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Nothing but truth is it right for me to speak of God. Now am I come to you from your Lord with a proof of my mission; send away, therefore, the children of Israel with me
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
"It is only proper that I should not say about God anything other than the truth. I have come to you with clear evidence from your Lord, so let the Children of Israel go with me."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Approved upon condition that I speak concerningAllah nothing but the truth. I come unto you (lords of Egypt) with a clear proof from your Lord. So let the Children of Israel go with me
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
it is not right for me to speak against God aught but the truth. I have come to you with a manifest sign from my Lord; send then the children of Israel with me
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is not right that I should say anything of God except the truth. I have come to you with a clear Sign from your Lord; therefore, let the children of Israel go with me
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
Mua nuk më takon të them për Allahun asgjë përveç së vërtetës. Unë kam ardhur me dëshmi të qartë nga Zoti juaj, andaj lëri bijtë e Israilit të vijnë me mua."
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
‘আমার উচিত তাঁর ব্যাপারে সত্য ছাড়া আর কিছু না বলা। আমি তোমাদের রবের কাছ থেকে সুস্পষ্ট প্রমাণ নিয়ে, তোমাদের কাছে এসেছি। কাজেই বানূ ইসরাঈলকে তুমি আমার সাথে পাঠিয়ে দাও।’
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
Dužnost mi je da o Allahu samo istinu kažem. Donio sam vam jasan dokaz od Gospodara vašeg, zato pusti da idu sa mnom sinovi Israilovi!"
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
"Dužnost mi je da o Allahu samo istinu kažem. Donio sam vam jasan dokaz od Gospodara vašeg, zato pusti da idu sa mnom sinovi Izraelovi!"
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
No haand i e am nde mi wowlataa e Alla si wanaa goonga. Gooŋɗii mi addanii on ɓanngannduyee immorde ka Joomi mon. neldu e ɓiɗɓe Israa'iila ɓen.
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
მმართებს მე, რომ ალლაჰზე მხოლოდ ჭეშმარიტება ვთქვა. აი, მე მოვედი თქვენთან თქვენი უფლისგან ცხადი ნიშნით (მტკიცებულებით). ამიტომ გაუშვი ჩემთან ერთად ისრაელის ძენი (ტყვეობიდან და დამონებიდან გათავისუფლებით), რათა მათ შეძლონ ალლაჰის თაყვანისცემა!»
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
bestrebt, dass ich über Allah nur die Wahrheit sage. Ich bin bereits mit einem klaren Beweis von eurem Herrn zu euch gekommen. So lasse die Kinder Israils mit mir gehen!“
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 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Είμαι άξιος (και υποχρεωμένος και πρόθυμος) να μην πω τίποτα για τον Αλλάχ εκτός από την αλήθεια. Ήρθα σε σας με ξεκάθαρη απόδειξη από τον Κύριό σας, οπότε άφησε τα παιδιά του Ισραήλ να φύγουν μαζί μου.»
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
मेरे लिए यही योग्य है कि अल्लाह पर सत्य के अतिरिक्त कोई बात न कहूँ। मैं तुम्हारे पास तुम्हारे पालनहार की ओर से एक खुला प्रमाण लाया हूँ। इसलिए बनी इसराई[41] को मेरे साथ भेज दे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
È mio dovere non dire di Allāh se non la verità, sono venuto a voi con una Evidenza da parte del vostro Dio: manda con me i figli d’Israīl.»
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
105. „Teisinga man nesakyti nieko kita apie Allahą, išskyrus tiesą. Iš tiesų, aš atėjau pas jus nuo savojo Viešpaties su aiškiu įrodymu. Taigi lai Israelio (Izraelio) vaikai išvyksta kartu su manimi.“
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
(muusaan nijedhe) Rabbi irratti dhugaa malee dubbachuu dhiisuun koo dhugaadha; dhugumatti ani ragaa ifa galaa Gooftaa keessan irraa ta’een isinitti dhufeera. Kanaafuu Ilmaan Israa’iil na wajjiin gadi dhiisi (bilisoomsi)."
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 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Я не должен говорить об Аллахе ничего, кроме истины. Я уже пришёл к вам с ясным знамением от вашего Господа. Так отпусти же со мной сынов Исраила».
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
„Дужност ми је да о Аллаху само истину кажем. Донео сам вам јасан доказ од вашег Господара, зато пусти да иду са мном синови Израиљеви!“
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
Inastahiki zaidi juu yangu kwamba nisiseme juu ya Mwenyezi Mungu isipokuwa haki tu. Hakika nimewajia na Ishara za waziwazi kutoka kwa Mola wenu Mlezi. Basi waachilie pamoja nami Wana wa Israili."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Det är min plikt att bara säga sanningen om Gud. Jag har kommit till er med ett klart bevis från er Herre; frisläpp därför israeliterna med mig!”
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
Bana yaraşan, Allah hakkında gerçek olandan başkasını söylememektir. Size Rabbinizden apaçık delillerle geldim. Artık İsrailoğulları'nı benimle beraber gönder.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
میرے لیے یہی شایان ہے کہ بجز سچ کے اللہ کی طرف کوئی بات منسوب نہ کروں، میں تمہارے پاس تمہارے رب کی طرف سے ایک بڑی دلیل بھی ﻻیا ہوں[1] ، سو تو بنی اسرائیل کو میرے ساتھ بھیج دے۔[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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DIN 31635ṯumma baʿaṯnā min baʿdihim mūsā biʾāyātinā ʾilā firʿawna wamalaʾihi faẓalamū bihā fānẓur kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu l-mufsidīna
Talal Itani2012 Then, after them, We sent Moses with Our miracles to Pharaoh and his establishment, but they denounced them. So consider the end of the evildoers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then, after them, We sent Moses with our tokens unto Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they repelled them. Now, see the nature of the consequence for the corrupters
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then we raised up after them Moses with our signs to Pharaoh and his chiefs; but they dealt unjustly therewith, and see what was the end of the evildoers
John Medows Rodwell1861 Then after them we sent Moses with our signs to Pharaoh and his nobles, who acted unjustly in their regard. But see what was the end of the corrupt doers
George Sale1734 Then, after them, We sent Moses with Our Signs to Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they unjustly rejected them. Behold, then, what was the end of those who created disorder
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lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.59
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.47
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.39
Talal Itani · George Sale0.32
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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.