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.
Those who avoid gross sins and indecencies-except for minorlapses-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.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Those who avoid enormities of sin and abominations, save the unwilledoffences - (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. Thereforascribe not purity unto yourselves. He is Best Aware of him who wardeth off (evil)
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
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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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: Whereforejustify not your selves: He best knoweth the man who feareth Him
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
Për ata që shmangen nga gjynahet e mëdha dhe punët e turpshme, me përjashtim të gjynaheve të vogla, vërtet Zoti yt është i gjerë në falje. Ai ju njeh shumë mirë, qysh kur ju krijoi prej dheut dhe qysh kur ishit embrione në barqet e nënave tuaja. Prandaj, mos e lavdëroni veten, sepse Ai e di më së miri kush është i ruajtur!
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বাংলা · Bengali
যারা ছোট খাটো দোষ-ত্রুটি ছাড়া বড় বড় পাপ ও অশ্লীল কার্যকলাপ থেকে বিরত থাকে, নিশ্চয় তোমার রব (তাদেরকে) ক্ষমার ব্যাপারে উদার। তিনি তোমাদের ব্যাপারে (তখন থেকেই) ভালো করে জানেন, যখন তিনি তোমাদেরকে মাটি থেকে সৃষ্টি করেছেন এবং যখন তোমরা তোমাদের মাতৃগর্ভে ভ্রূণরূপে ছিলে। কাজেই তোমরা আত্মপ্রশংসা করো না। তিনিই সম্যক অবগত কে তাকওয়া অবলম্বন করেছে।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
one koji se klone velikih grijeha i razvrata, a one bezazlene On će oprostiti, jer Gospodar tvoj, zaista, neizmjerno prašta, On najbolje zna sve o vama, otkad vas je stvorio od zemlje i od kad ste bili zameci u utrobama majki vaših; zato se ne hvališite – On najbolje zna svakog onoga koji se grijeha kloni.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
one koji se klone velikih grijeha i razvrata, a one bezazlene On će oprostiti, jer Gospodar tvoj, zaista, neizmjerno prašta, On najbolje zna sve o vama, otkad vas je stvorio od zemlje i od kad ste bili zametci u utrobama majki vaših; zato se ne hvališite – On najbolje zna svakog onoga koji se grijeha kloni.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
ɓeen woɗɗitotooɓe bakkatuuji mawɗi ɗin e paŋkare [ɓe paggitotaako] si wonaa tokoosi ɗin. Pellet, Joomi maa ko jaacɗo yaafuyee. Ko Kaŋko ɓuri anndude on gila O puɗɗunoo on ummaade e leydi, e nde ngonnoɗon fuƴƴannde ka deedi neeniraaɓe mon. Wota on mantu ko'e mon; ko Kaŋko ɓuri anndude gooŋɗuɓe ɓren.
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ქართული · Georgian
რომელნიც ერიდებიან დიდ ცოდვებსა და საძაგლობებს, გარდა მცირე შეცდომებისა. ჭეშმარიტად, შენი უფალი უსაზღვროდ მიმტევებელია. მან უკეთ იცის თქვენ შესახებ, როცა მიწისგან გაგაჩინათ და როცა ჩანასახები იყავით თქვენი დედების მუცელში. ამიტომ, ნუ განადიდებთ საკუთარ თავს. მან უკეთ იცის, ვინ არის ღვთისმოშიში.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Diejenigen, die die großen Sünden und Abscheulichkeiten meiden, außer leichten Verfehlungen - wahrlich, dein Herr ist allumfassend in (Seiner) Vergebung. Er ist wissender über euch, als Er euch aus der Erde hervorgebracht hat und als ihr Keimlinge in den Leibern eurer Mütter gewesen seid. So erklärt nicht euch selbst für lauter. Er ist wissender darüber, wer (Allah) fürchtet.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Όσο γι' αυτούς που αποφεύγουν τις μεγάλες αμαρτίες και τις επαίσχυντες πράξεις, εκτός αν πέσουν σε μικρές αμαρτίες (που συγχωρούνται με τις πράξεις λατρείας και με την αποφυγή των μεγάλων αμαρτιών), πράγματι, ο Κύριός σου (ω, Προφήτη) έχει απέραντη συγχώρεση. Αυτός γνωρίζει τα πάντα για σας, όταν σας δημιούργησε (δηλ. τον Αδάμ) από τη γη, και όταν ήσασταν (ακόμα) έμβρυα στις μήτρες των μητέρων σας. Γι' αυτό μην επαινέσετε τον εαυτό σας (περιγράφοντας τον εαυτό σας ως ευσεβή). Αυτός γνωρίζει καλύτερα ποιος φυλάσσεται από την τιμωρία Του (τηρώντας τις εντολές Του).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
वे लोग जो बड़े गुनाहों तथा अश्लील कार्यों[9] से दूर रहते हैं, सिवाय कुछ छोटे गुनाहों के। निःसंदेह आपका पालनहार बड़ा क्षमा करने वाला है। वह तुम्हें अधिक जानने वाला है जब उसने तुम्हें धरती[10] से पैदा किया और जब तुम अपनी माँओं के पेटों में बच्चे थे। अतः अपनी पवित्रता का दावा मत करो, वह उसे ज़्यादा जानने वाला है जो वास्तव में परहेज़गार है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
quelli che si astengono dal commettere i grandi peccati e le nefandezze, tranne i piccoli peccati. In verità il tuo Dio è Colui che accoglie il pentimento. Lui vi conosce meglio: vi ha creato dalla terra e diventaste feti nei ventri delle vostre madri. Non vantate la vostra purezza: Lui conosce bene chi è devoto.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
32. Tie, kurie vengia didelių nuodėmių ir Al-Favahiš (neteisėtų seksualinių santykių), išskyrus mažas kaltes – iš tiesų, jūsų Viešpats yra Dosnus Atleidime. Jis žino jus gerai, kuomet sukūrė jus iš žemės (kurdamas Adamą (Adomą)), ir kuomet jūs buvote embrionai savo motinų gimdose. Todėl nepriskirkite sau tyrumo (išaukštindami save). Jis žino geriausiai apie tą, kuris bijo Allaho ir atlieka savo pareigą Jam [t. y. tą, kuris yra Al-Mutakūn (pamaldus, žr. ają 2:2)].
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Isaan sun warra dogoggora xixiqqoo malee dilii gugurdoofi sagaagalummaa irraa fagaataniidha. Gooftaan kee araaramni Isaa bal’aadha. Inni akkaan isin beekaadha yeroo dachii irraa isin uumeefi yeroo isin garaalee haadholee teessanii keessatti ulfoowwan taatanii jirtan . Lubbuulee teessan hin qulqulleessinaa. Inni nama (Isa) sodaatu akkaan beekaadha.
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Русский · Russian
[Это] те, которые избегают великих грехов и мерзостей, кроме мелких проступков. Воистину, твой Господь обладает безграничным прощением. Он лучше знал вас [ещё] тогда, когда сотворил вас из земли и когда вы были зародышами в утробах ваших матерей. Так не восхваляйте же самих себя — Он лучше знает тех, кто богобоязнен.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
оне који се клоне великих греха и разврата, а оне мале грехе Он ће да опрости, јер твој Господар, заиста, неизмерно прашта, Он најбоље зна све о вама, откад вас је створио од земље и од кад сте били замеци у утробама ваших мајки; зато се не хвалишите - Он најбоље зна оног који се клони греха и чини добра дела.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Ambao wanajiweka mbali na madhambi makuu na vitendo vichafu, isipokuwa makosa hafifu. Hakika Mola wako Mlezi ni Mkunjufu wa maghfira, naye anakujueni sana tangu alipokuumbeni kutoka kwenye ardhi, na mlipokuwa mimba matumboni mwa mama zenu. Basi msijione watakatifu. Yeye anamjua sana mwenye kujikinga akawa mbali na maovu.
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Svenska · Swedish
de som håller sig borta från stora synder och skamlösa handlingar, även om de ibland begår mindre fel. Din Herre är rik på förlåtelse. Han visste allt om er redan när han formade er [fader Adam] ur jord, och när ni ännu låg som foster i era mödrars livmödrar. Så hävda inte att ni är rättfärdiga – han är den som bäst vet vem som verkligen fruktar honom.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Onlar küçük kusurlar dışında günâhların büyüklerinden ve çirkin işlerden kaçınırlar. Şüphesiz Rabbin, mağfireti çok geniş olandır. Sizi topraktan meydana getirdiği zaman da ve siz, annelerinizin karnında cenin halinde iken de sizi en iyi O bilir. Öyleyse kendi kendinizi temize çıkarmayın. Kimin takvalı olduğunu en iyi O bilir.
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اردو · Urdu
ان لوگوں کو جو بڑے گناہوں سے بچتے ہیں اور بے حیائی سے بھی[1] ۔ سوائے کسی چھوٹے سے گناه کے[2]۔ بیشک تیرا رب بہت کشاده مغفرت واﻻ ہے، وه تمہیں بخوبی جانتا ہے جبکہ اس نے تمہیں زمین سے پیدا کیا اور جبکہ تم اپنی ماؤں کے پیٹ میں بچے تھے[3]۔ پس تم اپنی پاکیزگی آپ بیان نہ کرو[4]، وہی پرہیزگاروں کو خوب جانتا ہے.
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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 is a simplified pronunciation,
not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil
Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the
same edition and their orthography differs.
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
Talal Itani2012 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.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 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
George Sale1734 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
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
computed, not judged.
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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 · John Medows Rodwell0.76
Talal Itani · George Sale0.75
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.72
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.70
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.58
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.43
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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.