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
"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."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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
Now has an insight from your Lord come unto you, and he who lookstherewith it is for himself; but he who is blind thereto, it is against his soul; and I am not your keeper
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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
(Thuaju, o Muhamed): "Juve ju kanë ardhur tashmë prova të qarta nga Zoti juaj. Kush i sheh ato, e ka për vete, e kush bëhet i verbër, i bën dëm vetes. Unë nuk jam rojtar juaji."
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
নিশ্চয় তোমাদের রবের পক্ষ থেকে তোমাদের কাছে চাক্ষুষ প্রমাণাদি এসেছে। অতএব যে চক্ষুষ্মান , সে নিজের জন্যেই কল্যাণ সাধন করবে। আর যে অন্ধ সাজবে , সে নিজেকেই ক্ষতিগ্রস্ত করবে। আর আমি তোমাদের ওপর সংরক্ষক নই।
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
"Od Gospodara vašeg došli su vam jasni dokazi, pa onaj ko ih vidi – u svoju korist to čini, a onaj ko ostane na to slijep – na svoju je štetu slijep, a ja nisam taj koji vas nadzire."
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
Od Gospodara vašeg došli su vam jasni dokazi, pa onaj tko ih vidi – u svoju korist to čini, a onaj tko ostane na to slijep – na svoju je štetu slijep; a ja nisam taj koji vas nadzire.
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
Gooŋɗii hujjaaji ngrii e mon immorde ka Joom mon : kala jaɓuɗo yi'ide ko hoore-makko [o yi'ani], kala kadi bumkiniiɗo ko hoore-makko [o wumanii]. Mi wonaani e dow mooɗon deenoowo.
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
უკვე მოვიდა თქვენთან ნათელი ნიშნები [ცხადი მტკიცებულებები] თქვენი უფლისგან. ვინც ხედავს — ეს მისივე სასარგებლოდ არის; ხოლო ვინც ბრმაა [არ იღებს აშკარა ჭეშმარიტებას], — ეს მისივე საზიანოდ არის. (და უთხარი მათ, ო, მოციქულო): «მე თქვენთვის არ ვარ მცველი [არ ვარ პასუხისმგებელი თქვენს ურწმუნოებაზე ალლაჰის წინაშე]».
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
Zu euch sind bereits Einsicht bringende Zeichen von eurem Herrn gekommen. Wer sie nun erkennt (und daran glaubt), so ist es zu seinem eigenen Vorteil, und wer blind ist, der ist es zu seinem eigenen Nachteil. Und ich bin nicht Hüter über euch.
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
Πες (ω, Προφήτη, στους ειδωλολάτρες): «Πράγματι, σας ήρθαν σημάδια (και αποδείξεις) από τον Κύριό σας. Έτσι, όποιος τα βλέπει (και πιστεύει σ' αυτά), θα είναι για το όφελός του, αλλά όποιος κάνει τα στραβά μάτια (και τα αρνείται), θα είναι εις βάρος του. Και δεν είμαι παρατηρητής πάνω σας (για να καταγράψω τις πράξεις σας, αλλά είμαι ένας Αγγελιαφόρος που σας μεταφέρω το Μήνυμα του Κυρίου όλων των κόσμων, και Αυτός είναι που θα σας φέρει για λογοδότηση).»
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
निःसंदेह तुम्हारे पास तुम्हारे पालनहार की ओर से कई निशानियाँ आ चुकीं। फिर जिसने देख लिया, तो उसका लाभ उसी के लिए है और जो अंधा रहा, तो उसकी हानि उसी पर है और मैं तुमपर कोई संरक्षक[66] नहीं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Vi sono giunte dal vostro Dio le Evidenze, e chi le vede, lo farà a proprio vantaggio, e chi è cieco, lo sarà a proprio danno, e non sono il vostro custode.
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
104. Iš tiesų, įrodymai atėjo jums iš jūsų Viešpaties, taigi kas mato, darys tai dėl (gero) savo paties, o kas apakina save, darys tai dėl savo paties skriaudos ir aš (Muchammedas ﷺ ) nesu jūsų sergėtojas.
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.
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
Уже пришли к вам ясные знамения от вашего Господа. Кто прозрел, тот — себе во благо; а кто слеп, тот — себе во вред. Я вовсе не хранитель над вами.
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
Од Господара вашег дошли су вам јасни докази, па онај ко их прихвати, у своју корист то чини, а онај ко остане на то слеп, на своју је штету слеп; а ја нисам тај који вас надзире.
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
Hakika zimekwishawajia hoja wazi wazi kutoka kwa Mola wenu Mlezi. Kwa hivyo, mwenye kuona, basi ni kwa faida yake mwenyewe. Na mwenye kupofuka, basi ni hasara yake. Wala mimi si mtunzaji wenu.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
[Säg:] ”Ögonöppnande bevis har kommit till er från er Herre. Den som ser, gör det till sin egen fördel, och den som sluter sina ögon, gör det till sin egen nackdel. Jag är inte en väktare över er.”
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
Size Rabbinizden apaçık deliller gelmiştir. Artık kim görürse kendi lehine; kim de (hakkı) görmezse kendi aleyhinedir. Ben başınızda bekçi değilim.
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
اردو · Urdu
اب بلاشبہ تمہارے پاس تمہارے رب کی جانب سے حق بینی کے ذرائع پہنچ چکے ہیں سو جو شخص دیکھ لے گا وه اپنا فائده کرے گا اور جو شخص اندھا رہے گا وه اپنا نقصان کرے گا[1] ، اور میں تمہارا نگران نہیں ہوں۔[2]
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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DIN 31635ḏālikumu llāhu rabbukum lā ʾilāha ʾillā huwa ḫāliqu kulli šayʾin faʿbudūhu wahuwa ʿalā kulli šayʾin wakīlun
Talal Itani2012 Such is God, your Lord. There is no god except He, the Creator of all things; so worship Him. He is responsible for everything.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 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
George Sale1734 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
DIN 31635wakaḏālika nuṣarrifu l-ʾāyāti waliyaqūlū darasta walinubayyinahu liqawmin yaʿlamūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 We thus diversify the revelations, lest they say, "You have studied," and to clarify them for people who know.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Thus do we turn about the signs, that they may say, 'Thou hast studied,' and that we may explain to those who know
John Medows Rodwell1861 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
George Sale1734 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
Easy-read (simplified)ittabi' maa oohiya ilayka min rabbika laa ilaaha illaa huwa wa'a'rid 'ani l-mushrikeen
DIN 31635ittabiʿ mā ʾūḥiya ʾilayka min rabbika lā ʾilāha ʾillā huwa waʾaʿriḍ ʿani l-mušrikīna
Talal Itani2012 Follow what was revealed to you from your Lord. There is no god but He. And turn away from the polytheists.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Follow that which is inspired in thee from thy Lord; there is no Allah save Him; and turn away from the idolaters
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Follow what is revealed to thee from thy Lord; there is no god but He, and shun the idolaters
John Medows Rodwell1861 Follow thou that which hath been revealed to thee by thy Lord: there is no god but He! and withdraw from those who join other gods with Him
George Sale1734 Follow that which has been revealed to thee from thy Lord; there is no god but He; and turn aside from the idolaters
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 —
0.56 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 · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.67
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.55
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.54
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.45
Talal Itani · George Sale0.44
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.33
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Method
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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.