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Shall he then, unto whom We have promised an excellent promise of futurehappiness, and who shall attain the same, be as he on whom we have bestowed the provision of this present life, and who, on the day of resurrection, shall be one of those who are delivered up to eternal punishment
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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
Can someone to whom We have made a fine promise-which he will attain-be equal to someone to whom We have given enjoyments in this world, but who will be, on Resurrection Day, among the arraigned?
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Is he whom We have promised a fair promise which he will find (true) like him whom We suffer to enjoyawhile the comfort of the life of the world, then on the Day of Resurrection he will be of those arraigned
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
Is He to whom we have promised a goodly promise, which he shall meet with, like him to whom we have given the enjoyment of the life of this world, and who upon the resurrection day shall be of the arraigned
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Shall he then to whom we have promised a goodly promise and who obtaineth it, be as he on whom we have bestowed the enjoyments of this life present, and who on the day of Resurrection shall be brought up for punishment
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
A është njësoj ai që i kemi premtuar një premtim të mirë (Xhenetin), të cilin do ta gjejë, me atë që i kemi dhënë kënaqësinë e jetës së kësaj bote, ndërsa në Ditën e Kiametit do të jetë prej atyre që do të hyjnë në Zjarr?!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আমি যাকে উত্তম পুরস্কারের ওয়াদা দিয়েছি, সে তা পাবেই; সে কি তার মতোই যাকে আমি দুনিয়ার জীবনের ভোগসামগ্রী দিয়েছি? তারপর কিয়ামতের দিনে সে (জাহান্নামের আগুনের সামনে অপরাধীরূপে) উপস্থিতকৃতদের মধ্যে থাকবে।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Kako može biti jednak onaj kome smo lijepu nagradu obećali, i koju će dobiti, i onaj kome smo dali da se naslađuje u životu na ovom svijetu, a koji će, poslije, na onom svijetu u vatru ubačen biti?
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
Kako može biti jednak onaj kome smo lijepu nagradu obećali, i koju će dobiti, i onaj kome smo dali da se naslađuje u životu na ovom svijetu, a koji će, poslije, na onom svijetu u vatru ubačen biti?
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
Eey mon Min podi fodaari moƴƴuri, ndi o hawrata e mu'un, wa'ata wa on mo Min ndakmitiri dakamme nguurndam aduna, refti hara kaŋko on, Ñalnde Darngal, ko e tawneteeɓe (ka Yiite) ɓen o jeyaa?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ნუთუ ის, ვისაც ჩვენ მივეცით მშვენიერი აღთქმა და რომელიც შეხვდება მას [იმას, რაც მას აღუთქვეს], ჰგავს იმას, ვისაც ჩვენ ვუბოძეთ ამქვეყნიური ცხოვრების წარმავალი სიკეთენი, (და რომელიც) შემდეგ აღდგომის დღეს მიყვანილთა (ჯოჯოხეთისკენ) შორის იქნება?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Ist denn einer, dem Wir ein schönes Versprechen gegeben haben und der es dann auch vorfinden wird, einem gleich, den Wir den Genuss des diesseitigen Lebens genießen lassen, der hierauf aber am Tag der Auferstehung zu den Vorgeführten gehören wird?
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
Είναι εκείνος στον οποίο υποσχεθήκαμε την καλύτερη ανταμοιβή που οπωσδήποτε θα τη λάβει, σαν εκείνον στον οποίο δώσαμε τα αγαθά (και την απόλαυση) της εγκόσμιας ζωής, και έπειτα την Ημέρα της Ανάστασης θα είναι απ' εκείνους που θα παρεβρίσκονται στην Κόλαση;
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 क्या वह व्यक्ति जिसे हमने एक अच्छा वादा दिया, फिर वह उसे प्राप्त करने वाला है, उस व्यक्ति की तरह है, जिसे हमने सांसारिक जीवन का सामान दिया, फिर वह क़ियामत के दिन उपस्थित किए जाने वालों में से होगा?[21]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Colui a cui abbiamo fatto una buona promessa, che sarà certo mantenuta, è forse uguale a chi facciamo godere delle delizie della vita terrena, e che poi sarà, nel Giorno del Giudizio, tra i condannati?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
61. Ar tas, kuriam Mes pažadėjome puikiu Pažadu (Rojumi) – kurį jis atras esant tiesa – panašus į tą, kurį Mes privertėme mėgautis (šio) pasaulio gyvenimo prabanga, o tada Prikelimo Dieną, jis bus tarp tų prikeltų (bausmei Pragaro Ugnyje)?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Sila namni Nuti waadaa gaarii (jannata) waadaa isaaf gallee inni kan isa qunnamu ta’e, akka nama qananii jireenya addunyaa isa qanansiifnee sana booda inni Guyyaa Qiyaamaa warra [jahannam irra] fidamoo irraa ta’uutii?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Неужели тот, кому Мы дали прекрасное обещание, которое он непременно встретит, подобен тому, кому Мы дали пользоваться [благами] мирской жизни, а затем в День воскресения он окажется среди приведённых [в Ад]?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Како може да буде једнак онај коме смо обећали лепу награду коју ће да добије, и онај коме смо дали да се наслађује у овосветском животу, а који ће после, на Судњем дану, Ватри да буде приведен?!
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
Je, yule tuliyemuahidi ahadi nzuri, tena naye akayapata, ni kama tuliyemstarehesha kwa starehe za maisha ya duniani, na kisha Siku ya Kiyama akawa miongoni mwa wanaohudhurishwa?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Kan den som vi har gett ett gott löfte [om paradiset], som han ska se infrias, jämföras med den som vi har gett kortvariga nöjen men som på uppståndelsens dag ska ställas fram [för att straffas]?
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
Kendisine güzel bir vaadde bulunduğumuz ve dolayısıyla ona kavuşan kimse, kendisini dünya hayatının geçimliğinden yararlandırdığımız sonra kıyamet günü (azaba atılmak üzere) getirileceklerden olanla bir midir?
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
کیا وه شخص جس سے ہم نے نیک وعده کیا ہے جسے وه قطعاً پانے واﻻ ہے مثل اس شخص کے ہوسکتا ہے؟ جسے ہم نے زندگانیٴ دنیا کی کچھ یونہی سی منفعت دے دی پھر بالﺂخر وه قیامت کے روز پکڑا باندھا حاضر کیا جائے گا.[1]
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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Talal Itani2012 Your Lord never destroys cities without first sending a messenger in their midst, reciting to them Our revelations. And We never destroy the cities, unless their people are wrongdoers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And never did thy Lord destroy the townships, till He had raised up in their mother(-town) a messenger reciting unto them Our revelations. And never did We destroy the townships unless the folk thereof were evil-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But thy Lord would never destroy cities until He sent to the metropolis thereof an apostle, to recite to them our signs; nor would we destroy cities unless their people were unjust
John Medows Rodwell1861 But thy Lord did not destroy the cities till He had sent an apostle to their mother-city to rehearse our signs to its people: nor did we destroy the cities unless its people were unjust
George Sale1734 But thy Lord did not destroy those cities, until He had sent unto their capital an apostle, to rehearse our signs unto them: Neither did We destroy those cities, unless their inhabitants were injurious to their apostle
DIN 31635wamā ʾūtītum min šayʾin famatāʿu l-ḥayāti d-dunyā wazīnatuhā wamā ʿinda llāhi ḫayrun waʾabqā ʾafalā taʿqilūna
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Talal Itani2012 Whatever thing you are given is but the material of this world, and its glitter. But what is with God is better, and longer lasting. Do you not comprehend?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And whatsoever ye have been given is a comfort of the life of the world and an ornament thereof; and that which Allah hath is better and more lasting. Have ye then no sense
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Whatever thing ye may be given, it is a provision for this world's life and the adornment thereof; but what is with God is better and more enduring; have ye then no sense
John Medows Rodwell1861 And all that hath been bestowed on you is merely for enjoyment and pomp of this life present: but that which is with God is better and more lasting. Will ye not be wise
George Sale1734 The things which are given you, are the provisions of this present life, and the pomp thereof; but that which is with God, is better and more durable: Will ye not therefore understand
Talal Itani2012 Those against whom the sentence is justified will say, "Our Lord, these are they whom we misled. We misled them, as we were misled. We beg Your forgiveness; it was not us they used to worship."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those concerning whom the Word will have come true will say: Our Lord! These are they whom we led astray. We led them astray even as we ourselves were astray. We declare our innocence before Thee: us they never worshipped
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And those against whom the sentence is due shall say, 'Our Lord! these are those whom we have seduced; we seduced them as we were seduced ourselves: but we clear ourselves to thee;- they ,did not worship us
John Medows Rodwell1861 They on whom doom shall be justly pronounced will say, "O our Lord! these are they whom we led astray: we led them astray even as we had been led astray ourselves: Thou hast no cause of blame against us: It was not we whom they worshipped
George Sale1734 And they upon whom the sentence of damnation shall be justly pronounced, shall answer, these, O Lord, are those whom we seduced; we seduced them as we also had been seduced: But now we clearly quit them, and turn unto Thee. They did not worship Us, but their own lusts
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
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6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.73
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.66
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.51
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.45
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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.