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
O you who believe! Be upright to God, witnessing with justice; and let not the hatred of a certain people prevent you from acting justly. Adhere to justice, for that is nearer to piety; and fear God. God is informed of what you do.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
O ye who believe! Be steadfast witnesses for Allah in equity, and let not hatred of any people seduce you that ye deal not justly. Deal justly, that is nearer to your duty. Observe your duty to Allah. Lo! Allah is Informed of what ye do
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! stand steadfast to God as witnesses with justice; and let not ill-will towards people make you sin by not acting with equity. Act with equity, that is nearer to piety, and fear God; for God is aware of what ye do
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O Believers! stand up as witnesses for God by righteousness: and let not ill-will at any, induce you not to act uprightly. Act uprightly. Next will this be to the fear of God. And fear ye God: verily, God is apprised of what ye do
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O true believers, observe justice when ye appear as witnesses before God, and let not hatred towards any induce you to do wrong: But act justly; this will approach nearer unto piety; and fear God, for God is fullyacquainted with what ye do
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 besimtarë! Bëhuni të patundur në kryerjen e urdhrave të Allahut dhe dëshmitarë të drejtë! Kurrsesi të mos ju shtyjë urrejtja ndaj disa njerëzve që t'i shmangeni drejtësisë! Jini të drejtë, sepse kjo është më afër devotshmërisë dhe frikësojuni Allahut! Pa dyshim, Allahu di hollësisht gjithçka që bëni.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
হে মুমিনগণ! তোমরা আল্লাহর (সন্তুষ্টির) উদ্দেশ্যে ন্যায় সাক্ষ্যদাতা হিসেবে সদা অবিচল থাকবে। কোন সম্প্রদায়ের প্রতি শত্রুতা যেন তোমাদেরকে বেইনসাফির (অবিচারের) প্রতি প্ররোচিত না করে। তোমরা ইনসাফ করো, এটা তাকওয়ার অধিকতর নিকটবর্তী। আর তোমরা আল্লাহকে (তাঁর আদেশ-নিষেধ মেনে) ভয় করো। নিশ্চয় আল্লাহ তোমাদের কর্মকাণ্ড সম্পর্কে সবিশেষ অবহিত।
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.
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Bosanski · Bosnian
O vi koji vjerujete, dužnosti prema Allahu izvršavajte, i pravedno svjedočite. Neka vas mržnja koju prema nekim ljudima nosite nikako ne navede da nepravedni budete! Pravedni budite, to je najbliže bogobojaznosti, i bojte se Allaha. Allah, doista, u potpunosti zna ono što činite.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
O vi koji vjerujete, dužnosti prema Allahu izvršavajte, i pravedno svjedočite. Neka vas mržnja koju prema nekim ljudima nosite nikako ne navede da nepravedni budete! Pravedni budite, to je najbliže bogobojaznosti, i bojte se Allaha. Allah, doista, u potpunosti zna ono što činite.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Eehey mon yo gooŋɗinɓe, laatee ñiiɓuɓe wona nde Alla seedoratɓe nuunɗal. Wata tikkangol yimɓe duñ on e dow nde on nuunɗataa. Nuunɗee, ko ɗuum ɓuri ɓaɗtaade gooŋɗal ngal. Kulee Alla, pellet, Alla seeraani kumpiti iɗo kon ko ngolloton.
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ქართული · Georgian
ჰეი, თქვენ, რომელთაც ირწმუნეთ! იყავით მტკიცედ მდგომნი სამართლიანობაში [ამბობდეთ ჭეშმარიტებას] ალლაჰის გულისთვის, მისი კმაყოფილების ძიებით, და იყავით მიუკერძოებელი მოწმენი. და ნუ გიბიძგებთ რომელიმე ხალხის მიმართ სიძულვილი იმაში, რომ უსამართლოდ მოიქცეთ. იყავით სამართლიანნი, რადგან ეს უფრო ახლოსაა ღვთისმოშიშობასთან. და გეშინოდეთ ალლაჰის, რადგან ჭეშმარიტად ალლაჰი ყოვლისმცოდნეა იმისა, რასაც თქვენ აკეთებთ.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
O die ihr glaubt, seid Wahrer (der Sache) Allahs als Zeugen für die Gerechtigkeit. Und der Hass, den ihr gegen (bestimmte) Leute hegt, soll euch ja nicht dazu bringen, dass ihr ungerecht handelt. Handelt gerecht, denn das kommt der Furcht (vor Allah) näher. Und fürchtet Allah. Wahrlich, Allah ist dessen kundig, was ihr tut.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ω, εσείς που πιστεύετε! Να είστε σταθεροί στην εκτέλεση των δικαιωμάτων του Αλλάχ σ' εσάς (με το να Τον λατρεύετε χωρίς να Του αποδίδετε κανέναν εταίρο) και να είστε μάρτυρες με δικαιοσύνη. Και να μην σας οδηγεί το μίσος για κάποιους να εγκαταλείψετε τη δικαιοσύνη. Να είστε δίκαιοι. Αυτό είναι το πλησιέστερο στην ευσέβεια. Και φυλαχθείτε από την τιμωρία του Αλλάχ (εκτελώντας τις εντολές Του και απέχοντας από τις απαγορεύσεις Του). Πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ είναι για όσα κάνετε Παντογνώστης.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
ऐ ईमान वालो! अल्लाह के लिए मज़बूती से क़ायम रहने वाले, न्याय के साथ गवाही देने वाले बन जाओ। तथा किसी समूह की शत्रुता तुम्हें इस बात पर हरगिज़ न उभारे कि तुम न्याय न करो। न्याय करो, यह तक़्वा (अल्लाह से डरने) के अधिक निकट[13] है, और अल्लाह से डरो। निःसंदेह अल्लाह उससे भली-भाँति अवगत है जो तुम करते हो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
O credenti, siate retti con Allāh, e testimoni con giustizia, e l’odio per qualcuno non vi spinga all’ingiustizia! Siate retti, perché ciò si addice di più alla devozione, e temete Allāh: in verità Allāh sa ciò che fate.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
8. O jūs, kurie tikite! Tvirtai laikykitės Allaho kaip teisingi liudytojai. Ir neleiskite kitų priešiškumui ir neapykantai priversti jus vengti teisingumo. Būkite teisingi – tai arčiau dievobaimingumo. Ir bijokite Allaho. Iš tiesų, Allahas yra Gerai Žinantis apie tai, ką jūs darote.
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
О вы, которые уверовали! Будьте стойкими в соблюдении справедливости, свидетелями перед Аллахом, и пусть ненависть к людям никоим образом не побуждает вас к тому, чтобы поступать несправедливо. Будьте справедливы: это ближе к богобоязненности. Бойтесь Аллаха, воистину, Аллах — сведущий о том, что вы совершаете.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
О ви који верујете, извршавајте дужности према Аллаху, и праведно сведочите. Нека вас мржња коју према неким људима носите никако не наведе да будете неправедни! Будите праведни, то је најближе богобојазности, и бојте се Аллаха. Аллах, заиста, у потпуности зна оно што чините.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Enyi mlioamini! Kuweni wasimamao madhubuti kwa ajili ya Mwenyezi Mungu, wenye kushuhudia kwa haki. Na wala kamwe kusiwapelekee kuchukiana na watu kutofanya uadilifu. Fanyeni uadilifu. Hivyo ndivyo kuwa karibu mno na ucha Mungu. Na mcheni Mwenyezi Mungu. Hakika Mwenyezi Mungu anazo habari za mnayoyatenda.
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Svenska · Swedish
Troende! Ge Gud hans rättigheter till fullo och vittna rättvist. Låt inte hat mot människor driva er till att handla orättvist, utan var rättvisa – det ligger närmast gudsfruktan. Och frukta Gud! Gud är väl medveten om vad ni gör.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Ey İman edenler! Allah için adaleti ayakta tutan şahitler olun. Bir topluma olan öfkeniz sizi adaletsizliğe sürüklemesin, adil olun, bu takvaya daha uygundur. Allah’tan sakının/takvalı olun. Şüphesiz Allah, yaptıklarınızın tümünden haberdardır.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اے ایمان والو! تم اللہ کی خاطر حق پر قائم ہو جاؤ، راستی اور انصاف کے ساتھ گواہی دینے والے بن جاؤ[1] ، کسی قوم کی عداوت تمہیں خلاف عدل پر آماده نہ کردے[2]، عدل کیا کرو جو پرہیز گاری کے زیاده قریب ہے، اور اللہ تعالیٰ سے ڈرتے رہو، یقین مانو کہ اللہ تعالیٰ تمہارے اعمال سے باخبر ہے۔
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! When you rise to pray, wash your faces and your hands and arms to the elbows, and wipe your heads, and your feet to the ankles. If you had intercourse, then purify yourselves. If you are ill, or travelling, or one of you returns from the toilet, or you had contact with women, and could not find water, then use some clean sand and wipe your faces and hands with it. God does not intend to burden you, but He intends to purify you, and to complete His blessing upon you, that you may be thankful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye who believe! When ye rise up for prayer, wash you faces, and your hands up to the elbows, and lightly rub your heads and (wash) your feet up to the ankles. And if ye are unclean, purify yourselves. And if ye are sick or on a journey, or one of you cometh from the closet, or ye have had contact with women, and ye find not water, then go to clean, high ground and rub your faces and your hands with some of it. Allah would not place a burden on you, but He would purify you and would perfect His grace upon you, that ye may give thanks
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who believe! when ye rise up to prayer wash your faces, and your hands as far as the elbows, and wipe - your heads, and your feet down to the ankles. And if ye are polluted, then purify yourselves. But if ye are sick, or on a journey, or if one of you comes from the privy, or if ye have touched women and cannot find water, then take fine surface sand and wipe your faces and your hands therewith. God does not wish to make any hindrance for you; but he wishes to purify you and to fulfill his favour upon you; haply ye may give thanks
John Medows Rodwell1861 O Believers! when ye address yourselves to prayer, wash your faces, and your hands up to the elbow, and wipe your heads, and your feet to the ankles. And if ye have become unclean, then purify yourselves. But if ye are sick, or on a journey, or if one of you come from the place of retirement, or if ye have touched women, and ye find no water, then take clean sand and rub your faces and your hands with it. God desireth not to lay a burden upon you, but he desireth to purify you, and He would fill up the measure of His favour upon you, that ye may be grateful
George Sale1734 O true believers, when ye prepare your selves to pray, wash your faces, and your hands unto the elbows; and rub your heads, and your feet unto the ancles; and if ye be polluted by having lain with a woman, wash your selves all over. But if ye be sick, or on a journey, or any of you cometh from the privy, or if ye have touched women, and ye find no water, take fine clean sand, and rub your faces and your hands therewith; God would not put a difficulty upon you; but he desireth to purify you, and to complete his favour upon you, that ye may give thanks
Talal Itani2012 And Remember God's blessings upon you, and His covenant which He covenanted with you; when you said, "We hear and we obey." And remain conscious of God, for God knows what the hearts contain.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Remember Allah's grace upon you and His covenant by which He bound you when ye said: We hear and we obey; And keep your duty to Allah. Lo! He knoweth what is in the breasts (of men)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Remember the favour of God to you and His covenant which He covenanted with, you, when ye said, 'We hear and we obey;' and fear God, verily, God knows the nature of men's breasts
John Medows Rodwell1861 And remember the favour of God upon you, and His covenant which He hath covenanted with you, when ye said, "We have heard and will obey;" and fear God; verily, God knoweth the very secrets of the breast
George Sale1734 Remember the favour of God towards you, and his covenant which he hath made with you, when ye said, we have heard, and will obey. Therefore fear God, for God knoweth the innermost parts of the breasts of men
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 —
0.63 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 Rodwell0.72
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · George Sale0.67
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.58
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.54
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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.