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Is it a wonder to the people that We inspired a man from among them: "Warn mankind, and give good news to those who believe that they are on a sound footing with their Lord"? The disbelievers said, "This is a manifest sorcerer."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Compare translations (4)Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Is it a wonder for mankind that We have inspired a man among them, saying: Warn mankind and bring unto those who believe the good tidings that they have a sure footing with their Lord? The disbelievers say: Lo! this is a merewizard
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
was it a wonder to the folk I that we inspired a man from amongst themselves, 'Warn thou the folk; and give glad tidings to those who believe, that for them there is an advance of sincerity gone before them with their Lord?' The misbelievers say, 'Verily, this is an obvious sorcerer
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
A matter of wonderment is it to the men of Mecca, that to a person among themselves We revealed, "Bear warnings to the people: and, to those who believe, bear the good tidings that they shall have with their Lord the precedence merited by their sincerity." The unbelievers say, "Verily this is a manifest sorcerer
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Is it a strangething unto the men of Mecca, that We have revealed our will unto a man from among them, saying, denouncethreats unto men if they believe not; and bear good tidings unto those who believe, that on the merit of their sincerity they have an interest with their Lord? The unbelievers say, this is manifest sorcery
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
Vallë, a është çudi për njerëzit që Ne i shpallëm një njeriu nga mesi i tyre, duke i thënë: "Paralajmëroji njerëzit dhe përgëzoji ata që besojnë se do të kenë pozita të larta te Zoti i tyre!" Jobesimtarët thonë: "Në të vërtetë, ky është magjistar i qartë."
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বাংলা · Bengali
এটা কি মানুষের জন্য আশ্চর্যের বিষয় যে, আমি তাদের মধ্য থেকেই একজনের কাছে অহী প্রেরণ করেছি এ মর্মে যে, ‘তুমি মানুষকে (আল্লাহর শাস্তি থেকে) সতর্ক করো এবং মু’মিনদেরকে এ সুসংবাদ দাও যে, তাদের জন্য তাদের রবের কাছে রয়েছে উঁচু মর্যাদা।’ (এর পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে) কাফিররা বলতে লাগলো: ‘এ তো এক সুস্পষ্ট যাদুকর!’
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Zašto je čudno ljudima što Mi objavljujemo jednom između njih: "Opominji ljude! A one koji vjeruju obraduj da ih iskrena djela koja su uradili kod Gospodara njihova čekaju." Ali, nevjernici govore: "Ovaj je, zaista, očiti čarobnjak!"
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Zašto je čudno ljudima što Mi objavljujemo jednom između njih: "Opominji ljude! A one koji vjeruju obraduj da ih iskrena djela koja su uradili kod Gospodara njihova čekaju." Ali, nevjernici govore: "Ovaj je, zaista, očiti čarobnjak!"
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Kere wonan yimɓe ɓeen kaawasee, fii min wahyii- ma e gorko jeyaaɗo e maɓɓe, won´de : "jeertin yimɓe ɓe? mbeltiniraa gooŋɗinɓe ɓe won´de no woodani ɓe nokku goongaajo ka Joomi maɓɓe? heeeferɓe ɓe mbi : "oo ko mbileejo peeñɗo".
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ქართული · Georgian
ნუთ გასაკვირია ხალხისთვის, რომ ჩვენ შთავაგონეთ მათგან (ერთ) კაცს: «გააფრთხილე ხალხი (ალლაჰის სასჯელის შესახებ) და ახარე მორწმუნეებს, რომ მათთვის მათი უფლის წინაშე მომზადებულია დიდი ჯილდო?» მაგრამ ურწმუნოებმა თქვეს: «ჭეშმარიტად, ეს [მუჰამმადი] აშკარა ჯადოქარია!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Ist es denn für die Menschen verwunderlich, dass Wir einem Mann von ihnen (als Offenbarung) eingegeben haben: „Warne die Menschen und verkünde denen, die glauben, die frohe Botschaft, dass sie bei ihrem Herrn einen wahrhaftigen Stand haben?“ Die Ungläubigen sagen: „Wahrlich, das ist ja ein deutlicher Zauberer.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Εξέπληξε τους ανθρώπους ότι αποκαλύψαμε σε έναν άνθρωπο απ' αυτούς, (διατάζοντάς τον) ότι: «Προειδοποίησε τους ανθρώπους και δώσε τα χαρμόσυνα νέα στους πιστούς ότι θα έχουν σπουδαία αμοιβή (και υψηλή θέση) από τον Κύριό τους.»; Όμως οι άπιστοι είπαν: «Αυτός δεν είναι παρά ξεκάθαρος μάγος!»
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
क्या लोगों के लिए आश्चर्य की बात है कि हमने उनमें से एक व्यक्ति की ओर वह़्य (प्रकाशना) भेजी कि लोगों को डराए और उन लोगों को शुभ-सूचना दे, जो ईमान लाए हैं कि उनके लिए उनके पालनहार के पास उच्च स्थान है। काफ़िरों ने कहा : निःसंदेह यह तो खुला जादूगर है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Perché l’umanità si stupisce che abbiamo ispirato un uomo tra di loro per avvertire la gente e annunciare a quelli che hanno creduto che gli spettano gradi dal loro Dio? Dissero i miscredenti: «In verità questa è chiara magia!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
2. Argi tai stebuklas žmonijai, kad Mes atsiutėme Mūsų Apreiškimą žmogui iš jų pačių tarpo (t. y. Pranašui Muchammedui ﷺ) (sakant): „Perspėk žmoniją (dėl būsiančios kančios Pragare) ir perduok geras žinias tiems, kurie tiki (Allaho Vienumą ir Jo Pranašą Muchammedą ﷺ), kad jie pas savo Viešpatį turės atlygį už savo gerus darbus?“ (Tačiau) netikintieji sako: „Tai tikrai akivaizdus burtininkas (t. y. Pranašas Muchammedas ﷺ ir Koranas)!“
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Sila gara nama isaan irraa ta’ee (nabi muhammad) “nama akeekkachiisi; warra amanes toltuun dabre Rabbii isaanii bira isaaniif jiraachuudhaan gammachiisi” jechuun wahyii godhuun keenya namootatti dinqii ta’eeraa? Kaafirtoonni: “Dhugumatti, inni kun falfalaa ifa bahaadha” jedhan
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Русский · Russian
Неужели людям показалось удивительным, что Мы внушили человеку из их среды: «Предостерегай людей и обрадуй тех, которые уверовали, что для них — высокое положение у их Господа»? Отвергшие веру сказали: «Воистину, это — явный колдун!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Зашто је чудно људима што Ми објављујемо једном између њих: „Опомињи људе! А оне који верују обрадуј да их искрена дела која су урадили чекају код њиховог Господара.“ Али, неверници говоре: „ Овај је, заиста, очити чаробњак!“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Je, imekuwa ajabu kwa watu kwamba tumemfunulia mwanamume kutokana nao kuwa, “Waonye watu, na wabashirie wale walioamini ya kuwa wana cheo cha juu kwa Mola wao Mlezi?” Wakasema makafiri, “Hakika huyu ni mchawi aliye dhahiri!”
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Svenska · Swedish
Är det underligt för folk att vi har uppenbarat för en man från deras egna led att han ska varna människorna och ge de troende det glada budskapet att de har en upphöjd ställning hos sin Herre? De otrogna säger: ”Det här är en uppenbar magiker!”
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Türkçe · Turkish
İçlerinden bir adama insanları uyar ve iman edenlere, Rableri katında kendileri için bir doğruluk makamı bulunduğunu müjdele diye vahyetmemiz, insanlar için şaşılacak bir şey mi oldu ki o kâfirler, “Bu elbette apaçık bir sihirbazdır” dediler?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
کیا ان لوگوں کو اس بات سے تعجب[1] ہوا کہ ہم نے ان میں سے ایک شخص کے پاس وحی بھیج دی کہ سب آدمیوں کو ڈرائیے اور جو ایمان لے آئے ان کو یہ خوشخبری سنائیے کہ ان کے رب کے پاس ان کو پورا اجر ومرتبہ[2] ملے گا۔ کافروں نے کہا کہ یہ شخص تو بلاشبہ صریح جادوگر ہے۔[3]
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.
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Easy-read (simplified)inna rabbakumu llaahu lladhee khalaqa s-samaawaati wal-'arda fee sittati ayyaamin thumma stawaa 'alaa l-'arshi yudabbiru l-'amra maa min shafee'in illaa min ba'di idhnihi dhaalikumu llaahu rabbukum fa'budoohu afalaa tadhakkaroon
DIN 31635ʾinna rabbakumu llāhu llaḏī ḫalaqa s-samāwāti wal-ʾarḍa fī sittati ʾayyāmin ṯumma stawā ʿalā l-ʿarši yudabbiru l-ʾamra mā min šafīʿin ʾillā min baʿdi ʾiḏnihi ḏālikumu llāhu rabbukum faʿbudūhu ʾafalā taḏakkarūna
Talal Itani2012 Your Lord is God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then settled over the Throne, governing all things. There is no intercessor except after His permission. Such is God, your Lord-so serve Him. Will you not reflect?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! your Lord is Allah Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days, then He established Himself upon the Throne, directing all things. There is no intercessor (with Him) save after His permission. That is Allah, your Lord, so worship Him. Oh, will ye not remind
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, your Lord is God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days; then He made for the throne, to govern the affair; there is no intercessor, except after His permission. That is God for you - your Lord! Then worship Him - do ye not mind
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily your Lord is God who hath made the Heavens and the Earth in six days - then mounted his throne to rule all things: None can intercede with him till after his permission: This is God your Lord: therefore serve him: Will ye not reflect
George Sale1734 Verily your Lord is God, who hath created the heavens and the earth in six days; and then ascended his throne, to take on himself the government of all things. There is no intercessor, but by his permission. This is God, your Lord; therefore serve him. Will ye not consider
Talal Itani2012 To Him is your return, altogether. The promise of God is true. He originates creation, and then He repeats it, to reward those who believe and do good deeds with equity. As for those who disbelieve, for them is a drink of boiling water, and agonizing torment, on account of their disbelief.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Unto Him is the return of all of you; it is a promise of Allah in truth. Lo! He produceth creation, then reproduceth it, that He may reward those who believe and do good works with equity; while, as for those who disbelieve, theirs will be a boiling drink and painful doom because they disbelieved
Edward Henry Palmer1880 To Him is your return all of you - God's promise in truth; verily, He produces the creature, then He makes it return again, that He may recompense those who believe and do what is right with justice; but those who misbelieve, for them is a drink of boiling water, and grievous woe, for that they did misbelieve
John Medows Rodwell1861 Unto Him shall ye return, all together: the promise of God is sure: He produceth a creature, then causeth it to return again - that he may reward those who believe and do the things that are right, with equity: but as for the infidels! - for them the draught that boileth and an afflictive torment - because they have not believed
George Sale1734 Unto Him shall ye all return, according to the certain promise of God: For He produceth a creature, and then causeth it to return again; that He may reward those who believe and do that which is right, with equity. But as for the unbelievers, they shall drink boiling water, and they shall suffer a grievous punishment, for that they have disbelieved
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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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
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · George Sale0.63
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.59
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.53
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.47
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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.