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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
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
Or, who answers the one in need when he prays to Him, and relievesadversity, and makes you successors on earth? Is there another god with God? How hardly you payattention.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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 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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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 i përgjigjet hallexhiut, kur ai i lutet, që jua largon të keqen dhe që ju bën trashëgues në tokë (njërin pas tjetrit)?! Pra, a ka zot tjetër krahas Allahut (që meriton adhurimin)? Sa pak që mendoni!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
নাকি তিনিই (শ্রেষ্ঠ), যিনি নিরুপায় ব্যক্তির ডাকে সাড়া দেন, যখন সে (বিপদের পড়ে) তাঁকে ডাকে এবং তিনি বিপদ দূরীভূত করেন এবং তোমাদেরকে জমিনের প্রতিনিধি বানান। আল্লাহর সাথে কি অন্য কোনো ইলাহ আছে? তোমরা কমই উপদেশ গ্রহণ করে থাকো।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Onaj Koji se nevoljniku, kad Mu se obrati, odaziva, i Koji zlo otklanja i Koji vas na Zemlji namjesnicima postavlja. Zar pored Allaha postoji drugi bog? Kako nikako pouku vi da primite!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Onaj Koji se nevoljniku, kad Mu se obrati, odaziva, i Koji zlo otklanja i Koji vas na Zemlji namjesnicima postavlja. Zar pored Allaha postoji drugi bog? Kako nikako pouku vi da primite!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Kaa ko hommbo jaabato ɓittiiɗo on si o noddi mo o hunca bone ɗen o waɗa on lontiiɓe ka leydi? Na woodi Koreweteeɗo goo wond'ude e Alla? Famɗii ko mbaajitoɗon.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
[ცრუ ღმერთები უკეთესია თუ] ის ვინც პასუხობს გაჭირვებულის ვედრებას, როცა მოუხმობს მას და ააცილებს სიავეს და გქმნით თქვენ დედამიწის მემკვიდრეებად. განა არის ალლაჰთან ერთად სხვა ღვთაება [რომელიც იგივეს აკეთებს] ? რა მცირეა, რასაც შეიგონებთ.
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Deutsch · German
Oder (ist besser) Wer den in einer Notlage Befindlichen erhört, wenn er Ihn anruft, und das Schlechte hinwegnimmt und euch zu Nachfolgern (auf) der Erde macht? Gibt es denn einen (anderen) Anbetungswürdigen neben Allah? Wie wenig ihr doch bedenkt!
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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 ανταποκρίνεται στην επίκληση εκείνου που Τον επικαλείτε ενώ βρίσκεται σε μεγάλες κακουχίες (και σε ανάγκη), και ο Οποίος αφαιρεί τις κακουχίες και κάνει εσάς να διαδέχεστε η μία γενιά την άλλη στη γη; Υπάρχει κάποιος άλλος θεός (που κάνει αυτά) μαζί με τον Αλλάχ; Λίγο είναι αυτό που λαμβάνετε υπόψη από την νουθεσία!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
या वह जो व्याकुल की प्रार्थना स्वीकार करता है, जब वह उसे पुकारता है और दुखों को दूर करता है और तुम्हें धरती का उत्तराधिकारी बनाता है? क्या अल्लाह के साथ कोई (अन्य) पूज्य है? तुम बहुत कम उपदेश ग्रहण करते हो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
O chi è Colui che esaudisce la preghiera del supplicante, se lo supplica, e sventa il male e vi rende eredi della terra? C’è un’altra divinità insieme ad Allāh? ﴿أَءِلَهٌ مَعَ اللَّهِ﴾ Quanto poco ricordate!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
62. Ar ne Jis (geresnis, nei jūsų dievai), Kuris atsako kenčiančiam, kai jis Jo šaukiasi, ir Kuris panaikina blogį, ir padaro jus žemės paveldėtojais, kartas po kartų? Ar yra koks nors ilah (dievas) su Allahu? Mažai jūs prisimenate.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Sila Isa yeroo namni rakkataan (muddamaan) Isa kadhate jalaa awwaatee hamtuu saaquufi bakka bu’oota dachii isin taasisu (moo waan isaan Rabbitti dabalantu caala)? Sila Rabbii wajjin gabbaramaan biraa ni jiraa? Hangi isin gorfamtan xiqqaadha.
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Русский · Russian
Или Тот, Который отвечает оказавшемуся в беде, когда он взывает к Нему, и отводит беду, и делает вас наместниками на земле? Неужели есть божество наряду с Аллахом? Как же мало вы внемлите напоминанию!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Онај Који се невољнику, кад Му се обрати, одазива, и Који зло отклања и Који вас на Земљи једне другима смењује. Зар поред Аллаха постоји други бог?! Како никако поуку ви да примите!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Au ni nani yule anayemjibu mwenye shida kubwa pale anapomwomba, na akaiondoa dhiki, na akawafanya warithi wa ardhi? Je, yupo mungu pamoja na Mwenyezi Mungu? Ni machache mnayoyazingatia.
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Svenska · Swedish
Är det inte han som bönhör den nödställde när han ber till honom och som tar bort det onda och gör er till efterträdare på jorden? Finns det någon annan gud, vid Guds sida? Vad lite ni tänker efter!
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Türkçe · Turkish
(Ortak koştuklarınız mı hayırlı) Yoksa darda kalana kendisine dua ettiği zaman icabet eden, sıkıntıyı gideren ve sizi yeryüzünün halifeleri kılan mı? Allah ile birlikte başka bir ilah mı var? Ne kadar da az düşünüyorsunuz.
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اردو · Urdu
بے کس کی پکار کو جب کہ وه پکارے، کون قبول کرکے سختی کو دور کر دیتا ہے[1] ؟ اور تمہیں زمین کا خلیفہ بناتا ہے[2]، کیا اللہ تعالیٰ کے ساتھ اور معبود ہے؟ تم بہت کم نصیحت وعبرت حاصل کرتے ہو.
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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 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.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Is not He (best) Who made the earth a fixed abode, 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 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
George Sale1734 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
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
Easy-read (simplified)amman yabda'u l-khalqa thumma yu'eeduhu waman yarzuqukum mina s-samaa'i wal-'ardi a'ilaahun ma'a llaahi qul haatoo burhaanakum in kuntum saadiqeen
DIN 31635ʾamman yabdaʾu l-ḫalqa ṯumma yuʿīduhu waman yarzuqukum mina s-samāʾi wal-ʾarḍi ʾaʾilāhun maʿa llāhi qul hātū burhānakum ʾin kuntum ṣādiqīna
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Talal Itani2012 Or, who originates the creation and then repeats it, and who gives you livelihood from the sky and the earth? Is there another god with God? Say, "Produce your evidence, if you are truthful."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Is not He (best) Who produceth creation, then reproduceth it, and Who provideth for you from the heaven and the earth? Is there any Allah beside Allah? Say: Bring your proof, if ye are truthful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He who began the creation and then will make it return again; and who provides you from the heaven and the earth; is there a god with God? so bring your proofs if ye do speak the truth
John Medows Rodwell1861 Is not He, who created a Being, then reneweth it, and who supplieth you out of the Heaven and the Earth? What! a god with God? SAY: Bring forth your proofs if you speak the truth
George Sale1734 Is not He more worthy, Who produceth a creature, and after it hath been dead restoreth it to life; and Who giveth you food from heaven and earth? Is there any other god with the true God, who doth this? Say, produce your proof thereof, if ye speak truth
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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.
The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.78
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.77
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.75
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.74
Talal Itani · George Sale0.73
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.71
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.68
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.61
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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.