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Talal Itani· published 2012
It is He who sent His Messenger with the guidance and the true religion, to make it prevail over all religions, even though the idolaters dislike it.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
He it is Who hath sent His messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, that He may make it conqueror of all religion however much idolaters may be averse
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
He it is who sent His Apostle with guidance and the religion of truth to set it above all religion; averse although the idolaters may be
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
He it is who hath sent his apostle with guidance and the religion of truth, that, though they hate it who join other gods with God, He may make it victorious over every other religion
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is He who hath sent his apostle with the direction, and the religion of truth, that he may exalt the same above every religion, although the idolaters be averse thereto
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
Është Ai që e çoi të Dërguarin e Tij me udhëzimin dhe fenë e vërtetë, që ta bëjë mbizotëruese mbi të gjitha fetë, edhe pse e urrejnë idhujtarët.
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
তিনিই তাঁর রাসূল (মুহাম্মাদ)কে হিদায়াত ও সত্য দ্বীন (ইসলাম) দিয়ে প্রেরণ করেছেন, যাতে তিনি সকল দ্বীনের উপর তা বিজয়ী করে দেন। যদিও মুশরিকরা তা অপছন্দ করে।
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
On je Onaj Koji je poslao Svog Poslanika s Uputom i Vjerom Istine da bi je uzdigao iznad svih vjera, makar to višebošci mrzili.
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
On je Onaj Koji je poslao Svog Poslanika s Uputom i Vjerom Istine da bi je uzdigao iznad svih vjera, makar to mnogobošci mrzili.
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
Ko Kanoko woni Nulirɗo Nulaaɗo makko on peewal e diina goonga, fii yo o ɓamtu ka e hoore kala diina, hay si sirkooɓe ɓen ngañii [ɗum].
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
იგია (ალლაჰი), რომელმაც მოავლინა თავისი შუამავალი ჭეშმარიტი გზითა და ჭეშმარიტი სარწმუნოებით, რათა იგი აღამაღლოს ყველა სარწმუნოებაზე, თუნდაც ეს სძულდეთ წარმართებს.
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
Er ist es, Der Seinen Gesandten mit der Rechtleitung und der Religion der Wahrheit gesandt hat, um ihr die Oberhand über alle Religion zu geben, auch wenn es den Götzendienern zuwider ist.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αυτός είναι που έστειλε τον Αγγελιαφόρο Του (τον Μωχάμμαντ) με την καθοδήγηση (το Κορ’άν) και τη θρησκεία της Αλήθειας (το Ισλάμ) για να την εξυψώσει πάνω από όλες τις άλλες θρησκείες, ακόμα κι αν οι ειδωλολάτρες (το) μισούν.
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
वही है, जिसने अपने रसूल को मार्गदर्शन तथा सत्धर्म (इस्लाम) के साथ भेजा, ताकि वह उसे प्रत्येक धर्म पर प्रभुत्व प्रदान करे, यद्यपि मुश्रिकों को बुरा लगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Lui è Colui che inviò il Suo Messaggero con la Retta Guida e la Religione della Verità, per farla prevalere su ogni altra religione, anche se gli idolatri saranno avversi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
9. Tai Jis, Kuris siuntė Savo Pasiuntinį su teisingu vedimu ir tiesos religija (islamo monoteizmu), kad paskelbtų ją virš visų religijų, nors Mušrikūn (politeistai, pagonys, daugiadieviai ir netikintieji Allaho Vienumą ir Jo Pasiuntinį Muchammedą ﷺ), to nemėgsta.
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
Inni Isa ergamaa Isaa (muhammadiin) qajeelfamaafi amantii haqaatiin (islaamummaan) ergeedha amantiiwwan biraa hunda irratti ol taasisuuf jecha, odoo mushrikoonni jibbanuu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Он — Тот, Кто отправил Своего посланника с верным руководством и религией истины, чтобы возвысить её над всеми религиями, даже если это ненавистно придающим Аллаху сотоварищей.
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
Он је послао Свог Посланика са упутом и истинитом вером да би је уздигао изнад свих вера, макар то мрзели незнанобошци.
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
Yeye ndiye aliyemtuma Mtume wake kwa uongofu na Dini ya haki ili ipate kuzishinda dini zote, ijapokuwa washirikina watachukia.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Det är han som har sänt sitt sändebud med vägledning och den sanna tron, för att göra den överlägsen all annan tro – även om avgudadyrkarna avskyr det.
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
Müşriklerin hoşuna gitmese de, Rasûlünü hidayet ve hak din ile bütün dinlere üstün gelsin diye gönderen O'dur.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
وہی ہے جس نے اپنے رسول کو ہدایت اور سچا دین دے کر بھیجا تاکہ اسے اور تمام مذاہب پر غالب کر دے[1] اگرچہ مشرکین ناخوش 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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Talal Itani2012 And who is a greater wrongdoer than he who attributes falsehoods to God, when he is being invited to Islam? God does not guide the wrongdoing people.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And who doeth greater wrong than he who inventeth a lie against Allah when he is summoned unto Al-Islam? And Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And who is more unjust than he who forges against God a lie when called unto Islam? but God guides not the unjust people
John Medows Rodwell1861 But who more impious than he who when called to Islam deviseth a falsehood concerning God? God guideth not the wicked
George Sale1734 But who is more unjust than he who forgeth a lie against God, when he is invited unto Islam? And God directeth not the unjust people
Talal Itani2012 They want to extinguish God's Light with their mouths; but God will complete His Light, even though the disbelievers dislike it.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Fain would they put out the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light however much the disbelievers are averse
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They desire to put out the light of God with their mouths; but God will perfect His light, averse although the misbeliever be
John Medows Rodwell1861 Fain would they put out the light of God with their mouths! but though the Infidels hate it, God will perfect his light
George Sale1734 They seek to extinguish God's light with their mouths: But God will perfect his light, though the infidels be averse thereto
Talal Itani2012 That you believe in God and His Messenger, and strive in the cause of God with your possessions and yourselves. That is best for you, if you only knew.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Ye should believe in Allah and His messenger, and should strive for the cause of Allah with your wealth and your lives. That is better for you, if ye did but know
Edward Henry Palmer1880 To believe in God and His Apostle, and to fight strenuously in God's cause with your property and your persons; that is better for you if ye did but know
John Medows Rodwell1861 Believe in God and his apostle, and do valiantly in the cause of God with your wealth and with your persons! This, did ye but know it, will be best for you
George Sale1734 Believe in God and his apostle; and defend God's true religion with your substance, and in your own persons. This will be better for you, if ye knew it
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 —
0.53 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 · George Sale0.71
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.58
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.56
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.55
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.54
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.45
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.40
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.37
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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.