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Whoever desires the fleeting life, We expedite for him what We decide to give him, to whomever We desire. Then We consign him to Hell, where he will roast, condemned and defeated.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Whoso desireth that (life) which hasteneth away, We hasten for him therein what We will for whom We please. And afterward We have appointed for him hell; he will endure the heat thereof, condemned, rejected
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
Whoso is desirous of this life that hastens away, we will hasten on for him therein what we please,- for whom we please. Then we will make hell for him to broil in - despised and outcast
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Whoso chooseth this quicklypassing life, quickly will we bestow therein that which we please - even on him we choose; afterward we will appoint hell for him, in which he shall burn - disgraced, outcast
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Whosoever chooseth this transitory life, We will bestow on him therein before hand that which We please; on him, namely, whom We please: Afterwards will We appoint him hell for his abode; he shall be thrown into the same to be scorched, covered with ignominy, and utterly rejected from mercy
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
Sa i përket atij që dëshiron jetën kalimtare, Ne i japim në të, atij që duam, çfarë të dëshirojmë, pastaj e fusim në Xhehenem, ku do të dënohet i përbuzur e i përzënë (nga mëshira e Allahut).
Translated by the team of 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 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
যে ব্যক্তি (কল্যাণকর কর্মসমূহের মাধ্যমে) দুনিয়ার সুখ-সম্ভোগ চায়, যাকে যা ইচ্ছে এখানেই দ্রুত দিয়ে দেই। তারপর তার জন্য নির্ধারণ করি জাহান্নাম, সেখানে সে প্রবেশ করবে নিন্দিত, (আল্লাহর রহমত থেকে) বিতাড়িত অবস্থায়।
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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Onome koji želi ovaj – kratkotrajni svijet, Mi mu na njemu brzo dajemo – što hoćemo i kome hoćemo, ali ćemo mu poslije Džehennem pripremiti, u kome će se prezren i odbačen peći.
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 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Onome koji želi ovaj kratkotrajni svijet, Mi mu na njemu brzo dajemo što hoćemo i kome hoćemo, ali ćemo mu poslije Pakao pripremiti, u kome će se prezren i odbačen peći.
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 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Kala mo faala yaawnaneede, min n njaawnanat mo ton huunde ko min muuyi, wonan'de on mo min njɗi, refti min mbaɗana mo Jahannama, o naatoya nge ko o ñiŋaaɗo, goɗɗinaaɗo [yurmeende].
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 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
იმას, ვისაც წუთისოფელი სურდა, დავუჩქარეთ მას იქ, რასაც ვინებეთ და ვისთვისაც ვინებეთ. მერე კი დავუდგინეთ მას ჯოჯოხეთი, რათა დაიწვას იგი შერაცხული და დამცირებული.
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 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Wer immer das schnell Eintreffende will, dem gewähren Wir darin schnell, was Wir wollen - demjenigen, den Wir wollen. Hierauf bestimmen Wir für ihn die Hölle, die er betreten (und der er ausgesetzt) wird, gescholten und verstoßen.
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 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Όποιος επιθυμεί αυτή τη φευγαλέα ζωή (και τις παροδικές απολαύσεις της), επισπεύδουμε γι' αυτόν σ' αυτή (τη ζωή) ό,τι θέλουμε (να του δώσουμε) και σε όποιον θέλουμε. Έπειτα, (την Ημέρα της Κρίσεως) του έχουμε ορίσει την Κόλαση, όπου θα μπει για να καεί μέσα της, περιφρονημένος και διωγμένος (από το έλεος του Αλλάχ).
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 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
जो व्यक्ति जल्द प्राप्त होने वाली (दुनिया) चाहता है, तो हम उसे इसी (दुनिया) में जो चाहते हैं, जिसके लिए चाहते हैं जल्द ही दे देते हैं। फिर हमने उसके लिए (आख़िरत में) जहन्नम बना रखी है, जिसमें वह निंदित और धुत्कारा हुआ प्रवेश करेगा।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Chi preferisce la vita immediata, gli anticipiamo in questa ciò che Noi vogliamo, a chi vogliamo, poi lo manderemo all’Inferno, sofferente e sconfitto.
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 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
18. Kas trokšta greito praėjimo (laikino mėgavimosi šiuo pasauliu), Mes mielai suteikiame tai, ko Mes norime, tam, kam Mes norime. Tada, po to Mes paskyrėme jam Pragarą. Jis degs jame gėdingas ir atstumtas (toli nuo Allaho Gailestingumo).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Nama (addunyaa) jerjertuu kan barbaadu tahe, ishee keessatti nama feeneef waan feene jerjersina. Ergasii (Ibidda) jahannam isaaf goona. isii ni seena arrabsamaa, darbamaa ta’ee.
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 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Кто желает быстротечной, тому Мы ускоряем в ней то, что пожелаем, — для кого пожелаем. Затем Мы сделали для него Геенну [местом], где он будет гореть, будучи презренным, отверженным.
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 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Ономе који жели овај краткотрајни свет, Ми му на њему брзо дајемо - шта хоћемо и коме хоћемо, али ћемо после да му припремимо Пакао, у коме ће да гори презрен и одбачен.
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
Anayetaka yapitayo upesi upesi, tutafanya haraka kumletea humo (duniani) tunayoyataka kwa tumtakaye. Kisha tumemwekea Jahannamu, ataingia humo hali ya kuwa ni mwenye kulaumiwa na kufurushwa.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Den som [uteslutande] jagar det flyktiga livet, ska vi skyndsamt ge det vi bestämt åt honom – [ja, vi ger] den vi vill, vad vi vill. Men sedan låter vi honom brinna i helvetet, föraktad och bortstött.
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 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Kim, çarçabuk olanı/dünyayı isterse, orada dilediğimiz kimseye acele isteğini veririz. Sonra onu Cehennem'e koyarız. O burayı kınanmış ve kovulmuş olarak boylar.
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
اردو · Urdu
جس کا اراده صرف اس جلدی والی دنیا (فوری فائده) کا ہی ہو اسے ہم یہاں جس قدر جس کے لئے چاہیں سردست دیتے ہیں بالﺂخر اس کے لئے ہم جہنم مقرر کردیتے ہیں جہاں وه برے حالوں دھتکارا ہوا داخل ہوگا.[1]
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 When We decide to destroy a town, We command its affluent ones, they transgress in it, so the word becomes justified against it, and We destroy it completely.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when We would destroy a township We send commandment to its folk who live at ease, and afterward they commit abomination therein, and so the Word (of doom) hath effect for it, and we annihilate it with complete annihilation
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when we desired to destroy a city we bade the opulent ones thereof; and they wrought abomination therein; and its due sentence was pronounced; and we destroyed it with utter destruction
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when we willed to destroy a city, to its affluent ones did we address our bidding; but when they acted criminally therein, just was its doom, and we destroyed it with an utter destruction
George Sale1734 And when We resolved to destroy a city, We commanded the inhabitants thereof, who lived in affluence, to obey our apostle; but they acted corruptly herein: Wherefore the sentence was justly pronounced against that city; and We destroyed it with an utter destruction
Easy-read (simplified)wakam ahlaknaa mina l-qurooni min ba'di noohin wakafaa birabbika bidhunoobi 'ibaadihi khabeeran baseeraa
DIN 31635wakam ʾahlaknā mina l-qurūni min baʿdi nūḥin wakafā birabbika biḏunūbi ʿibādihi ḫabīran baṣīran
Talal Itani2012 How many generations have We destroyed after Noah? Your Lord is sufficient as Knower and Beholder of the sins of his servants.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 How many generations have We destroyed since Noah! And Allah sufficeth as Knower and Beholder of the sins of His slaves
Edward Henry Palmer1880 How many generations have we destroyed after Noah! but thy Lord of the sins of his servant is well aware, and sees enough
John Medows Rodwell1861 And since Noah, how many nations have we exterminated! And of the sins of his servants thy Lord is sufficiently informed, observant
George Sale1734 And how many generations have We consumed since Noah? For thy Lord suffinciently knoweth and seeth the sins of his servants
Talal Itani2012 But whoever desires the Hereafter, and pursues it as it should be pursued, while he is a believer; these-their effort will be appreciated.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And whoso desireth the Hereafter and striveth for it with the effort necessary, being a believer; for such, their effort findeth favour (with their Lord)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But whoso desires the next life, and strives for it and is a believer - these, their striving shall be gratefully received
John Medows Rodwell1861 But whoso chooseth the next life, and striveth after it as it should be striven for, being also a believer, - these! their striving shall be grateful to God
George Sale1734 But whosoever chooseth the life to come, and directeth his endeavour towards the same, being also a true believer; the endeavour of these shall be acceptable unto God
DIN 31635kullan numiddu hāʾulāʾi wahāʾulāʾi min ʿaṭāʾi rabbika wamā kāna ʿaṭāʾu rabbika maḥẓūran
Talal Itani2012 To all-these and those-We extend from the gifts of your Lord. The gifts of your Lord are not restricted.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Each do We supply, both these and those, from the bounty of thy Lord. And the bounty of thy Lord can never be walled up
Edward Henry Palmer1880 To all - these and those - will we extend the gifts of thy Lord; for the gifts of thy Lord are not restricted
John Medows Rodwell1861 To all - both to these and those - will we prolong the gifts of thy Lord; for not to any shall the gifts of thy Lord be denied
George Sale1734 On all will We bestow the blessings of this life, both on these and on those, of the gift of thy Lord; for the gift of thy Lord shall not be denied unto any
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 —
0.73 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
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.84
Talal Itani · George Sale0.82
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.77
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.75
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.74
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.72
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.69
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.63
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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.