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Talal Itani· published 2012
It is He who made the sun radiant, and the moon a light, and determinedphases for it-that you may know the number of years and the calculation. God did not create all this except with truth. He details the revelations for a people who know.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
He it is Who appointed the sun a splendour and the moon a light, and measured for her stages, that ye might know the number of the years, and the reckoning. Allah created not (all) that save in truth. He detaileth the revelations for people who have knowledge
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 made the sun for a brightness, and the moon for a light, and decreed for it mansions, that ye may know the number of the years and the reckoning.- God only created that in truth. He details the signs unto a people who do know
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is He who hath appointed the sun for brightness, and the moon for a light, and hath ordained her stations that ye may learn the number of years and the reckoning of time. God hath not created all this but for the truth. He maketh his signs clear to those who understand
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is He who hath ordained the sun to shine by day, and the moon for a light by night; and hath appointed her stations, that ye might know the number of years, and the computation of time. God hath not created this, but with truth. He explaineth his signs unto people who understand
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
Ai është që Diellin e bëri ndriçues e Hënën të ndritshme dhe ia caktoi fazat, që të dini numrin e viteve dhe llogaritjen e kohës. Allahu i krijoi këto vetëm me qëllim të caktuar. Ai ua sqaron shenjat njerëzve që kuptojnë.
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
তিনিই সূর্যকে করেছেন দীপ্তিমান ও চাঁদকে আলোকময় এবং তার জন্য মনযিল(১) নির্দিষ্ট করেছেন, যাতে তোমরা (চন্দ্র ও সূর্যের মাধ্যমে) বছর গণনা ও সময়ের হিসাব জানতে পারো। আল্লাহ এগুলোকে (অনর্থকভাবে নয়; বরং) উদ্দেশ্যমূলকভাবেই সৃষ্টি করেছেন। তিনি জ্ঞানীদের জন্যে এসব নিদর্শন বিশদভাবে বর্ণনা করেন।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
On je Taj Koji je Sunce izvorom svjetlosti učinio, a Mjesec sjajnim, i položaje mu odredio da biste znali broj godina i računanje. Allah je to s Istinom stvorio. On potanko izlaže ajete i znakove ljudima koji znaju.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
On je Taj Koji je Sunce izvorom svjetlosti učinio, a Mjesec sjajnim, i položaje mu odredio da biste znali broj godina i računanje. Allah je to s Istinom stvorio. On potanko izlaže ajete i znakove ljudima koji znaju.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko kaŋko woni baɗɗo naange ngen jalbunge e lewru ndun nurɗundu, o eɓɓani ndu jipporɗe fii yo on anndu emmbere duuɓi ɗin e limoore ndeen Alla tagiraani ɗiin si wanaa e goonga. hombo fensitana aayeeje ɗen yimɓe anndooɓe.
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ქართული · Georgian
მხოლოდ ისაა (ალლაჰი), რომელმაც ჰქმნა მზე მანათობლად, ხოლო მთვარე შუქად, და განუსაზღვრა მას სადგურები (ფაზები), რათა იცოდეთ წლების რაოდენობა და დროის აღრიცხვა [მზე განსაზღვრავს დღეებს, ხოლო მთვარე თვეებსა და წელიწადებს]. ალლაჰმა ეს ყველაფერი მხოლოდ ჭეშმარიტებით შექმნა. ის განმარტავს თავის სასწაულებს იმ ხალხისთვის, რომელთაც იციან.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Er ist es, Der die Sonne zu einer Leuchte und den Mond zu einem Licht gemacht und ihm Himmelspunkte zugeordnet hat, damit ihr die Zahl der Jahre und die (Zeit)rechnung kennt. Allah hat dies ja nur in Wahrheit erschaffen. Er legt die Zeichen ausführlich dar für Leute, die Bescheid wissen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αυτός είναι που έκανε τον ήλιο ως πηγή λαμπερού φωτός και τη σελήνη ως φως (που αντανακλάται) και προκαθόρισε την πορεία της (κάθε μήνα) σε αποστάσεις (28 φάσεις, θέσεις και διάφορες μορφές) [και η σελήνη κρύβεται μία ή δύο μέρες σύμφωνα με το αν ο σεληνιακός μήνας είναι 29 ή 30 μέρες], για να γνωρίζετε τον αριθμό των ετών και τον υπολογισμό (του χρόνου των ετών και του αριθμού των ημερών τους, και των ωρών των ημερών τους). Ο Αλλάχ δε δημιούργησε όλα αυτά παρά μόνο με την αλήθεια. Εξηγεί λεπτομερώς τα Σημάδια για τους ανθρώπους που γνωρίζουν.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
वही है जिसने सूर्य को ज्योति तथा चाँद को प्रकाश बनाया और उस (चाँद) की मंज़िलें निर्धारित कीं, ताकि तुम वर्षों की गिनती तथा हिसाब जान सको। अल्लाह ने इन सब को सत्य के साथ बनाया है। वह उन लोगों के लिए निशानियों को खोलकर बयान करता है, जो जानते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Lui è Colui che ha creato il sole come luce e la luna come un riflesso, e l’ha divisa in fasi per farvi contare gli anni e il calendario. Allāh non ha creato tutto questo se non con verità; Lui chiarifica i Segni a quelli che possono capire.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
5. Tai Jis, Kuris padarė saulę spinduliuojančia šviesa ir mėnulį kaip atspindinčią šviesą ir atmatavo jam tarpsnius tam, kad žinotumėte metų skaičių ir apskaičiavimui. Allahas sukūrė tai tik teisingai. Jis detaliai paaiškina Ajat (įrodymus, įkalčius, eilutes, pamokas, ženklus, apreiškimus ir t.t.) žmonėms, kurie turi žinių.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Inni Isa aduu madda ifaa, baatii ifa taasisee, akka lakkoofsa waggootaafi herregaa beektaniif jecha bakka (buufata) isaaf (Ji’aaf) godheedha. Rabbiin kana dhugaan malee hin uumne. (Rabbiin) keeyyattoota namoota beekaniif addeessa. [2]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Он — Тот, Кто сделал солнце сиянием, а луну — светом, и определил её стоянки, чтобы вы знали число лет и счёт времени. Аллах сотворил это не иначе как с истиной. Он разъясняет знамения людям, которые знают.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Он је Тај Који је Сунце учинио извором светлости а Месец сјајним, и одредио му је положаје да бисте знали број година и рачунање. Аллах је то са разлогом створио. Он потанко излаже доказе и знакове људима који знају.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Yeye ndiye aliyelifanya jua kuwa na mwangaza, na mwezi ukawa na nuru, na akaupimia vituo ili mjue idadi ya miaka na hesabu. Mwenyezi Mungu hakuviumba hivyo isipokuwa kwa haki. Anazipambanua Ishara kwa kaumu wanaojua.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Det är han som gett solen dess bländande ljus och månen dess sken, och han fastställde dess faser för att ni ska kunna beräkna årens antal och föra tideräkning. Gud skapade detta för ett alldeles visst syfte. Han klargör tecknen för de som vet.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Güneşi ışık (kaynağı), Ay'ı da nur/aydınlık kılan, yılların sayısını ve hesabı bilmeniz için Ay'a menziller (konak yerleri) takdir eden O’dur. Allah bunları sadece hak olarak yaratmıştır. O, bilen bir toplum için ayetleri apaçık bir şekilde işte böyle açıklar.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
وه اللہ تعالیٰ ایسا ہے جس نے آفتاب کو چمکتا ہوا بنایا اور چاند کو نورانی بنایا[1] اور اس کے لیے منزلیں مقرر کیں تاکہ تم برسوں کی گنتی اور حساب معلوم کرلیا کرو[2]۔ اللہ تعالیٰ نے یہ چیزیں بے فائده نہیں پیدا کیں۔ وه یہ دﻻئل ان کو صاف صاف بتلا رہا ہے جو دانش رکھتے ہیں۔
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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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
Talal Itani2012 In the alternation of night and day, and in what God created in the heavens and the earth, are signs for people who are aware.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! in the difference of day and night and all that Allah hath created in the heavens and the earth are portents, verily, for folk who ward off (evil)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, in the alternation of night and day, and in what God has created of the heavens and the earth, are signs unto a people who do fear
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily, in the alternations of night and of day, and in all that God hath created in the Heavens and in the Earth are signs to those who fear Him
George Sale1734 Moreover in the vicissitude of night and day, and whatever God hath created in heaven and earth, are surely signs unto men who fear Him
Talal Itani2012 Those who do not hope to meet Us, and are content with the worldly life, and are at ease in it, and those who pay no heed to Our signs.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! those who expect not the meeting with Us but desire the life of the world and feel secure therein, and those who are neglectful of Our revelations
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, those who hope not for our meeting, and are content with the life of this world, and are comforted thereby, and those who are neglectful of our signs
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily, they who hope not to meet Us, and find their satisfaction in this world's life, and rest on it, and who of our signs are heedless
George Sale1734 Verily they who hope not to meet Us at the last day, and delight in this present life, and rest securely in the same, and who are negligent of our signs
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.55 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.52
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.37
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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.