لَّا تُدْرِكُهُ ٱلْأَبْصَٰرُ وَهُوَ يُدْرِكُ ٱلْأَبْصَٰرَ وَهُوَ ٱللَّطِيفُ ٱلْخَبِيرُ
Easy-read (simplified)laa tudrikuhu l-'absaaru wahuwa yudriku l-'absaara wahuwa llateefu l-khabeer
DIN 31635lā tudrikuhu l-ʾabṣāru wahuwa yudriku l-ʾabṣāra wahuwa llaṭīfu l-ḫabīru
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
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.
No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all vision. He is the Subtle, the Expert.
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
Vision comprehendeth Him not, but He comprehendeth (all) vision. He is the Subtile, the Aware
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
Sight perceives Him not, but He perceives men's sights; for He is the subtle, the aware
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
No vision taketh in Him, but He taketh in all vision: and He is the Subtile, the All-informed
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
Eyes cannot reach Him but He reaches the eyes. And He is the incomprehensible, the All-Aware
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
Atë nuk e arrijnë shikimet, ndërsa Ai përfshin të gjitha shikimet. Ai është i Buti dhe i Gjithëdituri.
দৃষ্টিসমূহ তাঁকে আয়ত্ত করতে পারে না; অথচ তিনি সকল দৃষ্টিকে আয়ত্তে রাখেন। আর তিনি সূক্ষ্মদর্শী, সম্যক অবহিত।
Pogledi do Njega ne mogu doprijeti, a On do pogleda dopire; On je Dobrostiv i Onaj Koji sve u potpunosti zna.
Pogledi do Njega ne mogu doprijeti, a On do pogleda dopire; On je Dobrostiv i Onaj Koji sve u potpunosti zna.
Giiɗe ɗen kuɓindotaako Mo, Kaŋko himo Huɓindoo giiɗe ɗeen. Ko Kaŋko woni Newiiɗo, kumpitiiɗo.
ვერც ერთი მზერა ვერ მისწვდება მას, ხოლო იგი სწვდება ყველა მზერას; და იგია კეთილი (თავის მონებთან) და ყოვლისმცოდნე.
Die Blicke erfassen Ihn nicht, Er aber erfasst die Blicke. Und Er ist der Feinfühlige und Allkundige.
Καμιά όραση δεν μπορεί να Τον φτάσει, ενώ Εκείνος περικλείει όλες τις οράσεις. Και Αυτός είναι ο Αλ-Λατείφ (ο Ευγενής προς τους δούλους Του), ο Αλ-Χαμπείρ (Αυτός που γνωρίζει πλήρως τα πάντα).
उसे निगाहें नहीं पातीं[65] और वह सब निगाहों को पाता है और वही अत्यंत सूक्ष्मदर्शी, सब ख़बर रखने वाला है।
Non Lo può percepire la vista, e in verità Lui percepisce ogni sguardo, e Lui è il Sottile, il Conoscitore.
103. Joks regėjimas negali suvokti Jo, tačiau Jis suvokia visus regėjimus. Jis yra Al-Latif (Sumaniausias ir Pagarbiausias), Gerai Žinantis apie viską.
Agartuun (ijji) Isa (Rabbiin) hin agartu, Inni immoo agartuu hunda ni arga, Inni mararfataa, beekaadha. [19]
Взоры не постигают Его, а Он постигает взоры, Он — Проницательный, Сведущий.
Погледи до Њега не могу да допру, а Он до погледа допире; Он је Добростив и све у потпуности зна.
Macho hayawezi kumzunguka, naye anayazunguka macho. Naye ni Mjua siri, Mwenye habari zote.
Ingen syn kan omfatta honom, men han omfattar all syn. Ja, han är den Insiktsfulle, den väl Medvetne.
Gözler O’nu onu ihata ve idrak edemez. O ise bütün gözleri kuşatmıştır. O, lütuf sahibidir, her şeyden haberdardır.
اس کو تو کسی کی نگاه محیط نہیں ہوسکتی[1] اور وه سب نگاہوں کو محیط ہو جاتا ہے اور وہی بڑا باریک بین باخبر ہے۔
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.
Which translations appear here is set by copyright: they are the ones whose rights could be documented and cleared. The selection is not a judgement that these are the best.
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.
shown so it's never read alone
بَدِيعُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ أَنَّىٰ يَكُونُ لَهُۥ وَلَدٌ وَلَمْ تَكُن لَّهُۥ صَٰحِبَةٌ وَخَلَقَ كُلَّ شَىْءٍ وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ شَىْءٍ عَلِيمٌ
Easy-read (simplified)badee'u s-samaawaati wal-'ardi annaa yakoonu lahu waladun walam takun lahu saahibatun wakhalaqa kulla shay'in wahuwa bikulli shay'in 'aleem
DIN 31635badīʿu s-samāwāti wal-ʾarḍi ʾannā yakūnu lahu waladun walam takun lahu ṣāḥibatun waḫalaqa kulla šayʾin wahuwa bikulli šayʾin ʿalīmun
Originator of the heavens and the earth-how can He have a son when He never had a companion? He created all things, and He has knowledge of all things.
The Originator of the heavens and the earth! How can He have a child, when there is for Him no consort, when He created all things and is Aware of all things
The inventor of the heavens and the earth! how can He have a son, when He has no female companion, and when He has created everything, and everything He knows
Sole maker of the Heavens and of the Earth! how, when He hath no consort, should He have a son? He hath created everything, and He knoweth everything
The Originator of the heavens and the earth. How can He have a son when He has no consort, and when He has created everything and has knowledge of all things
ذَٰلِكُمُ ٱللَّهُ رَبُّكُمْ لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ خَٰلِقُ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ فَٱعْبُدُوهُ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ وَكِيلٌ
Easy-read (simplified)dhaalikumu llaahu rabbukum laa ilaaha illaa huwa khaaliqu kulli shay'in fa'budoohu wahuwa 'alaa kulli shay'in wakeel
DIN 31635ḏālikumu llāhu rabbukum lā ʾilāha ʾillā huwa ḫāliqu kulli šayʾin faʿbudūhu wahuwa ʿalā kulli šayʾin wakīlun
Such is God, your Lord. There is no god except He, the Creator of all things; so worship Him. He is responsible for everything.
Such is Allah, your Lord. There is no Allah save Him, the Creator of all things, so worship Him. And He taketh care of all things
There is God for you,- your Lord! There is no god but He, the Creator of everything; then worship Him, for He o'er everything keeps guard
This is God your Lord. There is no God but He, the creator of all things: therefore worship Him alone; - and He watcheth over all things
Such is God, your Lord. There is no god but He, the creator of all things; so worship Him. and He is the Guardian over everything
6:103 — the verse above
قَدْ جَآءَكُم بَصَآئِرُ مِن رَّبِّكُمْ فَمَنْ أَبْصَرَ فَلِنَفْسِهِۦ وَمَنْ عَمِىَ فَعَلَيْهَا وَمَآ أَنَا۠ عَلَيْكُم بِحَفِيظٍ
Easy-read (simplified)qad jaa'akum basaa'iru min rabbikum faman absara falinafsihi waman 'amiya fa'alayhaa wamaa anaa 'alaykum bihafeez
DIN 31635qad ǧāʾakum baṣāʾiru min rabbikum faman ʾabṣara falinafsihi waman ʿamiya faʿalayhā wamā ʾanā ʿalaykum biḥafīẓin
"Insights have come to you from your Lord. Whoever sees, it is to the benefit of his soul; and whoever remains blind, it is to its detriment. I am not a guardian over you."
Proofs have come unto you from your Lord, so whoso seeth, it is for his own good, and whoso is blind is blind to his own hurt. And I am not a keeper over you
Now has an insight from your Lord come unto you, and he who looks therewith it is for himself; but he who is blind thereto, it is against his soul; and I am not your keeper
Now have proofs that may be seen, come to you from your Lord; whoso seeth them, the advantage will be his own: and whoso is blind to them, his own will be the loss: I am not made a keeper over you
Proofs have indeed come to you from your Lord; so whoever sees, it is for His own good; and whoever becomes blind, it is to his own loss. And I am not a guardian over you
وَكَذَٰلِكَ نُصَرِّفُ ٱلْـَٔايَٰتِ وَلِيَقُولُوا۟ دَرَسْتَ وَلِنُبَيِّنَهُۥ لِقَوْمٍ يَعْلَمُونَ
Easy-read (simplified)wakadhaalika nusarrifu l-'aayaati waliyaqooloo darasta walinubayyinahu liqawmin ya'lamoon
DIN 31635wakaḏālika nuṣarrifu l-ʾāyāti waliyaqūlū darasta walinubayyinahu liqawmin yaʿlamūna
The translators word this verse differently
We thus diversify the revelations, lest they say, "You have studied," and to clarify them for people who know.
Thus do We display Our revelations that they may say (unto thee, Muhammad): "Thou hast studied," and that We may make (it) clear for people who have knowledge
Thus do we turn about the signs, that they may say, 'Thou hast studied,' and that we may explain to those who know
Thus variously do we apply our signs, that they may say, "Thou hast studied deep:" and that to people of understanding we may make them clear
And thus do We explain the Signs in various ways that the truth may become established and that they may say, 'Thou hast read out what thou hast learnt' and that We may explain it to a people who have no knowledge
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Uthmani, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
لَّا تُدْرِكُهُ الْأَبْصَارُ وَهُوَ يُدْرِكُ الْأَبْصَارَ وَهُوَ اللَّطِيفُ الْخَبِيرُ
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
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 — 0.64 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.
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CLEARED. Parallel edition, held in ayah_text_variants. It sits alongside the Uthmani spine for search normalisation and is never used to correct it.
Qur'anic text from the Tanzil Project. Copyright (C) 2007-2026 Tanzil Project License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Source: tanzil.net · Updates: tanzil.net/updates/ https://tanzil.net/updates/