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
And warn mankind of the Day when the punishment will come upon them, and the wicked will say, "Our Lord, defer us for a little while, and we will answer Your call and follow the messengers." Did you not swear before that there will be no passingaway for you?
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And warn mankind of a day when the doom will come upon them, and those who did wrong will say: Our Lord! Reprieve us for a little while. We will obey Thy call and will follow the messengers. (It will be answered): Did ye not swear before that there would be no end for you
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 warn men of the day when the torment shall come! And those who have done wrong shall say, 'O our Lord! respite us until an appointedtimenigh at hand, and we will respond to Thy call, and follow the apostles!' - 'What! did ye not swear before, ye should have no decline
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when the evildoers shall say, "O our Lord! respite us yet a little while: To thy call will we make answer; thine Apostles will we follow." "Did ye not once swear that no change should befal you
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Wherefore do thou threaten men with the day, whereon their punishment shall be inflicted on them, and whereon those who have actedunjustly shall say, O Lord, give us respite unto a term near at hand; and we will obey thy call, and we will follow thy apostles. But it shall be answered unto them, did ye not swear heretofore, that no reverse should befall you
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
Dhe paralajmëroji njerëzit për ditën kur do t'u vijë dënimi! Atëherë ata që ishin të padrejtë do të thonë: "Zoti ynë, na e shtyj edhe pak afatin, që t'i përgjigjemi thirrjes Sate dhe t'i pasojmë të dërguarit." A nuk betoheshit më parë se nuk do të kishte zhdukje për ju?
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর (হে রাসূল!) তুমি মানুষদের সতর্ক করো, যেদিন তাদের ওপর শাস্তি নেমে আসবে। তখন যারা যুলম করেছে তারা বলবে: ‘হে আমাদের রব! আমাদেরকে অল্প সময়ের জন্য (দুনিয়ায় ফেরত পাঠিয়ে) অবকাশ দাও, যাতে আমরা তোমার ডাকে সাড়া দিতে পারি এবং রাসূলদের অনুসরণ করতে পারি। (অতঃপর তাদেরকে তিরস্কার করে বলা হবে): ‘তোমরা কি পূর্বে কসম করেছিলে যে, তোমাদের (দুনিয়া থেকে আখিরাতে) কোনো প্রত্যাবর্তন নেই?’
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.
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Ti opominji ljude Danom kada će im kazna doći, kad će oni koji su nepravdu činili – govoriti: "Gospodaru naš, ostavi nas još samo kratko vrijeme, odazvat ćemo se pozivu Tvome i slijedit ćemo poslanike!" – a zar se prije niste zaklinjali da s ovog svijeta nećete otići?
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Ti opominji ljude Danom kada će im kazna doći, kad će oni koji su nepravdu činili – govoriti: "Gospodaru naš, ostavi nas još samo kratko vrijeme, odazvat ćemo se pozivu Tvome i slijedit ćemo poslanike!" a zar se prije niste zaklinjali da s ovog svijeta nećete otići?
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Jeertniri yimɓe ɓen ñalaande nde lepte ɗeen arata ɓe, tooñɓe ɓeen mi'a: "Joomi amen, neeɓnan amen haa lajal ɓaɗiingal, min nootoo noddaanndu Maa, min njokka Nulaaɓe ɓeen". E on laatanooki on ngoondiino ado (hannde) alanaa on iwugol (tion)?
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ქართული · Georgian
და გააფრთხილე (ო, შუამავალო) (ისინი), ვისთანაც შენ ხარ წარგზავნილი, იმ დღის შესახებ, როდესაც სასჯელი დაატყდებათ თავს! და უსამართლოდ მოპყრობილნი (საკუთარი თავის მიმართ) იტყვიან (როდესაც სასჯელს იხილავენ): «ჩვენო უფალო! მოგვეცი მცირედი გადადება, რათა ვუპასუხოთ შენს მოწოდებას, დავიჯეროთ შენი და გავყვეთ შენს შუამავლებს». (და ეთქმებათ მათ): «განა არ იფიცებოდით, რომ თქვენთვის არ იქნებოდა აღდგომა?»
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Deutsch · German
Und warne die Menschen vor dem Tag, an dem die Strafe über sie kommt. Da werden diejenigen, die Unrecht taten, sagen: „Unser Herr, stelle uns auf eine kurze Frist zurück, so werden wir Deinen Ruf erhören und den Gesandten folgen.“ (Es wird ihnen geantwortet:) „Hattet ihr denn nicht zuvor geschworen, es würde für euch keinen Untergang geben?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
(Ω, Προφήτη) προειδοποίησε τους ανθρώπους για την Ημέρα που θα τους έρθει το μαρτύριο, και οι άδικοι θα πουν: «Κύριέ μας! Δώσε μας αναβολή για λίγο χρόνο, για να ανταποκριθούμε στο κάλεσμά Σου και να ακολουθήσουμε τους Αγγελιαφόρους!» [Θα ειπωθεί σ' αυτούς:] «Μα δεν ορκιστήκατε πριν (στην εγκόσμια ζωή) ότι δε θα υπάρχει για σας καμία μετάβαση (από την εγκόσμια ζωή προς τη Μέλλουσα Ζωή, και διαψεύσατε την ανάσταση);
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और (ऐ नबी!) लोगों को उस दिन से डराएँ, जब उनपर यातना आ जाएगी, तो वे लोग जिन्होंने अत्याचार किया, कहेंगे : ऐ हमारे पालनहार! हमें कुछ समय तक मोहलत दे दे, हम तेरा आमंत्रण स्वीकार करेंगे और रसूलों का अनुसरण करेंगे।(कहा जाएगा :) क्या तुमने इससे पहले क़समें नहीं खाई थीं कि तुम्हारे लिए कोई भी स्थानांतरण नहीं?
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E avverti gli uomini il giorno in cui arriverà loro la punizione, così che quelli che peccarono diranno: «Dio nostro, concedici una breve proroga, perché possiamo accogliere il Tuo appello e seguire i Messaggeri!» “Non avete forse giurato in precedenza che non avreste avuto questa fine?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
44. Ir perspėk (Muchammedai ﷺ) žmoniją apie Dieną, kai kančia juos pasieks. Tada nusidėjėliai sakys: „Mūsų Viešpatie, leisk mums atsikvėpti trumpam, mes atsiliepsime į Tavo Kvietimą ir paseksime Pasiuntiniais!“ (Bus pasakyta): „Argi jūs neprisiekėte kadaise, kad jūs nepaliksite (pasaulio dėl Amžinybės)?“
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Русский · Russian
И предостереги людей о Дне, когда придёт к ним наказание, и скажут те, которые поступали несправедливо: «Господь наш! Дай нам отсрочку до близкого срока — мы ответим на Твой призыв и последуем посланникам». [Будет сказано:] «Разве вы не клялись прежде, что вам не будет конца?»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Ти опомињи људе Даном када ће казна да им дође, кад ће они који су неправедни били – да говоре: „Господару наш, остави нас још само кратко време, одазваћемо се Твоме позиву и следићемо посланике!“ А зар се пре нисте заклињали да са овог света нећете да одете?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na waonye watu siku itakapowajia adhabu, na wale waliodhulumu waseme, "Ewe Mola wetu Mlezi! Tuahirishe muda kidogo tuitikie wito wako na tuwafuate Mitume." Kwani nyinyi hamkuapa zamani kwamba kamwe hamuwezi kuondoka?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Varna därför människorna för den dag då straffet når dem och de orättfärdiga ska säga: ”Herre! Ge oss bara en kort frist, så att vi kan besvara ditt kall och följa sändebuden!” [Men de ska få svaret:] ”Svor ni inte tidigare på att ni aldrig skulle förgås?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
(Ey Muhammed!) İnsanları, kendilerine azabın geleceği gün ile uyar. Zira o gün zalimler, “Ey Rabbimiz! Yakın bir süreye kadar bizi ertele de senin çağrına uyalım ve peygamberlerin izinden gidelim” diyecekler. Onlara şöyle denilecek: “Daha önce siz, sonunuzun gelmeyeceğine yemin etmemiş miydiniz?''
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
لوگوں کو اس دن سے ہوشیار کردے جب کہ ان کے پاس عذاب آجائے گا، اور ﻇالم کہیں گے کہ اے ہمارے رب ہمیں بہت تھوڑے قریب کے وقت تک کی ہی مہلت دے کہ ہم تیری تبلیﻎ مان لیں اور تیرے پیغمبروں کی تابعداری میں لگ جائیں۔ کیا تم اس سے پہلے بھی قسمیں نہیں کھا رہے تھے؟ کہ تمہارے لیے دنیا سے ٹلنا ہی نہیں.[1]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Talal Itani2012 Do not ever think that God is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only defers them until a Day when the sights stare.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Deem not that Allah is unaware of what the wicked do. He but giveth them a respite till a day when eyes will stare (in terror)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 So think not God careless of what the unjust do; He only respites them until the day on which all eyes shall stare
John Medows Rodwell1861 Think thou not that God is regardless of the deeds of the wicked. He only respiteth them to the day on which all eyes shall stare up with terror
George Sale1734 Think not, O prophet, that God is regardless of what the ungodly do. He only deferreth their punishment unto the day whereon mens eyes shall be fixed
DIN 31635muhṭiʿīna muqniʿī ruʾūsihim lā yartaddu ʾilayhim ṭarfuhum waʾafʾidatuhum hawāʾun
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Their necks outstretched, their heads upraised, their gaze unblinking, their hearts void.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 As they come hurrying on in fear, their heads upraised, their gaze returning not to them, and their hearts as air
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Hurrying on, raising up their heads, with their looks not turned back to them, and their hearts void
John Medows Rodwell1861 They hasten forward in fear; their heads upraised in supplication; their looks riveted; and their hearts a blank. Warn men therefore of the day when the punishment shall overtake them
George Sale1734 They shall hasten forward, at the voice of the angel calling to judgment, and shall lift up their heads; they shall not be able to turn their sight from the object whereon it shall be fixed, and their hearts shall be void of sense, through excessive terror
Talal Itani2012 And you inhabited the homes of those who wronged themselves, and it became clear to you how We dealt with them, and We cited for you the examples.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And (have ye not) dwelt in the dwellings of those who wronged themselves (of old) and (hath it not) become plain to you how We dealt with them and made examples for you
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And ye dwelt in the dwellings of those who had wronged themselves; and it was made plain to you how we did with them; and we struck out parables for you
John Medows Rodwell1861 Yet ye dwelt in the dwellings of those who were the authors of their undoing and it was made plain to you how we had dealt with them; and we held them up to you as examples
George Sale1734 Yet ye dwelt in the dwellings of those who had treated their own souls unjustly; and it appeared plainly unto you how We had dealt with them; and We propounded their destruction as examples unto you
Talal Itani2012 They planned their plans, but their plans are known to God, even if their plans can eliminate mountains.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Verily they have plotted their plot, and their plot is with Allah, though their plot were one whereby the mountains should be moved
Edward Henry Palmer1880 but they plotted their stratagems, but with God is a stratagem for them, although at their stratagem the mountains should give way
John Medows Rodwell1861 They plotted their plots: but God could master their plots, even though their plots had been so powerful as to move the mountains
George Sale1734 They employ their utmost subtlety to oppose the truth; but their subtlety is apparent unto God, who is able to frustrate their designs; although their subtlety were so great, that the mountains might be moved thereby
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lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.73
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.69
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.37
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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.