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Talal Itani· published 2012
Lord of the heavens and the earth, and everything between them-The Most Merciful-none can argue with Him.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse
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
The Lord of the heavens and the earth, and what is between them both,- the Merciful,- they cannot obtain audience of Him
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
From the Lord of heaven and earth, and of whatever is between them; the Merciful. The inhabitants of heaven or of earth shall not dare to demand audience of Him
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
Zoti i qiejve e i Tokës dhe i gjithçkaje që gjendet ndërmjet tyre, i Gjithëmëshirshmi. Askush nuk mund të flasë para Tij.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
যিনি আসমানসমূহ, জমিন ও এতদুভয়ের মধ্যবর্তী সবকিছুর রব, পরম করুণাময়। তারা তাঁর সামনে কথা বলার সামর্থ্য রাখবে না।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Od Gospodara nebesa i Zemlje i onoga što je između njih, Svemilosnoga, Kome neće moći zboriti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Od Gospodara nebesa i Zemlje i onoga što je između njih, Svemilosnoga, Kome neće moći zboriti.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
joom kammu e leydi e ko woni hakkunde mu'en jurmtooɗo mbo ɓe ngala e mum haala.
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ქართული · Georgian
ცათა და მიწის და მათ შორის არსებული ყველაფრის უფალი — მოწყალე. ისინი [ადამიანები] (განკითხვის დღეს) მისგან ვერ მიიღებენ საუბრის (შესაძლებლობას).
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Deutsch · German
(von) dem Herrn der Himmel und der Erde und dessen, was zwischen beiden ist, dem Allerbarmer. Sie verfügen nicht darüber, vor Ihm zu sprechen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
(Από) τον Κύριο των ουρανών και της Γης και ό,τι υπάρχει ανάμεσά τους, τον Αρ-Ραχμάν (Παντελεήμονα). Στον Οποίον δεν μπορούν (τα πλάσματα Του) να Του απευθύνουν κανένα λόγο (εκτός απ' αυτόν που του επιτρέπει ο Αλλάχ).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
जो आकाशों और धरती तथा उनके बीच की हर चीज़ का पालनहार है, अत्यंत दयावान् है। उससे बात करने का उन्हें अधिकार नहीं होगा।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Il Dio dei cieli e della terra e ciò che c’è di mezzo, il Misericordioso: non potranno rivolgerGli parola.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
37. (Iš) Dangų ir žemės, ir visko, kas tarp jų, Viešpaties, Maloningiausiojo. Negaus jie iš Jo (teisės) kalbėti (Prikelties dieną, išskyrus Jo Leidimu).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Gooftaa samii, dachiifi waan gidduu isaanii jiru, mararfataa kan ta'e [irraa mindeeffaman]. Isaa wajjin dubbachuu hin danda'anu.
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Русский · Russian
Господа небес и земли и всего, что между ними, — Всемилостивого, пред Которым они не властны заговорить.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Од Господара небеса и Земље и онога што је између њих, Свемилоснога, коме неће моћи зборити.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Mola Mlezi wa mbingu na ardhi na vilivyo baina yake, Arrahman (Mwingi wa rehema); hawamiliki usemi mbele yake!
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Svenska · Swedish
Han är Herren över himlarna och jorden och allt däremellan, den Nåderike – ingen förmår att tilltala honom.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Bunlar; göklerin, yerin ve ikisi arasında bulunanların Rahman olan Rabbindendir. Ona hitap etmeye güç yetiremezler.
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اردو · Urdu
(اس رب کی طرف سے ملے گا جو کہ) آسمانوں کا اور زمین کا اور جو کچھ ان کے درمیان ہے ان کا پروردگار ہے اور بڑی بخشش کرنے واﻻ ہے۔ کسی کو اس سے بات چیت کرنے کا اختیار نہیں ہوگا.[1]
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DIN 31635yawma yaqūmu r-rūḥu wal-malāʾikatu ṣaffan lā yatakallamūna ʾillā man ʾaḏina lahu r-raḥmānu waqāla ṣawāban
Talal Itani2012 On the Day when the Spirit and the angels stand in row. They will not speak, unless it be one permitted by the Most Merciful, and he will say what is right.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The day when the Spirit and the angels shall stand in ranks, they shall not speak save to whom the Merciful permits, and who speaks aright
John Medows Rodwell1861 On the day whereon the Spirit and the Angels shall be ranged in order, they shall not speak: save he whom the God of Mercy shall permit, and who shall say that which is right
George Sale1734 The day whereon the spirit Gabriel, and the other angels shall stand in order, they shall not speak in behalf of themselves or others, except he only to whom the Merciful shall grant permission, and who shall say that which is right
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 —
0.63 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.73
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Talal Itani · George Sale0.68
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.66
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.57
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
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.