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Talal Itani· published 2012
A Scripture was revealed to you, so let there be no anxiety in your heart because of it. You are to warn with it-and a reminder for the believers.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
(It is) a Scripture that is revealed unto thee (Muhammad) - so let there be no heaviness in thy heart therefrom - that thou mayst warn thereby, and (it is) a Reminder unto believers
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
A book revealed to thee,- so let there be no straitness in thy breast, that thou mayest warn thereby,- and a reminder to the believers
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
A Book hath been sent down to thee: therefore let there be no difficulty in thy breast concerning it: to the intent that thou mayest warn thereby, and that it may be a monition to the faithful
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
A book hath been sent down unto thee: And therefore let there be no doubt in thy breast concerning it; that thou mayest preach the same, and that it may be an admonition unto the faithful
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
Ky është një Libër që të është shpallur ty, andaj le të mos ketë shtrëngim në gjoksin tënd për shkak të tij, (meqë të është shpallur) që të paralajmërosh me të dhe si këshillë për besimtarët.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
এটি কিতাব, যা তোমার প্রতি নাযিল করা হয়েছে। সুতরাং তার সম্পর্কে তোমার অন্তরে যেন কোন সঙ্কীর্ণতা ও সন্দেহ না থাকে, যাতে তুমি এর দ্বারা সতর্ক করতে পারো এবং এটি মু’মিনদের জন্য উপদেশ।
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
Ovo je knjiga koja ti se spušta – pa neka ti u grudima ne bude nikakve tegobe zbog nje – da njome upozoravaš, i da vjernicima bude opomena.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Ovo je knjiga koja ti se spušta – pa neka ti u grudima ne bude nikakve tegobe zbog nje – da njome upozoravaš, i da vjernicima bude opomena.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɗum de ko deftere Jippinaande e maaɗa, wata ɓitteende won e ɓernde maa e mayre ; fii yo a waajor nde, ko nde waaju wonan de gooŋɗinɓe ɓeen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
წიგნი, (რომელიც) ჩამოგეგზავნა შენ (ო მოციქულო) [ყურანი] — ნუ იქნება შენს გულში შევიწროება [ეჭვი] მის შესახებ! — რათა ამით გააფრთხილო (ადამიანები) (ალლაჰის სასჯელის შესახებ) და რომ ის იყოს შეხსენება მორწმუნეთათვის.
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Deutsch · German
(Das ist) ein Buch, das zu dir (als Offenbarung) hinabgesandt worden ist - so soll seinetwegen in deiner Brust keine Bedrängnis sein -, damit du mit ihm warnst, und als Ermahnung für die Gläubigen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αυτό (το Κορ’άν) είναι ένα Βιβλίο που στάλθηκε σε σένα (ω, Προφήτη), οπότε ας μην έχεις αμφιβολία στο στήθος σου γι' αυτό (ούτε αγωνία στην καρδιά σου από τη διάδοσή του). (Στάλθηκε σε σένα) για να προειδοποιήσεις μ' αυτό και ως υπενθύμιση στους πιστούς.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
यह एक पुस्तक है, जो आपकी ओर उतारी गई है। अतः (ऐ नबी!) आपके सीने में इससे कोई तंगी न हो। ताकि आप इसके द्वारा (लोगों को) सावधान करें[1] और (यह) ईमान वालों के लिए उपदेश है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Libro che è stato fatto scendere a te! Che non ci sia per Esso nessuna inquietudine nel tuo petto, e che tu possa usarLo per avvertire, e sia un monito per i credenti!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
2. (Tai yra) Knyga (Koranas), nuleista tau (Muchammedai ﷺ ), tad neleisk savo krūtinei tapti ankšta tam, kad tu juo įspėtum; ir priminimas tikintiesiems.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
(Kun) kitaaba gara keetti buufame. Isa (geessuu) irraa qoma kee keessa dhiphinni hin jiraatin, Akka isaan akeekkachiiftuufi mu’uminootaaf gorsa ta’uuf (buufne).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
[Это —] Писание, ниспосланное тебе; и пусть не будет в твоей груди стеснения из-за него, дабы ты предостерегал им и чтобы оно стало напоминанием для верующих.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Ово је Књига која ти се спушта – па нека ти у грудима не буде никакве тегобе због ње - да њоме упозораваш, и да верницима буде опомена.
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
Kitabu kilichoteremshwa kwako, basi isiwe dhiki yoyote katika kifua chako kwa sababu yake, ili uonye kwacho, na kiwe ni ukumbusho kwa Waumini.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
En skrift har uppenbarats för dig – låt dig inte tyngas av den – för att du ska varna med den och förmana de troende.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Bu sana indirilen bir kitaptır. Öyleyse Müminleri bununla uyarman ve öğüt vermen için kalbinde hiçbir sıkıntı olmasın.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
یہ ایک کتاب ہے جو آپ کے پاس اس لئے بھیجی گئی ہے کہ آپ اس کے ذریعہ سے ڈرائیں، سو آپ کے دل میں اس سے بالکل تنگی نہ ہو[1] اور نصیحت ہے ایمان والوں کے لئے۔
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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5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation,
not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
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Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the
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Easy-read (simplified)ittabi'oo maa unzila ilaykum min rabbikum walaa tattabi'oo min doonihi awliyaa'a qaleelan maa tadhakkaroon
DIN 31635ittabiʿū mā ʾunzila ʾilaykum min rabbikum walā tattabiʿū min dūnihi ʾawliyāʾa qalīlan mā taḏakkarūna
Talal Itani2012 Follow what is revealed to you from your Lord, and do not follow other masters beside Him. Little you recollect.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 (Saying): Follow that which is sent down unto you from your Lord, and follow no protecting friends beside Him. Little do ye recollect
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Follow what has been revealed to you from your Lord, and follow not beside Him patrons; little is it that ye mind
John Medows Rodwell1861 Follow ye what hath been sent down to you from your Lord; and follow no masters beside Him. How little will ye be monished
George Sale1734 Follow that which hath been sent down unto you from your Lord; and follow no guides besides Him: How little will ye be warned
Easy-read (simplified)wakam min qaryatin ahlaknaahaa fajaa'ahaa ba'sunaa bayaatan aw hum qaa'iloon
DIN 31635wakam min qaryatin ʾahlaknāhā faǧāʾahā baʾsunā bayātan ʾaw hum qāʾilūna
Talal Itani2012 How many a town have We destroyed? Our might came upon them by night, or while they were napping.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 How many a township have We destroyed! As a raid by night, or while they slept at noon, Our terror came unto them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Yet how many a town have we destroyed, and our violence came upon it by night, or while they slept at noon; and their cry, when our violence came upon them
John Medows Rodwell1861 How many cities have we destroyed! By night, or while they were in their midday slumber, did our wrath reach them
George Sale1734 How many cities have We destroyed; which our vengeance overtook by night, or while they were reposing themselves at noon-day
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 —
0.60 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 Sale0.81
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.76
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.60
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.47
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.33
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
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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.