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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
That ye grieve not for the sake of that which hath escaped you, nor yet exult because of that which hath been given. Allah loveth not all prideful boasters
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
That ye may not vex yourselves for what ye miss, nor be overjoyed at what He gives you; for God loves no arrogant boaster
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And this is written lest ye immoderately grieve for the good which escapeth you, or rejoice for that which happeneth unto you; for God loveth no proud or vain-gloriousperson
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
që të mos dëshpëroheni për atë që ju ikën dhe të mos gëzoheni tepër për atë që Ai jua jep. Allahu nuk i do ata që janë mendjemëdhenj e mburravecë,
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বাংলা · Bengali
যাতে তোমরা আফসোস না করো সে প্রসঙ্গে, যা তোমরা হারিয়েছো এবং তোমরা উৎফুল্ল না হও তিনি তোমাদেরকে যে নি‘আমত দিয়েছেন তার কারণে। আর আল্লাহ কোন উদ্ধত ও অহংকারীকে পছন্দ করেন না।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
da ne biste tugovali za onim što vam je promaklo, a i da se ne biste previše radovali onome što vam On dadne. Allah ne voli nikakve razmetljivce, hvalisavce,
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Hrvatski · Croatian
da ne biste tugovali za onim što vam je promaklo, a i da se ne biste previše radovali onome što vam On dadne. Allah ne voli nikakve razmetljivce, hvalisavce,
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko fii wota on cuno e ko laawii on kon, ngonaa kadi weltorgol ko o okki on kon. Allah yiɗaa kala ñaaƴoowo, mantiiɗo.
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ქართული · Georgian
რათა არ იდარდოთ იმის გამო, რაც თქვენ აგცდათ [რომ არ თქვათ: "ო, ნეტავ ასე მოვქცეულიყავი, მაშინ ასე იქნებოდა"], და არც ამპარტავნულად არ გახარებულიყავით იმით, რაც მან მოგმადლათ. და ალლაჰს არ უყვარს არცერთი ამპარტავანი [ქედმაღალი], ქედმაღლურად მოტრაბახე.
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Deutsch · German
damit ihr nicht betrübt seid über das, was euch entgangen ist, und euch nicht (zu sehr) freut über das, was Er euch gegeben hat. Und Allah liebt keinen, der eingebildet und prahlerisch ist,
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Για να μη στεναχωριέστε για ό,τι σας ξέφυγε ή διέφυγε (από την εγκόσμια ζωή), ούτε να χαίρεστε με αλαζονεία για ό,τι σας έδωσε. Πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ δεν αγαπά κανέναν αλαζόνα που καυχιέται.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
ताकि तुम उसपर शोक न करो, जो तुमसे छूट जाए और उसपर फूल न जाओ, जो वह तुम्हें प्रदान करे। और अल्लाह किसी अहंकार करने वाले, बहुत गर्व करने वाले से प्रेम नहीं करता।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
affinché non vi rattristiate per ciò che vi è sfuggito, e non vi rallegriate per ciò che vi è toccato. E Allāh non ama ogni superbo e altezzoso:
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
23. Tam, kad jūs neliūdėtumėte dalykuose, kurių jums nepavyksta gauti, ir nesidžiaugtumėte tuo, kas jums buvo duota. Allahas nemėgsta išdidžių pagyrūnų.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Akka waan isin jalaa dabre irratti hin yaaddofneefi, waan (Rabbiin) isiniif kennettis (garmalee) hin gammadneefi (kana godhe). Rabbiin nama boonaa, dhaaddataa hunda hin jaallatu.
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Русский · Russian
[Это —] для того, чтобы вы не скорбели о том, что миновало вас, и не ликовали из-за того, что Он даровал вам. А Аллах не любит всякого хвастливого, самодовольного.
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Српски · Serbian
да не бисте туговали за оним што вам је промакло, а и да се не бисте превише радовали ономе што вам Он подари. Аллах не воли никакве разметљивце, хвалисавце,
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Ili msihuzunike kwa kilichokupoteeni, wala msijitape kwa alichokupeni. Na Mwenyezi Mungu hampendi kila anayejivuna akajifahirisha.
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Svenska · Swedish
Detta är för att ni inte ska sörja över det ni går miste om och inte heller fröjdas högmodigt över det ni får. Gud tycker inte om självgoda översittare –
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Türkçe · Turkish
Elinizden çıkana üzülmeyesiniz ve Allah’ın size verdiği nimetlerle şımarmayasınız diye (böyle yaptık.) Çünkü Allah, kendini beğenip övünen hiçbir kimseyi sevmez.
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اردو · Urdu
تاکہ تم اپنے سے فوت شده کسی چیز پر رنجیده نہ ہو جایا کرو اور نہ عطا کرده چیز پر اترا جاؤ[1] ، اور اترانے والے شیخی خوروں کو اللہ پسند نہیں فرماتا.
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DIN 31635sābiqū ʾilā maġfiratin min rabbikum waǧannatin ʿarḍuhā kaʿarḍi s-samāʾi wal-ʾarḍi ʾuʿiddat lillaḏīna ʾāmanū billāhi warusulihi ḏālika faḍlu llāhi yuʾtīhi man yašāʾu wallāhu ḏū l-faḍli l-ʿaẓīmi
Talal Itani2012 Race towards forgiveness from your Lord; and a Garden as vast as the heavens and the earth, prepared for those who believe in God and His messengers. That is the grace of God; He bestows it on whomever He wills. God is the Possessor of Immense Grace.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Race one with another for forgiveness from your Lord and a Garden whereof the breadth is as the breadth of the heavens and the earth, which is in store for those who believe in Allah and His messengers. Such is the bounty of Allah, which He bestoweth upon whom He will, and Allah is of Infinite Bounty
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Race towards forgiveness from your Lord and Paradise, whose breadth is as the breadth of the heavens and the earth, prepared for those who believe in God and His apostles! and God's grace, He gives it to whom He pleases, for God is Lord of mighty grace
John Medows Rodwell1861 Vie in hasting after pardon from your Lord, and Paradise - whose outspread is as the outspread of the Heaven and of the Earth: Prepared is it for those who believe in God and His apostles: Such is the bounty of God: to whom He will He giveth it: and of immense bounty is God
George Sale1734 Hasten with emulation to obtain pardon from your Lord, and paradise, the extent whereof equalleth the extent of heaven and earth, prepared for those who believe in God and his apostles. This is the bounty of God: He will give the same unto whom He pleaseth; and God is endued with great bounty
Easy-read (simplified)maa asaaba min museebatin fee l-'ardi walaa fee anfusikum illaa fee kitaabin min qabli an nabra'ahaa inna dhaalika 'alaa llaahi yaseer
DIN 31635mā ʾaṣāba min muṣībatin fī l-ʾarḍi walā fī ʾanfusikum ʾillā fī kitābin min qabli ʾan nabraʾahā ʾinna ḏālika ʿalā llāhi yasīrun
Talal Itani2012 No calamity occurs on earth, or in your souls, but it is in a Book, even before We make it happen. That is easy for God.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Naught of disaster befalleth in the earth or in yourselves but it is in a Book before we bring it into being - Lo! that is easy for Allah
Edward Henry Palmer1880 No accident befalls in the earth, or in yourselves, but it was in the Book, before we created them verily, that is easy unto God
John Medows Rodwell1861 No mischance chanceth either on earth or in your own persons, but ere we created them, it was in the Book; - for easy is this to God
George Sale1734 No accident happeneth in the earth, nor in your persons, but the same was entered in the book of our decrees, before We created it: Verily this is easy with God
DIN 31635allaḏīna yabḫalūna wayaʾmurūna n-nāsa bil-buḫli waman yatawalla faʾinna llāha huwa l-ġaniyyu l-ḥamīdu
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Talal Itani2012 Those who are stingy, and induce people to be stingy. Whoever turns away-God is the Independent, the Praiseworthy.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Who hoard and who enjoin upon the people avarice. And whosoever turneth away, still Allah is the Absolute, the Owner of Praise
Edward Henry Palmer1880 who are niggardly and bid men be niggardly: but whoso turns his back, verily, God is rich, praiseworthy
John Medows Rodwell1861 Who are covetous themselves and incite others to covetousness. But whose turneth away from almsgiving - Ah! God is the Rich, the Praiseworthy
George Sale1734 or those who are covetous, and command men covetousness. And whoso turneth aside from giving alms; verily God is self-sufficient, worthy to be praised
Talal Itani2012 We sent Our messengers with the clear proofs, and We sent down with them the Book and the Balance, that humanity may uphold justice. And We sent down iron, in which is violent force, and benefits for humanity. That God may know who supports Him and His messengers invisibly. God is Strong and Powerful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 We verily sent Our messengers with clear proofs, and revealed with them the Scripture and the Balance, that mankind may observe right measure; and He revealed iron, wherein is mighty power and (many) uses for mankind, and that Allah may know him who helpeth Him and His messengers, though unseen. Lo! Allah is Strong, Almighty
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We did send our apostles with manifest signs; and we did send down among you the Book and the balance, that men might stand by justice; and we sent down iron in which is both keen violence and advantages to men; and that God might know who helps Him and His apostles in secret; verily, God is strong and mighty
John Medows Rodwell1861 We have sent our apostles with the clear tokens, and we have caused the Book and the balance to descend with them, that men might observe fairness. And we have sent down IRON. Dire evil resideth in it, as well as advantage, to mankind! God would know who will assist Him and his apostle in secret. Verily, God is Powerful, Strong
George Sale1734 We formerly sent our apostles with evident miracles and arguments; and We sent down with them the scriptures, and the balance, that men might observe justice: And We sent them down iron, wherein is mighty strength for war, and various advantages unto mankind: That God may know who assisteth him and his apostles in secret; for God is strong and mighty
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 —
0.82 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 Sale0.88
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.86
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.85
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.84
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.84
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.80
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.80
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.79
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.76
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.75
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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.