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Talal Itani· published 2012
It is He who sent among the unlettered a messenger from themselves; reciting His revelations to them, and purifying them, and teaching them the Scripture and wisdom; although they were in obvious error before that.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
He it is Who hath sent among the unlettered ones a messenger of their own, to recite unto them His revelations and to make them grow, and to teach them the Scripture and wisdom, though heretofore they were indeed in error manifest
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 unto the Gentiles a prophet amongst themselves to recite to them His signs and to purify them, and to teach them the Book and the wisdom, although they were before in obvious error
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is He who hath sent to the paganfolk (Arabs) an Apostle from among themselves, to rehearse His signs to them, and to purify them, and to impart to them a knowledge of "the Book" and wisdom; for aforetime were they in manifest error
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is He who hath raised up amidst the illiterateArabians an apostle from among themselves, to rehearse his signs unto them, and to purify them, and to teach them the scriptures and wisdom; whereas before they were certainly in a manifest error
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 u dërgoi analfabetëve një të Dërguar nga mesi i tyre, i cili ua lexon ajetet e Tij, i pastron ata e ua mëson Librin dhe Urtësinë, ndonëse më parë ishin në një humbje të qartë,
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বাংলা · Bengali
তিনিই উম্মীদের তথা নিরক্ষর আরবদের মাঝে তাদের মধ্য থেকে একজন রাসূল পাঠিয়েছেন, যে তাদের কাছে তিলাওয়াত করে তাঁর আয়াতসমূহ, তাদেরকে (১) (কুফরী ও মন্দ চরিত্র থেকে) পবিত্র করে এবং তাদেরকে শিক্ষা দেয় কিতাব ও হিকমাত (কুরআন ও সুন্নাহ)। যদিও ইতঃপূর্বে তারা স্পষ্ট গোমরাহীতে নিমজ্জিত ছিল।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
On je nepismenima poslao Poslanika, jednog između njih, da im ajete Njegove kazuje i da ih očisti i da ih Knjizi i mudrosti nauči, iako su prije bili u očitoj zabludi,
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Hrvatski · Croatian
On je nepismenima poslao Poslanika, jednog između njih, da im ajete Njegove kazuje i da ih očisti i da ih Knjizi i mudrosti nauči, iako su prije bili u očitoj zabludi,
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko Kaŋko nuli e humammbinneeɓe ɓeen Nulaaɗo jiyaaɗo e maɓɓe, himo janngana ɓe Aayeeje makko ɗen, o laɓɓina ɓe, o anndina ɓe deftere nden e Sunna on, hay si tawiino ko adii ɗuum, ɓe laatino e majjere ɓanngude.
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ქართული · Georgian
იგია [ალლაჰი], ვინც უწიგნურ [არაბებთან] გამოგზავნა მოციქული მათი წრიდან [მუჰამმადი] (მთელი კაცობრიობისთვის), რომელიც უკითხავს მათ მის აიათებს [ყურანს], ასუფთავებს მათ (ცრუ რწმენებისა და ცუდი ზნეობრივი თვისებებისგან), და ასწავლის მათ წიგნს [ყურანს] და სიბრძნეს [სუნნას], თუმცა ისინი მანამდე [მის მოსვლამდე] აშკარა ცდომილებაში იყვნენ (კერპებს თაყვანს სცემდნენ, სისხლს ღვრიდნენ, და ნათესაურ კავშირებს წყვეტდნენ).
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Deutsch · German
Er ist es, Der unter den Schriftunkundigen einen Gesandten von ihnen hat erwecken lassen, der ihnen Seine Zeichen verliest, sie läutert und sie das Buch und die Weisheit lehrt, obgleich sie sich ja zuvor in deutlichem Irrtum befanden,
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Αυτός είναι που έστειλε ανάμεσα στους αγράμματους (Άραβες που ούτε ήξεραν γραφή ούτε είχαν ένα Βιβλίο από τον Αλλάχ) έναν Αγγελιαφόρο (τον Μωχάμμαντ) από τους ίδιους (και για όλους τους ανθρώπους). Τους απαγγέλλει τα Εδάφιά Του (το Κορ'άν), τους εξαγνίζει (από την απιστία), και τους διδάσκει το Βιβλίο (το Κορά'ν) και τη σοφία (την Σούννα -παράδοση- του Προφήτη Μωχάμμαντ). Και στ’ αλήθεια, αυτοί πριν (από την αποστολή του) βρίσκονταν σε ξεκάθαρη πλάνη·
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हिन्दी · Hindi
वही है, जिसने अनपढ़ों[1] के अंदर उन्हीं में से एक रसूल भेजा, जो उन्हें अल्लाह की आयतें पढ़कर सुनाता है, उन्हें पवित्र करता है तथा उन्हें पुस्तक (क़ुरआन) एवं हिकमत[2] (सुन्नत) की शिक्षा देता है, निःसंदेह वे इससे पहले खुली गुमराही में थे।
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Italiano · Italian
Lui è Colui che inviò agli incolti un Messaggero tra loro, a recitare loro i Suoi Segni, a purificarli e insegnare loro la Scrittura e la Saggezza, e prima erano in chiara perdizione.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
2. Tai Jis, Kuris pasiuntė neraštingiems (arabams) Pasiuntinį iš jų pačių tarpo, recituojantį jiems Jo eilutes ir apvalantį juos, ir mokinantį juos Knygos (t. y. Korano) ir išminties (t. y. sunnos), nors anksčiau jie buvo akivaizdžiame paklydime.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Inni Isa ummata barreesuufii dubbisuu hinbeeyne keessatti ergamaa isaan irraa ta'e (muhammad) ergeedha, kan keeyyattoota Isaa isaan irratti qara'u, (shirkii irraayis) isaan qulqulleessuufi kitaabaafi ogummaa isaan barsiisu ergeedha. Isaan (ergamuu isaatiin) dura jallinna ifa ta'e keessa turan.
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Русский · Russian
Он — Тот, Кто отправил к неграмотным посланника из них же самих, который читает им Его аяты, очищает их и обучает их Писанию и Мудрости, — тогда как прежде они пребывали в явном заблуждении.
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Српски · Serbian
Он је неписменима послао Посланика, једног између њих, да им речи Његове казује и да их очисти и да их Књизи и мудрости научи, иако су пре били у очигледној заблуди,
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Yeye ndiye aliyemtuma Mtume kwenye watu wasiojua kusoma na kuandika, awasomee Aya zake na awatakase, na awafunze Kitabu na hekima, ijapokuwa kabla ya haya walikuwa katika upotovu ulio dhahiri.
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Svenska · Swedish
Det är han som har sänt ett sändebud bland de olärda, ur deras egna led, för att recitera hans verser för dem, rena dem och lära dem skriften och [den profetiska] visdomen – dessa som dessförinnan var i uppenbar villfarelse.
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Türkçe · Turkish
O; ümmîlere içlerinden kendilerine ayetlerini okuyan, onları arındıran, onlara kitabı ve hikmeti öğreten bir peygamber gönderendir. Hâlbuki onlar, bundan önce apaçık bir sapıklık içinde idiler.
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اردو · Urdu
وہی ہے جس نے ناخوانده لوگوں[1] میں ان ہی میں سے ایک رسول بھیجا جو انہیں اس کی آیتیں پڑھ کر سناتا ہے اور ان کو پاک کرتا ہے اور انہیں کتاب وحکمت سکھاتا ہے۔ یقیناً یہ اس سے پہلے کھلی گمراہی میں تھے.
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Talal Itani2012 Everything in the heavens and the earth glorifies God the Sovereign, the Holy, the Almighty, the Wise.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 All that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth glorifieth Allah, the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One, the Mighty, the Wise
Edward Henry Palmer1880 What is in the heavens and what is in the earth celebrates the praises of God the King, the holy? the mighty, the wise
John Medows Rodwell1861 ALL that is in the Heavens, and all that is on the Earth, uttereth the Praise of God, the King! the Holy! the Mighty! the Wise
George Sale1734 Whatever is in heaven and earth praiseth God; the King, the Holy, the Mighty, the Wise
DIN 31635waʾāḫarīna minhum lammā yalḥaqū bihim wahuwa l-ʿazīzu l-ḥakīmu
Talal Itani2012 And others from them, who have not yet joined them. He is the Glorious, the Wise.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Along with others of them who have not yet joined them. He is the Mighty, the Wise
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And others of them have not yet overtaken them; but He is the mighty, the wise
John Medows Rodwell1861 And others among them have not yet overtaken those who preceded them in the faith. But He is the Mighty, the Wise
George Sale1734 And others of them have not yet attained unto them, by embracing the faith; though they also shall be converted in God's good time; for He is mighty and wise
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.52
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.49
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.46
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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.