Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.
Talal Itani· published 2012
"O my people, ask forgiveness from your Lord, and repent to Him. He will release the sky pouring down upon you, and will add strength to your strength. And do not turn away and be wicked."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And, O my people! Ask forgiveness of your Lord, then turn unto Him repentant; He will cause the sky to rain abundance on you and will add unto you strength to your strength. Turn not away, guilty
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
O my people! ask pardon of your Lord; then turn to Him; He will send the skies down on you in torrents; and He will add strength to your strength: do not then turn back sinners
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O my people! ask pardon of your Lord; then be turned unto Him: He will send down the heavens upon you with copious rains; And with strength on strength will He increase you; only turn not back with deeds of evil
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O my people, ask pardon of your Lord; and be turned unto Him: He will send the heaven to pour forth rain plentifully upon you, and He will increase your strength by giving unto you farther strength: Therefore turn not aside, to commit evil
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
O populli im! Kërkoni falje nga Zoti juaj dhe kthehuni tek Ai të penduar, që t'jua lëshojë shiun me bollëk dhe t'jua shtojë fuqinë përballë fuqisë suaj dhe mos ktheni shpinën duke qenë keqbërës!
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
‘হে আমার সম্প্রদায়! তোমরা তোমাদের রবের কাছে ক্ষমা চাও, অতঃপর তাঁর কাছে (পাপসমূহ থেকে) তাওবা করো, তাহলে তিনি তোমাদের ওপর প্রচুর বৃষ্টিবর্ষণ করবেন এবং তোমাদেরকে আরো শক্তি দিয়ে(১৭) তোমাদের শক্তি (সম্মান) বৃদ্ধি করবেন। আর তোমরা অপরাধী হয়ে, (আমার দাওয়াত থেকে) মুখ ফিরিয়ে নিও 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 narode moj, molite Gospodara svoga da vam oprosti, i pokajte Mu se, a On će vam slati kišu obilnu i dat će vam još veću snagu, uz onu koju imate, i ne odlazite kao oni koji zlo čine!"
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 narode moj, molite Gospodara svoga da vam oprosti, i pokajte Mu se, a On će vam slati kišu obilnu i dat će vam još veću snagu, uz onu koju imate, i ne odlazite kao oni koji zlo čine!"
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
Eheymon yimɓe am, imsinee ka Joomi mon, refti tuubanon mo o jippina e mooɗon toɓo jokkondirn-ngo, o ɓeyda on cemmbe e hoore cemmbe mon ɗen. Wota on nduŋto ngono ko on bonɓe.
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
ქართული · Georgian
ო, ჩემო ხალხო! ითხოვეთ შენდობა თქვენი უფლისაგან (თქვენი ურწმუნოებისთვის), შემდეგ კი მოინანიეთ მის წინაშე თქვენი ცოდვები და (თუ ასე მოიქცევით) ის გამოგიგზავნით ციდან უხვ ნალექს და შეგმატებთ ძალას თქვენს ძალაზე (გაგამრავლებთ და გაგაძლიერებთ), და ნუ გაემიჯნებით (იმ მოწოდებას, რისკენაც გიწვევთ), მეამბოხედ [ურწმუნოდ]».
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 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und, o mein Volk, bittet euren Herrn um Vergebung, hierauf bereut vor Ihm, so wird Er den Regen auf euch ergiebig (herab)senden und euch (noch mehr) Kraft zu eurer Kraft hinzufügen. Und kehrt euch nicht als Übeltäter ab!“
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
Ω, λαέ μου! Ζητήστε συγχώρεση από τον Κύριό σας και έπειτα στραφείτε με αληθινή μεταμέλεια προς Αυτόν, ώστε να στείλει επάνω σας από τον ουρανό άφθονη βροχή και να σας δώσει δύναμη πάνω από τη δύναμή σας. Μην απομακρύνεστε λοιπόν (απ' αυτό που σας καλώ) ως κακοί (άπιστοι).»
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
ऐ मेरी जाति के लोगो! अपने पालनहार से क्षमा याचना करो। फिर उसकी ओर पलट आओ। वह आकाश से तुमपर खूब बारिश बरसाएगा और तुम्हारी शक्ति और अधिक बढ़ा देगा और विमुख हो कर अपराधी न बनो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
O popolo mio, invocate perdono al vostro Dio, poi tornate a Lui pentiti! Fa scendere dal cielo scrosci d’acqua per voi, e vi aggiunge forza alla vostra forza. E non voltate le spalle da criminali”.
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
52. Mano žmonės, prašykite savo Viešpaties atleidimo ir tada atgailaukite Jam, Jis atsiųs jums (iš dangaus) gausų lietų ir pridės stiprybės prie jūsų stiprybės, taigi nenusigręžkite kaip Mudžrimūn (nusikaltėliai, netikintieji Allaho Vienumą).“
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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И, о народ мой! Просите прощения у своего Господа, затем покайтесь перед Ним — Он пошлёт на вас обильный дождь и прибавит вам силы к вашей силе. И не отворачивайтесь, став преступными».
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 мој народе, молите свога Господара да вам опрости, и покајте Му се, а Он ће да вам шаље обилну кишу и даће вам још већу снагу, уз ону коју имате, и не одлазите као они који чине зло!“
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
Na enyi kaumu yangu! Mwombeni msamaha Mola wenu Mlezi, kisha mtubie kwake. Atawatumia mbingu zenye kunyesha mvua ya kumiminika kwa wingi, na atawazidishia nguvu juu ya nguvu zenu. Wala msigeuke mkawa wahalifu."
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Mitt folk! Sök er Herres förlåtelse och vänd er till honom i ånger. Han kommer då att låta regnet flöda över er och lägga styrka till er befintliga styrka. Och vänd er inte bort som obotfärdiga syndare!”
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
Ey kavmim! Rabbinizden mağfiret dileyin, sonra da O'na tevbe edin ki üzerinize bol bol yağmur göndersin ve kuvvetinize kuvvet katsın. Günahkârlar olarak yüz çevirmeyin.
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
اردو · Urdu
اے میری قوم کے لوگو! تم اپنے پالنے والے سے اپنی تقصیروں کی معافی طلب کرو اور اس کی جناب میں توبہ کرو، تاکہ وه برسنے والے بادل تم پر بھیج دے اور تمہاری طاقت پر اور طاقت قوت بڑھا دے[1] اور تم جرم کرتے ہوئے روگردانی نہ کرو۔[2]
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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation,
not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil
Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
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same edition and their orthography differs.
Easy-read (simplified)wa'ilaa 'aadin akhaahum hoodan qaala yaa qawmi 'budoo llaaha maa lakum min ilaahin ghayruhu in antum illaa muftaroon
DIN 31635waʾilā ʿādin ʾaḫāhum hūdan qāla yā qawmi ʿbudū llāha mā lakum min ʾilāhin ġayruhu ʾin ʾantum ʾillā muftarūna
Talal Itani2012 And to Aad, their brother Hud. He said, "O my people, worship God, you have no other god besides Him. You do nothing but invent lies."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And unto (the tribe of) A'ad (We sent) their brother, Hud. He said: O my people! Serve Allah! Ye have no other Allah save Him. Lo! ye do but invent
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And unto 'Ad (we sent) their brother Hud; he said, 'O my people! serve God; ye have no god but Him. Ye do but devise a lie
John Medows Rodwell1861 And unto Ad we sent their Brother HOUD. He said, "O my people, worship God. You have no God beside Him. Ye only devise a lie
George Sale1734 And unto the tribe of Ad we sent their brother Hud. He said, O my people worship God; ye have no God besides him: Ye only imagine falsehood, in setting up idols and intercessors of your own making
Talal Itani2012 "O my people, I ask you no wage for it; my wage lies with Him who originated me. Do you not understand?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O my people! I ask of you no reward for it. Lo! my reward is the concern only of Him Who made me. Have ye then no sense
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O my people! I do not ask you for hire in return; my hire is only from Him who created me: have ye then no sense
John Medows Rodwell1861 O my people! I ask of you no recompense for this: my recompense is with Him only who hath made me. Will ye not then understand
George Sale1734 O my people, I ask not of you for this my preaching, any recompense: My recompense do I expect from Him only, Who hath created me. Will ye not therefore understand
Talal Itani2012 They said, "O Hud, you did not bring us any evidence, and we are not about to abandon our gods at your word, and we are not believers in you."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They said: O Hud! Thou hast brought us no clear proof and we are not going to forsake our gods on thy (mere) saying, and we are not believers in thee
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They said, 'O Hud! thou hast not come to us with a manifest sign; nor will we leave our gods at thy word; nor will we believe in thee
John Medows Rodwell1861 They said, "O Houd, thou hast not brought us proofs of thy mission: we will not abandon our gods at thy word, and we believe thee not
George Sale1734 They answered, O Hud, thou hast brought us no proof of what thou sayest; therefore we will not leave our gods for thy saying, neither do we believe thee
Talal Itani2012 "We only say that some of our gods have possessed you with evil." He said, "I call God to witness, and you to witness, that I am innocent of what you associate.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 We say naught save that one of our gods hath possessed thee in an evil way. He said: I call Allah to witness, and do ye (too) bear witness, that I am innocent of (all) that ye ascribe as partners (to Allah)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We can only say that some of our gods have attacked thee with evil.' Said he, 'Verily, I call God to witness, and do ye bear witness too, that I am free from that which ye associate beside Him
John Medows Rodwell1861 We can only say that some of our gods have smitten thee with evil." Said he, "Now take I God to witness, and do ye also witness, that I am clear of your joining other gods
George Sale1734 We say no other than that some of our gods have afflicted thee with evil. He replied, verily I call God to witness, and do ye also bear witness, that I am clear of that which ye associate with God
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 —
0.54 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
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.51
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.47
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.47
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.46
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
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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.