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Talal Itani· published 2012
On the Day when some faces will be whitened, and some faces will be blackened. As for those whose faces are blackened: "Did you disbelieve after your belief?" Then taste the punishment for having disbelieved.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
On the Day when (some) faces will be whitened and (some) faces will be blackened; and as for those whose faces have been blackened, it will be said unto them: Disbelieved ye after your (profession of) belief? Then taste the punishment for that ye disbelieved
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
on the day when faces shall be whitened and faces shall be blackened. As for those whose faces are blackened,- 'Did ye misbelieve after your faith, then taste the torment for your misbelief
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
On THE DAY when faces shall turn white, and faces shall turn black! And as to those whose faces shall have turned black ". . . .What! after your belief have ye become infidels? Taste then the chastisement, for that ye have been unbelievers
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
On the day of resurrection some faces shall become white, and other faces shall become black. And unto them whose faces shall become black, God will say, have ye returned unto your unbelief, after ye had believed? Therefore taste the punishment, for that ye have been unbelievers
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
Ditën (e Kiametit) kur disa fytyra do të zbardhen e disa fytyra do të nxihen. Atyre që do t'u nxihen fytyrat, do t'u thuhet: "A mohuat pas besimit?! Atëherë shijojeni dënimin për shkak se nuk besonit!"
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বাংলা · Bengali
সেদিন কিছু লোকের (ঈমানদারদের) চেহারা উজ্জল হবে এবং কিছু লোকের (কাফিরদের) চেহারা কালো হবে। যাদের মুখ কালো হবে (তাদেরকে বলা হবে), ‘তোমরা কি ঈমান আনার পর কুফরী করেছিলে? সুতরাং তোমরা (আল্লাহর) শাস্তি ভোগ করো, যেহেতু তোমরা কুফরী করতে।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Na Dan kada će neka lica pobijeljeti, a neka pocrnjeti. Onima čija lica budu pocrnjela bit će rečeno: "Zar ste postali nevjernici nakon vašeg vjerovanja?! Pa iskusite patnju zato što niste vjerovali!"
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Na Dan kada će neka lica pobijeljeti, a neka pocrnjeti. Onima čija lica budu pocrnjela bit će rečeno: "Zar ste postali nevjernici nakon vašeg vjerovanja?! Pa iskusite patnju zato što niste vjerovali!"
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ñande jeece rawnata geece goo ɓawla. Si ko ɓen ɓe jeece mu'un ɓawli : "e on yeddu ɓaawo gomɗinal mon? Meeɗiree lepte ɗen sabu ko laatinoɗon hiɗon njedda".
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ქართული · Georgian
იმ დღეს, როცა ზოგი სახე გათეთრდება [მორწმუნეთა სახეები] და ზოგი სახე გაშავდება [ურწმუნოთა სახეები]! ხოლო ისინი, ვისი სახეებიც გაშავდა, (მათ ეთქმებათ): «ნუთუ ურწმუნონი გახდით თქვენი რწმენის შემდეგ [მას შემდეგ, რაც თავდაპირველად ირწმუნეთ]? მაშ, იგემეთ სასჯელი იმის გამო, რომ ურწმუნოებას სჩადიოდით!»
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Deutsch · German
An dem Tag, da (die einen) Gesichter weiß und (die anderen) Gesichter schwarz sein werden. Was nun diejenigen angeht, deren Gesichter schwarz sein werden (, so wird zu ihnen gesagt): „Seid ihr ungläubig geworden, nachdem ihr den Glauben (angenommen) hattet? So kostet die Strafe dafür, dass ihr ungläubig wart.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
(Αυτό το επώδυνο μαρτύριο θα το έχουν), την Ημέρα όπου κάποια πρόσωπα θα γίνουν φωτεινά, ενώ άλλα πρόσωπα θα σκοτεινιάσουν. Όσο γι' εκείνους των οποίων τα πρόσωπα θα σκοτεινιάσουν, (θα ειπωθεί σ' αυτούς): «Αρνηθήκατε την πίστη αφού ήσασταν πιστοί; Γευτείτε το μαρτύριο για ό,τι αρνηθήκατε από την πίστη.»
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हिन्दी · Hindi
जिस दिन कुछ चेहरे उज्जवल होंगे और कुछ चेहरे काले होंगे। फिर जिनके चेहरे काले होंगे (उनसे कहा जाएगा :) क्या तुमने अपने ईमान के बाद कुफ़्र कर लिया थाॽ तो अब अपने कुफ़्र करने के कारण यातना का स्वाद चखो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Il giorno in cui si illumineranno alcuni visi e altri si incupiranno, a quelli cui si incupiranno i visi si dirà: ‘In verità avete negato dopo aver creduto? Assaggiate la punizione per ciò che avete negato!’
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
106. Dieną (t. y. Prikėlimo Dieną), kai kai kurių veidai taps baltais, o kai kurių veidai taps juodais. Tiems, kurių veidai taps juodais (bus pasakyta): „Ar jūs atmetėte Tikėjimą po jo priėmimo? Tada ragaukite kančią (Pragare) už Tikėjimo atmetimą.“
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Русский · Russian
В тот День одни лица посветлеют, а другие потемнеют. Что касается тех, чьи лица потемнеют, [то им будет сказано]: «Неужели вы отвергли веру после своей веры? Так вкусите же наказание за то, что вы отвергали веру!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
На Дан Судњи када ће нека лица да побеле, а нека да поцрне. Онима чија лица буду поцрнела биће речено: „Зар сте постали неверници након вашег веровања?! Па искусите патњу зато што нисте веровали!“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Siku ambapo nyuso zitakuwa nyeupe, na nyuso nyingine zikawa nyeusi. Basi, ama wale ambao nyuso zao zitakuwa nyeusi (wataambiwa): Je, mlikufuru baada ya kuamini kwenu? Basi ionjeni adhabu kwa sababu ya yale mliyokuwa mkikufuru.
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Svenska · Swedish
den dag då vissa ansikten ska lysa och andra ansikten ska mörkna. Till dem vars ansikten mörknat [ska det sägas]: ”Blev ni otrogna efter att ha varit troende? Känn nu på straffet för er otro!”
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Türkçe · Turkish
Bir takım yüzlerin parladığı ve bir takım yüzlerin de karardığı o günde yüzleri kararanlara: İmanınızdan sonra kâfir mi oldunuz? Öyleyse, kâfir olduğunuz için tadın azabı (denir).
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اردو · Urdu
جس دن بعض چہرے سفید ہوں گے اور بعض سیاه[1] ، سیاه چہرے والوں (سے کہا جائے گا) کہ کیا تم نے ایمان ﻻنے کے بعد کفر کیا؟ اب اپنے کفر کا عذاب چکھو.
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same edition and their orthography differs.
Talal Itani2012 And let there be among you a community calling to virtue, and advocating righteousness, and deterring from evil. These are the successful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And there may spring from you a nation who invite to goodness, and enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency. Such are they who are successful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and that there may be of you a nation who shall invite to good, and bid what is reasonable, and forbid what is wrong; these are the prosperous
John Medows Rodwell1861 And that there may be among you a people who invite to the Good, and enjoin the Just, and forbid the Wrong. These are they with whom it shall be well
George Sale1734 Let there be people among you, who invite to the best religion; and command that which is just, and forbid that which is evil; and they shall be happy
Easy-read (simplified)walaa takoonoo kalladheena tafarraqoo wakhtalafoo min ba'di maa jaa'ahumu l-bayyinaatu wa'oolaa'ika lahum 'adhaabun 'azeem
DIN 31635walā takūnū kallaḏīna tafarraqū waḫtalafū min baʿdi mā ǧāʾahumu l-bayyinātu waʾūlāʾika lahum ʿaḏābun ʿaẓīmun
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 And do not be like those who separated and disputed after the clear proofs came to them; for them is a great punishment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And be ye not as those who separated and disputed after the clear proofs had come unto them. For such there is an awful doom
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Be not like those who parted in sects and disagreed after there came to them manifest signs; for them is mighty woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 And be ye not like those who have formed divisions, and fallen to variance after the clear proofs have come to them. These! a terrible chastisement doth await them
George Sale1734 And be not as they who are divided, and disagree in matters of religion, after manifest proofs have been brought unto them: They shall suffer a great torment
Talal Itani2012 These are the revelations of God. We recite them to you in truth. God desires no injustice for mankind.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 These are revelations of Allah. We recite them unto thee in truth. Allah willeth no injustice to (His) creatures
Edward Henry Palmer1880 These are the signs of God. We recite them to you in truth, for God desires not wrong unto the worlds
John Medows Rodwell1861 These are the signs of God: we recite them to thee in truth: And God willeth not injustice to mankind
George Sale1734 These are the signs of God: We recite them unto thee with truth. God will not deal unjustly with his creatures
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lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.74
Talal Itani · George Sale0.73
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.59
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.58
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.47
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.41
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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.