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Talal Itani· published 2012
He said, "O Noah, he is not of your family. It is an unrighteousdeed. So do not ask Me about something you know nothing about. I admonish you, lest you be one of the ignorant."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
He said: O Noah! Lo! he is not of thy household; lo! he is of evilconduct, so ask not of Me that whereof thou hast no knowledge. I admonish thee lest thou be among the ignorant
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 said, 'O Noah! he is not of thy people; verily, it is a work that is not right. Then, ask me not for that of which thou knowest naught. Verily, I admonish thee that thou shouldst not be of the ignorant
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
He said, "O Noah! verily, he is not of thy family: in this thou actest not aright. Ask not of me that whereof thou knowest nought: I warn thee that thou become not of the ignorant
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Godanswered, O Noah, verily he is not of thy family: This intercession of thine for him, is not a righteous work. Ask not of me therefore that wherein thou hast no knowledge: I admonish thee that thou become not one of the ignorant
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
Allahu tha: "O Nuh! Ai nuk është nga familja jote! Kjo (që po bën) nuk është punë e mirë, prandaj mos më kërko diçka për të cilën nuk ke dituri! Unë po të këshilloj që të mos bëhesh prej të paditurve."
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
তিনি (আল্লাহ) বললেন: ‘হে নূহ, নিশ্চয় সে তোমার পরিবারভুক্ত নয়।(১৪) সে অবশ্যই অসৎ কর্মপরায়ণ। সুতরাং যে বিষয়ে তোমার (প্রকৃত) কোন জ্ঞান নেই, সে বিষয়ে আমাকে অনুরোধ করো না। আমি তোমাকে উপদেশ দিচ্ছি, তুমি মূর্খদের অন্তর্ভুক্ত হয়ো 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
"O Nuh", odgovori mu, "on nije od onih iz porodice tvoje koje sam obećao spasiti; on, doista, radi ono što ne valja, zato Me ne moli za ono što ne znaš! Upozoravam te da ne budeš među neznalicama."
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
"O Noa," odgovori mu, "on nije od onih iz obitelji tvoje koje sam obećao spasiti; on, doista, radi ono što ne valja, zato Me ne moli za ono što ne znaš! Upozoravam te da ne budeš među neznalicama."
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
O daali: "Ko an yo Nuuhu, pellet on jeyaaka e ɓeynguure maa, nden (toraare) ko gollal ngal moƴƴaa. Wata a toro kam ko a alanaa ɗum ganndal. min miɗo waajo maa fii wata a jeye e majjuɓe ɓeen".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ბრძანა (დიდებულმა ალლაჰმა): «ჰეი, ნუჰ! ის შენი ოჯახიდან არ არის. უეჭველად, ის არასწორი საქმეა (ეს შენი თხოვნა არა სწორია იმიტომ, რომ ის ურწმუნო შენი ოჯახიდან არ ითვლება). ამიტომ ნუ მთხოვ იმას, რის შესახებაც ცოდნა არ გაგაჩნია. მე გარიგებ შენ, რათა არ იყო უმეცართა შორის».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Er (Allah) sagte: „O Nuh, er gehört nicht zu deinen Angehörigen. Dies(es Bittgebet für deinen ungläubigen Sohn) ist fürwahr eine Tat, die nicht rechtschaffen ist. So bitte Mich nicht um etwas, wovon du kein Wissen hast! Wahrlich, Ich ermahne dich, nicht zu den Unwissenden zu 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
(Ο Αλλάχ) είπε: «Ω, Νώε! Αυτός δεν είναι από την οικογένειά σου (και σου είχα πει να βάλεις στην Κιβωτό την οικογένειά σου εκτός απ' εκείνους που έχει ήδη αποφασιστεί να πνιγούν). Είναι μη ενάρετο έργο (αυτό που διέπραττε ο γιος σου από απιστία, και δεν είναι ενάρετο έργο το να ζητήσεις συγχώρεση για έναν άπιστο), οπότε μη Μου ζητάς κάτι για το οποίο δεν έχεις γνώση. Πράγματι, σε νουθετώ, για να μην είσαι από τους αδαείς.»
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
(अल्लाह ने) कहा : ऐ नूह़! वह तेरे घर वालों में से नहीं है। यह माँग उचित नहीं है। अतः मुझसे उस चीज़ का प्रश्न न कर, जिसका तुझे कोई ज्ञान नहीं। मैं तुझे समझाता हूँ कि अज्ञानियों में से न हो जा।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Disse: «O Nūħ, in verità lui non è della tua famiglia. In verità lui era un’opera non buona: non chiederMi ciò di cui non hai nessuna conoscenza. Ti avverto, perché tu non sia tra gli ignoranti”.
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
46. Jis tarė: „Nūhai (Nojau), tikrai, jis nėra iš tavo šeimos. Iš tiesų, jo darbas yra neteisingas, taigi neprašyk Manęs to, apie ką tu neturi žinių! Aš perspėju tave tam, kad nebūtum vienu iš nežinančiųjų.“
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
(Rabbiin) nijedhe “Yaa Nuuh! inni maatii kee (kan amanan) irraa miti. Inni (nagaafachuun kee) hojii gaarii hin ta’iniidha. waan beekumsa itti hin qabne na hin gaafatin. Ani akka ati wallaaltota irraa hin taanen si gorsa”.
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
Он сказал: «О Нух! Воистину, он не из твоей семьи. Воистину, его дело — неправедно. Так не проси Меня о том, о чём у тебя нет знания. Воистину, Я увещеваю тебя, чтобы ты не был из невежд».
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
„О Ноје“, рече Аллах: „он није од оних из твоје породице које сам обећао да спасим; он је, заиста, радио оно што не ваља, зато Ме не моли за оно што не знаш! Саветујем те да не будеш међу незналицама.“
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
Akasema: Ewe Nuhu! Huyu si katika ahali zako. Hakika yeye ni (wa) matendo yasiyo mema. Basi usiniombe jambo usilo na elimu nalo. Mimi nakuwaidhi usije ukawa miongoni mwa wajinga.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Han sa: ”Noa! Han hör inte till din familj; hans gärningar var inte rättfärdiga. Be mig inte om det du saknar kunskap om. Jag varnar dig från att bete dig oförståndigt.”
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
Allah: “Ey Nûh! O, asla senin ailenden değildir. Onun yaptığı, iyi olmayan bir iştir. O halde, hakkında hiçbir bilgin olmayan şeyi benden isteme. Ben cahillerden olmayasın diye sana öğüt veriyorum.” dedi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اللہ تعالیٰ نے فرمایا اے نوح یقیناً وه تیرے گھرانے سے نہیں ہے[1] ، اس کے کام بالکل ہی ناشائستہ ہیں[2] تجھے ہرگز وه چیز نہ مانگنی چاہئے جس کا تجھے مطلقاً علم نہ ہو[3] میں تجھے نصیحت کرتا ہوں کہ تو جاہلوں میں سے اپنا شمار کرانے سے باز رہے۔[4]
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 And it was said, "O earth, swallow your waters," and "O heaven, clear up." And the waters receded, and the event was concluded, and it settled on Judi, and it was proclaimed: "Away with the wicked people."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And it was said: O earth! Swallow thy water and, O sky! be cleared of clouds! And the water was made to subside. And the commandment was fulfilled. And it (the ship) came to rest upon (the mount) Al-Judi and it was said: A far removal for wrongdoing folk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And it was said, 'O earth! swallow down thy water!' and, 'O heaven! hold!' and the water abated; and the affair was decided, and it I settled on Gudi, and it was said, 'Away with the people who are evildoers
John Medows Rodwell1861 And it was said, "O Earth! swallow up thy water;" and "cease, O Heaven!" And the water abated, and the decree was fulfilled, and the Ark rested upon Al-Djoudi; and it was said, "Avaunt! ye tribe of the wicked
George Sale1734 And it was said, O earth, swallow up thy waters, and thou, O heaven, withhold thy rain. And immediately the water abated, and the decree was fulfilled, and the ark rested on the mountain Al Judi; and it was said, away with the ungodly people
DIN 31635wanādā nūḥun rabbahu faqāla rabbi ʾinna bnī min ʾahlī waʾinna waʿdaka l-ḥaqqu waʾanta ʾaḥkamu l-ḥākimīna
Talal Itani2012 And Noah called to his Lord. He said, "O My Lord, my son is of my family, and Your promise is true, and You are the Wisest of the wise."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Noah cried unto his Lord and said: My Lord! Lo! my son is of my household! Surely Thy promise is the truth and Thou are the Most Just of Judges
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Noah went unto his Lord and said, 'My Lord, verily, my son is of my people, and, verily, Thy promise is true, and Thou art the justest of judges
John Medows Rodwell1861 And Noah called on his Lord and said, "O Lord! verily my son is of my family: and thy promise is true, and thou art the most just of judges
George Sale1734 And Noah called upon his Lord, and said, O Lord, verily my son is of my family; and thy promise is true: For thou art the most just of those who exercise judgment
Easy-read (simplified)qaala rabbi innee a'oodhu bika an as'alaka maa laysa lee bihi 'ilmun wa'illaa taghfir lee watarhamnee akun mina l-khaasireen
DIN 31635qāla rabbi ʾinnī ʾaʿūḏu bika ʾan ʾasʾalaka mā laysa lī bihi ʿilmun waʾillā taġfir lī watarḥamnī ʾakun mina l-ḫāsirīna
Talal Itani2012 He said, "O My Lord, I seek refuge with You, from asking You about what I have no knowledge of. Unless You forgive me, and have mercy on me, I will be one of the losers."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He said: My Lord! Lo! in Thee do I seek refuge (from the sin) that I should ask of Thee that whereof I have no knowledge. Unless Thou forgive me and have mercy on me I shall be among the lost
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He said, 'My Lord, verily, I seek refuge in Thee from asking Thee for aught of which I know nothing; and, unless Thou dost forgive me and have mercy on me, I shall be of those who lose
John Medows Rodwell1861 He said, "To thee verily, O my Lord, do I repair lest I ask that of thee wherein I have no knowledge: unless thou forgive me and be merciful to me I shall be one of the lost
George Sale1734 Noah said, O Lord, I have recourse unto Thee for the assistance of thy grace, that I ask not of Thee that wherein I have no knowledge: And unless thou forgive me, and be merciful unto me, I shall be one of those who perish
Talal Itani2012 It was said, "O Noah, disembark with peace from Us; and with blessings upon you, and upon communities from those with you. And other communities We will grant prosperity, and then a painful torment from Us will befall them."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 It was said (unto him): O Noah! Go thou down (from the mountain) with peace from Us and blessings upon thee and some nations (that will spring) from those with thee. (There will be other) nations unto whom We shall give enjoyment a long while and then a painful doom from Us will overtake them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 It was said, 'O Noah! descend in safety from us, and blessings upon thee and upon (some) nations of those who are with thee; but (some) nations we will allow to enjoy prosperity and then there shall touch them from us grievous woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 It was said to him, "O Noah! debark with peace from Us, and with blessings on thee and on peoples to be born from those who are with thee; but as for other and unbelieving peoples, we will give them their good things in this world, but hereafter shall a grievous punishment light on them from us
George Sale1734 It was said unto him, O Noah, come down from the ark, with peace from us, and blessings upon thee, and upon a part of those who are with thee: But as for a part of them, We will suffer them to enjoy the provision of this world; and afterwards shall a grievous punishment from us be inflicted on them, in the life to come
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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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
Talal Itani · George Sale0.72
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.69
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.56
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.56
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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.