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
On the Day when He rounds them up-as if they had tarried only one hour of a day-they will recognize one another. Those who denied the meeting with God will be the losers. They were not guided.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And on the day when He shall gather them together, (when it will seem) as though they had tarried but an hour of the day, recognising one another, those will verily have perished who denied the meeting with Allah and were not guided
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
And on the day when we will gather them together it will be as though they had not tarried save an hour of the day, they shall know each other. Lost are those who called the meeting with God a lie, and were not guided
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Moreover, on that day, He will gather them all together: They shall seem as though they had waited but an hour of the day! They shall recognise one another! Now perish they who denied the meeting with God, and were not guided aright
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
On a certain day He will gather them together, as though they had not tarried above an hour of a day: They shall know one another. Then shall they perish who have denied the meeting of God; and were not rightlydirected
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
E, Ditën kur Ai do t'i tubojë ata, do t'u duket sikur të kenë qëndruar vetëm një çast të ditës, ku do të njohin njëri-tjetrin. Vërtet të humbur janë ata që e përgënjeshtruan takimin me Allahun dhe nuk qenë të udhëzuar në rrugë të drejtë.
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
আর যেদিন (কিয়ামতের দিন) তিনি তাদেরকে একত্র করবেন, (সেদিন তাদের মনে হবে দুনিয়াতে) যেন তারা দিবসের মুহূর্তকালমাত্র অবস্থান করেছে। তারা একে অপরকে চিনতে পারবে। তারা অবশ্যই ক্ষতিগ্রস্ত হয়েছে, যারা আল্লাহর সাক্ষাৎ অস্বীকার করেছে। আর তারা হিদায়াতপ্রাপ্ত ছিল না।
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
A na Dan kada ih On sakupi, učinit će im se da su boravili samo jedan kratki dio dana, i jedni druge će prepoznati. Izgubili su, zasigurno, oni koji su poricali da će pred Allaha stati i koji nisu Uputu slijedili!
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
A na Dan kada ih On sakupi, učinit će im se da su boravili samo jedan kratki dio dana, i jedni druge će prepoznati. Izgubili su, zasigurno, oni koji su poricali da će pred Allaha stati i koji nisu Uputu slijedili!
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
Ñande o mooɓoyta ɓe, wa'ata kona si ɓe ñiiɓaano si wanaa sa'a gooto e ñalawma, heɓe nganndandira hakkunde maɓɓe. Gooŋɗii ɓeen yedduɓe kawral Alla ngal sooyii, ɓe ngonaano feewɓe.
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
და იმ დღეს, როცა ალლაჰი შეკრებს მათ [მრავალღმერთიანებს], მათ მოეჩვენებათ, თითქოს და ერთი საათი გაუტარებიათ ამქვეყნიურ ცხოვრებაში, და ისინი ერთმანეთს იცნობენ (ისე, როგორც იცნობდნენ მიწიერ ცხოვრებაში). ჭეშმარიტად, ზარალი ნახეს მათ, ვინც ალლაჰთან შეხვედრა სიცრუედ ჩათვალა, და ისინი არ იყვნენ სწორ გზაზე მავალნი.
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
Und an dem Tag, da Er sie versammelt, wird (ihnen) sein, als ob sie nur eine Stunde vom Tag verweilt hätten, und sie erkennen einander wieder. Verloren sind dann diejenigen, die die Begegnung mit Allah für Lüge erklärten und nicht rechtgeleitet waren.
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
Την Ημέρα (της Κρίσεως) που (ο Αλλάχ) θα τους συγκεντρώσει (τους ανθρώπους), (θα αισθάνονται) σαν να μην έχουν μείνει (στην εγκόσμια ζωή) παρά μόνο μία ώρα μίας ημέρας, (κατά την οποία) γνωρίστηκαν μεταξύ τους. Πράγματι, έχασαν εκείνοι που διέψευσαν τη συνάντηση του Αλλάχ, και δεν ήταν καθοδηγημένοι.
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
और जिस दिन वह उन्हें इकट्ठा करेगा, (उन्हें लगेगा) मानो वे दिन की एक घड़ी भर ठहरे हों, वे एक-दूसरे को पहचानेंगे। निःसंदेह वे लोग घाटे में पड़ गए, जिन्होंने अल्लाह से मिलने को झुठलाया और वे मार्ग पाने वाले न हुए।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E il giorno che Lui li radunerà, sarà come se non avessero vissuto se non un’ora del giorno, per riconoscersi tra di loro. Sono perdenti quelli che hanno smentito l’incontro con Allāh, e non erano ben guidati.
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
45. Ir Tą Dieną, kai Jis surinks (prikels) juos kartu, (bus) lyg jie neviešėjo (šio pasaulio gyvenime ir kapuose), tik vieną dienos valandą. Jie atpažins vienas kitą. Pražuvę tikrai bus tie, kurie neigė Susitikimą su Allahu ir nebuvo teisingai vedami.
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
И в тот день, когда Он соберёт их, им покажется, будто они пробыли лишь час дневного времени, узнавая друг друга. Уже потерпели убыток те, которые сочли ложью встречу с Аллахом, и они не были наставлены [на верный путь].
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
А на судњем Дану када их Аллах сакупи, учиниће им се да су боравили само један кратак део дана на Земљи, и тада ће једни друге да препознају. Страдаће, засигурно, они који су порицали да ће пред Аллахом да стану и који нису Упуту следили!
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
Na Siku atakapowakusanya, itakuwa kama kwamba hawakukaa isipokuwa saa moja tu katika mchana! Watatambuana. Hakika wamehasirika wale waliokadhibisha kukutana na Mwenyezi Mungu, wala hawakuongoka.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Den dag han samlar dem ska de uppleva det som om de vistats [på jorden] endast en enda av dagens timmar, och de ska känna igen varandra. Förlorade är de som vägrade tro på mötet med Gud och som aldrig fann den rätta vägen.
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
Onları yeniden diriltip hepsini bir araya toplayacağı gün, sanki gündüzün bir saatinden başka kalmamışlar (yeni ayrılmışlar) gibi, aralarında tanışırlar. Allah’a kavuşmayı yalan sayanlar, ziyana uğramış ve doğru yolu bulamamışlardır.
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
اور ان کو وه دن یاد دﻻئیے جس میں اللہ ان کو (اپنے حضور) جمع کرے گا (تو ان کو ایسا محسوس ہوگا) کہ گویا وه (دنیا میں) سارے دن کی ایک آدھ گھڑی رہے ہوں [1] گے اور آپس میں ایک دوسرے کو پہچاننے کو ٹھہرے ہوں گے[2]۔ واقعی خسارے میں پڑے وه لوگ جنہوں نے اللہ کے پاس جانے کو جھٹلایا اور وه ہدایت پانے والے نہ تھے.
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
About these translations
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.
Which translations appear here is set by copyright: they are the ones whose rights could be documented and cleared. The selection is not a judgement that these are the best.
About easy-read
Easy-read
Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation,
not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil
Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the
same edition and their orthography differs.
Talal Itani2012 Whether We show you some of what We promise them, or take you, to Us is their return. God is witness to everything they do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Whether We let thee (O Muhammad) behold something of that which We promise them or (whether We) cause thee to die, still unto Us is their return, and Allah, moreover, is Witness over what they do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Either we will show thee something of that with which we threatened them, or we will take thee to ourself, for unto us is their return; then is God a witness to what they do
John Medows Rodwell1861 Whether we cause thee to see some of our menaces against them fulfilled, or whether we first take thee to Ourself, to us do they return. Then shall God bear witness of what they do
George Sale1734 Whether We cause thee to see a part of the punishment wherewith We have threatened them, or whether We cause thee to die before thou see it; unto Us shall they return: Then shall God be witness of that which they do
Talal Itani2012 Every community has a messenger. When their messenger has come, judgment will be passed between them with fairness, and they will not be wronged.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And for every nation there is a messenger. And when their messenger cometh (on the Day of Judgment) it will be judged between them fairly, and they will not be wronged
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Every nation has its apostle; and when their apostle comes to them, it is decided between them with justice, and they are not wronged
John Medows Rodwell1861 And every people hath had its apostle. And when their apostle came, a rightful decision took place between them, and they were not wronged
George Sale1734 Unto every nation hath an apostle been sent: And when their apostle came, the matter was decided between them with equity; and they were not treated unjustly
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
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 Rodwell0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · George Sale0.54
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.51
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.47
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.43
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.43
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.39
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
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.
As at
13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC
Gate
verify/divergence_gate.py re-derives and fails on drift
The platform does not say which is right, and does not
characterise what the difference means. The renderings are placed
together so the difference is visible; reading it is the reader's work.
7 sources
stand behind this page. Each is listed once, in the order the page first
cites it, with the licence it was cleared under and what was actually read.
Nothing on this page rests on a source that is not here.
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.