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.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Then we fulfilled the promise unto them. So we delivered them and whom We would, and We destroyed the prodigals
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
Yet we made our promise to them good, and we saved them and whom we pleased; but we destroyed those who committedexcesses
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But We made good our promise unto them: Wherefore We delivered them, and those whom We pleased; but We destroyed the exorbitant transgressors
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
Pastaj Ne e përmbushëm premtimin ndaj tyre: i shpëtuam ata së bashku me këdo që deshëm dhe i shkatërruam shkelësit e kufijve.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
অতঃপর আমি রাসূলদের সাথে কৃত (সাহায্য ও বিজয়ের) ওয়াদা পূর্ণ করলাম। আর আমি তাদেরকে ও যাদেরকে ইচ্ছে রক্ষা করলাম এবং সীমালঙ্ঘনকারীদেরকে ধ্বংস করে দিলাম।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Poslije smo im obećanje ispunjavali, i njih i one koje smo htjeli spašavali, a one koji su pretjerali, uništavali.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Poslije smo im obećanje ispunjavali, i njih i one koje smo htjeli spašavali, a one koji su pretjerali, uništavalili.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Refti Min nGoonginani ɓe Fodoore nde Min danndi ɓe won'dude e ɓen ɓe Min Muuyi, Min kalki fantinɓe ɓen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
შემდეგ ჩვენ შევასრულეთ მათთვის [შუამავლებისა და მათი მიმდევრებისთვის] მიცემული აღთქმა — რომ მათ გადავარჩენდით და ნიშნების უარმყოფელებს დავღუპავდით. ასე გადავარჩინეთ ისინი და ისინიც, ვინც ვისურვეთ [ვინც ჭეშმარიტება ირწმუნა], ხოლო ზღვარგადასულნი დავღუპეთ.
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Deutsch · German
Hierauf haben Wir ihnen das Versprechen wahr gemacht. So haben Wir sie und diejenigen, die Wir wollen, errettet und die Maßlosen vernichtet.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Έπειτα εκπληρώσαμε την υπόσχεσή Μας προς αυτούς (τους Αγγελιαφόρους), και έτσι σώσαμε αυτούς και όσους θέλαμε (δηλ. τους πιστούς), και καταστρέψαμε εκείνους που ξεπέρασαν τα όρια (με την απιστία και τις αμαρτίες).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर हमने उनसे किए हुए वादे को सच कर दिखाया। तो हमने उन्हें बचा लिया और उसे भी जिसे हम चाहते थे। और हमने हद से बढ़ने वालों को नष्ट कर दिया।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Poi mantenemmo la promessa fatta loro e li salvammo insieme a quelli che volemmo salvare, e distruggemmo i licenziosi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
9. Tada Mes išpildėme jiems pažadą. Taigi Mes išgelbėjome juos ir tuos, kuriuos Mes norėjome, tačiau Mes sunaikinome Al-Musrifūn (t. y. netikinčiuosius Allahą, Jo Pasiuntinius, išlaidžius, peržengiančius Allaho nustatytas ribas, darančius nusikaltimus, engiančius, praktikuojančius daugiadievystę ir darančius nuodėmes).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Eegasii waadicha isaaniif dhugaa goonee, isaaniifi nama feenes ni baraarsinee; daanga dabartoota immoo ni balleessine.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Затем Мы исполнили данное им обещание и спасли их и тех, кого пожелали, и погубили преступавших всякую меру.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Затим би им обећање испуњавали, и њих, и оне које смо хтели спашавали, а невернике уништавали.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Kisha tukawatimizia miadi, na tukawaokoa wao na wale tuliowataka, na tukawaangamiza wale waliopitiliza mipaka.
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Svenska · Swedish
Därefter uppfyllde vi vårt löfte till [sändebuden] och räddade dem och de som vi ville rädda, medan vi förintade de som gått över gränsen.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Sonra onlara verdiğimiz sözümüzde durup, onları ve dilediğimiz kimseleri kurtarıp, haddi aşanları da helâk ettik.
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اردو · Urdu
پھر ہم نے ان سے کیے ہوئے سب وعدے سچے کیے انہیں اور جن جن کو ہم نے چاہا نجات عطا فرمائی اور حد سے نکل جانے والوں کو غارت کر دیا.[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.
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Talal Itani2012 We did not send before you except men, whom We inspired. Ask the people of knowledge, if you do not know.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And We sent not (as Our messengers) before thee other than men, whom We inspired. Ask the followers of the Reminder if ye know not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Nor did we send before them any but men whom we inspired? Ask ye the people of the Scriptures if ye do not know
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we sent none, previous to thee, but men to whom we had revealed ourselves. Ask ye the people who are warned by Scriptures, if ye know it not
George Sale1734 We sent none as our apostles before thee, other than men, unto whom We revealed our will. Ask those who are acquainted with the scripture, if ye know not this
DIN 31635laqad ʾanzalnā ʾilaykum kitāban fīhi ḏikrukum ʾafalā taʿqilūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 We have sent down to you a Book, containing your message. Do you not understand?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Now We have revealed unto you a Scripture wherein is your Reminder. Have ye then no sense
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We have sent down to you a book in which is a reminder for you; have ye then no sense
John Medows Rodwell1861 And now have we sent down to you "the book," in which is your warning: What, will ye not then understand
George Sale1734 Now have We sent down unto you, O Koreish, the book of the Koran; wherein there is honourable mention of you: Will ye not therefore understand
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.59 on a scale
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.77
Talal Itani · George Sale0.74
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.69
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.50
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.35
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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.