Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Of His mercy hath He appointed for you night and day, that therein ye may rest, and that ye may seek His bounty, and that haply ye may be thankful
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
But of His mercy He has made for you the night and the day, that ye may rest therein, and crave of His grace, haply ye may give thanks
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Of His mercy he hath made for you the night that ye may take your rest in it; and the day that ye may seek what ye need out of his bounteoussupplies, and that ye may give thanks
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Of his mercy He hath made for you the night and the day, that ye may rest in the one, and may seek to obtainprovision for your selves of his abundance, by your industry, in the other; and that ye may give thanks
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
Prej mëshirës së Tij, Ai krijoi për ju natën e ditën, për të pushuar në to dhe për të kërkuar mirësinë e Tij, si dhe që të jeni mirënjohës.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর তাঁর (আল্লাহর) অনুগ্রহে তিনি তোমাদের জন্য রাত ও দিন করেছেন, যাতে তোমরা বিশ্রাম নিতে পারো এবং তাঁর অনুগ্রহ সন্ধান করতে পারো এবং যেনো তোমরা (তাঁর নি‘আমতসমূহের) কৃতজ্ঞতা আদায় করতে পার।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Iz milosti Svoje on vam je dao noć i dan – da se noću odmarate, a da danju za dobrima Njegovim tragate i da zahvalni budete.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Iz milosti Svoje On vam je dao noć i dan; da se u njoj odmarate, a da iz dobara Njegovih privređujete i da zahvalni budete.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Hino jeyaa e yurmeende Makko, O waɗiranii on jemma e ñalawma; fii no deeƴiron e (jemma) on, e no ɗaɓɓiron ( e ñalawma on), ɓural makko, e no mbelajo'o njettiron [Mo] .
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და მისი წყალობიდან არის ის, რომ მან თქვენთვის დაადგინა ღამე და დღე, რათა (ღამით) დაისვენოთ და რათა (დღისით) მოიპოვოთ (საზრდო) მისი სიუხვიდან, და რათა ეგების მადლიერნი იყოთ (ალლაჰისა)!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und zu Seiner Barmherzigkeit zählt, dass Er euch die Nacht und den Tag gemacht hat, damit ihr darin ruht und damit ihr (auch) nach etwas von Seiner Huld trachtet, und auf dass ihr dankbar sein möget.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Από το έλεος Του έκανε για σας τη νύχτα και την ημέρα, για να ξεκουραστείτε σ' αυτή (τη νύχτα) και να αναζητάτε από τη γενναιοδωρία Του (μέσω των εργασιών σας την ημέρα), και ίσως να είστε ευγνώμονες.
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
तथा उसने अपनी दया ही से तुम्हारे लिए रात और दिन बनाए हैं। ताकि तुम उस (रात) में आराम करो और ताकि उसका कुछ अनुग्रह तलाश करो और ताकि तुम उसके कृतज्ञ बनो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E per grazia Sua, Lui ha stabilito per voi la notte e il giorno, per riposarvi e per ottenere la Sua grazia, e perché Gli siate grati.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
73. Tai iš Jo Gailestingumo, kad Jis sukūrė jums naktį ir dieną, kad jūs galėtumėte pailsėti joje (t. y. per naktį) ir kad jūs siektumėte Jo Dosnumo (t. y. per dieną) – ir tam, kad jūs būtumėte dėkingi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Rahmata Isaa irraayyi halkaniifi guyyaa akka isa (halkan) keessa boqottanii [guyyaa] tola Isaa irraa barbaaddattanii fi, akka Isa galatoomfattaniif isinii taasise.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И от милости Своей Он сделал для вас ночь и день, чтобы вы обретали в ночи покой, и чтобы вы искали Его милости [днём], — быть может, вы будете благодарны.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Из Своје милости Он вам је дао ноћ и дан - да се ноћу одмарате а да дању за Његовим добрима трагате и да будете захвални.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na ni katika rehema zake amewafanyia usiku na mchana ili mpate kupumzika humo na mtafute fadhila zake, na ili mpate kushukuru.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
I sin nåd har han skänkt er natten och dagen för att ni ska vila och söka hans försörjning, och för att ni ska bli tacksamma.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Geceyi ve gündüzü sizin için onda sükûn bulasınız ve lütfundan arayısınız diye yaratmış olması onun rahmetindendir. Olur ki şükredersiniz.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اسی نے تو تمہارے لیے اپنے فضل وکرم سے دن رات مقرر کر دیے ہیں کہ تم رات میں آرام کرو اور دن میں اس کی بھیجی ہوئی روزی تلاش کرو[1] ، یہ اس لیے کہ تم شکر ادا کرو.[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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Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil
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Easy-read (simplified)qul ara'aytum in ja'ala llaahu 'alaykumu llayla sarmadan ilaa yawmi l-qiyaamati man ilaahun ghayru llaahi ya'teekum bidiyaa'in afalaa tasma'oon
DIN 31635qul ʾaraʾaytum ʾin ǧaʿala llāhu ʿalaykumu llayla sarmadan ʾilā yawmi l-qiyāmati man ʾilāhun ġayru llāhi yaʾtīkum biḍiyāʾin ʾafalā tasmaʿūna
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Have you considered? Had God made the night perpetual over you until the Day of Resurrection, which god other than God will bring you illumination? Do you not hear?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: Have ye thought, if Allah made night everlasting for you till the Day of Resurrection, who is a god beside Allah who could bring you light? Will ye not then hear
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Have ye considered, if God were to make for you the night endless until the resurrection day, who is the god, but God, to bring you light? can ye not then hear
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: What think ye? If God should enshroud you with a long night until the day of resurrection, what god beside God would bring you light? Will ye not then hearken
George Sale1734 Say, what think ye? If God should cover you with perpetual night, until the day of resurrection; what god, besides God, would bring you light? Will ye not therefore hearken
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Have you considered? Had God made the day perpetual over you until the Day of Resurrection, which god other than God will bring you night to rest in? Do you not see?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: Have ye thought, if Allah made day everlasting for you till the Day of Resurrection, who is a god beside Allah who could bring you night wherein ye rest? Will ye not then see
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Have ye considered, if God were to make for you the day endless until the day of judgment, who is the god, except God, to bring you the night to rest therein? can ye not then see
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: What think ye? If God should make it one long day for you until the day of resurrection, what god but God could bring you the night in which to take your rest? Will ye not then see
George Sale1734 Say, what think ye? If God should give you continual day, until the day of resurrection; what god, besides God, would bring you night, that ye might rest therein? Will ye not therefore consider
Easy-read (simplified)wanaza'naa min kulli ummatin shaheedan faqulnaa haatoo burhaanakum fa'alimoo anna l-haqqa lillaahi wadalla 'anhum maa kaanoo yaftaroon
DIN 31635wanazaʿnā min kulli ʾummatin šahīdan faqulnā hātū burhānakum faʿalimū ʾanna l-ḥaqqa lillāhi waḍalla ʿanhum mā kānū yaftarūna
Talal Itani2012 And We will draw out from every community a witness, and say, "Produce your evidence." Then they will realize that the truth is God's, and those they used to invent have forsaken them.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And We shall take out from every nation a witness and We shall say: Bring your proof. Then they will know that Allah hath the Truth, and all that they invented will have failed them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And we will pluck from every nation a witness; and we will say, 'Bring your proof and know that the truth is God's;' and that which they had devised shall stray away from them
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we will bring up a witness out of every nation and say, "Bring your proofs." And they shall know that the truth is with God alone, and the gods of their own devising shall desert them
George Sale1734 And We will produce a witness out of every nation, and will say, bring hither your proof of what ye have asserted. And they shall know that the right is God's alone; and the deities which they have devised shall abandon them
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 —
0.49 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 · George Sale0.58
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.50
Talal Itani · George Sale0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.48
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.47
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.43
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.35
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
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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.