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Talal Itani· published 2012
These will not escape on earth, and they have no protectors besides God. The punishment will be doubled for them. They have failed to hear, and they have failed to see.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Such will not escape in the earth, nor have they any protectingfriends beside Allah. For them the torment will be double. They could not bear to hear, and they used not to see
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
They cannot make Him helpless in the earth, nor have they other than God for patrons. Doubled for them is the torment. They could not hear, nor did they see
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
God'spower on earth they shall not weaken; and beside God they have no protector! Doubled shall be their punishment! They were not able to hearken, and they could not see
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
These were not able to prevail against God on earth, so as to escape punishment; neither had they any protectors besides God: Their punishment shall be doubled unto them. They could not hear, neither did they see
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
Ata nuk do të mund të shpëtojnë në Tokë (nga dënimi) dhe nuk do të kenë mbrojtës në vend të Allahut. Atyre do t'u shumëfishohet dënimi, sepse ata nuk mundën të dëgjonin e as të shihnin (të vërtetën).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
তারা জমিনে (আল্লাহকে) অপরাগ করতে পারত না(৬) এবং আল্লাহ ছাড়া তাদের অন্য কোনো সাহায্যকারী ছিল না। তাদের শাস্তি দ্বিগুণ করা হবে। তাদের (দুনিয়াতে হিদায়াতের বাণী) শোনার সামর্থ্যও ছিল না এবং তারা (আল্লাহর নিদর্শনাবলি) দেখতেও পেত না।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Oni na Zemlji ne mogu Allahu umaći, niti, osim Allaha, drugog zaštitnika imaju. Njihova patnja bit će umnogostručena. Oni nisu mogli čuti, i nisu vidjeli.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Oni na Zemlji ne mogu Allahu umaći, niti, osim Allaha, drugog zaštitnika imaju. Njihova patnja bit će umnogostručena. Oni nisu mogli čuti, i nisu vidjeli.
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.
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ქართული · Georgian
ასეთები (ურწმუნოები) ვერასოდეს შეასუსტებენ ალლაჰის სასჯელს დედამიწაზე (ვერ გაექცევიან მას), და არ ჰყავთ მათ ალლაჰის გარდა მფარველები (ვინც შეძლებდა მათ დაცვას მისი სასჯელისგან). გაორმაგებული იქნება მათთვის სასჯელი. მათ არ შეეძლოთ მოსმენა და ვერც ხედავდნენ.
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Deutsch · German
Jene werden sich (Allah) auf der Erde nicht entziehen können, und sie werden außer Allah keine Schutzherren haben. Die Strafe wird ihnen vervielfacht. Sie konnten nicht hören, und sie pflegten nicht zu sehen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Εκείνοι δε θα μπορούν να ξεφύγουν στη γη (από την τιμωρία του Αλλάχ), ούτε θα έχουν κανέναν προστάτη (ή υποστηρικτή) εκτός του Αλλάχ. Η τιμωρία τους θα διπλασιαστεί. Πράγματι, ούτε μπορούσαν να ακούσουν (την αλήθεια και την καθοδήγηση στην εγκόσμια ζωή), ούτε έβλεπαν (τα Σημάδια του Αλλάχ στο σύμπαν λόγω της φανατικής άρνησής τους για την αλήθεια).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
वे धरती में अल्लाह की यातना से बचकर भाग नहीं सकते और न उनका अल्लाह के सिवा कोई सहायक है। उनके लिए यातना दुगुनी कर दी जाएगी। वे (दुनिया में) न सुन सकते थे, न देख सकते थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Quelli non avranno autorità in terra e non hanno avuto protettori all’infuori di Allāh. Sarà raddoppiata loro la punizione, e non potevano ascoltare e non potevano vedere.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
20. Jokiais būdais jie nepabėgs (nuo Allaho Baumsės) žemėje, nei turi jie globėjų be Allaho! Jų kančia bus padvigubinta! Jie negalėjo pakęsti girdėti (tiesos skelbėjų) ir jie nematydavo (tiesos, dėl savo didelio nemėgimo, nepaisant to, kad jie turėjo girdėjimo ir matymo jusles).
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Warri sun dachii keessatti (Rabbiin) dadhabsiisoo hin turre. Rabbii malee gargaaraan tokkolleen isaaniif hin taane. Aazzbnii dachaa isaaniif godhama. (Haqa) dhagahuu kan danda’an hin turre; kan arganis hin taane.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Такие не могли избежать [наказания] на земле и не было у них, помимо Аллаха, никаких покровителей. Им будет удвоено наказание. Они не могли слышать и не видели.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Они на Земљи не могу да умакну Аллаховој казни, нити, осим Аллаха, имају другог заштитника. Њихова патња биће умногостручена. Они нису желели да чују истину, и нису желели да сагледају доказе.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Hao hawakuwa ni wa kushinda katika ardhi, wala hawana walinzi wowote kando na Mwenyezi Mungu. Watazidishiwa adhabu; kwa kuwa, hawakuwa wakiweza kusikia wala hawakuwa wakiona.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
De kunde aldrig undfly på jorden, och de hade inga beskyddare utom Gud. Deras straff ska fördubblas. De klarade inte av att lyssna och de kunde inte se.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Bunlar, yeryüzünde (Allah'ı) aciz bırakacak değillerdir. Onların Allah’tan başka bir velisi/yardımcısı da yoktur. Onlara kat kat azap vardır. Çünkü onlar, (hakkı) işitmezler ve görmezlerdi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
نہ یہ لوگ دنیا میں اللہ کو ہرا سکے اور نہ ان کا کوئی حمایتی اللہ کے سوا ہوا، ان کے لئے عذاب دگنا کیا جائے گا نہ یہ سننے کی طاقت رکھتے تھے اور نہ یہ دیکھتے ہی تھے.[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.
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Talal Itani2012 Who does greater wrong than he who fabricates lies about God? These will be presented before their Lord, and the witnesses will say, "These are they who lied about their Lord." Indeed, the curse of God is upon the wrongdoers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Who doeth greater wrong than he who inventeth a lie concerning Allah? Such will be brought before their Lord, and the witnesses will say: These are they who lied concerning their Lord. Now the curse of Allah is upon wrong-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Who is more unjust than he who forges against God a lie? they shall be set before their Lord, and the witnesses shall say, 'These it is who lied against their Lord.' Aye! God's curse is on the unjust
John Medows Rodwell1861 Who is guilty of a greater injustice than he who inventeth a lie concerning God? They shall be set before their Lord, and the witnesses shall say, "These are they who made their Lord a liar." Shall not the malison of God be on these unjust doers
George Sale1734 Who is more unjust than he who imagineth a lie concerning God? They shall be set before their Lord, at the day of judgment, and the witnesses shall say, these are they who devised lies against their Lord. Shall not the curse of God fall on the unjust
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 —
0.69 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 · John Medows Rodwell0.80
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.77
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.76
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.76
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Talal Itani · George Sale0.57
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
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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.