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Talal Itani· published 2012
On the Day when it arrives, no soul will speak without His permission. Some will be miserable, and some will be happy.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
On the day when it cometh no soul will speak except by His permission; some among them will be wretched, (others) glad
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
The day when it shall come no soul shall speak save by His permission, and amongst them (shall be) the wretched and the glad
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
When that day shall come, no soul shall speak to excuse it self, or to intercede for another, but by the permission of God. Of them one shall be miserable, and another shall be happy
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
Kur të vijë (ajo ditë), askush nuk mund të flasë, përveçse me lejen e Tij. Prej tyre do të ketë të mjerë dhe të lumtur.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
যেদিন তা আসবে সেদিন, তাঁর (আল্লাহর) অনুমতি ব্যতীত কেউ কথা বলতে পারবে না। অতঃপর তাদের মধ্য থেকে কেউ হবে হতভাগা (জাহান্নামী), আর কেউ হবে সৌভাগ্যবান (জান্নাতী)।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
A onda kad dođe, bez dopuštenja Njegova niko ni riječ neće izustiti, a među njima bit će nesretnih i sretnih.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
A onda kad dođe, bez dopuštenja Njegova nitko ni riječ neće izustiti, a među njima bit će nesretnih i sretnih.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ñalnde ngal arata, woŋkii (woo) wowlatah si wanaa e duŋayee makko. Hino e maɓɓe malkisaaɗo e malaaɗo.
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ქართული · Georgian
იმ დღეს, როცა ის (განკითხვის დღე) დადგება ვერც ერთი სული ვერ ილაპარაკებს, გარდა მისი ნებართვით. მათ შორის იქნებიან უბედურნი და ბედნიერნი.
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Deutsch · German
Am Tag, der eintrifft, wird keine Seele sprechen, außer mit Seiner Erlaubnis. So werden einige von ihnen unglücklich und andere glückselig sein.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Την ημέρα που θα έρθει, κανείς δε θα μιλήσει παρά μόνο με την άδειά Του. Κάποιοι (άνθρωποι) θα είναι άθλιοι ενώ άλλοι θα είναι ευχαριστημένοι.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
जिस दिन वह आ जाएगा, तो अल्लाह की अनुमति के बिना कोई प्राणी बात नहीं कर सकेगा, फिर उनमें से कुछ अभागे होंगे और कुछ भाग्यशाली होंगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Quando arriverà, nessuna anima potrà più parlare senza il Suo permesso. Ci sarà, tra loro, quella dannata e quella felice.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
105. Tą Dieną, kai ji ateis, joks asmuo nekalbės, tik Jo (Allaho) Leidimu. Kai kurie iš jų bus nelaimingieji ir (kiti) palaimintieji.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Guyyaa inni dhufu lubbuun takkallee hayyama Isaatiin malee hin dubbattu. Isaan irraas warra hoonga’aafi milkaa’aatu jira.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
тот День, когда он наступит, ни одна душа не заговорит, кроме как с Его дозволения. И среди них [будут] несчастные и счастливые.
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Српски · Serbian
А онда кад дође, без Његовог допуштења нико ни реч неће да изусти, а међу њима биће несрећних и срећних.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Siku hiyo itakapokuja, nafsi yoyote haitazungumza isipokuwa kwa idhini yake. Basi miongoni mwao kutakuwa na walio mashakani na wenye furaha.
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Svenska · Swedish
Den dagen kommer ingen själ kunna tala utan hans tillåtelse. Vissa ska då vara fördömda medan andra ska vara lycksaliga.
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Türkçe · Turkish
O gün geldiği zaman Allah’ın izni olmadan hiçbir kimse konuşamaz. Onlardan kimisi bedbaht, kimisi bahtiyardır.
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اردو · Urdu
جس دن وه آجائے گی مجال نہ ہوگی کہ اللہ کی اجازت کے بغیر کوئی بات بھی کر[1] لے، سو ان میں کوئی بدبخت ہوگا اور کوئی نیک بخت.
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DIN 31635ʾinna fī ḏālika laʾāyatan liman ḫāfa ʿaḏāba l-ʾāḫirati ḏālika yawmun maǧmūʿun lahu n-nāsu waḏālika yawmun mašhūdun
Talal Itani2012 In that is a sign for whoever fears the punishment of the Hereafter. That is a Day for which humanity will be gathered together-that is a Day to be witnessed.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! herein verily there is a portent for those who fear the doom of the Hereafter. That is a day unto which mankind will be gathered, and that is a day that will be witnessed
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, in that is a sign to him who fears the torment of the last day;- that is a day unto which men shall be gathered;- that is a witnessed day
John Medows Rodwell1861 Herein truly is a sign for him who feareth the punishment of the latter day. That shall be a day unto which mankind shall be gathered together; that shall be a day witnessed by all creatures
George Sale1734 Verily herein is a sign unto him who feareth the punishment of the last day: That shall be a day, whereon all men shall be assembled, and that shall be a day whereon witness shall be born
DIN 31635faʾammā llaḏīna šaqū fafī n-nāri lahum fīhā zafīrun wašahīqun
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 As for those who are miserable, they will be in the Fire. They will have therein sighing and wailing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 As for those who will be wretched (on that day) they will be in the Fire; sighing and wailing will be their portion therein
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And as for those who are wretched - why, in the Fire! there shall they groan and sob! to dwell therein for aye
John Medows Rodwell1861 And as for those who shall be consigned to misery - their place the Fire! therein shall they sigh and bemoan them
George Sale1734 And they who shall be miserable, shall be thrown into hell fire; there shall they wail and bemoan themselves
Talal Itani2012 Remaining therein for as long as the heavens and the earth endure, except as your Lord wills. Your Lord is Doer of whatever He wills.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Abiding there so long as the heavens and the earth endure save for that which thy Lord willeth. Lo! thy Lord is Doer of what He will
Edward Henry Palmer1880 so long as the heavens and the earth endure; save what thy Lord will. Verily, thy Lord is one who works His will
John Medows Rodwell1861 Therein shall they abide while the Heavens and the Earth shall last, unless thy Lord shall will it otherwise; verily thy Lord doth what He chooseth
George Sale1734 They shall remain therein so long as the heavens and the earth shall endure; except what thy Lord shall please to remit of their sentence; for thy Lord effecteth that which He pleaseth
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 —
0.62 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.72
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.71
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Talal Itani · George Sale0.65
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.63
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.58
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.46
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
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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.