Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.
Talal Itani· published 2012
Or some substance, which, in your minds, is even harder." Then they will say, "Who will restore us?" Say, "The One who originated you the first time." Then they will nod their heads at you, and say, "When will it be?" Say, "Perhaps it will be soon."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Or some created thing that is yet greater in your thoughts! Then they will say: Who shall bring us back (to life). Say: He Who created you at the first. Then will they shake their heads at thee, and say: When will it be? Say: It will perhaps be soon
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
or a creature, the greatest your breasts can conceive -!' Then they shall say, 'Who is to restore us?' Say, 'He who originated you at first;' and they will wag their heads and say, 'When will that be?' Say, 'It may, perhaps, be nigh
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
or any other creature, to your seeming, yet harder to be raised." But they will say, "Who shall bring us back?" SAY: "He who created you at first." And they will wag their heads at thee, and say, "When shall this be?" SAY: "Haply it is nigh
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
or some creature more improbable in your opinions to be raised to life. But they will say, who shall restore us to life? Answer, He who created you the first time: And they will wag their heads at thee, saying, when shall this be? Answer, peradventure it is nigh
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
ose çfarëdo krijesë që ju duket e madhe!" Atëherë do të thonë: "Kush do të na kthejë (në jetë)?" Thuaj: "Ai që ju krijoi herën e parë." Ata do të tundin kokën e do të thonë: "E kur do të ndodhë kjo?" Thuaj: "Ndoshta së shpejti."
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
‘অথবা এমন কোনো সৃষ্টি, যা তোমাদের অন্তরে খুবই বড় মনে হয়।’(২০) তবুও তারা বলবে: ‘কে আমাদের পুনরায় (সৃষ্টি) করবে?’ (হে রাসূল! তুমি তাদেরকে) বলো: ‘যিনি তোমাদেরকে প্রথমবার সৃষ্টি করেছেন (তিনিই তোমাদেরকে জীবিত করবেন)।’ অতঃপর তারা তোমার সামনে (ঠাট্টাবশত) মাথা নাড়বে এবং বলবে: ‘এটা (এ পুনরুত্থান) কবে?’ বলো: ‘আশা করা যায়, তা অতি সন্নিকটে।’
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.
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Bosanski · Bosnian
ili bilo kakvo stvorenje za koje mislite da ne može biti oživljeno.” “A ko će nas u život vratiti?”, upitat će oni, a ti reci: “Onaj Koji vas je i prvi put stvorio”, a oni će prema tebi odmahnuti glavama svojim i upitati: “Kad to?” Ti reci: “Možda ubrzo!
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.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
ili bilo kakvo stvorenje za koje mislite da ne može biti oživljeno.” “A tko će nas u život vratiti?” upitat će oni, a ti reci: “Onaj Koji vas je i prvi put stvorio”, a oni će prema tebi odmahnuti glavama svojim i upitati: “Kad to?” Ti reci: “Možda ubrzo!
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ma ɗuum tagoore tawa nde mawni e ɓerɗe mon, ɓe mbi'a: 'Ko hommbo ruttata amen?" Maaku: "Ko On takɗo on ka laawol adanol". Ɓe tura ko'e maɓɓe ɗe fa'ade e maa, ɓe mbi'a: "Ɗuum ko honde tuma"?, Maaku: 'No tijjaa nde tawata ɓadike".
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ქართული · Georgian
ანდა, [ისეთ] ქმნილებად, რომელიც დიდია თქვენს მკერდში» [რომლის აღდგომა წარმოსადგენად რთულია]. და იკითხავენ: «[ნუთუ კვლავ გავცოცხლდებით მას შემდეგ, რაც გავქრებით?] ვინღა დაგვაბრუნებს უკანო?» უთხარი [მათ]: «იგი, ვინც გაგაჩინათ თავდაპირველად». თავს დახრიან შენს წინაშე და გკითხავენ: «როდისაა ის?» უთხარი: «ის [აღსდგომა] შეიძლება ახლოსაა».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
oder etwas Erschaffenes von der Art, die in eurer Vorstellung noch gewaltiger wäre.“ Dann werden sie sagen: „Wer wird uns (ins Leben) zurückbringen?“ Sag: „Derjenige, Der euch das erste Mal erschaffen hat.“ Dann werden sie vor dir die Köpfe schütteln und sagen: „Wann wird das (denn) sein?“ Sag: „Vielleicht wird es bald sein.
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
ή οποιοδήποτε άλλο δημιούργημα που πιστεύετε στα στήθη σας ότι είναι πιο μεγάλο (και πιο αδύνατο να επιστραφεί στη ζωή, όπως ο ουρανός, η γη ή τα βουνά, ή ακόμα και αν γίνετε ο ίδιος ο θάνατος, πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ θα σας επαναφέρει στη ζωή)!» Θα πουν: «Ποιος θα μας επαναφέρει (ξανά στη ζωή);» Πες: «Ο Ίδιος που σας δημιούργησε την πρώτη φορά (από ανυπαρξία).» Θα κουνήσουν για σένα τα κεφάλια τους πάνω κάτω χλευάζοντας και θα πουν: «Πότε θα γίνει αυτό;» Πες: «Ίσως θα είναι σύντομα.»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
या कोई और रचना (बन जाओ), जो तुम्हारे दिलों में इससे बड़ी मालूम होती हो। फिर वे पूछेंगे : कौन हमें दोबारा पैदा करेगा? आप कह दें : वही जिसने तुम्हें पहली बार पैदा किया। फिर वे आपके आगे अपना सिर हिलाएँगे[29] और कहेंगे : ऐसा कब होगा? आप कह दें : हो सकता है कि वह निकट हो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
o qualsiasi cosa che riusciate a concepire!» Diranno: «Chi ci plasmerà di nuovo?» Di’: «Colui che vi ha creato la prima volta!» Perciò ti scuoteranno la testa e diranno: «Quando ci sarà questo?» Di’: «Potrebbe essere vicino,
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
51. „Arba kokiu nors sukurtu dalyku, kuris yra dar didesnis (arba tvirtesnis) jūsų krūtinėse (kaip mintys apie prikėlimą, ir netgi tada jūs būsite prikelti).“ Tada jie sakys: „Kas grąžins mus (į gyvenimą)?“ Sakyk: „Tas, Kuris jus sukūrė pirmą kartą!“ Tada, jie papurtys savo galvas tau ir tars: „Kada tai bus?“ Sakyk: „Galbūt greitai!“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Yookiin uumama qomoowwan keessan keessatti (kaafamuun) guddatus ta’aa. (kaafamuun keessan hin hafu)". Ergasiis “Eenyutu (du'a booda jirutti) nu deebisa” jedhu“. Isa yeroo jalqabaa isin uumeedha” jedhi. Mataa isaanii sitti raasuuf jiru, Ni jedhus: “Inni sun (kaafamiinsi) yoomi ree?” “Dhihoo ta’uun mirkanaa’aadha” jedhiin.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
или любым [другим] творением из тех, что кажутся великими в ваших сердцах». Они скажут: «Кто же нас вернет [к жизни]?» Скажи: «Тот, Кто сотворил вас в первый раз». Тогда они станут покачивать перед тобой своими головами и спрашивать: «Когда же это [произойдет]?» Скажи: «Возможно это случится скоро!»
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
или било какво створење за које мислите да не може да буде оживљено!“ „А ко ће у живот да нас врати?“ Упитаће они. Ти реци: „Онај Који вас је и први пут створио“, а они ће према теби да одмахну главама својим и да упитају: „Када то?“ Ти реци: „Можда убрзо!“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Au umbo lolote mnaloliona kubwa katika vifua vyenu. Watasema: Ni nani atakayeturudisha tena? Sema: Yule yule aliyewaumba mara ya kwanza! Watakutikisia vichwa vyao, na watasema: Ni lini hayo? Sema: Labda huenda itakuwa hivi karibuni!
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
eller vilken annan som helst skapelse ni har svårt att föreställa er!” Då kommer de att fråga: ”Vem är det då som ska återuppliva oss?” Svara: ”Den som bringade er till existens från början.” Då kommer de att skaka på sina huvuden åt dig och fråga: ”När ska detta ske?” Säg: ”Kanske är det snart.”
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
İsterse kalplerinizde büyüksediğiniz bir yaratık olun! Diyecekler ki: "Bizi tekrar kim diriltecek?" De ki: "Sizi ilk defa yaratan!" Bunun üzerine sana başlarını sallayarak: "O, ne zaman olacak?" diyecekler. De ki: "Yakın olsa gerek!"
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اردو · Urdu
یا کوئی اور ایسی خلقت جو تمہارے دلوں میں بہت ہی سخت معلوم ہو[1] ، پھر وه پوچھیں کہ کون ہے جو دوباره ہماری زندگی لوٹائے؟ آپ جواب دے دیں کہ وہی اللہ جس نے تمہیں اول بار پیدا کیا، اس پر وه اپنے سر ہلا ہلا[2] کر آپ سے دریافت کریں گے کہ اچھا یہ ہے کب؟ تو آپ جواب دے دیں کہ کیا عجب کہ وه (ساعت) قریب ہی آن لگی ہو.[3]
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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5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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Easy-read (simplified)yawma yad'ookum fatastajeeboona bihamdihi watazunnoona in labithtum illaa qaleelaa
DIN 31635yawma yadʿūkum fatastaǧībūna biḥamdihi wataẓunnūna ʾin labiṯtum ʾillā qalīlan
Talal Itani2012 On the Day when He calls you, you will respond with His praise, and you will realize that you stayed only a little.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 A day when He will call you and ye will answer with His praise, and ye will think that ye have tarried but a little while
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The day when He shall call on you and ye shall answer with praise to Him, and they will think that they have tarried but a little
John Medows Rodwell1861 On that day shall God call you forth, and ye shall answer by praising Him; and ye shall seem to have tarried but a little while
George Sale1734 On that day shall God call you forth from your sepulchres, and ye shall obey, with celebration of his praise; and ye shall think that ye tarried but a little while
Talal Itani2012 Tell My servants to say what is best. Satan sows discord among them. Satan is to man an open enemy.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Tell My bondmen to speak that which is kindlier. Lo! the devil soweth discord among them. Lo! the devil is for man an open foe
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And say to my servants that they speak in a kind way; verily, Satan makes ill-will between them; verily, Satan was ever unto man an open foe
John Medows Rodwell1861 Enjoin my servants to speak in kindly sort: Verily Satan would stir up strifes among them, for Satan is man's avowed foe
George Sale1734 Speak unto my servants, that they speak mildly unto the unbelievers, lest ye exasperate them, for Satan soweth discord among them, and Satan is a declared enemy unto man
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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
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.60
Talal Itani · George Sale0.57
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.51
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.49
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.48
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.42
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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.