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Talal Itani· published 2012
Those who are righteous-when an impulse from Satan strikes them, they remind themselves, and immediately see clearly.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Lo! those who ward off (evil), when a glamour from the devil troubleth them, they do but remember (Allah'sGuidance) and behold them seers
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
Verily, those who fear God, if a wraith from the devil touch, mention Him, and lo! they see
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
As to those who are righteous, when an evil suggestion from Satan assails them, they remember God and behold! they begin to see aright
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
Ata që i frikësohen Allahut, kur i kap ndonjë tundim nga shejtani, ftillohen dhe menjëherë vijnë në vete.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
নিশ্চয় যারা তাকওয়া অবলম্বন করেছে, যখন তাদেরকে শয়তানের পক্ষ থেকে কোনো কুমন্ত্রণা স্পর্শ করে(৫৮), তখন তারা আল্লাহকে স্মরণ করে। তখনই তাদের দৃষ্টি খুলে যায়।(৫৯)
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Doista, oni koji se Allaha boje, čim ih dodirne sablazan šejtanska, sjete se, i postanu razboriti,
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Doista, oni koji se Allaha boje, čim ih dodirne sablazan sotonska, sjete se, i postanu razboriti,
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Pellet, ɓeen hulɓɓe(Alla), si sowonsinoore heɓii ɓe immorde e sytaane, ɓe ngannditay [Alla] : jaka yoo kamɓe ko ɓe yi'ooɓe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ისინი, რომლებიც ერიდებიან (ალლაჰის სასჯელს), — როცა მათ შეეხება სატანის ცდუნება, ისინი იხსენებენ (რომ უნდა იყვნენ ალლაჰის მორჩილნი), და აი — ისინი ხედავენ (რა არის ჭეშმარიტება).
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Deutsch · German
Wahrlich, diejenigen, die (Allah) fürchten - wenn sie eine Einflüsterung vom Satan trifft, bedenken sie (die Gewaltigkeit Allahs), und da werden sie sogleich einsichtig.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Εκείνοι που φυλάσσονται από την τιμωρία του Αλλάχ (τηρώντας τις εντολές Του), όταν τους έρχεται ένας ψίθυρος από τον Σατανά, θυμούνται (τον Αλλάχ και την ανταμοιβή Του για τους υπάκουους και την τιμωρία Του για τους ανυπάκουους), και έτσι αμέσως βλέπουν (την αλήθεια και ενεργούν σύμφωνα μ' αυτή).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
निश्चय जो लोग (अल्लाह का) डर रखते हैं, यदि शैतान की ओर से उन्हें कोई बुरा विचार आ भी जाए, तो तत्काल संभल जाते हैं, फिर अचानक वे साफ़ देखने लगते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
In verità i timorati, se vanno incontro a una tentazione di Satana, ricordano, ed eccoli illuminati.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
201. Iš tiesų, tie, kurie yra Al-Mutakūn (dievobaimingi – žr. ają 2:2), kai juos aplanko piktos mintys iš Šaitan (Šėtono), jie prisimena (Allahą) ir (iš tiesų) jie tada mato (teisingai).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Воистину, те, которые богобоязненны, когда их коснётся наущение от шайтана, — вспоминают [Аллаха], и вот — они прозревают.
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Српски · Serbian
Заиста, они који се боје Аллаха, чим их додирне ђаволска саблазан, сете се, и постану разборити,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Hakika wale wamchao Mungu, zinapowagusa pepesi kutoka kwa Shetani, mara huzindukana na hapo huwa wenye kuiona haki.
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Svenska · Swedish
När de gudfruktiga berörs av en ingivelse från Satan besinnar de sig, och genast ser de klart.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Takvâ sahiplerine şeytandan bir vesvese geldiğinde iyice düşünürler. Bakarsın ki onlar görüp bilmişler bile.
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اردو · Urdu
یقیناً جو لوگ خدا ترس ہیں جب ان کو کوئی خطره شیطان کی طرف سے آجاتا ہے تو وه یاد میں لگ جاتے ہیں، سو یکایک ان کی آنکھیں کھل جاتی ہیں۔[1]
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Easy-read (simplified)wa'idhaa lam ta'tihim bi'aayatin qaaloo lawlaa jtabaytahaa qul innamaa attabi'u maa yoohaa ilayya min rabbee haadhaa basaa'iru min rabbikum wahudan warahmatun liqawmin yu'minoon
DIN 31635waʾiḏā lam taʾtihim biʾāyatin qālū lawlā ǧtabaytahā qul ʾinnamā ʾattabiʿu mā yūḥā ʾilayya min rabbī hāḏā baṣāʾiru min rabbikum wahudan waraḥmatun liqawmin yuʾminūna
Talal Itani2012 If you do not produce a miracle for them, they say, "Why don't you improvise one." Say, "I only follow what is inspired to me from my Lord." These are insights from your Lord, and guidance, and mercy, for a people who believe.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when thou bringest not a verse for them they say: Why hast thou not chosen it? Say: I follow only that which is inspired in me from my Lord. This (Qur'an) is insight from your Lord, and a guidance and a mercy for a people that believe
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Shouldst Thou not bring them a sign they say, 'Hast Thou not yet made choice of one?' Say, 'I only follow what is inspired to me by my Lord. These are perceptions from my Lord, and a guidance and a mercy to a people who believe
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when thou bringest not a verse (sign) of the Koran to them, they say, "Hast thou not yet patched it up? SAY: I only follow my Lord's utterances to me. This is a clear proof on the part of your Lord, and a guidance and a mercy for those who believe
George Sale1734 And when thou bringest not to them a fresh Sign, they say, 'Why hast thou not forged one?' Say, `I follow only that which is revealed to me from my Lord. These are clear proofs from your Lord and guidance and mercy for a people who believe
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 —
0.71 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 · Edward Henry Palmer0.80
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.79
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.79
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.76
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.72
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.71
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Talal Itani · George Sale0.57
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
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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.