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Talal Itani· published 2012
And when Our Clear Verses are recited to them, you will recognizedisgust on the faces of those who disbelieve. They nearlyassault those who recite to them Our Verses. Say, "Shall I inform you of something worse than that? The Fire! God has promised it to those who disbelieve. And what a wretched outcome!"
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And when Our revelations are recited unto them, thou knowest the denial in the faces of those who disbelieve; they all but attack those who recite Our revelations unto them. Say: Shall I proclaim unto you worse than that? The Fire! Allah hath promised it for those who disbelieve. A haplessjourney'send
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
When our signs are read to them manifest, thou mayest recognise in the faces of those who misbelieve disdain; they well-nigh rush at those who recite to them our signs. Say, 'Shall I inform you of something worse than that for you, the Fire which God has promised to those who misbelieve? an evil journey shall it be
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when our clear signs are rehearsed to them, thou mayst perceive disdain in the countenances of the Infidels. Scarce can they refrain from rushing to attack those who rehearse our signs to them! SAY: Shall I tell you of worse than this? The fire which God hath threatened to those who believe not! Wretched the passage thither
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when our evident signs are rehearsed unto them, thou mayest perceive, in the countenances of the unbelievers, a disdain thereof: It wantethlittle but that they rush with violence on those who rehearse our signs unto them. Say, shall I declare unto you a worse thing than this? The fire of hell, which God hath threatened unto those who believe not, is worse; and an unhappy journey shall it be thither
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
Kur u lexohen atyre ajetet Tona të qarta, në fytyrat e jobesimtarëve vëren mërinë, saqë veç sa nuk u vërsulen atyre që ua lexojnë ajetet Tona. Thuaj: "A t'ju njoftoj për diçka më të keqe se kjo? (Ai është) Zjarri, të cilin Allahu ua ka premtuar atyre që nuk besojnë! Ah, sa vendbanim i keq që është ai!
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর যখন তাদের কাছে আমার আয়াতসমূহ সুস্পষ্টরূপে তিলাওয়াত করা হয়, তখন যারা কুফরী করে তাদের মুখমণ্ডলে তুমি অসন্তোষ দেখতে পাবে; তাদের কাছে যারা আমার আয়াতসমূহ তিলাওয়াত করে, তাদেরকে তারা আক্রমণ করতে উদ্যত হয়। (হে রাসূল! তুমি তাদেরকে) বলো: তাহলে কি আমি তোমাদেরকে এর চেয়েও নিকৃষ্ট কিছুর সংবাদ দিবো? এটা আগুন, যারা কুফরী করে, আল্লাহ তাদেরকে তাতে প্রবেশ করানোর প্রতিশ্রুতি দিয়েছেন। আর এটা কত নিকৃষ্ট ঠিকানা!
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Bosanski · Bosnian
A kad im se Naši jasni ajeti kazuju, ti primjećuješ veliko negodovanje na licima onih što ne vjeruju, koji umalo da ne nasrnu na one koji im riječi Naše kazuju. Reci: “Hoćete li da vam kažem što će vam biti mrže od toga? – Vatra kojom Allah nevjernicima prijeti, a grozno će ona prebivalište biti.”
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Hrvatski · Croatian
A kad im se Naši jasni ajeti kazuju, ti primjećuješ veliko negodovanje na licima onih što ne vjeruju, koji umalo da ne nasrnu na one koji im riječi Naše kazuju. Reci: “Hoćete li da vam kažem što će vam biti mrže od toga? Vatra kojom Allah nevjernicima prijeti, a grozno će ona prebivalište biti.”
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Si jannganaama ɓe
aayeeje amen ɗeen ɓannguɗe a ngandat e je'ece ɓen yedduɓe mettinaare heɓe ɗeɓa yanude e ɓen jannganayɓe ɓe aayeeje amen ɗen. Maaku: "Yo mi habru on ko ɓuri bon'de e ɗum mooɗon [ko jaŋtanaɗon ko] ko Yiite ngen Alla fodii nge ɓeen yedduɓe bonii ruttorde.
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ქართული · Georgian
და როცა მათ [მრავალღმერთიანებს] ეკითხებათ ჩვენი ნათელი აიათები [ყურანიდან], დაინახავ უარყოფას იმათ სახეზე, რომლებიც ურწმუნონი არიან. ლამისაა, თავს დაესხნენ იმას, ვინც ჩვენს აიათებს უკითხავთ. უთხარი მათ [ო, შუამავალო]: «ხომ არ მეცნობებინა თქვენთვის ამაზე უფრო საშინელი? ეს ცეცხლია! - ალლაჰმა აღუთქვა ის იმათ, ვინც არიან ურწმუნონი და რა საზიზღარია ეს თავშესაფარი».
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Deutsch · German
Und wenn ihnen Unsere Zeichen als klare Beweise verlesen werden, erkennst du in den Gesichtern derjenigen, die ungläubig sind, Missbilligung. Beinahe würden sie über diejenigen herfallen, die ihnen Unsere Zeichen verlesen. Sag: „Soll ich euch denn kundtun, was schlechter ist als dies? (Es ist) das (Höllen)feuer; Allah hat es denjenigen angedroht, die ungläubig sind - und wie schlimm ist dieser Ausgang!“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Όταν τα ξεκάθαρα Εδάφιά Μας απαγγέλλονται σ' αυτούς, βλέπεις (ω, Προφήτη) την άρνηση στα πρόσωπα εκείνων που αρνήθηκαν την πίστη. Παραλίγο να επιτεθούν σ' αυτούς (τους πιστούς) που απαγγέλλουν σ' εκείνους τα Εδάφιά Μας! Πες: «Να σας ενημερώσω για κάτι χειρότερο απ' αυτή (την οργή σας); Είναι η Φωτιά, την οποία ο Αλλάχ έχει υποσχεθεί σ' εκείνους που αρνήθηκαν την πίστη, και τι άθλιος προορισμός είναι αυτός!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और जब उन्हें हमारी स्पष्ट आयतें सुनाई जाती हैं, तो आप काफ़िरों के चेहरों में अस्वीकृति पहचान लेंगे। क़रीब होंगे कि वे उनपर आक्रमण कर दें, जो उन्हें हमारी आयतें पढ़कर सुनाते हैं। आप कह दें : तो क्या मैं तुम्हें इससे बुरी चीज़ बता दूँ? वह आग है, जिसका अल्लाह ने उन लोगों से वादा किया है, जिन्होंने कुफ़्र किया और वह बहुत ही बुरा ठिकाना है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
E quando vengono recitati loro i Nostri chiari Segni, tu noti il rifiuto sul volto dei miscredenti: sembrano quasi voler saltare addosso a quelli che recitano loro i Nostri Segni. Di’: «Volete che vi annunci una cosa ancora peggiore? È il Fuoco, che Allāh ha promesso ai miscredenti, e un infausto destino!”
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
72. Ir kai Mūsų Aiškios Eilutės recituojamos jiems, jūs pastebėsite atmetimą netikinčiųjų veiduose! Jie beveik pasiruošę pulti iš įtūžio tuos, kurie recituoja Mūsų Eilutes jiems. Sakyk: „Ar pasakyti jums tai, kas blogiau nei tai? (Pragaro) Ugnis, kurią Allahas pažadėjęs tiems, kurie netikėjo, ir blogiausias iš tiesų yra toks tikslas!“
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Русский · Russian
И когда им читаются Наши аяты в ясном виде, ты узнаешь на лицах тех, которые отвергли веру, неприятие. Они едва не набрасываются на тех, которые читают им Наши знамения. Скажи: «Не поведать ли вам о том, что хуже этого? — Адский огонь! Аллах обещал его тем, которые отвергли веру. Сколь же скверен этот исход!»
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Српски · Serbian
А кад им се Наше јасне речи казују, ти примећујеш велико негодовање на лицима оних који не верују, који умало да не насрну на оне који им речи Наше казују. Реци: “Хоћете ли да вам кажем шта ће вам бити мрзније од тога? Ватра којом Аллах неверницима прети, а грозно ће она пребивалиште бити.”
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na wanaposomewa Aya zetu zilizo wazi, utaona chuki katika nyuso za waliokufuru. Hukaribia kuwavamia wale wanaowasomea hizo Aya zetu. Sema: Je, nikuambieni yaliyo mabaya zaidi kuliko haya? Ni Moto. Mwenyezi Mungu amewaahidi waliokufuru, na ni marudio mabaya hayo.
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Svenska · Swedish
När våra klara verser reciteras för dem ser du hur de otrognas ansikten fylls av hat. De är nära att kasta sig över de som reciterar våra verser för dem. Säg: ”Ska jag berätta om något ännu värre? Elden som Gud har lovat de otrogna – ja, vilket förfärligt slut!”
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Türkçe · Turkish
Onlara apaçık ayetlerimiz okunduğu zaman, o kâfirlerin yüzlerinden inkârı anlarsın. Neredeyse, kendilerine ayetlerimizi okuyanlara saldıracaklar. De ki: Size bundan daha kötüsünü haber vereyim mi? Ateş! Allah onu kâfirlere vadetti. O, ne kötü sondur.
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اردو · Urdu
جب ان کے سامنے ہمارے کلام کی کھلی ہوئی آیتوں کی تلاوت کی جاتی ہے تو آپ کافروں کے چہروں پر ناخوشی کے صاف آﺛار پہچان لیتے ہیں۔ وه تو قریب ہوتے ہیں کہ ہماری آیتیں سنانے والوں پر حملہ کر بیٹھیں[1] ، کہہ دیجئے کہ کیا میں تمہیں اس سے بھی زیاده بدتر خبر دوں۔ وه آگ ہے، جس کا وعده اللہ نے کافروں سے کر رکھا ہے[2]، اور وه بہت ہی بری جگہ ہے.
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 Do you not know that God knows everything in the heavens and the earth? This is in a book. That is easy for God.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Hast thou not known that Allah knoweth all that is in the heaven and the earth? Lo! it is in a record. Lo! that is easy for Allah
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Didst thou not know that God knows what is in the heavens and the earth? verily, that is in a book; verily, that for God is easy
John Medows Rodwell1861 Knowest thou not that God knoweth whatever is in the Heaven and on the Earth? This truly is written in the Book: this truly is easy for God
George Sale1734 Dost thou not know that God knoweth whatever is in heaven and on earth? Verily this is written in the book of his decrees: This is easy with God
Easy-read (simplified)waya'budoona min dooni llaahi maa lam yunazzil bihi sultaanan wamaa laysa lahum bihi 'ilmun wamaa lilzzaalimeena min naseer
DIN 31635wayaʿbudūna min dūni llāhi mā lam yunazzil bihi sulṭānan wamā laysa lahum bihi ʿilmun wamā lilẓẓālimīna min naṣīrin
Talal Itani2012 Yet they worship, besides God, things for which He sent down no warrant, and what they have no knowledge of. There is no savior for the transgressors.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And they worship instead of Allah that for which He hath sent down no warrant, and that whereof they have no knowledge. For evil-doers there is no helper
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And they serve beside God what He has sent down no power for, and what they have no knowledge of; but the wrong-doers shall have none to help them
John Medows Rodwell1861 They worship beside God, that for which He hath sent down no warranty, and that of which they have no knowledge: but for those who commit this wrong, no helper
George Sale1734 They worship, besides God, that concerning which He hath sent down no convincing proof, and concerning which they have no knowledge: But the unjust doers shall have none to assist them
DIN 31635yā ʾayyuhā n-nāsu ḍuriba maṯalun fastamiʿū lahu ʾinna llaḏīna tadʿūna min dūni llāhi lan yaḫluqū ḏubāban walawi ǧtamaʿū lahu waʾin yaslubhumu ḏ-ḏubābu šayʾan lā yastanqiḏūhu minhu ḍaʿufa ṭ-ṭālibu wal-maṭlūbu
Talal Itani2012 O people! A parable is presented, so listen to it: Those you invoke besides God will never create a fly, even if they banded together for that purpose. And if the fly steals anything from them, they cannot recover it from it. Weak are the pursuer and the pursued.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O mankind! A similitude is coined, so pay ye heed to it: Lo! those on whom ye call beside Allah will never create a fly though they combine together for the purpose. And if the fly took something from them, they could not rescue it from it. So weak are (both) the seeker and the sought
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye folk! a parable is struck out for you, so listen to it. Verily, those on whom ye call beside God could never create a fly if they all united together to do it, and if the fly should despoil them of aught they could not snatch it away from it - weak is both the seeker and the sought
John Medows Rodwell1861 O men! a parable is set forth to you, wherefore hearken to it. Verily, they on whom ye call beside God, cannot create a fly, though they assemble for it; and if the fly carry off aught from them, they cannot take it away from it! Weak the suppliant and the supplicated
George Sale1734 O men, a parable is propounded unto you; wherefore hearken unto it. Verily the idols which ye invoke, besides God, can never create a single fly, although they were all assembled for that purpose: And if the fly snatch any thing from them, they cannot recover the same from it. Weak is the petitioner, and the petitioned
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.63 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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
Talal Itani · George Sale0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.57
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.52
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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.