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Talal Itani· published 2012
In that is a reminder for whoever possesses a heart, or cares to listen and witness.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Lo! therein verily is a reminder for him who hath a heart, or giveth ear with fullintelligence
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
Verily, in that is a reminder to whomsoever has a heart, or, gives ear, and is a witness thereto
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Verily herein is an admonition unto him who hath a heart to understand, or giveth ear, and is present with an attentivemind
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
Vërtet, këtu ka këshillë për atë që ka zemër dhe dëgjon, duke qenë i vëmendshëm.
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বাংলা · Bengali
নিশ্চয় এতে তার জন্য উপদেশ রয়েছে, যার হৃদয় আছে অথবা যে মনোযোগসহকারে কর্ণপাত করে এবং উপস্থিতচিত্ত থাকে।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
U tome je, zaista, pouka za onog ko razum ima ili ko sluša, a priseban je.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
U tome je, zaista, pouka za onog tko razum ima ili tko sluša, a priseban je.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Pellet, woni e ɗuum, waajo wonan'de kala jom ɓernde, maa tuɗuɗo noppi hara ko tawaaɗo.
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ქართული · Georgian
ჭეშმარიტად, ამაში დარიგებაა მისთვის, ვისაც გული აქვს, ან ყურს დაუგდებს და ის მოწმეა.
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Deutsch · German
Wahrlich, darin ist ja eine Ermahnung für jemanden, der Herz hat oder hinhört, während er (mit seinem Herzen) anwesend ist.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Πράγματι, σ' αυτό υπάρχει μία νουθεσία και μία υπενθύμιση για όποιον έχει καρδιά (και μυαλό) ή ακούει με προσοχή ενώ είναι παρών (δηλ. δεν ακούει με αδιαφορία).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
निःसंदेह इसमें उस व्यक्ति के लिए निश्चय नसीहत है, जिसके पास दिल हो, या वह कान लगाए, इस हाल में कि उसका दिल उपस्थित हो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
In quello c’è in verità un monito per chi ha un cuore, o ha ascoltato ed era testimone.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
37. Iš tiesų, tame yra priminimas tam, kuris turi širdį ar įdėmiai klausosi.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
San keessa yaadannootu jira, Nama onnee qabuuf yookin gurra itti kennuuf, haala yeroo (gorsa) irratti hirmaataa (qalbiin achi jiraataa) taheen.
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Русский · Russian
Воистину, в этом — напоминание для того, у кого есть сердце, или кто прислушался, будучи присутствующим [сердцем].
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Српски · Serbian
У томе је, заиста, опомена за онога ко има разум, или ко слуша, а прибран је.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Hakika katika hayo upo ukumbusho kwa mwenye moyo au akatega sikio naye yupo anashuhudia.
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Svenska · Swedish
I detta finns sannerligen en påminnelse för den som har ett vaket hjärta eller som lyssnar uppmärksamt.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Şüphesiz bunda, kalbi olana veya kulak verene ve şahit olana bir ibret vardır.
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اردو · Urdu
اس میں ہر صاحب دل کے لئے عبرت ہے اور اس کے لئے جو دل[1] سے متوجہ ہو کر کان لگائے[2] اور وه حاضر ہو.[3]
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5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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Easy-read (simplified)wakam ahlaknaa qablahum min qarnin hum ashaddu minhum batshan fanaqqaboo fee l-bilaadi hal min mahees
DIN 31635wakam ʾahlaknā qablahum min qarnin hum ʾašaddu minhum baṭšan fanaqqabū fī l-bilādi hal min maḥīṣin
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 How many generations before them, who were more powerful than they, did We destroy? They explored the lands-was there any escape?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And how many a generation We destroyed before them, who were mightier than these in prowess so that they overran the lands! Had they any place of refuge (when the judgment came)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 How many a generation have we destroyed before them, mightier than they in prowess! Pass through the land, is there any refuge
John Medows Rodwell1861 And how many generations have we destroyed ere the days of these (Meccans), mightier than they in strength! Search ye then the land. Is there any escape
George Sale1734 How many generations have We destroyed before the Meccans, which were more mighty than they in strength? Pass, therefore, through the regions of the earth, and see whether there be any refuge from our vengeance
DIN 31635walaqad ḫalaqnā s-samāwāti wal-ʾarḍa wamā baynahumā fī sittati ʾayyāmin wamā massanā min luġūbin
Talal Itani2012 We created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six days, and no fatigue touched Us.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And verily We created the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, in six Days, and naught of weariness touched Us
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We did create the heavens and the earth and what is between the two in six days, and no weariness touched us
John Medows Rodwell1861 We created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six days, and no weariness touched us
George Sale1734 We created the heavens and the earth, and whatever is between them, in six days; and no weariness affected us
Talal Itani2012 So endure what they say, and proclaim the praises of your Lord before the rising of the sun, and before sunset.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Therefor (O Muhammad) bear with what they say, and hymn the praise of thy Lord before the rising and before the setting of the sun
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Be thou patient then of what they say, and celebrate the praises of thy Lord before the rising of the sun and before the setting
John Medows Rodwell1861 Wherefore put up with what they say, and celebrate the praise of thy Lord before sunrise and before sunset
George Sale1734 Wherefore patiently suffer what they say; and celebrate the praise of thy Lord before sun-rise, and before sun-set
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 —
0.67 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 Sale0.80
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.77
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.74
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.73
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.73
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.72
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.59
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.52
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
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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.