Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.
Talal Itani· published 2012
O you who believe! Respond to God and to the Messenger when He calls you to what will revive you. And know that God stands between a man and his heart, and that to Him you will be gathered.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
O ye who believe! ObeyAllah, and the messenger when He calleth you to that which quickeneth you, and know that Allah cometh in between the man and his own heart, and that He it is unto Whom ye will be gathered
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
O ye who believe! answer God and His Apostle when He calls you to that which quickens you; and know that God steps in between man and his heart; and that to Him ye shall be gathered
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O ye faithful! make answer to the appeal of God and his apostle when he calleth you to that which giveth you life. Know that God cometh in between a man and his own heart, and that to him shall ye be gathered
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O ye who believe! respond to God, and the Messenger when he calls you that he may give you life, and know that God comes in between a man and his heart, and that He it is unto Whom you will be gathered
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
O besimtarë! Përgjigjiuni Allahut e të Dërguarit kur ju thërret në atë që ju jep jetë, dhe dijeni se Allahu ndërhyn ndërmjet njeriut e zemrës së tij dhe vetëm tek Ai do të tuboheni të gjithë.
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
হে মুমিনগণ! রাসূল যখন তোমাদেরকে এমন কিছুর দিকে ডাকে, যা তোমাদেরকে প্রাণবন্ত করে, তখন তোমরা আল্লাহ ও রাসূলের সেই ডাকে সাড়া দাও। জেনে রাখো, নিশ্চয় আল্লাহ ব্যক্তি ও তার অন্তরের মাঝে অন্তরায় হন।(৯) আর নিশ্চয় তাঁর নিকট তোমাদেরকে সমবেত করা হবে।
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
O vi koji vjerujete, odazovite se Allahu i Poslaniku kad od vas zatraži da činite ono što vas oživljava; i neka znate da se Allah upliće između čovjeka i srca njegova, i da ćete svi pred Njim biti sakupljeni.
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
O vi koji vjerujete, odazovite se Allahu i Poslaniku kad od vas zatraži da činite ono što vas oživljava; i neka znate da se Allah upliće između čovjeka i srca njegova, i da ćete svi pred Njim biti sakupljeni.
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
Eeheymon yo gooŋɗinɓe, Nootee Alla e Nulaaɗo on si ɓe noddii on fi ko wuurnata on (e goonga), nganndee pellet, Alla no heeda hakkunde neɗɗo e ɓernde mum, e won de pellet, ko ka Makko mooɓoyteɗon.
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
ჰეი, თქვენ, რომელთაც ირწმუნეთ! უპასუხეთ ალლაჰს და მოციქულს (მორჩილებით), როცა ის მოგიწოდებთ იმისკენ, რაც გაცოცხლებთ[1]. და იცოდეთ, რომ ალლაჰს შეუძლია შეცვალოს ის, რაც ადამიანსა და მის გულს შორისაა, და რომ მისკენ იქნებით შეკრებილნი!
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
O die ihr glaubt, leistet Allah und dem Gesandten Folge, wenn er euch zu dem aufruft, was euch Leben gibt. Und wisset, dass Allah zwischen dem Menschen und seinem Herzen trennt und dass ihr zu Ihm versammelt werdet!
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
Ω, εσείς που πιστεύετε! Ανταποκρίνεστε στον Αλλάχ και στον Αγγελιαφόρο όταν σας καλεί σ' αυτό (τον ίσιο δρόμο) που σας δίνει ζωή. Και να ξέρετε ότι ο Αλλάχ μπορεί να διαχωρίσει μεταξύ ενός ανθρώπου και της καρδιάς του (δηλ. να τον εμποδίσει από το να ακολουθήσει την αλήθεια όταν θέλει να την ακολουθήσει, αφού την είχε απορρίψει πριν, γι' αυτό σπεύστε στο να υπακούτε την εντολή του Αλλάχ και μην την παρακούτε, ώστε να μην σας εμποδίσει από το να την υπακούτε όταν θέλετε μετά), και (να ξέρετε) ότι σ' Αυτόν θα συγκεντρωθείτε όλοι.
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
ऐ ईमान वालो! अल्लाह और उसके रसूल के बुलावे को स्वीकार करो, जब वह तुम्हें उस चीज़ के लिए बुलाए, जो तुम्हें[9] जीवन प्रदान करती है। और जान लो कि निःसंदेह अल्लाह आदमी और उसके दिल के बीच रुकावट[10] बन जाता है। और यह कि निःसंदेह तुम उसी की ओर लौटाए जाओगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
O credenti! Prestate ascolto ad Allāh e al Messaggero quando vi invita a ciò che vi ridarà la vita. E sappiate che in verità Allāh s’insinua tra l’uomo e il suo cuore, e che a Lui tornerete.
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
24. O jūs, kurie tikite, atsiliepkite Allahui (paklusdami Jam) ir (Jo) Pasiuntiniui, kai jis ( ﷺ) kviečia jus į tai, kas suteiks jums gyvenimą, ir žinokite, kad Allahas įsiterpia tarp žmogaus ir jo širdies (t. y. Jis kliudo blogam žmogui ką nors spręsti). Ir iš tiesų pas Jį jūs (visi) būsite surinkti.
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.
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
О вы, которые уверовали! Ответьте Аллаху и Посланнику, когда он зовёт вас к тому, что оживит вас. И знайте, что Аллах воздвигает преграду между человеком и его сердцем, и что к Нему вы будете собраны.
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
О ви који верујете, одазовите се Аллаху и Посланику кад од вас затражи да чините оно што вас оживљава; и нека знате да Аллах делује између човека и његовог срца, и да ћете сви да будете сакупљени пред Њим.
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
Enyi mlioamini! Muitikieni Mwenyezi Mungu na Mtume anapowaitia yale yenye kuwahuisha. Na jueni kuwa Mwenyezi Mungu huzuia kati ya mtu na moyo wake, na kwamba hakika kwake Yeye mtakusanywa.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Troende! Svara Gud och sändebudet när han kallar er till det som ger er liv! Och vet att Gud kommer mellan människan och hennes hjärta och att ni ska samlas till honom.
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
Ey iman edenler! Sizi, size hayat verecek şeylere çağırdığı zaman Allah ve Rasûlü’nün çağrısına uyun ve bilin ki Allah, kişi ile kalbi arasına girer. Yine bilin ki, O’nun huzurunda toplanacaksınız.
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
اردو · Urdu
اے ایمان والو! تم اللہ اور رسول کے کہنے کو بجا لاؤ، جب کہ رسول تم کو تمہاری زندگی بخش چیز کی طرف بلاتے ہوں[1] اور جان رکھو کہ اللہ تعالیٰ آدمی کے اور اس کے قلب کے درمیان آڑ بن جایا کرتا ہے[2] اور بلاشبہ تم سب کو اللہ ہی کے پاس جمع ہونا ہے۔
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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Talal Itani2012 Had God recognized any good in them, He would have made them hear; and had He made them hear, they would have turned away defiantly.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Had Allah known of any good in them He would have made them hear, but had He made them hear they would have turned away, averse
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Had God known any good in them, He would have made them hear; but had He made them hear, they would have turned back and have swerved aside
John Medows Rodwell1861 Had God known any good in them, he would certainly have made them hear. But even if He had made them hear, they would certainly have turned back and withdrawn afar
George Sale1734 And if God had known any good in them, He would certainly have made them hear. And if He now makes them hear, they will turn away in aversion
Talal Itani2012 And beware of discord which does not afflict the wrongdoers among you exclusively; and know that God is severe in retribution.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And guard yourselves against a chastisement which cannot fall exclusively on those of you who are wrong-doers, and know that Allah is severe in punishment
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And fear temptation, which will not light especially on those of you who have done wrong; but know that God is keen to punish
John Medows Rodwell1861 And be afraid of temptation: the evil doers among you will not be the only ones on whom it will light: And know ye that God is severe in punishment
George Sale1734 And beware of an affliction which will surely not smite exclusively those among you who have done wrong. And know that God is Severe in requiting
Easy-read (simplified)wadhkuroo idh antum qaleelun mustad'afoona fee l-'ardi takhaafoona an yatakhattafakumu n-naasu fa'aawaakum wa'ayyadakum binasrihi warazaqakum mina t-tayyibaati la'allakum tashkuroon
DIN 31635waḏkurū ʾiḏ ʾantum qalīlun mustaḍʿafūna fī l-ʾarḍi taḫāfūna ʾan yataḫaṭṭafakumu n-nāsu faʾāwākum waʾayyadakum binaṣrihi warazaqakum mina ṭ-ṭayyibāti laʿallakum taškurūna
Talal Itani2012 And remember when you were few, oppressed in the land, fearing that people may capture you; but He sheltered you, and supported you with His victory, and provided you with good things-so that you may be thankful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And remember, when ye were few and reckoned feeble in the land, and were in fear lest men should extirpate you, how He gave you refuge, and strengthened you with His help, and made provision of good things for you, that haply ye might be thankful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Remember when ye were few in number and weak in the land, fearing lest people should snatch you away; then He sheltered you and aided you with victory, and provided you with good things; haply ye may give thanks
John Medows Rodwell1861 And remember when ye were few, and reputed weak in the land: ye feared lest men should pluck you away; then was it that He took you in and strengthened you with his help, and supplied you with good things, that haply ye might give thanks
George Sale1734 And remember when you were a few and deemed weak in the land, and were in fear lest people should snatch you away, but He sheltered you and strengthened you with His help, and provided you with good things that you might be thankful
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 —
0.48 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 · John Medows Rodwell0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.50
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.46
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.42
Talal Itani · George Sale0.38
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.38
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
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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.