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Talal Itani· published 2012
"Bring me blocks of iron." So that, when he had leveled up between the two cliffs, he said, "Blow." And having turned it into a fire, he said, "Bring me tar to pour over it."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Give me pieces of iron - till, when he had levelled up (the gap) between the cliffs, he said: Blow! - till, when he had made it a fire, he said: Bring me molten copper to pour thereon
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
Bring me pigs of iron until they fill up the space between the two mountain sides.' Said he, 'Blow until it makes it a fire.' Said he, 'Bring me, that I may pour over it, molten brass
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Bring me blocks of iron," - until when it filled the space between the mountain sides - "Ply," said he, "your bellows," - until when he had made it red with heat (fire), he said, - "Bring me molten brass that I may pour upon it
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Bring me iron in large pieces, until it fill up the space between the two sides of these mountains. And he said to the workmen, blow with your bellows, until it make the iron red hot as fire. And he said further, bring me molten brass, that I may pour upon it
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
Më sillni blloqe hekuri!" Kur mbushi hapësirën ndërmjet dy vargmaleve, tha: "Fryjini zjarrit!" Kur hekuri u skuq fort nga zjarri, tha: "Më sillni bakër të shkrirë, që ta derdh mbi të!"
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
‘তোমরা আমাকে লোহার পাত এনে দাও’। অবশেষে যখন (লোহার স্তুপের দ্বারা) সে দু’পাহাড়ের মধ্যবর্তী জায়গা সমান করে দিলো, তখন সে বললো: ‘তোমরা (আগুন জ্বালিয়ে) হাঁপরে দম দিতে থাক।’ অতঃপর যখন সে তা আগুনে পরিণত করলো, তখন বললো: ‘তোমরা আমাকে কিছু তামা এনে দাও, আমি তা এর ওপর ঢেলে দিই।’
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
Donesite mi velike komade gvožđa!” I kad on izravna dvije strane brda, reče: “Pūšite!” A kad ga usija, reče: “Donesite mi rastopljen bakar da ga zalijem.”
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
Donesite mi velike komade željeza!” I kad on izravna dvije strane brda, reče: “Púšite!” A kad ga usija, reče: “Donesite mi rastopljen bakar da ga zalijem.”
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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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ngaddanee kam kunte njamɗe haa nde o feppi- ndirnoo hakkunde naɗe ɗen ɗiɗi, o wi'i: "pifee haa nde o waɗnoo ɗum yiite, o wi'i: ngaddanee kam sila mi wancina e dow mum".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
მომიტანეთ რკინის ნაჭრები», როცა უკვე აღავსო [გაათანაბრა მშენებლობით] ორ კლდის შორისი! თქვა: «დაჰბერეთ!» და როცა მან აქცია იგი ცეცხლად, თქვა: «მომიტანეთ, გადავასხამ ამას გამდნარ სპილენძს!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Bringt mir die Eisenstücke.“ Als er nun zwischen den beiden Berghängen gleich hoch (aufgeschüttet) hatte, sagte er: „Blast (jetzt).“ Als er es zum Glühen gebracht hatte, sagte er: „Bringt mir, damit ich (es) darüber gieße, geschmolzenes Kupfer.“
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
Φέρτε μου κομμάτια σιδήρου [ή βράχους σιδήρου].» Ώσπου όταν ίσιωσε (το μπάζωμα και το χτίσιμο) ανάμεσα στα δύο βουνά, είπε: «(Ανάψτε φωτιά και) φυσήξτε (σ' αυτή)», ώσπου όταν το έκανε φωτιά, είπε: «Φέρτε μου λιωμένο χαλκό να τον χύσω πάνω του.»
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
मुझे लोहे के टुकड़े ला दो, यहाँ तक कि जब दोनों पहाड़ों के बीच का हिस्सा ऊपर तक बराबर कर दिया, तो कहा : अब इसमें आग दहकाओ, यहाँ तक कि जब उसे आग कर दिया, तो कहा : मुझे पिघला हुआ ताँबा ला दो, ताकि मैं इसपर उँड़ेल दूँ।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Portatemi grandi pezzi di ferro!” Finché non riempì il vuoto tra i due lati. Disse: «Soffiate!» Finché le rese incandescenti. Disse: «Datemi adesso del bronzo fuso da versarci sopra!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
96. Duokite man geležies gabalus (plytas).“ Tada, kai jis užpildė plyšį tarp dviejų kalnų skardžių, tarė: „Papūskite“. Tada, kai jis padarė juos (raudonus kaip) ugnimi, jis tarė: „Atneškite man išlydytą varį užpilti ant jų.“
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
Несите мне куски железа». Когда же он сравнял между двумя склонами, то сказал: «Раздувайте!» А когда он раскалил его, то сказал: «Принесите мне — я вылью на него расплавленную медь».
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
Донесите ми велике комаде гвожђа.“ И кад он изравна две стране брда, рече: „Распалите ватру!“ А кад га усија, рече: „Донесите ми растопљени бакар да га залијем.“
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
Nileteeni vipande vya chuma. Hata alipoijaza sawasawa nafasi iliyo katikati ya milima miwili hiyo, akasema, "Pulizeni moto" mpaka alipokifanya kuwa moto, akasema, "Nileteeni shaba iliyoyeyuka niimimine juu ya chuma hicho."
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Förse mig med järnblock!” När han hade fyllt utrymmet mellan de två bergväggarna sa han: ”Blås på det [med era blåsbälgar]!” När han hade fått [järnet] att glöda, sa han: ”Hämta smält koppar som jag kan hälla över det.”
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
“Bana (yeterince) demir madeni getirin” dedi. İki yamacın arasındaki boşluğu (dağlarla) bir hizaya getirince; “Körükleyin!” dedi. Demiri eritip kor (gibi) yapınca da; “Bana erimiş bakır getirin, bunun üzerine boşaltayım.” dedi.
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
مجھے لوہے کی چادریں ﻻ دو۔ یہاں تک کہ جب ان دونوں پہاڑوں کے درمیان دیوار برابر کر دی[1] تو حکم دیا کہ آگ تیز جلاؤ تاوقتیکہ لوہے کی ان چادروں کو بالکل آگ کر دیا، تو فرمایا میرے پاس ﻻؤ اس پر پگھلا ہوا تانبا ڈال دوں.[2]
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.
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Talal Itani2012 They said, "O Zul-Qarnain, the Gog and Magog are spreading chaos in the land. Can we pay you, to build between us and them a wall?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They said: O Dhu'l-Qarneyn! Lo! Gog and Magog are spoiling the land. So may we pay thee tribute on condition that thou set a barrier between us and them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They said, 'O Dhu 'l Qarnain! verily, Yagug and Magug are doing evil in the land. Shall we then pay thee tribute, on condition that thou set between us and them a rampart
John Medows Rodwell1861 They said, "O Dhoulkarnain! verily, Gog and Magog waste this land; shall we then pay thee tribute, so thou build a rampart between us and them
George Sale1734 And they said, O Dhu'lkarnein, verily Gog and Magog waste the land; shall we therefore pay thee tribute, on condition that thou build a rampart between us and them
Talal Itani2012 He said, "What my Lord has empowered me with is better. But assist me with strength, and I will build between you and them a dam."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He said: That wherein my Lord hath established me is better (than your tribute). Do but help me with strength (of men), I will set between you and them a bank
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He said, 'What my Lord hath established me in is better; so help me with strength, and I will set between you and them a barrier
John Medows Rodwell1861 He said, "Better than your tribute is the might wherewith my Lord hath strengthened me; but help me strenuously, and I will set a barrier between you and them
George Sale1734 He answered, the power wherewith my Lord hath strengthened me, is better than your tribute: But assist me strenuously, and I will set a strong wall between you and them
DIN 31635qāla hāḏā raḥmatun min rabbī faʾiḏā ǧāʾa waʿdu rabbī ǧaʿalahu dakkāʾa wakāna waʿdu rabbī ḥaqqan
Talal Itani2012 He said, "This is a mercy from my Lord. But when the promise of my Lord comes true, He will turn it into rubble, and the promise of my Lord is always true."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He said: This is a mercy from my Lord; but when the promise of my Lord cometh to pass, He will lay it low, for the promise of my Lord is true
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Said he, 'This is a mercy from my Lord; but when the promise of my Lord comes to pass, He will make it as dust, for the promise of my Lord is true
John Medows Rodwell1861 This," said he, "is a mercy from my Lord: But when the promise of my Lord shall come to pass, he will turn it to dust; and the promise of my Lord is true
George Sale1734 And Dhu'lkarnein said, this is a mercy from my Lord: But when the prediction of my Lord shall come to be fulfilled, he shall reduce the wall to dust; and the prediction of my Lord is true
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · George Sale0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.50
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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.