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Talal Itani· published 2012
So We inspired him: "Build the Ark under Our observation and by Our inspiration. And when Our decree comes to pass, and the oven boils over, load into it two pairs of every kind, together with your family, except those of them against whom the word has already been pronounced. And do not speak to me concerning those who did wrong; for they are to be drowned."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Then We inspired in him, saying: Make the ship under Our eyes and Our inspiration. Then, when Our command cometh and the oven gusheth water, introduce therein of every (kind) two spouses, and thy household save him thereof against whom the Word hath already gone forth. And plead not with Me on behalf of those who have done wrong. Lo! they will be drowned
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 inspired him, 'Make the ark under our eyes and inspiration; and when the oven boils over, conduct into it of every kind two, with thy family, except him of them against whom the word has passed; and do not address me for those who do wrong, verily, they are to be drowned
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
So we revealed unto him, "Make the ark under our eye, and as we have taught, and when our doom shall come on, and the earth'ssurface shall boil up, Carry into it of every kind a pair, and thy family, save him on whom sentence hath already passed: and plead not with me for the wicked, for they shall be drowned
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And We revealed our orders unto him, saying, make the ark in our sight; and according to our revelation. And when our decree cometh to be executed, and the oven shall boil and pour forth water, carry into it of every species of animals one pair; and also thy family, except such of them on whom a previous sentence of destruction hath passed: And speak not unto Me in behalf of those who have been unjust; for they shall be drowned
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
Kështu, Ne i shpallëm atij: "Ndërtoje anijen nën sytë (mbikëqyrjen) dhe udhëzimin Tonë e, kur të vijë urdhri Ynë e uji të nisë të dalë nga furra, ngarko në anije nga të gjitha llojet (e gjallesave) nga një çift, e edhe familjen tënde, përveç atyre për të cilët është marrë vendimi dhe mos më lut për ata që kanë bërë të këqija, sepse ata, pa dyshim, do të fundosen."
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বাংলা · Bengali
তারপর আমি তার (নূহের) কাছে ওয়াহী প্রেরণ করলাম যে, তুমি আমার চাক্ষুষ তত্ত্বাবধানে ও আমার ওয়াহী অনুযায়ী নৌকা তৈরি করো। তারপর (তাদেরকে ধ্বংস করার ব্যাপারে) যখন আমার আদেশ আসবে এবং চুলা (প্রবল বেগে পানিতে) উথলে উঠবে, তখন প্রত্যেক জীবের (নর ও মাদি থেকে) এক জোড়া করে ও তোমার পরিবারবর্গকে নৌকায় তুলে নিও; তবে তাদের মধ্যে যাদের (ধ্বংসের) ব্যাপারে পূর্বে সিদ্ধান্ত হয়ে আছে তারা ছাড়া। আর যারা যুলম করেছে তাদের (নাজাতের) ব্যাপারে তুমি আমাকে সম্বোধন করো না। নিশ্চয় তারা (প্লাবনের পানিতে) নিমজ্জিত হবে (এবং ধ্বংস হবে)।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I Mi mu objavismo: “Lađu pred očima Našim i po objavi Našoj pravi, pa kad zapovijed Naša dođe i voda na površinu zemlje izbije, ti u nju ukrcaj od svake vrste po dvoje – mužjaka i ženku, i porodicu svoju, ali ne i one od njih za koje je prethodila Riječ, i ne obraćaj Mi se za one koji su nepravdu učinili, jer će, doista, biti potopljeni."
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I Mi mu objavismo: “Lađu pred očima Našim i po objavi Našoj pravi, pa kad zapovijed Naša dođe i voda na površinu zemlje izbije, ti u nju ukrcaj od svake vrste po dvoje – mužjaka i ženku, i obitelj svoju, ali ne i one od njih za koje je prethodila Riječ, i ne obraćaj Mi se za one koji su nepravdu učinili, jer će, doista, biti potopljeni."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Min wahayini fa'ade e makko yo o lesu laana kan e dennka amen e Wahayu Amen, si Yamiroore amen nden arii huɓɓinirde nden pullitike [ndiyam] naatu e ndeer makka immorde e kala nooneeji ɗin ɗiɗi-ɗiɗi. E koreeji ma, si wonaa ɓeen konngol ngol aditii e mu'um, wata a haaldu e am fii ɓen tooñuɓe, pellet, kamɓe ko ɓe yooleteeɓe.
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ქართული · Georgian
და ჩვენ შთავაგონეთ მას [ნუჰს]: «გაამზადე კიდობანი [გემი] ჩვენი თვალთახედვის ქვეშ [ჩვენი დაცვის ქვეშ] და ჩვენი შთაგონებით. როდესაც მოვა ჩვენი ბრძანება [შენი ერის ურწმუნოების გამო დასასჯელად] და გადმოხეთქავს წყალი თონედან [რაც წარღვნის დაწყების ნიშანი იქნება], მაშინ შეიყვანე მასში [გემში] თითოეული სახეობიდან წყვილი და შენი ოჯახი [შენი შვილები და ცოლი], გარდა იმათისა, ვისზეც უკვე განესაზღვრა ჩემი სიტყვა [სასჯელისთვის მათი ურწმუნოების გამო] [გარდა შენი ცოლისა და შვილისა]. და ნუ მომმართავ იმათ გამო, ვინც უსამართლობა ჩაიდინა; ჭეშმარიტად, ისინი აუცილებლად დაიხრჩობიან!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Da gaben Wir ihm ein: „Fertige das Schiff vor Unseren Augen an und nach Unserer Eingebung. Wenn dann Unser Befehl kommt und der Ofen brodelt, so führe von jeder (Art) ein Paar und deine Angehörigen hinein, außer derjenige von ihnen, gegen den das Wort vorher ergangen ist. Und sprich Mich nicht an zugunsten derjenigen, die Unrecht getan haben; sie werden gewiss ertränkt werden.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αποκαλύψαμε λοιπόν σ' αυτόν (τον Νώε) ότι: «Κατασκεύασε την Κιβωτό υπό την Όρασή Μας και την έμπνευσή Μας (για το πώς θα την κατασκευάσεις). Όταν θα έρθει η εντολή Μας, και το νερό θα αναβλύζει από τον φούρνο (ως σημάδι ότι η πλημμύρα ξεκινάει), τότε βάλε σ' αυτή (την Κιβωτό, τους πιστούς, και) ένα ζευγάρι, αρσενικό και θηλυκό, από κάθε είδος (ζώου), και την οικογένειά σου, εκτός απ' εκείνους για τους οποίους έχει ήδη αποφασιστεί (ότι θα πνιγούν). Και μη Μου μιλάς σχετικά μ' εκείνους που αδίκησαν (ούτε να Με επικαλεστείς να τους συγχωρήσω), πράγματι, θα πνιγούν.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तो हमने उसकी ओर वह़्य (प्रकाशना) की कि हमारी आँखों के सामने और हमारी वह़्य के अनुसार नौका बना। फिर जब हमारा आदेश आ जाए तथा तन्नूर उबल पड़े, तो प्रत्येक जीव का जोड़ा नर और मादा तथा अपने परिवार वालों को उसमें सवार कर ले, उनमें से उसके सिवाय जिसके बारे में पहले निर्णय हो चुका है। और मुझसे उनके बारे में बात न करना, जिन्होंने अत्याचार किया है। निश्चय वे डुबोए जाने वाले हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
Gli ispirammo: «Costruisci l’Arca sotto la Nostra tutela, per nostra ispirazione. Ma quando arriva il Nostro ordine e quando il forno prende a ribollire, prendi una coppia di ogni specie e la tua famiglia, tranne chi è stato condannato tra di loro. E non rivolgerti a Me per gli ingiusti: in verità saranno annegati.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
27. Taigi Mes apreiškėme jam (sakydami): „Pastatyk laivą po Mūsų Akimis ir po Mūsų Apreiškimo (vedimo). Tada, kai ateis Mūsų Įsakymas, ir vanduo pasipils iš krosnies, paimk į denį kiekvienos rūšies porą (vyrą ir moterį) ir savo šeimą, išskyrus tuos, prieš kuriuos jau buvo paskelbtas Žodis. Ir nesikreipk į Mane dėl tų, kurie darė bloga. Iš tiesų, jie bus paskandinti.
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Русский · Russian
Мы внушили ему: «Построй ковчег перед Нашими очами и по Нашему откровению, а когда придёт Наше веление и забурлит печь, погрузи в него по паре из каждого вида и свою семью, кроме тех из них, о ком свершилось слово. И не обращайся ко Мне о тех, которые поступали несправедливо, — воистину, они будут потоплены.
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Српски · Serbian
И Ми му објависмо: “Гради лађу под очима Нашим и према надахнућу Нашем, па кад заповед Наша дође и вода испод пећи на површину земље избије, ти у њу укрцај од сваке врсте животиње по пар, мужјака и женку, и чељад своју, али не оне о којима је већ суд донесен, и не обраћај Ми се за невернике, јер ће, заиста, бити потопљени.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Tukamfunulia wahyi kwamba, "Unda jahazi mbele ya macho yetu na ufunuo wetu! Na itakapofika amri yetu na ikafurika tanuri, hapo waingize ndani yake kutoka kwa kila jozi, dume na jike, na ahali zako, isipokuwa yule ambaye katika wao juu yake imekwisha tangulia kauli. Wala usiniongeleshe kuhusu hao waliodhulumu. Kwani hao bila ya shaka watazamishwa.
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Svenska · Swedish
Då uppenbarade vi för honom: ”Bygg arken under våra [vakande] ögon och efter vår anvisning. När vår befallning verkställs och ugnarna börjar svämma över, ta då ombord ett par av varje djurart samt din familj, förutom de som redan dömts [till undergång]. Tala inte till mig till förmån för de orättfärdiga; de ska dränkas.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Bunun üzerine Nûh’a: “Gözlerimizin önünde, vahyimize göre gemiyi yap!” diye vahyettik. Bizim emrimiz gelip de tandır kaynamaya başlayınca, (sular coşup taştığında Nûh’a) dedik ki: “Her cins canlıdan (erkekli dişili) birer çift, bir de aleyhine hüküm verilmiş olanın dışında kalan aileni gemiye al ve zulmeden kimseler hakkında bana hiç yalvarma! Şüphesiz onlar suda boğulacaklardır.”
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اردو · Urdu
تو ہم نے ان کی طرف وحی بھیجی کہ تو ہماری آنکھوں کے سامنے ہماری وحی کے مطابق ایک کشتی بنا۔ جب ہمارا حکم آجائے[1] اور تنور ابل پڑے[2] تو، تو ہر قسم کا ایک ایک جوڑا اس میں رکھ لے[3] اور اپنے اہل کو بھی، مگر ان میں سے جن کی بابت ہماری بات پہلے گزر چکی ہے[4]۔ خبردار جن لوگوں نے ﻇلم کیا ہے ان کے بارے میں مجھ سے کچھ کلام نہ کرنا وه تو سب ڈبوئے جائیں گے.[5]
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DIN 31635faʾiḏā stawayta ʾanta waman maʿaka ʿalā l-fulki faquli l-ḥamdu lillāhi llaḏī naǧǧānā mina l-qawmi ẓ-ẓālimīna
Talal Itani2012 Then, when you and those with you are settled in the Ark, say, "Praise be to God, who has saved us from the wrongdoing people."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when thou art on board the ship, thou and whoso is with thee, then say: Praise be to Allah Who hath saved us from the wrongdoing folk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But when thou art settled, thou and those with thee in the ark, say, "Praise belongs to God, who saved us from the unjust people
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when thou, and they who shall be with thee, shall go up into the ark; say, 'Praise be unto God, who hath rescued us from the wicked folk
George Sale1734 And when thou and they who shall be with thee, shall go up into the ark, say, praise be unto God, who hath delivered us from the ungodly people
DIN 31635waqul rabbi ʾanzilnī munzalan mubārakan waʾanta ḫayru l-munzilīna
Talal Itani2012 And say, "My Lord, land me with a blessed landing, as you are the best of transporters."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And say: My Lord! Cause me to land at a blessed landing-place, for Thou art Best of all who bring to land
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And say, "My Lord! make me to alight in a blessed alighting-place, for Thou art the best of those who cause men to alight
John Medows Rodwell1861 And say, 'O my Lord! disembark me with a blessed disembarking: for thou art the best to disembark
George Sale1734 And say, O Lord, cause me to come down from this ark with a blessed descent; for thou art best able to bring me down from the same with safety
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Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
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Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Talal Itani · George Sale0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.58
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.38
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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.