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Talal Itani· published 2012
Permitted for you is the catch of sea, and its food-as sustenance for you and for travelers. But forbidden for you is the game of land while you are in pilgrimsanctity. And fear God, to whom you will be gathered.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
To hunt and to eat the fish of the sea is made lawful for you, a provision for you and for seafarers; but to hunt on land is forbidden you so long as ye are on the pilgrimage. Be mindful of your duty to Allah, unto Whom ye will be gathered
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
Lawful for you is the game of the sea, and to eat thereof; a provision for you and for travellers; but forbidden you is the game of the land while ye are on pilgrimage; so fear God to whom ye shall be gathered
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is lawful for you to fish in the sea, and to eat fish, as provision for you and for those who travel; but it is unlawful for you to hunt by land while ye are still on pilgrimage: fear ye God, therefore, before whom ye shall be assembled
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
The game of the sea and the eating thereof is made lawful for you as a provision for you and the travelers; but forbidden to you is the game of the land as long as you are in the state of Pilgrimage. And fear God to whom you shall be gathered
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
Ju është lejuar gjuetia e detit dhe ushqimi i tij si furnizim për ju dhe për udhëtarët, por ju është ndaluar gjahu i tokës për sa kohë që jeni në ihram. Frikësojuni Allahut, tek i Cili do të tuboheni!
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বাংলা · Bengali
তোমাদের জন্য সমুদ্রের শিকার ও সেখানের খাদ্য হালাল করা হয়েছে; তোমাদের ও মুসাফিরদের ভোগ্যসামগ্রী হিসেবে। তবে যতক্ষণ তোমরা ইহরাম অবস্থায় থাকো স্থলভাগের শিকার তোমাদের জন্যে হারাম করা হয়েছে । আর তোমরা আল্লাহকে ভয় করো, যাঁর কাছে তোমাদেরকে সমবেত করা হবে।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Vama se dopušta da u moru lovite i ulov jedete, da se njime vi i putnici koristite, a zabranjuje vam se da na kopnu lovite dok obrede hadža obavljate. I bojte se Allaha, pred Kojim ćete biti sabrani.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Vama se dopušta da u moru lovite i ulov jedete, da se njime vi i putnici koristite, a zabranjuje vam se da na kopnu lovite dok obrede hadža obavljate. I bojte se Allaha, pred Kojim ćete biti sabrani.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Daginanaama on baañgol ka maayo, ñaametee mum on ko dakamme wonan de on e setotooɓe ɓe. Karminanaama on baañugol ka jeeri fodde hiɗon kormii. Kulee Alla Oon mo mooɓoyteɗon to mum.
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ქართული · Georgian
ნებადართულია თქვენთვის (ო, მორწმუნენო) ზღვის ნადირობა (ცოცხალ ზღვის ცხოველებზე) და მისი საკვები [რაც უკვე მკვდრად არის მოპოვებული] — სასარგებლოდ თქვენთვის და მგზავრებისთვის. მაგრამ აკრძალულია თქვენთვის ხმელეთზე ნადირობა, სანამ იმყოფებით იჰრამში. და გეშინოდეთ ალლაჰის (სასჯელისა), რომლისკენაც იქნებით შეკრებილნი.
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Deutsch · German
Erlaubt sind euch die Jagdtiere des Meeres und (all) das Essbare aus ihm als Nießbrauch für euch und für die Reisenden; doch verboten ist euch die Jagd auf die Landtiere, solange ihr im Ihram-Zustand seid. Und fürchtet Allah, zu Dem ihr versammelt werdet.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Επιτρέπεται για σας ό,τι ψαρεύετε από τη θάλασσα (και τα ποτάμια) και ό,τι ψάρια βρίσκετε νεκρά στη θάλασσα (ή στα ποτάμια). Μία προμήθεια για σας (αν είστε κάτοικοι) και γι' αυτούς που ταξιδεύουν. Όμως, απαγορεύεται για σας το κυνήγι στη στεριά όσο είστε σε κατάσταση Ιχράμ (για προσκύνημα). Και φυλαχθείτε από την τιμωρία του Αλλάχ (τηρώντας τις εντολές Του), στον Οποίον θα συγκεντρωθείτε.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा तुम्हारे लिए समुद्र (जल) का शिकार और उसका खाना[65] हलाल कर दिया गया, तुम्हारे तथा यात्रियों के लाभ के लिए, तथा तुमपर भूमि का शिकार हराम कर दिया गया है जब तक तुम एहराम की स्थिति में रहो, और अल्लाह (की अवज्ञा) से डरो, जिसकी ओर तुम एकत्र किए जाओगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
Vi è permessa la pesca, e di mangiarne a godimento vostro e dei viaggiatori, ma vi è proibita la cacciagione finché siete in stato di sacralità, e temete Allāh, al Quale tornerete.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
96. Leistina jums vandens žaidimų (vaikymasis) ir jų naudojimas maistui – savo naudai ir tų, kurie keliauja, tačiau draudžiama yra žemės žaidimų (vaikymasis) kol esate Ichram būsenoje (Hadž arba ‘Umrah). Ir bijokite Allaho, pas Kurį jūs būsite surinkti atgal.
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Русский · Russian
Дозволена вам охота в море и еда из него — для пользования вам и путникам, но запретна вам охота на суше, пока вы в состоянии ихрама. И бойтесь Аллаха, к Которому вы будете собраны!
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Српски · Serbian
Вама се допушта да у мору ловите и да улов једете, да се њиме ви и путници користите, а забрањује вам се да на копну ловите док обреде ходочашћа обављате. И бојте се Аллаха, пред Којим ћете да будете сабрани.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Mmehalalishiwa mawindo ya baharini na kuyala, kwa faida yenu na kwa wasafiri. Na mmeharimishiwa mawindo ya barani maadamu mko katika Ihram. Na mcheni Mwenyezi Mungu ambaye mtakusanywa kwake.
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Svenska · Swedish
All fångst och annat ätligt från havet är tillåtet och till nytta för er och för de resande. Jakt på land är däremot förbjuden så länge ni är i vallfärdstillstånd. Och frukta Gud – det är till honom ni ska samlas åter.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Deniz avı ve onu yemek size de yolculara da geçimlik olarak helal kılınmıştır. İhramlı bulunduğunuz sürece kara avı size haram kılınmıştır. Huzurunda toplanacağınız Allah’a karşı gelmekten sakının.
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اردو · Urdu
تمہارے لئے دریا کا شکار پکڑنا اور اس کا کھانا حلال کیا گیا ہے[1] ۔ تمہارے فائده کے واسطے اور مسافروں کے واسطے اور خشکی کا شکار پکڑنا تمہارے لئے حرام کیا گیا ہے جب تک تم حالت احرام میں رہو اور اللہ تعالیٰ سے ڈرو جس کے پاس جمع کئے جاؤ گے۔
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DIN 31635yā ʾayyuhā llaḏīna ʾāmanū layabluwannakumu llāhu bišayʾin mina ṣ-ṣaydi tanāluhu ʾaydīkum warimāḥukum liyaʿlama llāhu man yaḫāfuhu bil-ġaybi famani ʿtadā baʿda ḏālika falahu ʿaḏābun ʾalīmun
Talal Itani2012 O you who believe! God will test you with something of the game your hands and spears obtain, that God may know who fears Him at heart. Whoever commits aggression after that will have a painful punishment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye who believe! Allah will surely try you somewhat (in the matter) of the game which ye take with your hands and your spears, that Allah may know him who feareth Him in secret. Whoso transgresseth after this, for him there is a painful doom
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who believe! God will try you with something of the game that your hands and your lances take, that God may know who fears Him in secret; and whoso transgresses after that, for him is grievous woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 O ye who believe! God will surely make trial of you with such game as ye may take with your hands, or your lances, that God may know who feareth him in secret: and whoever after this transgresseth, shall suffer a grievous chastisement
George Sale1734 O ye who believe! God will surely try you in a little matter: the game which your hands and lances can reach, so that God may cause to be known those who fear Him in secret. Whoso, therefore, will transgress after this, shall have a grievous punishment
Talal Itani2012 O you who believe! do not kill game while you are in pilgrim sanctity. Whoever of you kills any intentionally, its penalty shall be a domestic animal comparable to what he killed, as determined by two honest persons among you-an offering delivered to the Kaabah. Or he may atone by feeding the needy, or its equivalent in fasting, so that he may taste the consequences of his conduct. God forgives what is past. But whoever repeats, God will take revenge on him. God is Almighty, Avenger.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye who believe! Kill no wild game while ye are on the pilgrimage. Whoso of you killeth it of set purpose he shall pay its forfeit in the equivalent of that which he hath killed, of domestic animals, the judge to be two men among you known for justice, (the forfeit) to be brought as an offering to the Ka'bah; or, for expiation, he shall feed poor persons, or the equivalent thereof in fasting, that he may taste the evil consequences of his deed. Allah forgiveth whatever (of this kind) may have happened in the past, but whoso relapseth, Allah will take retribution from him. Allah is Mighty, Able to Requite (the wrong)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who believe! kill not game while ye are on pilgrimage. But he amongst you who kills it purposely, his compensation is the like of that which he has killed, in sheep -- of which two equitable persons amongst you shall be judge -- an offering brought to the Kaabah; or as an expiation, the food of poor persons, or an equivalent thereof in fasting, that he may taste the evil result of his deed. God pardons bygones; but whoso returns, God will take vengeance on him, for God is mighty and the avenger
John Medows Rodwell1861 O believers! kill no game while ye are on pilgrimage. Whosoever among you shall purposely kill it, shall comsent pensate for it in domestic animals of equal value (according to the judgment of two just persons among you), to be brought as an offering to the Caaba; or in expiation thereof shall feed the poor; or as the equivalent of this shall fast, that he may taste the ill consequence of his deed. God forgiveth what is past; but whoever doth it again, God will take vengeance on him; for God is mighty and vengeance is His
George Sale1734 O ye who believe! kill not game while you are in a state of Pilgrimage. And whoso among you kills it intentionally, its compensation is a quadruped like unto that which he has killed, as determined by two just men from among you, the same to be bought as an offering to the Ka'bah; or as an expiation he shall feed a number of poor persons, or fast an equivalent number of days, so that he may taste the penalty of his deed. As for the past, God forgives it; but whoso reverts to it, God will punish him for his offence. And God is the Lord of retribution
Talal Itani2012 God has appointed the Kaabah, the Sacred House, a sanctuary for the people, and the Sacred Month, and the offerings, and the garlanded. That you may know that God knows everything in the heavens and the earth, and that God is Cognizant of all things.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah hath appointed the Ka'bah, the Sacred House, a standard for mankind, and the Sacred Month and the offerings and the garlands. That is so that ye may know that Allah knoweth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth, and that Allah is Knower of all things
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God has made the Kaabah, the sacred House, to be a station for men, and the sacred month, and the offering and its neck garland; this is that ye may know that God knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and that God knows all things
John Medows Rodwell1861 God hath appointed the Caaba, the sacred house, to be a station for mankind, and the sacred month, and the offering, and its ornaments. This, that ye may know that God knoweth all that is in the heavens and on the earth, and that God hath knowledge of everything
George Sale1734 God has made the Ka'bah the Sacred House, a means of support and uplift for mankind, as also the Sacred Month and the offerings and the animals with collars. That is so that you may know that God knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and that God knows all things well
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 —
0.53 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 Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.58
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.57
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.50
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.50
Talal Itani · George Sale0.47
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.45
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.35
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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.