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Allah hath created every animal of water. Of them is (a kind) that goeth upon its belly and (a kind) that goeth upon two legs and (a kind) that goeth upon four. Allah createth what He will. Lo! Allah is Able to do all things
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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
God created every livingcreature from water. Some of them crawl on their bellies, and some walk on two feet, and others walk on four. God creates whatever He wills. God is Capable of everything.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
And God created every beast from water, and of them is one that walks upon its belly, and of them one that walks upon two feet, and of them one that walks upon four. God creates what He pleases; verily, God is mighty over all
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And God hath created every animal of water. Some go upon the belly; some go upon two feet; some go upon four feet. God hath created what He pleased. Aye, God hath power over all things
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And God hath created every animal of water; one of them goeth on his belly, and another of them walketh upon two feet, and another of them walketh upon four feet: God createth that which he pleaseth; for God is almighty
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
Allahu krijoi çdo gjallesë prej ujit. Disa prej tyre ecin (duke u zvarritur) me bark, disa ecin me dy këmbë e disa ecin me katër. Allahu krijon çfarë të dojë. Allahu është i Plotfuqishëm për çdo gjë.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর আল্লাহ (জমিনের ওপর বিচরণকারী) প্রত্যেক জীবকে পানি (বীর্য) থেকে সৃষ্টি করেছেন। অতঃপর সেগুলোর কোনটি পেটে ভর দিয়ে চলে(১৩), কোনটি চলে দু’পায়ের ওপর(১৪), আবার কোনটি চার পায়ের ওপর চলে(১৫)। আল্লাহ (উল্লিখিত ও অনুল্লিখিত) যা ইচ্ছা সৃষ্টি করেন। নিশ্চয় আল্লাহ সব কিছুর ওপর সর্বশক্তিমান।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Allah sva živa bića stvara od vode [1] , neka od njih na trbuhu puze, neka idu na dvije noge, a neka, opet, hode na četiri; Allah stvara šta hoće, Allah, zaista, nad svime ima moć.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Allah sva živa bića[1] stvara od vode, neka od njih na trbuhu puze, neka idu na dvije noge, a neka, opet, hode na četiri; Allah stvara šta hoće, Allah, zaista, nad svime ima moć.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko Alla tagii kala kullel immorde e ndiyam, no e majji yaarooji reedu muuɗum, no e majji yaarooji koyɗe muuɗm no e majji kadi yaarooji [koyɗe] nayi. Alla homo Taga ko o muuyi, pellet, Alla ko kattanɗo kala hu'unde.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და ალლაჰმა შექმნა ყოველი ცხოველი წყლისგან. მათგან ზოგი მუცელზე ხოხავს, ზოგი ორი ფეხით დადის და ზოგიც ოთხით. ალლაჰი ქმნის იმას, რასაც ინებებს. ჭეშმარიტად, ალლაჰი ყოვლისშემძლეა.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und Allah hat jedes Tier aus Wasser erschaffen. So gibt es unter ihnen solche, die auf ihrem Bauch kriechen, und solche, die auf zwei Beinen gehen, und (wieder) solche, die auf Vieren gehen. Allah erschafft, was Er will. Wahrlich, Allah hat zu allem die Macht.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ο Αλλάχ δημιούργησε κάθε κινούμενο πλάσμα από νερό. Κάποιοι απ' αυτούς κινούνται με την κοιλιά τους, και άλλοι περπατούν με δύο πόδια και άλλοι περπατούν με τέσσερα (πόδια). Ο Αλλάχ δημιουργεί ό,τι θέλει. Πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ είναι για τα πάντα Ικανός.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
अल्लाह ही ने प्रत्येक जीवधारी को पानी से पैदा किया। तो उनमें से कुछ अपने पेट के बल चलते हैं और उनमें से कुछ दो पैरों पर चलते हैं तथा उनमें से कुछ चार (पैरों) पर चलते हैं। अल्लाह जो चाहता है, पैदा करता है। निःसंदेह अल्लाह हर चीज़ पर सर्वशक्तिमान है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E Allāh ha creato dall’acqua tutti gli esseri viventi; di cui alcuni strisciano sul ventre, altri camminano su due gambe e altri ancora su quattro: Allāh crea ciò che vuole. In verità Allāh è Onnipotente.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
45. Allahas sukūrė kiekvieną judantį (gyvą) kūrinį iš vandens. Tarp jų yra kai kurie, kurie šliaužia savo pilvais, ir kai kurie, kurie vaikšto dviem kojomis, ir kai kurie, kurie vaikšto ant keturių. Allahas sukuria tai, ką Jis nori. Iš tiesų, Allahas yra Galintis padaryti viską.
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Русский · Russian
Аллах сотворил всякое живое существо из воды. Среди них есть те, кто передвигается на животе, и среди них те, кто ходит на двух ногах, и среди них те, кто ходит на четырёх. Аллах творит то, что пожелает. Воистину, Аллах всемогущ над всем сущим.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Аллах сва жива бића ствара од воде, нека од њих пузе на стомаку, нека иду на две ноге, а нека, опет ходају на четири; Аллах ствара што хоће, Аллах, заиста, све може.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na Mwenyezi Mungu ameumba kila kinyama kutokana na maji. Wengine katika wao huenda kwa matumbo yao, na wengine huenda kwa miguu miwili, na wengine huenda kwa miguu minne. Mwenyezi Mungu huumba ayatakayo. Hakika Mwenyezi Mungu ni Muweza wa kila kitu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Gud har skapat alla levande varelser ur vatten. Vissa krälar på sin buk, andra går på två ben och ytterligare andra går på alla fyra. Gud skapar vad han vill; ja, Gud har förvisso makt över allt.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Allah, her canlıyı sudan (nutfeden) yarattı. İşte bunlardan kimi karnı üstünde sürünür, kimi iki ayağı üstünde yürür, kimi dört ayağı üstünde yürür. Allah dilediğini yaratır. Şüphesiz Allah, her şeye kadirdir.
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اردو · Urdu
تمام کے تمام چلنے پھرنے والے جانداروں کو اللہ تعالیٰ ہی نے پانی سے پیدا کیا ہےان میں سے بعض تو اپنے پیٹ کے بل چلتے ہیں[1] ، بعض دو پاؤں پر چلتے ہیں[2]۔ بعض چار پاؤں پر چلتے ہیں[3]، اللہ تعالیٰ جو چاہتا ہے پیدا کرتا ہے[4]۔ بےشک اللہ تعالیٰ ہر چیز پر قادر 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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Easy-read (simplified)alam tara anna llaaha yuzjee sahaaban thumma yu'allifu baynahu thumma yaj'aluhu rukaaman fataraa l-wadqa yakhruju min khilaalihi wayunazzilu mina s-samaa'i min jibaalin feehaa min baradin fayuseebu bihi man yashaa'u wayasrifuhu 'an man yashaa'u yakaadu sanaa barqihi yadhhabu bil-'absaar
DIN 31635ʾalam tara ʾanna llāha yuzǧī saḥāban ṯumma yuʾallifu baynahu ṯumma yaǧʿaluhu rukāman fatarā l-wadqa yaḫruǧu min ḫilālihi wayunazzilu mina s-samāʾi min ǧibālin fīhā min baradin fayuṣību bihi man yašāʾu wayaṣrifuhu ʿan man yašāʾu yakādu sanā barqihi yaḏhabu bil-ʾabṣāri
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Have you not seen how God propels the clouds, then brings them together, then piles them into a heap, and you see rain drops emerging from its midst? How He brings down loads of hail from the sky, striking with it whomever He wills, and diverting it from whomever He wills? The flash of its lightening almost snatches the sight away.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Hast thou not seen how Allah wafteth the clouds, then gathereth them, then maketh them layers, and thou seest the rain come forth from between them; He sendeth down from the heaven mountains wherein is hail, and smiteth therewith whom He will, and averteth it from whom He will. The flashing of His lightning all but snatcheth away the sight
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Hast thou not seen that God drives the clouds, and then re-unites them, and then accumulates them, and thou mayest see the rain coming forth from their midst; and He sends down from the sky mountains with hail therein, and He makes it fall on whom He pleases, and He turns it from whom He pleases; the flashing of His lightning well-nigh goes off with their sight
John Medows Rodwell1861 Hast thou not seen that God driveth clouds lightly forward, then gathereth them together, then pileth them in masses? And then thou seest the rain forthcoming from their midst; and He causeth clouds like mountains charged with hail, to descend from the heaven, and He maketh it to fall on whom He will, and from whom He will He turneth it aside. - The brightness of His lightning all but taketh away the sight
George Sale1734 Dost thou not see that God gently driveth forward the clouds, and gathereth them together, and then layeth them on heaps? Thou also seest the rain, which falleth from the midst thereof; and God sendeth down from heaven as it were mountains, wherein there is hail; He striketh therewith whom He pleaseth, and turneth the same away from whom He pleaseth: The brightness of his lightning wanteth but little of taking away the sight
DIN 31635wayaqūlūna ʾāmannā billāhi wabir-rasūli waʾaṭaʿnā ṯumma yatawallā farīqun minhum min baʿdi ḏālika wamā ʾūlāʾika bil-muʾminīna
Talal Itani2012 And they say, "We have believed in God and the Messenger, and we obey," but some of them turn away afterwards. These are not believers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And they say: We believe in Allah and the messenger, and we obey; then after that a faction of them turn away. Such are not believers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They will say, 'We believe in God and in the Apostle, and we obey.' Then a sect of them turned their backs after that, and they are not believers
John Medows Rodwell1861 For there are who say "We believe on God and on the Apostle, and we obey;" yet, after this, a part of them turn back. But these are not of the faithful
George Sale1734 The hypocrites say, we believe in God, and on his apostle; and we obey them: Yet a part of them turneth back, after this; but these are not really believers
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 —
0.65 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
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.79
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.72
Talal Itani · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.65
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.63
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.58
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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.