Easy-read (simplified)wala'in sa'altahum man nazzala mina s-samaa'i maa'an fa'ahyaa bihi l-'arda min ba'di mawtihaa layaqoolunna llaahu quli l-hamdu lillaahi bal aktharuhum laa ya'qiloon
DIN 31635walaʾin saʾaltahum man nazzala mina s-samāʾi māʾan faʾaḥyā bihi l-ʾarḍa min baʿdi mawtihā layaqūlunna llāhu quli l-ḥamdu lillāhi bal ʾakṯaruhum lā yaʿqilūna
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 if you asked them, "Who sends water down from the sky, with which He revives the earth after it had died?" They would say, "God." Say, "Praise be to God." But most of them do not understand.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And if thou wert to ask them: Who causeth water to come down from the sky, and therewith reviveth the earth after its death? they verily would say: Allah. Say: Praise be to Allah! But most of them have no sense
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 if thou shouldst ask them, 'Who sends down from the heavens water and quickens therewith the earth in its death?' they will surely say, 'God!' say, 'And praise be to God!' nay, most of them have no sense
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
If thou ask them who sendeth rain from heaven, and by it quickeneth the earth, after it hath been dead, they will certainly answer, "God." SAY: Praise be to God! Yet most of them do not understand
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Verily if thou ask them, who sendeth rain from heaven, and thereby quickeneth the earth, after it hath been dead; they will answer, God. Say, God be praised! But the greaterpart of them do not understand
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
Nëse do t'i pyesje ata se kush e lëshon shiun nga qielli, me të cilin gjallëron tokën pasi të jetë tharë, ata, me siguri, do të thonë: "Allahu!" Thuaj: "Lavdërimi i takon Allahut", por shumica e tyre nuk kuptojnë.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর (হে রাসূল!) তুমি যদি তাদেরকে জিজ্ঞেস করো, ‘কে আসমান থেকে (বৃষ্টির) পানি বর্ষণ করেন, অতঃপর তা দ্বারা জমিনকে তার মৃত্যুর (শুকিয়ে যাওয়ার) পর সঞ্জীবিত করেন?’ তবে তারা অবশ্যই বলবে: ‘আল্লাহ’। (হে মুহাম্মাদ! তুমি তাদেরকে) বলো: ‘সকল প্রশংসা আল্লাহর।’ কিন্তু তাদের অধিকাংশই তা বুঝে না।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
A ako ih upitaš: “Ko s neba kišu spušta i njome mrtvu zemlju oživljava?”, sigurno će reći: “Allah!” A ti reci: “Hvala Allahu!”, ali većina njih ne shvaća.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
A ako ih upitaš: “Tko s neba kišu spušta i njome mrtvu zemlju oživljava?” sigurno će reći: “Allah!” A ti reci: “Hvala Allahu!” ali većina njih ne shvaća.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Pellet, si a lanndike ɓe: "Ko hommbo jippiniri ndiyam ka kammu ɗam O wuurnitiri leydi ndin ɓaawo ndi yoorde?", ma ɓe mbi': "Ko Alla". Maaku: "Yettoore woodanii Alla!". Si ko woni, ko ɓuri ɗuuɗude e maɓɓe kaqqiltaa.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და თუ ჰკითხავ მათ: «ვინ გარდმოავლინა ციდან წყალი და გააცოცხლა მიწა მისით, მისი სიკვდილის შემდეგ?» უთუოდ იტყვიან: «ალლაჰმა», უთხარი: «ქება დიდება ალლაჰს». მაგრამ მათი უმეტესობა ვერ აზროვნებს.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und wenn du sie fragst, wer vom Himmel Wasser herabkommen lässt und dann damit die Erde nach ihrem Tod wiederbelebt, sagen sie ganz gewiss: „Allah.“ Sag: „Das Lob gebührt Allah!“ Aber nein! Die meisten von ihnen begreifen nicht.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αν (ω, Προφήτη) τους ρωτούσες (τους ειδωλολάτρες): «Ποιος στέλνει από τον ουρανό νερό, με το οποίο αναζωογονεί τη γη μετά τον θάνατό της;», θα έλεγαν: «Ο Αλλάχ.» Πες: «Όλος ο έπαινος ανήκει στον Αλλάχ (που φανέρωσε την αλήθεια από την ομολογία σας)», αλλά οι περισσότεροι απ' αυτούς δε συλλογίζονται.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और निश्चय यदि आप उनसे पूछें कि किसने आकाश से पानी उतारा, फिर उसके द्वारा धरती को, उसके मुर्दा हो जाने के बाद जीवित किया? तो वे अवश्य कहेंगे कि अल्लाह ने। आप कह दें कि सब प्रशंसा अल्लाह के लिए है। बल्कि उनमें से अधिकतर लोग नहीं समझते।[38]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E se chiedessi loro: «Chi fa scendere l’acqua dal cielo e rende viva la terra dopo la sua morte?» Direbbero: «Allāh». Di’: «Lodato sia Allāh +!» Ma la maggior parte di loro non riflette.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
63. Ir jei jūs paklaustumėte jų: „Kas nuleidžia vandenį (lietų) iš dangaus ir suteikia gyvenimą juo žemei po jos mirties?“ Jie tikrai atsakys: „Allahas.“ Sakyk: „Visa šlovė ir padėka Allahui.“ Ne, dauguma iš jų nesuvokia.
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Русский · Russian
А если ты спросишь их: «Кто низвёл с неба воду и оживил ею землю после её смерти?», они непременно скажут: «Аллах». Скажи: «Хвала Аллаху!» Нет, напротив, большая часть их не разумеет.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
А ако их упиташ: „Ко са неба спушта воду и њом оживљава мртву Земљу?“ Сигурно ће да кажу: „Аллах!“ А ти реци: „Хвала Аллаху!“ Али већина њих не разуме.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na ukiwauliza: Ni nani anayeteremsha maji kutoka mbinguni, na akaihuisha ardhi baada ya kufa kwake? Bila ya shaka watasema: Ni Mwenyezi Mungu. Sema: Alhamdu Lillahi (Sifa njema zote ni za Mwenyezi Mungu). Bali wengi katika wao hawatumii akili.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Och om du frågar dem: ”Vem är det som låter regnet falla från skyn och som ger nytt liv till den livlösa jorden?”, kommer de helt visst att svara: ”Det är Gud.” Säg: ”All lovprisning tillkommer Gud!” Men de flesta av dem använder inte sitt förstånd.
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
Andolsun, eğer onlara: “Gökten yağmuru kim indirip de onunla yeryüzünü ölümünden sonra diriltti?” diye soracak olsan, mutlaka, “Allah” diyeceklerdir. De ki: “Hamt Allah’a mahsustur.” Hayır onların çoğu akıl etmiyorlar.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور اگر آپ ان سے سوال کریں کہ آسمان سے پانی اتار کر زمین کو اس کی موت کے بعد زنده کس نے کیا؟ تو یقیناً ان کا جواب یہی ہوگا اللہ تعالیٰ نے۔ آپ کہہ دیں کہ ہر تعریف اللہ ہی کے لئے سزاوار ہے، بلکہ ان میں سے اکثر بے عقل ہیں.[1]
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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DIN 31635walaʾin saʾaltahum man ḫalaqa s-samāwāti wal-ʾarḍa wasaḫḫara š-šamsa wal-qamara layaqūlunna llāhu faʾannā yuʾfakūna
Talal Itani2012 And if you asked them, "Who created the heavens and the earth and regulated the sun and the moon?" They would say, "God." Why then do they deviate?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if thou wert to ask them: Who created the heavens and the earth, and constrained the sun and the moon (to their appointed work)? they would say: Allah. How then are they turned away
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And if thou shouldst ask them, 'Who created the heavens and the earth, and subjected the sun and the moon?' they will surely say, 'God!' how then can they lie
John Medows Rodwell1861 If thou ask them who hath created the Heavens and the Earth, and hath imposed laws on the sun and on the moon, they will certainly say, "God." How then can they devise lies
George Sale1734 Verily, if thou ask the Meccans, who hath created the heavens and the earth, and hath obliged the sun and the moon to serve in their courses; they will answer, God. How therefore do they lie, in acknowledging of other gods
Easy-read (simplified)allaahu yabsutu r-rizqa liman yashaa'u min 'ibaadihi wayaqdiru lahu inna llaaha bikulli shay'in 'aleem
DIN 31635allāhu yabsuṭu r-rizqa liman yašāʾu min ʿibādihi wayaqdiru lahu ʾinna llāha bikulli šayʾin ʿalīmun
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 God expands the provision for whomever He wills of His servants, and restricts it. God is Cognizant of all things.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah maketh the provision wide for whom He will of His bondmen, and straiteneth it for whom (He will). Lo! Allah is Aware of all things
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God extends provision to whomsoever He will of His servants, or doles it out to him; verily, God all things doth know
John Medows Rodwell1861 God lavisheth supplies on such of his servants as He pleaseth or giveth to them by measure. God knoweth all things
George Sale1734 God maketh abundant provision for such of his servants as He pleaseth; and is sparing unto him, if he pleaseth: For God knoweth all things
DIN 31635wamā hāḏihi l-ḥayātu d-dunyā ʾillā lahwun walaʿibun waʾinna d-dāra l-ʾāḫirata lahiya l-ḥayawānu law kānū yaʿlamūna
Talal Itani2012 The life of this world is nothing but diversion and play, and the Home of the Hereafter is the Life, if they only knew.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 This life of the world is but a pastime and a game. Lo! the home of the Hereafter - that is Life, if they but knew
Edward Henry Palmer1880 This life of the world is nothing but a sport and a play; but, verily, the abode of the next world, that is life,- if they did but know
John Medows Rodwell1861 This present life is no other than a pastime and a disport: but truly the future mansion is life indeed! Would that they knew this
George Sale1734 This present life is no other than a toy, and a play-thing; but the future mansion of paradise is life indeed: If they knew this, they would not prefer the former to the latter
Talal Itani2012 When they embark on a vessel, they pray to God, devoting their faith to Him; but once He has delivered them safely to land, they attribute partners to Him.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when they mount upon the ships they pray to Allah, making their faith pure for Him only, but when He bringeth them safe to land, behold! they ascribe partners (unto Him)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when they ride in the ship they call upon God, making their religion seem sincere to Him; but when He saves them to the shore, behold, they associate others with Him
John Medows Rodwell1861 Lo! when they embark on shipboard, they call upon God, vowing him sincere worship, but when He bringeth them safe to land, behold they join partners with Him
George Sale1734 When they sail in a ship, they call upon God, sincerely exhibiting unto Him the true religion: But when He bringeth them safe to land, behold, they return to their idolatry
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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
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.75
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · George Sale0.64
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.58
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.51
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.30
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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.