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Talal Itani· published 2012
Those who had wished they were in his position the day before were saying, "Indeed, it is God who spreads the bounty to whomever He wills of His servants, and restricts it. Had God not been gracious to us, He would have caved in on us. No wonder the ungrateful never prosper."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And morning found those who had coveted his place but yesterdaycrying: Ah, welladay! Allah enlargeth the provision for whom He will of His slaves and straiteneth it (for whom He will). If Allah had not been gracious unto us He would have caused it to swallow us (also). Ah, welladay! the disbelievers never prosper
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 on the morrow those who had yearned for his place the day before said, 'Ah, ah! God extends provision to whom He pleases of His servants, or He doles it out; had not God been gracious to us, the earth would have cleftopen with us! Ah, ah! the unbelievers shall not prosper
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And in the morning those who the day before had coveted his lot said, "Aha! God enlargeth supplies to whom he pleaseth of his servants, or is sparing. Had not God been gracious to us, He had caused it to cleave for us. Aha! the ungrateful can never prosper
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And the next morning, those who had coveted his condition the day before, said, aha! Verily God bestowethabundant provision on such of his servants as He pleaseth; and He is sparing unto whom He pleaseth. Unless God had been gracious unto us, certainly the earth had swallowed us up also. Aha! The unbelievers shall not prosper
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
Ata që dje shpresonin të ishin në vendin e tij, zunë të thoshin: "A nuk e shihni se Allahu ia shton rizkun kujt të dojë dhe ia pakon kujt të dojë?! Po të mos na mëshironte Allahu, do të bënte që të na gëlltiste toka. A nuk e shihni se jobesimtarët nuk gjejnë shpëtim?!"
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর গতকাল যারা তার মতো (সম্পদ ও সাজ-সজ্জার অধিকারী) হতে প্রত্যাশা করেছিলো তারা বলতে লাগলো, ‘আশ্চর্য! দেখলে তো, আল্লাহ তাঁর বান্দাদের মধ্য থেকে যার জন্য ইচ্ছা রিযক প্রসারিত অথবা সংকুচিত করেন। যদি আল্লাহ আমাদের প্রতি অনুগ্রহ না করতেন, তবে আমাদেরকেও তিনি জমিনে ধসিয়ে দিতেন। বস্তুত কাফিররা সফলকাম হয় না।’
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.
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Bosanski · Bosnian
A oni koji su ranije priželjkivali da su na njegovu mjestu, stadoše govoriti: “Zar ne vidite da Allah daje obilje onom od robova Svojih kome On hoće, a i da uskraćuje! Da nam Allah nije milost Svoju ukazao, i nas bi u zemlju utjerao. Zar ne vidiš da nezahvalnici nikad neće uspjeti?”
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Hrvatski · Croatian
A oni koji su ranije priželjkivali da su na njegovu mjestu, stadoše govoriti: “Zar ne vidite da Allah daje obilje onom od robova Svojih kome On hoće, a i da uskraćuje! Da nam Allah nije milost Svoju ukazao, i nas bi u zemlju utjerao. Zar ne vidiš da nezahvalnici nikad neće uspjeti?”
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɓen yelinooɓe nokku makko on haŋki mum, ɓe mbaɗti wiide: "Ee bone! Alla no wertana arsike on, Mo O muuyani e jiyaaɓe Makko ɓen, O ɓiɗtinana [Mo O muuyani]. Si wonaa Alla moƴƴinoo e amen, O mutinayno men. Ee bone! Jaka O malnataa yedduɓe ɓen".
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ქართული · Georgian
და მეორე დილით ისინი, რომლებიც გუშინ მის [ყარუნის] მდგომარეობას ნატრობდნენ, ამბობდნენ: «ო, მართლაც, ალლაჰი აფართოებს საზრდოს, ვისაც ინებებს თავისი მსახურებიდან, და უზღუდავს (საზრდოს) (ვისაც ინებებს). ალლაჰს რომ არ შევეწყალებინეთ, უეჭველად (მიწა) ჩვენც ჩაგვყლაპავდა. ჭეშმარიტად, ურწმუნოები ვერ მიაღწევენ წარმატებას».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und diejenigen, die sich am Tag zuvor gewünscht hatten, an seiner Stelle zu sein, begannen zu sagen: „Ah sieh(st du), dass Allah die Versorgung großzügig gewährt, wem von Seinen Dienern Er will, und Er bemisst auch. Und hätte Allah uns nicht eine Wohltat erwiesen, hätte Er uns fürwahr (auch) versinken lassen. Ah sieh(st du), dass es den Ungläubigen nicht wohl ergehen 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
Εκείνοι που επιθυμούσαν την προηγούμενη ημέρα να έχουν μια θέση σαν τη δική του, άρχισαν να λένε: «Δεν είδες ότι ο Αλλάχ δίνει άφθονα αγαθά σε όποιους θέλει από τους δούλους Του, και περιορίζει (τα αγαθά για όποιους θέλει)! Αν δε μας είχε ευνοήσει ο Αλλάχ, θα έκανε τη γη να μας καταπιεί. Δεν είδες ότι οι άπιστοι δε θα επιτύχουν ποτέ!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और जिन लोगों ने कल उसके स्थान की कामना की थी, कहने लगे : अफ़सोस! क्या हमने नहीं जाना कि अल्लाह अपने बंदों में से जिसके लिए चाहता है, रोज़ी विस्तृत कर देता है और तंग करता है। यदि यह न होता कि अल्लाह ने हमपर उपकार किया, तो वह अवश्य हमें धँसा देता। अफ़सोस! ऐसा प्रतीत होता है कि सच्चाई यह है कि काफ़िर सफल नहीं होते।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Quelli che, in precedenza, avrebbero voluto essere al suo posto, cominciarono a dirsi: «Fa meravigliare il fatto che Allāh dia e tolga i beni a chi vuole dei Suoi Servi? Se Allāh non ci avesse favoriti saremmo stati sprofondati in terra! Poveri noi!” I miscredenti non avranno successo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
82. O tie, kurie troško (vietos kaip) jo vietos dieną prieš tai, pradėjo sakyti: „Argi nežinai, kad tai Allahas, Kuris padidina išlaikymą arba apriboja jį tam, kam Jis nori iš Savo vergų. Jei tai nebūtų, kad Allahas buvo Maloningas mums, Jis galėjo priversti žemę praryti mus (taip pat). Argi nežinote, kad netikintieji niekada nebus sėkmingieji.
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Русский · Russian
А наутро те, которые накануне желали быть на его месте, стали говорить: «О, как ясно, что Аллах увеличивает удел, кому пожелает из Своих рабов, и ограничивает! Если бы Аллах не оказал нами милости, то непременно повелел бы земле поглотить и нас. О, как ясно, что не преуспевают отвергшие веру!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
А они који су раније прижељкивали да су на његовом месту, стадоше да говоре: „Зар не видите да Аллах даје обиље оном од Својих слугу коме Он хоће, а и да ускраћује?! Да нам Аллах није Своју милост указао и нас би у земљу утерао! Зар не видите да неверници никад неће успети?!“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na wale waliotamani kuwa pahala pake jana, wakawa wanasema, "Kumbe Mwenyezi Mungu humkunjulia riziki amtakaye katika waja wake, na humkunjia amtakaye. Ingelikuwa Mwenyezi Mungu hakutufanyia hisani, angelitudidimiza. Kumbe makafiri hawafanikiwi!"
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Svenska · Swedish
De som igår hade önskat vara i hans ställe sa nu: ”Hur kunde vi förbise att Gud ger riklig försörjning till vem han vill och begränsar den för andra? Om inte Gud visat oss nåd hade jorden slukat även oss. De otrogna går det aldrig väl!”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Daha dün onun yerinde olmayı arzu edenler; “Vay! Demek ki Allah, kullarından dilediği kimselere rızkı bol verir ve (dilediğine) kısarmış. Allah, bize lütfetmiş olmasaydı, bizi de yerin dibine geçirirdi. Demek ki kâfirler iflah olmayacak.” demeye başladılar.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور جو لوگ کل اس کے مرتبہ پر پہنچنے کی آرزو مندیاں کر رہے تھے وه آج کہنے لگے کہ کیا تم نہیں دیکھتے[1] کہ اللہ تعالیٰ ہی اپنے بندوں میں سے جس کے لیے چاہے روزی کشاده کر دیتا ہے اور تنگ بھی؟ اگر اللہ تعالیٰ ہم پر فضل نہ کرتا تو ہمیں بھی دھنسا دیتا[2]، کیا دیکھتے نہیں ہو کہ ناشکروں کو کبھی کامیابی نہیں ہوتی؟[3]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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DIN 31635waqāla llaḏīna ʾūtū l-ʿilma waylakum ṯawābu llāhi ḫayrun liman ʾāmana waʿamila ṣāliḥan walā yulaqqāhā ʾillā ṣ-ṣābirūna
Talal Itani2012 But those who were given knowledge said, "Woe to you! The reward of God is better for those who believe and do righteous deeds." Yet none attains it except the steadfast.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But those who had been given knowledge said: Woe unto you! The reward of Allah for him who believeth and doeth right is better, and only the steadfast will obtain it
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But those who had been given knowledge said, 'Woe to you! the reward of God is better for him who believes and does right; but none shall meet with it except the patient
John Medows Rodwell1861 But they to whom knowledge had been given said, "Woe to you! the reward of God is better for him who believeth and worketh righteousness, and none shall win it but those who have patiently endured
George Sale1734 But those on whom knowledge had been bestowed, answered, alas for you! The reward of God in the next life, will be better unto him who shall believe and do good works: But none shall attain the same, except those who persevere with constancy
Easy-read (simplified)fakhasafnaa bihi wabidaarihi l-'arda famaa kaana lahu min fi'atin yansuroonahu min dooni llaahi wamaa kaana mina l-muntasireen
DIN 31635faḫasafnā bihi wabidārihi l-ʾarḍa famā kāna lahu min fiʾatin yanṣurūnahu min dūni llāhi wamā kāna mina l-muntaṣirīna
Talal Itani2012 So We caused the earth to cave in on him and his mansion. He had no company to save him from God, and he could not defend himself.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 So We caused the earth to swallow him and his dwelling-place. Then he had no host to help him against Allah, nor was he of those who can save themselves
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And we clave the earth with him and with his house; and he had no troop to help him against God, nor was he of those who were helped
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we clave the earth for him and for his palace, and he had no forces, in the place of God, to help him, nor was he among those who are succoured
George Sale1734 And We caused the ground to cleave in sunder, and to swallow up him and his palace: And he had no forces to defend him, besides God; neither was he rescued from punishment
Talal Itani2012 That Home of the Hereafter-We assign it for those who seek no superiority on earth, nor corruption. And the outcome is for the cautious.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 As for that Abode of the Hereafter We assign it unto those who seek not oppression in the earth, nor yet corruption. The sequel is for those who ward off (evil)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 That is the future abode; we make it for those who do not wish to be haughty in the earth, nor to do evil, and the end is for the pious
John Medows Rodwell1861 As to this future mansion, we will bestow it on those who seek not to exalt them in the earth or to do wrong: And there is a happy issue for the God-fearing
George Sale1734 As to this future mansion of paradise, We will give it unto them who seek not to exalt themselves in the earth, or to do wrong; for the happy issue shall attend the pious
Talal Itani2012 Whoever brings a virtue will receive better than it. But whoever brings evil-the evildoers will be rewarded only according to what they used to do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Whoso bringeth a good deed, he will have better than the same; while as for him who bringeth an ill-deed, those who do ill-deeds will be requited only what they did
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He who brings a good deed shall have better than it; and he who brings an evil deed - those who do evil deeds shall only be rewarded for that which they have done
John Medows Rodwell1861 Whoso doeth good shall have reward beyond its merits, and whoso doeth evil, they who do evil shall be rewarded only as they shall have wrought
George Sale1734 Whoso doth good, shall receive a reward which shall exceed the merit thereof: But as to him who doth evil, they who work evil shall be rewarded according to the merit only of that which they shall have wrought
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.71
Talal Itani · George Sale0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.63
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.58
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.55
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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.
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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.