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And his fruits were encompassed by destruction. Then began he to turn down the palms of his hands at what he had spent on it; for its vines were falling down on their trellises, and he said, "Oh that I had not joined any other god to my Lord
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
And ruin closed in on his crops, and so he began wringing his hands over what he had invested in it, as it lays fallen upon its trellises. And he was saying, "I wish I never associated anyone with my Lord."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And his fruit was beset (with destruction). Then began he to wring his hands for all that he had spent upon it, when (now) it was all ruined on its trellises, and to say: Would that I had ascribed no partner to my Lord
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
And his fruits were encompassed, and on the morrow he turned down the palms of his hands for what he had spent thereon, for it was fallen down upon its trellises. And he said, 'Would that I had never associated any one with my Lord
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And his possessions were encompassed with destruction, as his companion had forewarned him: Wherefore he began to turn down the palms of his hands out of sorrow and regret for that which he had expended thereon; for the vines thereof were fallen down on their trails: And he said, would to God that I had not associated any other deity with my Lord
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
Kopshti i tij u shkatërrua, ndërsa ai filloi të rrotullonte shuplakat nga dëshpërimi për atë që kishte shpenzuar në të, sepse ishte bërë rrafsh me tokë, dhe thoshte: "Ah, sikur të mos i kisha shoqëruar Zotit tim askënd!"
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর বিপর্যয় তার ফল-ফলাদিকে পরিবেষ্টন করে নিলো। ফলে তাতে সে যা ব্যয় করেছিল, তার জন্য (আফসোস ও লজ্জায় নিজের) হাত কচলাতে লাগল এবং সেটি মাচানসহ ভূমিসাৎ হয়ে গেল । আর সে বলছিল: ‘হায় আফসোস! আমি যদি আমার রবের সাথে কাউকে শরীক না করতাম!’
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
I propadoše plodovi njegovi i on poče pljeskati rukama svojim žaleći za onim što je na njega utrošio, a loza se bijaše povaljala po podupiračima svojim – i govoraše: “Kamo sreće da Gospodaru svome nisam nikoga u obožavanju pridruživao!”
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
I propadoše plodovi njegovi i on poče pljeskati rukama svojim žaleći za onim što je na njega utrošio, a loza se bijaše povaljala po podupiračima svojim – i govoraše: “Kamo sreće da Gospodaru svome nisam nikoga u obožavanju pridruživao!”
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
Dimɗe makko ɗen bonnaa o weeti homo waylita newe makko ɗen e dow ko o nafki kon e mabba, tawi kammba ko fukkiiba e daƴƴe mabba, homo wi'a: "Ee haaniina,hara mi kafidaano e Joomi an hay e gooto".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და მისი [ურწმუნოს] ნაყოფი განადგურებამ მოიცვა, და ხელების ქნევა დაიწყო [მწუხარებით] იმ ხარჯისათვის რაც გაიღო ბაღისთვის, ახლა კი ის [ბაღი] დაცარიელდა საფუძვლიანად [დაემხო საყრდენი, რომელიც ვაზს ეჭირა], და ამბობს (ბაღის მფლობელი): «ნეტავ, არავინ დამედგინა თანაზიარად ჩემი ღმერთისთვის».
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
Und seine Früchte wurden ringsum erfasst. Da begann er, seine Handflächen umzudrehen wegen dessen, was er für ihn ausgegeben hatte, während er wüst in Trümmern lag, und zu sagen: „O hätte ich doch meinem Herrn niemanden beigesellt!“
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
Έπειτα, περικύκλωσε η καταστροφή όλους τους καρπούς του, και άρχισε να αναποδογυρίζει τις παλάμες του (με απογοήτευση) για όσα είχε ξοδέψει γι' αυτόν (τον κήπο), καθώς (ο κήπος) είχε καταρρεύσει στις πέργκολές του. Και είπε (μετανιωμένος): «Μακάρι να μην είχα αποδώσει στον Κύριό μου κανέναν εταίρο στη λατρεία!»
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
(अंततः) उसका सारा फल मारा गया।[16] फिर वह अपने दोनों हाथ मलता रह गया, उस (धन) पर जो उसमें खर्च किया था। जबकि वह (बाग़) अपने छप्परों सहित गिरा हुआ था और वह कहता था : काश मैं अपने पालनहार के साथ किसी को साझी न बनाता।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E vennero distrutti i frutti, così si mise a torcersi le mani, per quanto vi aveva speso, vedendoli cadere a terra sulle proprie pergole. E disse: «Se non avessi mai paragonato nessuno al mio Dio!»
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
42. Taigi jo vaisiai buvo apsupti (pražuvimu). O jis liko ploti savo rankomis (iš liūdesio) dėl to, ką jis išleido tam, nors visa tai buvo sunaikinta ant treliažų, ir jis tegalėjo sakyti: „O kad nebūčiau priskyręs jokių partnerių savo Viešpačiui!“ (Tafsir Ibn Kathir)
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
И его плоды были охвачены [погибелью], и он стал заламывать руки, [сокрушаясь] о том, что израсходовал на него, когда тот лежал в руинах, обрушившись на свои опоры, и говорил: «О если бы я не придавал своему Господу в сотоварищи никого!»
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
И пропадоше плодови његови и он поче кршити руке своје жалећи за оним што је на њега утрошио – а лоза се беше поваљала по подупирачима својим - и говораше: „Камо среће да своме Господару нисам никога у обожавању придруживао!“
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
Basi, yakateketezwa matunda yake, akabaki akipinduapindua viganja vyake, kwa vile alivyoyagharamia, huku miti yake imebwagika juu ya chanja zake. Akawa anasema: Laiti nisingelimshirikisha Mola wangu Mlezi na yeyote!
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
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Svenska · Swedish
[Detta inträffade] och all hans frukt förstördes. När den föll ihop på sina spaljéer började han vrida sina händer [i ånger] över vad han hade spenderat på den och sa: ”Om jag ändå hade låtit bli att dyrka någon vid min Herres sida!”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
(Birden) Onun ürünleri (afetle) kuşatılıverdi. Orası için harcadıklarına karşı avuçlarını (esefle) ovuşturup duruyordu. Bahçenin çardakları yere çökmüştü. "Ah, keşke Rabbime hiçbir şirk koşmamış olsaydım!" diyordu.
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اردو · Urdu
اور اس کے (سارے) پھل گھیر لئے گئے[1] ، پس وه اپنے اس خرچ پر جو اس نے اس میں کیا تھا اپنے ہاتھ ملنے[2] لگا اور وه باغ تو اوندھا الٹا پڑا تھا[3] اور (وه شخص) یہ کہہ رہا تھا کہ کاش! میں اپنے رب کے ساتھ کسی کو بھی شریک نہ کرتا.[4]
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)fa'asaa rabbee an yu'tiyani khayran min jannatika wayursila 'alayhaa husbaanan mina s-samaa'i fatusbiha sa'eedan zalaqaa
DIN 31635faʿasā rabbī ʾan yuʾtiyani ḫayran min ǧannatika wayursila ʿalayhā ḥusbānan mina s-samāʾi fatuṣbiḥa ṣaʿīdan zalaqan
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Talal Itani2012 Perhaps my Lord will give me something better than your garden, and release upon it thunderbolts from the sky, so it becomes barren waste.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Yet it may be that my Lord will give me better than thy garden, and will send on it a bolt from heaven, and some morning it will be a smooth hillside
Edward Henry Palmer1880 but haply my Lord will give me something better than thy garden, and will send upon it thunder-claps from the sky, and it shall be on the morrow bare slippery soil
John Medows Rodwell1861 Yet haply my Lord may bestow on me better than thy garden, and may send his bolts upon it out of Heaven, so that the next dawn shall find it barren dust
George Sale1734 my Lord is well able to bestow on me a better gift than thy garden, and to shoot his arrows against the same from heaven, so that it shall become barren dust
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.66 on a scale
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.79
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.76
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.75
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.62
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.51
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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.