdu
اے ایمان والو! اپنی آوازیں نبی کی آواز سے اوپر نہ کرو اور نہ ان سے اونچی آواز سے بات کرو جیسے آپس میں ایک دوسرے سے کرتے ہو، کہیں (ایسا نہ ہو کہ) تمہارے اعمال اکارت جائیں اور تمہیں خبر بھی نہ ہو.[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.
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Talal Itani2012 O you who believe! Do not place your opinions above that of God and His Messenger, and fear God. God is Hearing and Knowing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye who believe! Be not forward in the presence of Allah and His messenger, and keep your duty to Allah. Lo! Allah is Hearer, Knower
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who believe! do not anticipate God and His Apostle, but fear God; verily, God both hears and knows
John Medows Rodwell1861 O BELIEVERS! enter not upon any affair ere God and His Apostle permit you; and fear ye God: for God Heareth, Knoweth
George Sale1734 O true believers, anticipate not any matter in the sight of God and his apostle: And fear God; for God both heareth and knoweth
Talal Itani2012 Those who lower their voices before God's Messenger-those are they whose hearts God has tested for piety. They will have forgiveness and a great reward.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! they who subdue their voices in the presence of the messenger of Allah, those are they whose hearts Allah hath proven unto righteousness. Theirs will be forgiveness and immense reward
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, those who lower their voice before the Apostle of God, they are those whose hearts God has proved for piety, for them is forgiveness and a mighty hire
John Medows Rodwell1861 They who lower their voices in the presence of the Apostle of God, are the persons whose hearts God hath inclined to piety. Forgiveness shall be theirs and a rich reward
George Sale1734 Verily they who lower their voices in the presence of the apostle of God, are those whose hearts God hath disposed unto piety: They shall obtain pardon, and a great reward
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 —
0.44 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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 Rodwell0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.57
Talal Itani · George Sale0.49
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.49
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.39
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.38
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.34
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.32
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.32
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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.