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Talal Itani· published 2012
It is He who sent His Messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, in order to make it prevail over all religions, even though the idolaters dislike it.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
He it is Who hath sent His messenger with the guidance and the Religion of Truth, that He may cause it to prevail over all religion, however much the idolaters may be averse
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
He it is who sent His Apostle with guidance and the religion of truth, to make it prevail over every other religion, averse although idolaters may be
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
He it is who hath sent His Apostle with the Guidance and a religion of the truth, that He may make it victorious over every other religion, albeit they who assignpartners to God be averse from it
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is He who hath sent his apostle with the direction, and true religion: That He may cause it to appearsuperior to every other religion; although the idolaters be averse thereto
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
Është Ai që e dërgoi të Dërguarin e Tij me udhëzimin dhe fenë e vërtetë, që ta bëjë mbizotëruese mbi të gjitha fetë, edhe pse këtë e urrejnë idhujtarët.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
তিনিই সেই মহান সত্তা যিনি তাঁর রাসূলকে হিদায়াত ও সত্য ধর্ম দিয়ে পাঠিয়েছেন, অন্য সব দীনের ওপর সেটিকে বিজয়ী করার জন্যে, যদিও মুশরিকরা তা অপছন্দ করে।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
On je poslao Poslanika Svog s uputstvom i pravom vjerom da bi je uzdigao iznad ostalih vjera, makar ne bilo po volji višebošcima.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
On je poslao Poslanika Svog s uputstvom i pravom vjerom da bi je uzdigao iznad ostalih vjera, makar ne bilo po volji mnogobošcima.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko Kaŋko woni Nulirɗo Nulaaɗo makko on peewal e diina goonga, fii yo o ɓamtu ka e hoore kala diine, hay si sirkooɓe ɓeen ngañii [ɗuum].
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ისაა (ალლაჰი), ვინც წარმოგზავნა თავისი შუამავალი ჭეშმარიტი გზითა და ჭეშმარიტი სარწმუნოებით, რათა აღმატებულ ჰქმნას იგი ყველა რწმენაზე, თუნდაც ეს მოუწონარი იყოს მრავალღმერთიანთათვის.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Er ist es, Der Seinen Gesandten mit der Rechtleitung und der Religion der Wahrheit gesandt hat, um ihr die Oberhand über alle Religion zu geben, auch wenn es den Götzendienern zuwider ist.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Είναι Αυτός που έστειλε τον Αγγελιαφόρο Του (τον Μωχάμμαντ) με την καθοδήγηση (το Κορ’άν) και τη θρησκεία της αλήθειας (το Ισλάμ) για να την εξυψώσει πάνω από όλες τις άλλες θρησκείες, ακόμα κι αν οι ειδωλολάτρες μισούν αυτό.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
वही है जिसने अपने रसूल[14] को मार्गदर्शन तथा सत्धर्म (इस्लाम) के साथ भेजा, ताकि उसे प्रत्येक धर्म पर प्रभुत्व प्रदान कर दे[15], भले ही बहुदेववादियों को बुरा लगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
È stato Lui a inviare il Suo Messaggero con la guida e la religione della verità, per sollevarla al di sopra di tutte le altre religioni, anche se gli idolatri lo detestano.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
33. Tai Jis, Kuris atsiuntė Savo Pasiuntinį (Muchammedą ﷺ) su teisingu vedimu ir tiesos religija (islamu), kad padarytų ją viršesnę virš visų religijų, net jei Mušrikūn (daugiadieviai, pagonys, stabmeldžiai, netikintieji Allaho Vienumą) nekenčia (to).
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Inni (Rabbiin) Isa ergamaa Isaa (muhammadiin) qajeelumaafi (Qur'aanaafii) amantii haqaatiin ergeedha, amantii hundarra ol taasisuuf jecha, odoma mushrikoonni jibbanuu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Он — Тот, Кто послал Своего Посланника с верным руководством и религией истины, чтобы возвысить её над всеми религиями, даже если это ненавистно тем, которые придают Аллаху сотоварищей.
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
Он је послао Свог Посланика са упутом и правом вером, да би је уздигао изнад свих вера, макар то мрзели незнанобошци.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Yeye ndiye aliyemtuma Mtume wake kwa uongofu na Dini ya haki ili aipe ushindi juu ya dini zote, hata washirikina wakichukia.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Det är han som har sänt sitt sändebud med vägledningen och den sanna religionen för att låta den segra över alla andra religioner, även om avgudadyrkarna avskyr det.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
O (Allah), müşrikler hoşlanmasalar da (kendi) dinini bütün dinlere üstün kılmak için Rasûlünü hidayet ve hak din ile gönderendir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اسی نے اپنے رسول کو ہدایت اور سچے دین کے ساتھ بھیجا ہے کہ اسے اور تمام مذہبوں پر غالب کر دے[1] اگر چہ مشرک برا مانیں
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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DIN 31635ittaḫaḏū ʾaḥbārahum waruhbānahum ʾarbāban min dūni llāhi wal-masīḥa bna maryama wamā ʾumirū ʾillā liyaʿbudū ʾilāhan wāḥidan lā ʾilāha ʾillā huwa subḥānahu ʿammā yušrikūna
Talal Itani2012 They have taken their rabbis and their priests as lords instead of God, as well as the Messiah son of Mary. Although they were commanded to worship none but The One God. There is no god except He. Glory be to Him; High above what they associate with Him.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They have taken as lords beside Allah their rabbis and their monks and the Messiah son of Mary, when they were bidden to worship only One Allah. There is no Allah save Him. Be He Glorified from all that they ascribe as partner (unto Him)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They take their doctors and their monks for lords rather than God, and the Messiah the son of Mary; but they are bidden to worship but one God, there is no god but He; celebrated be His praise, from what they join with Him
John Medows Rodwell1861 They take their teachers, and their monks, and the Messiah, son of Mary, for Lords beside God, though bidden to worship one God only. There is no God but He! Far from His glory be what they associate with Him
George Sale1734 They take their priests and their monks for their lords, besides God, and Christ the son of Mary; although they are commanded to worship one God only: There is no God but He; far be that from Him, which they associate with Him
Talal Itani2012 They want to extinguish God's light with their mouths, but God refuses except to complete His light, even though the disbelievers dislike it.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Fain would they put out the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah disdaineth (aught) save that He shall perfect His light, however much the disbelievers are averse
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They desire to put out the light of God with their mouths, but God will not have it but that we should perfect His light, averse although the misbelievers be
John Medows Rodwell1861 Fain would they put out God's light with their mouths: but God only desireth to perfect His light, albeit the Infidels abhor it
George Sale1734 They seek to extinguish the light of God with their mouths; but God willeth no other than to perfect his light, although the infidels be averse thereto
Talal Itani2012 O you who believe! Many of the rabbis and priests consume people's wealth illicitly, and hinder from God's path. Those who hoard gold and silver, and do not spend them in God's cause, inform them of a painful punishment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye who believe! Lo! many of the (Jewish) rabbis and the (Christian) monks devour the wealth of mankind wantonly and debar (men) from the way of Allah. They who hoard up gold and silver and spend it not in the way of Allah, unto them give tidings (O Muhammad) of a painful doom
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who believe! verily, many of the doctors and the monks devour the wealth of men openly, and turn folk from God's way; but those who store up gold and silver and expend it not in God's way,- give them glad tidings of grievous woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 O Believers! of a truth, many of the teachers and monks do devour man's substance in vanity, and turn them from the Way of God. But to those who treasure up gold and silver and expend it not in the Way of God, announce tidings of a grievous torment
George Sale1734 O true believers, verily many of the priests and monks devour the substance of men in vanity, and obstruct the way of God. But unto whose who treasure up gold and silver, and employ it not for the advancement of God's true religion, denounce a grievous punishment
Talal Itani2012 On the Day when they will be heated in the Fire of Hell, then their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs will be branded with them: "This is what you hoarded for yourselves; so taste what you used to hoard."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 On the day when it will (all) be heated in the fire of hell, and their foreheads and their flanks and their backs will be branded therewith (and it will be said unto them): Here is that which ye hoarded for yourselves. Now taste of what ye used to hoard
Edward Henry Palmer1880 On the day when it shall be heated in the fire of hell, and their brows shall be branded therewith, and their sides and their backs! - 'This is what ye stored up for yourselves, taste then what ye stored up
John Medows Rodwell1861 On that day their treasures shall be heated in hell fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs, shall be branded with them. . . . "This is what ye have treasured up for yourselves: taste, therefore, your treasures
George Sale1734 On the day of judgment their treasures shall be intensely heated in the fire of hell, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be stigmatized therewith; and their tormentors shall say, this is what ye have treasured up for your souls; taste therefore that which ye have treasured up
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 —
0.49 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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 Sale0.71
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.53
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.50
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.49
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.45
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.44
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.42
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.38
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.37
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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.