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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Nay, but unto Him ye call, and He removeth that because of which ye call unto Him, if He will, and ye forget whatever partners ye ascribed unto Him
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
Nay, it is on Him that ye would call, and He will avert that which ye call upon Him for if He but please; and ye shall forget that which ye did associate with Him
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Yes! to Him will ye cry: and if He please He will deliver you from that ye shall cry to Him to avert, and ye shall forget the partners ye joined with Him
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Nay, but on Him alone will you call; then will He remove, if He pleases, that which you call on Him to remove, and you will forget what you associate with Him
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
Përkundrazi! Atë do ta lutnit, ndërsa Ai do t'jua largonte atë (sprovë) për të cilën e lutnit, nëse do të donte, dhe ju do t'i harronit ata që ia shoqëronit Atij (në adhurim).
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বাংলা · Bengali
বরং তোমরা তাঁকেই ডাকবে। অতঃপর তোমরা যে দুঃখ দূর করতে তাঁকে ডাকছ, তিনি ইচ্ছে করলে, তোমাদের সে দুঃখ দূর করবেন। আর তোমরা যাকে শরীক করো, তা তোমরা ভুলে যাবে (১০)।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Naprotiv, Njega samo molite pa, ako hoće, otklonit će od vas ono za što ste Ga molili, a zaboravljate one koje ste Mu u obožavanju pridruživali.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Naprotiv, Njega samo molite pa, ako hoće, otklonit će od vas ono za što ste Ga molili, a zaboravljate one koje ste Mu u obožavanju pridruživali.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Si ko woni, ko Kaŋko noddoton, o huñca kon ko noddirton mo e mum, si o muuyii, yejjiton ko cirkoton.
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ქართული · Georgian
პირიქით! სწორედ მას [ალლაჰს] მიმართავთ ვედრებით, და ის გიხსნით იმისგან, რის გამოც ევედრებით, თუ ისურვებს; და იმ წამს ივიწყებთ მათ, ვისაც მას თანაზიარად უდგენთ.
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Deutsch · German
Vielmehr werdet ihr Ihn anrufen. So wird Er das hinwegnehmen, weswegen ihr (Ihn) anruft, wenn Er will, und ihr werdet vergessen, was ihr (Ihm) beigesellt.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Όχι (δεν θα επικαλούσασταν τους ψεύτικους θεούς σας), αλλά μόνο Αυτόν θα επικαλούσασταν! Και τότε, αν ήθελε θα σας έσωζε απ' αυτό για το οποίο Τον επικαλούσασταν, και θα ξεχνούσατε ό,τι αποδίδατε σ' Αυτόν από εταίρους στη λατρεία!
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हिन्दी · Hindi
बल्कि तुम उसी को पुकारोगे, फिर वह दूर कर देगा (उस विपत्ति को) जिसके लिए तुम उसे पुकारोगे, यदि उसने चाहा, और तुम भूल जाओगे जिसे साझी बनाते हो।[33]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
Anzi, invocherete proprio Lui, e Lui quel giorno smaschererà quelli che dicevate esserGli pari, se Lui vuole, e dimenticherete ciò che associate a Lui!»
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
41. Ne, Jo Vienintelio jūs šauktumėtės ir, Jei jis panorėtų, Jis pašalintų tą (kančią) dėl kurios jūs Jo šaukėtės, ir jūs tada pamirštumėte visus partnerius, kuriuos priskyrėte (Jam garbinime)!
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Dhugumatti Isa qofa kadhattu, yoo fedhe waan isin gara isaatti kadhattan san isin irraa kaasa. Waan qindeessitan ni irraanfattu.
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Русский · Russian
Нет, напротив, лишь к Нему вы будете взывать, и Он избавит вас от того, о чём вы взывали, если пожелает, и вы забудете то, что придавали в сотоварищи.
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Српски · Serbian
Напротив, Њега бисте само молили да, ако хоће, отклони од вас оно за шта сте Га позивали, а не би вам ни на уму пали они које сте Му у обожавању придруживали.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Bali Yeye ndiye mtakayemuomba, naye atawaondolea mnachomwomba akipenda. Na mtasahau hao mnaowafanya washirika wake.
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Svenska · Swedish
Nej, det är honom ni skulle åkalla. Och om han ville, skulle han avlägsna det som fick er att vända er till honom, och ni skulle överge de avgudar som ni brukade dyrka.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Hayır, yalnız O’na yalvarırsınız. O da dilerse (kaldırılması için) yalvardığınız şeyi giderir; siz de şirk koştuğunuz şeyleri unutursunuz.
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اردو · Urdu
بلکہ خاص اسی کو پکارو گے، پھر جس کے لئے تم پکارو گے اگر وه چاہے تو اس کو ہٹا بھی دے اور جن کو تم شریک ٹھہراتے ہو ان سب کو بھول بھال جاؤ گے۔[1]
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DIN 31635wallaḏīna kaḏḏabū biʾāyātinā ṣummun wabukmun fī ẓ-ẓulumāti man yašaʾi llāhu yuḍlilhu waman yašaʾ yaǧʿalhu ʿalā ṣirāṭin mustaqīmin
Talal Itani2012 Those who reject Our revelations are deaf and dumb, in total darkness. Whomever God wills, He leaves astray; and whomever He wills, He sets on a straight path.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those who deny Our revelations are deaf and dumb in darkness. Whom Allah will sendeth astray, and whom He will He placeth on a straight path
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Those who say our signs are lies - deafness, dumbness, in the dark! whom He pleases does God lead astray, and whom He pleases He places on the right way
John Medows Rodwell1861 They who gainsay our signs are deaf, and dumb, in darkness: God will mislead whom He pleaseth, and whom He pleaseth He will place upon the straight path
George Sale1734 Those who have rejected Our signs are deaf and dumb, in utter darkness. Whom God wills He lets go astray and whom He wills He places on the right path
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Have you considered? if God's punishment came upon you, or the Hour overtook you, would you call upon any other than God, if you are sincere?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: Can ye see yourselves, if the punishment of Allah come upon you or the Hour come upon you, (calling upon other than Allah)? Do ye then call (for help) to any other than Allah? (Answer that) if ye are truthful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Look you now! if there should come God's torment, or there should come to you the hour, on other than God would ye call, if ye do tell the truth
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: What think ye? If the punishment of God were to come upon you, or "the Hour" were to come upon you, will ye cry to any other than God? Tell me, if ye speak the truth
George Sale1734 Say,`Will you tell me if the punishment of God come or there come upon you the Hour, will you call upon any other than God, if you are truthful
DIN 31635walaqad ʾarsalnā ʾilā ʾumamin min qablika faʾaḫaḏnāhum bil-baʾsāʾi waḍ-ḍarrāʾi laʿallahum yataḍarraʿūna
Talal Itani2012 We sent messengers to communities before you, and We afflicted them with suffering and hardship, that they may humble themselves.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 We have sent already unto peoples that were before thee, and We visited them with tribulation and adversity, in order that they might grow humble
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Ere this we sent unto nations before thee, and we caught them in distress and trouble that haply they might humble themselves
John Medows Rodwell1861 Already have we sent apostles to nations that were before thee, and we laid hold on them with troubles and with straits in order that they might humble themselves
George Sale1734 And indeed We sent Messengers to peoples before thee; then We afflicted them with poverty and adversity that they might humble themselves
Talal Itani2012 If only, when Our calamity came upon them, they humbled themselves. But their hearts hardened, and Satan made their deeds appear good to them.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 If only, when Our disaster came on them, they had been humble! But their hearts were hardened and the devil made all that they used to do seem fair unto them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And do they not, when our violence falls upon them, humble themselves?- but their hearts were hard, and Satan made seemly to them that which they had done
John Medows Rodwell1861 Yet, when our trouble came upon them, they did not humble themselves; but their hearts were hardened, and Satan pre-arranged for them their course of conduct
George Sale1734 Why, then, when Our punishment came upon them, did they not humble themselves? But their hearts were hardened all the more and Satan made all that they did seem fair to them
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 —
0.67 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 Rodwell0.79
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.77
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.71
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.55
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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.