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Talal Itani· published 2012
He said, "Yet Lot is in it." They said, "We are well aware of who is in it. We will save him, and his family, except for his wife, who will remain behind."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
He said: Lo! Lot is there. They said: We are best aware of who is there. We are to deliver him and his household, all save his wife, who is of those who stay behind
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
Said he, 'Verily, in it is Lot;' they said, 'We know best who is therein; we shall of a surety save him and his people, except his wife, who is of those who linger
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
He said, "Lot is therein." They said, "We know full well who therein is. Him and his family will we save, except his wife; she will be of those who linger
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Abrahamanswered, verily Lot dwelleth there. They replied, we well know who dwelleth therein: we will surely deliver him and his family, except his wife; she shall be one of those who remain behind
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
Ai tha: "Por Luti është atje." Ata i thanë: "Ne e dimë më mirë se kush është atje. Ne, pa dyshim, do ta shpëtojmë atë dhe familjen e tij, përveç gruas së tij; ajo është nga ata që do të mbesin pas (e do të dënohen)."
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
ইবরাহীম বললো: ‘নিশ্চয় সেখানে লূত আছে।’ ফিরিশতাগণ বললো: ‘আমরা ভালো করেই জানি সেখানে কারা আছে। আমরা অবশ্যই তাকে ও তার পরিবারকে (ধ্বংস থেকে) রক্ষা করবো; তবে তার স্ত্রীকে নয়, সে হবে পিছনে পড়ে থাকা লোকদের একজন।’
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
Ibrahim reče: “U njemu je Lut!” “Mi dobro znamo ko je u njemu”, rekoše oni, “mi ćemo njega i porodicu njegovu sigurno spasiti, osim žene njegove, ona će ostati s onima koji će kaznu iskusiti.”
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
Abraham reče: “U njemu je Lot!” “Mi dobro znamo tko je u njemu,” rekoše oni, “mi ćemo njega i porodicu njegovu sigurno spasiti, osim žene njegove, ona će ostati s onima koji će kaznu iskusiti.”
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
O maaki: "Kono Luutu no ton!" Ɓe mbi'i: "Ko minen ɓuri anndude fii won'ɓe ton. Ko ma men daɗndu mo, kaŋko e yimɓe makko ɓen, si wonaa debbo makko on, o jeyaama e helketeeɓe ɓeen".
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
[იბრაჰიმმა] თქვა: «ჭეშმარიტად მასში [ამ სოფელში] არის ლუტი». [ანგელოზებმა] თქვეს:« ჩვენ უკეთ ვიცით, ვინც მასშია. ჩვენ უეჭველად გადავარჩენთ მას და მის ოჯახს, გარდა მისი ცოლისა, და იგი დარჩენილთა [დაღუპულთა] შორის აღმოჩნდა».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Er sagte: „Aber Lut befindet sich doch in ihr.“ Sie sagten: „Wir wissen sehr wohl, wer sich in ihr befindet. Wir werden ihn ganz gewiss erretten, (ihn) und seine Angehörigen, außer seiner Frau; sie gehört zu den Zurückgebliebenen.“
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
(Ο Αβραάμ) είπε: «Ο Λωτ είναι εκεί!» (Οι Άγγελοι) είπαν: «Ξέρουμε καλύτερα ποιος είναι εκεί. Πράγματι, θα σώσουμε αυτόν και την οικογένειά του (διατάζοντάς τον να φύγει με την οικογένειά του το βράδυ από την πόλη), εκτός από τη γυναίκα του, η οποία θα μείνει μ' εκείνους που θα μείνουν πίσω (στην καταστροφή).»
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
उसने कहा : उसमें तो लूत है। उन्होंने कहा : हम उसे अधिक जानने वाले हैं, जो उसमें है। निश्चय हम उसे और उसके घर वालों को अवश्य बचा लेंगे, सिवाय उसकी पत्नी के। वह पीछे रहने वालों में से है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Disse: «In verità in quel luogo c’è Lūt!» Dissero: «Noi sappiamo bene chi c’è. Lo salveremo con la sua famiglia, tranne sua moglie: lei resterà tra i condannati».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
32. Ibrahimas (Abraomas) tarė: „Tačiau jame yra Lūtas (Lotas).“ Jis tarė: „Mes geriau žinome, kas jame yra. Mes tikrai išgelbėsime jį [Lūtą (Lotą)] ir jo šeimą, išskyrus jo žmoną – ji bus iš tų, kurie lieka užnugaryje (t. y. ji bus sunaikinta kartu su tais, kurie bus sunaikinti iš jos tautos).“
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.
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.
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Русский · Russian
Он сказал: «Воистину, там же Лут!» Они сказали: «Мы лучше знаем, кто там. Мы непременно спасём его и его семью, кроме его жены, которая будет среди остающихся».
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
„У њему је Лот“, рече Аврам. „Ми добро знамо ко је у њему“, рекоше они, „ми ћемо да спасимо њега и његову породицу, осим његове жене. Она ће да остане са онима који ће да искусе казну.“
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
Akasema, "Hakika humo yumo Luti." Wao wakasema, "Sisi tunajua zaidi ni nani yumo humo. Hapana shaka tutamwokoa yeye na ahali zake, isipokuwa mkewe aliye miongoni mwa watakaokaa nyuma."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
”Men Lot är ju där!” utbrast han. De svarade: ”Vi vet mycket väl vilka som är där. Vi kommer att rädda honom och hans familj, utom hans hustru; hon ska bli kvar.”
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
“Ama orada Lût da var” dedi. “Biz orada olanları daha iyi biliriz. Biz onu ve –karısı dışında- aile halkını elbette kurtaracağız çünkü o kadın geride kalacaklardandır” dediler.
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
(حضرت ابراہیم علیہ السلام نے) کہا اس میں تو لوط (علیہ السلام) ہیں، فرشتوں نے کہا یہاں جو ہیں ہم انہیں بخوبی جانتے ہیں[1] ۔ لوط (علیہ السلام) کو اور اس کے خاندان کو سوائے اس کی بیوی کے ہم بچالیں گے، البتہ وه عورت پیچھے ره جانے والوں میں سے ہے.[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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Talal Itani2012 And when Our envoys brought Abraham the good news, they said, "We are going to destroy the people of this town; its people are wrongdoers."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when Our messengers brought Abraham the good news, they said: Lo! we are about to destroy the people of that township, for its people are wrong-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when our messengers came to Abraham with the glad tidings, they said, 'We are about to destroy the people of this city. Verily, the people thereof are wrong-doers
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when our messengers came to Abraham with the tidings of a son, they said, "Of a truth we will destroy the in-dwellers in this city, for its in-dwellers are evil doers
George Sale1734 And when our messengers came unto Abraham with good tidings, they said, we will surely destroy the inhabitants of this city; for the inhabitants thereof are unjust doers
Talal Itani2012 Then, when Our envoys came to Lot, they were mistreated, and he was troubled and distressed on their account. They said, "Do not fear, nor grieve. We will save you and your family, except for your wife, who will remain behind."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when Our messengers came unto Lot, he was troubled upon their account, for he could not protect them; but they said: Fear not, nor grieve! Lo! we are to deliver thee and thy household, (all) save thy wife, who is of those who stay behind
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when our messengers came to Lot, he was vexed for them, and his arm was straitened for them; and they said, 'Fear not, neither grieve; we are about to save thee and thy people, except thy wife, who is of those who linger
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when our messengers came to Lot, he was troubled for them, and his arm was too weak to protect them; and they said, "Fear not, and distress not thyself, for thee and thy family will we save, except thy wife; she will be of those who linger
George Sale1734 And when our messengers came unto Lot, he was troubled for them, and his arm was straitened concerning them. But they said, fear not, neither be grieved; for we will deliver thee and thy family, except thy wife; for she shall be one of those who remain behind
Easy-read (simplified)innaa munziloona 'alaa ahli haadhihi l-qaryati rijzan mina s-samaa'i bimaa kaanoo yafsuqoon
DIN 31635ʾinnā munzilūna ʿalā ʾahli hāḏihi l-qaryati riǧzan mina s-samāʾi bimā kānū yafsuqūna
Talal Itani2012 "We will bring down upon the people of this town a scourge from heaven, because of their wickedness."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! We are about to bring down upon the folk of this township a fury from the sky because they are evil-livers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, we are about to send down upon the people of this city a horror from heaven, for that they have sinned
John Medows Rodwell1861 We will surely bring down upon the dwellers in this city vengeance from Heaven for the excesses they have committed
George Sale1734 We will surely bring down upon the inhabitants of this city vengeance from heaven, for that they have been wicked doers
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.68
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.57
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.47
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.47
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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.