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Talal Itani· published 2012
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."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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 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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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
Atëherë ai vuri buzën në gaz, duke qeshur me fjalët e saj dhe tha: "Zoti im, ma mundëso të jem mirënjohës për mirësitë që më ke dhënë mua e prindërve të mi dhe që të bëj vepra të mira, me të cilat Ti je i kënaqur! Më prano, me mëshirën Tënde, në mesin e robërve të Tu të mirë!"
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
অতঃপর সুলাইমান তার কথায় মুচকি হাসলো এবং (তার রবকে ডেকে) বললো: ‘হে আমার রব, তুমি আমার প্রতি ও আমার পিতামাতার প্রতি যে অনুগ্রহ করেছো তার জন্য আমাকে তোমার শুকরিয়া আদায় করার তাওফীক দাও। আর আমি যাতে এমন সৎকাজ করতে পারি যা তুমি পছন্দ করো। আর তোমার অনুগ্রহে তুমি আমাকে তোমার সৎকর্মপরায়ণ বান্দাদের অন্তর্ভুক্ত করো।’
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
I on se nasmiješi pa nasmija riječima njegovim i reče: “Gospodaru moj, nadahni me da budem zahvalan na blagodati Tvojoj, koju si ukazao meni i roditeljima mojim, i da činim dobra djela na zadovoljstvo Tvoje, i uvedi me, milošću Svojom, među dobre robove Svoje!”
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
I on se nasmiješi pa nasmija riječima njegovim i reče: “Gospodaru moj, nadahni me da budem zahvalan na blagodati Tvojoj, koju si ukazao meni i roditeljima mojim, i da činim dobra djela na zadovoljstvo Tvoje, i uvedi me, milošću Svojom, među dobre robove Svoje!”
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
[Sulaymaana] moosi ko o jaluɗo immorde e konngol maggi ngol, o maaki: "Jooma, lonnginam no mi yettira neema maaɗa mo neeminɗaa e dow am on, e jibibinɓe lam ɓen, e nde mi gollata ko moƴƴi mbeltoraa ɗum, naatnaami ka Yurmeende Maaɗa wond'ude e jiyaaɓe Ma moƴƴuɓe ɓe".
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 შუამავალ სულაიმანს] გაეღიმა მის სიტყვებზე გაცინებით [რადგან მას ესმოდა მათი, და განცვიფრებული დარჩა იმით, რომ ჭიანჭველა აფრთხილებდა თავის თანამოძმეებს],
და მიმართა [ალლაჰს ვედრებით]: «ო, ჩემო უფალო! შთამაგონე, რომ მუდამ გიხდიდე მადლობას იმ წყალობისთვის, რომელიც მომანიჭე მე და ჩემს მშობლებს, და რომ ვაკეთო კეთილი საქმეები, რომლითაც შენ კმაყოფილი ხარ, და შემიყვანე შენი წყალობით შენს მართალ მსახურთა შორის».
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
Da lächelte er (also Sulayman) erheitert über ihre Worte und sagte: „Mein Herr, veranlasse mich, für Deine Gunstgabe zu danken, die Du mir und meinen Eltern erwiesen hast, und rechtschaffen zu handeln, womit Du zufrieden bist. Und lasse mich durch Deine Barmherzigkeit eingehen in die Reihen Deiner rechtschaffenen Diener.“
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
Έτσι, (ο Σολομώντας) χαμογέλασε και γέλασε (από την έκπληξή του) από τα λόγια του (μυρμηγκιού), και είπε: «Κύριέ μου! Ενέπνευσέ με (και καθοδήγησέ με) να δείξω ευγνωμοσύνη στην εύνοιά Σου που παραχώρησες σε μένα και στους γονείς μου, και να πράττω ενάρετες πράξεις που Σε ευχαριστούν. Και με το έλεός Σου, εισήγαγέ με ανάμεσα στους ενάρετους δούλους Σου.»
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
तो वह (सुलैमान) उसकी बात से हँसता हुआ मुसकुराया और उसने कहा : ऐ मेरे पालनहार! मुझे सामर्थ्य प्रदान कर कि मैं तेरी उस ने'मत का शुक्र अदा करूँ, जो तूने मुझे तथा मेरे माता-पिता को प्रदान की है, और यह कि मैं अच्छा कार्य करूँ, जिसे तू पसंद करे और मुझे अपनी दया से अपने सदाचारी बंदों में शामिल कर ले।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Allora lui sorrise, scherzoso, alle sue parole, e disse: «Dio mio, ispirami come posso esserTi riconoscente – per la grazia concessa a me e ai miei genitori – e come fare il bene che Tu vuoi, e annoverami, per Tua benevolenza, tra i Tuoi umili servi!»
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
19. Taigi jis [Suleimanas (Saliamos)] nusišypsojo, patenkintas jos kalba, ir tarė: „Mano Viešpaties, suteik man galią ir gebėjimą, kad aš būčiau dėkingas už Tavo Malones, kurias Tu suteikei man ir mano tėvams, ir kad aš daryčiau teisingus gerus darbus, kurie patenkintų Tave, ir priimk mane Savo Gailesntingumu tarp Savo teisingųjų vergų.“
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
Inni jecha ishee irraa kolfuun ni seeqate. Ni jedhes: “Yaa Gooftaa kiyya! Akkan ni’imaa kee ishee anaafi abbaa haadha kiyya qanansiifte galateeffadhuufi hojii gaarii ati jaalattu hojjadhu na barsiisi. Rahmata keetiin gabroota kee gaggaarii keessa na seensisi.”
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 он улыбнулся, смеясь от её слов, и сказал: «Господь мой! Внуши мне быть благодарным за Твою милость, которой Ты одарил меня и моих родителей, и совершать праведное, чем Ты будешь доволен. И введи меня по Своей милости в число Своих праведных рабов».
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
И он се насмеши његовим речима и рече: „Мој Господару, надахни ме да будем захвалан на Твојој благодати, коју си указао мени и мојим родитељима, и да чиним добра дела на Твоје задовољство, и уведи ме, Својом милошћу, међу Своје добре слуге!“
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
Basi (Suleiman) akatabasamu akacheka kwa neno hili, na akasema: Ewe Mola wangu Mlezi! Nizindue niishukuru neema yako uliyonineemesha mimi na wazazi wangu, na nipate kutenda mema uyapendayo, na uniingize kwa rehema yako katika waja wako wema.
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Svenska · Swedish
Glatt leende åt dessa ord sa han: ”Herre! Hjälp mig att visa tacksamhet för de välsignelser du skänkt mig och mina föräldrar, och att göra rättfärdiga handlingar som behagar dig. Inkludera mig, genom din nåd, i skaran av dina rättfärdiga tjänare.”
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
Süleyman, onun bu sözüne tebessüm ile gülerek dedi ki: “Ey Rabbim! Beni, bana ve ana babama verdiğin nimetlere şükretmeye ve razı olacağın salih ameller işlemeye sevk et ve beni rahmetinle salih kullarının arasına kat!”
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
اس کی اس بات سے حضرت سلیمان مسکرا کر ہنس دیئے اور دعا کرنے لگے کہ اے پروردگار! تو مجھے توفیق دے کہ میں تیری ان نعمتوں کا شکر بجا ﻻؤں جو تو نے مجھ پر انعام کی ہیں[1] اور میرے ماں باپ پر اور میں ایسے نیک اعمال کرتا رہوں جن سے تو خوش رہے مجھے اپنی رحمت سے نیک بندوں میں شامل کر لے.[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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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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.
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Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation,
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same edition and their orthography differs.
Easy-read (simplified)wahushira lisulaymaana junooduhu mina l-jinni wal-'insi wat-tayri fahum yooza'oon
DIN 31635waḥušira lisulaymāna ǧunūduhu mina l-ǧinni wal-ʾinsi waṭ-ṭayri fahum yūzaʿūna
Talal Itani2012 To the service of Solomon were mobilized his troops of sprites, and men, and birds-all held in strict order.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And assembled for Solomon were his hosts of the ginns, and men, and birds, and they were marshalled
John Medows Rodwell1861 And to Solomon were gathered his hosts of Djinn and men and birds, and they were marched on in bands
George Sale1734 And his armies were gathered together unto Solomon, consisting of genii, and men, and birds; and they were led in distinct bands
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
Easy-read (simplified)la'u'adhdhibannahu 'adhaaban shadeedan aw la'adhbahannahu aw laya'tiyannee bisultaanin mubeen
DIN 31635laʾuʿaḏḏibannahu ʿaḏāban šadīdan ʾaw laʾaḏbaḥannahu ʾaw layaʾtiyannī bisulṭānin mubīnin
Talal Itani2012 I will punish him most severely, or slay him, unless he gives me a valid excuse."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 I verily will punish him with hard punishment or I verily will slay him, or he verily shall bring me a plain excuse
Edward Henry Palmer1880 I will surely torment him with a severe torment; or I will surely slaughter him; or he shall bring me obvious authority
John Medows Rodwell1861 Surely, with a severe chastisement will I chastise it, or I will certainly slaughter it, unless it bring me a clear excuse
George Sale1734 Verily I will chastise her with a severe chastisement, or I will put her to death; unless she bring me a just excuse
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.71
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.68
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.49
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.46
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.44
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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.