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And Mary, the daughter of Imran, who guarded her womb, and so We breathed into her of Our Spirit; and she believed in the truth of her Lord's Words and His Books, and was one of the devout.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And Mary, daughter of 'Imran, whose body was chaste, therefor We breathed therein something of Our Spirit. And she putfaith in the words of her Lord and His scriptures, and was of the obedient
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
And Mary, daughter of Imran, who guarded her privateparts, and we breathed therein of our spirit and she verified the words of her Lord and His books, and was of the devout
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And Mary, the daughter of Imran, who kept her maidenhood, and into whose womb we breathed of our spirit, and who believed in the words of her Lord and His Scriptures, and was one of the devout
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And Mary the daughter of Imran; who preserved her chastity, and into whose womb we breathed of our spirit, and who believed in the words of her Lord and his scriptures, and was a devout and obedient person
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
Edhe Merjemen, bijën e Imranit, e cila e ruajti nderin e saj. Ne frymë brenda saj shpirtin. Ajo u besoi fjalëve të Zotit të saj e Librave të Tij dhe ishte prej të përkushtuarve.
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
(আল্লাহ আরও উদাহরণ পেশ করেন,) ‘ইমরান কন্যা মারইয়ামের, যে নিজের সতীত্ব রক্ষা করেছিল। ফলে আমি তাতে আমার রূহ থেকে ফুঁকে দিয়েছিলাম। আর সে তার রবের বাণীসমূহ ও তাঁর কিতাবসমূহের সত্যতা স্বীকার করেছিল এবং সে ছিল অনুগতদের অন্তর্ভুক্ত।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
I Merjemu, kćer Imranovu, koja je nevinost svoju sačuvala, pa smo u nju duha Svog udahnuli, i ona je u riječi Gospodara svoga i Knjige Njegove povjerovala i od onih koji su pokorni bila.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
I Mariju, kći Imranovu, koja je nevinost svoju sačuvala, pa smo u nju duha Svog udahnuli, i ona je u riječi Gospodara svoga i Knjige Njegove povjerovala i od onih koji su pokorni bila.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
E Maryama ɓiy imraana oon deenɗo hoore makko e jina min ngutti heen ruuhu amen o gooŋɗini konngi joomiiko e defte makko o tawa e ɗoftiiɓe ɓe.
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ქართული · Georgian
და (ასევე ალლაჰმა მაგალითად მოუყვანა მორწმუნეთათვის) მარიამი, 'იმრანის ასული, რომელმაც დაიცვა თავისი სიწმინდე (მას არც ერთ მამაკაცი არ შეხებია). და ჩვენ (გავუგზავნეთ მას ანგელოზი ჯიბრილი და) ჩავბერეთ მასში [მის სამოსელში არსებული ნაპრალიდან] ჩვენი სულისაგან — იმ სულისაგან, რომელიც ჩვენ გვეკუთვნის (რომელიც ჯიბრილმა მოიტანა). და მან ჭეშმარიტად მიიღო თავისი უფლის სიტყვები და მისი წერილები (რომლებიც მან თავისი მოციქულებისთვის მოავლინა) და იგი იყო განსაკუთრებულად ღვთისმოსავთა შორის.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und (auch ein Gleichnis von) Maryam, der Tochter 'Imrans, die ihre Scham unter Schutz stellte, worauf Wir in sie von Unserem Geist einhauchten. Und sie hielt die Worte ihres Herrn und Seine Bücher für wahr und gehörte zu den (Allah) demütig Ergebenen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Και (επίσης προβάλλει ως καλό παράδειγμα για τους Μουσουλμάνους) τη Μαρία (τη μητέρα του Ιησού), την κόρη του ‘Ιμράν, η οποία φύλαξε την αγνότητά της. Κι έτσι, διατάξαμε τον άγγελό Μας (τον Γαβριήλ) να εμφυσήσει σε μια σχισμή στο ένδυμά της (και έτσι συνέλαβε τον Ιησού), και εκείνη πίστεψε στα λόγια του Κυρίου της, και στα Βιβλία Του, και ήταν από τους ευλαβικά υπάκουους.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा इमरान की बेटी मरयम का (उदाहरण प्रस्तुत किया है), जिसने अपने सतीत्व की रक्षा की, तो हमने उसमें अपनी एक रूह़ फूँक दी तथा उसने अपने पालनहार की बातों और उसकी पुस्तकों की पुष्टि की और वह इबादत करने वालों में से थी।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E Maryem, figlia d’Imrān ﴿مَرْيَمَ ابْنَتَ عِمْرَانَ﴾, che preservò la sua purezza, così vi soffiammo del Nostro Spirito, e credette alle parole del suo Dio e nei Suoi Libri, e fu tra le devote.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
12. Ir (pavyzdį) Marjamos (Marijos), Imrano dukters, kuri saugojo savo skaistybę, taigi Mes įpūtėme į (jos apdarus) per Mūsų angelą (t. y. Džibrilį (Gabrielių)). Ir ji patikėjo savo Viešpaties žodžiais ir Jo Raštais ir buvo iš nuoširdžiai paklusniųjų.
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Русский · Russian
И [Он привёл пример] Марьям, дочь ‘Имрана, которая сохранила своё лоно, и Мы вдохнули в него от Нашего духа. Она подтвердила истинность слов своего Господа и Его Писаний и была из числа смиренных.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
И Марију, кћер Јоакимову, која је своју невиност сачувала, па смо у њу живот удахнули, и она је у речи свога Господара и Његове књиге поверовала и била је од оних који су покорни.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na Mariamu binti wa Imrani, aliyelinda ubikira wake, na tukampulizia humo kutoka roho yetu, na akayasadiki maneno ya Mola wake Mlezi na Vitabu vyake, na alikuwa miongoni mwa watiifu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Och [Gud ger även exemplet]: Maria, ʿImrāns dotter, som helt bevarade sin kyskhet. Vi lät blåsa in i henne av vår [för människan skapade] själ. Hon trodde på sin Herres ord och skrifter, och hon var oss troget hängiven.
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Türkçe · Turkish
İffetini koruyan İmran’ın kızı Meryem'i de... Ona ruhumuzdan üflemiştik. O da Rabbinin sözlerini ve kitaplarını tasdik etmişti. O, itaatkârlardan biri idi.
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اردو · Urdu
اور (مثال بیان فرمائی) مریم بنت عمران کی[1] جس نے اپنے ناموس کی حفاﻇت کی پھر ہم نے اپنی طرف سے اس میں جان پھونک دی اور (مریم) اس نے اپنے رب کی باتوں[2] اور اس کی کتابوں کی تصدیق کی اور عبادت گزاروں میں سے تھی.[3]
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.
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Easy-read (simplified)daraba llaahu mathalan lilladheena kafaroo mra'ata noohin wamra'ata lootin kaanataa tahta 'abdayni min 'ibaadinaa saalihayni fakhaanataahumaa falam yughniyaa 'anhumaa mina llaahi shay'an waqeela dkhulaa n-naara ma'a d-daakhileen
DIN 31635ḍaraba llāhu maṯalan lillaḏīna kafarū mraʾata nūḥin wamraʾata lūṭin kānatā taḥta ʿabdayni min ʿibādinā ṣāliḥayni faḫānatāhumā falam yuġniyā ʿanhumā mina llāhi šayʾan waqīla dḫulā n-nāra maʿa d-dāḫilīna
Talal Itani2012 God illustrates an example of those who disbelieve: the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot. They were under two of Our righteous servants, but they betrayed them. They availed them nothing against God, and it was said, "Enter the Fire with those who are entering."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah citeth an example for those who disbelieve: the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot, who were under two of Our righteous slaves yet betrayed them so that they (the husbands) availed them naught against Allah and it was said (unto them): Enter the Fire along with those who enter
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God strikes out a parable to those who misbelieve: the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot; they were under two of our righteous servants, but they betrayed them: and they availed them nothing against God; and it was said, 'Enter the fire with those who enter
John Medows Rodwell1861 God setteth forth as an example to unbelievers the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot; they were under two of our righteous servants, both of whom they deceived: but their husbands availed them nought against God: and it shall be said "Enter ye into the fire with those who enter
George Sale1734 God propoundeth as a similitude unto the unbelievers, the wife of Noah, and the wife of Lot: They were under two of our righteous servants, and they deceived them both; wherefore their husbands were of no advantage unto them at all, in the sight of God: And it shall be said unto them, at the last day, enter ye into hell fire, with those who enter therein
Easy-read (simplified)wadaraba llaahu mathalan lilladheena aamanoo mra'ata fir'awna idh qaalat rabbi bni lee 'indaka baytan fee l-jannati wanajjinee min fir'awna wa'amalihi wanajjinee mina l-qawmi z-zaalimeen
DIN 31635waḍaraba llāhu maṯalan lillaḏīna ʾāmanū mraʾata firʿawna ʾiḏ qālat rabbi bni lī ʿindaka baytan fī l-ǧannati wanaǧǧinī min firʿawna waʿamalihi wanaǧǧinī mina l-qawmi ẓ-ẓālimīna
Talal Itani2012 And God illustrates an example of those who believe: the wife of Pharaoh, when she said, "My Lord, build for me, with you, a house in Paradise, and save me from Pharaoh and his works, and save me from the wrongdoing people."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Allah citeth an example for those who believe: the wife of Pharaoh when she said: My Lord! Build for me a home with thee in the Garden, and deliver me from Pharaoh and his work, and deliver me from evil-doing folk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And God strikes out a parable for those who believe: the wife of Pharaoh, when she said, 'My Lord, build for me a house with Thee in Paradise, and save me from Pharaoh and his works, and save me from the unjust people
John Medows Rodwell1861 God also holdeth forth to those who believe the example of the wife of Pharaoh, when she said, "Lord, build me an house with thee in Paradise, and deliver me from Pharaoh and his doings; and deliver me from the wicked
George Sale1734 God also propoundeth as a similitude unto those who believe, the wife of Pharaoh; when she said, Lord, build me an house with thee in paradise; and deliver me from Pharaoh and his doings, and deliver me from the unjust people
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
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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 Pickthall0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.51
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.51
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.48
Talal Itani · George Sale0.43
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.41
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.34
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.26
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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.