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Talal Itani· published 2012
Follow what was revealed to you from your Lord. There is no god but He. And turn away from the polytheists.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Follow that which is inspired in thee from thy Lord; there is no Allahsave Him; and turn away from the idolaters
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
Follow what is revealed to thee from thy Lord; there is no god but He, and shun the idolaters
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Follow that which has been revealed to thee from thy Lord; there is no god but He; and turn aside from the idolaters
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
Ndiqe atë që të është shpallur nga Zoti yt! Nuk ka zot që meriton të adhurohet përveç Tij. Shmangu prej idhujtarëve!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
তোমার রবের পক্ষ থেকে তোমার প্রতি যা অহী প্রেরণ করা হয়েছে, তুমি তার অনুসরণ করো। তিনি ছাড়া কোনো (সত্য) ইলাহ নেই। আর মুশরিকদের উপেক্ষা করে চলো।
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
Ti slijedi ono što Gospodar tvoj objavljuje, drugoga boga osim Njega nema, i višebošce izbjegavaj.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Ti slijedi ono što Gospodar tvoj objavljuje, drugoga boga osim Njega nema, i višebošce izbjegavaj.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Jokku ko Wahyinaa kon e maa immorde ka Joomi maa. Alaa deweteeɗo (e goonga) si wanaa Kaŋko. Ɗuurno gah e sirkooɓe ɓeen.
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ქართული · Georgian
გაჰყევი იმას, რაც შთაგონებად გეცხადება შენ (ო, მოციქულო) შენი უფლისგან: «არ არსებობს ღმერთი, ღირსი თაყვანისცემისა, გარდა მისა», — და განერიდე მრავალღმერთიანებს.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Folge dem, was dir von deinem Herrn (als Offenbarung) eingegeben worden ist! Es gibt keinen Anbetungswürdigen außer Ihm. Und wende dich von den Götzendienern ab!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ακολούθησε, λοιπόν, (ω Προφήτη) ό,τι σου αποκαλύφθηκε από τον Κύριό σου. Δεν υπάρχει άλλος θεός που αξίζει να λατρεύεται παρά μόνον Αυτός. Και απομακρύνσου απ' εκείνους που αποδίδουν εταίρους στον Αλλάχ στη λατρεία.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
आप उसका पालन करें, जो आपकी ओर आपके पालनहार की तरफ़ से वह़्य की गई है, उसके सिवा कोई सत्य पूज्य नहीं और मुश्रिकों से किनारा कर लें।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Segui ciò che ti è stato ispirato dal tuo Dio; non c’è altra divinità all’infuori di Lui, e tieniti lontano dagli idolatri.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
106. Sek tuo, kas buvo atskleista tau (Muchammedai ﷺ ) iš tavo Viešpaties, La ilaha illa Huva (niekas neturi teisės būti garbinamas tik Allahas) ir atsitrauk nuo Al-Mušrikūn. [6]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Waan Gooftaa kee irraa sitti beeksifame hordofi. Isa malee dhugaan gabbaramaan hin jiru; mushriktoota irraa garagali.
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Русский · Russian
Следуй тому, что внушено тебе от твоего Господа. Нет божества, кроме Него! И отвернись от придающих Аллаху сотоварищей.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Ти следи оно што Господар твој објављује, другога бога осим Њега нема, а окрени се од незнанобожаца!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Fuata yale yaliyofunuliwa kwako kutoka kwa Mola wako Mlezi. Hakuna mungu isipokuwa Yeye. Na jitenge na washirikina.
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Svenska · Swedish
Följ det som har uppenbarats till dig från din Herre – ingen är värd dyrkan utom han – och vänd dig bort från avgudadyrkarna.
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
Rabbinden sana vahyedilene uy. O’ndan başka (hak) ilah yoktur. Müşriklerden de yüz çevir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
آپ خود اس طریق پر چلتے رہئے جس کی وحی آپ کے رب تعالیٰ کی طرف سے آپ کے پاس آئی ہے، اللہ تعالیٰ کے سوا کوئی ﻻئق عبادت نہیں اور مشرکین کی طرف خیال نہ کیجئے۔
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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DIN 31635qad ǧāʾakum baṣāʾiru min rabbikum faman ʾabṣara falinafsihi waman ʿamiya faʿalayhā wamā ʾanā ʿalaykum biḥafīẓin
Talal Itani2012 "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."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 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
George Sale1734 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
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
Talal Itani2012 Had God willed, they would not have practiced idolatry. We did not appoint you as a guardian over them, and you are not a manager over them.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Had Allah willed, they had not been idolatrous. We have not set thee as a keeper over them, nor art thou responsible for them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But had God pleased, they would not have associated aught with Him; but we have not made thee a keeper over them, nor art thou for them a warder
John Medows Rodwell1861 Had God pleased, they had not joined other gods with Him: and we have not made thee keeper over them, neither art thou a guardian over them
George Sale1734 And if God had enforced His will, they would not have set up gods with Him. And We have not made thee a keeper over them, nor art thou over them a guardian
Talal Itani2012 Do not insult those they call upon besides God, lest they insult God out of hostility and ignorance. We made attractive to every community their deeds. Then to their Lord is their return, and He will inform them of what they used to do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Revile not those unto whom they pray beside Allah lest they wrongfully revile Allah through ignorance. Thus unto every nation have We made their deed seem fair. Then unto their Lord is their return, and He will tell them what they used to do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Do not abuse those who call on other than God, for then they may abuse God openly in their ignorance. So do we make seemly to every nation their work, then unto their Lord is their return, and He will inform them of what they have done
John Medows Rodwell1861 Revile not those whom they call on beside God, lest they, in their ignorance, despitefully revile Him. Thus have we planned out their actions for every people; then shall they return to their Lord, and He will declare to them what those actions have been
George Sale1734 And abuse not those whom they call upon besides God, lest they, out of spite, abuse God in their ignorance. Thus unto every people have We caused their doings to seem fair. Then unto their Lord is their return; And He will inform them of what they used to do
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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.50
Talal Itani · George Sale0.50
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.48
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.42
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.33
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
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.