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Talal Itani· published 2012
To God belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on earth. He will repay those who do evil according to their deeds, and recompense those who do good with the best.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And unto Allah belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth, that He may reward those who do evil with that which they have done, and reward those who do good with goodness
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
God's is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, that He may reward those who do evil for what they have done; and may reward those who do good with good
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And whatever is in the Heavens and in the Earth is God's that he may reward those who do evil according to their deeds: and those who do good will He reward with good things
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Unto God belongeth whatever is in heaven and earth: That He may reward those who do evil, according to that which they shall have wrought; and may reward those who do well, with the most excellent reward
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
e Allahut i përket gjithçka që është në qiej dhe gjithçka që është në Tokë, – për t’i ndëshkuar ata që kanë bërë të këqija sipas veprave të tyre dhe për t'i shpërblyer ata që kanë bërë mirë me më të mirën (Xhenetin).
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর আসমানসমূহে ও জমিনে যা কিছু আছে সব কিছুর মালিকানা আল্লাহরই। যাতে তিনি তাদের কাজের প্রতিফল (জাহান্নাম) দিতে পারেন যারা মন্দ কাজ করে এবং তাদেরকে তিনি উত্তম পুরস্কার (জান্নাত) দিতে পারেন যারা সৎকর্ম করে।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Allahovo je sve što je na nebesima i što je na Zemlji, da bi, prema onome kako su radili, kaznio one koji rade zlo, a najljepšom nagradom nagradio one koji čine dobro,
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Allahovo je sve što je na nebesima i što je na Zemlji, da bi, prema onome kako su radili, kaznio one koji rade zlo, a najljepšom nagradom nagradio one koji čine dobro,
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko Alla woodani kala ko woni e kammuuji e leydi ngam o yoɓa ɓeen bonnuɓe koɓe mbonni ko, o yoɓa kadi moƴƴinɓe moƴƴoore.
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ქართული · Georgian
და ალლაჰს ეკუთვნის (ყველაფერი) ცათა შინა და (ყველაფერი) ქვეყანაზე, რათა მან მიუზღოს მათ, ვინც ბოროტი ჩაიდინა (შესაბამისი სასჯელით) და (რათა) დააჯილდოოს ისინი, ვინც სიკეთე აკეთეს, საუკეთესოთი.
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Deutsch · German
Und Allah gehört (alles), was in den Himmeln und was auf der Erde ist, auf dass Er denjenigen, die Schlechtes tun, das vergelte, was sie tun, und dass Er denjenigen, die Gutes tun, mit dem Besten vergelte.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Στον Αλλάχ ανήκει ό,τι υπάρχει στους ουρανούς και ό,τι υπάρχει στη γη, και έτσι, θα τιμωρήσει εκείνους που διέπραξαν τις κακές πράξεις για ό,τι έκαναν, και θα ανταμείψει εκείνους που έπρατταν τις καλές πράξεις, με τον Παράδεισο.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा जो कुछ आकाशों में है और जो कुछ धरती में है, सब अल्लाह ही का है, ताकि वह बुराई करने वालों को उनके किए का बदला दे, और भलाई करने वालों को अच्छा बदला दे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E ad Allāh appartiene ciò che è nei cieli e in terra; così ricompensa quelli che hanno fatto il male per ciò che hanno fatto, e ricompensa quelli che hanno fatto il bene con il bene:
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
31. Ir Allahui priklauso viskas, kas yra danguose ir žemėje, kad Jis galėtų atlyginti piktadariams už jų darbus (nubausdamas juos Pragare), ir atlyginti geru tiems, kurie darė gerus darbus.
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
Аллаху принадлежит всё, что в небесах, и всё, что на земле, чтобы воздать тем, которые совершали дурное, за то, что они содеяли, и вознаградить тех, которые творили добро, наилучшим.
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Српски · Serbian
Аллахово је све што је на небесима и што је на Земљи, да би, према ономе како су радили, казнио оне који раде зло, а наградио најлепшом наградом оне који чине добро,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Ni vya Mwenyezi Mungu vyote vilivyo mbinguni na vilivyo katika ardhi, ili awalipe wale waliotenda ubaya kwa waliyoyatenda, na wale waliotenda mema awalipe mema.
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Svenska · Swedish
Till Gud hör allt i himlarna och på jorden. Han kommer att straffa de som gör ont för deras handlingar och belöna de som gör gott med det allra bästa;
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Göklerde olan da yerde olan da Allah’ındır. Kötülük edenleri yaptıkları sebebiyle cezalandıracak, iyilik edenleri de en iyisi ile ödüllendirecektir.
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اردو · Urdu
اور اللہ ہی کا ہے جو کچھ آسمانوں میں ہے اور جو کچھ زمین میں ہے تاکہ اللہ تعالیٰ برے عمل کرنے والوں کو ان کے اعمال کا بدلہ دے اور نیک کام کرنے والوں کو اچھا بدلہ عنایت فرمائے.[1]
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Easy-read (simplified)dhaalika mablaghuhum mina l-'ilmi inna rabbaka huwa a'lamu biman dalla 'an sabeelihi wahuwa a'lamu bimani htadaa
DIN 31635ḏālika mablaġuhum mina l-ʿilmi ʾinna rabbaka huwa ʾaʿlamu biman ḍalla ʿan sabīlihi wahuwa ʾaʿlamu bimani htadā
Talal Itani2012 That is the extent of their knowledge. Your Lord knows best who has strayed from His path, and He knows best who has accepted guidance.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Such is their sum of knowledge. Lo! thy Lord is Best Aware of him who strayeth, and He is Best Aware of him whom goeth right
Edward Henry Palmer1880 This is their sum of knowledge; verily, thy Lord knows best who has erred from His way, and He knows best who is guided
John Medows Rodwell1861 This is the sum of their knowledge. Truly thy Lord best knoweth him who erreth from his way, and He best knoweth him who hath received guidance
George Sale1734 This is their highest pitch of knowledge. Verily thy Lord well knoweth him who erreth from his way; and He well knoweth him who is rightly directed
DIN 31635allaḏīna yaǧtanibūna kabāʾira l-ʾiṯmi wal-fawāḥiša ʾillā llamama ʾinna rabbaka wāsiʿu l-maġfirati huwa ʾaʿlamu bikum ʾiḏ ʾanšaʾakum mina l-ʾarḍi waʾiḏ ʾantum ʾaǧinnatun fī buṭūni ʾummahātikum falā tuzakkū ʾanfusakum huwa ʾaʿlamu bimani taqā
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Those who avoid gross sins and indecencies-except for minor lapses-your Lord is of Vast Forgiveness. He knows you well, ever since He created you from the earth, and ever since you were embryos in your mothers' wombs. So do not acclaim your own virtue; He is fully aware of the righteous.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those who avoid enormities of sin and abominations, save the unwilled offences - (for them) lo! thy Lord is of vast mercy. He is Best Aware of you (from the time) when He created you from the earth, and when ye were hidden in the bellies of your mothers. Therefor ascribe not purity unto yourselves. He is Best Aware of him who wardeth off (evil)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 those who shun great sins and iniquities,- all but venial faults,- verily, thy Lord is of ample forgiveness; He knows best about you, when He produced you from the earth, and when ye were embryos in the wombs of your mothers. Make not yourselves out, then, to be pure; He knows best who it is that fears
John Medows Rodwell1861 To those who avoid great crimes and scandals but commit only lighter faults, verily, thy Lord will be diffuse of mercy. He well knew you when he produced you out of the earth, and when ye were embryos in your mother's womb. Assert not then your own purity. He best knoweth who feareth him
George Sale1734 As to those who avoid great crimes, and hainous sins, and are guilty only of lighter faults; verily thy Lord will be extensive in mercy towards them. He well knew you when He produced you out of the earth, and when ye were embryo's in your mothers' wombs: Wherefore justify not your selves: He best knoweth the man who feareth Him
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 —
0.50 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 · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.62
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.54
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.53
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.46
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.41
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.37
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.32
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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.