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, "O People of the Scripture! Do you resent us only because we believe in God, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed previously; and most of you are sinners?"
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Say: O People of the Scripture! Do ye blame us for aught else than that we believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto us and that which was revealed aforetime, and because most of you are evil-livers
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, 'O people of the Book! do ye disavow us, for aught but that we believe in God, and what was revealed to us before, and for that most of you are evildoers
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
SAY: O people of the Book! do ye not disavow us only because we believe in God, and in what He hath sent down to us, and in what He hath sent down aforetime, and because most of you are doers of ill
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Say, O ye who have received the scriptures, do ye reject us for any other reason than because we believe in God, and that revelation which hath been sent down unto us, and that which was formerly sent down, and for that the greaterpart of you are transgressors
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: "O ithtarë të Librit! A na keni mëri për tjetër vetëm pse ne e besojmë Allahun, atë që na është shpallur neve e atë që ishte shpallur më parë dhe (besojmë) se shumica prej jush janë të pabindur (ndaj Allahut)?"
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
বল: ‘হে আহলে কিতাব, তোমরা কেবল এ কারণেই কি আমাদের থেকে প্রতিশোধ নিবে যে, আমরা ঈমান এনেছি আল্লাহর প্রতি এবং যা আমাদের প্রতি নাযিল হয়েছে এবং পূর্বে নাযিল হয়েছে (৭), সেগুলোর প্রতি? আর নিশ্চয় তোমাদের অধিকাংশ ফাসিক।’
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: "O vi kojima je data Knjiga, zar da nas osuđujete zato što vjerujemo u Allaha i u ono što nam se objavljuje, i u ono što je objavljeno prije – a većina vas ste prema Allahu buntovni?"
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: "O vi kojima je data Knjiga, zar da nas osuđujete zato što vjerujemo u Allaha i u ono što nam se objavljuje, i u ono što je objavljeno prije – a većina vas ste prema Allahu buntovni?"
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 : "Eehey mon yimɓe defte, e on njoftoto min fii min gooɗinii Alla e kon ko Jippinaa e amen, e kon ko Jippinanoo ko adii, e won de pellet, ko ɓuri ɗuuɗude e mon ko yaltuɓeɗoftaare?!".
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, მოციქულო) მათ, ვინც დასცინის წიგნის ხალხიდან): «ჰეი, წიგნის ხალხო! ნუთუ მხოლოდ იმიტომ გვადანაშაულებთ,
რომ ჩვენ ვირწმუნეთ ალლაჰი, და ის, რაც ჩვენზე ჩამოევლინა [ყურანი], და ისიც, რაც მანამდე ჩამოევლინა [წინა წერილები], და (იმაშიც), რომ თქვენი უმრავლესობა ურჩნია?»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Sag: „O Leute der Schrift, grollt ihr uns nur (darum), dass wir an Allah glauben und an das, was zu uns (als Offenbarung) hinabgesandt worden ist und was zuvor hinabgesandt wurde, und dass die meisten von euch Frevler sind?“
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, Μωχάμμαντ): «Ω, άνθρωποι του Βιβλίου (Εβραίοι και Χριστιανοί)! Μας κατηγορείτε μόνο επειδή πιστεύουμε στον Αλλάχ και σ' ό,τι στάλθηκε σ' εμάς και σ' ό,τι στάλθηκε από πριν, και ότι οι περισσότεροι απ' εσάς είναι ανυπάκουοι;» [Αυτό που μας κατηγορείτε είναι αξιέπαινο γι' εμάς, όχι κατακριτέο].
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!) आप कह दें : ऐ किताब वालो! तुम्हें हमारी केवल यह बात बुरी लगती है कि हम अल्लाह पर ईमान लाए और उसपर जो हमारी ओर उतारा गया और उसपर भी जो हमसे पहले उतारा गया और यह कि निःसंदेह तुममें से अधिकतर लोग अवज्ञाकारी हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Di’: “O voi, gente del Libro, ci odiate perché crediamo in Allāh e in ciò che è stato fatto discendere su di noi e in ciò che è stato fatto discendere prima? E in verità la maggior parte di voi è nella trasgressione».
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
59. Sakyk „Rašto žmonės (judėjai ir krikščionys)! Ar jūs kritikuojate mus tik dėl to, kad mes tikime Allahą, ir tuo (apreiškimu), kas buvo mums nuleista, ir tuo, kas buvo nuleista iki mūsų, ir dauguma iš jūsų yra Fasikūn [maištingieji ir nepaklusnūs (Allahui)]?“
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
Jedhi "Yaa warra kitaabaa! Sila waan nurraa jibbitan niqabdanii nuti Rabbitti amanuu keenya malee? waan gara keenya buufamettis, waan kana dura buufamettis (amanuu keenya malee).irra hedduun keessan finciltoota.
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: «О люди Писания! Неужели вы упрекаете нас лишь за то, что мы уверовали в Аллаха, в то, что было ниспослано нам и в то, что было ниспослано прежде, и за то, что большинство из вас — нечестивцы?»
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: „О ви којима је дата Књига, зар да нас осуђујете зато што верујемо у Аллаха и у оно што нам се објављује, и у оно што је објављено пре, а већина вас сте непокорни према Аллаху!?“
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: Enyi Watu wa Kitabu! Je, mnatuchukia isipokuwa tu kwamba tulimuamini Mwenyezi Mungu na yale tuliyoteremshiwa na yale yaliyoteremshwa kabla, na kwa kuwa wengi wenu ni wavukao mipaka?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Säg: ”Skriftens folk! Har ni inget emot oss annat än det att vi tror på Gud, och på det som uppenbarats för oss, och på det som uppenbarats i äldre tid, medan de flesta av era egna är trotsiga syndare?”
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: Ey Ehl-i Kitap! Yalnızca Allah'a, bize indirilene ve daha önce indirilene iman ettiğimiz için mi bizi yadırgıyorsunuz? Oysa çoğunuz yoldan çıkmış kimselersiniz.
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 دیجیئے اے یہودیوں اور نصرانیو! تم ہم سے صرف اس وجہ سے دشمنیاں کر رہے ہو کہ ہم اللہ تعالیٰ پر اور جو کچھ ہماری جانب نازل کیا گیا ہے اور جو کچھ اس سے پہلے اتارا گیا ہے اس پر ایمان ﻻئے ہیں اور اس لئے بھی کہ تم میں اکثر فاسق ہیں۔
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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Easy-read (simplified)yaa ayyuhaa lladheena aamanoo laa tattakhidhoo lladheena takhadhoo deenakum huzuwan wala'iban mina lladheena ootoo l-kitaaba min qablikum wal-kuffaara awliyaa'a waattaqoo llaaha in kuntum mu'mineen
DIN 31635yā ʾayyuhā llaḏīna ʾāmanū lā tattaḫiḏū llaḏīna taḫaḏū dīnakum huzuwan walaʿiban mina llaḏīna ʾūtū l-kitāba min qablikum wal-kuffāra ʾawliyāʾa wāttaqū llāha ʾin kuntum muʾminīna
Talal Itani2012 O you who believe! Do not befriend those who take your religion in mockery and as a sport, be they from among those who were given the Scripture before you, or the disbelievers. And obey God, if you are believers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O Ye who believe! Choose not for guardians such of those who received the Scripture before you, and of the disbelievers, as make a jest and sport of your religion. But keep your duty to Allah if ye are true believers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who believe! take not for patrons those who take your religion for a jest or a sport, from amongst those who have been given the Book before and the misbelievers; but fear God if ye be believers
John Medows Rodwell1861 O ye who believe! take not such of those who have received the Scriptures before you, as scoff and jest at your religion, or the Infidels, for your friends, but fear God if ye are believers
George Sale1734 O true believers, take not such of those to whom the scriptures were delivered before you, or of the infidels, for your friends, who make a laughingstock, and a jest of your religion; but fear God, if ye be true believers
Talal Itani2012 When you call to the prayer, they take it as a joke and a trifle. That is because they are people who do not reason.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when ye call to prayer they take it for a jest and sport. That is because they are a folk who understand not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Nor those who, when ye call to prayer, take it for a jest and a sport; that is because they are a people who do not understand
John Medows Rodwell1861 Nor those who when ye call to prayer, make it an object of raillery and derision. This they do because they are a people who understand not
George Sale1734 nor those who, when ye call to prayer, make a laughing-stock and a jest of it, this they do, because they are people who do not understand
Easy-read (simplified)qul hal unabbi'ukum bisharrin min dhaalika mathoobatan 'inda llaahi man la'anahu llaahu waghadiba 'alayhi waja'ala minhumu l-qiradata wal-khanaazeera wa'abada t-taaghoota oolaa'ika sharrun makaanan wa'adallu 'an sawaa'i s-sabeel
DIN 31635qul hal ʾunabbiʾukum bišarrin min ḏālika maṯūbatan ʿinda llāhi man laʿanahu llāhu waġaḍiba ʿalayhi waǧaʿala minhumu l-qiradata wal-ḫanāzīra waʿabada ṭ-ṭāġūta ʾūlāʾika šarrun makānan waʾaḍallu ʿan sawāʾi s-sabīli
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Shall I inform you of worse than that for retribution from God? He whom God has cursed, and with whom He became angry; and He turned some of them into apes, and swine, and idol worshipers. These are in a worse position, and further away from the right way."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Shall I tell thee of a worse (case) than theirs for retribution with Allah? (Worse is the case of him) whom Allah hath cursed, him on whom His wrath hath fallen and of whose sort Allah hath turned some to apes and swine, and who serveth idols. Such are in worse plight and further astray from the plain road
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Can I declare unto you something worse than retribution from God?' Whomsoever God has cursed and been wroth with - and he has made of them apes and swine - and who worship Taghut, they are in a worse plight and are more erring from the level path
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Can I announce to you any retribution worse than that which awaiteth them with God? They whom God hath cursed and with whom He hath been angry - some of them hath He changed into apes and swine; and they who worship Thagout are in evil plight, and have gone far astray from the right path
George Sale1734 Say, shall I denounce unto you a worse thing than this, as to the reward which ye are to expect with God? He whom God hath cursed, and with whom he hath been angry, having changed some of them into apes and swine, and who worship Taghut, they are in the worse condition, and err more widely from the straitness of the path
DIN 31635waʾiḏā ǧāʾūkum qālū ʾāmannā waqad daḫalū bil-kufri wahum qad ḫaraǧū bihi wallāhu ʾaʿlamu bimā kānū yaktumūna
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Talal Itani2012 When they come to you, they say, "We believe," though they have entered with disbelief, and they have departed with it. But God is well aware of what they hide.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 When they come unto you (Muslims), they say: We believe; but they came in unbelief and they went out in the same; and Allah knoweth best what they were hiding
Edward Henry Palmer1880 When they come to you they say, 'We believe;' but they entered in with unbelief, and they went out therewith, and God knows best what they did hide
John Medows Rodwell1861 When they presented themselves to you they said, "We believe;" but Infidels they came in unto you, and Infidels they went forth! God well knew what they concealed
George Sale1734 When they came unto you, they said, we believe: Yet they entered into your company with infidelity, and went forth from you with the same; but God well knew what they concealed
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 —
0.58 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 · George Sale0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.68
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.51
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.49
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.47
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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.