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Talal Itani· published 2012
Blessed is He who, if He wills, can provide you with better than that-gardens beneath which rivers flow-and He will give you palaces.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Blessed is He Who, if He will, will assign thee better than (all) that - Gardens underneath which rivers flow - and will assign thee mansions
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
Blessed be He who, if He please, can make for thee better than that, gardens beneath which rivers flow, and can make for thee castles
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Blessed be He who if he please can give thee better than that of which they speak - Gardens, 'neath which the rivers flow: and pavilions will He assign thee
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Blessed be He, who, if He pleaseth, will make for thee a better provision than this which they speak of, namely, gardens through which rivers flow: And He will provide thee palaces
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
I Bekuar është Ai i Cili, po të donte, do të të jepte gjëra më të mira se këto: kopshte nëpër të cilat rrjedhin lumenj dhe do të bënte pallate për ty.
Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
তিনি বরকতময় আল্লাহ, যিনি ইচ্ছা করলে (দুনিয়াতেই) তোমার জন্য করে দিতে পারেন তার (তাদের প্রস্তাবিত বস্তুসমূহের) চেয়েও উত্তম বস্তু, উদ্যানসমূহ, যার পাদদেশে নদীসমূহ প্রবাহিত হয়। আর (শুধু তাই-ই নয়), তিনি তোমাকে প্রাসাদসমূহও দিতে পারেন।
Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Dawah Association in Rabwah, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Neka je uzvišen Onaj Koji ti, ako hoće, može dati bolje od toga: vrtove kroz koje rijeke teku i dvorove.
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Neka je uzvišen Onaj Koji ti, ako hoće, može dati bolje od toga: vrtove kroz koje rijeke teku i dvorove.
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Mawnii on tawɗo si O muuyii O waɗane moƴƴere, no e ɗum gese no ila ley majje canɗe ɗen, o waɗane kadi kuɓeeje.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
დალოცვილია [ალლაჰი], რომელიც, თუ ინებებს, დაგიმკვიდრებს ამაზე უკეთეს ბაღებს, რომლებშიც მიედინებიან მდინარეები, და აგიშენებს სასახლეებს.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Segensreich ist Derjenige, Der dir, wenn Er will, etwas Besseres als dies zuteilen kann: Gärten, durcheilt von Bächen, und Der dir Schlösser zuteilen kann.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ευλογημένος είναι Αυτός, που αν ήθελε, θα σου έδινε καλύτερα πράγματα απ' αυτά (που πρότειναν οι άπιστοι), (θα σου έδινε στην εγκόσμια ζωή) κήπους κάτω από τους οποίους (δηλ. κάτω από τα δέντρα τους) ρέουν ποτάμια (για να φας από τους καρπούς τους με άνεση), και θα σου έδινε παλάτια (για να κατοικήσεις μέσα σε ευδαιμονία).
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
बहुत बरकत वाला है वह (अल्लाह) कि यदि चाहे, तो आपके लिए इससे उत्तम[5] ऐसे बाग़ बना दे, जिनके नीचे से नहरें प्रवाहित हों और आपके लिए कई भवन बना दे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Gloria a Colui che, se volesse, ti darebbe cose molto migliori: Paradisi sotto cui scorrono fiumi, e ti offrirebbe dei palazzi!
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
10. Palaimintas Tas, Kuris, jei Jis norės, paskirs tau geriau nei (visa) tai – Sodus, po kuriais teka upės (Rojų) ir paskirs tau rūmus (Rojuje).
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Благословен Тот, Кто, если пожелает, дарует тебе лучшее, чем это: сады, внизу которых текут реки, и Он воздвигнет тебе дворцы.
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Нека је узвишен Онај Који, ако хоће, може да ти подари боље од тога: баште кроз које теку реке и дворце.
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Ametukuka ambaye akitaka atakujalia yaliyo bora kuliko hayo, nayo ni mabustani yapitayo mito kati yake, na atakujaalia majumba ya fahari.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Upphöjd är han från vilken all välsignelse kommer – han som, om han vill, kan skänka dig något bättre än allt det där: trädgårdar genom vilka floder rinner och storslagna palats.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Dilerse sana bunlardan daha iyisini, altlarından ırmaklar akan Cennetleri verecek ve sana saraylar ihsan edecek olan Allah çok yücedir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اللہ تعالیٰ تو ایسا بابرکت ہے کہ اگر چاہے تو آپ کو بہت سے ایسے باغات عنایت فرما دے جو ان کے کہے ہوئے باغ سے بہت ہی بہتر ہوں جن کے نیچے نہریں لہریں لے رہی ہوں اور آپ کو بہت سے (پختہ) محل بھی دے دے.[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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Talal Itani2012 Or, "If only a treasure was dropped on him." Or, "If only he had a garden from which he eats." The evildoers also say, "You are following but a man under spell."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Or (why is not) treasure thrown down unto him, or why hath he not a paradise from whence to eat? And the evil-doers say: Ye are but following a man bewitched
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Or there be thrown to him a treasury or he have a garden to eat therefrom .... !' and the unjust say, 'Ye only follow an infatuated man
John Medows Rodwell1861 Or a treasure be thrown down to him, or he have a garden that supplieth him with food . . ." and those unjust persons say, "Ye follow but a man enchanted
George Sale1734 or unless a treasure be cast down unto him; or he have a garden, of the fruit whereof he may eat; we will not believe. The ungodly also say, ye follow no other than a man who is distracted
Easy-read (simplified)bal kadhdhaboo bis-saa'ati wa'a'tadnaa liman kadhdhaba bis-saa'ati sa'eeraa
DIN 31635bal kaḏḏabū bis-sāʿati waʾaʿtadnā liman kaḏḏaba bis-sāʿati saʿīran
Talal Itani2012 In fact, they have denied the Hour, and We have prepared for those who deny the Hour a Blaze.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Nay, but they deny (the coming of) the Hour, and for those who deny (the coming of) the Hour We have prepared a flame
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Nay, but they call the Hour a lie; but we have prepared for those who call the Hour a lie a blaze
John Medows Rodwell1861 Aye, they have treated the coming of "the Hour" as a lie. But a flaming fire have we got ready for those who treat the coming of the Hour as a lie
George Sale1734 But they reject the belief of the hour of judgment, as a falsehood: And We have prepared for him, who shall reject the belief of that hour, burning fire
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 —
0.52 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 · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.53
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.53
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.51
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.50
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.48
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.45
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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.