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Talal Itani· published 2012
And why should I fear those you associate with Him, and you do not fear associatingothers with God for which He sent down to you no authority? Which side is more entitled to security, if you are aware?"
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
How should I fear that which ye set up beside Him, when ye fear not to set up beside Allah that for which He hath revealed unto you no warrant? Which of the two factions hath more right to safety? (Answer me that) if ye have knowledge
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
How should I fear what ye associate with Him, when ye yourselves fear not to associate with God what He has sent down to you no power to do? Which then of the two sects is worthier of belief, if indeed ye know
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And how should I fear what ye have joined with God, since ye fear not for having joined with Him that for which He hath sent you down no warranty? Which, therefore, of the two parties is more worthy of safety? Know ye that
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And why should I fear that which you associate with God, when you fear not to associate with God that for which He has sent down to you no authority? Which, then, of the two parties has bettertitle to security, If indeed you know
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
E si të frikësohem nga ata që ju i adhuroni në vend të Allahut, ndërkohë që ju nuk keni frikë të adhuroni të tjerë përveç Allahut, gjë për të cilën nuk ju ka zbritur asnjë dëshmi. Pra, cili grup meriton të jetë më i sigurt, nëse e dini?!"
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বাংলা · Bengali
‘তোমরা যাদেরকে শরীক করছো, তাদেরকে আমি কীভাবে ভয় করবো? তোমরা তো মহান আল্লাহর সাথে শরীক করতে আল্লাহকে ভয় করছো না; অথচ তাদেরকে আল্লাহর সাথে শরীক বানানোর প্রসঙ্গে তিনি তোমাদের নিকট কোন দলিল- প্রমাণ নাযিল করেননি। অতএব কোন দলটি নিরাপত্তার বেশি হকদার? যদি তোমাদের জানা থাকে?
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Bosanski · Bosnian
A kako bih se bojao onih koje Njemu pridružujete, kada se vi ne bojite što Allahu u obožavanju pridružujete one za koje vam On nije nikakav dokaz spustio? Pa koji od dva tabora više sigurnost zaslužuje, ako vi znate?
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Hrvatski · Croatian
A kako bih se bojao onih koje Njemu pridružujete, kada se vi ne bojite što Allahu u obožavanju pridružujete one za koje vam On nije nikakav dokaz spustio? Pa koji od dva tabora više sigurnost zaslužuje, ako vi znate?
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko holno mi kulirta kon ko kafiduɗon on kulaali onon le on kafidii Alla e huunde nde O Jippinanaali on hujja? Ko honnde e peɗle ɗiɗi ɓuri haan dude e(hoolaare) deeƴere? Si on laatike annduɓe.
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ქართული · Georgian
და როგორ უნდა მეშინოდეს მე იმისა, რასაც თქვენ ალლაჰს თანაზიარს უყენებთ, მაშინ როცა თქვენ — ო, მრავალღმერთიანებო — არ გეშინიათ, რომ ალლაჰს თანაზიარს უყენებთ იმას, რაზეც მას თქვენთვის არავითარი მტკიცებულება არ ჩამოუვლენია? მაშ, ამ ორი ჯგუფიდან (მრავალღმერთიანებისა და ერთღმერთიანებისა) რომელი უფრო იმსახურებს უსაფრთხოებას (ალლაჰის სასჯელისგან), თუ კი იცით?»
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Deutsch · German
Und wie sollte ich fürchten, was ihr (Ihm) beigesellt, wo ihr euch nicht fürchtet, Allah beizugesellen, wozu Er euch keine Ermächtigung offenbart hat? Welche der beiden Gruppen hat also ein größeres Anrecht auf Sicherheit, wenn ihr (wirklich) wisst?“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Και πώς να φοβάμαι απ' αυτά που αποδίδετε στον Αλλάχ στη λατρεία, ενώ εσείς δεν φοβάστε ότι αποδίδετε εταίρους στον Αλλάχ στη λατρεία, για τους οποίους δεν έχει στείλει (ο Αλλάχ) καμία απόδειξη (ότι αξίζουν τη λατρεία); Ποιο από τα δύο μέρη, λοιπόν, έχει περισσότερο δικαίωμα να αισθάνεται ασφάλεια, αν πραγματικά γνωρίζετε;»
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हिन्दी · Hindi
और मैं उससे कैसे डरूँ, जिसे तुमने साझी बनाया है, हालाँकि तुम इस बात से नहीं डरते कि निःसंदेह तुमने अल्लाह के साथ उसको साझी बनाया है, जिसकी कोई दलील उसने तुमपर नहीं उतारी, तो दोनों पक्षों में शांति का अधिक हक़दार कौन है, यदि तुम जानते हो?
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E come posso temere ciò che Gli paragonate, e non temete di avere associato ad Allāh ciò che Lui non ha inviato a voi, senza prove? Quale delle due parti è degna di fiducia, lo sapete?”
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
81. „Ir kaip aš turėčiau bijoti tų, kuriuos jūs priskiriate garbinime Allahui (nors jie negali nei padėti, nei pakenkti), kai jūs nebijote to, kad jūs priskiriate garbinime Allahui tai, dėl ko Jis nesiuntė jums jokio leidimo. (Taigi) kas iš dviejų turi daugiau teisių būti saugūs? Jei tik jūs žinotumėte.“
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Ani akkamittin waan isin qindeessitan sodaadha? Odoo isin waan Inni ragaa isaa isin irratti hin buusin kan qindeesitan hin sodaanne taatanuu, garee lamaan (kaafiraafii mu'iminaa) keessaa isa kamtu tasgabbii haqa godhata? Yoo kan beektan taataniif (jedhi). [14]
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Русский · Russian
Как мне бояться того, что вы придаёте Ему в сотоварищи, тогда как вы не боитесь того, что придали Аллаху в сотоварищи то, на что Он не ниспосылал вам никакого доказательства? Какая же из двух групп более достойна безопасности, если вы знаете?»
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Српски · Serbian
А како да се ја бојим лажних божанстава, када се ви не бојите што поред Аллаха обожавате оне за које вам Он није никакав доказ спустио? Па ко од нас више сигурност заслужује, ако знате?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na vipi nivihofu hivyo mlivyovishirikisha, ilhali nyinyi hamhofu kuwa nyinyi mmemshirikisha Mwenyezi Mungu na kitu ambacho hakuwateremshia uthibitisho juu yake. Basi ni kundi gani katika mawili haya lina haki zaidi kupata amani, ikiwa nyinyi mnajua?
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Svenska · Swedish
Och varför skulle jag frukta era avgudar, när ni själva inte fruktar det faktum att ni satt avgudar vid Guds sida – något han inte givit någon befogenhet till. Vilken av dessa två grupper har bäst anledning att känna sig trygg, om ni verkligen vet?
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Türkçe · Turkish
“Allah’ın size, hakkında hiçbir delil indirmediği şeyleri O’na şirk koşmaktan korkmuyorsunuz da, ben sizin şirk koştuğunuz şeylerden ne diye korkayım? Öyle ise iki taraftan hangisi güvende olmaya daha lâyıktır? Eğer biliyorsanız (haydi söyleyin!)
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اردو · Urdu
اور میں ان چیزوں سے کیسے ڈروں جن کو تم نے شریک بنایا ہے حاﻻنکہ تم اس بات سے نہیں ڈرتے کہ تم نے اللہ کے ساتھ ایسی چیزوں کو شریک ٹھہرایا ہے جن پر اللہ تعالیٰ نے کوئی دلیل نازل نہیں فرمائی، سو ان دو جماعتوں میں سے امن کا زیاده مستحق کون ہے[1] اگر تم خبر رکھتے ہو۔
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DIN 31635ʾinnī waǧǧahtu waǧhiya lillaḏī faṭara s-samāwāti wal-ʾarḍa ḥanīfan wamā ʾanā mina l-mušrikīna
Talal Itani2012 I have directed my attention towards Him Who created the heavens and the earth-a monotheist-and I am not of the idolaters."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! I have turned my face toward Him Who created the heavens and the earth, as one by nature upright, and I am not of the idolaters
Edward Henry Palmer1880 verily, I have turned my face to him who originated the heaven and the earth, as a 'Hanif, and I am not of the idolaters
John Medows Rodwell1861 I turn my face to him who hath created the Heavens and the Earth, following the right religion: I am not one of those who add gods to God
George Sale1734 I have turned my face toward Him Who created the heavens and the earth, being ever inclined to God, and I am not of those who associate gods with Him
Talal Itani2012 And his people argued with him. He said, "Do you argue with me about God, when He has guided me? I do not fear what you associate with Him, unless my Lord wills it. My Lord comprehends all things in knowledge. Will you not reconsider?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 His people argued with him. He said: Dispute ye with me concerning Allah when He hath guided me? I fear not at all that which ye set up beside Him unless my Lord willeth aught. My Lord includeth all things in His knowledge. Will ye not then remember
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And his people disputed with him;- he said, 'Do ye dispute with me concerning God, when He has guided me? but I fear not what ye associate with Him unless my Lord should wish for anything. My Lord doth comprehend all things in His knowledge, will ye not then remember
John Medows Rodwell1861 And his people disputed with him. - He said: "Dispute ye with me about God, when He hath guided me? And I fear not the deities whom ye join with Him, for only by the will of my Lord have they any power: My Lord embraceth all things in His knowledge. Will ye not then consider
George Sale1734 And his people argued with him. He said, 'Do you argue with me concerning God when He has guided me aright? And I fear not that which you associate with HIM' except that I fear what my Lord wills. My Lord comprehends all things in His knowledge. Will you not them be admonished
DIN 31635watilka ḥuǧǧatunā ʾātaynāhā ʾibrāhīma ʿalā qawmihi narfaʿu daraǧātin man našāʾu ʾinna rabbaka ḥakīmun ʿalīmun
Talal Itani2012 That was Our argument which We gave to Abraham against his people. We elevate by degrees whomever We will. Your Lord is Wise and Informed.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That is Our argument. We gave it unto Abraham against his folk. We raise unto degrees of wisdom whom We will. Lo! thy Lord is Wise, Aware
Edward Henry Palmer1880 These are our arguments which we gave to Abraham against his people;- we raise the rank of whom we will; verily, thy Lord is wise and knowing
John Medows Rodwell1861 This is our reasoning with which we furnished Abraham against his people: We uplift to grades of wisdom whom we will; Verily thy Lord is Wise, Knowing
George Sale1734 And that is Our argument which We gave to Abraham against his people. We exalt in decrees of rank whomso We please. Thy Lord is indeed Wise, All-Knowing
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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.
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.75
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.60
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · George Sale0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.47
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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.