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.
And we destroyed Ad and Themoud. Already is this made plain to you in the ruins of their dwellings. For Satan had made their own works fair seeming to them, and drew them from the right path, keen-sighted though they were
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
And Aad and Thamood. It has becomeclear to you from their dwellings. Satan embellished for them their deeds, barring them from the path, even though they could see.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And (the tribes of) A'ad and Thamud! (Their fate) is manifest unto you from their (ruined and deserted) dwellings. Satan made their deeds seem fair unto them and so debarred them from the Way, though they were keen observers
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 'Ad and Thamud - but it is plain to you from their habitations; for Satan made seemly to them their works, and turned them from the way, sagacious though they were
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And We also destroyed the tribes of Ad, and Thamud; and this is wellknown unto you from what yet remains of their dwellings. And Satan prepared their works for them, and turned them aside from the way of truth; although they were sagacious people
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
Ne shkatërruam edhe adët e themudët, gjë që ju është bërë e qartë prej (gjurmëve të) vendbanimeve të tyre. Shejtani ua kishte hijeshuar veprat dhe i kishte shmangur nga rruga e drejtë, edhe pse e shihnin qartë atë.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর ‘আদ ও সামূদ জাতিকেও (আমি ধ্বংস করেছি)। নিশ্চয়ই তাদের বসতভিটা(৪) থেকে তোমাদের জন্য তা স্পষ্ট হয়ে গেছে। শয়তান তাদের কাজকর্মকে তাদের কাছে সুশোভিত করে দেখিয়েছিল, ফলে সে তাদেরকে সঠিক পথ থেকে বিরত রেখেছিল; অথচ তারা ছিল বোধশক্তিসম্পন্ন।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
A i Ada i Semuda – ostaci domova njihovih su vam vidljivi – šejtan im je lijepim njihove postupke predočio, pa ih, iako su razumni bili, od Pravog puta odvratio.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
A i Ada i Semuda – ostaci domova njihovih su vam vidljivi – vrag im je lijepim njihove postupke predočio, pa ih, iako su razumni bili, od Pravog puta odvratio.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
(Meon kalki) kadi Aadi'en, e Saamuda'en. Gooŋɗii caambbeje maɓɓe ɗin ɓannganii on. Seytaane cuɗinani ɓe, golle maɓɓe ɗen, ndu sakkii ɓe e laawol ngol; tawi le, ko ɓe reentunooɓe.
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ქართული · Georgian
და [ასევე] [ჩვენ დავღუპეთ] [ურწმუნო] ადიელები და სამუდელები. და ეს თქვენთვის [ო, მექქელებო] აშკარა გახდა მათი საცხოვრებლებით. და შეულამაზა ეშმაკმა მათ მათი ქმედებები და გადაახვევინა [რწმენის] გზიდან, მიუხედავად იმისა, რომ ისინი გამჭრიახნი [გონივრულნი] იყვნენ.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und (vernichtet haben Wir auch) die 'Ad und die Thamud. (Ihr Untergang) ist euch ja deutlich geworden an ihren Wohnorten. Der Satan schmückte ihnen ihre Taten aus und hielt sie so vom Weg ab, obwohl sie Einsicht besaßen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Και (καταστρέψαμε) τον λαό ‘Αντ και τον λαό Θαμούντ, κάτι που έγινε φανερό σε σας (ω, κάτοικοι της Μάκκας) από τις (ερειπωμένες) κατοικίες τους (που τις βλέπετε στα ταξίδια σας). Ο Σατανάς ωραιοποίησε γι' εκείνους τις πράξεις τους, και έτσι, τους απέτρεψε από τον ίσιο δρόμο, αν και είδαν με σαφήνεια (την καθοδήγηση και την πλάνη).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा हमने आद और समूद को भी विनष्ट कर दिया और उनके आवासों से तुम्हारे लिए (उनका विनाश) स्पष्ट हो चुका है। और शैतान ने उनके लिए उनके कर्मों को शोभनीय बना दिया था। अतः उसने उन्हें सीधे रास्ते से रोक दिया था, हालाँकि वे बहुत समझ-बूझ वाले थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Agli ‘Aditi e ai Thamuditi fu evidente ciò che accadde alle loro case. Satana abbellì le loro azioni, e li sviò dalla retta via. Eppure erano saggi e forti di pensiero!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
38. Ir Ad ir Samud (žmonės)! Ir iš tiesų (jų sunaikinimas) yra aiškiai matomas jums iš jų (sugriautų) buveinių. Šaitan (Šėtonas) padarė jų veiksmus atrodančius teisingais jiems ir nugręžė juos nuo (Teisingo) Kelio, nors jie buvo protingi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Aadiifi Samuudiinis ni balleessine; (Isaan balleessuun keenyas) gandoota isaanii irraa ifa isiniif ta’ee jira. shayxaanni hojiilee isaanii isaaniif miidhagsee, karaa haqaa irraa isaan deebse, Odoo kan argan ta’anii jiranuu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И [Мы погубили племена] ‘ад и самуд. И это уже стало ясно вам по остаткам их жилищ. Шайтан приукрасил им их деяния и отвратил их от пути, хотя они и были проницательны.
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Српски · Serbian
А и Ада и Семуда - остаци њихових домова су вам видљиви - а ђаво им је њихове поступке лепим приказао, па их, од Правог пута одвратио, а били су разумни.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na pia kina A'di na Thamud. Nanyi yamekwisha wabainikia kutokana na maskani zao. Na Shetani aliwapambia vitendo vyao, na akawazuilia Njia, na hali walikuwa wenye kuona.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Liksom [stammarna] 'Ᾱd och Thamūd, vars öde har blivit klart för er genom [efterlämningarna av] deras bostäder. Satan förskönade deras handlingar för dem och ledde dem bort från den rätta vägen, trots att de insåg [sanningen].
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Âd ve Semûd kavmini de (helak ettik). Onların meskenlerinden bu size belli olmaktadır. Şeytan onlara amellerini süsledi de onları (doğru) yoldan alıkoydu. Hâlbuki onlar akılları ile bunu kavrayacak durumda idiler.
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اردو · Urdu
اور ہم نے عادیوں اور ﺛمودیوں کو بھی غارت کیا جن کے بعض مکانات تمہارے سامنے ﻇاہر ہیں[1] اور شیطان نے انہیں ان کی بداعمالیاں آراستہ کر دکھائی تھیں اور انہیں راه سے روک دیا تھا باوجودیکہ یہ آنکھوں والے اور ہوشیار تھے.[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 to Median, their brother Shuaib. He said, "O my people, worship God and anticipate the Last Day, and do not spread corruption in the land."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And unto Midian We sent Shu'eyb, their brother. He said: O my people! Serve Allah, and look forward to the Last Day, and do not evil, making mischief, in the earth
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And unto Midian we sent their brother Sho'haib, and he said, 'My people, serve God, and hope for the last day; and waste not the land, despoiling it
John Medows Rodwell1861 And to Madian we sent their brother Shoaib. And he said, "Oh! my people! worship God, and expect the latter day, and enact not in the land deeds of harmful excess
George Sale1734 And unto the inhabitants of Madian We sent their brother Shoaib; and he said unto them, O my people, serve God, and expect the last day; and transgress not, acting corruptly in the earth
DIN 31635fakaḏḏabūhu faʾaḫaḏathumu r-raǧfatu faʾaṣbaḥū fī dārihim ǧāṯimīna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 But they rejected him, so the tremor overtook them, and they were left motionless in their homes.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But they denied him, and the dreadful earthquake took them, and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling place
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But they called him liar; and the convulsion seized them, and on the morrow they lay in their dwellings prone
John Medows Rodwell1861 But they treated him as an impostor: so an earthquake assailed them; and at morn they were found prostrate and dead in their dwellings
George Sale1734 But they accused him of imposture; wherefore a storm from heaven assailed them, and in the morning they were found in their dwellings dead and prostrate
Talal Itani2012 And Quaroon, and Pharaoh, and Hamaan-Moses went to them with clear arguments, but they acted arrogantly in the land. And they could not get ahead.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Korah, Pharaoh and Haman! Moses came unto them with clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty), but they were boastful in the land. And they were not winners (in the race)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Korah and Pharaoh and Haman - Moses did come to them with manifest signs, but they were too big with pride in the earth, although they could not outstrip us
John Medows Rodwell1861 And Corah and Pharaoh and Haman. With proofs of his mission did Moses come to them, and they behaved proudly on the earth; but us they could not outstrip
George Sale1734 And We likewise destroyed Karun, and Pharaoh, and Haman. Moses came unto them with evident miracles; and they behaved themselves insolently in the earth: But they could not escape our vengeance
Easy-read (simplified)fakullan akhadhnaa bidhanbihi faminhum man arsalnaa 'alayhi haasiban waminhum man akhadhathu s-sayhatu waminhum man khasafnaa bihi l-'arda waminhum man aghraqnaa wamaa kaana llaahu liyazlimahum walaakin kaanoo anfusahum yazlimoon
DIN 31635fakullan ʾaḫaḏnā biḏanbihi faminhum man ʾarsalnā ʿalayhi ḥāṣiban waminhum man ʾaḫaḏathu ṣ-ṣayḥatu waminhum man ḫasafnā bihi l-ʾarḍa waminhum man ʾaġraqnā wamā kāna llāhu liyaẓlimahum walākin kānū ʾanfusahum yaẓlimūna
Talal Itani2012 Each We seized by his sin. Against some We sent a sandstorm. Some were struck by the Blast. Some We caused the ground to cave in beneath them. And some We drowned. It was not God who wronged them, but it was they who wronged their own selves.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 So We took each one in his sin; of them was he on whom We sent a hurricane, and of them was he who was overtaken by the (Awful) Cry, and of them was he whom We caused the earth to swallow, and of them was he whom We drowned. It was not for Allah to wrong them, but they wronged themselves
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And each of them we seized in his sin; and of them were some against whom we sent a sandstorm; and of them were some whom the noise seized; and of them were some with whom we cleaved the earth open; and of them were some we drowned: God would not have wronged them, but it was themselves they wronged
John Medows Rodwell1861 For, every one of them did we seize in his sin. Against some of them did we send a stone-charged wind: Some of them did the terrible cry of Gabriel surprise: for some of them we cleaved the earth; and some of them we drowned. And it was not God who would deal wrongly by them, but they wronged themselves
George Sale1734 Every of them did We destroy in his sin. Against some of them We sent a violent wind: Some of them did a terrible noise from heaven destroy: Some of them did We cause the earth to swallow up: And some of them We drowned. Neither was God disposed to treat them unjustly; but they dealt unjustly with their own souls
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
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0.69 on a scale
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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 · George Sale0.80
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.75
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.72
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
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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.