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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And We shall turn unto the work they did and make it scattered motes
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 will go on to the works which they have done, and make them like motes in a sunbeam scattered
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And We will come unto the work which they shall have wrought, and We will make it as dust scattered abroad
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
Ne do t'u drejtohemi veprave që kanë bërë dhe do t'i bëjmë hi e pluhur.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর তারা যে কাজই করেছে, আমি সেদিকে অগ্রসর হয়ে সেগুলোকে (ইচ্ছা করেই) বিক্ষিপ্ত ধূলিকণায় পরিণত করে দিবো।(৫)
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
I Mi ćemo pristupiti djelima njihovim koja su učinili i u prah i pepeo ih pretvoriti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
I Mi ćemo pristupiti djelima njihovim koja su učinili i u prah i pepeo ih pretvoriti.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Min ardini faade e ko ɓe ngollunoo kon immorde e gollal, Min mbaɗi ngal punndi saraandi.
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ქართული · Georgian
და მივუდგებით იმ საქმეებს, რაც მათ გააკეთეს და ვაქცევთ მათ გაფანტულ მტვრად.
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Deutsch · German
Und Wir werden Uns dem zuwenden, was sie an Taten verrichtet haben, und sie zu verwehtem Staub machen.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Και ό,τι έκαναν από (καλές) πράξεις, τις κάναμε διάσπαρτα αιωρούμενα σωματίδια σκόνης.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
और हम उसकी ओर आएँगे जो उन्होंने कोई भी कर्म किया होगा, तो उसे बिखरी हुई धूल बना देंगे।[14]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E abbiamo giudicato le loro azioni, e le abbiamo rese vane come polvere dispersa.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
23. Ir Mes atsigręšime į bet kokius veiksmus, kuriuos jie (netikintieji, daugiadieviai, nuodėmiautojai) darė ir Mes padarysime tuos veiksmus kaip išbarstytas plūduriuojančias dulkių daleles.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Nutis gara dalagaa isaan dalaganii feenee (dhufnee) dhukkee faca’aa isa goone.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Мы обратились к совершённым ими деяниям, и сделали их развеянным прахом.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
И Ми ћемо приступити делима њиховим која су учинили и у прах и пепео их претворити.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na tutayaendea yale waliyoyatenda katika matendo na tuyafanye kama mavumbi yaliyotawanywa.
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Svenska · Swedish
Och vi ska ta oss an deras gärningar och göra dem till kringstrött stoft.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Onların yaptıkları bütün amellere yöneldik ve saçılmış toz zerreleri haline getirdik.
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اردو · Urdu
اور انہوں نے جو جو اعمال کیے تھے ہم نےان کی طرف بڑھ کر انہیں پراگنده ذروں کی طرح کردیا.[1]
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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
DIN 31635ʾaṣḥābu l-ǧannati yawmaʾiḏin ḫayrun mustaqarran waʾaḥsanu maqīlan
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 The companions of Paradise on that Day will be better lodged, and more fairly accommodated.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those who have earned the Garden on that day will be better in their home and happier in their place of noonday rest
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The fellows of Paradise on that day shall be in a better abiding-place and a better noonday rest
John Medows Rodwell1861 Happier, on that day, the inmates of the Garden as to abode, and better off as to place of noontide slumber
George Sale1734 On that day shall they who are destined to paradise be more happy in an abode, and have a preferable place of repose at noon
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 —
0.62 on a scale
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.75
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.73
Talal Itani · George Sale0.72
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.52
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.48
Talal Itani · 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.