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Talal Itani· published 2012
What is the matter with you that you do not believe in God, when the Messenger calls you to believe in your Lord, and He has received a pledge from you, if you are believers?
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
What aileth you that ye believe not in Allah, when the messenger calleth you to believe in your Lord, and He hath alreadymade a covenant with you, if ye are believers
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
What ails you that ye do not believe in God and His Apostle? He calls on you to believe in your Lord; and He has taken a compact from you, if ye be believers
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
What hath come to you that ye believe not in God, although the apostle exhorteth you to believe in your Lord, and He hath accepted your alliance - if ye are true believers
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And what aileth you, that ye believe not in God, when the apostle inviteth you to believe in your Lord; and He hath received your covenant concerning this matter, if ye believe any proposition
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
Ç’keni që nuk e besoni Allahun, ndërkohë që i Dërguari ju thërret të besoni Zotin tuaj, e Ai ka marrë besën prej jush, nëse vërtet jeni besimtarë?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর তোমাদের কী হলো যে, তোমরা আল্লাহর প্রতি ঈমান আনছো না? অথচ রাসূল তোমাদেরকে তোমাদের রবের প্রতি ঈমান আনতে আহ্বান করছে। আর আল্লাহ তোমাদের কাছ থেকে (৭) অঙ্গীকার গ্রহণ করেছেন, যদি তোমরা মু‘মিন হও।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Kako da ne vjerujete u Allaha, a Poslanik vas zove da vjerujete u Gospodara svoga – a On je od vas već zavjet uzeo – ako ste vjernici
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Kako da ne vjerujete u Allaha, a Poslanik vas zove da vjerujete u Gospodara svoga – a On je od vas već zavjet uzeo – ako ste vjernici.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
E ko heɓi on, on ngooŋɗintaa Allah? E hino Nulaaɗo on hino nodda on e gooŋɗingol Joomi mon. Gooɗii [Allah] ƴettii e mon ahadi, si on laatike gooŋɗinɓe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
რა გემართებათ, რომ არ ირწმუნებთ ალლაჰს, მაშინ როცა შუამავალი [მუჰმმადი] გიხმობთ, რომ ირწმუნოთ თქვენი უფალი? და მან ხომ უკვე აიღო თქვენი აღთქმა, თუკი მორწმუნენი ხართ.
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Deutsch · German
Und was ist mit euch, dass ihr nicht an Allah glauben wollt, wo doch der Gesandte euch dazu aufruft, an euren Herrn zu glauben, und wo Er bereits ein Abkommen mit euch getroffen hat, wenn ihr (wirklich) Gläubige seid?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Γιατί δεν πιστεύετε στον Αλλάχ, -ενώ ο Αγγελιαφόρος σάς καλεί (με ξεκάθαρα επιχειρήματα και αποδείξεις) να πιστέψετε στον Κύριό σας, και ενώ (ο Αλλάχ) έχει ήδη πάρει μία δέσμευση από σας (όταν σας έβγαλε από την οσφύ του Αδάμ και μαρτυρήσατε ότι ο Αλλάχ είναι ο Κύριός σας)- εάν ποτέ θα είστε πιστοί;
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और तुम्हें क्या हो गया है कि अल्लाह पर ईमान नहीं लाते, जबकि रसूल[2] तुम्हें बुला रहा है कि अपने पालनहार पर ईमान लाओ, और निश्चय वह (अल्लाह) तुमसे दृढ़ वचन[3] ले चुका है, यदि तुम ईमान वाले हो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E perché non avete fede in Allāh – e il Suo Messaggero vi invita a credere nel vostro Dio, Colui che ha accettato il vostro patto – se siete credenti?
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
8. Ir kas jums yra, kad netikite Allahą! O Pranašas (Muchammedas ﷺ) jus kviečia tikėti jūsų Viešpatį (Allahą), ir Jis iš tiesų priėmė jūsų sandorą, jeigu esate tikri tikintieji.
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Русский · Russian
Что с вами, почему вы не веруете в Аллаха, тогда как Посланник призывает вас уверовать в вашего Господа, и ведь Он уже взял с вас завет, если вы являетесь верующими?
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Српски · Serbian
Како да не верујете у Аллаха, а Посланик вас позива да верујете у свога Господара - а већ је узео ваш завет - ако сте верници.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na mna nini hata hamumuamini Mwenyezi Mungu na hali Mtume anakuiteni mumuamini Mola wenu Mlezi? Naye amekwisha chukua ahadi yenu, ikiwa nyinyi ni Waumini.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Vad hindrar er från att tro på Gud, när sändebudet kallar er till att tro på er Herre – han som en gång slöt ett förbund med er [att ni ska acceptera tron] – om ni alls [är villiga att] tro?
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Türkçe · Turkish
Size ne oluyor ki, Peygamber sizi Rabbinize iman etmeniz için çağırırken Allah'a iman etmiyorsunuz? Oysa (Allah) sizden kesin söz almıştı. Eğer iman edecekseniz.
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اردو · Urdu
تم اللہ پر ایمان کیوں نہیں ﻻتے؟ حاﻻنکہ خود رسول تمہیں اپنے رب پر ایمان ﻻنےکی دعوت دے رہا ہے اور اگر تم مومن ہو تو وه تو تم سے مضبوط عہد وپیمان بھی لے چکا ہے.[1]
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.
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Talal Itani2012 He merges the night into the day, and He merges the day into the night; and He knows what the hearts contains.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He causeth the night to pass into the day, and He causeth the day to pass into the night, and He is knower of all that is in the breasts
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He makes the night succeed the day, and makes the day succeed the night; and He knows the nature of men's breasts
John Medows Rodwell1861 He causeth the night to pass into the day, and He causeth the day to pass into the night: and He knoweth the very secrets of the bosom
George Sale1734 He causeth the night to succeed the day, and He causeth the day to succeed the night; and He knoweth the innermost part of men's breasts
Talal Itani2012 Believe in God and His Messenger, and spend from what He made you inherit. Those among you who believe and give will have a great reward.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Believe in Allah and His messenger, and spend of that whereof He hath made you trustees; and such of you as believe and spend (aright), theirs will be a great reward
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Believe in God and His Apostle, and give alms of what He has made you successors of. For those amongst you who believe and give alms - for them is mighty hire
John Medows Rodwell1861 Believe in God and his apostle, and bestow in alms of that whereof God hath made you heirs: for whoever among you believe and give alms - their's shall be a great recompense
George Sale1734 Believe in God and his apostle, and lay out in alms a part of the wealth whereof God hath made you inheritors: For unto such of you as believe, and bestow alms, shall be given a great reward
DIN 31635huwa llaḏī yunazzilu ʿalā ʿabdihi ʾāyātin bayyinātin liyuḫriǧakum mina ẓ-ẓulumāti ʾilā n-nūri waʾinna llāha bikum laraʾūfun raḥīmun
Talal Itani2012 It is He who sends down upon His servant clear revelations, to bring you out of darkness into the light. God is Gentle towards you, Most Compassionate.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He it is Who sendeth down clear revelations unto His slave, that He may bring you forth from darkness unto light; and lo! for you, Allah is Full of Pity, Merciful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He it is who sends down upon His servants manifest signs, to bring you forth from the darkness into the light; for, verily, God to you is kind, compassionate
John Medows Rodwell1861 He it is who hath sent down clear tokens upon His servant, that He may bring you out of darkness into light; and truly, Kind, Merciful to you is God
George Sale1734 It is He who hath sent down unto his servant evident signs, that He may lead you out of darkness into light; for God is compassionate and merciful unto you
Easy-read (simplified)wamaa lakum allaa tunfiqoo fee sabeeli llaahi walillaahi meeraathu s-samaawaati wal-'ardi laa yastawee minkum man anfaqa min qabli l-fathi waqaatala oolaa'ika a'zamu darajatan mina lladheena anfaqoo min ba'du waqaataloo wakullan wa'ada llaahu l-husnaa wallaahu bimaa ta'maloona khabeer
DIN 31635wamā lakum ʾallā tunfiqū fī sabīli llāhi walillāhi mīrāṯu s-samāwāti wal-ʾarḍi lā yastawī minkum man ʾanfaqa min qabli l-fatḥi waqātala ʾūlāʾika ʾaʿẓamu daraǧatan mina llaḏīna ʾanfaqū min baʿdu waqātalū wakullan waʿada llāhu l-ḥusnā wallāhu bimā taʿmalūna ḫabīrun
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Talal Itani2012 And why is it that you do not spend in the cause of God, when to God belongs the inheritance of the heavens and the earth? Not equal among you are those who contributed before the conquest, and fought. Those are higher in rank than those who contributed afterwards, and fought. But God promises both a good reward. God is Well Experienced in what you do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And what aileth you that ye spend not in the way of Allah when unto Allah belongeth the inheritance of the heavens and the earth? Those who spent and fought before the victory are not upon a level (with the rest of you). Such are greater in rank than those who spent and fought afterwards. Unto each hath Allah promised good. And Allah is Informed of what ye do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 What ails you that ye give not alms in God's cause? for God's is the inheritance of the heavens and the earth. Not alike amongst you is he who gives alms before the victory and fights,- they are grander in rank than those who give alms afterwards and fight. But to all does God promise good; and God of what ye do is well aware
John Medows Rodwell1861 And what hath come to you that ye expend not for the cause of God? since the heritage of the Heavens and of the Earth is God's only! Those among you who contributed before the victory, and fought, shall be differently treated from certain others among you! Such shall have a nobler grade than those who contributed and fought after it. But a goodly recompense hath God promised to all; and God is fully informed of your actions
George Sale1734 And what aileth you, that ye contribute not of your substance for the defence of God's true religion? Since unto God appertaineth the inheritance of heaven and earth. Those among you who shall have contributed and fought in defence of the faith, before the taking of Mecca, shall not be held equal with those who shall contribute and fight for the same afterwards. These shall be superiour in degree unto those who shall contribute and fight for the propagation of the faith after the abovementioned success: But unto all hath God promised a most excellent reward; and God well knoweth that which ye do
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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
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · George Sale0.55
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.51
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.51
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.50
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.47
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.47
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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.