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Talal Itani· published 2012
Say: "The bad and the good are not equal, even though the abundance of the bad may impress you. So be conscious of God, O you who possessintelligence, that you may succeed."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Say: The evil and the good are not alike even though the plenty of the evil attract thee. So be mindful of your duty to Allah, O men of understanding, that ye may succeed
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, 'The vile shall not be deemed equal with the good, although the abundance of the vile please thee.' Fear God then, O ye who have minds! haply ye may prosper
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
SAY: The evil and the good shall not be valued alike, even though the abundance of evil please thee; therefore fear God, O ye of understanding! that it may be well with you
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Say, 'The bad and the good are not alike,' even though the abundance of bad may please thee. So be mindful of your duty to God, O men of understanding, that you may prosper
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: "Nuk është njësoj e keqja me të mirën, edhe nëse të mahnit shumësia e së keqes. Prandaj, kini frikë Allahun, o mendarë, që të shpëtoni!"
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
বলো: ‘অপবিত্র ও পবিত্র সমান নয়; যদিও অপবিত্রের আধিক্য তোমাকে মুগ্ধ করে। অতএব হে বুদ্ধিমান ব্যক্তিরা, তোমরা আল্লাহর তাকওয়া অবলম্বন করো, যাতে তোমরা সফলকাম হতে পারো।’
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: “Nije isto ono što je loše i ono što je dobro”, makar te i zadivilo mnoštvo lošega. Zato se Allaha bojte, o vi koji razum imate, da biste uspjeli.
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: “Nije isto ono što je loše i ono što je dobro”, makar te i zadivilo mnoštvo lošega. Zato se Allaha bojte, o vi koji razum imate, da biste uspjeli.
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 : "ko soɓi kon e ko laaɓi kon fotataa, hay si hawnii ma ɗuuɗugol ko soɓi kon". Kulee Alla yo joomiraaɓe hakkillaaji, mbelejo'o, on maloyte.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
უთხარი (ო, მოციქულო): «არ არის თანასწორი ცუდი და კარგი, თუნდაც გაგაოცოს შენ (ო, ადამიანო) ცუდის სიმრავლემ». მაშ, გეშინოდეთ ალლაჰის, ო, გონების მქონენო, რათა ეგების წარმატებულნი იყოთ.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Sag: „Nicht gleich sind das Schlechte und das Gute, auch wenn die Menge des Schlechten dir gefallen sollte.“ Somit fürchtet Allah, o die ihr Verstand besitzt, auf dass es euch wohl ergehen möge!
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 είναι ισάξια το κακό και το καλό, ακόμα κι αν σου αρέσει (ω, άνθρωπε) η αφθονία του κακού (και ο αριθμός των οπαδών του).» Έτσι, φυλαχθείτε από την τιμωρία του Αλλάχ (τηρώντας τις εντολές Του), ω, άνθρωποι που έχετε μυαλό, μήπως και επιτύχετε.
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 नबी!) कह दो कि अपवित्र (बुरी चीज़) तथा पवित्र (अच्छी चीज़) समान नहीं, चाहे अपवित्र (बुरी चीज़) की बहुतायत तुम्हें भली लगे। तो ऐ बुद्धि वालो! अल्लाह से डरो, ताकि तुम सफल हो जाओ।[67]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Di’: «Non sono uguali il buono e il cattivo, anche se ti stupisci dell’abbondanza che c’è nel male! Temete Allāh, o voi che avete intelletto, perché possiate avere successo!”
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
100. Sakyk (Muchammedai ﷺ ): „Nevienoda yra Al-Khabis (visa, kas yra nuodėminga ir bloga iš daiktų, poelgių, įsitikinimų, žmonių ir maisto) ir At-Taijib (visa, kas yra gera iš daiktų, poelgių, įsitikinimų, žmonių ir maisto), nors Al-Khabis gausa gali jums patikti.“ Taigi bijokite Allaho [18], suprantantys žmonės, tam, kad jūs būtumėte sėkmingi.
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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: «Не равны скверное и благое, даже если обилие скверного восхищает тебя». Так бойтесь же Аллаха, о обладатели разума, — быть может, вы преуспеете.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Реци: „Није исто оно што је забрањено и оно што је дозвољено“, иако те изненађује мноштво онога што је забрањено. Зато се Аллаха бојте, о ви који разум имате, да бисте успели.
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: Haviwi sawa viovu na vizuri hata kama utapendezwa na wingi wa viovu. Basi mcheni Mwenyezi Mungu, enyi wenye akili ya hali ya juu, ili mfaulu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Säg: ”Det onda och det goda är inte lika, även om det ondas överflöd kan tilltala dig.” Frukta därför Gud, ni som har förstånd, så att det kan gå er väl.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
De ki: “Pis ile temiz bir olmaz. Pisin çokluğu hoşuna gitse bile.” Ey akıl sahipleri! Allah’a karşı gelmekten sakının ki kurtuluşa eresiniz.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
آپ فرما دیجیئے کہ ناپاک اور پاک برابر نہیں گو آپ کو ناپاک کی کثرت بھلی لگتی[1] ہو اللہ تعالیٰ سے ڈرتے رہو اے عقل مندو! تاکہ تم کامیاب ہو۔
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 O you who believe! Do not ask about things that would trouble you if disclosed to you. But if you were to ask about them while the Quran is being revealed, they will become obvious to you. God forgives that. God is Forgiving and Clement.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye who believe! Ask not of things which, if they were made unto you, would trouble you; but if ye ask of them when the Qur'an is being revealed, they will be made known unto you. Allah pardoneth this, for Allah is Forgiving, Clement
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who believe! ask not about things which if they be shown to you will pain you; but if ye ask about them when the (whole) Qur'an is revealed, they shall be shown to you. God pardons that, for God is forgiving and clement
John Medows Rodwell1861 O believers! ask us not of things which if they were told might only pain you; but if ye ask of such things when the entire Koran shall have been sent down, they will be declared to you: God will pardon you for this, for God is Forgiving, Gracious
George Sale1734 O ye who believe! ask not about things which, if revealed to you, would cause you trouble, though if you ask about them while the Qur'an is being sent down they will be revealed to you. God has left them out on purpose. And God is Most Forgiving and Forbearing
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 —
0.59 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
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.78
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.65
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · George Sale0.51
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.51
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.39
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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.