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Say, "I have no power to harm or benefit myself, except as God wills. To every nation is an appointed time. Then, when their time arrives, they can neither postpone it by one hour, nor advance it.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Say: I have no power to hurt or benefit myself, save that which Allah willeth. For every nation there is an appointed time. When their time cometh, then they cannot put it off an hour, nor hasten (it)
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
Say, 'I have no power over myself for harm or for profit, save what God will. Every nation has its appointed time; when their appointed time comes to them they cannot delay it for an hour or bring it on
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
SAY: I have no power over my own weal or woe, but as God pleaseth. Every people hath its time: when their time is come, they shall neither retard nor advance it an hour
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Answer, I am able neither to procureadvantage unto my self, nor to avertmischief from me, but as God pleaseth. Unto every nation is a fixedtermdecreed; when their term therefore is expired, they shall not have respite for an hour, neither shall their punishment be anticipated
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
Thuaju: "Unë nuk mund t'i bëj vetes as dëm e as dobi, përveç aq sa dëshiron Allahu. Çdo popull ka afatin e vet. Kur të vijë afati i tyre, ata nuk mund ta shtyjnë atë për asnjë çast e as ta përshpejtojnë."
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 রাসূল!) বলো: ‘আল্লাহ যা ইচ্ছা করেন, তা ছাড়া আমি নিজের কোন ক্ষতি বা উপকারের অধিকার রাখি না।’ প্রত্যেক উম্মতের জন্যে (আল্লাহর ওয়াদাকৃত শাস্তির) নির্দিষ্ট একটি সময় রয়েছে। যখন তাদের (শাস্তির) সময় আসবে, তখন এক মুহূর্তও পিছাতে পারে না এবং আগাতেও পারে 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
Reci: "Sam od sebe ne mogu nikakvu štetu otkloniti, a ni neku korist sebi pribaviti; biva onako kako Allah hoće!" Svaki narod ima rok određeni, a kad rok njegov dođe, ni za tren ga neće moći ni odložiti ni ubrzati.
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
Reci: "Sam od sebe ne mogu nikakvu štetu otkloniti, a ni neku korist sebi pribaviti; biva onako kako Allah hoće!" Svaki narod ima rok određeni, a kad rok njegov dođe, ni za tren ga neće moći ni odložiti ni ubrzati.
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
Maaku : "mi waawanaa hoore am lorra wanaa nafa si wanaa ko Alla muuyi. Hino woodani mofte kala lajal. Si lajal maɓɓe ngal arii, ɓe neeɓnirantaake saa'a ɓe ngardinantaake kadi".
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
უთხარი მათ (ო, მოციქულო): «მე არ ვფლობ ძალას ჩემი თავისთვის არც ზიანზე და არც სარგებელზე გარდა იმისა, რასაც ალლაჰი ისურვებს. ყოველ თემს აქვს თავისი ვადა. როცა დადგება მათი ვადა, ისინი ვერც ერთი საათით ვერ დააყოვნებენ მას და ვერც ერთი საათით ვერ დააჩქარებენ».
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
Sag: „Ich verfüge für mich selbst weder Schaden noch Nutzen, außer was Allah will.“ Jede Gemeinschaft hat eine (festgesetzte) Frist. Und wenn ihre Frist kommt, können sie (sie) weder um eine Stunde hinausschieben noch vorziehen.
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
Πες (ω, Προφήτη): «Δεν είναι στη δύναμή μου ούτε να εμποδίσω κάποιο κακό να μου συμβεί, ούτε να φέρω για τον εαυτό μου κάποιο όφελος, εκτός από ό,τι θέλει ο Αλλάχ. Για κάθε έθνος υπάρχει μία προκαθορισμένη ώρα (θανάτου). Όταν έρθει η ώρα τους, δεν μπορούν ούτε να την καθυστερήσουν ούτε μία στιγμή, ούτε να τη φέρουν νωρίτερα.»
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
आप कह दें कि मैं अपने लिए किसी हानि या लाभ का मालिक नहीं हूँ, परंतु जो अल्लाह चाहे। प्रत्येक समुदाय का एक समय है। जब उनका समय आ जाता है, तो वे एक घड़ी न पीछे रहते हैं और न आगे बढ़ते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Di’: «Io non possiedo per me stesso né il male né il bene, se non per volere di Allāh. Vi è un termine per ogni comunità, e quando viene raggiunto, loro non possono ritardarlo né affrettarlo di un’ora».
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
49. Sakyk (Muchammedai ﷺ): „Aš neturiu galios pakenkti ar gauti pats naudos sau, išskyrus tai, ką Allahas panorės. Kiekvienai Ummai (bendruomenei arba tautai) yra paskirtas terminas, kai jų terminas ateina, nei jie gali jį atidėti, nei gali jie paskubinti jį valanda (ar momentu).“ (Tafsir Al-Kurtubi).
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 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Jedhi “ ani lubbuu tiyyaaf miidhaas ta’ee bu’aas fiduu hin danda’u Waan Rabbiin fedhe malee, Ummata hundaaf beellamatu jira. Yeroo beellamni isaanii dhufe, sa’aatii tokkos booda hin aanan; duras hin dabran.” [7]
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
Скажи: «Я не властен принести себе ни вреда, ни пользы, кроме того, что пожелает Аллах. Для каждой общины есть свой срок, и когда придёт их срок, они не смогут ни отсрочить его на час, ни приблизить».
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
Реци: „Сам од себе не могу никакву штету да отклоним, а ни неку корист себи да прибавим; бива онако како Аллах хоће!“ Сваки народ има одређени рок, а кад рок његов дође, ни за трен неће моћи ни да га одложе ни да га убрзају.
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
Sema: Sijimilikii nafsi yangu shari wala kheri ila apendavyo Mwenyezi Mungu. Kila umma una muda wao waliowekewa. Ukifika muda wao, hawakawii hata saa moja wala hawatangulii.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Säg: ”Jag har ingen makt över mitt eget öde, vare sig det gäller gott eller ont, annat än vad Gud vill. För varje samfund finns en utsatt tid. När deras tid är inne kan de inte fördröja den ens ett ögonblick, och inte påskynda den.”
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 Muhammed) De ki: Allah’ın dilediğinden başka kendim için bir zarar da faydaya da sahip değilim. Her ümmetin bir eceli vardır. Eceli geldiği zaman bir saat bile geri de bırakılmaz, ileri de alınmaz.
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
آپ فرما دیجئے کہ میں اپنی ذات کے لیے تو کسی نفع کا اور کسی ضرر کا اختیار رکھتا ہی نہیں مگر جتنا اللہ کو منظور ہو۔ ہر امت کے لیے ایک معین وقت ہے جب ان کا وه معین وقت آپہنچتا ہے تو ایک گھڑی نہ پیچھے ہٹ سکتے ہیں اور نہ آگے سرک سکتے ہیں.[1]
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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Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
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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
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Have you considered? If His punishment overtakes you by night or by day, what part of it will the guilty seek to hasten?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: Have ye thought: When His doom cometh unto you as a raid by night, or in the (busy) day; what is there of it that the guilty ones desire to hasten
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Let us see now when the torment comes to you, by night or day, what will the sinners fain bring on thereof
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: How think ye? if God's punishment came on you by night or by day, what portion of it would the wicked desire to hasten on
George Sale1734 Say, tell me; if the punishment of God overtake you by night, or by day, what part thereof will the ungodly wish to be hastened
Talal Itani2012 "Then, when it falls, will you believe in it? Now? When before you tried to hasten it?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Is it (only) then, when it hath befallen you, that ye will believe? What! (Believe) now, when (until now) ye have been hastening it on (through disbelief)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when it has fallen - will ye believe in it now!- And yet ye wish to bring it on
John Medows Rodwell1861 When it falleth on you, will ye believe it then? Yes! ye will believe it then. Yet did ye challenge its speedy coming
George Sale1734 When it falleth on you, do ye then believe it? Now do ye believe, and wish it far from you, when ye formerly desired it should be hastened
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 —
0.68 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
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.83
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.80
Talal Itani · George Sale0.75
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
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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.