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Talal Itani· published 2012
And they urge you to hasten the punishment. Were it not for a specified time, the punishment would have come to them. But it will come upon them suddenly, while they are unaware.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
They bid thee hasten on the doom (of Allah). And if a term had not been appointed, the doom would assuredly have come unto them (ere now). And verily it will come upon them suddenly when they perceive not
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
They will wish thee to hasten on the torment; but were it not for a stated and appointed time, the torment would have come upon them suddenly, while yet they did not perceive
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They will challenge thee to hasten the punishment: but had there not been a seasonfixed for it, that punishment had already come upon them. But it shall overtake them suddenly when they look not for it
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They will urge thee to hasten the punishment which they defy thee to bring down upon them: If there had not been a determined time for their respite, the punishment had come upon them before this; but it shall surely overtake them suddenly, and they shall not foresee it
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 kërkojnë që t'ua përshpejtosh dënimin. Sikur të mos ishte një afat i caktuar, me siguri do t'u vinte dënimi. Por, patjetër që ai do t'u vijë atyre papritur, pa e vënë re.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর তারা তোমাকে দ্রুত শাস্তি এনে দিতে বলে। যদি নির্ধারিত সময় না থাকতো, তবে তাদের ওপর অবশ্যই শাস্তি আসতো এবং তা আকস্মিকভাবে তাদের ওপর আসবেই; অথচ তারা টেরও পাবে না।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Oni traže od tebe da ih što prije stigne kazna. A da nije određenog roka za to, kazna bi im došla, a doći će im, sigurno, iznenada, oni neće predosjetiti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Oni traže od tebe da ih što prije stigne kazna. A da nije određenog roka za to, kazna bi im došla, a doći će im, sigurno, iznenada, oni neće predosjetiti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Heɓe kawjirane lepte ɗen. Si wonaano fii lajal innaangal, lepte ɗen ngardiratno e maɓɓe juhal, hara kamɓe ɓe so'aa-anndude.
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ქართული · Georgian
და ისინი ჩქარობენ შენს მიმართ სასჯელს. და რომ არა დადგენილი ვადა, აუცილებლად მოვიდოდა მათზე სასჯელი. და უთუოდ მოვა მათზე იგი მოულოდნელად, მაშინ, როცა ვერც კი შეიგრძნობენ ამას.
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Deutsch · German
Und sie wünschen von dir, die Strafe zu beschleunigen. Und gäbe es nicht eine festgesetzte Frist, wäre die Strafe fürwahr zu ihnen gekommen. Und sie wird ganz gewiss plötzlich über sie kommen, ohne dass sie es merken.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Σου ζητούν (ω, Προφήτη) να επισπεύσεις τον ερχομό της τιμωρίας. Αν δεν είχε ήδη καθοριστεί (από τον Αλλάχ) μία συγκεκριμένη στιγμή (για την τιμωρία τους, την οποία δεν μπορούν να την αναβάλουν, ούτε να την φέρνουν νωρίτερα), θα τους είχε έρθει η τιμωρία. Πράγματι, θα τους έρθει ξαφνικά, ενώ δεν την περιμένουν.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
और वे[32] आपसे यातना के लिए जल्दी मचा रहे हैं। और यदि (उसका) एक नियत समय न होता, तो उनपर यातना अवश्य आ जाती। और निश्चय वह उनपर अचानक आएगी और उन्हें ख़बर तक न होगी।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
E ti sollecitano la punizione, ma se non fosse per il termine prestabilito, sarebbero già andati incontro alla punizione. E di certo li prenderà all’improvviso, da dove non se lo aspettano.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
53. Ir jie prašo tavęs paskubinti kančią (jiems) ir jei nebūtų nustatyto termino, kančia be abejonės ateitų pas juos. Ir tikrai, ji ateis pas juos netikėtai, jiems nesuvokiant.
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Русский · Russian
Они торопят тебя с наказанием, и если бы не назначенный срок, то наказание непременно пришло бы к ним. И оно непременно придёт к ним внезапно, тогда как они не будут этого осознавать.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Они траже од тебе Мухаммеде да их што пре стигне казна. А да није одређеног рока, казна би им дошла, а доћи ће им, сигурно, изненада, а они неће да је предосете.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na wanakuhimiza waletewe adhabu kwa haraka. Na lau kuwa hapana wakati maalumu uliowekwa, basi adhabu ingeliwajia, na ingeliwatokea kwa ghafla ilhali wao hawana habari.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
De ber dig påskynda straffet, och om inte tiden för det redan vore fastställd skulle det förvisso redan ha kommit. Straffet kommer att slå till plötsligt, när de minst anar det.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Senden azabın çabucak gelmesini istiyorlar. Eğer belirlenmiş bir süre olmasaydı, azap onlara mutlaka gelirdi. Azap onlara haberleri olmadıkları bir sırada ansızın gelecektir.
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اردو · Urdu
یہ لوگ آپ سے عذاب کی جلدی کر رہے ہیں[1] ۔ اگر میری طرف سے مقرر کیا ہوا وقت نہ ہوتا تو ابھی تک ان کے پاس عذاب آچکا ہوتا[2]، یہ یقینی بات ہے کہ اچانک ان کی بے خبری میں ان کے پاس عذاب آپہنچے گا.[3]
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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Talal Itani2012 Does it not suffice them that We revealed to you the Scripture, which is recited to them? In that is mercy and a reminder for people who believe.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Is it not enough for them that We have sent down unto thee the Scripture which is read unto them? Lo! herein verily is mercy, and a reminder for folk who believe
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Is it not enough for them that we have sent down to thee the Book which thou dost recite to them? verily, in that is a mercy and a reminder to a people who believe
John Medows Rodwell1861 Is it not enough for them that we have sent down to thee the Book to be recited to them? In this verily is a mercy and a warning to those who believe
George Sale1734 Is it not sufficient for them that We have sent down unto thee the book of the Koran, to be read unto them? Verily herein is a mercy, and an admonition unto people who believe
Talal Itani2012 Say, "God suffices as witness between you and me. He knows everything in the heavens and the Earth. Those who believe in vanity and reject God-it is they who are the losers."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say (unto them, O Muhammad): Allah sufficeth for witness between me and you. He knoweth whatsoever is in the heavens and the earth. And those who believe in vanity and disbelieve in Allah, they it is who are the losers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'God is witness enough between me and you; He knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth; and those who believe in falsehood and misbelieve in God, they shall be the losers
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: God is witness enough between me and you. He knoweth all that is in the Heavens and the Earth, and they who believe in vain things and disbelieve in God - these shall be the lost ones
George Sale1734 Say, God is a sufficient witness between me and you: He knoweth whatever is in heaven and earth; and those who believe in vain idols, and deny God, they shall perish
Easy-read (simplified)yawma yaghshaahumu l-'adhaabu min fawqihim wamin tahti arjulihim wayaqoolu dhooqoo maa kuntum ta'maloon
DIN 31635yawma yaġšāhumu l-ʿaḏābu min fawqihim wamin taḥti ʾarǧulihim wayaqūlu ḏūqū mā kuntum taʿmalūna
Talal Itani2012 On the Day when the punishment will envelop them, from above them, and from beneath their feet, He will say, "Taste what you used to do!"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 On the day when the doom will overwhelm them from above them and from underneath their feet, and He will say: Taste what ye used to do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 On the day when the torment shall cover them from above them and from beneath their feet, and He shall say, 'Taste that which ye have done
John Medows Rodwell1861 One day the punishment shall wrap them round, both from above them and from beneath their feet; and God will say, "Taste ye your own doings
George Sale1734 On a certain day their punishment shall suddenly assail them, both from above them, and from under their feet; and God shall say, taste ye the reward of that which ye have wrought
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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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 Sale0.69
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Talal Itani · George Sale0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.51
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.43
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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.