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Talal Itani· published 2012
He said, "O my people, have you considered? If I stand upon clear evidence from my Lord, and He has given me mercy from Him, who would protect me from God, if I disobeyed Him? You add nothing for me except loss."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
He said: O my people! Bethink you: if I am (acting) on clear proof from my Lord and there hath come unto me a mercy from Him, who will save me from Allah if I disobey Him? Ye would add to me naught saveperdition
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 my people! let us see; if I stand upon a manifestsign from my Lord, and there come from Him mercy, who will help me against God if I rebel against Him? Ye will add only to my loss
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
He said, "O my people! what think ye? If I have a revelation from my Lord to support me, and if He hath shewed his mercy on me, who could protect me from God if I rebel against him? Ye would only confer on me increase of ruin
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Saleh said, O my people, tell me; if I have received an evidentdeclaration from my Lord, and He hath bestowed on me mercy from Himself; who will protect me from the vengeance of God, if I be disobedient unto Him? For ye shall not add unto me, other than loss
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
Ai tha: "O populli im! Më thoni, nëse unë po mbështetem në prova të qarta nga Zoti im dhe Ai më ka dhënë mëshirë (pejgamberinë) nga ana e Tij, kush do të më ndihmojë kundrejt Allahut, në qoftë se e kundërshtoj Atë? Ju do të më shtonit vetëm humbjen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
সে বললো: ‘হে আমার সম্প্রদায়, তোমরা কী মনে কর, যদি আমি আমার রবের পক্ষ থেকে (নবুওয়াতের) সুস্পষ্ট প্রমাণের ওপর থাকি এবং তিনি আমাকে তাঁর পক্ষ থেকে রহমত (নবুওয়াত) দান করেন, তাহলে কে আমাকে আল্লাহর শাস্তি থেকে রক্ষা করবে, যদি আমি তাঁর (দাওয়াত না দিয়ে) অবাধ্য হই? সুতরাং তোমরা তো কেবল আমার ক্ষতিই বাড়িয়ে দিচ্ছ।’
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
“O narode moj”, govorio je on, “šta mislite: ako je meni jasno ko je Gospodar moj i ako mi je On sâm milost dao, pa ko će me od Allaha odbraniti ako Mu ne budem poslušan? Vi možete samo uvećati propast moju.
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,” govorio je on, “što mislite: ako je meni jasno tko je Gospodar moj i ako mi je On sâm milost dao, pa tko će me od Allaha obraniti ako Mu ne budem poslušan? Vi možete samo uvećati propast moju.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
O maaki: "eeheymon yimɓe! Kaalanee kam, si mi laatike e ɓanngannduyee immorde ka Joomi am, O okkii kam immorde ka makko yurmeende, ko hommbo faabotoo mi ka Alla si mi yeddii mo? On ɓeydataa kam si wonaa hayrugol.perte
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ქართული · Georgian
(საალიჰმა) უთხრა: «ჰეი, ჩემო ხალხო! აბა, დაფიქრდით, თუ მე ჩემი ღმერთისგან ცხად მტკიცებულებაზე ვარ და მან თავისი წყალობა მომმადლა, ვინ დამიცავს ალლაჰისგან, თუ მე მას ვეურჩები? თქვენ კი ზარალის მეტს ვერაფერს შემმატებთ.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Er sagte: „O mein Volk, was meint ihr, wenn ich mich auf einen klaren Beweis von meinem Herrn stütze und Er mir Barmherzigkeit von Sich hat zukommen lassen, wer wird mir denn gegen Allah helfen, wenn ich Ihm zuwiderhandle? So würdet ihr mir nur (meinen) Verlust mehren.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Είπε (ο Σάλιχ): «Ω, λαέ μου! Πείτε μου αν έχω μια ξεκάθαρη απόδειξη από τον Κύριό μου, και μου έχει χαρίσει έλεος (και αποστολή) απ' Αυτόν, ποιος θα μπορούσε να με προστατεύσει από τον Αλλάχ, αν Τον παρακούσω (και δε σας καλώ στο να λατρεύετε μόνο Αυτόν); Πράγματι, (αν το κάνω) δε θα με αυξήσετε παρά μόνο σε απώλεια.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
उस (सालेह़) ने कहा : ऐ मेरी जाति के लोगो! क्या तुमने विचार किया कि यदि मैं अपने पालनहार की ओर से एक स्पष्ट प्रमाण पर हूँ और उसने मुझे अपनी दया प्रदान की हो, फिर मैं उसकी अवज्ञा करूँ, तो कौन है, जो अल्लाह के मुक़ाबले में मेरी सहायता करेगा? तुम मुझे घाटे में डालने के सिवा कुछ नहीं करोगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Disse: «O popolo mio, avete visto se ho avuto una consapevolezza dal mio Dio e mi ha concesso, da parte Sua, una grazia? Chi può sostenermi contro Allāh se Gli disobbedissi? Aumenterete solo la mia perdita.
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
63. Jis tarė: „Mano žmonės, pasakykite man, jei aš turiu aiškų įrodymą iš savo Viešpaties, ir atėjo man Gailestingumas (Pranašavimas) iš Jo, kas tada gali man padėti prieš Allahą, jei aš nepaklusčiau Jam? Tada jūs padidinate man tik praradimą.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
(Saalih) ni jedhe: “Yaa ummata kiyya mee naaf himaa! Yoo ani ragaa ifa ba’aa Gooftaa kiyya irraa ta’e irra jiraadhee, Innis rahmata Isa biraa ta’e (nabiyyummaa) naaf kenne, yoo ani Isatti dilaaye Rabbiin jalaa eenyutu na tumsa? Isin hoongeessuu malee homaa naaf hin dabaltanu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Он сказал: «О народ мой! Как вы думаете, если я опираюсь на ясное доказательство от моего Господа, и Он даровал мне от Себя милость, то кто же защитит меня от Аллаха, если я ослушаюсь Его? Вы не прибавляете мне ничего, кроме убытка.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
„О мој народе“, говорио је он, „шта мислите: ако је мени јасно ко је мој Господар и ако ми је сам Он милост дао, па ко ће од Аллаха да ме одбрани ако Му не будем послушан? Ви бисте ми само повећали моју пропаст.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Akasema: Enyi kaumu yangu! Mnaonaje ikiwa ninao ushahidi ulio wazi kutoka kwa Mola wangu Mlezi, naye akawa amenipa rehema kutoka kwake, je, ni nani atakayeninusuru kutokana na Mwenyezi Mungu nikimuasi? Basi nyinyi hamnizidishii isipokuwa kuhasirika tu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Han sa: ”Mitt folk! Tänk om jag har ett klart bevis från min Herre, och att han skänkt mig en nådegåva från sig [i form av profetskap]? Vem kan skydda mig från Gud om jag skulle trotsa honom? Då skulle ni bara öka min förlust.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Salih, dedi ki: “Ey kavmim! Söyleyin bakayım, eğer ben Rabbim tarafından apaçık bir delil üzerinde isem ve bana tarafından bir rahmet (peygamberlik) vermişse, O’na karşı geldiğim takdirde beni Allah’tan kim koruyabilir? Demek ki, zarara uğratmaktan başka bana katkınız olmaz.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اس نے جواب دیا کہ اے میری قوم کے لوگو! ذرا بتاؤ تو اگر میں اپنے رب کی طرف سے کسی مضبوط دلیل پر ہوا اور اس نے مجھے اپنے پاس کی رحمت عطا کی ہو[1] ، پھر اگر میں نے اس کی نافرمانی کر[2] لی تو کون ہے جو اس کے مقابلے میں میری مدد کرے؟ تم تو میرا نقصان ہی بڑھا رہے ہو.[3]
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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Easy-read (simplified)wa'ilaa thamooda akhaahum saalihan qaala yaa qawmi 'budoo llaaha maa lakum min ilaahin ghayruhu huwa ansha'akum mina l-'ardi wasta'marakum feehaa fastaghfiroohu thumma tooboo ilayhi inna rabbee qareebun mujeeb
DIN 31635waʾilā ṯamūda ʾaḫāhum ṣāliḥan qāla yā qawmi ʿbudū llāha mā lakum min ʾilāhin ġayruhu huwa ʾanšaʾakum mina l-ʾarḍi wastaʿmarakum fīhā fastaġfirūhu ṯumma tūbū ʾilayhi ʾinna rabbī qarībun muǧībun
Talal Itani2012 And to Thamood, their brother Saleh. He said, "O my people, worship God, you have no god other than Him. He initiated you from the earth, and settled you in it. So seek His forgiveness, and repent to Him. My Lord is Near and Responsive."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And unto (the tribe of) Thamud (We sent) their brother Salih. He said: O my people! Serve Allah, Ye have no other Allah save Him. He brought you forth from the earth and hath made you husband it. So ask forgiveness of Him and turn unto Him repentant. Lo! my Lord is Nigh, Responsive
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And unto Thamud (we sent) their brother Zalih; said he, 'O my people! worship God; ye have no god but Him. He it is that produced you from the earth, and made you live therein! Then ask pardon of Him; then turn again to Him: verily, my Lord is nigh and answers
John Medows Rodwell1861 And unto Themoud we sent their Brother Saleh: - "O my people! said he, worship God: you have no other god than Him. He hath raised you up out of the earth, and hath given you to dwell therein. Ask pardon of him then, and be turned unto him; for thy Lord is nigh, ready to answer
George Sale1734 And unto the tribe of Thamud we sent their brother Saleh. He said unto them, O my people, worship God; ye have no God besides Him. It is He who hath produced you out of the earth, and hath given you an habitation therein. Ask pardon of Him therefore, and be turned unto Him; for my Lord is near, and ready to answer
Easy-read (simplified)qaaloo yaa saalihu qad kunta feenaa marjuwwan qabla haadhaa atanhaanaa an na'buda maa ya'budu aabaa'unaa wa'innanaa lafee shakkin mimmaa tad'oonaa ilayhi mureeb
DIN 31635qālū yā ṣāliḥu qad kunta fīnā marǧuwwan qabla hāḏā ʾatanhānā ʾan naʿbuda mā yaʿbudu ʾābāʾunā waʾinnanā lafī šakkin mimmā tadʿūnā ʾilayhi murībin
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 They said, "O Saleh, we had hopes in you before this. Are you trying to prevent us from worshiping what our parents worship? We are in serious doubt regarding what you are calling us to."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They said: O Salih! Thou hast been among us hitherto as that wherein our hope was placed. Dost thou ask us not to worship what our fathers worshipped? Lo! we verily are in grave doubt concerning that to which thou callest us
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They said, 'O Zalih! thou wert amongst us one we hoped in before this: dost thou forbid us to worship what our fathers worshipped? verily, we are in hesitating doubt as to that to which thou callest us
John Medows Rodwell1861 They said, "O Saleh! our hopes were fixed on thee till now: forbiddest thou us to worship what our fathers worshipped? Truly we misdoubt the faith to which thou callest us, as suspicious
George Sale1734 They answered, oh, thou wast a person on whom we placed our hopes before this. Dost thou forbid us to worship that which our fathers worshipped? But we are certainly in doubt concerning the religion to which thou dost invite us, as justly to be suspected
Talal Itani2012 "O my people, this is the she-camel of God, a sign for you. Let her graze on God's land, and do not harm her, lest an imminent punishment overtakes you."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O my people! This is the camel of Allah, a token unto you, so suffer her to feed in Allah's earth, and touch her not with harm lest a near torment seize you
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O my people! this she-camel of God is a sign for you; leave her, then, to feed in God's earth, and touch her not with evil, or there will catch you torment that is nigh
John Medows Rodwell1861 O my people! this is the she-Camel of God, and a sign unto you. Let her go at large and feed in God's earth, and do her no harm, lest a speedy punishment overtake you
George Sale1734 And he said, O my people, this she-camel of God is a sign unto you; therefore dismiss her freely that she may feed in God's earth, and do her no harm, lest a swift punishment seize you
Talal Itani2012 But they hamstrung her, and so He said, "Enjoy yourselves in your homes for three days. This is a prophecy that is infallible."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But they hamstrung her, and then he said: Enjoy life in your dwelling-place three days! This is a threat that will not be belied
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But they did hamstring her, and he said, 'Enjoy yourselves in your houses for three days;- that is the promise that shall not be belied
John Medows Rodwell1861 Yet they hamstrung her: then said he, "Yet three days more enjoy yourselves in your dwellings: this menace will not prove untrue
George Sale1734 Yet they killed her; and Saleh said, enjoy yourselves in your dwellings for three days; after which ye shall be destroyed. This is an infallible prediction
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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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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.66
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.64
Talal Itani · George Sale0.63
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
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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.