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.
Talal Itani· published 2012
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.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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 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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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 Gabrielsurprise: for some of them we cleaved the earth; and some of them we drowned. And it was not God who would dealwrongly by them, but they wronged themselves
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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 heavendestroy: 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 dealtunjustly with their own souls
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
Secilin e dënuam për gjynahun e vet: disave u lëshuam rrebesh gurësh, disa i mori gjëmimi i tmerrshëm, disa i bëmë që t'i gëlltiste toka e disa i përmbytëm. Nuk ishte Allahu që u bëri atyre padrejtësi, por ata i bënë padrejtësi vetvetes.
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বাংলা · Bengali
অতঃপর প্রত্যেককেই আমি তার পাপের কারণে পাকড়াও করেছিলাম। তাদের মধ্যে কাউকে আমি প্রেরণ করেছিলাম প্রস্তরবৃষ্টি(৫), কাউকে আঘাত করেছিল বিকট চিৎকার(৬), কাউকে আমি ভূগর্ভে ধসিয়ে দিয়েছিলাম(৭) এবং কাউকে আমি ডুবিয়ে দিয়েছিলাম।(৮) আর আল্লাহ তাদের প্রতি কোনো জুলুম করেননি, বরং তারা নিজেরাই নিজেদের প্রতি জুলুম করছিল।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I sve smo zbog grijeha njihovih kaznili: na neke vjetar, pun pijeska poslali, a neke strašnim glasom uništili; neke u zemlju utjerali, a neke potopili. Allah im nije učinio nepravdu, sami su sebi nepravdu nanijeli.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I sve smo zbog grijeha njihovih kaznili: na neke vjetar, pun pijeska poslali, a neke strašnim glasom uništili; neke u zemlju utjerali, a neke potopili. Allah im nije učinio nepravdu, sami su sebi nepravdu nanijeli.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Kala maɓɓe, Min leptirno bakkaatuuji mum ɗin: no e maɓɓe, ɓe Min ngurti henndu e mum; no e maɓɓe, ɓe haacaango kalki; no e maɓɓe, mo Min mutini ɗum ka leydi, no e maɓɓe kadi, ɓe Min yoolunoo. Kono non, Alla siforaali tooñoowo ɓe; si ko woni, ko kamɓe tooñuoo ko'e maɓɓe.
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ქართული · Georgian
და ყველა მათგანი დავსაჯეთ მათი ცოდვის გამო; მათგან იყვნენ ისინი, რომელთაც მოვუვლინეთ ქარიშხალი [ქვებით] [ვისაც შეაგონებდა შუამავალი ლუტი], მათგან იყვნენ ისინი, ვინც მოიცვა ღრიალმა [ძლიერმა ხმამ] [ისინი, ვისაც შეაგონებდა მოციქული სალიჰი და ისინი, რომელზედაც იყო გაგზავნილი მოციქული შუ'აიბი], მათგან იყვნენ ისინი, ვინც ჩვენ ჩავფალით მიწაში [ყარუნი], და მათგან იყვნენ ისინი, ვინც ჩვენ დავახრჩეთ [ისინი, ვისაც შეაგონებდა მოციქული ნუჰი და ფარაონი თავისი ლაშქრით]. ალლაჰი არ არის ისეთი, რომ მათ მიმართ უსამართლოდ მოიქცეს, მაგრამ ისინი თვითონვე ექცეოდნენ თავიანთ თავებს უსამართლოდ.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Einen jeden ergriffen Wir für seine Sünde; so sandten Wir gegen einige von ihnen einen Sturm von Steinchen, andere ergriff der Schrei, mit anderen ließen Wir die Erde versinken, und andere ließen Wir ertrinken. Und nimmer wird ihnen Allah Unrecht zufügen, sondern sie selbst haben sich Unrecht zugefügt.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Τιμωρήσαμε τον καθέναν απ' αυτούς για την αμαρτία του: σε μερικούς στείλαμε μία καταιγίδα από πέτρες, άλλους τους κατέστρεψε η μεγάλη κραυγή, άλλους κάναμε τη γη να τους καταπιεί, και άλλους τους πνίξαμε. Ο Αλλάχ δε θα τους αδικούσε ποτέ, αλλά ήταν οι ίδιοι που αδίκησαν τον εαυτό τους!
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
तो हमने हर एक को उसके पाप के कारण पकड़ लिया। फिर उनमें से कुछ पर हमने पथराव करने वाली हवा[17] भेजी, और उनमें से कुछ को चीख[18] ने पकड़ लिया, और उनमें से कुछ को हमने धरती में धँसा[19] दिया और उनमें से कुछ को हमने डुबो[20] दिया। तथा अल्लाह ऐसा नहीं था कि उनपर अत्याचार करे, परंतु वे स्वयं अपने आपपर अत्याचार करते थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E punimmo ognuno di loro per i propri peccati: su alcuni abbiamo mandato una tempesta di sassi, e altri furono presi dall’Urlo, e altri li abbiamo fatti sprofondare nel suolo, e altri li abbiamo fatti annegare. E Allāh non fece loro torto, ma fecero torto a loro stessi.
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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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
40. Taigi Mes nubaudėme kiekvieną (iš jų) už jo nuodėmes. Tarp jų buvo kai kurie, kuriems Mes siuntėme Hasib (smarkų vėją su akmenų lietumi) [tokiems kaip Lūto (Loto) žmonėms] ir tarp jų buvo kai kurie, kuriuos apėmė As-Saiha [kančia – siaubingas verkimas (tokius kaip Samud ir Šuaibo žmonės)], ir tarp jų buvo kai kurie, kuriuos praryti Mes privertėme žemę [kaip Karūną (Korah)], ir tarp jų buvo kai kurie, kuriuos Mes paskandinome [kaip Nūho (Nojaus) žmones arba Firauną (Faraoną) ir jo žmones]. Ir tai ne Allahas juos nuskriaudė, tačiau jie nuskriaudė patys save.
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Русский · Russian
И каждого Мы схватили за его грех: среди них были те, на кого Мы послали каменный вихрь; среди них — те, кого настиг Глас; среди них — те, кого Мы повелели земле поглотить; и среди них — те, кого Мы потопили. И не Аллах был к ним несправедлив, а они продолжали поступать несправедливо с самими собой.
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Српски · Serbian
и све смо казнили према њиховим гресима: на неке смо послали ветар пун песка, а неке смо уништили страшним гласом, неке смо утерали у земљу, а неке потопили; Аллах им није учинио неправду, сами су себи неправду нанели.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi kila mmoja tulimtesa kwa mujibu wa makosa yake. Kati yao wapo tuliowapelekea kimbunga cha changarawe; na kati yao wapo walionyakuliwa na ukelele; na kati yao wapo ambao tuliwadidimiza katika ardhi; na kati yao wapo tuliowazamisha. Wala Mwenyezi Mungu hakuwa mwenye kuwadhulumu, lakini walikuwa wenyewe wakijidhulumu nafsi zao.
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Svenska · Swedish
Vi lät straffet drabba dem alla för deras synder. Mot några av dem sände vi en stenstorm medan andra [förintades] av ett öronbedövande dån. Somliga lät vi slukas av jorden och ytterligare andra dränktes. Gud gjorde dem ingen orätt; det var de som gjorde sig själva orätt.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Derken biz her birini günahı ile aldık. Kimilerinin üzerine taş yağdıran kasırga gönderdik, kimilerini o çığlık yakaladı. Onlardan kimisini yere geçirdik, kimilerini de suda boğduk. Allah onlara zulmetmiyordu fakat onlar kendi nefislerine zulmediyorlardı.
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اردو · Urdu
پھر تو ہر ایک کو ہم نے اس کے گناه کے وبال میں گرفتار کر لیا[1] ، ان میں سے بعض پر ہم نے پتھروں کا مینہ برسایا[2] اور ان میں سے بعض کو زور دار سخت آواز نے دبوچ لیا[3] اور ان میں سے بعض کو ہم نے زمین میں دھنسا دیا[4] اور ان میں سے بعض کو ہم نے ڈبو دیا[5]، اللہ تعالیٰ ایسا نہیں کہ ان پر ﻇلم کرے بلکہ یہی لوگ اپنی جانوں پر ﻇلم کرتے تھے.[6]
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.
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DIN 31635waʿādan waṯamūda waqad tabayyana lakum min masākinihim wazayyana lahumu š-šayṭānu ʾaʿmālahum faṣaddahum ʿani s-sabīli wakānū mustabṣirīna
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Talal Itani2012 And Aad and Thamood. It has become clear to you from their dwellings. Satan embellished for them their deeds, barring them from the path, even though they could see.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 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
George Sale1734 And We also destroyed the tribes of Ad, and Thamud; and this is well known 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
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)mathalu lladheena takhadhoo min dooni llaahi awliyaa'a kamathali l-'ankabooti takhadhat baytan wa'inna awhana l-buyooti labaytu l-'ankabooti law kaanoo ya'lamoon
DIN 31635maṯalu llaḏīna taḫaḏū min dūni llāhi ʾawliyāʾa kamaṯali l-ʿankabūti taḫaḏat baytan waʾinna ʾawhana l-buyūti labaytu l-ʿankabūti law kānū yaʿlamūna
Talal Itani2012 The likeness of those who take to themselves protectors other than God is that of the spider. It builds a house. But the most fragile of houses is the spider's house. If they only knew.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 The likeness of those who choose other patrons than Allah is as the likeness of the spider when she taketh unto herself a house, and lo! the frailest of all houses is the spider's house, if they but knew
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The likeness of those who take, beside God, patrons is as the likeness of a spider, that takes to himself a house; and, verily, the weakest of houses is a spider's house, if they did but know
John Medows Rodwell1861 The likeness for those who take to themselves guardians instead of God is the likeness of the SPIDER who buildeth her a house: But verily, frailest of all houses surely is the house of the spider. Did they but know this
George Sale1734 The likness of those who take other patrons besides God, is as the likeness of the spider, which maketh herself a house: But the weakest of all houses surely is the house of the spider; if they knew this
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 —
0.61 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.72
Talal Itani · George Sale0.66
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.64
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.49
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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.