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Talal Itani· published 2012
That is because God merges the night into the day, and He merges the day into the night, and because God is Hearing and Seeing.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
That is because Allahmaketh the night to pass into the day and maketh the day to pass into the night, and because Allah is Hearer, Seer
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
That for that God joins on the night to the day, and joins on the day to the night, and that God is hearing, seeing
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
So shall it be; for that God causeth the night to enter in upon the day, and He causeth the day to enter in upon the night: and for that God Heareth, Seeth
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
This shall be done, for that God causeth the night to succeed the day, and He causeth the day to succeed the night; and for that God both heareth and seeth
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
Kjo, se Allahu është Ai që fut natën në ditë dhe fut ditën në natë dhe se Allahu dëgjon e sheh çdo gjë.
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বাংলা · Bengali
এটা(২৬) এজন্য যে, নিশ্চয় আল্লাহ রাতকে দিনের মধ্যে প্রবেশ করান এবং দিনকে রাতের মধ্যে প্রবেশ করান। আর নিশ্চয় আল্লাহ সর্বশ্রোতা, সম্যক দ্রষ্টা।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Eto tako! A Allah smjenjuje noć danom, a dan noću, i Allah je Onaj Koji sve čuje i sve vidi.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Eto tako! A Allah smjenjuje noć danom, a dan noću, i Allah je Onaj Koji sve čuje i sve vidi.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɗuum [ko jaŋtaa ɗoo], ko fii pellet, Alla hono naatna jemma on e ndeer ñalorma on, hiMo naada kadi ñalawma on e ndeer jemma on. Pellet, Alla ko o Nanoowo ji'oowo.
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ქართული · Georgian
ეს [ის, რომ ალლაჰი დაეხმარება დაჩაგრულს], იმიტომაა, რომ (ალლაჰი ყოვლისშემძლეა): იგი ღამეს დღეში შეიყვანს და დღეს — ღამეში [ცვლის დღისა და ღამის ხანგრძლივობას წელიწადის დროების შესაბამისად]. და ასევე იმიტომ, რომ ალლაჰი ყოვლისმსმენი, ყოვლისმხედველია.
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Deutsch · German
Dies (ist so), weil Allah die Nacht in den Tag eindringen und den Tag in die Nacht eindringen lässt und weil Allah allhörend und allsehend ist.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αυτό (ότι ο Αλλάχ θα υποστηρίξει τον αδικημένο, είναι) επειδή ο Αλλάχ (είναι Ικανός για τα πάντα και) είναι Αυτός που εισάγει τη νύχτα στην ημέρα, και εισάγει την ημέρα στη νύχτα (δηλ. αυξάνει και μειώνει τις ώρες τους κατά το χειμώνα και το καλοκαίρι). Και ο Αλλάχ είναι Σαμεί‘ (Αυτός που ακούει τα πάντα) και Μπασείρ (Αυτός που βλέπει τα Πάντα).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
यह इसलिए कि अल्लाह रात को दिन में दाखिल करता है और दिन को रात में दाखिल करता है। और अल्लाह सब कुछ सुनने वाला, सब कुछ देखने वाला[34] है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Ciò perché Allāh fa penetrare la notte nel giorno e il giorno nella notte, e in verità Allāh è Ascoltatore, Osservatore.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
61. Taip yra todėl, kad Allahas sujungia naktį į dieną, ir Jis sujungia dieną į naktį. Ir tikrai, Allahas yra Visa Girdintis, Visa Matantis.
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Русский · Russian
Это потому, что Аллах вводит ночь в день и вводит день в ночь, и потому что Аллах — слышащий, видящий.
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Српски · Serbian
Ето тако! А Аллах смењује ноћ даном, а дан ноћу, и Аллах све чује и све види.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Hayo ni kwa kuwa Mwenyezi Mungu huingiza usiku katika mchana, na huuingiza mchana katika usiku, na ya kwamba Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mwenye kusikia, Mwenye kuona.
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Svenska · Swedish
Denna [hjälp är från] Gud – han som låter natten övergå i dagen och dagen övergå i natten. Ja, Gud hör allt, ser allt.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Bu (böyledir). Çünkü Allah geceyi gündüze katar, gündüzü de geceye katar. Şüphesiz Allah, her şeyi işitendir, her şeyi görendir.
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اردو · Urdu
یہ اس لئے کہ اللہ رات کو دن میں داخل کرتا ہے اور دن کو رات میں داخل کرتا ہے[1] ، اور بیشک اللہ سننے واﻻ دیکھنے واﻻ ہے.
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Talal Itani2012 That is so! Whoever retaliates similarly to the affliction he was made to suffer, and then he is wronged again, God will definitely assist him. God is Pardoning and Forgiving.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That (is so). And whoso hath retaliated with the like of that which he was made to suffer and then hath (again) been wronged, Allah will succour him. Lo! Allah verily is Mild, Forgiving
Edward Henry Palmer1880 That (is so). Whoever punishes with the like of what he has been injured with, and shall then be outraged again, God shall surely help him; verily, God pardons, forgives
John Medows Rodwell1861 So shall it be. And whoever in making exact reprisal for injury done him, shall again be wronged, God will assuredly aid him: for God is most Merciful, Gracious
George Sale1734 This is so. Whoever shall take a vengeance equal to the injury which hath been done him, and shall afterwards be unjustly treated; verily God will assist him: For God is merciful, and ready to forgive
Easy-read (simplified)dhaalika bi'anna llaaha huwa l-haqqu wa'anna maa yad'oona min doonihi huwa l-baatilu wa'anna llaaha huwa l-'aliyyu l-kabeer
DIN 31635ḏālika biʾanna llāha huwa l-ḥaqqu waʾanna mā yadʿūna min dūnihi huwa l-bāṭilu waʾanna llāha huwa l-ʿaliyyu l-kabīru
Talal Itani2012 That is because God is the Reality, and what they invoke besides Him is vanity, and because God is the Sublime, the Grand.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That is because Allah, He is the True, and that whereon they call instead of Him, it is the false, and because Allah, He is the High, the Great
Edward Henry Palmer1880 that is for that God is the truth, and for that what ye call on beside Him is falsehood, and that God is the high, the great
John Medows Rodwell1861 So shall it be, for that God is the truth; and because what they call on beside Him is vanity: and because God is the Lofty, the Mighty
George Sale1734 This, because God is truth, and because what they invoke besides Him, is vanity; and for that God is the high, the mighty
Easy-read (simplified)alam tara anna llaaha anzala mina s-samaa'i maa'an fatusbihu l-'ardu mukhdarratan inna llaaha lateefun khabeer
DIN 31635ʾalam tara ʾanna llāha ʾanzala mina s-samāʾi māʾan fatuṣbiḥu l-ʾarḍu muḫḍarratan ʾinna llāha laṭīfun ḫabīrun
Talal Itani2012 Do you not see that God sends down water from the sky, and the land becomes green? God is Kind and Aware.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Seest thou not how Allah sendeth down water from the sky and then the earth becometh green upon the morrow? Lo! Allah is Subtile, Aware
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Hast thou not seen that God sends down from the sky water, and on the morrow the earth is green? verily, God is kind and well aware
John Medows Rodwell1861 Seest thou not that God sendeth down water from Heaven, and that on the morrow the earth is clad with verdure? for God is benignant, cognisant of all
George Sale1734 Dost thou not see that God sendeth down water from heaven, and the earth becometh green? For God is gracious and wise
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 —
0.64 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 Rodwell0.78
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.77
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.72
Talal Itani · George Sale0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.47
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.39
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
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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.