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.
And so We made Solomon understand it, and to each We gave wisdom and knowledge. And We subjected the mountains along with David to sing Our praises, and the birds as well-surely We did.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And We made Solomon to understand (the case); and unto each of them We gave judgment and knowledge. And we subdued the hills and the birds to hymn (His) praise along with David. We were the doers (thereof)
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
and this we gave Solomon to understand. To each of them we gave judgment and knowledge; and to David we subjected the mountains to celebrate our praises, and the birds too,- it was we who did it
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And we gave Solomon insight into the affair; and on both of them we bestowed wisdom and knowledge. And we constrained the mountains and the birds to join with David in our praise: Our doing was it
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And We gave the understanding thereof unto Solomon. And on all of them We bestowed wisdom, and knowledge. And We compelled the mountains to praise Us with David; and the birds also: And We did this
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 e bëmë Sulejmanin ta kuptonte atë çështje, ndonëse secilit prej tyre i dhamë urtësi e dituri. Ne i nënshtruam malet dhe shpendët për të madhëruar Allahun bashkë me Davudin. Ishim Ne që i bëmë të gjitha këto.
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
অতঃপর আমি এ বিষয়ের মীমাংসা (দাঊদকে না বুঝিয়ে) সুলায়মানকে বুঝিয়ে দিয়েছিলাম। আর আমি তাদের প্রত্যেককেই দিয়েছিলাম প্রজ্ঞা ও জ্ঞান। আর আমি পর্বতমালা ও পাখিদেরকে দাঊদের অধীন করে দিয়েছিলাম, তারা দাঊদের সাথে আমার পবিত্রতা ও মহিমা ঘোষণা করত। আর এসব কিছু আমিই করছিলাম।
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
i učinismo da Sulejman pronikne u to, a obojici smo mudrost i znanje dali. I potčinismo planine i ptice da s Davudom Allaha slave – sve to Mi smo učinili.
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
i učinismo da Solomon pronikne u to, a obojici smo mudrost i znanje dali. I podčinismo planine i ptice da s Davidom Allaha slave – sve to Mi smo učinili.
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
Min 'aamini nde Sulaymaana [ñaawoore nden] go'oto-kala e maɓɓe Min ngokki Ñeeñel e Ganndal Min eelti wond'ude e Daawuuda pelle ɗen heɗe cubhinoo e colli ɗin kadi, Min laatike golluɓe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ჩვენ ზეშთავაგონეთ ეს [სამართლიანი გადაწყვეტა] სულაიმანს
[რათა დაცულიყო ორივე მხარის ინტერესები სამართლიანად].
და თითოეულს მათგან [დაუდსაც და სულეიმანსაც]
ვუბოძეთ სიბრძნე და ცოდნა. და დაუდს დავუმორჩილეთ მთები, რათა ედიდებინათ [ალლაჰი] მასთან ერთად, ასევე ფრინველები და ჩვენ ვიყავით ისინი, ვინც ეს აღასრულა.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
So ließen Wir Sulayman es begreifen, und allen ließen Wir Urteil(skraft) und Wissen zukommen. Und Wir machten die Berge zusammen mit Dawud dienstbar, (auf) dass sie (Uns) preisen, und (auch) die Vögel. Und Wir taten (dies tatsächlich).
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
Κάναμε τον Σολομώντα να την κατανοήσει (την υπόθεση, -χωρίς τον Δαβίδ-, και να δώσει μία καλύτερη κρίση). Και στους δύο δώσαμε ορθή κρίση (και τους κάναμε Προφήτες), και γνώση. Υποτάξαμε τα βουνά και τα πουλιά να Μας δοξάζουν μαζί με τον Δαβίδ (όποτε αυτός Μας δόξαζε). Εμείς είμαστε που τα κάναμε αυτά.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तो हमने वह (निर्णय) सुलैमान[29] को समझा दिया। और हमने हर एक को हुक्म (नुबुव्वत या निर्णय-शक्ति) और ज्ञान प्रदान किया। और हमने पहाड़ों को दाऊद के अधीन कर दिया, जो (अल्लाह की) पवित्रता का गान करते थे, तथा पक्षियों को भी। और हम ही (इस कार्य के) करने वाले थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
e lo facemmo capire a Suleymēn. E a ciascuno abbiamo concesso ragione e conoscenza. E abbiamo asservito i monti e gli uccelli a Dāwūd, affinché ci lodassero: siamo stati noi, in verità, a farlo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
79. Ir Mes privertėme Sulaimaną (Saliamoną) suprasti (reikalą). Ir kiekvienam iš jų Mes davėme Hukm (teisingą riekalų sprendimą ir Pranašavimą) ir žinias. Ir Mes privertėme kalnus ir paukščius garbinti Mūsų Šlovę kartu su Davūdu (Dovydu). Ir tai buvome Mes, Kurie darėme (visus šitus dalykus).
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
Мы дали понять это Сулейману, и каждому из них Мы даровали мудрость и знание. Мы подчинили Дауду горы, которые прославляли [Нас] вместе с ним, и птиц. Мы совершили это.
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
и учинили смо да Соломон проникне у то, а обојици смо дали мудрост и знање. И потчинили смо планине и птице да са Давидом Аллаха славе и величају: све то Ми смо учинили.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi tukamfahamisha Suleiman. Na kila mmoja wao tulimpa hukumu na elimu. Na tuliifanya milima na ndege kuwa pamoja na Daud imnyenyekee na imtakase Mwenyezi Mungu. Na Sisi ndio tulioyafanya hayo.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Salomo var den vi gav klarhet i denna fråga, och båda skänkte vi profetskap och kunskap. Och vi förmådde bergen och fåglarna att upphöja oss tillsammans med David; det var vi som åstadkom allt detta.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Biz hüküm vermeyi Süleyman’a kavratmıştık. Zaten her birine hükümranlık ve ilim vermiştik. Davûd ile birlikte, Allah’ı tespih etmeleri için dağları ve kuşları onun emrine verdik. Bunları yapan biz idik.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
ہم نے اس کا صحیح فیصلہ سلیمان کو سمجھا دیا[1] ۔ ہاں ہر ایک کو ہم نے حکم وعلم دے رکھا تھا اور داؤد کے تابع ہم نے پہاڑ کر دیئے تھے جو تسبیح کرتے[2] تھے اور پرند بھی۔[3] ہم کرنے والے ہی تھے.[4]
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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Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the
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DIN 31635wanaṣarnāhu mina l-qawmi llaḏīna kaḏḏabū biʾāyātinā ʾinnahum kānū qawma sawʾin faʾaġraqnāhum ʾaǧmaʿīna
Talal Itani2012 And We supported him against the people who rejected Our signs. They were an evil people, so We drowned them all.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And delivered him from the people who denied Our revelations. Lo! they were folk of evil, therefor did We drown them all
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and we helped him against the people who said our signs were lies; verily, they were a bad people, so we drowned them all together
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we helped him against the people who treated our signs as impostures. An evil people verily were they, and we drowned them all
George Sale1734 And We protected him from the people who accused our signs of falsehood; for they were a wicked people, wherefore We drowned them all
Talal Itani2012 And David and Solomon, when they gave judgment in the case of the field, when some people's sheep wandered therein by night; and We were witnesses to their judgment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And David and Solomon, when they gave judgment concerning the field, when people's sheep had strayed and browsed therein by night; and We were witnesses to their judgment
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And David and Solomon, when they gave judgment concerning the field, when some people's sheep had strayed therein at night; and we testified to their judgment
John Medows Rodwell1861 And David and Solomon; when they gave judgment concerning a field when some people's sheep had caused a waste therein; and we were witnesses of their judgment
George Sale1734 And remember David, and Solomon, when they pronounced judgment concerning a field, when the sheep of certain people had fed therein by night, having no shepherd; and We were witnesses of their judgment
Talal Itani2012 And to Solomon the stormy wind, blowing at His command towards the land that We have blessed. We are aware of everything.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And unto Solomon (We subdued) the wind in its raging. It set by his command toward the land which We had blessed. And of everything We are Aware
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And to Solomon (we subjected) the wind blowing stormily, to run on at his bidding to the land which Ave have blessed, - for all things did we know
John Medows Rodwell1861 And to Solomon we subjected we subjected the strongly blowing wind; it sped at his bidding to the land we had blessed; for we know all things
George Sale1734 And unto Solomon We subjected a strong wind; it ran at his command to the land whereon We had bestowed our blessing: And We knew all things
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 —
0.62 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Talal Itani · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.61
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.54
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.50
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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.