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Compare translations (4)Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
We are Best Aware of what they say, and thou (OMuhammad) art in no wise a compeller over them. But warn by the Qur'an him who feareth My threat
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
We know what they say; nor art thou over them one to compel. Wherefore remind, by the Qur'an, him who fears the threat
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
We well know what the unbelievers say; and thou art not sent to compel them forcibly to the faith. Wherefore warn, by the Koran, him who feareth my threatening
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
Ne e dimë mirë çfarë thonë ata e ti nuk do t'i detyrosh ata. Prandaj, këshillo me Kuran atë që ka frikë paralajmërimin Tim!
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বাংলা · Bengali
হে রাসূল! এরা যা বলে আমি সে সম্পর্কে সম্যক অবগত আছি। আর তুমি তাদের ওপর কোন জোর-জবরদস্তিকারী নও। সুতরাং যে আমার (শাস্তির) ধমককে ভয় করে তাকে আল-কুরআনের সাহায্যে উপদেশ দাও।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Mi dobro znamo šta oni govore. Ti ih ne možeš prisiliti, nego podsjeti Kur’anom onog koji se prijetnje Moje boji!
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Mi dobro znamo šta oni govore. Ti ih ne možeš prisiliti, nego podsjeti Kuranom onog koji se prijetnje Moje boji!
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko Minen ɓuri anndude ko ɓe kaalata kon. A wonaa dooloowoɓe. Haray waajor Alqur'aanaare nden, kala kuloowo kammbaa an on.
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ქართული · Georgian
ჩვენ უკეთ ვიცით, რასაც ისინი ამბობენ, და შენ არ ხარ მათზე მოძალადე. მაშ, შეაგონე ყურანით იმას, ვისაც ჩემი მუქარის ეშინია.
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Deutsch · German
Wir wissen sehr wohl, was sie sagen, und du bist nicht als Gewalthaber über sie (eingesetzt). Darum ermahne (nur) mit dem Quran (jeden,) der Meine Androhung fürchtet.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Εμείς ξέρουμε καλύτερα τι λένε, και δε στάλθηκες (ω, Προφήτη) για να τους αναγκάσεις να πιστέψουν. Δώσε λοιπόν νουθεσία και υπενθύμιση με το Κορ’άν σε όποιον φοβάται την προειδοποίησή Μου.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
हम उसे अधिक जानने वाले हैं, जो कुछ वे कहते हैं। और आप उनपर कोई ज़बरदस्ती करने वाले नहीं हैं। अतः आप क़ुरआन द्वारा उस व्यक्ति को उपदेश दें, जो मेरे अज़ाब के वादे से डरता है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
Noi siamo più informati di ciò che dicono. E tu non sei inviato per tiranneggiarli: avverti col Corano chi teme la Mia promessa.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
45. Mes žinome geriausiai ką jie sako. Ir tu (O Muchammedai ﷺ) negali jų priversti (patikėti). Bet perspėk Koranu tuos, kurie bijo Mano Grasinimo.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Nuti beekoo waan isaan jedhaniiti. Ati isaan irratti moosifamaa hin taane. Nama adabbii (kiyya) sodaatu Qur’aanaan gorsi.
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Русский · Russian
Мы лучше знаем, что они говорят. И ты вовсе над ними не тиран, так увещевай же Кораном того, кто боится Моей угрозы.
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Српски · Serbian
Ми најбоље знамо шта они говоре; ти не можеш да их присилиш, него подсети Кур'аном онога који се боји Моје претње.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Sisi tunajua kabisa wayasemayo. Wala wewe si mwenye kuwatawalia kwa ujabari. Basi mkumbushe kwa Qur-ani anayeliogopa onyo.
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Svenska · Swedish
Vi är fullt medvetna om allt de säger, men du är inte satt att tvinga dem. Påminn därför med Koranen de som fruktar min varning.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Onların söylediklerini biz daha iyi biliriz. Sen, onların üzerinde bir zorlayıcı değilsin. Tehdidimden korkanlara Kur'an'la öğüt ver.
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اردو · Urdu
یہ جو کچھ کہہ رہے ہیں ہم بخوبی جانتے ہیں اور آپ ان پر جبر کرنے والے نہیں[1] ، تو آپ قرآن کے ذریعے انہیں سمجھاتے رہیں جو میرے وعید (ڈرانے کے وعدوں) سے ڈرتے ہیں.[2]
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DIN 31635yawma tašaqqaqu l-ʾarḍu ʿanhum sirāʿan ḏālika ḥašrun ʿalaynā yasīrun
Talal Itani2012 The Day when the earth will crack for them at once. That is an easy gathering for Us.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 On the day when the earth splitteth asunder from them, hastening forth (they come). That is a gathering easy for Us (to make)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 On the day when the earth shall be cleft asunder from them swiftly;- that is a gathering together which is easy to us
John Medows Rodwell1861 On the day when the earth shall swiftly cleave asunder over the dead, will this gathering be easy to Us
George Sale1734 The day whereon the earth shall suddenly cleave in sunder over them. This will be an assembly easy for us to assemble
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.66 on a scale
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.78
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.76
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.72
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.59
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.47
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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.