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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.
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.
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
Praise be to God, Who created the heavens and the earth, and made the darkness and the light. Yet those who disbelieve ascribe equals to their Lord.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Praise be to Allah, Who hath created the heavens and the earth, and hath appointed darkness and light. Yet those who disbelieve ascribe rivals unto their Lord
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
Praise belongs to God who created the heavens and the earth, and brought into being the darkness and the light. Yet do those who misbelievehold Him to have peers
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
All praise belongs to God Who created the heavens and the earth and brought into being darkness and light; yet those who disbelieve set up equals to their Lord
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
Lavdërimi i takon Allahut, i Cili i krijoi qiejt e Tokën dhe e bëri errësirën e dritën. Megjithatë, jobesimtarët barazojnë të tjerë me Zotin e tyre.
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
সকল প্রশংসা আল্লাহরই যিনি সৃষ্টি করেছেন, আসমানসমূহ ও জমিন এবং সৃষ্টি করেছেন, অন্ধকার ও আলো। এরপরও কাফিররা তাদের রবের সমকক্ষ ও শরীক বানায়।
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
Sva hvala neka je Allahu, Koji je nebesa i Zemlju stvorio i tmine i svjetlo dao, ali i pored toga oni koji ne vjeruju – druge sa Gospodarom svojim izjednačuju.
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
Sva hvala neka je Allahu, Koji je nebesa i Zemlju stvorio i tmine i svjetlo dao, ali i pored toga oni koji ne vjeruju – druge sa Gospodarom svojim izjednačuju.
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
Gjettooje ngoodanii Alla on Takɗo kammuuli ɗiin e leydi ndin,o waɗi niɓe ɗeen e annoora on.refti ɓen yedduɓe Joom maɓɓe on hobe firlito gaa mum.
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
(ყოველი) ქება — ალლაჰს, რომელმაც შექმნა ცანი და მიწა (და ყველაფერი, რაც მათშია) და დაადგინა სიბნელეები და სინათლე! შემდეგ კი, რომელნიც გახდნენ ურწმუნონი თავიანთ უფალს უთანასწორებენ (ვინმეს ან რაიმეს).
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
Das Lob gebührt Allah, Der die Himmel und die Erde erschaffen und die Finsternisse und das Licht gemacht hat; dennoch setzen diejenigen, die ungläubig sind, ihrem Herrn (andere) gleich.
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
Όλος ο έπαινος και η δόξα ανήκουν στον Αλλάχ, ο Οποίος δημιούργησε τους ουρανούς και τη Γη, και έπλασε το σκοτάδι και το φως. Ωστόσο, εκείνοι που αρνήθηκαν την πίστη εξισώνουν άλλους με τον Κύριό τους (αποδίδοντας εταίρους σ' Αυτόν στη λατρεία).
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
सब प्रशंसा उस अल्लाह के लिए है, जिसने आकाशों तथा धरती को पैदा किया और अँधेरों और प्रकाश को बनाया, फिर (भी) वे लोग जिन्होंने कुफ़्र किया, अपने रब के साथ (दूसरों को) बराबर[1] ठहराते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
La lode sia di Allāh +, che ha creato i cieli e la terra e stabilì le tenebre e la luce; poi quelli che non hanno creduto paragonano altri al loro Dio!
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
1. Visi šlovinimai ir padėkos Allahui, Kuris (Vienas) sukūrė dangus ir žemę, ir davė pradžią tamsai ir šviesai. Tačiau tie, kurie netiki, laiko kitus lygiais savo Viešpačiui.
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 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Faaruun (galanni) hundi kan Rabbii isa samiileefi dachii uumee, dukkanaafi ifa argamsiiseeti. Ergasii isaan kafaran Rabbii isaaniitti qindeessu. [1]
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
Хвала Аллаху, Который сотворил небеса и землю и создал тьму и свет. И после этого те, которые отвергли веру, приравнивают [других] к своему Господу.
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
Сва хвала нека је Аллаху Који је створио небеса и Земљу и дао тмине и светло, али и поред тога они који не верују - друге изједначују са својим Господарем.
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
Sifa njema zote ni za Mwenyezi Mungu, ambaye aliumba mbingu na ardhi, na akafanya giza mbalimbali na nuru. Kisha wale waliokufuru wanawafanya wengine kuwa sawa na Mola wao Mlezi.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
All lovprisning tillkommer Gud, som har skapat himlarna och jorden och låtit mörker och ljus komma till. Ändå likställer de otrogna andra med sin Herre!
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
Hamt, gökleri ve yeri yaratan, karanlıkları ve aydınlığı var eden Allah’a mahsustur. Böyle iken kâfirler Rablerine (ibadet etmede başkalarını) denk tutuyorlar.
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
تمام تعریفیں اللہ ہی کے ﻻئق ہیں جس نے آسمانوں کو اور زمین کو پیدا کیا اور تاریکیوں اور نور کو بنایا[1] پھر بھی کافر لوگ (غیر اللہ کو) اپنے رب کے برابر قرار دیتے ہیں۔[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
About these translations
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.
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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
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Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the
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DIN 31635huwa llaḏī ḫalaqakum min ṭīnin ṯumma qaḍā ʾaǧalan waʾaǧalun musamman ʿindahu ṯumma ʾantum tamtarūna
Talal Itani2012 It is He who created you from clay, then decided a term-a term determined by him. Yet you doubt.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He it is Who hath created you from clay, and hath decreed a term for you. A term is fixed with Him. Yet still ye doubt
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He it is who created you from clay; then He decreed a term, a term ordained with Him. And yet ye doubt thereof
John Medows Rodwell1861 He it is who created you of clay then decreed the term of your life: and with Him is another prefixed term for the resurrection. Yet have ye doubts thereof
George Sale1734 He it is Who created you from clay and then He decreed a term. And there is another term fixed with Him. Yet you doubt
Talal Itani2012 He is God in the heavens and the earth. He knows what you keep secret and what you make public; and He knows what you earn.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He is Allah in the heavens and in the earth. He knoweth both your secret and your utterance, and He knoweth what ye earn
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He is God in the heavens and the earth. He knows your secret conduct and your plain, and He knows what ye earn
John Medows Rodwell1861 And He is God in the Heavens and on the Earth! He knoweth your secrets and your disclosures! and He knoweth what ye deserve
George Sale1734 And He is God, the God, both in the heavens and in the earth. He knows what you disclose and your secrets. And He knows what you earn
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
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.52
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.44
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.43
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.43
Talal Itani · George Sale0.37
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.32
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
As at
13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC
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characterise what the difference means. The renderings are placed
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