وَمَا يَنۢبَغِى لَهُمْ وَمَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ
Easy-read (simplified)wamaa yanbaghee lahum wamaa yastatee'oon
DIN 31635wamā yanbaġī lahum wamā yastaṭīʿūna
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
The translators word this verse differently
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.
It is not in their interests, nor in their power.
Talal Itani, ClearQuran ·ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB·Talal Itani / ClearQuran.com ·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International·retrieved 7 Sep 2026
Translation by Talal Itani, ClearQuran.com https://clearquran.com
It is not meet for them, nor is it in their power
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
it is not fit work for them; nor are they able to do it
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an ·1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
It beseemed them not, and they had not the power
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an ·1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
It is not for their purpose, neither are they able to produce such a book
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
madje, atyre s'u takon të bëjnë një gjë të tillë e as që kanë mundësi,
আর এটা তাদের (শয়তানদের) জন্য সমোচিত নয় (যে, তারা এ নিয়ে তার অন্তরের ওপর নাযিল হবে) এবং তারা এর ক্ষমতাও রাখে না।
nezamislivo je da to oni čine, oni to ne mogu,
nezamislivo je da to oni čine, oni to ne mogu,
[Ɗuum] haananaaɗi, ɗi kattantaa ɗum kadi.
მათ ეს არ შეეფერებათ და არც შესწევთ ამის უნარი.
es ziemt ihnen nicht, und sie können es (auch) nicht.
Ούτε θα ήταν πρέπον γι' αυτούς (αφού το Κορ’άν διατάζει το καλό και απαγορεύει το κακό, σε αντίθεση με τους Σατανάδες), ούτε θα μπορούσαν.
और न यह उनके योग्य है, और न वे ऐसा कर सकते हैं।
né ciò si addice loro, né sono capaci di farlo,
211. Nei tai pritiktų jiems, nei jie galėtų (sukurti tai).
Isaaniif hin malu, (Isa fiduu) hin danda’an.
И не подобает им это, и они не способны.
незамисливо је да то они раде; и они то не могу.
Wala haitakiwi kwao, na wala hawawezi.
Det anstår dem inte och de saknar förmågan att göra det.
Zaten bu onların harcı değildir, buna güçleri de yetmez.
نہ وه اس کے قابل ہیں، نہ انہیں اس کی طاقت ہے.
5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
Which translations appear here is set by copyright: they are the ones whose rights could be documented and cleared. The selection is not a judgement that these are the best.
Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation, not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading. Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the same edition and their orthography differs.
shown so it's never read alone
ذِكْرَىٰ وَمَا كُنَّا ظَٰلِمِينَ
Easy-read (simplified)dhikraa wamaa kunnaa zaalimeen
DIN 31635ḏikrā wamā kunnā ẓālimīna
The translators word this verse differently
As a reminder-We are never unjust.
For reminder, for We never were oppressors
as a reminder, for we are never unjust
With admonition; nor did we deal unjustly
to admonish the inhabitants thereof; neither did We treat them unjustly
وَمَا تَنَزَّلَتْ بِهِ ٱلشَّيَٰطِينُ
Easy-read (simplified)wamaa tanazzalat bihi sh-shayaateen
DIN 31635wamā tanazzalat bihi š-šayāṭīnu
The translators word this verse differently
It was not the devils that revealed it.
The devils did not bring it down
The devils did not descend therewith
The Satans were not sent down with this Koran
The devils did not descend with the Koran, as the infidels give out
26:211 — the verse above
إِنَّهُمْ عَنِ ٱلسَّمْعِ لَمَعْزُولُونَ
Easy-read (simplified)innahum 'ani s-sam'i lama'zooloon
DIN 31635ʾinnahum ʿani s-samʿi lamaʿzūlūna
The translators word this verse differently
They are barred from hearing.
Lo! verily they are banished from the hearing
Verily, they are deposed from listening
For they are far removed from hearing it
for they are far removed from hearing the discourse of the angels in heaven
فَلَا تَدْعُ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا ءَاخَرَ فَتَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلْمُعَذَّبِينَ
Easy-read (simplified)falaa tad'u ma'a llaahi ilaahan aakhara fatakoona mina l-mu'adhdhabeen
DIN 31635falā tadʿu maʿa llāhi ʾilāhan ʾāḫara fatakūna mina l-muʿaḏḏabīna
The translators word this verse differently
So do not pray to another god with God, else you will be of those tormented.
Therefor invoke not with Allah another god, lest thou be one of the doomed
call not then with God upon other gods, or thou wilt be of the tormented
Call not thou on any other god but God, lest thou be of those consigned to torment
Invoke no other god with the true God, lest thou become one of those who are doomed to punishment
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Uthmani, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
وَمَا يَنبَغِي لَهُمْ وَمَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
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 — 0.71 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.
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
The platform does not say which is right, and does not characterise what the difference means. The renderings are placed together so the difference is visible; reading it is the reader's work.
SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
7 sources stand behind this page. Each is listed once, in the order the page first cites it, with the licence it was cleared under and what was actually read. Nothing on this page rests on a source that is not here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CLEARED. Parallel edition, held in ayah_text_variants. It sits alongside the Uthmani spine for search normalisation and is never used to correct it.
Qur'anic text from the Tanzil Project. Copyright (C) 2007-2026 Tanzil Project License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Source: tanzil.net · Updates: tanzil.net/updates/ https://tanzil.net/updates/