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.
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
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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
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 alwaysObserving.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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
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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Ne edhe para teje çuam vetëm të dërguar që hanin ushqim dhe shëtisnin nëpër tregje. Ne bëmë disa prej jush sprovë për të tjerët. A do të bëni durim? Zoti yt sheh çdo gjë.
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
আর (হে রাসূল!) তোমার পূর্বে যত নবী-রাসূলই আমি পাঠিয়েছি, তারা (অন্যান্য মানুষের মতোই) সবাই আহার করত এবং হাট-বাজারে চলাফেরা করত। আর (হে মানুষ!) আমি তোমাদের একজনকে অপরজনের জন্য পরীক্ষা স্বরূপ বানিয়েছি। তোমরা কি (পরীক্ষিত বিষয়ে) ধৈর্যধারণ করবে না? আর তোমার রব সর্বদ্রষ্টা।
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
Mi prije tebe nismo poslali nijednog poslanika koji nije jeo i po trgovima hodao. Mi činimo da jedni druge u iskušenje dovodite, pa izdržite! A Gospodar tvoj vidi sve.
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
Mi prije tebe nismo poslali nijednog poslanika koji nije jeo i po trgovima hodao. Mi činimo da jedni druge u iskušenje dovodite, pa izdržite! A Gospodar tvoj vidi sve.
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
Min Nulaali ado maaɗa immorde e Nulaaɓe si wonaa kamɓe heɓe nafoo ñaametee heɓe seenoo kadi ka luumaaji, Min mbaɗi yoga e mooɗon fitina yoga, fii yo on muñño. Joomi maaɗa laatike ko o ji'oowo.
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
და არ წარმოგვიგზავნია შენამდე [ო, მუჰამმად] ჩვენი შუამავლები ისე, რომ არ ეჭამათ საჭმელი და არ ევლოთ ბაზარში. და დავადგინეთ გამოცდად ზოგი თქვენგანი ზოგიერთისთვის, და მოითმენთ ამას? და შენი უფალი ყოვლისმხედველია.
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
Und Wir sandten vor dir keine Gesandten, außer dass sie (auch) Speise aßen und auf den Märkten umhergingen. Und Wir haben die einen von euch zur Versuchung für die anderen gemacht, (um festzustellen,) ob ihr geduldig seid. Und dein Herr ist sehr wohl sehend.
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
Δε στείλαμε κανέναν Αγγελιαφόρο πριν από σένα (ω, Μωχάμμαντ) που να μην έφαγαν φαγητό και να μην περπατούσαν στις αγορές. Κάναμε κάποιους από σας (ω, άνθρωποι) να είναι δοκιμασία για τους άλλους (δίνοντάς τους πλούτο, υγεία, παιδιά κλπ. για να σας δοκιμάσουμε) αν θα δείξετε υπομονή (ή όχι)! Πράγματι, ο Κύριός σου (ω, Προφήτη) βλέπει τα πάντα.
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
और हमने आपसे पहले कोई रसूल नहीं भेजे, परंतु निश्चय वे खाना खाते थे और बाज़ारों में चलते-फिरते[10] थे। तथा हमने तुममें से एक को दूसरे के लिए एक परीक्षण बनाया है। क्या तुम धैर्य रखोगे? तथा आपका पालनहार हमेशा से सब कुछ देखने[11] वाला है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E abbiamo inviato prima di te dei Messaggeri che mangiavano, e camminavano per i mercati. E vi abbiamo messi gli uni contro gli altri come prova. Pazienterete? E il tuo Dio è Osservatore.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
20. Ir Mes nesiuntėme anksčiau tavęs (Muchammedai ﷺ) jokio Pasiuntinio, bet tik iš tiesų jie valgė ir vaikštinėjo turguose. Ir Mes padarėme kai kuriuos iš jūsų išbandymu kitiems: ar jūs turėsite kantrybės? Ir jūsų Viešpats yra Visa Matantis (apie viską).
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
Siin duratti ergamoota irraa kan isaan nyaata nyaataniifi magaalota keessa deeman taasifnee malee hin ergine; garii keessan gariidhaaf mokkoroo taasifne; ni obsituu? Gooftaan kee [waan hunda] argaadha.
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
Мы не посылали до тебя никого из посланников, кроме тех, которые ели пищу и ходили по рынкам. И Мы сделали одних из вас для других испытанием — сумеете ли вы проявить терпение? Твой Господь всегда был [и пребудет] видящим.
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
Ми пре тебе нисмо послали ниједног посланика који није јео и по трговима ходао. Ми чинимо да једни другима будете искушење, да видимо хоћете ли да будете стрпљиви. А твој Господар све види.
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
Na hatukuwatuma kabla yako Mitume wowote ila kwa hakika na yakini walikuwa wakila chakula, na wakienda masokoni. Na tumewajaalia baadhi yenu wawe ni majaribio kwa wengine. Je, mtasubiri? Na Mola wako Mlezi ni Mwenye kuona.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Vi har inte sänt sändebud före dig andra än [människor som] åt mat och besökte marknaderna [precis som ni]. Vi har gjort vissa av er till en prövning för andra, så kommer ni att visa tålamod? Din Herre har full insikt i allt.
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
(Rasûlüm!) Senden önce gönderdiğimiz bütün peygamberler de hiç şüphesiz yemek yerler, çarşılarda dolaşırlardı. (Ey insanlar!) Sizin bir kısmınızı diğer bir kısmınıza imtihan (vesilesi) kıldık. (Bakalım) sabredecek misiniz? Rabbin her şeyi hakkıyla görmektedir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
ہم نے آپ سے پہلے جتنے رسول بھیجے سب کے سب کھانا بھی کھاتے تھے[1] اور بازاروں میں بھی چلتے پھرتے تھے[2] اور ہم نے تم میں سے ہر ایک کو دوسرے کی آزمائش کا ذریعہ بنا دیا[3]۔ کیا تم صبر کرو گے؟ تیرا رب سب کچھ دیکھنے واﻻ ہے.[4]
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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Easy-read (simplified)qaaloo subhaanaka maa kaana yanbaghee lanaa an nattakhidha min doonika min awliyaa'a walaakin matta'tahum wa'aabaa'ahum hattaa nasoo dh-dhikra wakaanoo qawman booraa
DIN 31635qālū subḥānaka mā kāna yanbaġī lanā ʾan nattaḫiḏa min dūnika min ʾawliyāʾa walākin mattaʿtahum waʾābāʾahum ḥattā nasū ḏ-ḏikra wakānū qawman būran
Talal Itani2012 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."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They will say: Be Thou Glorified! it was not for us to choose any protecting friends beside thee; but Thou didst give them and their fathers ease till they forgot the warning and became lost folk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 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 good things, till they forgat the remembrance of thee, and became a lost people
George Sale1734 They shall answer, God forbid! It was not fitting for us, that we should take any protectors besides Thee: But Thou didst permit them and their fathers to enjoy abundance; so that they forgot thy admonition, and became lost people
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 Those who do not expect to meet Us say, "If only the angels were sent down to us, or we could see our Lord." They have grown arrogant within themselves, and have become excessively defiant.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And those who look not for a meeting with Us say: Why are angels not sent down unto us and (Why) do we not see our Lord! Assuredly they think too highly of themselves and are scornful with great pride
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And those who do not hope to meet us say, 'Unless the angels be sent down to us, or we see our Lord....!' They are too big with pride in their souls and they have exceeded with a great excess
John Medows Rodwell1861 They who look not forward to meet Us say, "If the angels be not sent down to us, or unless we behold our Lord. . . ." Ah! they are proud of heart, and exceed with great excess
George Sale1734 They who hope not to meet Us at the resurrection say, unless the angels be sent down unto us, or we see our Lord Himself, we will not believe. Verily they behave themselves arrogantly; and have transgressed with an enormous transgression
Talal Itani2012 On the Day when they see the angels-there will be no good news for sinners on that Day; and they will say, "A protective refuge."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 On the day when they behold the angels, on that day there will be no good tidings for the guilty; and they will cry: A forbidding ban
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The day they shall see the angels,- no glad tidings on that day for the sinners, and they shall say, 'It is rigorously forbidden
John Medows Rodwell1861 On the day when they shall see the angels, no good news shall there be for the guilty ones, and they shall cry out, "A barrier that cannot be passed
George Sale1734 The day whereon they shall see the angels, there shall be no glad tidings on that day for the wicked; and they shall say, be this removed far from us
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.58 on a scale
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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 · John Medows Rodwell0.69
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · George Sale0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.53
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.51
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.39
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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.