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57:16

أَلَمْ يَأْنِ لِلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ أَن تَخْشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ ٱللَّهِ وَمَا نَزَلَ مِنَ ٱلْحَقِّ وَلَا يَكُونُوا۟ كَٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ مِن قَبْلُ فَطَالَ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْأَمَدُ فَقَسَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَكَثِيرٌ مِّنْهُمْ فَٰسِقُونَ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)alam ya'ni lilladheena aamanoo an takhsha'a quloobuhum lidhikri llaahi wamaa nazala mina l-haqqi walaa yakoonoo kalladheena ootoo l-kitaaba min qablu fataala 'alayhimu l-'amadu faqasat quloobuhum wakatheerun minhum faasiqoon

DIN 31635ʾalam yaʾni lillaḏīna ʾāmanū ʾan taḫšaʿa qulūbuhum liḏikri llāhi wamā nazala mina l-ḥaqqi walā yakūnū kallaḏīna ʾūtū l-kitāba min qablu faṭāla ʿalayhimu l-ʾamadu faqasat qulūbuhum wakaṯīrun minhum fāsiqūna

EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

TranslationsSource fact

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.

Talal Itani · published 2012

Is it not time for those who believe to surrender their hearts to the remembrance of God, and to the truth that has come down, and not be like those who were given the Book previously, but time became prolonged for them, so their hearts hardened, and many of them are sinners?

Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Talal Itani, ClearQuran ·ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB·Talal Itani / ClearQuran.com ·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International·retrieved 7 Sep 2026

Translation by Talal Itani, ClearQuran.com https://clearquran.com

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 1875–1936 · published 1930

Is not the time ripe for the hearts of those who believe to submit to Allah's reminder and to the truth which is revealed, that they become not as those who received the scripture of old but the term was prolonged for them and so their hearts were hardened, and many of them are evil-livers

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 Palmer 1840–1882 · published 1880

Is the time come to those who believe, for their hearts to be humbled at the remembrance of God, and of what He has sent down in truth? and for them not to, be like those who were given the Scriptures before, And over whom time was prolonged, but their hearts grew hard, and many of them were workers of abomination

Sources

Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired

Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an ·1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

John Medows Rodwell 1808–1900 · published 1861

Hath not the time come, for those who believe, to humble their hearts at the warning of God and at the truth which he hath sent down? and that they be not as those to whom the Scriptures were given heretofore, whose lifetime was prolonged, but whose hearts were hardened, and many of them were perverse

Sources

Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired

John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an ·1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

George Sale 1697–1736 · published 1734

Is not the time yet come unto those who believe, that their hearts should humbly submit to the admonition of God, and to that truth which hath been revealed; and that they be not as those unto whom the scripture was given heretofore, and to whom the time of forbearance was prolonged, but their hearts were hardened, and many of them were wicked doers

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

A nuk ka ardhur koha për ata që besuan, që zemrat e tyre të përulen para përmendjes së Allahut dhe para së vërtetës që ka zbritur e të mos bëhen si ata që iu dha Libri më parë, të cilëve u kaloi kohë e gjatë[1] dhe iu ngurtësuan zemrat?! Shumica e tyre janë të pabindur.

Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5

বাংলা · Bengali

যারা ঈমান এনেছে তাদের অন্তর কি আল্লাহর স্মরণ এবং যে সত্য (আল-কুরআন) নাযিল হয়েছে, তার জন্যে প্রশান্ত ও বিগলিত হওয়ার সময় হয়নি? আর তারা যেন তাদের মতো না হয়, যাদেরকে ইতঃপূর্বে (১৩) কিতাব দেয়া হয়েছিল, তারপর তাদের ওপর দিয়ে দীর্ঘকাল অতিক্রান্ত হল, অতঃপর তাদের অন্তরসমূহ কঠিন হয়ে গেল। আর তাদের অধিকাংশই তো ফাসিক।

Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Dawah Association in Rabwah, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2

Bosanski · Bosnian

Zar nije vrijeme da se onima koji vjeruju srca smekšaju zbog spomena Allaha i Istine koja se objavljuje i da oni ne budu kao oni kojima je još davno data Knjiga, pa su srca njihova, zato što je proteklo mnogo vremena, postala nemilosrdna i mnogi su od njih grešnici.

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.

From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4

Hrvatski · Croatian

Zar nije vrijeme da se onima koji vjeruju srca smekšaju zbog spomena Allaha i Istine koja se objavljuje i da oni ne budu kao oni kojima je još davno data Knjiga, pa su srca njihova, zato što je proteklo mnogo vremena, postala nemilosrdna i mnogi su od njih grešnici.

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.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1

Fulfulde · Fulani

E yontaani gooŋɗiiɓe ɓen nde ɓerɗe maɓɓe ɗen deeƴirta jantoore Allah nden e kon ko jippii immorde e goonga? Hara ɓe wa'aani wa ɓeen okkanooɓe defte ɓen ko adii, dumunna on juutani ɓeen, ɓerɗe maɓɓe ɗen njo'ori, ko ɗuuɗunoo e maɓɓe ko ko faasiqiiɓe.

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.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2

ქართული · Georgian

განა არ დადგა დრო მათთვის, ვინც ირწმუნა, რომ მათი გულები ძრწოდეს (და დარბილდეს) ალლაჰის ხსენებისას და იმ ჭეშმარიტების მოსმენაზე, რომელიც მან გარდმოავლინა [ალლაჰის წიგნი], და რომ ისინი [მორწმუნეები] არ დაემსგავსონ მათ, ვისაც ადრე ებოძათ წერილი [თორა და ინჯილი], რომელთაც დრო გაუგრძელდათ [დიდი ხანი გავიდა მათთან გამოგზავნილი წინასწარმეტყველების შემდეგ], რის გამოც მათი გულები გაქვავდა [მათ აღარ უსმენდნენ დარიგებებს, რომლებიც ალლაჰის წიგნებში იყო], და ბევრი მათგანი (გახდა) ურჩი (ალლაჰისადმი).

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.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7

Deutsch · German

Ist es denn nicht Zeit für diejenigen, die glauben, dass ihre Herzen demütig werden vor der Ermahnung Allahs und vor dem, was von der Wahrheit herabgekommen ist, und dass sie nicht wie diejenigen sind, denen zuvor die Schrift gegeben wurde, es ihnen aber zu lang gedauert hat, und so ihre Herzen sich verhärtet haben? Und viele von ihnen sind Frevler.

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.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15

Ελληνικά · Greek

Δεν ήρθε η ώρα για όσους πιστεύουν, να μαλακώσουν οι καρδιές τους για την εξύμνηση του Αλλάχ και για ό,τι στάλθηκε από την αλήθεια (το Κορ’άν και τις νουθεσίες του), ώστε να μην γίνουν σαν εκείνους στους οποίους δόθηκε το Βιβλίο πριν (η Τορά του Μωυσή και το Ιν-τζήλ του Ιησού, αλλά απομακρύνθηκαν απ' αυτά), και πέρασε πολύς καιρός, και έτσι, οι καρδιές τους σκλήρυναν; Και πράγματι, πολλοί απ' αυτούς (στους οποίους δόθηκε η Τορά και το Ιν-τζήλ) είναι ανυπάκουοι.

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.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2

हिन्दी · Hindi

क्या उन लोगों के लिए जो ईमान लाए, वह समय नहीं आया कि उनके दिल अल्लाह की याद के लिए और उस सत्य के लिए झुक जाएँ जो उतरा है, और वे उन लोगों की तरह न हो जाएँ, जिन्हें इससे पहले पुस्तक प्रदान की गई थी, फिर उनपर लंबा समय गुज़र गया, तो उनके दिल कठोर हो गए[9] और उनमें बहुत-से लोग अवज्ञाकारी हैं?

Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5

Italiano · Italian

Non è forse arrivato per i credenti il momento che i loro cuori fremano di devozione nel sentire il nome di Allāh e ciò che è disceso della Verità? E che non siano come quelli che ebbero prima il Libro, ma col passare del tempo i loro cuori s’indurirono e molti di loro sono trasgressori.

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.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2

Lietuvių · Lithuanian

16. Argi vis dar neatėjo laikas širdims tų, kurie tiki (Allaho Vienumą), būti paveiktomis Allaho Priminimu (šiuo Koranu), ir tuo, kas buvo apreikšta iš tiesos, ir, kad netaptų jie kaip tie, kurie gavo Raštą (Torą ir Evangeliją) anksčiau (t. y. judėjai ir krikščionys), ir jiems buvo prailgintas laikas, kad jų širdys sukietėtų? Ir didelė dalis jų buvo Fasikūn (užsispyrę, nepaklūstantys Allahui).

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.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8

Afaan Oromoo · Oromo

Warra amananiif qalbiileen isaanii zikrii Rabbiitiifi dhugaa irraa waan bu’eef laafutti hindhihaannee? Akka warra isaaniin dura kitaaba kennamanii tahuu dhabutti (hin dhihaannee?),kan yeroon isaanirratti dheerattee, qalbiileen isaanii goggogdee. baay’een isaan irraa tahe jallatoodha.[6]

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.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0

Русский · Russian

Разве не пришло время для тех, которые уверовали, чтобы сердца их исполнились смирения при упоминании Аллаха и того, что ниспослано из истины? И чтобы не стали они подобны тем, которым Писание было даровано прежде, для которых затянулся срок [ожидания], так что сердца их ожесточились? И многие из них — нечестивцы.

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.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1

Српски · Serbian

Зар није време да се онима који верују смекшају срца због спомена Аллаха и истине која се објављује и да они не буду као они којима је још давно дата Књига, па су њихова срца, зато што је протекло много времена, постала немилосрдна и многи су од њих непокорни.

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.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4

Kiswahili · Swahili

Je, wakati haujafika bado kwa wale walioamini zikanyenyekea nyoyo zao kwa kumkumbuka Mwenyezi Mungu na haki iliyoteremka? Wala wasiwe kama wale waliopewa Kitabu kabla yao, muda wao ukawa mrefu, kwa hivyo nyoyo zao zikawa ngumu, na wengi wao ni wapotovu.

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Svenska · Swedish

Är det inte dags för de troendes hjärtan att mjukna inför Guds påminnelse och den sanning som har uppenbarats, så att de inte blir som de som tidigare fick skriften men vars hjärtan hårdnade med tiden? Ja, många av dem blev djupt trotsiga.

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.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2

Türkçe · Turkish

İman edenlerin Allah’ı zikretmekten ve inen haktan dolayı kalplerinin saygı ile ürpermesinin zamanı gelmedi mi? Daha önce kendilerine kitap verilip de üzerinden uzun zaman geçen, böylece kalpleri katılaşanlar gibi olmasınlar. Onlardan birçoğu fasık kimselerdir.

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اردو · Urdu

کیا اب تک ایمان والوں کے لیے وقت نہیں آیا کہ ان کے دل ذکر الٰہی سے اور جو حق اتر چکا ہے اس سے نرم ہو جائیں[1] اور ان کی طرح نہ ہو جائیں جنہیں ان سے پہلے کتاب دی گئی[2] تھی پھر جب ان پر ایک زمانہ دراز گزر گیا تو ان کے دل سخت ہو گئے[3] اور ان میں بہت سے فاسق ہیں.[4]

Translated by Muhammad Ibrahim Junagarhi, developed under the supervision of the Rowwad Translation Center. The original translation is available for the purpose of expressing opinion, evaluation, and continuous development.

From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3

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The verses around this oneSource fact

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57:14

يُنَادُونَهُمْ أَلَمْ نَكُن مَّعَكُمْ قَالُوا۟ بَلَىٰ وَلَٰكِنَّكُمْ فَتَنتُمْ أَنفُسَكُمْ وَتَرَبَّصْتُمْ وَٱرْتَبْتُمْ وَغَرَّتْكُمُ ٱلْأَمَانِىُّ حَتَّىٰ جَآءَ أَمْرُ ٱللَّهِ وَغَرَّكُم بِٱللَّهِ ٱلْغَرُورُ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)yunaadoonahum alam nakun ma'akum qaaloo balaa walaakinnakum fatantum anfusakum watarabbastum wartabtum wagharratkumu l-'amaaniyyu hattaa jaa'a amru llaahi wagharrakum billaahi l-gharoor

DIN 31635yunādūnahum ʾalam nakun maʿakum qālū balā walākinnakum fatantum ʾanfusakum watarabbaṣtum wartabtum waġarratkumu l-ʾamāniyyu ḥattā ǧāʾa ʾamru llāhi waġarrakum billāhi l-ġarūru

The translators word this verse differently

Talal Itani2012 They will call to them, "Were we not with you?" They will say, "Yes, but you cheated your souls, and waited, and doubted, and became deluded by wishful thinking, until the command of God arrived; and arrogance deceived you regarding God."

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They will cry unto them (saying): Were we not with you? They will say: Yea, verily; but ye tempted one another, and hesitated, and doubted, and vain desires beguiled you till the ordinance of Allah came to pass; and the deceiver deceived you concerning Allah

Edward Henry Palmer1880 They shall cry out to them, 'We were not with you!' they shall say, 'Yea, but ye did tempt yourselves, and did wait, and did doubt; and your vain hopes beguiled you; and the beguiler beguiled you about God

John Medows Rodwell1861 They shall cry to them, "Were we not with you?" They shall say, "Yes! but ye led yourselves into temptation, and ye delayed, and ye doubted, and the good things ye craved deceived you, till the doom of God arrived: - and the deceiver deceived you in regard to God

George Sale1734 The hypocrites shall call out unto the true believers, saying, were we not with you? They shall answer, yea; but ye seduced your own souls by your hypocrisy: And ye waited our ruin; and ye doubted concerning the faith; and your wishes deceived you, until the decree of God came, and ye died: And the deceiver deceived you concerning God

57:15

فَٱلْيَوْمَ لَا يُؤْخَذُ مِنكُمْ فِدْيَةٌ وَلَا مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ مَأْوَىٰكُمُ ٱلنَّارُ هِىَ مَوْلَىٰكُمْ وَبِئْسَ ٱلْمَصِيرُ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)fal-yawma laa yu'khadhu minkum fidyatun walaa mina lladheena kafaroo ma'waakumu n-naaru hiya mawlaakum wabi'sa l-maseer

DIN 31635fal-yawma lā yuʾḫaḏu minkum fidyatun walā mina llaḏīna kafarū maʾwākumu n-nāru hiya mawlākum wabiʾsa l-maṣīru

Talal Itani2012 "Therefore, today no ransom will be accepted from you, nor from those who disbelieved. The Fire is your refuge. It is your companion-what an evil fate!"

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 So this day no ransom can be taken from you nor from those who disbelieved. Your home is the Fire; that is your patron, and a hapless journey's end

Edward Henry Palmer1880 Wherefore today there shall not be taken from you a ransom, nor from those who misbelieved. Your resort is the fire; it is your sovereign, and an ill journey will it be

John Medows Rodwell1861 On that day, therefore, no ransom shall be taken from you or from those who believe not: - your abode the fire! - This shall be your master! and wretched the journey thither

George Sale1734 This day, therefore, a ransom shall not be accepted of you, nor of those who have been unbelievers. Your abode shall be hell fire: This is what ye have deserved; and an unhappy journey shall it be thither

57:16 — the verse above

57:17

ٱعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُحْىِ ٱلْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا قَدْ بَيَّنَّا لَكُمُ ٱلْـَٔايَٰتِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)i'lamoo anna llaaha yuhyee l-'arda ba'da mawtihaa qad bayyannaa lakumu l-'aayaati la'allakum ta'qiloon

DIN 31635iʿlamū ʾanna llāha yuḥyī l-ʾarḍa baʿda mawtihā qad bayyannā lakumu l-ʾāyāti laʿallakum taʿqilūna

Talal Itani2012 Know that God revives the earth after its death. We thus explain the revelations for you, so that you may understand.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Know that Allah quickeneth the earth after its death. We have made clear Our revelations for you, that haply ye may understand

Edward Henry Palmer1880 Know that God quickens the earth after its death!- we have manifested to you the signs; haply ye may have some sense

John Medows Rodwell1861 Know that God quickeneth the earth after its death! Now have we made these signs clear to you, that ye may understand

George Sale1734 Know that God quickeneth the earth, after it hath been dead. Now have We distinctly declared our signs unto you, that ye may understand

57:18

إِنَّ ٱلْمُصَّدِّقِينَ وَٱلْمُصَّدِّقَٰتِ وَأَقْرَضُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ قَرْضًا حَسَنًا يُضَٰعَفُ لَهُمْ وَلَهُمْ أَجْرٌ كَرِيمٌ

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Easy-read (simplified)inna l-mussaddiqeena wal-mussaddiqaati wa'aqradoo llaaha qardan hasanan yudaa'afu lahum walahum ajrun kareem

DIN 31635ʾinna l-muṣṣaddiqīna wal-muṣṣaddiqāti waʾaqraḍū llāha qarḍan ḥasanan yuḍāʿafu lahum walahum ʾaǧrun karīmun

Talal Itani2012 The charitable men and charitable women, who have loaned God a loan of righteousness-it will be multiplied for them, and for them is a generous reward.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! those who give alms, both men and women, and lend unto Allah a goodly loan, it will be doubled for them, and theirs will be a rich reward

Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, those who give in charity, men and women, who have lent to God a goodly loan,- it shall be doubled for them, and for them is a generous hire

John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily, they who give alms, both men and women, and they who lend a generous loan to God, - doubled shall it be to them - and they shall have a noble recompense

George Sale1734 Verily as to the almsgivers, both men and women, and those who lend unto God an acceptable loan, He will double the same unto them; and they shall moreover receive an honourable reward

Sources

EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Uthmani, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

Parallel edition — Simple, Version 1.1

أَلَمْ يَأْنِ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَن تَخْشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَمَا نَزَلَ مِنَ الْحَقِّ وَلَا يَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِن قَبْلُ فَطَالَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْأَمَدُ فَقَسَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَكَثِيرٌ مِّنْهُمْ فَاسِقُونَ

EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

Analysis detailsDerived

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 — 0.54 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
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale 0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell 0.57
Talal Itani · George Sale 0.57
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 0.57
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell 0.53
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale 0.51
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer 0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell 0.46
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale 0.44

One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.

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.
As at
13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC
Gate
verify/divergence_gate.py re-derives and fails on drift

The platform does not say which is right, and does not characterise what the difference means. The renderings are placed together so the difference is visible; reading it is the reader's work.

Easy-read

SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

ReceiptsSource fact

7 sources stand behind this page. Each is listed once, in the order the page first cites it, with the licence it was cleared under and what was actually read. Nothing on this page rests on a source that is not here.

Source Tanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) · Uthmani, Version 1.1
Edition
Uthmani, Version 1.1
Custodian
Tanzil Project
Layer
canonical text
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Commercial use
yes
Modification
contradictory
Licence text
read verbatim
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
203f0f1bf3158b1e5be4ab9f8f6870e5…
Located at
https://tanzil.net/pub/download/index.php?quranType=uthmani&outType=xml
Convention
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.

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Source Talal Itani, ClearQuran · ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB
Edition
ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB
Custodian
Talal Itani / ClearQuran.com
Layer
translation
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
Commercial use
yes
Modification
no
Licence text
terms page read
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
7 September 2026
Digest
70b0a8bb6f862f43670f7da1c0da59a4…
Located at
https://www.clearquran.com/downloads/quran-in-english-clearquran.epub
Convention
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.

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Source Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran · 1930 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Edition
1930 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
Layer
translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
aaff752d4349005282d977eebb863982…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-mohammedmarmadu.json

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.

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Source Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an · 1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Edition
1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
Layer
translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
32b2330e332339ace53509539efe9040…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-edwardhenrypalm.json
Convention
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.

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Source John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an · 1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Edition
1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
Layer
translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
91423dea6a6dccc192457870ed2c08fb…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-johnmedowsrodwe.json
Convention
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.

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Source George Sale, English translation of the Qur'an · 1734 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Edition
1734 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
Layer
translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
05b679f5df49b0579e65f4b83b4c7235…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-georgesale.json
Convention
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.

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Source Tanzil Qur'an text (Simple) · Simple, Version 1.1
Edition
Simple, Version 1.1
Custodian
Tanzil Project
Layer
canonical text
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Commercial use
yes
Modification
contradictory
Licence text
read verbatim
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
d9b5bad94e4725191aa8da9a0404bd8e…
Located at
https://tanzil.net/pub/download/index.php?quranType=simple&outType=xml
Convention
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.

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