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 you possess a house of gold. Or you ascend into the sky. Even then, we will not believe in your ascension, unless you bring down for us a book that we can read." Say, "Glory be to my Lord. Am I anything but a human messenger?"
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Or thou have a house of gold; or thou ascend up into heaven, and even then we will put no faith in thine ascension till thou bring down for us a book that we can read. Say (OMuhammad): My Lord be Glorified! Am I aught save a mortal messenger
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 there be made for thee a house of gold; or thou climb up into the heaven; and even then we will not believe in thy climbing there, until thou send down on us a book that we may read!' Say, 'Celebrated be the praises of my Lord! was I aught but a mortal apostle
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Or thou have a house of gold; or thou mount up into Heaven; nor will we believe in thy mounting up, till thou send down to us a book which we may read." SAY: Praise be to my Lord! Am I more than a man, an apostle
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
or thou have a house of gold; or thou ascend by a ladder to heaven: Neither will we believe thy ascending thitheralone, until thou cause a book to descend unto us, bearingwitness of thee, which we may read. Answer, my Lord be praised! Am I other than a man, sent as an apostle
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 të kesh një shtëpi prej ari, ose të ngjitesh në qiell, por ne nuk do të të besojmë edhe nëse ngjitesh derisa të na sjellësh një libër që ta lexojmë!" Thuaj: "I patëmeta është Zoti im! A mos jam unë tjetër, përveçse njeri i dërguar?!"
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 তোমার জন্য স্বর্ণ-নির্মিত একটি ঘর হবে অথবা তুমি আকাশে আরোহণ করবে; কিন্তু তোমার ঊর্ধ্বে উঠাতেও আমরা ঈমান আনবো না; যতক্ষণ না তুমি আমাদের প্রতি এক কিতাব নাযিল করবে, যেটি আমরা পড়বো।’ (হে রাসূল! তুমি তাদেরকে) বলো: ‘পবিত্র মহান আমার রব! আমি তো (অন্যান্য রাসূলগণের ন্যায়) একজন মানব-রাসূল ছাড়া কিছু নই।’(৪০)
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
ili dok ne budeš imao kuću od zlata ili dok se na nebo ne uspneš; a nećemo vjerovati ni da si se uspeo sve dok nam ne doneseš Knjigu da je čitamo.” Reci: “Uzvišen neka je Gospodar moj! – zar ja nisam samo čovjek, poslanik?”
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
ili dok ne budeš imao kuću od zlata ili dok se na nebo ne uspneš; a nećemo vjerovati ni da si se uspeo sve dok nam ne doneseš Knjigu da je čitamo.” Reci: “Uzvišen neka je Gospodar moj! Zar ja nisam samo čovjek, poslanik?”
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
Ma ɗum laatano maa suudu immorde e cuɗaaje [kanŋe], maaɗum ƴawaa ka kammu, men ngooŋɗintaa ƴawugol maaɗa ngol haa njippinaa e amen deftere men jannga nde. Maaku: "Senaade Jom an, hara mi wonu, ko wonaa ɓanndinke Nulaaɗo?!".
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
ან არ გექნება სახლი ოქროს ჩუქურთმებით, ანდა არ ახვალ ზემოთ ცაში, და შენს ამაღლებასაც [ცად] არ ვირწმუნებთ, ვიდრე არ გარდმოგვივლენ წიგნს [ალლაჰისგან], რომელსაც წავიკითხავთ». უთხარი [ო, შუამავალო]: «დიდება ჩემს უფალს! ნუთუ მე მხოლოდ ადამიანი არ ვარ და ამავდროულად მოციქული?» [როგორ შემიძლია გავაკეთო ის, რასაც ითხოვთ ჩემგან?]
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
oder (bis) du ein Haus aus Schmuck hast oder in den Himmel aufsteigst. Und wir werden nicht an deinen Aufstieg glauben, bis du auf uns ein Buch hinabsendest, das wir (selbst) lesen (können).“ Sag: „Gepriesen sei mein Herr! Bin ich (denn) etwas anderes als ein Mensch und ein Gesandter?“
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 να έχεις ένα σπίτι από χρυσό, ή να ανέβεις στον ουρανό, και δε θα πιστέψουμε (ότι είσαι Αγγελιαφόρος) λόγω της ανόδου σου, μέχρι να κατεβάσεις σε μας ένα βιβλίο (από τον Αλλάχ) που να το διαβάσουμε (και να επιβεβαιώσει την αποστολή σου).» Πες (τους): «Δόξα στον Κύριό μου (είναι Ανώτερος από το να είναι οι εντολές Του σύμφωνα με τους πόθους σας. Κανείς δεν μπορεί να επεμβαίνει στο Βασίλειό Του, και Αυτός κάνει ό,τι θέλει)! Είμαι τίποτα άλλο εκτός από έναν Απεσταλμένο άνθρωπο (όπως όλοι οι άλλοι Αγγελιαφόροι που ήταν άνθρωποι);»
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
या आपके पास सोने का एक घर हो, या आप आकाश में चढ़ जाएँ। और हम आपके चढ़ने का हरगिज़ विश्वास नहीं करेंगे, यहाँ तक कि आप हमारे पास एक पुस्तक उतार लाएँ, जिसे हम पढ़ें। आप कह दें : मेरा पालनहार पवित्र है! मैं तो बस एक इनसान[55] हूँ, जो रसूल बनाकर भेजा गया है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
o tu abbia una casa d’oro, o tu salga in cielo! E noi non crederemo alla tua ascesa finché tu non farai discendere un Libro da leggere!» Di’: «Gloria sia al mio Dio! Sono forse altro che un essere umano, un Messaggero?”
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
93. Arba turėsi Zukhruf (sidabro ir gryno aukso) namą arba pakilsi į dangų ir netgi tada mes visiškai netikėsime tavo pakilimu, kol neatneši mums Knygos, kad mes skaitytume.“ Sakyk (Muchammedai ﷺ): „Lai būna Pašlovintas (ir Išaukštintas) mano Viešpats! Argi aš nesu tik žmogus, siųstas Pasiuntiniu?“
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 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Yookiin (hanga) manni faaya warqee irraa ta’e siif ta’utti yookiin (hanga) samii keessa ol korttutti; ol ba’iinsa keettis hanga kitaaba dubbifnu nurratti buuftutti hin amannu”. (jedhu)“Gooftaan kiyya qulqullaayee jira. Sila ani nama ergamaa (Rabbii) ta’ee ergame malee waan biraa nintahee?” jedhi.
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
Или [пока] у тебя не будет дома из золота, или же ты не вознесёшься на небо. И мы не поверим твоему вознесению, пока ты не низведёшь нам писание, которое мы будем читать!» Скажи: «Пречист мой Господь! Разве я был кем-либо иным, кроме человека-посланника?»
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 док не будеш имао кућу од злата, или док се на небо не успењеш; а нећемо да верујемо ни да си се успео све док нам не донесеш Књигу да је читамо.“ Реци: „Узвишен нека је мој Господар! Зар ја нисам само човек, посланик?!“
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
Au uwe na nyumba iliyopambwa, au upae mbinguni. Wala hatutaamini kupaa kwako huko mpaka ututeremshie kitabu tukisome.ˮ Sema, “Subhana Rabbi (Ametakasika Mola wangu Mlezi)! Kwani mimi ni nani isipokuwa ni mtu tu Mtume?"
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
eller tills du har ett eget hus prytt av guld, eller tills du stiger upp till himlen. Och vi kommer ändå inte att tro på din uppstigning, förrän du sänder ner en bok till oss som vi kan läsa!” Säg: ”Upphöjd är min Herre! Är jag något annat än en människa och ett sändebud?”
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
Yahut da altından bir evin olsun veya göğe yükselesin. Oradan bize okuyacağımız bir kitap indirmediğin sürece, senin (göğe) yükselmene de inanmayacağız. De ki: Rabbimi tenzih ederim. Ben, peygamber olarak gönderilmiş bir beşerden başkası değilim.
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
یا آپ کے اپنے لئے کوئی سونے[1] کا گھر ہوجائے یا آپ آسمان پر چڑھ جائیں اور ہم تو آپ کے چڑھ جانے کا بھی اس وقت تک ہرگز یقین نہیں کریں گے جب تک کہ آپ ہم پر کوئی کتاب نہ اتار ﻻئیں جسے ہم خود پڑھ لیں[2]، آپ جواب دے دیں کہ میرا پروردگار پاک ہے میں تو صرف ایک انسان ہی ہوں جو رسول بنایا گیا ہوں.[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
About these translations
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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About easy-read
Easy-read
Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation,
not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil
Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the
same edition and their orthography differs.
Talal Itani2012 Or make the sky fall on us in pieces, as you claim, or bring God and the angels before us.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Or thou cause the heaven to fall upon us piecemeal, as thou hast pretended, or bring Allah and the angels as a warrant
Edward Henry Palmer1880 or thou make the sky to fall down upon us in pieces; or thou bring us God and the angels before us
John Medows Rodwell1861 Or thou make the heaven to fall on us, as thou hast given out, in pieces; or thou bring God and the angels to vouch for thee
George Sale1734 or thou cause the heaven to fall down upon us, as thou hast given out, in pieces; or thou bring down God and the angels to vouch for thee
Talal Itani2012 Nothing prevented the people from believing, when guidance has come to them, except that they said, "Did God send a human messenger?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And naught prevented mankind from believing when the guidance came unto them save that they said: Hath Allah sent a mortal as (His) messenger
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Naught prohibited men from believing when the guidance came to them, save their saying, 'God has sent a mortal for an apostle
John Medows Rodwell1861 And what hindereth men from believing, when the guidance hath come to them, but that they say, "Hath God sent a man as an apostle
George Sale1734 And nothing hindreth men from believing, when a direction is come unto them, except that they say, hath God sent a man for his apostle
Easy-read (simplified)qul law kaana fee l-'ardi malaa'ikatun yamshoona mutma'inneena lanazzalnaa 'alayhim mina s-samaa'i malakan rasoolaa
DIN 31635qul law kāna fī l-ʾarḍi malāʾikatun yamšūna muṭmaʾinnīna lanazzalnā ʿalayhim mina s-samāʾi malakan rasūlan
Talal Itani2012 Say, "If there were angels on earth, walking around in peace, We would have sent down to them from heaven an angel messenger."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: If there were in the earth angels walking secure, We had sent down for them from heaven an angel as messenger
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Were there angels on the earth walking in quiet, we had surely sent them an angel as an apostle
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Did angels walk the earth as its familiars, we had surely sent them an angel - apostle out of Heaven
George Sale1734 Answer, if the angels had walked on earth as familiar inhabitants thereof, We had surely sent down unto them from heaven an angel for our apostle
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 —
0.61 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 · George Sale0.74
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.73
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.53
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.51
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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.