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Talal Itani· published 2012
The descendants of those We carried with Noah. He was an appreciative servant.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
(They were) the seed of those whom We carried (in the ship) along with Noah. Lo! he was a grateful slave
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
Seed of those we bore with Noah (in the ark)! verily, he was a thankful servant
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O posterity of those whom We carried in the ark with Noah: Verily he was a grateful servant
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
o pasardhës të atyre që i bartëm me Nuhun! Ai ishte njëmend rob falënderues."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
তোমরা তো সেই তাদেরই বংশধর, যাদেরকে আমি নূহের সাথে (নৌকাতে) আরোহণ করিয়েছিলাম। নিশ্চয় সে (নূহ) ছিল কৃতজ্ঞ বান্দা।
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
o, potomci onih koje smo sa Nuhom nosili!” On je, doista, bio rob zahvalni.
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
o potomci onih koje smo sa Noom nosili!” On je, doista, bio rob zahvalni.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
[Ko onon yo] ɓiɗɓe ɓe ɓe min mbaɗɗinnoo wonnudude e Nuuhu.Pellet, o laatino jeyaaɗo yettoowo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ჰეი, შთამომავალნო მათი, რომელიც გადავიყვანეთ [გადავარჩინეთ](კიდობანში) ნუჰთან ერთად. ჭეშმარიტად, ის მადლიერი მსახური იყო.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
(o ihr,) die Nachkommenschaft derer, die Wir mit Nuh trugen.“ Wahrlich, er war ein dankbarer Diener.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Εσείς είστε από τους απογόνους εκείνων που μεταφέραμε (και σώσαμε στην Κιβωτό) με τον Νώε (θυμηθείτε αυτή τη χάρη και να είστε ευγνώμονες όπως ο Νώε), πράγματι, (ο Νώε) ήταν ένας ευγνώμων δούλος (Μας).»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
ऐ उनकी संतति जिन्हें हमने नूह़ के साथ (नौका) में सवार किया था! निःसंदेह वह बहुत आभार[3] प्रकट करने वाला बंदा था।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Discendenti di quelli che imbarcammo con Nūħ– in verità lui era un Servo molto riconoscente.
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
3. „Palikuonys tų, kuriuos Mes gabenome (laive) su Nūhu (Nojumi)! Iš tiesų, jis buvo dėkingas vergas.“
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.
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
о потомки тех, кого Мы перенесли вместе с Нухом! Воистину, он был благодарным рабом».
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
о потомци оних које смо са Нојем у лађи превезли!“ Он је, заиста, био слуга захвални.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Kizazi cha wale tuliowabeba pamoja na Nuhu. Hakika yeye alikuwa mja wa kushukuru sana.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Ni är ättlingar till de som vi räddade tillsammans med Noa. Han var i sanning en tacksam tjänare.”
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
Ey Nûh’la birlikte taşıdığımız kimselerin soyu/torunları! Doğrusu Nûh, çok şükreden bir kuldu.
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
اے ان لوگوں کی اوﻻد! جنہیں ہم نے نوح کے ساتھ سوار کردیا تھا، وه ہمارا بڑا ہی شکرگزار بنده تھا.[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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Easy-read (simplified)subhaana lladhee asraa bi'abdihi laylan mina l-masjidi l-haraami ilaa l-masjidi l-'aqsaa lladhee baaraknaa hawlahu linuriyahu min aayaatinaa innahu huwa s-samee'u l-baseer
DIN 31635subḥāna llaḏī ʾasrā biʿabdihi laylan mina l-masǧidi l-ḥarāmi ʾilā l-masǧidi l-ʾaqṣā llaḏī bāraknā ḥawlahu linuriyahu min ʾāyātinā ʾinnahu huwa s-samīʿu l-baṣīru
Talal Itani2012 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.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Glorified be He Who carried His servant by night from the Inviolable Place of Worship to the Far distant place 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 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
George Sale1734 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
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
Talal Itani2012 And We conveyed to the Children of Israel in the Scripture: You will commit evil on earth twice, and you will rise to a great height.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And We decreed for the Children of Israel in the Scripture: Ye verily will work corruption in the earth twice, and ye will become great tyrants
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And we decreed to the children of Israel in the Book, 'Ye shall verily do evil in the earth twice, and ye shall rise to a great height (of pride)
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we solemnly declared to the children of Israel in the Book, "Twice surely will ye enact crimes in the earth, and with great loftiness of pride will ye surely be uplifted
George Sale1734 And We expressly declared unto the children of Israel in the book of the law, saying, ye will surely commit evil in the earth twice, and ye will be elated with great insolence
Talal Itani2012 When the first of the two promises came true, We sent against you servants of Ours, possessing great might, and they ransacked your homes. It was a promise fulfilled.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 So when the time for the first of the two came, We roused against you slaves of Ours of great might who ravaged (your) country, and it was a threat performed
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when the threat for the first (sin) of the two came, we sent over them servants of ours, endued with violence, and they searched inside your houses; and it was an accomplished threat
John Medows Rodwell1861 So when the menace for the first crime came to be inflicted, we sent against you our servants endued with terrible prowess; and they searched the inmost part of your abodes, and the menace was accomplished
George Sale1734 And when the punishment threatened for the first of those transgressions came to be executed, We sent against you our servants, indued with exceeding strength in war, and they searched the inner apartments of your houses; and the prediction became accomplished
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 —
0.53 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 · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.55
Talal Itani · George Sale0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.38
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.35
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
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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.