Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.
They will say, "Glory be to thee! It beseemed not us to take other lords than thee. But thou gavest them and their fathers their fill of goodthings, till they forgat the remembrance of thee, and became a lost people
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
They will say, "Glory be to You. It was not for us to take any lords besides You. But you gave them enjoyments, and their ancestors, until they forgot the Message, and became ruined people."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
They will say: Be Thou Glorified! it was not for us to choose any protectingfriends beside thee; but Thou didst give them and their fathers ease till they forgot the warning and became lost folk
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
They shall say, 'Celebrated be Thy praise, it was not befitting for us to take any patrons but Thee; but Thou didst give them and their fathers enjoyment until they forgot the Reminder and were a lost people
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They shall answer, Godforbid! It was not fitting for us, that we should take any protectors besides Thee: But Thou didst permit them and their fathers to enjoyabundance; so that they forgot thy admonition, and became lost people
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
Ata do të thonë: "I patëmeta je Ti! Neve nuk na takon të marrim ndonjë mbrojtës përveç Teje, por Ti i begatove ata dhe baballarët e tyre, ndërsa ata e harruan këshillën dhe u bënë popull i shkatërruar."
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
তারা (মা’বূদরা) বলবে: ‘আপনি পবিত্র মহান! আপনি ছাড়া অন্য কাউকে অভিভাবক হিসেবে গ্রহণ করা আমাদের উচিত নয়; বরং আপনি তাদেরকে ও তাদের পিতৃপুরুষদেরকে (দুনিয়ার) ভোগ-বিলাসের সুযোগ দিয়েছেন। অবশেষে তারা আপনার স্মরণকে ভুলে গিয়েছিলো এবং ধ্বংসপ্রাপ্ত সম্প্রদায়ে পরিণত হয়েছিলো।
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
oni će reći: “Slavljen neka si Ti, nezamislivo je da smo mi pored Tebe ikakve zaštitnike uzimali, nego Ti si ovima i precima njihovim dao da uživaju, pa su zaboravili da Te se sjećaju; oni su propast zaslužili!”
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
oni će reći: “Slavljen neka si Ti, nezamislivo je da smo mi pored Tebe ikakve zaštitnike uzimali, nego Ti si ovima i predcima njihovim dao da uživaju, pa su zaboravili da Te se sjećaju; oni su propast zaslužili!”
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
Ɓe mbi'a: "Senaarre wonanii ma, haananah min nde min njogitotoo gaanin Maaɗa immorde e deweteeɗi, kono, A dakmintinii ɓe e baabiraaɓe maɓɓe ɓen haa ɓe njejjiti waajo nguo ɓe laatii yimɓe halkiiɓe."
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
ქართული · Georgian
იტყვიან ისინი [რასაც ეთაყვანებოდნენ მაგიერ ალლაჰისა]: «დიდება შენდა [ო, ალლაჰ], არ გვეკადრებოდა აგვერჩია შენს გარდა მფარველები, მაგრამ შენ მიეცი სარგებელი მათ და მათ მამებს, ვიდრე არ დაივიწყეს შეხსენება [შენს შესახებ]. ასე შეიქმნენ წარწყმედილ ხალხად».
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 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Sie werden sagen: „Gepriesen seist Du! Es ziemte uns nicht, uns anstatt Deiner (andere) Schutzherren zu nehmen. Aber Du ließt sie und ihre Väter genießen, bis sie die Ermahnung vergaßen und zu einem Volk des Untergangs wurden.“
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 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Θα πουν: «Δόξα Σοι (ω, Αλλάχ, είσαι πολύ Ανώτερος από το να έχεις εταίρους)! Δεν ήταν πρέπον για μας (δηλ. για όλους τους δημιουργημένους) να πάρουμε εκτός από Εσένα κανέναν άλλον θεό. Αλλά (οι ειδωλολάτρες το έκαναν αφού) παρείχες αγαθά σ' αυτούς και στους προγόνους τους, ώσπου ξέχασαν την εξύμνησή Σου (και ό,τι έστειλες στους Αγγελιαφόρους), και ήταν άνθρωποι που καταστράφηκαν.»
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
वे कहेंगे : तू पवित्र है! हमारे योग्य नहीं था कि हम तेरे सिवा किसी तरह के संरक्षक[7] बनाते। परंतु तूने उन्हें और उनके बाप-दादों को समृद्धि प्रदान की, यहाँ तक कि वे तेरी याद को भूल गए और वे विनष्ट होने वाले लोग थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Diranno: «Gloria Tua! Non dovevamo prenderci dei protettori contro i Tuoi ordini, però Tu li hai fatti godere insieme ai loro padri, finché dimenticarono l’Avvertimento e furono così un popolo dannato».
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
18. Jis sakys: „Šlovė Tau! Nebuvo mums (skirta) prisiimti jokių Aulija (Globėjų, Padėjėjų) šalia Tavęs, tačiau Tu suteikei jiems ir jų tėvams patogumą, kol jie pamiršo perspėjimą, ir tapo paklydę žmonės (pasmerkti visiškam nuostoliui).“
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 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
[Isaanis] nijedhan “[yaa Rabbi!] Ati qulqulloofte! Sii gaditti gargaartota (jaalalleewwan) godhachuun kan nuuf malu hin taane; Garuu Ati isaaniifi abbootii isaaniis qanansiifte hanga gorsa [kee] dagatanii ummata bade ta’anitti ”.
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
Они скажут: «Пречист Ты! Не подобало нам брать себе помимо Тебя покровителей. Но Ты дал им и их отцам пользоваться [благами], так что они забыли поминание и были обречённым на погибель народом».
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
Они ће да кажу: „Узвишен нек си Ти, незамисливо је да смо ми поред Тебе узимали икакве заштитнике, него, Ти си овима и њиховим прецима дао да уживају, па су заборавили опомену; они су заслужили пропаст!“
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
Watasema: Subhanaka! (Umetakasika na upungufu!) Haikutupasia sisi kuchukulia walinzi badala yako, lakini Wewe uliwastarehesha wao na baba zao hata wakasahau kukumbuka, na wakawa watu walioangamia.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
De ska svara: ”Upphöjd är du! Vi skulle aldrig tillbe andra än dig, [än mindre förmå andra till det], men du lät dem och deras förfäder njuta [av livets goda] ända tills de helt försummade din åminnelse – ja, de blev ett folk helt utan riktning.”
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
Türkçe · Turkish
Derler ki: “Seni tenzih ederiz. Senden başkalarını veliler edinmek bize yaraşmaz. Fakat sen onları ve babalarını faydalandırdın. Sonunda zikri unuttular ve helâk olan bir kavim oldular.”
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
اردو · Urdu
وه جواب دیں گے کہ تو پاک ذات ہے خود ہمیں ہی یہ زیبا نہ تھا کہ تیرے سوا اوروں کو اپنا کارساز بناتے[1] بات یہ ہے کہ تو نے انہیں اور ان کے باپ دادوں کو آسودگیاں عطا فرمائیں یہاں تک کہ وه نصیحت بھلا بیٹھے، یہ لوگ تھے ہی[2] ہلاک ہونے والے.
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 They will have therein whatever they desire, forever. That is upon your Lord a binding promise.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Therein abiding, they have all that they desire. It is for thy Lord a promise that must be fulfilled
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They shall have therein what they please, to dwell therein for aye: that is of thy Lord a promise to be demanded
John Medows Rodwell1861 Abiding therein for ever, they shall have in it all that they desire! It is a promise to be claimed of thy Lord
George Sale1734 Therein shall they have whatever they please; continuing in the same for ever. This is a promise to be demanded at the hands of thy Lord
Easy-read (simplified)wayawma yahshuruhum wamaa ya'budoona min dooni llaahi fayaqoolu a'antum adlaltum 'ibaadee haa'ulaa'i am hum dalloo s-sabeel
DIN 31635wayawma yaḥšuruhum wamā yaʿbudūna min dūni llāhi fayaqūlu ʾaʾantum ʾaḍlaltum ʿibādī hāʾulāʾi ʾam hum ḍallū s-sabīla
Talal Itani2012 On the Day when He gathers them, and what they worshiped besides God, He will say, "Was it you who misled these servants of Mine, or was it they who lost the way?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And on the day when He will assemble them and that which they worship instead of Allah and will say: Was it ye who misled these my slaves or did they (themselves) wander from the way
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And the day He shall gather them and what they served beside God, and He shall say, 'Was it ye who led my servants here astray, or did they err from the way
John Medows Rodwell1861 And on the day when he shall gather them together, and those whom they worshipped beside God, he will say, "Was it ye who led these my servants astray, or of themselves strayed they from the path
George Sale1734 On a certain day He shall assemble them, and whatever they worship, besides God; and shall say unto the worshipped, Did ye seduce these my servants; or did they wander of themselves from the right way
Talal Itani2012 They have denied you because of what you say; so you can neither avert, nor help. Whoever among you commits injustice, We will make him taste a grievous punishment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Thus they will give you the lie regarding what ye say, then ye can neither avert (the doom) nor obtain help. And whoso among you doeth wrong, We shall make him taste great torment
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And now have they proved you liars for what ye say, and they cannot ward off or help. And he of you who does wrong we will make him taste great torment
John Medows Rodwell1861 Then will God say to the Idolaters, "Now have they made you liars in what ye say, and they have no power to avert your doom, or to succour you." whosoever of you thus offendeth, we will make him taste a great punishment
George Sale1734 And God shall say unto their worshippers, now have these convinced you of falsehood, in that which ye say: They can neither avert your punishment, nor give you any assistance. And whoever of you shall be guilty of injustice, him will We cause to taste a grievous torment
Talal Itani2012 We never sent any messengers before you, but they ate food and walked in the marketplaces. And We made some of you tempters for one another-will you be patient? Your Lord is always Observing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 We never sent before thee any messengers but lo! they verily ate food and walked in the markets. And We have appointed some of you a test for others: Will ye be steadfast? And thy Lord is ever Seer
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We have not sent before thee any messengers but that they ate food and walked in the markets; but we have made some of you a trial to others: will ye be patient? thy Lord doth ever look
John Medows Rodwell1861 Never have we sent Apostles before thee who ate not common food, and walked not the streets. And we test you by means of each other. Will ye be steadfast? Thy Lord is looking on
George Sale1734 We have sent no messengers before thee, but they ate food, and walked through the streets: And We make some of you an occasion of trial unto others. Will ye persevere with patience? since your Lord regardeth your perseverance
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 —
0.61 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
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.71
Talal Itani · George Sale0.66
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
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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.