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
He who made the earth a habitat for you, and the sky a structure, and sends water down from the sky, and brings out fruits thereby, as a sustenance for you. Therefore, do not assign rivals to God while you know.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Who hath appointed the earth a resting-place for you, and the sky a canopy; and causeth water to pour down from the sky, thereby producing fruits as food for you. And do not set up rivals to Allah when ye know (better)
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
who made the earth for you a bed and the heaven a dome; and sent down from heaven water, and brought forth therewith fruits as a sustenance for you; so make no peers for God, the while ye know
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Who hath made the earth a bed for you, and the heaven a covering, and hath caused water to come down from heaven, and by it hath brought forth fruits for your sustenance! Do not then wittinglygive peers to God
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
who hath spread the earth as a bed for you, and the heaven as a covering, and hath caused water to descend from heaven, and thereby produced fruits for your sustenance. Set not up therefore any equals unto God, against your own knowledge
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
Ai jua bëri Tokën shesh e qiellin çati dhe nga qielli zbriti ujë, përmes të cilit nxori fruta si ushqim për ju. Prandaj, mos i sajoni Allahut ortakë, ndërkohë që ju e dini (se Ai nuk ka ortakë).
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
যিনি জমিনকে তোমাদের জন্য বিছানা ও আসমানকে ছাদ বানিয়েছেন এবং আকাশ হতে পানি বর্ষণ করে তা দ্বারা তোমাদের জীবিকার জন্য ফলমূল উৎপাদন করেছেন। কাজেই তোমরা জেনেও কাউকে আল্লাহর সমকক্ষ দাঁড় করিও না।
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
Koji vam je Zemlju posteljom, a nebo zdanjem učinio; Koji s neba spušta vodu i s njom izvodi plodove, opskrbu vašu. Zato ne pripisujte Allahu ortake, a vi znate. [1]
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
Koji vam je Zemlju posteljom, a nebo zdanjem učinio; Koji s neba spušta vodu i s njom izvodi plodove, opskrbu vašu. Zato ne pripisujte Allahu drugove, a vi znate.
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
Oon baɗanɗo on lesdi ndi mbertu O waɗi Asamaan o mahoodi tiiɗndi O jippini ndiyam iwde e Asamaan O yaltini heen ɓiɓɓe leɗɗe woni njeɗu mon, taa mbaɗanee Alla nanndidiiɓe te oɗon nganndi goonga oo.
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
(ემსახურეთ თქვენს უფალს), რომელმაც დედამიწა დაგიგოთ თქვენ სარეცელად [რათა ცხოვრება გაგიადვილოთ მასზე],
ხოლო ცა — ნაგებობად [მოწყობილ და მოწესრიგებულ სტრუქტურად], და ჩამოავლინა ციდან წყალი, და მისით აღმოაცენა ნაყოფები თქვენს საზრდოდ. და ნუ გაუჩენთ ალლაჰს თანასწორებს [ნუ აიყვანთ ვინმეს ღმერთად მის გარდა], მაშინ როცა თქვენ იცით.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Der euch die Erde zu einem Ruhebett und den Himmel zu einem Bau gemacht hat und vom Himmel Wasser herabkommen lässt, durch das Er dann für euch Früchte als Versorgung hervorbringt. So stellt Allah nicht andere als Seinesgleichen zur Seite, wo ihr (es) doch wisst.
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
Ο Οποίος έκανε τη γη ως στρωμένο χαλί για σας (ώστε να διευκολύνει τη ζωή σας πάνω της) και τον ουρανό τέλεια κατασκευή (ως στέγη για σας). Και έστειλε κάτω νερό (βροχή) από τον ουρανό, με το οποίο (νερό) έβγαλε (από τη γη) καρπούς ως αγαθά για σας. Έτσι λοιπόν, μην αποδίδετε εταίρους στον Αλλάχ (στη λατρεία), ενώ γνωρίζετε (ότι δεν υπάρχει άλλος θεός που αξίζει να λατρεύεται παρά μόνον Αυτός).
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
जिसने तुम्हारे लिए धरती को एक बिछौना तथा आकाश को एक छत बनाया और आकाश से कुछ पानी उतारा, फिर उससे कई प्रकार के फल तुम्हारी जीविका के लिए पैदा किए। अतः अल्लाह के लिए किसी प्रकार के साझी न बनाओ, जबकि तुम जानते हो।[10]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Colui che ha fatto della terra una dimora e del cielo un soffitto[4], e dal cielo ha fatto scendere l’acqua, con la quale ha tratto, dai frutti, sostentamento per voi: non accomunate nessuno ad Allāh volontariamente.
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
22. Kuris padarė žemę jums poilsio vieta ir dangų – skliautu, ir nuleido lietų iš dangaus ir suteikė juo vaisius, aprūpindamas jus. Taigi nepriskirkite lygių Allahui (garbinime), žinodami (kad Jis Vienintelis turi tam teisę).
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
[Он] — Тот, Кто сделал для вас землю ложем, а небо — сводом, и низвёл с неба воду, и вывел ею плоды в качестве удела для вас. Так не придавайте же Аллаху равных, зная [истину]!
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
Који вам је Земљу постељом, а небо здањем учинио; Који с неба спушта воду и с њом изводи плодове, опскрбу вашу. Зато не приписујте Аллаху друга божанства, а знате то.
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
(Mwenyezi Mungu) ambaye alikufanyieni ardhi hii kuwa kama tandiko, na mbingu kama paa. Na akateremsha maji kutoka mbinguni, na kwayo akatoa mazao yawe riziki zenu. Basi msimfanyie Mwenyezi Mungu wenza, na hali nyinyi mnajua.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Han som har gjort jorden till en viloplats för er och himlen till ett tak, och som har sänt ned vatten från himlen med vilket han tagit fram frukter för er försörjning. Sätt därför inga gudar vid Guds sida, när ni vet detta!
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
O, sizin için yeryüzünü döşedi ve gökyüzünü bina etti. Gökten su indirip onunla size rızık olsun diye ürünler yetiştirdi. Öyleyse, bunları bile bile Allah’a ortak koşmayın.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
جس نے تمہارے لئے زمین کو فرش اور آسمان کو چھت بنایا اور آسمان سے پانی اتار کر اس سے پھل پیدا کرکے تمہیں روزی دی، خبردار باوجود جاننے کے اللہ کے شریک مقرر نہ کرو۔[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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Talal Itani2012 The lightning almost snatches their sight away. Whenever it illuminates for them, they walk in it; but when it grows dark over them, they stand still. Had God willed, He could have taken away their hearing and their sight. God is capable of everything.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 The lightning almost snatcheth away their sight from them. As often as it flasheth forth for them they walk therein, and when it darkeneth against them they stand still. If Allah willed, He could destroy their hearing and their sight. Lo! Allah is able to do all things
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The lightning well-nigh snatches off their sight, whenever it shines for them they walk therein; but when it is dark for them they halt; and if God willed He would go off with their hearing and their sight; verily, God is mighty over all
John Medows Rodwell1861 The lightning almost snatcheth away their eyes! So oft as it gleameth on them they walk on in it, but when darkness closeth upon them, they stop! And if God pleased, of their ears and of their eyes would he surely deprive them: verily God is Almighty
George Sale1734 the lightning wanteth but little of taking away their sight; so often as it enlighteneth them, they walk therein, but when darkness cometh on them, they stand still; and if God so pleased, he would certainly deprive them of their hearing and their sight, for God is almighty
Easy-read (simplified)wa'in kuntum fee raybin mimmaa nazzalnaa 'alaa 'abdinaa fa'too bisooratin min mithlihi wad'oo shuhadaa'akum min dooni llaahi in kuntum saadiqeen
DIN 31635waʾin kuntum fī raybin mimmā nazzalnā ʿalā ʿabdinā faʾtū bisūratin min miṯlihi wadʿū šuhadāʾakum min dūni llāhi ʾin kuntum ṣādiqīna
Talal Itani2012 And if you are in doubt about what We have revealed to Our servant, then produce a chapter like these, and call your witnesses apart from God, if you are truthful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if ye are in doubt concerning that which We reveal unto Our slave (Muhammad), then produce a surah of the like thereof, and call your witness beside Allah if ye are truthful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And if ye are in doubt of what we have revealed unto our servant, then bring a chapter like it, and call your witnesses other than God if ye tell truth
John Medows Rodwell1861 And if ye be in doubt as to that which we have sent down to our servant, then produce a Sura like it, and summon your witnesses, beside God, if ye are men of truth
George Sale1734 If ye be in doubt concerning that revelation which We have sent down unto our servant, produce a chapter like unto it, and call upon your witnesses, besides God, if ye say truth
Talal Itani2012 But if you do not-and you will not-then beware the Fire whose fuel is people and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if ye do it not - and ye can never do it - then guard yourselves against the Fire prepared for disbelievers, whose fuel is of men and stones
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But if ye do it not, and ye shall surely do it not, then fear the fire whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for misbelievers
John Medows Rodwell1861 But if ye do it not, and never shall ye do it, then fear the fire prepared for the infidels, whose fuel is men and stones
George Sale1734 But if ye do it not, nor shall ever be able to do it; justly fear the fire whose fewel is men and stones, prepared for the unbeliebers
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.64 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
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · George Sale0.65
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.60
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.55
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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.