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Talal Itani· published 2012
But your people rejected it, though it is the truth. Say, "I am not responsible for you."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Thy people (OMuhammad) have denied it, though it is the Truth. Say: I am not put in charge of 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
Thy people called it a lie, and yet it is the truth. Say, 'I have not charge over you
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And thy people have rejected it though it is the truth. Say, '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
Atë (Kuranin) e përgënjeshtroi populli yt, megjithëqë ai është i vërtetë. Thuaj: "Unë nuk jam mbikëqyrësi juaj."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর তোমার সম্প্রদায় তা অস্বীকার করেছে; অথচ তা সত্য। বল: ‘আমি তোমাদের ওপর তত্ত্বাবধায়ক 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
Tvoj narod Kur'an poriče, a on je istina. Reci: "Ja nisam zadužen da vam Uputu dam,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Tvoj narod Kur'an poriče, a on je istina. Reci: "Ja nisam zadužen da vam Uputu dam,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Yimɓe maa ɓen njeddii ndee [Al Qur'aanaare], ko kayre le woni goonga kan. Maaku : "Mi wonaali e dow mon pawtiiɗo"(.jogiiɗo )
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და შენმა ხალხმა უარყო იგი [ყურანი], მიუხედავად იმისა, რომ იგი ჭეშმარიტებაა. უთხარი (მათ): «მე არ ვარ თქვენზე პასუხისმგებელი».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Aber dein Volk erklärte ihn (also den Quran) für Lüge, obwohl er die Wahrheit ist. Sag: „Ich bin nicht als Sachwalter über euch (eingesetzt).“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Στ' αλήθεια, διέψευσε ο λαός σου (ω, Προφήτη) αυτό (το Κορ’άν) αν και είναι η αλήθεια! Πες: «Δεν είμαι φύλακας (ή παρατηρητής) πάνω σας (αλλά η ευθύνη μου είναι μόνο να σας μεταδώσω το Θείο Μήνυμα).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और (ऐ नबी!) आपकी जाति ने इस (क़ुरआन) को झुठला दिया, हालाँकि वह सत्य है।आप कह दें : मैं हरगिज़ तुमपर कोई निरीक्षक नहीं हूँ।[49]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E il tuo popolo considera ciò una menzogna, ma è la verità! Di’: «Io non sono il vostro protettore».
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
66. Bet tavo žmonės (Muchammedai ﷺ ) atmetė tai (Koraną) nors jis yra tiesa. Sakyk: „Aš nesu jūsų Vakil (sargas).“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Odoo inni dhugaa ta'ee jiruu ummanni kee isa kijibsiisan. "Ani isin irratti tiksaa hintaane" jedhiin.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Твой народ счёл его ложью, тогда как он [Коран] — истина. Скажи: «Я не являюсь над вами попечителем».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Твој народ пориче Кур' ан, а он је Истина. Реци: „Ја нисам задужен да Упуту прихватите,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na kaumu yako waliikadhibisha, nayo ndiyo Haki. Sema: Mimi si wakili juu yenu.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Ditt folk vägrar tro på denna [skrift], trots att det är sanningen. Säg: ”Jag är inte satt att vaka över er.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
O (Kur’an) hak olduğu hâlde, kavmin onu yalanladı. De ki: “Ben size vekil (kefil) değilim.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور آپ کی قوم[1] اس کی تکذیب کرتی ہے حاﻻنکہ وه یقینی ہے۔ آپ کہہ دیجئے کہ میں تم پر تعینات نہیں کیا گیا 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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Easy-read (simplified)qul huwa l-qaadiru 'alaa an yab'atha 'alaykum 'adhaaban min fawqikum aw min tahti arjulikum aw yalbisakum shiya'an wayudheeqa ba'dakum ba'sa ba'din nzur kayfa nusarrifu l-'aayaati la'allahum yafqahoon
DIN 31635qul huwa l-qādiru ʿalā ʾan yabʿaṯa ʿalaykum ʿaḏāban min fawqikum ʾaw min taḥti ʾarǧulikum ʾaw yalbisakum šiyaʿan wayuḏīqa baʿḍakum baʾsa baʿḍin nẓur kayfa nuṣarrifu l-ʾāyāti laʿallahum yafqahūna
Talal Itani2012 Say, "He is Able to send upon you an affliction, from above you, or from under your feet. Or He can divide you into factions, and make you taste the violence of one another. Note how We explain the revelations, so that they may understand."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: He is able to send punishment upon you from above you or from beneath your feet, or to bewilder you with dissension and make you taste the tyranny one of another. See how We display the revelations so that they may understand
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'He is able to send torment on you from above you and from beneath your feet, and to confuse you in sects, and to make some of you taste the violence of others.' See how we turn about the signs, that haply they may discriminate
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: It is He who hath power to send on you a punishment from above you, or from beneath your feet, or to clothe you with discord, and to make some of you to taste the violence of others. See how variously we handle the wondrous verses, that haply they may become wise
George Sale1734 Say, 'He has the power to send punishment upon you from above you or from beneath your feet, or to confound you by splitting you into sects and make you taste the violence of one another. See how We expound the Signs in various ways that they may understand
Talal Itani2012 When you encounter those who gossip about Our revelations, turn away from them, until they engage in another topic. But should Satan make you forget, do not sit after the recollection with the wicked people.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when thou seest those who meddle with Our revelations, withdraw from them until they meddle with another topic. And if the devil cause thee to forget, sit not, after the remembrance, with the congregation of wrong-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 When thou dost see those who plunge deeply into the discussion of our signs, turn from them until they plunge deeply into some other discourse; for it may be that Satan may make thee forget; but sit not, after thou hast remembered, with the unjust people
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when thou seest those who busy themselves with cavilling at our signs, withdraw from them till they busy themselves in some other subject: and if Satan cause thee to forget this, sit not, after recollection, with the ungodly people
George Sale1734 And when thou seest those who engage in vain discourse concerning Our Signs, then turn thou away from them until they engage in a discourse other than that. And if Satan should cause thee to forget, then sit not, after recollection, with the unjust people
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
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.69
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.54
Talal Itani · George Sale0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.46
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.36
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.
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13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC
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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.