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Talal Itani· published 2012
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.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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
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 strayaway from them
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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
dhe kur prej çdo populli do të nxjerrim nga një dëshmitar e do t'u themi: "Sillni provat tuaja!", atëherë do ta kuptojnë se e vërteta është e Allahut dhe atyre do t'u humbin ata (zotat e rremë) që kishin sajuar.
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
আর আমি (কিয়ামতের দিন) প্রত্যেক জাতি থেকে একজন সাক্ষী (তাদের নবীকে) বের করে নিবো। অতঃপর আমি বলবো, ‘তোমাদের প্রমাণ নিয়ে আসো।’ তখন তারা জানতে পারবে যে, নিশ্চয় সত্য আল্লাহর কাছেই এবং তারা যেসব মিথ্যা (অংশীদার) উদ্ভাবন করতো, তা তাদের থেকে হারিয়ে যাবে।
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
Iz svakog naroda dovest ćemo svjedoka i reći: “Dajte svoj dokaz!”, i oni će saznati da je Bog jedino Allah, a neće im biti onih koje su izmišljali.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Iz svakog naroda dovest ćemo svjedoka i reći: “Dajte svoj dokaz!” i oni će saznati da je Bog jedino Allah, a neće im biti onih koje su izmišljali.
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
Min ɗoofi e kala mofte, seedotooɗo, Min mbi'a: "ngddee hujjaajji mon ɗin". Ɓe ngnndi wonn'de goonga kan, ko Alla woodani; ko ɓe fekindotonoo kon majjitora ɓe.
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
ქართული · Georgian
და [განკითხვის დღეს] გამოვყოფთ ყოველი თემიდან ერთ მოწმეს [ალლაჰის შუამავალს] და ვეტყვით [ურწმუნოებს]: «მოიტანეთ თქვენი მტკიცებულება», და გაიგებენ, რომ ჭეშმარიტება ალლაჰს ეკუთვნის. და გაქრება მათგან ის, რასაც ისინი იგონებდნენ.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und Wir nehmen aus jeder Gemeinschaft einen Zeugen heraus, und da sagen Wir: „Bringt euren Beweis vor.“ Dann werden sie wissen, dass die Wahrheit Allah gehört. Und entschwunden wird ihnen sein, was sie zu ersinnen pflegten.
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
(Εκείνη την Ημέρα) θα φέρουμε από κάθε έθνος έναν μάρτυρα (τον Αγγελιαφόρο του), και θα πούμε (σ' εκείνους που διέψευσαν τους Αγγειαφόρους): «Φέρτε την απόδειξή σας (για την απιστία σας)!» Τότε θα ξέρουν ότι η αλήθεια ανήκει στον Αλλάχ, και θα τους εγκαταλείψει ό,τι επινόησαν.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और हम प्रत्येक समुदाय से एक गवाह निकालेंगे, फिर हम कहेंगे : लाओ अपने प्रमाण। तो वे जान लेंगे कि निःसंदेह सत्य बात अल्लाह की है, और जो कुछ वे गढ़ते थे, वह उनसे गुम हो जाएगा।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E abbiamo scelto da ogni popolo un testimone e dicemmo: «Mostrate la vostra prova!» Allora seppero in verità che la Verità appartiene ad Allāh e si persero le bugie da loro inventate.
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
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
75. Ir Mes paimsime iš kiekvienos tautos liudytoją, ir tarsime: „Pateik savo įrodymą.“ Tada jie sužinos, kad tiesa yra pas Allahą (Vienintelį), o melagystės (netikri dievai), kurias jie sukūrė, dings nuo jų.
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 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Ummata hunda irraa ragaa fuuneeti “ragaa keessan fidaa” jennaan. Yeroo san dhugaan kan Rabbii qofa ta’uu beekan. Wanti isaan (kijibaan) uumatanis isaan irraa bada. [10]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И Мы приведём из каждой общины свидетеля и скажем: «Приведите свой довод!» — и тогда они узнают, что истина принадлежит Аллаху, и покинет их то, что они измышляли.
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
Српски · Serbian
И из сваког народа довешћемо сведока и рећи: „Дајте свој доказ!“ И они ће да сазнају да истина припада једино Аллаху, а неће да им буде оних које су измишљали.
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
Na tutatoa shahidi katika kila umma, na tutasema, "Leteni hoja zenu!" Hapo watajua kwamba hakika haki ni ya Mwenyezi Mungu, na yatawapotea yale waliyokuwa wakiyazua.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Och vi ska kalla fram ett vittne från varje samfund och säga: ”Hämta era bevis!” Då ska de inse att sanningen tillhör Gud medan deras inbillade [gudar] ska upplösas i intet.
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
Her toplumdan bir şahit çıkarırız ve: "Haydi! Delillerinizi getirin!" deriz. İşte o zaman hakikatin Allah’a ait olduğunu bilirler. Uydurmuş oldukları şeyler onlardan kaybolup gider.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور ہم ہر امت میں سے ایک گواه الگ کرلیں[1] گے کہ اپنی دلیلیں پیش کرو[2] پس اس وقت جان لیں گے کہ حق اللہ تعالیٰ کی طرف ہے[3]، اور جو کچھ افترا وه جوڑتے تھے سب ان کے پاس سے کھو جائے گا.[4]
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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DIN 31635wamin raḥmatihi ǧaʿala lakumu llayla wan-nahāra litaskunū fīhi walitabtaġū min faḍlihi walaʿallakum taškurūna
Talal Itani2012 It is out of His mercy that He made for you the night and the day, that you may rest in it, and seek some of His bounty; and that you may give thanks.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 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 bounteous supplies, and that ye may give thanks
George Sale1734 Of his mercy He hath made for you the night and the day, that ye may rest in the one, and may seek to obtain provision for your selves of his abundance, by your industry, in the other; and that ye may give thanks
Easy-read (simplified)inna qaaroona kaana min qawmi moosaa fabaghaa 'alayhim wa'aataynaahu mina l-kunoozi maa inna mafaatihahu latanoo'u bil-'usbati oolee l-quwwati idh qaala lahu qawmuhu laa tafrah inna llaaha laa yuhibbu l-fariheen
DIN 31635ʾinna qārūna kāna min qawmi mūsā fabaġā ʿalayhim waʾātaynāhu mina l-kunūzi mā ʾinna mafātiḥahu latanūʾu bil-ʿuṣbati ʾūlī l-quwwati ʾiḏ qāla lahu qawmuhu lā tafraḥ ʾinna llāha lā yuḥibbu l-fariḥīna
Talal Itani2012 Quaroon belonged to the clan of Moses, but he oppressed them. We had given him treasures, the keys of which would weigh down a group of strong men. His people said to him, "Do not exult; God does not love the exultant.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Now Korah was of Moses' folk, but he oppressed them; and We gave him so much treasure that the stores thereof would verily have been a burden for a troop of mighty men. When his own folk said unto him: Exult not; lo! Allah loveth not the exultant
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, Korah was of the people of Moses, and he was outrageous against them; and we gave him treasuries of which the keys would bear down a band of men endowed with strength. When his people said to him, 'Exult not; verily, God loves not those who exult
John Medows Rodwell1861 Now Korah was of the people of Moses: but he behaved haughtily toward them; for we had given him such treasure that its keys would have burdened a company of men of strength. When his people said to him, "Exult not, for God loveth not those who exult
George Sale1734 Karun was of the people of Moses; but he behaved insolently towards them: For We had given him so much treasure, that his keys would have loaded several strong men. When his people said unto Him, rejoice not immoderately; for God loveth not those who rejoice in their riches immoderately
Talal Itani2012 But seek, with what God has given you, the Home of the Hereafter, and do not neglect your share of this world. And be charitable, as God has been charitable to you. And do not seek corruption in the land. God does not like the seekers of corruption."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But seek the abode of the Hereafter in that which Allah hath given thee and neglect not thy portion of the world, and be thou kind even as Allah hath been kind to thee, and seek not corruption in the earth; lo! Allah loveth not corrupters
Edward Henry Palmer1880 but crave, through what God has given thee, the future abode; and forget not thy portion in this world, and do good, as God has done good to thee; and seek not evil doing in the earth; verily, God loves not the evildoers
John Medows Rodwell1861 But seek, by means of what God hath given thee, to attain the future Mansion; and neglect not thy part in this world, but be bounteous to others as God hath been bounteous to thee, and seek not to commit excesses on the earth; for God loveth not those who commit excesses
George Sale1734 But seek to attain, by means of the wealth which God hath given thee, the future mansion of paradise. And forget not thy portion in this world; but be thou bounteous unto others, as God hath been bounteous unto thee: And seek not to act corruptly in the earth; for God loveth not the corrupt doers
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 —
0.57 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
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.55
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.51
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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.