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.
Thus thy Lord will prefer thee and will teach thee the interpretation of events, and will perfect His grace upon thee and upon the family of Jacob as He perfected it upon thy forefathers, Abraham and Isaac. Lo! thy Lord is Knower, Wise
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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
And thus your Lord will choose you, and will teach you the interpretation of events, and will complete His blessing upon you and upon the family of Jacob, as He has completed it before upon your forefathers Abraham and Isaac. Your Lord is Knowing and Wise.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Thus does thy Lord choose thee, and teach thee the interpretation of sayings, and fulfill His favour upon thee, and upon Jacob'speople, as He fulfilled it upon thy two forefathers before thee, Abraham and Isaac,- verily, thy Lord is knowing, wise
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is thus that thy Lord shall choose thee and will teach thee the interpretation of dark saying, and will perfect his favours on thee and on the family of Jacob, as of old he perfected it on thy fathers Abraham and Isaac; verily thy Lord is Knowing, Wise
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And thus, according to thy dream, shall thy Lord choose thee, and teach thee the interpretation of dark sayings, and He shall accomplish his favour upon thee and upon the family of Jacob, as He hath formerlyaccomplished it upon thy fathers Abraham and Isaac; for thy Lord is knowing and wise
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
Kësisoj do të të përzgjedhë Zoti yt e do të ta mësojë shpjegimin e ëndrrave dhe do të plotësojë dhuntinë e Tij ndaj teje e ndaj familjes së Jakubit, mu ashtu siç e plotësoi atë më parë ndaj baballarëve të tu, Ibrahimit dhe Ishakut. Me të vërtetë, Zoti yt është i Gjithëdijshëm e i Urtë.
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 (হে ইউসুফ! তুমি যেমন ওই স্বপ্ন দেখেছ) এভাবে তোমার রব
(ভবিষ্যতে ) তোমাকে (নবী হিসেবে) মনোনীত করবেন এবং তোমাকে স্বপ্নের ব্যাখ্যা শিক্ষা দিবেন। আর তোমার ওপর ও ইয়াকূবের পরিবারের ওপর তাঁর নি‘আমত পূর্ণ করবেন, যেভাবে তিনি তা ইতঃপূর্বে পূর্ণ করেছিলেন তোমার পিতৃপুরুষ ইবরাহীম ও ইসহাকের ওপর। নিশ্চয় তোমার রব সর্বজ্ঞ, প্রজ্ঞাময়।
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
I, eto tako, Gospodar tvoj će tebe odabrati, i tumačenju snova te naučiti, i blagodat Svoju tebi i Jakubovoj porodici upotpuniti, kao što je prije upotpunio precima tvojim, Ibrahimu i Ishaku. Gospodar tvoj je, zaista, Onaj Koji sve zna i mudar je.
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
I, eto tako, Gospodar tvoj će tebe odabrati, i tumačenju snova te naučiti, i blagodat Svoju tebi i Jakovljevoj porodici upotpuniti, kao što je prije upotpunio predcima tvojim, Abrahamu i Izaku. Gospodar tvoj je, zaista, Onaj Koji sve zna i mudar je.
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
Ko wano nii Joomi maa suɓoray maa, O anndinma firo koyɗi, o timmina dokke makko on e maaɗa e ɓeynguure Yaaquuba nden, wano o timminirnoo mo e baabiraaɓe maa ɓen ɗiɗo: Ibraahiima e ishaaqa. Pellet Joomi maa ko gannduɗo Ñeeñɗo.
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
ასე გამოგარჩევს შენი ღმერთი, გასწავლის სიზმრების ახსნას და სრულყოფს თავის წყალობას შენზე და იაყუბის შთამომავლობაზე, როგორც სრულყო იგი უწინ შენს ორ მამაზე იბრაჰიმსა და ისჰაყზე. უეჭველად, შენი ღმერთი ყოვლისმცოდნე, ბრძენია.
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
(Ya'qub sagte weiter:) Und auf diese Weise wird dein Herr dich erwählen und dich etwas von der Deutung der Geschichten lehren und Seine Gunst an dir und an der Sippe Ya'qubs vollenden, wie Er sie zuvor an deinen beiden (Vor)vätern Ibrahim und lshaq vollendet hat. Wahrlich, dein Herr ist allwissend und allweise.
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
Και έτσι (όπως είδες αυτό το όραμα) ο Κύριός σου θα σε επιλέξει και θα σου μάθει την ερμηνεία των ονείρων και θα ολοκληρώσει την εύνοιά Του σε σένα και στον οίκο του Ιακώβ, όπως την ολοκλήρωσε στους προπάτορές σου, τον Αβραάμ και τον Ισαάκ πριν. Πράγματι, ο Κύριός σου είναι ‘Αλείμ (Παντογνώστης) και Χακείμ (Πάνσοφος).»
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 ऐसे ही तेरा पालनहार तुझे चुन लेगा तथा तुझे बातों (सपनों) का अर्थ सिखाएगा और तुझपर और याक़ूब के घराने पर अपना अनुग्रह[3] पूरा करेगा, जिस तरह उसने इससे पहले उसे तेरे बाप-दादा इबराहीम और इसह़ाक़ पर पूरा किया था। निःसंदेह तेरा पालनहार सब कुछ जानने वाला, पूर्ण हिकमत वाला है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E così il tuo Dio ti eleverà e ti insegnerà a interpretare le rivelazioni e completerà la Sua grazia su di te e sui discendenti di Ya’qub, come ha fatto prima con i tuoi predecessori, Ibrāhīm e Is ħaq. In verità il tuo Dio è Sapiente, Saggio.»
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
6. „Taip tavo Viešpats pasirinks tave ir išmokys tave sapnų (ir kitų dalykų) aiškinimo ir ištobulins Savo Malonę tau ir Jakūbo (Jokūbo) palikuonims, kaip kadaise Jis ištobulino tai jūsų tėvams, Ibrahimui (Abraomui) ir Ishakui (Izaokui)! Iš tiesų, tavo Viešpats yra Visa Žinantis, Visa Išmanantis.“
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
( yaa yuusuf) Akka kanatti Gooftaan kee si filata; hiikkaa manaamaas si barsiisa; qananii Isaa sirrattiifi maatii Ya’aquub irrattis ni guuta, akkuma kana dura abbootii kee Ibraahiimiifi Isihaaq irratti guute. Dhugumatti, Gooftaan kee beekaa, ogeessa.”(jedheen).
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
Так твой Господь изберёт тебя, научит тебя толкованию снов и довершит Свою благодать для тебя и для рода Я‘куба, как довершил её прежде для твоих отцов — Ибрахима и Исхака. Воистину, твой Господь — знающий, мудрый».
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
И, ето тако, твој Господар ће тебе да одабере, и тумачењу снова научи, и Своју благодат теби и Јаковљевој породици да употпуни, као што је пре употпунио твојим прецима, Авраму и Исаку. Твој Господар, заиста, све зна и мудар је.
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 hivyo ndivyo Mola wako Mlezi atakuteua na atakufundisha katika tafsiri ya mambo. Na atatimiza neema zake juu yako na juu ya ukoo wa Yaa'qub, kama alivyowatimizia hapo zamani baba zako Ibrahim na Is-haq. Hakika Mola wako Mlezi ni Mwenye kujua vyema, Mwenye hekima.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Och så ska din Herre upphöja dig och lära dig att tyda drömmar. Och han ska fullborda sin nåd över dig och över Jakobs ätt, så som han fullbordade den över dina förfäder, Abraham och Isak. Din Herre är allvetande, vis.”
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
“İşte Rabbin seni böylece seçecek, sana (rüyada görülen) olayların yorumunu öğretecek ve daha önce ataların İbrahim ve İshak’a nimetlerini tamamladığı gibi sana ve Ya'kûb soyuna da tamamlayacaktır. Şüphesiz Rabbin hakkıyla bilendir, hüküm ve hikmet sahibidir.”
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
اور اسی طرح [1] تجھے تیرا پروردگار برگزیده کرے گا اور تجھے معاملہ فہمی (یا خوابوں کی تعبیر) بھی سکھائے گا اور اپنی نعمت تجھے بھرپور عطا فرمائے گا [2]اور یعقوب کے گھر والوں کو بھی[3]، جیسے کہ اس نے اس سے پہلے تیرے دادا اور پردادا یعنی ابراہیم واسحاق کو بھی بھرپور اپنی نعمت دی، یقیناً تیرا رب بہت بڑے علم واﻻ اور زبردست حکمت واﻻ ہے.
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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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
Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the
same edition and their orthography differs.
Talal Itani2012 When Joseph said to his father, "O my father, I saw eleven planets, and the sun, and the moon; I saw them bowing down to me."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 When Joseph said unto his father: O my father! Lo! I saw in a dream eleven planets and the sun and the moon, I saw them prostrating themselves unto me
Edward Henry Palmer1880 When Joseph said to his father, 'O my sire! Verily, I saw eleven stars, and the sun, and the moon,- I saw them adoring me
John Medows Rodwell1861 When Joseph said to his Father, "O my Father! verily I beheld eleven stars and the sun and the moon - beheld them make obeisance to me
George Sale1734 When Joseph said unto his father, O my father, verily I saw in my dream eleven stars, and the sun and the moon; I saw them make obeisance unto me
Talal Itani2012 He said, "O my son, do not relate your vision to your brothers, lest they plot and scheme against you. Satan is man's sworn enemy.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He said: O my dear son! Tell not thy brethren of thy vision, lest they plot a plot against thee. Lo! Satan is for man an open foe
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He said, 'O my boy! tell not thy vision to thy brethren, for they will plot a plot against thee verily, the devil is to man an open foe
John Medows Rodwell1861 He said, "O my son! tell not thy vision to thy brethren, lest they plot a plot against thee: for Satan is the manifest foe of man
George Sale1734 Jacob said, O my child, tell not thy vision to thy brethren, lest they devise some plot against thee; for the devil is a professed enemy unto man
Talal Itani2012 When they said, "Joseph and his brother are dearer to our father than we are, although we are a whole group. Our father is obviously in the wrong.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 When they said: Verily Joseph and his brother are dearer to our father than we are, many though we be. Lo! our father is in plain aberration
Edward Henry Palmer1880 When they said, 'Surely, Joseph and his brother are dearer to our father than we, a band although we be; verily, our father is in obvious error
John Medows Rodwell1861 When they said, "Surely better loved by our Father, than we, who are more in number, is Joseph and his brother; verily, our father hath clearly erred
George Sale1734 when they said to one another, Joseph and his brother are dearer to our father than we, who are the greater number: Our father certainly maketh a wrong judgment
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 —
0.51 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 Sale0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.51
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.50
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.45
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.45
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.45
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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.