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Glory to Him who journeyed His servant by night, from the Sacred Mosque, to the Farthest Mosque, whose precincts We have blessed, in order to show him of Our wonders. He is the Listener, the Beholder.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Glorified be He Who carried His servant by night from the InviolablePlace of Worship to the Far distantplace of worship the neighbourhood whereof We have blessed, that We might show him of Our tokens! Lo! He, only He, is the Hearer, the Seer
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
Celebrated be the praises of Him who took His servant a journey by night from the Sacred Mosque, to the Remote Mosque, the precinct of which we have blessed, to show him of our signs! verily, He both hears and looks
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
GLORY be to Him who carried his servant by night from the sacred temple of Mecca to the temple that is more remote, whose precinct we have blessed, that we might shew him of our signs! for He is the Hearer, the Seer
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Praise be unto Him, who transported his servant by night, from the sacred temple of Mecca to the farther temple of Jerusalem, the circuit of which We have blessed, that We might shew him some of our signs; for God is He who heareth, and seeth
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
I patëmeta është Ai që e barti robin e Vet (Muhamedin) natën nga Xhamia e Shenjtë (Qabeja) në Xhaminë Aksa, rrethinën e së cilës e kemi bekuar, për t'i treguar disa nga shenjat Tona. Me të vërtetë, Ai është Gjithëdëgjuesi, Gjithëvëzhguesi.
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বাংলা · Bengali
পবিত্র মহান সে সত্তা, যিনি তাঁর বান্দা (মুহাম্মাদ) কে রাতের বেলায় ভ্রমণ করালেন মাসজিদুল হারাম থেকে মাসজিদুল আকসা (বায়তুল মাক্বদাস) পর্যন্ত, যার আশপাশে আমি বরকত দিয়েছি। যেন আমি তাকে আমার কিছু নিদর্শন(১) দেখাতে পারি। নিশ্চয়ই তিনি সর্বশ্রোতা, সর্বদ্রষ্টা।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Uzvišen neka je Onaj Koji je u jednom času noći preveo Svog roba iz Hrama časnog u Hram daleki, čiju smo okolinu blagoslovili kako bismo mu neka znamenja Naša pokazali. On, uistinu, sve čuje i sve vidi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Uzvišen neka je Onaj Koji je u jednom času noći preveo Svog roba iz Hrama časnog u Hram daleki, čiju smo okolinu blagoslovili kako bismo mu neka znamenja Naša pokazali. On, uistinu, sve čuje i sve vidi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Senaare wondani oon doƴnuɗo Jeyaaɗo makko on jehma, iwde ta juulirde hormante haa ka juulirde woɗɗitiinde, nden nde min mbarkini banŋe mun,fii yo min kollu mo immorde e aayeeje amen. Pellet, Ko Kaŋko woni Nanoowo, ji’oowo.
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ქართული · Georgian
დიდებულია ის, ვინც ღამით გადაიყვანა თავისი მონა [შუამავალი მუჰამმადი (სულით დ სხეულით) მასჯიდ ალ-ჰარამიდან (რომელიც მდებარეობს მექქაში) მასჯიდ ალ-აყსაში რომელიც მდებარეობს იერუსალიმში), რომლის გარშემოც დავლოცეთ, რათა გვეჩვენებინა მისთვის ზოგი ჩვენი სასწაული, ჭეშმარიტად, იგი ყოვლისმსმენი, ყოვლისმხედველია.
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Deutsch · German
Gepriesen sei Der, Der Seinen Diener bei Nacht von der geschützten (Haram-)Gebetsstätte zur fernsten (Aqsa-)Gebetsstätte, deren Umgebung Wir gesegnet haben, reisen ließ, damit Wir ihm (etwas) von Unseren Zeichen zeigen. Wahrlich, Er ist ja der Allhörende, der Allsehende.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Δόξα σ’ Αυτόν (τον Αλλάχ), ο Οποίος πήρε το δούλο Του (τον Μωχάμμαντ) κατά τη νύχτα, από τον Ιερό Οίκο (στη Μάκκα) στο τζαμί Αλ-Άκσα (στην Ιερουσαλήμ), του οποίου ευλογήσαμε ό,τι είναι γύρω του, για να του δείξουμε από τα Σημάδιά Μας. Πράγματι, Αυτός είναι ο Ασ-Σαμί‘ (Αυτός που ακούει τα πάντα), ο Αλ-Μπασείρ (Αυτός που βλέπει τα πάντα).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
पवित्र है वह (अल्लाह) जो अपने बंदे[1] को रातों-रात मस्जिदे-हराम (काबा) से मस्जिदे-अक़सा तक ले गया, जिसके चारों ओर हमने बरकत रखी है। ताकि हम उसे अपनी कुछ निशानियाँ दिखाएँ। निःसंदेह वह सब कुछ सुनने वाला, सब कुछ देखने वाला है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Gloria a Colui che trasportò di notte il Suo Servo dalla Sacra Moschea alla Moschea Lontana (Al-Aqsa ٱلۡمَسۡجِدِ ٱلۡأَقۡصَا), di cui abbiamo benedetto i dintorni, per fargli vedere alcuni Nostri segni. In verità Lui è l’Ascoltatore, l’Osservatore.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
1. Pagerbtas (ir Išaukštintas) yra Jis (Allahas) [virš viso to (blogio), kurį jie Jam priskiria], Kuris paėmė Savo vergą (Muchammedą ﷺ) į nakties kelionę iš Al-Masdžid Al-Haram (Mekkoje) į Al-Masdžid Al-Aksa (Jeruzalėje), kurių apylinkes Mes palaiminome tam, kad Mes parodytume jam (Muchammedui ﷺ ) Mūsų Ajat (įrodymus, įkalčius, pamokas, ženklus ir t.t.). Iš tiesų, Jis yra Visa Girdintis, Visa Matantis.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Qulqullaaye Inni gabricha Isaa (muhammadiin) halkan masjida kabajamaa (Makkaa) irraa gara masjida fagoo, kan naannawa isaa barakaa gooneetti deemsise (qulqullaa’e), mallattoowwan keenyarraa argisiifnuuf, Inni (Rabbiin) Isumatu dhaga’aa, argaadha. [1]
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Русский · Russian
Пречист Тот, Кто перенёс ночью Своего раба из Заповедной мечети в мечеть Отдаленнейшую, окрестности которой Мы благословили, дабы показать ему часть из Наших знамений. Воистину, Он — Слышащий, Видящий.
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Српски · Serbian
Узвишен нека је Онај Који је у једном часу ноћи превео Свог слугу Мухаммеда од Часне џамије до Далеке џамије, чију смо околину благословили како бисмо му нека знамења Наша показали. Он, уистину, све чује и све види.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Ametakasika yule aliyemsafirisha mja wake usiku mmoja kutoka katika Msikiti Mtakatifu mpaka Msikiti wa Al-Aqswa, ambao tumebariki kandoni mwake, ili tumuonyeshe katika Ishara zetu. Hakika Yeye ndiye Mwenye kusikia zaidi, Mwenye kuona mno.
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Svenska · Swedish
Upphöjd är han som tog sin tjänare på en nattlig färd – från den heliga moskén till den avlägsna moskén, vars omgivning vi har välsignat – för att visa honom några av våra tecken. Han är den som hör allt, ser allt.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Bir gece kulunu, Mescid-i Haram’dan, çevresini mübarek kıldığımız Mescid-i Aksa’ya ayetlerimizi ona göstermek için götüren (Allah her türlü noksanlıktan) münezzehtir. Şüphesiz O, her şeyi işitendir, görendir.
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اردو · Urdu
پاک ہے[1] وه اللہ تعالیٰ جو اپنے بندے[2] کو رات ہی رات میں مسجد حرام سے مسجد اقصیٰ[3] تک لے گیا جس کے آس پاس ہم نے برکت دے[4] رکھی ہے، اس لئے کہ ہم اسے اپنی قدرت کے بعض نمونے دکھائیں[5]، یقیناً اللہ تعالیٰ ہی خوب سننے دیکھنے واﻻ ہے.
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DIN 31635waʾātaynā mūsā l-kitāba waǧaʿalnāhu hudan libanī ʾisrāʾīla ʾallā tattaḫiḏū min dūnī wakīlan
Talal Itani2012 And We gave Moses the Scripture, and made it a guide for the Children of Israel: Take none for protector other than Me.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 We gave unto Moses the Scripture, and We appointed it a guidance for the children of Israel, saying: Choose no guardian beside Me
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And we gave Moses the Book and made it a guidance to the children of Israel: 'Take ye to no guardian but me
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we gave the Book to Moses and ordained it for guidance to the children of Israel - "that ye take no other Guardian than me
George Sale1734 And We gave unto Moses the book of the law, and appointed the same to be a direction unto the children of Israel, commanding them, saying, beware that ye take not any other patron besides Me
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A night journey is described: a servant is taken from one named place of prayer to another, and the passage closes by naming God as the one who hears and sees.
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Talal Itani · George Sale0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.63
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.51
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.44
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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.