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Talal Itani· published 2012
So We answered him, and gave him John. And We cured his wife for him. They used to vie in doing righteous deeds, and used to call on Us in love and awe, and they used to humble themselves to Us.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Then We heard his prayer, and bestowed upon him John, and adjusted his wife (to bear a child) for him. Lo! they used to vie one with the other in good deeds, and they cried unto Us in longing and in fear, and were submissive unto Us
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 we answered him, and bestowed upon him John; and we made his wife right for him; verily, these vied in good works, and called on us with longing and dread, and were humble before us
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
So we heard him, and gave him John, and we made his wife fit for child-bearing. Verily, these vied in goodness, and called upon us with love and fear, and humbled themselves before us
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Wherefore We heard him, and We gave him John; and We rendered his wife fit for bearing a child unto him. These strove to excel in good works, and called upon us with love, and with fear; and humbled themselves before us
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 iu përgjigjëm atij, ia dhamë Jahjain dhe ia përmirësuam gruan[2]. Ata nxitonin në vepra të mira, na luteshin me shpresë e frikë dhe ishin të përulur ndaj Nesh.
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 তার ডাকে সাড়া দিয়েছিলাম এবং তাকে দান করেছিলাম পুত্র ইয়াহইয়াকে। আর তার জন্য তার স্ত্রীকে (গর্ভধারণের) উপযোগী করেছিলাম। তারা সৎকাজে প্রতিযোগিতা করত। আর তারা আমাকে আগ্রহ ও ভীতি সহকারে ডাকত। আর তারা ছিল আমার নিকট একান্ত বিনয়ী।
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
Pa smo mu se odazvali i poklonili mu Jahjaa i suprugu mu izliječili. Oni su se trudili da što više dobra učine i molili su Nam se u nadi i strahu, i bili su prema Nama ponizni.
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
Pa smo mu se odazvali i poklonili mu Jahju (Ivana) i suprugu mu izliječili. Oni su se trudili da što više dobra učine i molili su Nam se u nadi i strahu, i bili su prema Nama ponizni.
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 njaabinani mo, Min ngokki mo Yahyaa, Min moƴƴinani mo sonnaajo makko on, pellet, kamɓe ɓe laatinoke hiɓe yaccoo e [gollugol] moƴƴi ɗin hiɓe nodda Min ka reerɗeende e kulol ɓe laatinoke yannkinaniiɓe Min.
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
ქართული · Georgian
და ჩვენ ვუპასუხეთ მას [ზაქარიას] [მის ვედრებაზე] და ვუბოძეთ მას [სიბერეში] შვილი იაჰია/იოანე. და შევქმენით მისთვის მისი ცოლი შესაფერისად [შესაძლებლად იმისთვის, რომ ეშვა შვილი], მას შემდეგ, რაც იგი იყო უშვილო. ნამდვილად, ისინი ისწრაფებოდნენ კეთილი საქმეებისკენ, და გვევედრებოდნენ იმედით [ჩვენგან მისაღებ საზღაურზე] და შიშით [ჩვენი სასჯელის მიმართ], და იყვნენ ჩვენდამი მოკრძალებულნი.
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 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Da erhörten Wir ihn und schenkten ihm Yahya und besserten ihm seine Gattin. Sie pflegten sich ja mit den guten Dingen zu beeilen und Uns in Begehren und Ehrfurcht anzurufen, und sie waren Uns gegenüber Demütige.
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
Ανταποκριθήκαμε λοιπόν σ' αυτόν, και του χαρίσαμε τον Γιάχια (τον Ιωάννη τον βαπτιστή), και κάναμε τη γυναίκα του γόνιμη. Πράγματι, έσπευδαν πάντα να κάνουν καλές πράξεις, και Μας επικαλούνταν με ελπίδα (για την ανταμοιβή Μας) και με φόβο (από την τιμωρία Μας), και ήταν υποταγμένοι ενώπιόν Μας.
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
हिन्दी · Hindi
तो हमने उनकी दुआ क़बूल की और उन्हें यह़या प्रदान किया, और उनकी पत्नी को उनके लिए ठीक कर दिया। निःसंदेह वे नेकी के कामों में बहुत जल्दी करते थे और हमें आशा तथा भय के साथ पुकारते थे, और वे हमसे दीनतापूर्वक विनती करने वाले थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Lo esaudimmo e gli donammo Yeħyē e sanammo sua moglie: erano in verità solleciti nel fare il bene e ci invocavano con amore e timore ed erano, nei confronti Nostri, umili.
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
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
90. Taigi Mes atsiliepėme į jo kreipimąsi ir Mes suteikėme jam Jahją (Joną) ir pagydėme jo žmoną (kad ji galėtų išnešioti vaiką) jam. Iš tiesų, jie skubėdavo daryti gerus darbus ir jie šaukdavosi Mūsų su viltimi ir baime ir jie nusižemindavo Mums.
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 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Isaaf awwaannee Yahyaa isaaf kennine, Niitii isaas (akka deessu) isaaf tolchine, Isaan (nabiyyoonni) toltuu keessatti kan daddafan ta'an, kajeellaafi sodaan (guutamanii) kan Nu kadhatan turan, Nuuf sodaatoo turan.
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
И Мы ответили ему, даровали ему Яхью и исцелили для него его супругу. Воистину, они спешили творить благие дела, взывали к Нам с надеждой и страхом и были пред Нами смиренными.
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
Одазвали смо му се и, излечивши му жену, Јована му поклонисмо. Они су се трудили да што више добра ураде и молили су Нам се у нади и страху, и били су према Нама понизни.
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
Basi tukamwitikia, na tukampa Yahya na tukamponyeshea mkewe. Hakika wao walikuwa wepesi wa kutenda mema, na wakituomba kwa shauku na hofu. Nao walikuwa wakitunyenyekea.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Så vi besvarade hans bön, gjorde hans hustru fruktsam och välsignade honom med Johannes. De skyndade alltid till goda gärningar och bad till oss med hopp och fruktan, och var ödmjuka inför oss.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Biz de onun duasını kabul ettik ve kendisine Yahya’yı bağışladık. Eşini de kendisi için, (doğurmaya) elverişli kıldık. Onlar gerçekten hayır işlerinde yarışırlar, (rahmetimizi) umarak ve (azabımızdan) korkarak bize dua ederlerdi. Onlar bize derin saygı duyan kimselerdi.
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اردو · Urdu
ہم نے اس کی دعا کو قبول فرما کر اسے یحيٰ (علیہ السلام) عطا فرمایا[1] اور ان کی بیوی کو ان کے لئے درست کر دیا[2]۔ یہ بزرگ لوگ نیک کاموں کی طرف جلدی کرتے تھے اور ہمیں ﻻلچ طمع اور ڈر خوف سے پکارتے تھے۔ اور ہمارے سامنے عاجزی کرنے والے تھے.[3]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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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
DIN 31635wallatī ʾaḥṣanat farǧahā fanafaḫnā fīhā min rūḥinā waǧaʿalnāhā wabnahā ʾāyatan lilʿālamīna
Talal Itani2012 And she who guarded her virginity. We breathed into her of Our spirit, and made her and her son a sign to the world.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And she who was chaste, therefor We breathed into her (something) of Our Spirit and made her and her son a token for (all) peoples
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And she who guarded her private parts, and we breathed into her of our Spirit, and we made her and her son a sign unto the worlds
John Medows Rodwell1861 And her who kept her maidenhood, and into whom we breathed of our spirit, and made her and her son a sign to all creatures
George Sale1734 And remember her who preserved her virginity, and into whom We breathed of our spirit; ordaining her and her son for a sign unto all creatures
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 —
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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 Rodwell0.71
Talal Itani · George Sale0.71
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.71
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.70
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.63
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.