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Talal Itani· published 2012
But if you do not-and you will not-then beware the Fire whose fuel is people and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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
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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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
Mirëpo, në qoftë se nuk mund ta bëni këtë, – gjë që kurrsesi nuk do të mund ta bëni, – atëherë ruajuni Zjarrit, lëndë djegëse e të cilit janë njerëzit e gurët dhe i cili është përgatitur për jobesimtarët.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
অতএব যদি তোমরা করতে না পারো, আর তোমরা তা কখনই পারবে না, তাহলে তোমরা সে আগুনকে ভয় করো, যার জ্বালানি হবে মানুষ ও পাথর, যা কাফিরদের জন্যে প্রস্তুত করে রাখা হয়েছে ।
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
Pa ako to ne učinite, a sigurno nećete učiniti, onda se čuvajte vatre čije će gorivo biti ljudi i kamenje; pripremljena je ona za nevjernike.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Pa ako to ne učinite, a sigurno nećete učiniti, onda se čuvajte vatre čije će gorivo biti ljudi i kamenje; pripremljena je ona za nevjernike.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
So tawii on mbaɗaani ɗum -te on mbaɗataa ɗum - kulee jayngol kuɓɓirtengol yimɓe e kaaƴe, ngol heblanaa ko heeferɓe ɓee.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და თუ ამას ვერ გააკეთებთ — და თქვენ ამას ვერასოდეს გააკეთებთ — მაშინ გეშინოდეთ ცეცხლის, რომლის საწვავი ადამიანები და ქვებია, (რომელიც) გამზადებულია ურწმუნოთათვის.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Doch wenn ihr es nicht tut - und ihr werdet es nicht tun (können) -, dann hütet euch vor dem (Höllen)feuer, dessen Brennstoff Menschen und Steine sind. Es wurde für die Ungläubigen bereitet.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Μα αν δεν το κάνετε, και ποτέ δεν θα μπορέσετε να το κάνετε, τότε να φυλαχθείτε (μέσω της υπακοής προς τον Αλλάχ) από το Πυρ (της Κολάσεως), του οποίου το καύσιμο είναι άνθρωποι και πέτρες (τα είδωλα που λάτρευαν οι άπιστοι), και είναι προετοιμασμένο για τους άπιστους.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर यदि तुमने ऐसा न किया और तुम ऐसा कभी नहीं कर पाओगे, तो उस आग से बचो, जिसका ईंधन मानव तथा पत्थर हैं, जो काफ़िरों के लिए तैयार की गई है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Se non lo farete – e non lo farete – temete il Fuoco, il cui combustibile sono gli uomini e le pietre, preparato per i miscredenti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
24. Bet jei jūs to nepadarysite, o jūs niekada nesugebėsite to padaryti, tada bijokite Ugnies, kurios pakuros yra žmonės ir akmenys, paruošti netikintiesiems.
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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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И если вы не сделаете этого — а вы никогда этого не сделаете — то бойтесь адского огня[4], растопкой для которого будут люди и камни. Он уготован для отвергших веру.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Па ако то не учините, а сигурно нећете учинити, онда се чувајте ватре чије ће гориво бити људи и камење; која је припремљена за невернике.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na ikiwa hamtafanya - na wala hamtofanya kamwe - basi uogopeni Moto ambao kuni zake ni watu na mawe, umeandaliwa makafiri.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Om ni däremot inte gör det – och ni kommer aldrig att kunna göra det – frukta då elden, vars bränsle är människor och stenar. Den har förberetts för de otrogna.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Eğer bu işi yapamazsanız ki, elbette yapamayacaksınız. O zaman, kâfirler için hazırlanan (ve) yakıtı insanlar ve taşlar olan ateşten kendinizi koruyun.
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اردو · Urdu
پس اگر تم نے نہ کیا اور تم ہرگز نہیں کرسکتے[1] تو (اسے سچا مان کر) اس آگ سے بچو جس کا ایندھن انسان اور پتھر ہیں[2]، جو کافروں کے لئے تیار کی گئی ہے۔[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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DIN 31635allaḏī ǧaʿala lakumu l-ʾarḍa firāšan was-samāʾa bināʾan waʾanzala mina s-samāʾi māʾan faʾaḫraǧa bihi mina ṯ-ṯamarāti rizqan lakum falā taǧʿalū lillāhi ʾandādan waʾantum taʿlamūna
Talal Itani2012 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.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 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 wittingly give peers to God
George Sale1734 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
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
Easy-read (simplified)wabashshiri lladheena aamanoo wa'amiloo s-saalihaati anna lahum jannaatin tajree min tahtihaa l-'anhaaru kullamaa ruziqoo minhaa min thamaratin rizqan qaaloo haadhaa lladhee ruziqnaa min qablu wa'utoo bihi mutashaabihan walahum feehaa azwaajun mutahharatun wahum feehaa khaalidoon
DIN 31635wabašširi llaḏīna ʾāmanū waʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti ʾanna lahum ǧannātin taǧrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru kullamā ruziqū minhā min ṯamaratin rizqan qālū hāḏā llaḏī ruziqnā min qablu waʾutū bihi mutašābihan walahum fīhā ʾazwāǧun muṭahharatun wahum fīhā ḫālidūna
Talal Itani2012 And give good news to those who believe and do righteous deeds; that they will have gardens beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they are provided with fruit therefrom as sustenance, they will say, "This is what we were provided with before," and they will be given the like of it. And they will have pure spouses therein, and they will abide therein forever.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And give glad tidings (O Muhammad) unto those who believe and do good works; that theirs are Gardens underneath which rivers flow; as often as they are regaled with food of the fruit thereof, they say: this is what was given us aforetime; and it is given to them in resemblance. There for them are pure companions; there for ever they abide
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But bear the glad tidings to those who believe and work righteousness, that for them are gardens beneath which rivers flow; whenever they are provided with fruit therefrom they say, 'This is what we were provided with before,' and they shall be provided with the like; and there are pure wives for them therein, and they shall dwell therein for aye
John Medows Rodwell1861 But announce to those who believe and do the things that are right, that for them are gardens 'neath which the rivers flow! So oft as they are fed therefrom with fruit for sustenance, they shall say, "This same was our sustenance of old:" And they shall have its like given to them. Therein shall they have wives of perfect purity, and therein shall they abide for ever
George Sale1734 But bear good tidings unto those who believe, and do good works, that they shall have gardens watered by rivers; so often as they eat of the fruit thereof for sustenance, they shall say, this is what we have formerly eaten of; and they shall be supplied with several sorts of fruit having a mutual resemblance to one another. There shall they enjoy wives subject to no impurity, and there shall they continue for ever
Talal Itani2012 God does not shy away from making an example of a gnat, or something above it. As for those who believe, they know that it is the Truth from their Lord. But as for those who disbelieve, they say, "What did God intend by this example?" He leads astray many thereby, and He guides many thereby; but He misleads thereby only the evildoers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! Allah disdaineth not to coin the similitude even of a gnat. Those who believe know that it is the truth from their Lord; but those who disbelieve say: What doth Allah wish (to teach) by such a similitude? He misleadeth many thereby, and He guideth many thereby; and He misleadeth thereby only miscreants
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Why, God is not ashamed to set forth a parable of a gnat, or anything beyond; and as for those who believe, they know that it is truth from the Lord; but as for those who disbelieve, they say, 'What is it that God means by this as a parable? He leads astray many and He guides many;' - but He leads astray only the evildoers
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily God is not ashamed to set forth as well the instance of a gnat as of any nobler object: for as to those who have believed, they know it to be the truth from their Lord; but as to the unbelievers, they will say, "What meaneth God by this comparison?" Many will He mislead by such parables and many guide: but none will He mislead thereby except the wicked
George Sale1734 Moreover God will not be ashamed to propound in a parable a gnat, or even a more despicable thing; for they who believe will know it to be the truth from their Lord; but the unbelievers will say, What meaneth God by this parable? He will thereby mislead many, and will direct many thereby: but He will not mislead any thereby, except the transgressors
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 —
0.44 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 Sale0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.46
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.46
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.43
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.41
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.41
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.37
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.17
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
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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.