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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Lo! I found a woman ruling over them, and she hath been given (abundance) of all things, and hers is a mighty throne
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
verily, I found a woman ruling over them, and she was given all things, and she had a mighty throne
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
I found a woman to reign over them, who is provided with every thing requisite for a prince, and hath a magnificent throne
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
Gjeta një grua që i sundonte ata. Asaj i ishte dhënë çdo gjë dhe ajo kishte një fron madhështor.
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
‘আমি এক নারীকে দেখতে পেলাম, সে তাদের ওপর রাজত্ব করছে। তাকে (শক্তি ও ক্ষমতার) সব কিছু দেওয়া হয়েছে। আর তার আছে এক বিশাল সিংহাসন।’
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
Vidio sam da jedna žena njima vlada i da joj je svega i svačega dato, a ima i prijesto veličanstveni,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Vidio sam da jedna žena njima vlada i da joj je svega i svačega dato, a ima i prijesto veličanstveni,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Min dey, mi tawii sonnaajo no laamii ɓe homo okkaa immorde e kala hu'unde, no woodami mo kadi jullere [laamu] mawnde.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ჭეშმარიტად, მე ვიპოვე ქალი, რომელიც მათ [საბას ხალხს] მართავს. მას ყოველივე მიეცა და აქვს დიადი ტახტი.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Wahrlich, ich habe herausgefunden, dass eine Frau über sie herrscht. Und ihr wurde ja von allem gegeben und sie hat einen gewaltigen Thron.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Βρήκα μία γυναίκα να τους κυβερνά, η οποία έχει όλα τα μέσα (δύναμης και βασιλείου), και έχει έναν μεγάλο θρόνο.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
निःसंदेह मैंने एक महिला को पाया, जो उनपर शासन कर रही है तथा उसे हर चीज़ का हिस्सा दिया गया है और उसके पास एक बड़ा सिंहासन है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
In verità` ho trovato una donna che lì regna, dotata di ogni cosa, e che ha un trono grandioso.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
23. Aš radau moterį, valdančią juos, jai buvo suteikti visi dalykai, kuriuos gali turėti bet kurie žemės valdytojai, ir ji turi didžiulį sostą.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Ani Dubartii isaan bulchitun arge, Tan Waan (moototaaf barbaachisu) hunda irraa kennamte, isheedhaaf sireen guddaan jiru.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Воистину, я обнаружил [там] женщину, которая властвует над ними; ей даровано [многое] из всего, и у неё — великий трон.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Видео сам да једна жена њима влада и да јој је дато свега и свачега, а има и величанствени престо.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Hakika mimi nimemkuta mwanamke anawatawala, naye amepewa kila kitu, na anacho kiti cha enzi kikubwa.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Jag fann att en kvinna regerar över dem, som har allt man kan tänka sig och en väldig tron.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Ben, onlara hükmeden, kendisine her şeyden (bolca) verilmiş ve büyük bir tahtı olan bir kadın buldum.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
میں نے دیکھا کہ ان کی بادشاہت ایک عورت کر رہی ہے[1] جسے ہر قسم کی چیز سے کچھ نہ کچھ دیا گیا ہے اور اس کا تخت بھی بڑی عظمت واﻻ ہے.[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
About these translations
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 (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
DIN 31635famakaṯa ġayra baʿīdin faqāla ʾaḥaṭtu bimā lam tuḥiṭ bihi waǧiʾtuka min sabaʾin binabaʾin yaqīnin
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 But he did not stay for long. He said, "I have learnt something you did not know. I have come to you from Sheba, with reliable information.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But he was not long in coming, and he said: I have found out (a thing) that thou apprehendest not, and I come unto thee from Sheba with sure tidings
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And he tarried not long, and said, 'I have compassed what ye compassed not; for I bring you from Seba a sure information
John Medows Rodwell1861 Nor tarried it long ere it came and said, "I have gained the knowledge that thou knowest not, and with sure tidings have I come to thee from Saba
George Sale1734 And she tarried not long before she presented herself unto Solomon, and said, I have viewed a country which thou hast not viewed; and I come unto thee from Saba, with a certain piece of news
DIN 31635waǧadttuhā waqawmahā yasǧudūna lilššamsi min dūni llāhi wazayyana lahumu š-šayṭānu ʾaʿmālahum faṣaddahum ʿani s-sabīli fahum lā yahtadūna
Talal Itani2012 I found her and her people worshiping the sun, instead of God. Satan made their conduct appear good to them, and diverted them from the path, so they are not guided.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 I found her and her people worshipping the sun instead of Allah; and Satan maketh their works fairseeming unto them, and debarreth them from the way (of Truth), so that they go not aright
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and I found her and her people adoring the sun instead of God, for Satan had made seemly to them their works, and turned them from the path, so that they are not guided
John Medows Rodwell1861 And I found her and her people worshipping the sun instead of God; and Satan hath made their works fair seeming to them, so that he hath turned them from the Way: wherefore they are not guided
George Sale1734 I found her and her people to worship the sun, besides God: And Satan hath prepared their works for them, and hath turned them aside from the way of truth, -- wherefore they are not rightly directed
Talal Itani2012 If only they would worship God, who brings to light the mysteries of the heavens and the earth, and knows what you conceal and what you reveal.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 So that they worship not Allah, Who bringeth forth the hidden in the heavens and the earth, and knoweth what ye hide and what ye proclaim
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Will they not adore God who brings forth the secrets in the heavens, and knows what they hide and what they manifest
John Medows Rodwell1861 To the worship of God, who bringeth to light the secret things of heaven and earth, and knoweth what men conceal and what they manifest
George Sale1734 lest they should worship God, who bringeth to light that which is hidden in heaven and earth, and knoweth whatever they conceal, and whatever they discover
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 —
0.58 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
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.73
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · George Sale0.68
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.52
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.43
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.42
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
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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.