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And it is He who spread the earth, and placed in it mountains and rivers. And He placed in it two kinds of every fruit. He causes the night to overlap the day. In that are signs for people who reflect.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And He it is Who spread out the earth and placed therein firm hills and flowingstreams, and of all fruits He placed therein two spouses (male and female). He covereth the night with the day. Lo! herein verily are portents for people who takethought
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
And He it is who has stretched out the earth and placed therein firm mountains and rivers, and of every fruit has He placed therein two kinds. He makes the night cover the day;- verily, in that are signs unto a people who reflect
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And He it is who hath outstretched the earth, and placed on it the firm mountains, and rivers: and of every fruit He hath placed on it two kinds: He causeth the night to enshroud the day. Verily in this are signs for those who reflect
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is He who hath stretched forth the earth, and placed therein stedfast mountains, and rivers; and hath ordained therein of every fruit two different kinds. He causeth the night to cover the day. Herein are certain signs unto people who consider
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
Është Ai që shtriu Tokën dhe krijoi në të male të patundshme e lumenj dhe nga të gjitha frutat krijoi nga dy lloje. Ai e mbulon ditën me natën. Vërtet, në këto ka shenja për njerëzit që mendojnë.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর তিনিই জমিনকে (তোমাদের জন্য) বিস্তৃত করেছেন এবং তাতে সৃষ্টি করেছেন সুদৃঢ় পর্বতমালা ও নদ-নদী। আর প্রত্যেক প্রকারের ফল তিনি জোড়ায় জোড়ায় করে সৃষ্টি করেছেন। তিনি দিনকে ঢেকে দেন রাত দিয়ে। নিশ্চয় এসবের (সৃষ্টিজগতের বিভিন্ন বৈচিত্র্যের ) মাঝে রয়েছে চিন্তাশীল সম্প্রদায়ের জন্য নিদর্শনাবলি ।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I On je Taj Koji je Zemlju rasprostro i na njoj nepomične planine i rijeke stvorio i od svakog ploda po par, muško i žensko dao; On dan zastire noću. U tome, doista, ima dokaza za ljude koji razmišljaju.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I On je Taj Koji je Zemlju rasprostro i na njoj nepomične planine i rijeke stvorio i od svakog ploda po par, muško i žensko dao; On dan zastire noću. U tome, doista, ima dokaza za ljude koji razmišljaju.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko Kaŋko woni fontuɗo leydi ndin, O waɗi e majji pelle e caatli. E kala (noone) e dimɗe, o waɗi e majje noone ɗiɗi resindirayɗi. Homo suddira jemma on ñalawma on. Wonii e ɗuum, maandeeji wonan`de yimɓe miijitotooɓe.
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ქართული · Georgian
და ის [ალლაჰი] არის ის, ვინც გაშალა მიწა [გახადა იგი სიცოცხლისთვის შესაფერისი] და აღმართა მასზე მყარი მთები და მდინარეები, და ყოველი სახის ხილიდან მასზე [მიწაზე] ორი სახეობა [მამრი და მდედრი]. ის დღეს ღამით [მისი სიბნელით] ფარავს. ჭეშმარიტად, ამაში ნიშნებია მათთვის, ვინც ფიქრობს!
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Deutsch · German
Und Er ist es, Der die Erde ausgebreitet und auf ihr festgegründete Berge und Flüsse gemacht hat. Und von allen Früchten hat Er auf ihr ein Paar gemacht. Er lässt die Nacht den Tag überdecken. Wahrlich, darin sind Zeichen für Leute, die nachdenken.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Και είναι Αυτός που άπλωσε τη γη (για να περπατήσετε σ' αυτήν) και τοποθέτησε σ' αυτήν σταθερούς πασσάλους (βουνά που τη σταθεροποιούν) και ποτάμια, και δημιούργησε σ' αυτήν κάθε είδους καρπούς ανά ζευγάρια. Καλύπτει με τη νύχτα την ημέρα (και έτσι έχετε σκοτάδι για να ξεκουράζεστε). Πράγματι, υπάρχουν σ' αυτό Σημάδια γι' εκείνους που συλλογίζονται.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा वही है, जिसने धरती को फैलाया और उसमें पर्वत और नदियाँ बनाईं और प्रत्येक फल के दो-दो प्रकार बनाए। वह रात को दिन पर उढ़ा देता है। निःसंदेह इसमें उन लोगों के लिए निश्चय बहुत-सी निशानियाँ हैं, जो सोच-विचार करते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Ed è Lui che ha esteso la terra e ha creato le montagne e i fiumi, e di ogni frutto creò due coppie. Lui copre con la notte il giorno: in verità in ciò ci sono dei Segni per la gente che riflette.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
3. Ir Jis yra Tas, Kuris išskleidė žemę ir patalpino joje tvirtus kalnus ir upes, ir iš kiekvienos vaisių rūšies Jis padarė Zaudžain Isnain (po du poroje – gali reikšti dvi rūšis arba gali reikšti – du tipus, t. y. juodą ir baltą, saldų ir rūgštų, didelį ir mažą). Jis atneša naktį kaip dienos uždangalą. Iš tiesų, šiuose dalykuose yra Ajat (įrodymai, įkalčiai, pamokos, ženklai ir t.t.) žmonėms, kurie apmąsto.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Inni Isa dachii diriirsee ishee keessatti gaarreeniifi laggeeniis godheedha. Fuduraalee hunda irraas gosoota lama lama ishee keessatti godheera. Halkan guyyaa haguugsisa, Dhugumatti, kana keessa orma xiinxalaniif mallattooleetu jira.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Он — Тот, Кто распростёр землю, установил на ней прочно стоящие горы и реки, и от всяких плодов создал на ней пары. Он покрывает ночь днём. Воистину, в этом — знамения для людей, которые размышляют.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
И Он је Тај Који је распростро Земљу и на њој створио стабилне планине и реке и од сваког плода дао по пар, мушко и женско; Он дан застире ноћу. У томе, заиста, има доказа за људе који размишљају.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Naye ndiye aliyeikunjua ardhi na akaweka humo milima mathubuti na mito. Na katika kila matunda akafanya jozi, cha kiume na cha kike. Huufunika usiku juu ya mchana. Hakika katika hayo zimo Ishara kwa kaumu wanaotafakari.
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Svenska · Swedish
Han är den som bredde ut jordens yta och satte stadiga berg och floder på den, och av alla frukter skapade han par. Han låter natten svepa in över dagen. I detta finns tecken för människor som reflekterar.
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Türkçe · Turkish
O, yeryüzünü yayıp döşeyen, orada sabit dağlar, nehirler var eden, orada her türlü meyveden (erkekli-dişili) iki eş yaratan gündüzü geceyle bürüyendir. Şüphesiz bunlarda, düşünen bir kavim için deliller vardır.
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اردو · Urdu
اسی نے زمین پھیلا کر بچھا دی ہے اور اس میں پہاڑ اور نہریں پیدا کردی ہیں[1] ۔ اور اس میں ہر قسم کے پھلوں کے جوڑے دوہرے دوہرے پیدا کردیئے ہیں[2]، وه رات کو دن سے چھپا دیتا ہے۔ یقیناً غور وفکر کرنے والوں کے لئے اس میں بہت سی نشانیاں ہیں.
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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DIN 31635ʾalif lām mīm rā tilka ʾāyātu l-kitābi wallaḏī ʾunzila ʾilayka min rabbika l-ḥaqqu walākinna ʾakṯara n-nāsi lā yuʾminūna
Talal Itani2012 Alif, Lam, Meem, Ra. These are the signs of the Scripture. What is revealed to you from your Lord is the truth, but most people do not believe.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Alif. Lam. Mim. Ra. These are verses of the Scripture. That which is revealed unto thee from thy Lord is the Truth, but most of mankind believe not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 A. L. M. R. Those are the signs of the Book, and that which is sent down to thee from thy Lord is the truth; but most people will not believe
John Medows Rodwell1861 ELIF. LAM. MIM. RA. These, the signs of the Book! And that which hath been sent down to thee from thy Lord is the very truth: But the greater part of men will not believe
George Sale1734 AL. M. R. These are the signs of the book of the Koran: And that which hath been sent down unto thee from thy Lord, is the truth; but the greater part of men will not believe
Talal Itani2012 God is He who raised the heavens without pillars that you can see, and then settled on the Throne. And He regulated the sun and the moon, each running for a specified period. He manages all affairs, and He explains the signs, that you may be certain of the meeting with your Lord.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah it is Who raised up the heavens without visible supports, then mounted the Throne, and compelled the sun and the moon to be of service, each runneth unto an appointed term; He ordereth the course; He detaileth the revelations, that haply ye may be certain of the meeting with your Lord
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God it is who has raised the heavens without columns that ye can see; then He made for the throne, and subjected the sun and the moon; each one runs on to a stated and appointed time; He governs the affair, details the signs;- haply of the meeting with your Lord ye will be sure
John Medows Rodwell1861 It is God who hath reared the Heavens without pillars thou canst behold; then mounted his throne, and imposed laws on the sun and moon: each travelleth to its appointed goal. He ordereth all things. He maketh his signs clear, that ye may have firm faith in a meeting with your Lord
George Sale1734 It is God who hath raised the heavens without visible pillars; and then ascended his throne, and compelled the sun and the moon to perform their services: Every of the heavenly bodies runneth an appointed course. He ordereth all things. He sheweth his signs distinctly, that ye may be assured ye must meet your Lord at the last day
Talal Itani2012 On earth are adjacent terrains, and gardens of vines, and crops, and date-palms, from the same root or from distinct roots, irrigated with the same water. We make some taste better than others. In that are proofs for people who reason.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And in the Earth are neighbouring tracts, vineyards and ploughed lands, and date-palms, like and unlike, which are watered with one water. And we have made some of them to excel others in fruit. Lo! herein verily are portents for people who have sense
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And on the earth are neighbouring portions, and gardens of grapes and corn and palms growing together (from one root) and not growing together; they are watered with one water, yet we distinguish one over the other as food;- verily, in that are signs unto a people who have sense
John Medows Rodwell1861 And on the earth hard by each other are its various portions: gardens of grapes and corn, and palm trees single or clustered. Though watered by the same water, yet some make we more excellent as food than other: Verily in all this are signs for those who understand
George Sale1734 And in the earth are tracts of land of different natures, though bordering on each other; and also vineyards, and seeds, and palm-trees springing several from the same root, and singly from distinct roots. They are watered with the same water, yet We render some of them more excellent than others to eat. Herein are surely signs unto people who understand
Talal Itani2012 Should you wonder-the real wonder is their saying: "When we have become dust, will we be in a new creation?" Those are they who defied their Lord. Those are they who will have yokes around their necks. Those are the inhabitants of the Fire, where they will remain forever.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if thou wonderest, then wondrous is their saying: When we are dust, are we then forsooth (to be raised) in a new creation? Such are they who disbelieve in their Lord; such have carcans on their necks; such are rightful owners of the Fire, they will abide therein
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And if thou shouldst wonder, wondrous is their speech: 'What! when we have become dust, shall we really then be created anew?' These are they who disbelieve in their Lord, and these are they with fetters round their necks, and these are the fellows of the Fire; they shall dwell therein for aye
John Medows Rodwell1861 If ever thou dost marvel, marvellous surely is their saying, "What! when we have become dust, shall we be restored in a new creation?" These are they who in their Lord believe not: these! the collars shall be on their necks; and these shall be inmates of the fire, to abide therein for aye
George Sale1734 If thou dost wonder at the infidels denying the resurrection, surely wonderful is their saying, after We shall have been reduced to dust, shall We be restored in a new creature? These are they who believe not in their Lord; these shall have collars on their necks, and these shall be the inhabitants of hell fire: Therein shall they abide for ever
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.53 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.50
Talal Itani · George Sale0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.45
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.44
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.39
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.38
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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.