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"I do not say to you that I possess the treasures of God, nor do I know the future, nor do I say that I am an angel. Nor do I say of those who are despicable in your eyes that God will never give them any good. God is Aware of what lies in their souls. If I did, I would be one of the wrongdoers."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
I say not unto you: "I have the treasures of Allah" nor "I have knowledge of the Unseen," nor say I: "Lo! I am an angel!" Nor say I unto those whom your eyes scorn that Allah will not give them good - Allah knoweth best what is in their hearts - Lo! then indeed I should be of the wrong-doers
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
I do not say that I have the treasures of God; nor do I know the unseen; nor do I say, " Verily, I am an angel; " nor do I say of those whom your eyes despise, "God will never give them any good!"- God knows best what is in their souls - verily, then should I be of the unjust
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And I tell you not that with me are the treasures of God: nor do I say, 'I know the things unseen;' nor do I say, 'I am an angel;' nor do I say of those whom you eye with scorn, No good thing will God bestow on them: - God best knoweth what is in their minds - for then should I be one of those who actunjustly
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
I say not unto you, the treasures of God are in my power; neither do I say, I know the secrets of God: Neither do I say, verily I am an angel; neither do I say of those whom your eyes do condemn, God will by no means bestow good on them: -- God best knoweth that which is in their souls; -- for then should I certainly be one of the unjust
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
Nuk po ju them se unë zotëroj thesaret e Allahut, as se e di të fshehtën e as po ju them se jam melek. As do t'u them atyre që i përbuzni në sytë tuaj, se Allahu nuk do t'u japë mirësi. Allahu e di mirë ç'ka në shpirtrat e tyre. Atëherë, do të isha njëmend zullumqar."
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 আমি তোমাদের বলছি না যে, ‘আমার কাছে আল্লাহর ভাণ্ডারসমূহ আছে এবং আমি গায়িব জানি। আর আমি এও বলছি না যে, ‘আমি ফিরিশতা।’ তোমাদের চোখে যারা হীন (অভাবী), তাদের সম্পর্কে আমি বলছি না যে, ‘আল্লাহ তাদেরকে কখনো কোনো কল্যাণ দান করবেন না।’ তাদের অন্তরে যা আছে, সে সম্পর্কে আল্লাহ অধিক জ্ঞাত। আমি এমন দাবি করলে, অবশ্যই আমি যালিমদের অন্তর্ভুক্ত হয়ে যাবো।’
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
Ja vam ne kažem: ’U mene su Allahove riznice’ – niti kažem: ’Meni je poznato ono što je čulima nedokučivo’ – niti kažem: ’Ja sam melek’ – a ne govorim ni o onima koje vaše oči s prezirom gledaju: ’Allah im nikakvo dobro neće dati', Allah najbolje zna šta je u dušama njihovim – jer bih se tada, sigurno, među nepravedne svrstao.”
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
Ja vam ne kažem: ’U mene su Allahove riznice’ – niti: ’Meni je poznato ono što je čulima nedokučivo’ – niti kažem: ’Ja sam anđeo’ – a ne govorim ni o onima koje vaše oči s prezirom gledaju: ’Allah im nikakvo dobro neće dati’, Allah najbolje zna što je u dušama njihovim – a ja bih se tada, sigurno, među nepravedne svrstao.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Mi wi'antah on miɗo mari ngaluujii Alla, mi annah kadi ko wirnii, mi wi'ataa won´de ko mi maleyko, mi wi'antaa ɓeen ɓe gite mon ɗen yawi, Alla okkoytaa-ɓe moƴƴere; ko Alla ɓuri anndude ko woni e woŋkiiji maɓɓe. miin ontuma [si mi waɗii ɗum], haray ko mi jeyaaɗo e tooñɓe ɓeen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და არ გეუბნებით თქვენ, რომ ჩემთანაა ალლაჰის საგანძურები, და არც დაფარული ვიცი, და არც იმას ვამბობ, რომ ანგელოზი ვარ. და არც ვეტყვი იმათზე, ვისაც თქვენი თვალები შეურაცხყოფით უყურებენ [საწყალ და სუსტ მორწმუნეებს], რომ ალლაჰი მათ სიკეთეს არ მიაგებს. ალლაჰმა უკეთ იცის, რაც მათ სულებშია. მაშინ, მე უსათუოდ უსამართლოთაგანი ვიქნებოდი».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und ich sage nicht zu euch, ich besäße die Schatzkammern Allahs, und ich kenne auch nicht das Verborgene; und ich sage nicht, ich sei ein Engel. Und ich sage nicht zu denen, die eure Augen verachten, Allah werde ihnen niemals etwas Gutes zukommen lassen, (denn) Allah weiß am besten, was in ihrem Innersten ist. Wahrlich, sonst würde ich zu den Ungerechten gehören.“
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
Δε σας λέω ότι έχω τα θησαυροφυλάκια του Αλλάχ (για να σας δώσω απ' αυτά αν πιστέψετε), ούτε ξέρω τα αόρατα, ούτε λέω ότι είμαι ένας άγγελος, ούτε λέω γι' εκείνους (τους φτωχούς πιστούς) που τα μάτια σας τους περιφρονούν, ότι δε θα τους δώσει ο Αλλάχ καλό (από πίστη και ανταμοιβή). Πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ ξέρει καλύτερα ό,τι υπάρχει μέσα τους. Πράγματι, (αν κάνω κάτι τέτοιο) τότε θα είμαι ένας από τους άδικους.»
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 मैं तुमसे यह नहीं कहता कि मेरे पास अल्लाह के ख़ज़ाने हैं और न मुझे परोक्ष का ज्ञान है और न मैं यह कहता हूँ कि निःसंदेह मैं एक फ़रिश्ता हूँ और न ही मैं उन लोगों के बारे में जिन्हें तुम्हारी आँखें तुच्छ समझती हैं, यह कहता हूँ कि अल्लाह उन्हें हरगिज़ कोई भलाई नहीं देगा। अल्लाह अधिक जानता है, जो कुछ उनके दिलों में है। (यदि मैं ऐसा कहूँ,) तो निश्चय ही मैं अत्याचारियों में से हो जाऊँगा।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E non dico di avere i tesori di Allāh, né di conoscere l’Ignoto, e non dico di essere un angelo, e non dico a quelli che i vostri occhi deridono, che Allāh non donerà loro nessun bene: Allāh conosce meglio ciò che è nelle loro anime; in verità io sarei tra gli ingiusti”.
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
31. Ir aš nesakau jums, kad pas mane yra Allaho Lobiai, nei kad aš žinau Ghaib (Nematomą), nei aš sakau, kad esu angelas, ir aš nesakau apie tuos, į kuriuos jūs žiūrite iš aukšto, kad Allahas nesuteiks jiems nieko gero. Allahas žino, kas yra juose pačiuose (tikėjimą ir t.t.). Tuo atveju, aš turėčiau tikrai būti vienu iš Zalimūn (nusidėjėliu, engėju).“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Ani kuusaan Rabbii na bira jira isiniin hin jedhu. Gaybii (wanta fagoo) hin beeku. Ani maleeykaadhas isiniin hin jedhu. Isaannan iji keessan tuffattu (xinneessituu)nis Rabbiin toltuu isaaniif hin kennu hin jedhu. Rabbiin waan lubbuulee isaanii keessa jiru beekaadha. Yoo san, ani dhugumatti warra miidhaa hojjatan irraayyi”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И я не говорю вам, что у меня — сокровищницы Аллаха, и я не знаю сокровенного, и не говорю, что я — ангел. И я не говорю о тех, на кого смотрят с презрением ваши глаза, что Аллах никогда не дарует им блага. Аллах лучше знает то, что в их душах. Воистину, я тогда был бы из числа несправедливых».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Ја вам не кажем: 'Поседујем Аллахове ризнице' - нити: 'Мени је познато оно што је недокучиво чулима' - нити кажем: 'Ја сам анђео' - а не говорим ни о онима које ваше очи са презиром гледају: 'Аллах никакво добро неће да им да', Аллах најбоље зна шта је у њиховим душама - у супротном бих, сигурно, био међу неправеднима.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Wala siwaambii kuwa nina hazina za Mwenyezi Mungu, wala kuwa mimi ninajua mambo ya ghaibu, wala sisemi: Mimi ni Malaika. Wala sisemi kuhusu wale ambao yanawadharau macho yenu kuwa Mwenyezi Mungu hatawapa heri. Mwenyezi Mungu ndiye anayajua zaidi yaliyo katika nafsi zao. Hapo bila ya shaka nitakuwa miongoni mwa madhalimu."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Jag säger inte till er att jag har Guds skatter och jag känner inte till det fördolda, och jag påstår inte att jag är en ängel. Och jag säger inte till de ni föraktar att Gud inte ska ge dem något gott. Gud vet mycket väl vad som ryms i deras inre. Då skulle jag handlat orätt.”
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
Size ben, “Allah’ın hazineleri yanımdadır” demiyorum, gaybı da bilmem. “Ben bir meleğim” de demiyorum. Sizin hor gördüğünüz kimseler için, “Allah, onlara asla hiçbir hayır vermez” de diyemem. Allah, onların içlerindekini daha iyi bilir. Böyle bir şey söylersem, o zaman ben gerçekten zalimlerden olurum.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
میں تم سے نہیں کہتا کہ میرے پاس اللہ کے خزانے ہیں، (سنو!) میں غیب کا علم بھی نہیں رکھتا، نہ میں یہ کہتا ہوں کہ میں کوئی فرشتہ ہوں، نہ میرا یہ قول ہے کہ جن پر تمہاری نگاہیں ذلت سے پڑ رہی ہیں انہیں اللہ تعالیٰ کوئی نعمت دے گا ہی نہیں[1] ، ان کے دل میں جو ہے اسے اللہ ہی خوب جانتا ہے، اگر میں ایسی بات کہوں تو یقیناً میرا شمار ﻇالموں میں ہو جائے گا۔[2]
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Talal Itani2012 "O my people! I ask of you no money for it. My reward lies only with God. And I am not about to dismiss those who believed; they will surely meet their Lord. And I see that you are ignorant people."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And O my people! I ask of you no wealth therefor. My reward is the concern only of Allah, and I am not going to thrust away those who believe - Lo! they have to meet their Lord! - but I see you a folk that are ignorant
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O my people! I do, not ask you for wealth in return for it; my hire is only from God; nor do I repulse those who believe; verily, they shall meet their Lord. But I see you, a people who are ignorant
John Medows Rodwell1861 And, O my people! I ask you not for riches: my reward is of God alone: and I will not drive away those who believe that they shall meet their Lord: - but I see that ye are an ignorant people
George Sale1734 O my people, I ask not of you any riches, for my preaching unto you: My reward is with God alone. I will not drive away those who have believed: Verily they shall meet their Lord, at the resurrection; but I perceive that ye are ignorant men
Easy-read (simplified)qaaloo yaa noohu qad jaadaltanaa fa'aktharta jidaalanaa fa'tinaa bimaa ta'idunaa in kunta mina s-saadiqeen
DIN 31635qālū yā nūḥu qad ǧādaltanā faʾakṯarta ǧidālanā faʾtinā bimā taʿidunā ʾin kunta mina ṣ-ṣādiqīna
Talal Itani2012 They said, "O Noah, you have argued with us, and argued a great deal. Now bring upon us what you threaten us with, if you are truthful."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They said: O Noah! Thou hast disputed with us and multiplied disputation with us; now bring upon us that wherewith thou threatenest us, if thou art of the truthful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They said, 'O Noah! thou hast wrangled with us, and hast multiplied wranglings with us; bring us then what thou hast threatened us with, if thou art of those who tell the truth
John Medows Rodwell1861 They said: "O Noah! already hast thou disputed with us, and multiplied disputes with us: Bring then upon us what thou hast threatened, if thou be of those who speak truth
George Sale1734 They answered, O Noah, thou hast already disputed with us, and hast multiplied disputes with us; now therefore do thou bring that punishment upon us wherewith thou hast threatened us, if thou speakest truth
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Talal Itani · George Sale0.58
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.54
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.47
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.45
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.42
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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.