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Talal Itani· published 2012
A declaration of immunity from God and His Messenger to the polytheists with whom you had made a treaty.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Freedom from obligation (is proclaimed) from Allah and His messenger toward those of the idolaters with whom ye made a treaty
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
AN immunity from God and His Apostle to those idolaters with whom ye have made a league
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
A declaration of immunity from God and his apostle, unto the idolaters with whom ye have entered into league
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
Lirim i shpallur nga Allahu dhe i Dërguari i Tij prej çdolloj detyrimi ndaj idhujtarëve me të cilët kishit lidhur marrëveshje.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
এটি আল্লাহ ও তাঁর রাসূলের পক্ষ থেকে সে সব মুশরিকদের প্রতি সম্পর্কচ্ছেদের ঘোষণা, যাদের সাথে তোমরা পারস্পারিক চুক্তিতে আবদ্ধ হয়েছিলে।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Obznana od Allaha i Njegova Poslanika onim višebošcima s kojima ste zaključili ugovore.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Obznana od Allaha i Njegova Poslanika onim mnogobošcima s kojima ste zaključili ugovore.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Alla e Nulaaɗo Makko on kisii e ɓeen sirkooɓe ɓe ahoduɗon(:ngaadondirɗon)
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ქართული · Georgian
უარყოფა[1] ცხადდება ალლაჰისა და მისი მოციქულის მხრიდან იმ მრავალღმერთიანთა მიმართ, რომლებთანაც თქვენ (ო, მორწმუნენო) შეთანხმებები დადეთ, და მათ თვითონვე დაარღვიეს ისინი.
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Deutsch · German
(Das ist) eine Lossagung vonseiten Allahs und Seines Gesandten an diejenigen unter den Götzendienern, mit denen ihr einen Vertrag abgeschlossen habt.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αυτή είναι μια δήλωση από τον Αλλάχ και τον Αγγελιαφόρο Του, για την κατάργηση των συνθηκών προς εκείνους τους ειδωλολάτρες (στην Αραβική Χερσόνησο) με τους οποίους είχατε συνάψει (ω, Μουσουλμάνοι) συνθήκες (αλλά εκείνοι τις αθέτησαν ή υποστήριξαν άλλους εναντίον σας).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
अल्लाह तथा उसके रसूल की ओर से, उन बहुदेववादियों से ज़िम्मेदारी से बरी होने की घोषणा है, जिनसे तुमने संधि की थी।[1]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Ripudio da parte di Allāh e del Suo Messaggero verso quelli con cui avete stipulato un patto, tra gli idolatri.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
1. Tai yra atsiskyrimo nuo Allaho ir Jo Pasiuntinio ( ﷺ) pareiškimas tiems iš Mušrikūn (daugiadieviams, pagonims, stabmeldžiams, netikintiesiems Allaho Vienumu), su kuriais jūs sudarėte sutartį.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
(Isheen tun) Qulqullina Rabbiifi ergmaa Isaa irraa taate kan gara warra mushrikoota irraa (lola dhiisuuf) waadaa walii galtaniitti (dhaqqabduudha). [1]
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Русский · Russian
[Это] отречение Аллаха и Его Посланника от тех из придающих Ему сотоварищей, с кем вы заключили договор.
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Српски · Serbian
Ово је обзнана о престанку заштите, од Аллаха и Његовог Посланика, оним незнанобошцима са којима сте закључили уговоре.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
[Huku ni] kujiweka mbali kutokako kwa Mwenyezi Mungu na Mtume wake kuwaendea wale mlioagana nao miongoni mwa washirikina.
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Svenska · Swedish
Gud och hans sändebud säger upp avtalen ni slutit med avgudadyrkarna.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Allah ve Rasûlünden, kendileriyle anlaşma yapmış olduğunuz müşriklere kesin bir uyarı!
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اردو · Urdu
اللہ اوراس کے رسول کی جانب سے بیزاری کا اعلان ہے[1] ۔ ان مشرکوں کے بارے میں جن سے تم نے عہد وپیمان کیا تھا۔
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Talal Itani2012 So travel the land for four months, and know that you cannot escape God, and that God will disgrace the disbelievers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Travel freely in the land four months, and know that ye cannot escape Allah and that Allah will confound the disbelievers (in His Guidance)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Roam ye at large in the land for four months, but know that ye cannot make God helpless, and that God disgraces the misbelievers
John Medows Rodwell1861 Go ye, therefore, at large in the land four months: but know that God ye shall not weaken; and that those who believe not, God will put to shame
George Sale1734 Go to and fro in the earth securely four months; and know that ye shall not weaken God, and that God will disgrace the unbelievers
Talal Itani2012 And a proclamation from God and His Messenger to the people on the day of the Greater Pilgrimage, that God has disowned the polytheists, and so did His Messenger. If you repent, it will be better for you. But if you turn away, know that you cannot escape God. And announce to those who disbelieve a painful punishment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And a proclamation from Allah and His messenger to all men on the day of the Greater Pilgrimage that Allah is free from obligation to the idolaters, and (so is) His messenger. So, if ye repent, it will be better for you; but if ye are averse, then know that ye cannot escape Allah. Give tidings (O Muhammad) of a painful doom to those who disbelieve
Edward Henry Palmer1880 A proclamation from God and His Apostle to the people on the day of the greater pilgrimage, that God is clear of the idolaters as is His Apostle! If then ye repent it is better for you; but if ye turn your backs, then know that ye cannot make God helpless. Give to those who misbelieve glad tidings of grievous woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 And a proclamation on the part of God and His Apostle to the people on the day of the greater pilgrimage, that God is free from any engagement with the votaries of other gods with God as is His Apostle! If, therefore, ye turn to God it will be better for you; but if ye turn back, then know that ye shall not weaken God: and to those who believe not, announce thou a grievous punishment
George Sale1734 And a declaration from God and his apostle unto the people, on the day of the greater pilgrimage, that God is clear of the idolaters, and his apostle also. Wherefore if ye repent, this will be better for you; but if ye turn back, know that ye shall not weaken God: And denounce unto those who believe not, a painful punishment
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 —
0.61 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 · John Medows Rodwell0.76
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.66
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.63
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.60
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Talal Itani · George Sale0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.43
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
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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.