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We have given these enjoyments, and their ancestors, until time grew long upon them. Do they not see how We graduallyreduce the land from its extremities? Are they then the victors?
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Nay, but We gave these and their fathers ease until life grew long for them. See they not how we aim to the land, reducing it of its outlyingparts? Can they then be the victors
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
Nay, but we have granted enjoyment to these men and to their fathers whilst life was prolonged. Do they not see that we come to the land and shorten its borders? Shall they then prevail
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Yes! we have given these men and their fathers enjoyments so long as their life lasted. What! see they not that we come to a land and straiten its borders Is it they who are the conquerors
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But We have permitted these men and their fathers to enjoyworldlyprosperity, so long as life was continued unto them. Do they not perceive that We come unto the land of the unbelievers, and straiten the borders thereof? Shall they therefore be the conquerors
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
Ne u dhamë atyre dhe paraardhësve të tyre kënaqësi e jetë të gjatë. A nuk e shohin ata se Ne ua pakësojmë tokën nga anët e saj?[1] Atëherë, a mos vallë, ata do të jenë fitues?!
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
বরং আমিই তাদেরকে ও তাদের পূর্বপুরুষদেরকে উপভোগ করতে দিয়েছিলাম; উপরন্তু তাদের আয়ুষ্কালও হয়েছিল দীর্ঘ।(১০) তারা কি দেখে না যে, আমি চতুর্দিক থেকে তাদের দেশকে সংকুচিত করে দিচ্ছি?(১১) তবুও কি তারা বিজয়ী হবে?
বরং আমিই তাদেরকে ও তাদের পূর্বপুরুষদেরকে উপভোগ করতে দিয়েছিলাম; ফলে তাদের আয়ুষ্কাল দীর্ঘ হয়েছিল দীর্ঘ।(১০) তারা কি দেখে না যে, আমি পৃথিবীতে প্রবেশ করি এবং তার প্রান্ত থেকে প্রান্ত পর্যন্ত ধ্বংস করি(১১), তবু কি তারা বিজয়ী হবে?
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
Mi smo ovima, a i precima njihovim, dali da uživaju tako da im se život u tome oduljio. A zar oni ne vide da Mi Zemlju s krajeva njezinih umanjujemo, pa kako da oni budu pobjednici?!
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
Mi smo ovima, a i predcima njihovim, dali da uživaju tako da im se život u tome oduljio. A zar oni ne vide da Mi Zemlju s krajeva njezinih umanjujemo, pa kako će oni biti pobjednici?!
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
Ko woni, Min ndakmitii ɓee e baabiraaɓe maɓɓe ɓen haa ngurndam ɗam juutani ɓe. Enee, ɓee nji'aani won'de Menen Meɗen ara e leydi ndin Min ustira ndi immorde e seraaji mayri? Kaa ko kamɓe ngoni foolooɓe ɓen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
დიახ! ჩვენ მივანიჭეთ ამათ [მექქელ მრავალღმერთიანებს] და მათ მამებს (ამქვეყნიური) წყალობა, ისე რომ გაუგრძელდათ ცხოვრება [და მოიტყუეს თავი საკუთარი სიმდიდრით, სიცოცხლითა და შთამომავლობით]. ნუთუ ვერ ხედავენ ისინი, რომ ჩვენ მოვდივართ ქვეყანაზე, ვაკლებთ მას კიდეებიდან? ნუთუ ისინი შეძლებენ გამარჯვებას?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Vielmehr haben Wir diesen da und ihre Väter (etwas) genießen lassen, bis sie ein langes Leben geführt haben. Haben sie denn nicht gesehen, dass Wir über das Land kommen und es an seinen Enden vermindern? Werden sie nun die Sieger sein?
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
Όχι (δε θα τους προστατέψουν οι λεγόμενοι θεοί τους), αλλά Εμείς παρείχαμε αγαθά σ' αυτούς και στους προγόνους τους, μέχρι που έζησαν πολύ, (και έτσι ξεγέλασαν τον εαυτό τους νομίζοντας ότι δε θα τιμωρηθούν ποτέ, και παρέμεναν στην απιστία)! Δε βλέπουν ότι Εμείς μειώνουμε τη γη (της απιστίας) από τα άκρα της (δίνοντας στον Μωχάμμαντ τη νίκη, σε μία πόλη μετά από την άλλη); Είναι αυτοί λοιπόν που θα επικρατήσουν; [Όχι βέβαια].
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
बल्कि हमने इन (काफ़िरों) को और इनके बाप-दादों को जीवन की सुख-सुविधाएँ प्रदान कीं, यहाँ तक कि उनपर लंबा समय बीत गया। तो क्या वे देखते नहीं कि हम धरती को उसके किनारों से कम करते आ रहे हैं? तो क्या वही प्रभावी रहने वाले हैं?[22]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Ma deliziammo quelli e i loro padri fino a tarda età. Non vedono che diminuiamo la loro terra dai margini? Sono forse loro i vincitori?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
44. Ne, Mes suteikėme šio gyvenimo prabangą šiems žmonėms ir jų tėvams tol, kol laikas išsitęs jiems. Argi jie nemato, kad Mes palaipsniui mažiname žemę (esančią jų valdžioje) iš jos atokių kraštų? Ar tada jie nugalės? [2]
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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
Нет, напротив, Мы позволили этим и отцам их пользоваться благами, так что жизнь их стала долгой. Неужели они не видят, как Мы подступаем к земле, уменьшая её по краям? И неужели это они одержат верх?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Ми смо неверницима, а и њиховим прецима, дали да уживају тако да им се живот у томе одужио. А зар они не виде да Ми Земљу са њених крајева умањујемо, па како да они буду победници?!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Bali tuliwastarehesha hawa na baba zao mpaka umri ukawa mrefu kwao. Je, hawaoni ya kwamba Sisi tunaijia ardhi tukiipunguza kutokea kwenye ncha zake? Basi je, hao ndio watashinda?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Nej, vi lät dem och deras förfäder njuta av livet så länge att de [bedrogs] av sin långvariga välgång. Ser de då inte att vi tar oss an landet och låter det minska från dess ytterkanter? Tror de ändå att de ska segra?
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
Evet, biz onları da atalarını da faydalandırdık. Öyle ki uzun süre yaşadılar. Ama, artık görmüyorlar mı ki, biz yeryüzünü çevresinden eksiltiyoruz? O halde onlar mı galip gelecekler?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
بلکہ ہم نے انہیں اور ان کے باپ دادوں کو زندگی کے سروسامان دیے یہاں تک کہ ان کی مدت عمر گزر گئی۔[1] کیا وه نہیں دیکھتے کہ ہم زمین کو اس کے کناروں سے گھٹاتے چلے آرہے [2] ہیں، اب کیا وہی غالب ہیں؟[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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not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
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Easy-read (simplified)qul man yakla'ukum billayli wan-nahaari mina r-rahmaani bal hum 'an dhikri rabbihim mu'ridoon
DIN 31635qul man yaklaʾukum billayli wan-nahāri mina r-raḥmāni bal hum ʿan ḏikri rabbihim muʿriḍūna
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Who guards you against the Merciful by night and by day?" But they turn away from the mention of their Lord.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: Who guardeth you in the night or in the day from the Beneficent? Nay, but they turn away from mention of their Lord
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Who shall guard you by night and by day from the Merciful?' Nay, but they from the mention of their Lord do turn aside
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Who shall protect you by night and by day from the God of Mercy? Yet turn they away from the warning of their Lord
George Sale1734 Say unto the scoffers, who shall save you by night and by day from the Merciful? Yet they utterly neglect the remembrance of their Lord
DIN 31635ʾam lahum ʾālihatun tamnaʿuhum min dūninā lā yastaṭīʿūna naṣra ʾanfusihim walā hum minnā yuṣḥabūna
Talal Itani2012 Or do they have gods who can defend them against Us? They cannot help themselves, nor will they be protected from Us.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Or have they gods who can shield them from Us? They cannot help themselves nor can they be defended from Us
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Have they gods to defend them against us? These cannot help themselves, nor shall they be abetted against us
John Medows Rodwell1861 Have they gods beside Us who can defend them? For their own succour have they no power; neither shall the gods they join with God screen them from Us
George Sale1734 Have they gods who will defend them, besides us? They are not able to help themselves; neither shall they be assisted against us by their companions
Talal Itani2012 Say, "I am warning you through inspiration." But the deaf cannot hear the call when they are being warned.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say (O Muhammad, unto mankind): I warn you only by the Inspiration. But the deaf hear not the call when they are warned
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'I only warn you by inspiration;' but the deaf hear not the call when they are warned
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: I only warn you of what hath been revealed to me: but the deaf will not hear the call, whenever they are warned
George Sale1734 Say, I only preach unto you the revelation of God: But the deaf will not hear thy call, whenever they are preached unto
DIN 31635walaʾin massathum nafḥatun min ʿaḏābi rabbika layaqūlunna yā waylanā ʾinnā kunnā ẓālimīna
Talal Itani2012 And when a breath of your Lord's punishment touches them, they say, "Woe to us, we were truly wicked."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if a breath of thy Lord's punishment were to touch them, they assuredly would say: Alas for us! Lo! we were wrong-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But if a blast of the torment of thy Lord touches them, they will surely say, 'O, woe is us! verily, we were wrong-doers
John Medows Rodwell1861 Yet if a breath of thy Lord's chastisement touch them, they will assuredly say, "Oh! woe to us! we have indeed been offenders
George Sale1734 Yet if the least breath of the punishment of thy Lord touch them, they will surely say, alas for us! Verily we have been unjust
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 —
0.66 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 Sale0.78
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.72
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.58
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.58
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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.