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Talal Itani· published 2012
And when your Lord proclaimed: "If you give thanks, I will grant you increase; but if you are ungrateful, My punishment is severe."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And when your Lord proclaimed: If ye give thanks, I will give you more; but if ye are thankless, lo! My punishment is dire
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
When your Lord proclaimed, 'If ye give thanks I will surely give you increase; but if ye misbelieve, verily, my torment is severe
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when your Lord caused it to be heard that, "If we render thanks then will I surely increase you more and more: but if ye be thankless. . . . Verily, rightterrible my chastisement
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when your Lord declared by the mouth of Moses, saying, if ye be thankful, I will surely increase my favours towards you; but if ye be ungrateful, verily my punishment shall be severe
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
Kujtoni kur Zoti jua shpalli: "Nëse falënderoni, Unë do t'jua shtoj (të mirat), por, nëse mohoni, ta dini se dënimi Im është me të vërtetë i rëndë."
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর যখন তোমাদের রব ঘোষণা দিলেন: ‘যদি তোমরা (নি‘আমতসমূহের) শুকরিয়া আদায় করো, তবে আমি অবশ্যই তোমাদের (আরো নি‘আমত) বাড়িয়ে দিবো, আর যদি তোমরা অকৃতজ্ঞ হও, (তবে জেনে রাখো,) নিশ্চয় আমার শাস্তি বড় কঠিন।’
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
I kad je Gospodar vaš objavio: "Ako budete zahvalni, Ja ću vam sigurno još više dati; budete li nezahvalni, žestoka će, doista, biti kazna Moja."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
I kad je Gospodar vaš objavio: "Ako budete zahvalni, Ja ću vam sigurno još više dati; budete li nezahvalni, žestoka će, doista, biti kazna Moja."
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Fulfulde · Fulani
e tuma nde Joomi maa anndinnoo: "Pellet si on njettii, ma mi ɓeydan on. Si on njeddii non, pellet lepte am ɗeen ko caɗtuɗe".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და ასე გამოაცხადა თქვენმა უფალმა: «თუ მადლიერი იქნებით (იმ წყალობებისთვის, რაც მე გიბოძეთ), მე უთუოდ გავამრავლებ მათ თქვენთვის; მაგრამ თუ უმადურნი იქნებით... ჭეშმარიტად, ჩემი სასჯელი მკაცრია».
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Deutsch · German
Und als euer Herr ankündigte: „Wenn ihr dankbar seid, werde Ich euch ganz gewiss noch mehr (Gunstgaben) erweisen. Wenn ihr jedoch undankbar seid, dann ist Meine Strafe gewiss streng.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Και (θυμηθείτε) όταν ο Κύριός σας δήλωσε ξεκάθαρα: «Αν θα είστε ευγνώμονες (για τις χάρες Μου), θα σας αυξήσω σίγουρα (σε χάρη)· αλλά αν θα είστε αγνώμονες, πράγματι, η τιμωρία Μου είναι αυστηρή.».»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा (याद करो) जब तुम्हारे पालनहार ने साफ घोषणा कर दी कि निःसंदेह यदि तुम शुक्र करोगे, तो मैं अवश्य ही तुम्हें अधिक दूँगा तथा निःसंदेह यदि तुम नाशुक्री करोगे, तो निःसंदेह मेरी यातना निश्चय बहुत कड़ी है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E quando il vostro Dio promise: «Se ringrazierete, ve l’aumenterò, ma se rinnegherete, in verità la Mia punizione sarà molto dura.»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
7. Ir (prisiminkite), kai jūsų Viešpats skelbė: „Jei jūs dėkosite (priimdami Tikėjimą ir negarbindami nieko kito tik Allahą), Aš suteiksiu jums daugiau (Savo Palaimos), tačiau jei jūs būsite nedėkingi (t. y. netikintieji), iš tiesų, Mano bausmė yra tikrai griežta.“
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.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И вот ваш Господь возвестил: «Если вы будете благодарны, Я непременно приумножу вам; а если будете неблагодарны, то, воистину, Моё наказание — сурово!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
И кад је ваш Господар објавио: „Ако будете захвални, Ја ћу сигурно још више да вам дам; будете ли незахвални, заиста ће жестока да буде Моја казна.“
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 alipotangaza Mola wenu Mlezi: Mkishukuru, hakika nitawazidishia. Na mkikufuru, basi adhabu yangu ni kali.
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Svenska · Swedish
Och minns när er Herre tillkännagav: ”Är ni tacksamma ska jag ge er ännu mer, men är ni otacksamma är mitt straff förvisso strängt.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Hani Rabbiniz şöyle duyurmuştu: “Andolsun, eğer şükrederseniz elbette size nimetimi artırırım. Eğer nankörlük ederseniz, hiç şüphesiz azabım çok şiddetlidir.''
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور جب تمہارے پروردگار نے تمہیں آگاه [1] کر دیا کہ اگر تم شکر گزاری کرو گے تو بیشک میں تمہیں زیاده[2] دوں گا اور اگر تم ناشکری کرو گے تو یقیناً میرا عذاب بہت سخت ہے.[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.
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Talal Itani2012 We sent Moses with Our signs: "Bring your people out of darkness into light, and remind them of the Days of God." In that are signs for every patient and thankful person."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 We verily sent Moses with Our revelations, saying: Bring thy people forth from darkness unto light. And remind them of the days of Allah. Lo! therein are revelations for each steadfast, thankful (heart)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We did send Moses with our signs, 'Bring forth thy people from the darkness into the light, and remind them of the days of God!' verily, in that are signs to every patient, grateful one
John Medows Rodwell1861 Of old did we send Moses with our signs: and said to him, "Bring forth thy people from the darkness into the light, and remind them of the days of God." Verily, in this are signs for every patient, grateful person
George Sale1734 We formerly sent Moses with our signs, and commanded him saying, lead forth thy people from darkness into light, and remind them of the favours of God: Verily therein are signs unto every patient and grateful person
DIN 31635waʾiḏ qāla mūsā liqawmihi ḏkurū niʿmata llāhi ʿalaykum ʾiḏ ʾanǧākum min ʾāli firʿawna yasūmūnakum sūʾa l-ʿaḏābi wayuḏabbiḥūna ʾabnāʾakum wayastaḥyūna nisāʾakum wafī ḏālikum balāʾun min rabbikum ʿaẓīmun
Talal Itani2012 Moses said to his people, "Remember God's blessings upon you, as He delivered you from the people of Pharaoh, who inflicted on you terrible suffering, slaughtering your sons while sparing your daughters. In that was a serious trial from your Lord."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And (remind them) how Moses said unto his people: Remember Allah's favour unto you when He delivered you from Pharaoh's folk who were afflicting you with dreadful torment, and were slaying your sons and sparing your women; that was a tremendous trial from your Lord
Edward Henry Palmer1880 When Moses said to his people, 'Remember the favours of God towards you, when He saved you from Pharaoh's people, who sought to wreak you evil woe, slaughtering your sons and letting your women live;' in that was a great trial for you from your Lord
John Medows Rodwell1861 When Moses said to his people, "Remember the kindness of God to you, when he rescued you from the family of Pharaoh who laid on you a cruel affliction, slaughtering your male children, and suffering only your females to live." In this was a sore trial from your Lord
George Sale1734 And call to mind when Moses said unto his people, remember the favour of God towards you, when He delivered you from the people of Pharaoh: They grievously oppressed you, and they slew your male children, but let your females live: Therein was a great trial from your Lord
Talal Itani2012 And Moses said, "Even if you are ungrateful, together with everyone on earth-God is in no need, Worthy of Praise."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Moses said: Though ye and all who are in the earth prove thankless, lo! Allah verily is Absolute, Owner of Praise
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Moses said, 'if ye misbelieve, ye and those who are on the earth altogether - then, verily, God is rich, and to be praised
John Medows Rodwell1861 And Moses said, "If ye and all who are on the Earth be thankless, yet truly God is passing Rich, and worthy of all praise
George Sale1734 And Moses said, if ye be ungrateful, and all who are in the earth likewise; verily God needeth not your thanks, though He deserveth the highest praise
Talal Itani2012 Has not the story reached you, of those before you, the people of Noah, and Aad, and Thamood-and those after them? None knows them except God. Their messengers came to them with the clear proofs, but they tried to silence them, and said, "We reject what you are sent with, and we are in serious doubt regarding what you are calling us to."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Hath not the history of those before you reached you: the folk of Noah, and (the tribes of) A'ad and Thamud, and those after them? None save Allah knoweth them. Their messengers came unto them with clear proofs, but they thrust their hands into their mouths, and said: Lo! we disbelieve in that wherewith ye have been sent, and lo! we are in grave doubt concerning that to which ye call us
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Has not the story come to you of those who were before you, of the people of Noah, and 'Ad, and Thamud, and those who came after them? none knows them save God. Apostles came unto them with manifest signs; but they thrust their hands into their mouths and said, 'Verily, we disbelieve in that which ye are sent with, and we are in hesitating doubt concerning that to which ye call us
John Medows Rodwell1861 Hath not the story reached you of those who were before you, the people of Noah, and Ad, and Themoud, And of those who lived after them? None knoweth them but God. When their prophets came to them with proofs of their mission, they put their hands on their mouths and said, "In sooth, we believe not your message; and in sooth, of that to which you bid us, we are in doubt, as of a thing suspicious
George Sale1734 Hath not the history of the nations your predecessors reached you; namely, of the people of Noah, and of Ad, and of Thamud, and of those who succeeded them; whose number none knoweth except God? Their apostles came unto them with evident miracles; but they clapped their hands to their mouths out of indignation, and said, we do not believe the message with which ye pretend to be sent; and we are in a doubt concerning the religion to which ye invite us, as justly to be suspected
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 —
0.57 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 Sale0.68
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.68
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.42
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.36
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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.