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Talal Itani· published 2012
Faces will be humbled before the Living, the Eternal. Whoever carries injustice will despair.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And faces humble themselves before the Living, the Eternal. And he who beareth (a burden of) wrongdoing is indeed a failure (on that day)
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
Faces shall be humbled before the Living, the Self-subsistent; and he who bears injustice is ever lost
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And their faces shall be humbled before the living, the self-subsisting God; and he shall be wretched who shall bear his iniquity
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
Të gjitha fytyrat do të përulen para të Përjetshmit, Mbajtësit të gjithçkaje dhe, pa dyshim, ka humbur ai që do të mbartë padrejtësi.
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
আর চিরঞ্জীব, চিরপ্রতিষ্ঠিত সত্তার সামনে সকলেই অবনত হবে। আর সে অবশ্যই ব্যর্থ হবে, যে যুলমের (পাপের) বোঝা করবে।
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
Lica će se Živom i Samoopstojećem Održavatelju poniziti, a onaj ko se nepravdom bude natovario sigurno će na gubitku biti.
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
Lica će se Živom i Samoopstojećem Održavatelju poniziti, a onaj tko se nepravdom bude natovario sigurno će na gubitku biti.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Je'ece ɗen yankinanii guruɗo Dartiiɗo On, gooŋɗii sooyii on donndiiɗo tooñe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და სახეები ქედს მოიხრიან [დამდაბლდებიან] მარად ცოცხლისა და ყოველივეს მმართველის — ალლაჰის წინაშე. და ზარალს განიცდის ყოველი, ვინც უსამართლობა ჩაიდინა [ვინც მრავალღმერთიანობას მისდევდა].
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und demütig werden sich die Gesichter vor dem Lebendigen und Beständigen senken, und enttäuscht wird sein, wer (mit sich) Unrecht trägt.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Όλα τα πρόσωπα θα ταπεινωθούν για τον Αλ-Χάι (τον Αιώνια Ζωντανό), τον Αλ-Καϊούμ (τον Υποστηρικτή και Συντηρητή όλων). Πράγματι, έχει χάσει όποιος έχει κουβαλήσει αδικία (και απέδιδε στον Αλλάχ εταίρους στη λατρεία).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा सभी चेहरे उस जीवित रहने वाले, क़ायम रखने वाले लिए झुक जाएँगे और निश्चय विफल हो गया, जिसने अत्याचार का बोझ[38] उठाया।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E i visi furono umiliati davanti al Vivente, Colui che Sussiste di se stesso, e fu deluso chi fu oppresso dai peccati.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
111. Ir (visi) veidai bus nužeminti priešais (Allahą), Al-Hajul-Kajum (Amžiną, Tą, Kuris palaiko ir globoja viską, kas egzistuoja). Ir tam, kuris nešė nuodėmės (naštą) (t. y. tas, kuris netikėjo Allahą, priskyrė Jam partnerius, ir darė veiksmus, nepaklusnius Jam), bus iš tiesų visiška nesėkmė (ta Dieną).
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
Смирятся лица пред Живым, Поддерживающим всё сущее, и уже оказался в проигрыше всякий, кто понёс несправедливость.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Људи ће се Живом и Вечном покорити, а настрадаће онај који је друге поред Аллаха обожавао.
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
Na zitadhalilika nyuso mbele ya Aliye Hai milele, Msimamia yote milele. Na atakuwa ameharibikiwa mwenye kubeba dhuluma.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Alla ansikten ska sänkas i vördnad inför den evigt Levande; alltings Upprätthållare. Och den som bär med sig orättfärdighetens börda är dömd till undergång.
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
Ve yüzler Hayy ve Kayyum olan Allah için eğilip boyun bükmüştür. Zulüm yüklenen hüsrana uğramıştır.
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اردو · Urdu
تمام چہرے اس زنده اور قائم دائم مدبر، اللہ کے سامنے کمال عاجزی سے جھکے ہوئے ہونگے، یقیناً وه برباد ہوا جس نے ﻇلم ﻻد لیا.[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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DIN 31635yawmaʾiḏin lā tanfaʿu š-šafāʿatu ʾillā man ʾaḏina lahu r-raḥmānu waraḍiya lahu qawlan
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 On that Day, intercession will not avail, except for him permitted by the Merciful, and whose words He has approved.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 On that day no intercession availeth save (that of) him unto whom the Beneficent hath given leave and whose word He accepteth
Edward Henry Palmer1880 On that day shall no intercession be of any avail, save from such as the Merciful permits, and who is acceptable to Him in speech
John Medows Rodwell1861 No intercession shall avail on that day, save his whom the God of Mercy shall allow to intercede, and whose words he shall approve
George Sale1734 On that day the intercession of none shall be of advantage unto another, except the intercession of him to whom the Merciful shall grant permission, and who shall be acceptable unto him in what he saith
Easy-read (simplified)wakadhaalika anzalnaahu qur'aanan 'arabiyyan wasarrafnaa feehi mina l-wa'eedi la'allahum yattaqoona aw yuhdithu lahum dhikraa
DIN 31635wakaḏālika ʾanzalnāhu qurʾānan ʿarabiyyan waṣarrafnā fīhi mina l-waʿīdi laʿallahum yattaqūna ʾaw yuḥdiṯu lahum ḏikran
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Thus We have revealed it an Arabic Quran, and We have diversified the warnings in it, that perhaps they would become righteous, or it may produce a lesson for them.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Thus we have revealed it as a Lecture in Arabic, and have displayed therein certain threats, that peradventure they may keep from evil or that it may cause them to take heed
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Thus have we sent it down an Arabic Qur'an; and we have turned about in it the threat,- haply they may fear, or it may cause them to remember
John Medows Rodwell1861 Thus have We sent down to thee an Arabic Koran, and have set forth menaces therein diversely, that haply they may fear God, or that it may give birth to reflection in them
George Sale1734 And thus have we sent down this book, being a Koran in the Arabic tongue; and we have inserted various threats and promises therein, that men may fear God, or that it may awaken some consideration in them
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 —
0.70 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 · John Medows Rodwell0.86
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.82
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.78
Talal Itani · George Sale0.75
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.73
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.54
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.48
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.