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Talal Itani· published 2012
God created you; then He takes you away. Some of you will be brought back to the worst age, so that he will no longer know anything, after having acquired knowledge. God is Omniscient and Omnipotent.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And Allah createth you, then causeth you to die, and among you is he who is brought back to the most abject stage of life, so that he knoweth nothing after (having had) knowledge. Lo! Allah is Knower, Powerful
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
God created you; then He will take you to Himself; but amongst you are some whom He will thrust into the most decrepit age; so that he may not know aught that once he knew. Verily, God is knowing, powerful
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And God hath created you; by and bye will he take you to himself; and some among you will he carry on to abject old age, when all that once was known is known no longer. Aye, God is Knowing, Powerful
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
God hath created you, and He will hereaftercause you to die: And some of you shall have his life prolonged to a decrepit age, so that he shall forget whatever he knew; for God is wise and powerful
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
Allahu ju krijoi, pastaj ju bën të vdisni. Disa nga ju arrijnë moshën më të mjerë, saqë, pas dijes që kishin, nuk dinë më asgjë. Me të vërtetë, Allahu është i Gjithëdijshëm dhe i Plotfuqishëm.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর আল্লাহই তোমাদের (পূর্বের নমুনা ছাড়াই) সৃষ্টি করেছেন; তারপর তিনি তোমাদের মৃত্যু ঘটান। আর তোমাদের মধ্যে এমনও আছে, যাকে বার্ধক্যের নিকৃষ্টতম অবস্থায় ফিরিয়ে দেওয়া হয়, যাতে সে জ্ঞান লাভ করার পর আবার কিছুই না জানে।(২১) নিশ্চয়ই আল্লাহ সর্বজ্ঞ, সর্বশক্তিমান।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Allah vas stvara, a poslije vam duše uzima; među vama ima onih koji senilnost – duboku starost dožive, pa opet ne znaju nakon što su znanje imali. Allah je, zaista, Onaj Koji sve zna i svemoćan je.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Allah vas stvara, a poslije vam duše uzima; među vama ima onih koji senilnost – duboku starost dožive, pa opet ne znaju nakon što su znanje imali. Allah je, zaista, Onaj Koji sve zna i svemoćan je.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Alla tagii on, refti O hunnay on. Hino e mooɗon on rutteteeɗo e jaasuɗum nguurndam, fii wata o anndu huunde ɓaawo ganndal [makko aranal]. Pellet, Alla ko gannduɗo, kattanɗo.
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ქართული · Georgian
ალლაჰმა გაგაჩინათ თქვენ, შემდეგ კი მოგაკვდინებთ. და თქვენს შორის არიან ისეთნიც, ვისაც დააბრუნებენ უძლურ ცხოვრებაში [ღრმა სიბერეში], რათა აღარ იცოდეს [მას შემდეგ რაც ჰქონდა (ახალგაზრდობისას) გარკვეული ცოდნა] არაფერი. ჭეშმარიტად, ალლაჰი ყოვლისმცოდნე, ყოვლისშემძლეა.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und Allah hat euch erschaffen, hierauf lässt Er euch sterben. Und manch einer von euch wird in das niedrigste (Greisen)alter zurückgebracht, so dass er nach (vorherigem) Wissen nichts (mehr) weiß. Wahrlich, Allah ist allwissend und allmächtig.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ο Αλλάχ σας δημιούργησε και έπειτα (όταν έρθει η προκαθορισμένη ώρα σας) σας αφαιρεί τη ζωή. Ανάμεσά σας υπάρχουν εκείνοι που φτάνουν στην πιο εξαθλιωμένη ηλικία (γηρατειά), ώστε να μην ξέρουν τίποτα, μετά από τη γνώση που είχαν. Πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ είναι ‘Αλείμ (Παντογνώστης) και Καντείρ (Ικανός για τα πάντα).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और अल्लाह ही ने तुम्हें पैदा किया। फिर वही तुम्हें मौत देता है। और तुममें से कोई वह है जो अति वृद्धावस्था की ओर पहुँचा दिया जाता है, ताकि वह जान लेने के पश्चात् कुछ न जाने। निःसंदेह अल्लाह सब कुछ जानने वाला, सर्वशक्तिमान है।[26]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E Allāh vi ha creati, poi vi farà morire. E tra di voi c’è chi viene rimandato alla vecchiaia, così che non sappia, dopo aver imparato, più nulla: in verità Allāh è Sapiente, Potente.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
70. Ir Allahas sukūrė jus ir tada Jis privers jus mirti. Ir iš jūsų yra kai kurie, kurie grąžinami į senatvę tam, kad nebežinotų nieko po to, kai žinojo (daug). Iš tiesų, Allahas yra Visa Žinantis, Galingiausiasis.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Rabbiin isin uume, Ergasii isin ajjeesa, Isin irraa nama gara umrii gadi aanaa (dullumaa) deebifamutu jira, Beekumsa booda akka homaa hin beekneef, Rabbiin beekaa, danda’aadha.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Аллах сотворил вас, затем упокоит вас. И среди вас есть тот, кто будет возвращён к самой немощной поре жизни, чтобы после знания не знать ничего. Воистину, Аллах — знающий, всемогущий.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Аллах вас ствара и после вам душе узима. Има вас који дубоку старост доживите, па брзо заборавите оно што сазнате. Аллах је, заиста, Свезнајући и Свемоћни.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na Mwenyezi Mungu aliwaumba; kisha atawafisha. Na miongoni mwenu wapo wanaorudishwa kwenye umri mbaya kabisa, hata akawa hajui kitu baada ya kuwa alikuwa anajua. Hakika Mwenyezi Mungu ndiye Mwenye kujua zaidi, Muweza.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Gud har skapat er och kommer sedan låta er dö. Och bland er finns de som på grund av sin höga ålder blivit så skröpliga att de inte minns någonting av det de tidigare haft kunskap om. Gud vet allt och har makt över allt.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Allah sizi yaratmıştır, sonra öldürecektir. İçinizden kimi ömrünün en kötü çağına kadar geri çevrilir. Bildikten sonra hiçbir şey bilmez olsun diye. Şüphesiz Allah, her şeyi bilendir, her şeye gücü yetendir.
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اردو · Urdu
اللہ تعالیٰ نے ہی تم سب کو پیدا کیا ہے وہی پھر تمہیں فوت کرے گا، تم میں ایسے بھی ہیں جو بدترین عمر کی طرف لوٹائے جاتے ہیں کہ بہت کچھ جاننے بوجھنے کے بعد بھی نہ جانیں۔ بیشک اللہ دانا اور توانا ہے[1]
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Easy-read (simplified)wa'awhaa rabbuka ilaa n-nahli ani takhidhee mina l-jibaali buyootan wamina sh-shajari wamimmaa ya'rishoon
DIN 31635waʾawḥā rabbuka ʾilā n-naḥli ʾani taḫiḏī mina l-ǧibāli buyūtan wamina š-šaǧari wamimmā yaʿrišūna
Talal Itani2012 And your Lord inspired the bee: "Set up hives in the mountains, and in the trees, and in what they construct."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And thy Lord inspired the bee, saying: Choose thou habitations in the hills and in the trees and in that which they thatch
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And thy Lord inspired the bee, 'Take to houses in the mountains, and in the trees, and in the hives they build
John Medows Rodwell1861 And thy Lord hath taught the BEE, saying: "Provide thee houses in the mountains, and in the trees, and in the hives which men do build thee
George Sale1734 Thy Lord spake by inspiration unto the bee, saying, provide thee houses in the mountains, and in the trees, and of those materials wherewith men build hives for thee
DIN 31635ṯumma kulī min kulli ṯ-ṯamarāti faslukī subula rabbiki ḏululan yaḫruǧu min buṭūnihā šarābun muḫtalifun ʾalwānuhu fīhi šifāʾun lilnnāsi ʾinna fī ḏālika laʾāyatan liqawmin yatafakkarūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Then eat of all the fruits, and go along the pathways of your Lord, with precision. From their bellies emerges a fluid of diverse colors, containing healing for the people. Surely in this is a sign for people who reflect.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then eat of all fruits, and follow the ways of thy Lord, made smooth (for thee). There cometh forth from their bellies a drink divers of hues, wherein is healing for mankind. Lo! herein is indeed a portent for people who reflect
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then eat from every fruit, and walk in the beaten paths of thy Lord;' there cometh forth from her body a draught varying in hue, in which is a cure for men; verily, in that are signs unto a people who reflect
John Medows Rodwell1861 Feed, moreover, on every kind of fruit, and walk the beaten paths of thy Lord." From its belly cometh forth a fluid of varying hues, which yieldeth medicine to man. Verily in this is a sign for those who consider
George Sale1734 Then eat of every kind of fruit, and walk in the beaten paths of thy Lord. There proceedeth from their bellies a liquor of various colour; wherein is a medicine for men. Verily herein is a sign unto people who consider
Talal Itani2012 God has favored some of you over others in livelihood. Those who are favored would not give their properties to their servants, to the extent of making them partners in it. Will they then renounce God's blessings?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Allah hath favoured some of you above others in provision. Now those who are more favoured will by no means hand over their provision to those (slaves) whom their right hands possess, so that they may be equal with them in respect thereof. Is it then the grace of Allah that they deny
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And God has preferred some of you over others in providing for you; but those who have been preferred will not restore their provision to those whom their right hands possess that they may share equally therein:- is it God's favours they gainsay
John Medows Rodwell1861 And God hath abounded to some of you more than to others in the supplies of life; yet they to whom He hath abounded, impart not thereof to the slaves whom their right hands possess, so that they may share alike. What! will they deny, then, that these boons are from God
George Sale1734 God causeth some of you to excel others in worldly possessions: Yet they who are caused to excel, do not give their wealth unto the slaves whom their right hands possess, that they may become equal sharers therein. Do they therefore deny the beneficence of God
Easy-read (simplified)wallaahu ja'ala lakum min anfusikum azwaajan waja'ala lakum min azwaajikum baneena wahafadatan warazaqakum mina t-tayyibaati afabilbaatili yu'minoona wabini'mati llaahi hum yakfuroon
DIN 31635wallāhu ǧaʿala lakum min ʾanfusikum ʾazwāǧan waǧaʿala lakum min ʾazwāǧikum banīna waḥafadatan warazaqakum mina ṭ-ṭayyibāti ʾafabilbāṭili yuʾminūna wabiniʿmati llāhi hum yakfurūna
Talal Itani2012 God has given you mates from among yourselves; and has produced for you, from your mates, children and grandchildren; and has provided you with good things. Will they then believe in falsehood, and refuse God's favors?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Allah hath given you wives of your own kind, and hath given you, from your wives, sons and grandsons, and hath made provision of good things for you. Is it then in vanity that they believe and in the grace of Allah that they disbelieve
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And God has made for you from amongst yourselves wives, and has made for you from your wives sons and grandchildren; and has provided you with good things;- is it in vanity that they believe, while for God's favour they are ungrateful
John Medows Rodwell1861 God, too, hath given you wives of your own race, and from your wives hath He given you sons and grandsons, and with good things hath he supplied you. What, will they then believe in vain idols? For God's boons they are ungrateful
George Sale1734 God hath ordained you wives from among yourselves, and of your wives hath granted you children and grandchildren; and hath bestowed on you good things for food. Will they therefore believe in that which is vain, and ungratefully deny the goodness of God
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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 · John Medows Rodwell0.83
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.81
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.78
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.73
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.73
Talal Itani · George Sale0.73
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
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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.