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Talal Itani· published 2012
And Jonah, when he stormed out in fury, thinking We had no power over him. But then He cried out in the darkness, "There is no god but You! Glory to You! I was one of the wrongdoers!"
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And (mention) Dhu'n-Nun, when he went off in anger and deemed that We had no power over him, but he cried out in the darkness, saying: There is no Allahsave Thee. Be Thou Glorified! Lo! I have been a wrong-doer
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 Dhu'nnun, when he went away in wrath and thought that we had no power over him; and he cried out in the darkness, ' There is no god but Thou, celebrated be Thy praise! Verily, I was of the evildoers
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And Dhoulnoun; when he went on his way in anger, and thought that we had no power over him. But in the darkness he cried "There is no God but thou: Glory be unto Thee! Verily, I have been one of the evil doers
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And rememberDhu'lnun, when he departed in wrath, and thought that We could not exercise our power over him. And he cried out in the darkness, saying, there is no God, besides Thee: Praise be unto Thee! Verily I have been one of the unjust
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
(Kujtoni) edhe Dhununin (Junusin) kur ai u largua i zemëruar dhe mendoi se nuk do ta ndëshkonim. Pastaj thirri nga errësira: "Nuk ka zot që meriton të adhurohet përveç Teje. I patëmeta je Ti! Unë isha njëmend i padrejtë."
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর (হে রাসূল!) স্মরণ করো যুন-নূন (১৭) এর কথা, যখন সে (তার সম্প্রদায়ের অবিরত গুনাহে লিপ্ত হওয়ার দরুন) রাগান্বিত অবস্থায় চলে গিয়েছিলো এবং সে মনে করেছিলো যে, আমি তাকে শাস্তি দ্বারা পাকড়াও করবো না। তারপর সে অন্ধকার(১৮) থেকে ডেকে বলেছিলো, ‘(হে আমার রব!) আপনি ছাড়া কোনো (সত্য) ইলাহ নেই। আপনি পবিত্র মহান। নিশ্চয় আমি যালিমদের অন্তর্ভুক্ত হয়ে গেছি।’
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I spomeni Zunnuna, kada srdit ode i pomisli da ga nećemo u tjesnac sa smrtnim ishodom dovesti, pa poslije u tminama zavapi. “Nema istinskog boga osim Tebe, Uzvišen neka si! Ja sam, zaista, bio od onih koji su nepravdu učinili!”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
I spomeni Zunnuna,[1] kada srdit ode i pomisli da ga nećemo u tjesnac sa smrtnim ishodom dovesti, pa poslije u tminama zavapi. “Nema istinskog Boga osim Tebe, Uzvišen neka si! Ja sam, zaista, bio od onih koji su nepravdu učinili!”
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Fulfulde · Fulani
[Jaŋto kadi fii] Jannuuni tuma nde o yahnoo ko o tikkuɗo o sikki won'de Min njarribtaaka e hoore makko, o noddi ka niɓe; "Won'de deweteeɗo alaa si wanaa An Senaare wonanii Ma, min dey mi laatike jeyaaɗo e tooñuɓe ɓen".
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ქართული · Georgian
და გაიხსენე (ო, მოციქულო ) ზუნ-ნუნი (იუნუსი)[1]. როცა წავიდა მათგან განრისხებული. მას ეგონა, რომ ჩვენ მას არ მოვთხოვდით პასუხს [არ დავსჯიდით ამ საქციელის გამო]. (შემდეგ, როდესაც ზღვას კვეთდა, წყალში აღმოჩნდა და ვეშაპმა შთანთქა იგი). მაშინ მან თავის უფალს მოუხმო სიბნელეებში: «არ არსებობს ღვთაება, თაყვანისცემის ღირსი, გარდა შენისა! შენ ხარ ყოვლადწმინდა, ო, ალლაჰო! ჭეშმარიტად, მე უსამართლოთა [ცოდვილთა] რიცხვში აღმოვჩნდი».
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Deutsch · German
Und (gedenke auch) dem Mann mit dem Wal (arab. „Dhan-Nun“), als er wütend wegging und meinte, Wir würden ihn nicht einengen (können). Hierauf rief er in den Finsternissen: „Es gibt keinen Anbetungswürdigen außer Dir! Gepriesen seist Du! Wahrlich, ich gehörte zu den Ungerechten.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
(Ανάφερε, ω, Προφήτη) και αυτόν (τον Ιωνά) με το ψάρι, όταν έφυγε (χωρίς την άδειά Μας) θυμωμένος (από τους άπιστους ανθρώπους του, και δεν έδειξε υπομονή σ' αυτούς), νομίζοντας ότι δε θα στενεύαμε τη ζωή του (και δε θα τον τιμωρούσαμε γι' αυτό που έκανε). (Αλλά διατάξαμε το ψάρι να τον καταπιεί στη θάλασσα και να τον κρατήσει ασφαλή μέσα στην κοιλιά του, και) τότε επικαλέστηκε (ο Ιωνάς) στα βάθη του σκότους: «Δεν υπάρχει άλλος θεός που αξίζει να λατρεύεται παρά μόνον Εσύ. Δόξα Σοι! Πράγματι, ήμουν από τους άδικους (μ' αυτό που έκανα).»
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा मछली वाले[34] (की कहानी याद करो), जब वह ग़ुस्से से भरा हुआ चला गया[35] और उसने सोचा कि हम उसे तंगी में नहीं डालेंगे। अंततः उसने अंधेरों में पुकारा कि (ऐ अल्लाह!) तेरे सिवा कोई पूज्य नहीं, तू पवित्र है। निश्चय मैं ही अत्याचारियों में हो गया।[36]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E Thennūn (Yūnus) quando se ne andò arrabbiato, e credeva che non potessimo fargli nulla. Ma implorò nell’oscurità: «Non c’è divinità all’infuori di Te. Gloria Tua! Sono stato, in verità, tra gli ingiusti!”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
87. Ir (atminkite) Zun-Nun (Joną), kai jis apalpo iš pykčio ir galvojo, kad Mes nenubausime jo (t. y. nelaimės, kurios jį užklupo)! Tačiau jis šaukėsi, tamsumoje, (sakydamas): „La ilaha illa Anta [niekas neturi teisės būti garbinamas, tik Tu (Allahai)], būk Tu Pašlovintas (ir Išaukštintas [virš viso to (blogio), kurį jie Tau priskiria]! Iš tiesų, aš buvau iš bloga darančiųjų.“
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Saahiba nuuniinis (qurxummis) (Yuunusiinis yaadadhu); yeroo inni dallanaa deemee, Nuti isa irratti dhiphisuu dhabuu yaade. Dukkanoowwan keessaa “Si malee dhugaan gabbaramaan hin jiru, Ati qulqulloofte, Dhugumatti, ani miidhaa hojjataa irraa ta’een jira” (jechuun) lallabe. [18]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И Зу-н-Нуна, когда он ушёл в гневе и полагал, что Мы не властны над ним. И он воззвал во тьме: «Нет божества, кроме Тебя, Пречист Ты! Воистину, я был из числа несправедливых!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Јону кад срдит оде и помисли да га нећемо казнити – па после у тминама завапи: “Нема бога, осим Тебе, хваљен нека си, а ја сам се заиста огрешио према себи!”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na Dhun-Nun alipoondoka hali ameghadhabika, na akadhani ya kwamba hatutamtia dhikini. Basi aliita katika giza: Hakuna mungu isipokuwa Wewe Subhanaka (Uliyetakasika). Hakika mimi nilikuwa miongoni mwa wenye kudhulumu.
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Svenska · Swedish
[Minns även Jona], som valen slukade, när han i vredesmod övergav [sitt folk] och samtidigt trodde att vi inte skulle sätta honom på prov. Ur mörkret ropade han: ”Ingen är värd dyrkan utom du – upphöjd är du! Jag har verkligen gjort orätt.”
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Türkçe · Turkish
Zünnûn’u da an. Hani öfkelenerek (halkından ayrılıp) gitmişti de kendisini asla darda koymayacağımızı, sanmıştı. Derken karanlıklar içinde, “Senden başka hak ilâh yoktur. Seni eksikliklerden uzak tutarım. Ben gerçekten (nefsine) zulmedenlerden oldum.” diye dua etti.
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اردو · Urdu
مچھلی والے[1] (حضرت یونس علیہ السلام) کو یاد کرو! جبکہ وه غصہ سے چل دیا اور خیال کیا کہ ہم اسے نہ پکڑ سکیں گے۔ بالﺂخر وه اندھیروں[2] کے اندر سے پکار اٹھا کہ الٰہی تیرے سوا کوئی معبود نہیں تو پاک ہے، بیشک میں ﻇالموں میں ہو گیا.
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Talal Itani2012 And Zechariah, when he called out to his Lord, "My Lord, do not leave me alone, even though you are the Best of heirs."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Zachariah, when he cried unto his Lord: My Lord! Leave me not childless, though Thou art the Best of inheritors
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Zachariah, when he cried unto his Lord, 'O Lord! leave me not alone; for thou art the best of heirs
John Medows Rodwell1861 And Zacharias; when he called upon his Lord saying, "O my Lord, leave me not childless: but there is no better heir than Thyself
George Sale1734 And remember Zacharias, when he called upon his Lord, saying, O Lord, leave me not childless: Yet thou art the best heir
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0.644
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2,079
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Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Talal Itani · George Sale0.63
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.53
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.52
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.49
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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.