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Talal Itani· published 2012
To the service of Solomon were mobilized his troops of sprites, and men, and birds-all held in strict order.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And there were gathered together unto Solomon his armies of the jinn and humankind, and of the birds, and they were set in battle order
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 assembled for Solomon were his hosts of the ginns, and men, and birds, and they were marshalled
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And his armies were gathered together unto Solomon, consisting of genii, and men, and birds; and they were led in distinct bands
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
Para Sulejmanit u tubua ushtria e tij nga xhinët, nga njerëzit dhe nga shpendët, të gjithë në radhë duke marshuar.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর সুলাইমানের জন্য তার সেনাবাহিনী থেকে জিন, মানুষ ও পাখিদের সমবেত করা হলো। তারপর তাদেরকে (সুশৃঙ্খলভাবে পরিচালিত করতে) বিভিন্ন দলে বিন্যস্ত করা হলো।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
I sakupiše se Sulejmanu vojske njegove – džini, ljudi i ptice, sve četa do čete, postrojeni,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
I sakupiše se Sulejmanu vojske njegove – džini, ljudi i ptice, sve četa do čete, postrojeni,
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Sulaymaana mooɓanaa koneeli makko ɗi immorde ka jinnaaji e ka yimɓe e ka colli, kamɓe ko ɓe yuɓɓinaaɓe.
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ქართული · Georgian
და სულაიმანისგან შეკრებილ იქნა მისი ჯარი ჯინთაგან, ადამიანთაგან და ფრინველთაგან [რომლებიც იბრძოდნენ ალლაჰის ურჩთა წინააღმდეგ], და ისინი მკაცრ მწყობრში იმყოფებოდნენ.
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Deutsch · German
Und versammelt wurden für Sulayman seine Heerscharen - unter den Jinn, Menschen und Vögeln -, und so wurden sie in Reihen geordnet.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Συγκεντρώθηκαν μπροστά στον Σολομώντα, οι στρατιές του από τα τζινν, τους ανθρώπους και τα πουλιά, και όλοι είχαν σταθεί σε τάξη.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा सुलैमान के लिए जिन्नों तथा इनसानों और पक्षियों में से उसकी सेनाएँ इकट्ठी की गईं, फिर उन्हें अलग-अलग बांटा जाता था।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E vennero radunate per Suleymēn le sue corti, composte da demoni, uomini e uccelli, che vennero schierati.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
17. Ir štai susirinko priešais Suleimaną (Saliamoną) jo džinų ir žmonių kariuomenės, ir paukščiai, ir jie visi buvo sustatyti mūšio rikiuote (žygiavo priekin).
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
И были собраны к Сулейману его войска из джиннов, людей и птиц, удерживаемые в строгом порядке.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
И сакупише се Соломону војске његове – духови, људи и птице, све чета до чете, постројени,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na alikusanyiwa Suleiman majeshi yake ya majini, na watu, na ndege; nayo yakapangwa kwa nidhamu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Salomos armé av jinner, människor och fåglar samlades inför honom och ordnades i led [redo att tåga ut].
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Türkçe · Turkish
Süleyman'a cinlerden, insanlardan ve kuşlardan orduları toplandı. Hepsi birlikte sevkediliyorlardı.
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اردو · Urdu
سلیمان کے سامنے ان کے تمام لشکر جنات اور انسان اور پرند میں سے جمع کیے گئے[1] (ہر ہر قسم کی) الگ الگ درجہ بندی کردی گئی.[2]
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.
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DIN 31635walaqad ʾātaynā dāwūda wasulaymāna ʿilman waqālā l-ḥamdu lillāhi llaḏī faḍḍalanā ʿalā kaṯīrin min ʿibādihi l-muʾminīna
Talal Itani2012 And We gave David and Solomon knowledge. They said, "Praise God, who has favored us over many of His believing servants."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And We verily gave knowledge unto David and Solomon, and they said: Praise be to Allah, Who hath preferred us above many of His believing slaves
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And we gave David and Solomon knowledge; and they both said, 'Praise belongs to God, who hath preferred us over many of His servants who believe
John Medows Rodwell1861 And of old we gave knowledge to David and Solomon: and they said, "Praise be to God, who hath made us to excel many of his believing servants
George Sale1734 We heretofore bestowed knowledge on David and Solomon; and they said, praise be unto God, who hath made us more excellent than many of his faithful servants
DIN 31635wawariṯa sulaymānu dāwūda waqāla yā ʾayyuhā n-nāsu ʿullimnā manṭiqa ṭ-ṭayri waʾūtīnā min kulli šayʾin ʾinna hāḏā lahuwa l-faḍlu l-mubīnu
Talal Itani2012 And Solomon succeeded David. He said, "O people, we were taught the language of birds, and we were given from everything. This is indeed a real blessing."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Solomon was David's heir. And he said: O mankind! Lo! we have been taught the language of birds, and have been given (abundance) of all things. This surely is evident favour
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Solomon was David's heir; and said, 'O ye folk! we have been taught the speech of birds, and we have been given everything; verily, this is an obvious grace
John Medows Rodwell1861 And in knowledge Solomon was David's heir. And he said, "O men, we have been taught the speech of birds, and are endued with everything. This is indeed a clear boon from God
George Sale1734 And Solomon was David's heir; and he said, O men, we have been taught the speech of birds, and have had all things bestowed on us; this is manifest excellence
Talal Itani2012 Until, when they came upon the Valley of Ants, an ant said, "O ants! Go into your nests, lest Solomon and his troops crush you without noticing."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Till, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant exclaimed: O ants! Enter your dwellings lest Solomon and his armies crush you, unperceiving
Edward Henry Palmer1880 until they came upon the valley of the ants. Said an ant, 'O ye ants! go into your dwellings, that Solomon and his hosts crush you not while they do not perceive
John Medows Rodwell1861 Till they reached the Valley of Ants. Said AN ANT, "O ye ants, enter your dwellings, lest Solomon and his army crush you and know it not
George Sale1734 until they came unto the valley of ants. And an ant, seeing the hosts approaching, said, O ants, enter ye into your habitations, lest Solomon and his army tread you under foot, and perceive it not
Talal Itani2012 He smiled and laughed at her words, and said, "My Lord, direct me to be thankful for the blessings you have bestowed upon me and upon my parents, and to do good works that please You. And admit me, by Your grace, into the company of Your virtuous servants."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And (Solomon) smiled, laughing at her speech, and said: My Lord, arouse me to be thankful for Thy favour wherewith Thou hast favoured me and my parents, and to do good that shall be pleasing unto Thee, and include me in (the number of) Thy righteous slaves
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And he smiled, laughing at her speech, and said, 'O Lord! excite me to be thankful for Thy favour, wherewith Thou hast favoured me and my parents, and to do righteousness which may please Thee; and make me enter into Thy mercy amongst Thy righteous servants
John Medows Rodwell1861 Then smiled Solomon, laughing at her words, and he said, "Stir me up, O Lord, to be thankful for thy favour which thou hast shewed upon me and upon my parents, and to do righteousness that shall be well pleasing to thee, and bring me in, by thy mercy, among thy servants the righteous
George Sale1734 And Solomon smiled, laughing at her words, and said, O Lord, excite me that I may be thankful for thy favour, wherewith thou hast favoured me, and my parents; and that I may do that which is right, and well-pleasing unto thee: And introduce me, through thy mercy, into paradise, among thy servants the righteous
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 —
0.63 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
Talal Itani · George Sale0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.52
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
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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.