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Talal Itani· published 2012
Or, who made the earth habitable, and made rivers flow through it, and set mountains on it, and placed a partition between the two seas? Is there another god with God? But most of them do not know.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Is not He (best) Who made the earth a fixedabode, and placed rivers in the folds thereof, and placed firm hills therein, and hath set a barrier between the two seas? Is there any Allah beside Allah? Nay, but most of them know not
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
He who made the earth, settled, and placed amongst it rivers; and placed upon it firm mountains; and placed between the two seas a barrier; is there a god with God? nay, but most of them know not
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Is not He, who hath set the earth so firm, and hath made rivers in its midst, and hath placed mountains upon it, and put a barrier between the two seas? What! a god with God? Yet the greater part of them have no knowledge
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Is not He more worthy to be adored, who hath established the earth, and hath caused rivers to flow through the midst thereof, and placed thereon immovable mountains, and set a bar between the two seas? Is there any other god equal with the true God? Yet the greater part of them know it not
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
A mund të jenë më të mirë se Ai që e bëri Tokën të qëndrueshme, krijoi në të lumenj dhe bëri në të male të patundshme dhe vuri pengesë ndërmjet dy detesh? Pra, a ka zot tjetër krahas Allahut (që meriton adhurimin)? Jo, por shumica e tyre nuk e dinë.
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বাংলা · Bengali
নাকি তিনিই (শ্রেষ্ঠ), যিনি জমিনকে আবাসযোগ্য করেছেন এবং তার মধ্যে প্রবাহিত করেছেন নদী-নালা। আর তাতে স্থাপন করেছেন সুদৃঢ় পর্বতমালা এবং (লবণাক্ত ও সুমিষ্ট পানির) দুই সাগরের মধ্যখানে সৃষ্টি করেছেন অন্তরায়। আল্লাহর সাথে কি অন্য কোনো ইলাহ আছে? বরং তাদের অধিকাংশই জানে না।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Onaj Koji je Zemlju prebivalištem učinio i kroz nju rijeke proveo i na njoj brda nepomična postavio i dva mora pregradio. Zar pored Allaha postoji drugi bog? Ne postoji, nego većina njih u neznanju živi.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Onaj Koji je Zemlju prebivalištem učinio i kroz nju rijeke proveo i na njoj brda nepomična postavio i dva mora pregradio. Zar pored Allaha postoji drugi bog? Ne postoji, nego većina njih u neznanju živi.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Kaa ko hommbo waɗi leydi ndin ñiiɓndi, O waɗi hakkunde mayri calluɗi O waɗani ndi pelle o waɗi hakkunde maaje ɗen ɗiɗi heedo?, hara na woodi deweteeɗo [goo] wond'ude e Alla? ko woni, ɓurɓe ɗuuɗude ɓen e maɓɓe ɓe nganndaa.
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ქართული · Georgian
[ცრუ ღმერთები უკეთესია თუ] ის, ვინც დაადგინა დედამიწა მყარად და გაიყვანა მის ღარებში მდინარეები და დაადგა მასზე მყარად მდგომი მთები და ორ ზღვას შორის აღმართა ზღუდე, განა არის ალლაჰთან ერთად სხვა ღვთაება? და მათმა უმეტესობამ არ იცის [ალლაჰის დიდება და ძლევამოსილება].
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Deutsch · German
Oder (ist besser) Wer die Erde zu einem festen Grund gemacht und Flüsse durch sie gemacht und festgegründete Berge (auf) ihr gemacht und zwischen den beiden Meeren eine Schranke gemacht hat? Gibt es denn einen (anderen) Anbetungswürdigen neben Allah? Vielmehr wissen die meisten von ihnen nicht.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
(Είναι η λατρεία προς τους λεγόμενους θεούς τους καλύτερη) ή προς Αυτόν που έκανε τη γη ένα σταθερό μέρος (που να μην τρέμει με σας), έκανε μέσα της ποτάμια, τοποθέτησε σ' αυτήν σταθερά βουνά (για να μην τρέμει η γη με σας), και έκανε ανάμεσα στα δύο νερά (του ποταμού και της θάλασσας, ή των δύο ποταμών ή των δύο θαλασσών) ένα φράγμα; [Αυτό το αόρατο φράγμα κάνει το νερό ενός ποταμού ή μίας θάλασσας, όταν εισχωρήσει σε μία άλλη θάλασσα, να μην αλλάξει την αλμυρότατα και τις περιγραφές της, ούτε το αντίστροφο, αλλά αποκτά τις περιγραφές αυτής]. Υπάρχει κάποιος άλλος θεός (που δημιούργησε αυτά) μαζί με τον Αλλάχ; Όχι, αλλά οι περισσότεροι δε γνωρίζουν (τη Μεγαλοπρέπεια του Αλλάχ)!
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हिन्दी · Hindi
(क्या वे साझीदार बेहतर हैं) या वह जिसने धरती को ठहरने का स्थान बनाया और उसके बीच नहरें बनाईं और उसके लिए पहाड़ बनाए और दो समुद्रों के बीच अवरोध बनाया? क्या अल्लाह के साथ कोई (अन्य) पूज्य है ? बल्कि उनमें से अधिकतर लोग नहीं जानते।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
O chi è Colui che fece della terra un luogo stabile e la fece attraversare da fiumi, e le fece degli appigli e stabilì tra i due mari un limite? C’è forse un’altra divinità insieme ad Allāh? Ma la maggioranza di loro non lo sa.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
61. Ar ne Jis (geresnis, nei jūsų dievai), Kuris padarė žemę tvirta buveine, ir patalpino upes vidury jos, ir įtvirtino tvirtai joje kalnus, ir nustatė pertvarą tarp dviejų jūrų (druskingo ir tyro vandens)? Ar yra koks nors ilah (dievas) su Allahu? Ne, tačiau dauguma jų nežino.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Sila Isa dachii raggaatuu taasise, kan ishee keessattis laggeen taasise, kan isheef (gaarreen) gadi lixan taasise, kan gidduu galaanota lamaatti girdoo taasise moo (warra isaan isatti dabalantu caala)? Sila Rabbii wajjin gabbaramaan biraa ni jiraa? Dhugumatti irra hedduun isaanii hin beekan.
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Русский · Russian
Или Тот, Который сделал землю устойчивой и провёл через неё реки, и сделал для неё прочно стоящие горы, и устроил между двумя морями преграду? Неужели есть божество наряду с Аллахом? Нет, напротив, большинство их не знает.
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Српски · Serbian
Онај Који је Земљу учинио пребивалиштем и кроз њу је провео реке и на њој је поставио непомична брда и између два мора учинио преграду. Зар поред Аллаха постоји други бог?! Не постоји, него већина њих у незнању живи.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Au nani yule aliyeifanya ardhi mahali pa kutua, na akajaalia ndani yake mito, na akaweka milima? Na akaweka baina ya bahari mbili kizuizi? Je, yupo mungu pamoja na Mwenyezi Mungu? Bali wengi wao hawajui.
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Svenska · Swedish
Är det inte han som har gjort jorden stadig och låtit floder rinna genom den, och som rest berg på den och satt en barriär mellan de två haven? Finns det någon annan gud, vid Guds sida? Nej, de flesta av dem vet ingenting.
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Türkçe · Turkish
(Ortak koştuklarınız mı hayırlı) Yoksa yeryüzünü yerleşim yeri yapan, aralarında ırmaklar akıtan, orada sabit dağlar yerleştiren, iki deniz arasına engel koyan (Allah) mı? Allah ile birlikte başka bir ilah mı var? Hayır! Onların çoğu bilmiyorlar.
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اردو · Urdu
کیا وه جس نے زمین کو قرار گاه بنایا[1] اور اس کے درمیان نہریں جاری کر دیں اور اس کے لیے پہاڑ بنائے اور دو سمندروں کے درمیان روک بنا دی[2] کیا اللہ کے ساتھ اور کوئی معبود بھی ہے؟ بلکہ ان میں سے اکثر کچھ جانتے ہی نہیں.
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Talal Itani2012 Say, "Praise God, and peace be upon His servants whom He has selected. Is God better, or what they associate?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say (O Muhammad): Praise be to Allah, and peace be on His slaves whom He hath chosen! Is Allah best, or (all) that ye ascribe as partners (unto Him)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Praise belongs to God; and peace be upon His servants whom He has chosen! Is God best, or what they associate with Him
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Praise be to God and peace be on His servants whom He hath chosen! Is God the more worthy or the gods they join with Him
George Sale1734 Say, praise be unto God; and peace be upon his servants whom He hath chosen! Is God more worthy, or the false gods which they associate with him
Easy-read (simplified)amman khalaqa s-samaawaati wal-'arda wa'anzala lakum mina s-samaa'i maa'an fa'anbatnaa bihi hadaa'iqa dhaata bahjatin maa kaana lakum an tunbitoo shajarahaa a'ilaahun ma'a llaahi bal hum qawmun ya'diloon
DIN 31635ʾamman ḫalaqa s-samāwāti wal-ʾarḍa waʾanzala lakum mina s-samāʾi māʾan faʾanbatnā bihi ḥadāʾiqa ḏāta bahǧatin mā kāna lakum ʾan tunbitū šaǧarahā ʾaʾilāhun maʿa llāhi bal hum qawmun yaʿdilūna
Talal Itani2012 Or, who created the heavens and the earth, and rains down water from the sky for you? With it We produce gardens full of beauty, whose trees you could not have produced. Is there another god with God? But they are a people who equate.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Is not He (best) Who created the heavens and the earth, and sendeth down for you water from the sky wherewith We cause to spring forth joyous orchards, whose trees it never hath been yours to cause to grow. Is there any Allah beside Allah? Nay, but they are folk who ascribe equals (unto Him)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He who created the heavens and the earth; and sends down upon you from the heaven water; and we cause to grow therewith gardens fraught with beauty; ye could not cause the trees thereof to grow! Is there a god with God? nay, but they are a people who make peers with Him
John Medows Rodwell1861 Is not He who hath made the Heavens and the Earth, and hath sent down rain to you from Heaven, by which we cause the luxuriant groves to spring up! It is not in your power to cause its trees to spring up! What! A god with God? Yet they find equals for Him
George Sale1734 Is not He to be preferred, who hath created the heavens and the earth, and sendeth down rain for you from heaven, whereby We cause delicious groves to spring up? It is not in your power to cause the trees thereof to shoot forth. Is there any other god partner with the true God? Verily these are a people who deviate from the truth
Talal Itani2012 Or, who answers the one in need when he prays to Him, and relieves adversity, and makes you successors on earth? Is there another god with God? How hardly you pay attention.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Is not He (best) Who answereth the wronged one when he crieth unto Him and removeth the evil, and hath made you viceroys of the earth? Is there any Allah beside Allah? Little do they reflect
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He who answers the distressed when he calls upon Him and removes the evil; and makes you successors in the earth; is there a god with God? little is it that ye are mindful
John Medows Rodwell1861 Is not He the more worthy who answereth the oppressed when they cry to him, and taketh off their ills, and maketh you to succeed your sires on the earth? What! a god with God? How few bear these things in mind
George Sale1734 Is not He more worthy who heareth the afflicted, when he calleth upon Him, and taketh off the evil which distressed him; and who hath made you the successors of your forefathers in the earth? Is there any other god who can be equalled with the true God? How few consider these things
Talal Itani2012 Or, who guides you through the darkness of land and sea, and who sends the winds as heralds of His mercy? Is there another god with God? Most exalted is God, above what they associate.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Is not He (best) Who guideth you in the darkness of the land and the sea, He Who sendeth the winds as heralds of His mercy? Is there any Allah beside Allah? High Exalted be Allah from all that they ascribe as partner (unto Him)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He who guides you in the darkness, of the land and of the sea; and who sends winds as glad tidings before His mercy; is there a god with God? exalted be God above what they associate with Him
John Medows Rodwell1861 Is not He, who guideth you in the darkness of the land and of the sea, and who sendeth forth the winds as the forerunners of His mercy? What! a god with God? Far from God be what ye join with Him
George Sale1734 Is not He more worthy Who directeth you in the dark paths of the land and of the sea; and Who sendeth the winds driving abroad the clouds, as the forerunners of this mercy? Is there any other god who can be equalled with the true God? Far be God from having those partners in his power, which ye associate with Him
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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 · George Sale0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Talal Itani · George Sale0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.47
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.41
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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.