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Talal Itani· published 2012
Are they but waiting for the angels to come to them, or for the command of your Lord to arrive? Those before them did likewise. God did not wrong them, but they used to wrong their own souls.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Await they aughtsay that the angels should come unto them or thy Lord's command should come to pass? Even so did those before them. Allah wronged them not, but they did wrong themselves
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
Do they expect other than that the angels should come to take them off, or that thy Lord's bidding should come?- thus did those before them; God did not wrong them; but it was themselves they wronged
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
What can the infidels expect but that the angels of death come upon them, or that a sentence of thy Lord take effect? Thus did they who flourished before them. God was not unjust to them, but to their ownselves were they unjust
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Do the unbelievers expect any other than that the angels come unto them, to part their souls from their bodies; or that the sentence of thy Lord come to be executed on them? So did they act who were before them; and God was not unjust towards them in that He destroyed them; but they dealtunjustly with their own souls
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
Vallë, a mos janë duke pritur ata që t'u vijnë melekët ose t'u vijë urdhri i Zotit tënd? Kështu vepruan edhe ata para tyre. Allahu nuk u bëri padrejtësi atyre, por ata i bënë padrejtësi vetvetes.
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বাংলা · Bengali
তারা (মিথ্যারোপকারী মুশরিকরা) শুধু তাদের কাছে ফিরিশতা আসার অথবা তোমার রবের (শাস্তির) সিদ্ধান্ত আসার অপেক্ষা করছে। তাদের পূর্ববর্তীরা এরূপই করতো। আর আল্লাহ তাদের ওপর যুলম করেননি; বরং তারাই (আল্লাহর সাথে কুফরি করে) নিজেদের ওপর যুলম করেছিল।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Šta li višebošci čekaju: da im dođu meleci, ili da dođe odredba Gospodara tvoga?! Tako su postupili i oni prije njih; njima nije nepravdu učinio Allah, oni su sami sebi nepravdu učinili.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Što li mnogobošci čekaju: da im dođu anđeli, ili da dođe odredba Gospodara tvoga?! Tako su postupili i oni prije njih; njima nije nepravdu učinio Allah, oni su sami sebi nepravdu učinili.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Hara [ɓee sirkooɓe fenna] hino habbitii si wonaa nde maleykaaji ɗi ngarata e maɓɓe, maa yami- roore Joomi maa ndeen ara? Ko wano noon ɓen adinooɓe ɓe waɗirnoo. Alla tooñaani ɓe; si ko woni, ko ko'e maɓɓe ɓe wonnoo e tooñuɓe.
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ქართული · Georgian
ნუთუ მხოლოდ იმას ელოდებიან [ეს კერპთაყვანისმცემლები], რომ ანგელოზები მივიდნენ მათთან [რათა სულები ახადონ მათ ცემით], ან შენი ღმერთის ბრძანება მოვიდეს [მრავალღმერთიანთა გასანადგურებლად]? ასევე მოიქცნენ ისინი, ვინც მათზე უწინ იყვნენ [მექქელ ურწმონოებზე წინ]. და ალლაჰი უსამართლოდ არ მოქცევია მათ [როცა მათ უბედურებას დაატეხს თავს, მათი განადგურებით], არამედ თავიანთ თავს ექცეოდნენ უსამართლოდ.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Erwarten sie denn (etwas anderes), als dass die Engel zu ihnen kommen oder dass der Befehl deines Herrn eintrifft? Auf diese Weise handelten (auch) diejenigen, die vor ihnen waren. Und Allah fügte ihnen kein Unrecht zu, sondern sie selbst fügten sich Unrecht zu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Περιμένουν (οι άπιστοι) μόνο το να τους έρθουν οι Άγγελοι (που θα τους αφαιρέσουν τη ζωή) ή να έρθει η εντολή (η τιμωρία) του Κυρίου σου; Έτσι έκαναν και εκείνοι που ήταν πριν απ' αυτούς (και τους κατέστρεψε ο Αλλάχ). Δεν τους αδίκησε ο Αλλάχ (με την καταστροφή τους), αλλά εκείνοι ήταν που αδίκησαν τον εαυτό τους (με την απιστία τους)!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
क्या वे इस बात की प्रतीक्षा कर रहे हैं कि उनके पास फ़रिश्ते[11] आ जाएँ, अथवा आपके पालनहार का आदेश[12] आ पहुँचे? ऐसे ही उन लोगों ने किया, जो इनसे पहले थे और अल्लाह ने उनपर अत्याचार नहीं किया, लेकिन वे स्वयं अपने आपपर अत्याचार किया करते थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Si aspettano che vengano loro gli angeli o venga l’ordine di Allāh? Così fecero i loro predecessori. E Allāh non fece loro torto, ma loro facevano torto a se stessi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
33. Argi jie (netikintieji ir daugiadieviai) laukia nieko kita, kaip tik angelų atėjimo pas juos [paimti jų sielas (mirties metu)] ar kad ateitų jūsų Viešpaties įsakymas (t. y. kančia arba Prikėlimo diena)? Taip elgėsi tie, kurie buvo anksčiau jų. Ir Allahas neklaidina jų, tačiau jie paklaidina patys save.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Sila (kaafiroonni) maleeykonni isaanitti dhufuu yookiin ajajni Gooftaa keetii isaanitti dhufuu malee (waan biraa) ni eeguu? Warri isaaniin duraas akkuma kana dalaganiiru. (eegasii Rabbiin isaan dhabamsiise) Rabbiin isaan hin miine. Garuu isaan lubbuulee isaanii kan miidhan turan.
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Русский · Russian
Неужели они ожидают чего-то иного, кроме того, что к ним явятся ангелы или придёт веление твоего Господа? Так же поступали те, кто был до них. И не Аллах был несправедлив к ним, а они сами продолжали поступать несправедливо с самими собой.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Зар незнанобошци чекају да им дођу анђели, или да дође одредба твога Господара?! Тако су поступили и они пре њих; њима није неправду учинио Аллах, они су сами себи учинили неправду.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Wanangojea jingine hawa isipokuwa Malaika wawafikie, au iwafikie amri ya Mola wako Mlezi? Kama hivyo, walitenda wale waliokuwa kabla yao. Na Mwenyezi Mungu hakuwadhulumu, lakini walijidhulumu wenyewe.
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Svenska · Swedish
Väntar de bara på att änglarna ska komma till dem eller att din Herres befallning [om straff] ska komma? Så gjorde även deras föregångare. Gud gjorde dem ingen orätt, de gjorde sig själva orätt.
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Türkçe · Turkish
(Kâfirler) kendilerine o meleklerin gelmesinden yahut Rabbinin emrinin gelip çatmasından başkasını mı beklerler? Onlardan öncekiler de böyle yapmıştı. Allah onlara zulmetmedi, fakat onlar kendilerine zulmediyorlardı.
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اردو · Urdu
کیا یہ اسی بات کا انتظار کر رہے ہیں کہ ان کے پاس فرشتے آجائیں یا تیرے رب کا حکم آجائے[1] ؟ ایسا ہی ان لوگوں نے بھی کیا تھا جو ان سے پہلے تھے[2]۔ ان پر اللہ تعالیٰ نے کوئی ﻇلم نہیں کیا[3] بلکہ وه خود اپنی جانوں پر ﻇلم کرتے رہے.[4]
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Easy-read (simplified)jannaatu 'adnin yadkhuloonahaa tajree min tahtihaa l-'anhaaru lahum feehaa maa yashaa'oona kadhaalika yajzee llaahu l-muttaqeen
DIN 31635ǧannātu ʿadnin yadḫulūnahā taǧrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru lahum fīhā mā yašāʾūna kaḏālika yaǧzī llāhu l-muttaqīna
Talal Itani2012 The Gardens of Perpetuity, which they will enter, beneath which rivers flow, where they will have whatever they desire. Thus God rewards the pious.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Gardens of Eden which they enter, underneath which rivers flow, wherein they have what they will. Thus Allah repayeth those who ward off (evil)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Gardens of Eden which they shall enter, beneath them rivers flow; therein shall they have what they please;- thus does God reward those who fear Him
John Medows Rodwell1861 Gardens of Eden into which they shall enter; rivers shall flow beneath their shades; all they wish for shall they find therein! Thus God rewardeth those who fear Him
George Sale1734 Namely, gardens of eternal abode, into which they shall enter; rivers shall flow beneath the same; therein shall they enjoy whatever they wish. Thus will God recompense the pious
Talal Itani2012 Those who are in a wholesome state when the angels take them-will say, "Peace be upon you; enter Paradise, for what you used to do."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those whom the angels cause to die (when they are) good. They say: Peace be unto you! Enter the Garden because of what ye used to do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 To those whom the angels take off in a goodly state they shall say, 'Peace be upon you! enter ye into Paradise for that which ye have done
John Medows Rodwell1861 To whom, as righteous persons, the angels shall say, when they receive their souls, "Peace be on you! Enter Paradise as the meed of your labours
George Sale1734 Unto the righteous whom the angels shall cause to die, they shall say, peace be upon you; enter ye into paradise, as a reward for that which ye have wrought
Easy-read (simplified)waqaala lladheena ashrakoo law shaa'a llaahu maa 'abadnaa min doonihi min shay'in nahnu walaa aabaa'unaa walaa harramnaa min doonihi min shay'in kadhaalika fa'ala lladheena min qablihim fahal 'alaa r-rusuli illaa l-balaaghu l-mubeen
DIN 31635waqāla llaḏīna ʾašrakū law šāʾa llāhu mā ʿabadnā min dūnihi min šayʾin naḥnu walā ʾābāʾunā walā ḥarramnā min dūnihi min šayʾin kaḏālika faʿala llaḏīna min qablihim fahal ʿalā r-rusuli ʾillā l-balāġu l-mubīnu
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 The idolaters say, "Had God willed, we would not have worshiped anything besides Him, neither us, nor our ancestors, nor would we have prohibited anything besides His prohibitions." Those before them did likewise. Are the messengers responsible for anything but clear communication?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And the idolaters say: Had Allah willed, we had not worshipped aught beside Him, we and our fathers, nor had we forbidden aught without (command from) Him. Even so did those before them. Are the messengers charged with aught save plain conveyance (of the message)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And those who associated (others with God) said, 'Had God pleased we had not served aught beside Him, neither we nor our fathers; nor had we prohibited aught without Him;' - thus did those before them: but have messengers aught to do but to deliver their message plainly
John Medows Rodwell1861 They who have joined other gods with God say, "Had He pleased, neither we nor our fathers had worshipped aught but him; nor should we, apart from him, have forbidden aught." Thus acted they who were before them. Yet is the duty of the apostles other than public preaching
George Sale1734 The idolaters say, if God had pleased, we had not worshipped any thing besides Him, neither had our fathers: Neither had we forbidden any thing, without Him. So did they who were before them. But is the duty of the apostles any other, than public preaching
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 —
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.75
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.73
Talal Itani · George Sale0.70
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.67
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.61
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.51
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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.