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Talal Itani· published 2012
The Word of your Lord has been completed, in truth and justice. There is no changing to His words. He is the Hearer, the Knower.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Perfected is the Word of thy Lord in truth and justice. There is naught that can change His words. He is the Hearer, the Knower
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
The words of thy Lord are fulfilled in truth and justice; there is none to change His words, for He both hears and knows
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
The words of thy Lord are perfect, in truth and justice; there is none who can change his words: He both heareth and knoweth
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
Fjala e Zotit tënd është e përsosur në vërtetësi e drejtësi. Askush nuk mund t'i ndryshojë fjalët e Tij. Ai është Gjithëdëgjuesi dhe i Gjithëdijshmi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর সত্য ও ইনসাফের দিক দিয়ে তোমার রবের বাণী পরিপূর্ণ। তাঁর বাণীসমূহের পরিবর্তনকারী কেউ নেই। আর তিনি সর্বশ্রোতা, সর্বজ্ঞ।
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
Riječi Gospodara tvoga vrhunac su istine i pravde; Njegove riječi niko ne može promijeniti i On je Svečujući i Sveznajući.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Riječi Gospodara tvoga vrhunac su istine i pravde; Njegove riječi nitko ne može promijeniti i On je Svečujući i Sveznajući.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Konngol Joomi maaɗa ngol timmirii goonga e nuunɗal. Alaa battitoowo konnguɗi makko ɗin. Ko Kaŋko woni Nanoowo, gannduɗo.
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ქართული · Georgian
და აღსრულდა შენი უფლის სიტყვები ჭეშმარიტებით და სამართლიანობით. არავინ არის მისი სიტყვების შემცვლელი: მართლაც, იგია ყოვლისმსმენი, ყოვლისმცოდნე!
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Deutsch · German
Und vollkommen ist das Wort deines Herrn in Wahrhaftigkeit und Gerechtigkeit. Es gibt niemanden, der Seine Worte abändern könnte. Und Er ist der Allhörende und der Allwissende.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ο Λόγος (το Κορ’άν) του Κυρίου σου βρίσκεται στην απόλυτη ειλικρίνεια (σε λόγια και ειδήσεις) και στην απόλυτη δικαιοσύνη (σε κανόνες και κρίσεις). Κανείς δεν μπορεί να αλλάξει τα Λόγια Του, και Αυτός είναι ο Ασ-Σαμεί‘ (Αυτός που ακούει τα πάντα), ο Αλ-‘Αλείμ (ο Παντογνώστης).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
आपके पालनहार की बात सत्य एवं न्याय की दृष्टि से पूरी हो गई। उसकी बातों को कोई बदलने वाला नहीं। और वही सब कुछ सुनने वाला, सब कुछ जानने वाला है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E le parole del tuo Dio sono realizzate con sincerità e giustizia! Non c’è chi possa alterare le Sue parole, e Lui è L’Ascoltatore, Il Sapiente.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
115. Ir jūsų Viešpaties Žodis buvo įvykdytas tiksliai ir teisingai. Niekas negali pakeisti Jo Žodžių. Ir Jis yra Visa Girdintis, Visa Žinantis.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Jechi Gooftaa keetii dhugaafi haqa haala taateen guutamte. Jechoota Isaatiif jijjiiraan hin jiru. Inni dhagayaa, beekaadha.
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Русский · Russian
Свершилось слово твоего Господа во всей правде и справедливости. Нет изменяющего Его словам. Он — Слышащий, Знающий.
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Српски · Serbian
Речи Господара твога врхунац су истине и правде; Његове речи нико не може да промени и Он је Свечујући и Свезнајући.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na yametimia maneno ya Mola Mlezi wako kwa ukweli na uadilifu. Hakuna yeyote wa kuyabadilisha maneno yake. Na Yeye ndiye Mwenye kusikia vyema, Mwenye kujua yote.
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Svenska · Swedish
I sanning och rättvisa har din Herres ord nu fullkomnats. Ingen kan ändra hans ord. Han är den som hör allt, vet allt.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Rabbinin sözü doğruluk ve adalet bakımından eksiksizdir. Onun sözlerini değiştirebilecek yoktur O, her şeyi işiten, her şeyi bilendir.
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اردو · Urdu
آپ کے رب کا کلام سچائی اور انصاف کے اعتبار سے کامل ہے[1] ، اس کے کلام کا کوئی بدلنے واﻻ نہیں[2] اور وه خوب سننے واﻻ خوب جاننے واﻻ ہے۔[3]
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 So that the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter may incline to it, and be content with it, and that they may perpetrate whatever they perpetrate.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That the hearts of those who believe not in the Hereafter may incline thereto, and that they may take pleasure therein, and that they may earn what they are earning
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And let the hearts of those who believe not in the hereafter listen to it; and let them be well pleased with it; and let them gain what they may gain
John Medows Rodwell1861 And let the hearts of those who believe not in the life to come incline thereto, and let them find their content in this, and let them gain what they are gaining
George Sale1734 and let the hearts of those be inclined thereto, who believe not in the life to come; and let them please themselves therein, and let them gain that which they are gaining
DIN 31635ʾafaġayra llāhi ʾabtaġī ḥakaman wahuwa llaḏī ʾanzala ʾilaykumu l-kitāba mufaṣṣalan wallaḏīna ʾātaynāhumu l-kitāba yaʿlamūna ʾannahu munazzalun min rabbika bil-ḥaqqi falā takūnanna mina l-mumtarīna
Talal Itani2012 "Shall I seek a judge other than God, when He is the One who revealed to you the Book, explained in detail?" Those to whom We gave the Book know that it is the truth revealed from your Lord. So do not be of those who doubt.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Shall I seek other than Allah for judge, when He it is Who hath revealed unto you (this) Scripture, fully explained? Those unto whom We gave the Scripture (aforetime) know that it is revealed from thy Lord in truth. So be not thou (O Muhammad) of the waverers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Of other than God shall I crave a decree, when it is He who has sent down to you the Book in detail, and those to whom we gave the Book know that it is sent down from thy Lord, in truth? be thou not then of those who doubt
John Medows Rodwell1861 What! shall I seek other judge than God, when it is He who hath sent down to you the distinguishing Book? They to whom we have given the Book know that it is sent down from thy Lord with truth. Be not thou then of those who doubt
George Sale1734 Shall I seek after any other judge besides God to judge between us? It is He who hath sent down unto you the book of the Koran distinguishing between good and evil; and they to whom We gave the scripture know that it is sent down from thy Lord, with truth. Be not therefore one of those who doubt thereof
Easy-read (simplified)wa'in tuti' akthara man fee l-'ardi yudillooka 'an sabeeli llaahi in yattabi'oona illaa z-zanna wa'in hum illaa yakhrusoon
DIN 31635waʾin tuṭiʿ ʾakṯara man fī l-ʾarḍi yuḍillūka ʿan sabīli llāhi ʾin yattabiʿūna ʾillā ẓ-ẓanna waʾin hum ʾillā yaḫruṣūna
Talal Itani2012 If you were to obey most of those on earth, they would divert you from God's path. They follow nothing but assumptions, and they only conjecture.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 If thou obeyedst most of those on earth they would mislead thee far from Allah's way. They follow naught but an opinion, and they do but guess
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But if thou followest most of those who are in the land, they will lead thee astray from the path of God; they only follow suspicion and they only (rest on) conjecture
John Medows Rodwell1861 But if thou obey most men in this land, from the path of God will they mislead thee: they follow but a conceit, and they are only liars
George Sale1734 But if thou obey the greater part of them who are in the earth, they will lead thee aside from the path of God: They follow an uncertain opinion only, and speak nothing but lies
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 —
0.48 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 · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.46
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.46
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.46
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.42
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.37
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.29
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
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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.