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Have you not considered those who fled their homes, by the thousands, fearful of death? God said to them, "Die." Then He revived them. God is Gracious towards the people, but most people are not appreciative.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Compare translations (4)Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Bethink thee (OMuhammad) of those of old, who wentforth from their habitations in their thousands, fearing death, and Allah said unto them: Die; and then He brought them back to life. Lo! Allah is a Lord of Kindness to mankind, but most of mankind give not thanks
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
Dost thou not look at those who left their homes by thousands, for fear of death; and God said to them 'Die,' and then He quickened them again? Verily God is Lord of grace to men, but most men give no thanks
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Hast thou not thought on those who quitted their dwellings - and they were thousands - for fear of death? God said to them, "Die:" then He restored them to life, for full of bounty towards man is God. But most men give not thanks
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Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Hast thou not considered those, who left their habitations, -- and they were thousands -- for fear of death? And God said unto them, die; then he restored them to life, for God is gracious towards mankind; but the greaterpart of men do not give thanks
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
A nuk ke dëgjuar për ata mijëra njerëz që ikën nga vendbanimet e tyre nga frika e vdekjes?! Allahu u tha atyre: "Vdisni!" e pastaj i ringjalli. Me të vërtetë, Allahu është shumë Bamirës ndaj njerëzve, por shumica e tyre nuk e falënderojnë.
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.
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বাংলা · Bengali
তুমি কি তাদের (৬৮) (পরিণতি) দেখো নি যারা মৃত্যুভয়ে হাজারে হাজারে স্বীয় আবাসাভুমি পরিত্যাগ করেছিল? অতঃপর আল্লাহ তাদেরকে বলেছিলেন: ‘তোমরা মরে যাও।’ তারপর আল্লাহ তাদেরকে জীবিত করেছিলেন। নিশ্চয়ই আল্লাহ মানুষের প্রতি অনুগ্রহশীল; কিন্তু অধিকাংশ মানুষই তাঁর কৃতজ্ঞতা প্রকাশ করে না।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Zar ne znaš za one koji su iz straha od smrti iz zemlje svoje pobjegli, a bijaše ih na hiljade, pa im je Allah rekao: "Pomrite!", a poslije ih je oživio. Allah je, doista, darežljiv prema ljudima, ali većina ljudi ne zahvaljuje.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Zar ne znaš za one koji su iz straha od smrti iz zemlje svoje pobjegli, a bijaše ih na tisuće, pa im je Allah rekao: "Pomrite!" a poslije ih je oživio. Allah je, doista, darežljiv prema ljudima, ali većina ljudi ne zahvaljuje.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
E a tinaali ɓen njaltunooɓe e galleeji mu'un, kamɓe ko ɓe guluuje (ujunaaji ), ngam reenagol maayde, Allaahu on daalani ɓe: "Maayee", refti o wuurniti ɓe? Pellet Alla ko Jom ɓural e dow yimɓe ɓen, ko woni tun, ko ɓuri ɗuuɗude e yimɓe ɓen njaanataa
(njettataa) [Alla].
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ქართული · Georgian
ნუთუ შენ არ გინახავს (ან არ დაფიქრებულხარ) მათზე, ვინც თავიანთი საცხოვრებლებიდან გამოვიდნენ და ისინი ათასობით იყვნენ სიკვდილის შიშით? მაშინ ალლაჰმა უთხრა მათ: «მოკვდით!» და ისინი მაშინვე დაიხოცნენ[1]. შემდეგ კი (გარკვეული დროის შემდეგ) მან კვლავ გააცოცხლა ისინი. უეჭველად, ალლაჰი უდიდესი წყალობის მომნიჭებელია ადამიანებისთვის, მაგრამ ადამიანთა უმეტესობა არ არის მადლიერი.
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Deutsch · German
Hast du nicht jene gesehen, die zu Tausenden aus ihren Wohnstätten auszogen, (und dies,) um dem Tod zu entfliehen? Da sagte Allah zu ihnen: „Sterbt!“ Hierauf machte Er sie wieder lebendig. Wahrlich, Allah ist voll Huld gegen die Menschen. Aber die meisten Menschen danken nicht.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Μα δεν έμαθες (ω, Μωχάμμαντ) γι' εκείνους (από τα παιδιά του Ισραήλ -Ιακώβου-) που βγήκαν από τα σπίτια τους σε χιλιάδες, φοβούμενοι το θάνατο (από την επιδημία); Και έτσι, ο Αλλάχ τούς είπε: «Πεθάνετε.» Και έπειτα τους έφερε ξανά στη ζωή (για να τους δείξει ότι η απόφαση όλων των θεμάτων βρίσκεται μόνο στα Χέρια Του, και ότι αυτοί δεν μπορούν να φέρουν στον εαυτό τους κάτι καλό ούτε να αποτρέψουν από τον εαυτό τους κάτι κακό). Στ’ αλήθεια, ο Αλλάχ είναι Αυτός που δίνει πολλές χάρες (και εύνοιες και γενναιοδωρία) στους ανθρώπους, αλλά οι περισσότεροι άνθρωποι δεν δείχνουν ευγνωμοσύνη.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
(ऐ नबी!) क्या आपने उन लोगों को नहीं देखा जो मौत के भय से अपने घरों से निकले[161], जबकि वे कई हज़ार थे, तो अल्लाह ने उनसे कहा कि मर जाओ, फिर उन्हें जीवित कर दिया। निःसंदेह अल्लाह लोगों पर बड़े अनुग्रह वाला है, लेकिन अधिकांश लोग शुक्रिया अदा नहीं करते।[162]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
Non hai visto quelli che uscirono a migliaia dalle loro case per la paura della morte? Allāh disse loro: «Morite!», poi li riportò in vita. In verità la grazia di Allāh è Immensa verso gli uomini, ma gran parte della gente non è riconoscente.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
243. Ar tu (Muchammedai ﷺ ) negalvojai apie tuos, kurie paliko savo namus tūkstančiais, bijodami mirties? Allahas sakė jiems: „Mirkite.“ O tada Jis grąžino juos į gyvenimą. Iš tiesų, Allahas kupinas dosnumo žmonėms, bet dauguma žmonių nedėkingi.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Sila warra manneen isaanii irraa du’a sodaatanii kumaatama ta’anii ba’anii (qalbiin) hin ilaallee? Rabbiin “du’aa!” isaaniin jedhee (du'an) sana booda isaan jiraachise. Rabbiin ilma namaa irratti abbaa tola (guddaa)ti. Garuu irra hedduun namaa hin galateeffatan. [99]
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Русский · Russian
Разве ты не видел тех, которые покинули свои жилища, остерегаясь смерти, а их были тысячи? Аллах сказал им: «Умрите», а затем оживил их. Воистину, Аллах — обладатель щедрости для людей, но большинство людей не благодарны.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Зар не знаш за оне који су из страха од смрти из земље своје побегли, а било их је на хиљаде, па им је Аллах рекао: "Помрите!" А после их је оживео. Аллах је, заиста, дарежљив према људима, али већина људи не захваљује.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Je, hukuwaona wale waliotoka katika maboma yao kwa maelfu kwa kuogopa mauti? Na Mwenyezi Mungu akawaambia: "Kufeni!" Kisha akawahuisha. Hakika, Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mwenye fadhila juu ya watu, lakini wengi wa watu hawashukuru.
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Svenska · Swedish
Har du inte hört om de som i tusentals lämnade sina boplatser av rädsla för döden? Gud sa till dem: ”Dö!” Därefter gav han dem liv igen. Gud visar sannerligen stor godhet mot människorna, men de flesta människor är inte tacksamma.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Binlerce kişi iken ölüm korkusuyla yurtlarından çıkanları görmedin mi? Allah onlara: “Ölün!” dedi, sonra da onları tekrar diriltti. Şüphesiz Allah, insanlara karşı lütuf sahibidir. Ama insanların çoğu şükretmezler.
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اردو · Urdu
کیا تم نے انہیں نہیں دیکھا جو ہزاروں کی تعداد میں تھے اور موت کے ڈر کے مارے اپنے گھروں سے نکل کھڑے ہوئے تھے۔ اللہ تعالیٰ نے انہیں فرمایا مرجاؤ، پھر انہیں زنده کردیا[1] بے شک اللہ تعالیٰ لوگوں پر بڑا فضل واﻻ ہے، لیکن اکثر لوگ ناشکرے ہیں۔
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Talal Itani2012 Who is he who will offer God a generous loan, so He will multiply it for him manifold? God receives and amplifies, and to Him you will be returned.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Who is it that will lend unto Allah a goodly loan, so that He may give it increase manifold? Allah straiteneth and enlargeth. Unto Him ye will return
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Who is there that will lend to God a good loan? He will redouble it many a double; God closes His hand and holds it out, and unto Him shall ye return
John Medows Rodwell1861 Who is he that will lend to God a goodly loan? He will double it to him again and again: God is close, but open handed also: and to Him shall ye return
George Sale1734 Who is he that will lend unto God on good usury? Verily he will double it unto him manifold; for God contracteth and extendeth his hand as he pleaseth, and to him shall ye return
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2,079
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6,236
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.64
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.55
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.38
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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.