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Who standing, and sitting, and reclining, bear God in mind, and muse on the creation of the Heavens and of the Earth. "O our Lord!" say they, "thou hast not created this in vain. No. Glory be to Thee! Keep us, then, from the torment of the fire
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
Those who remember God while standing, and sitting, and on their sides; and they reflect upon the creation of the heavens and the earth: "Our Lord, You did not create this in vain, glory to You, so protect us from the punishment of the Fire."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Such as remember Allah, standing, sitting, and reclining, and consider the creation of the heavens and the earth, (and say): Our Lord! Thou createdst not this in vain. Glory be to Thee! Preserve us from the doom of Fire
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
who remember God standing and sitting or lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth. 'O Lord! thou hast not created this in vain. We celebrate Thy praise; then keep us from the torment of the fire
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
who remember God standing, and sitting, and lying on their sides; and meditate on the creation of heaven and earth, saying, O Lord, thou hast not created this in vain; far be it from thee: Therefore deliver us from the torment of hell fire
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
të cilët e përmendin Allahun duke qenë në këmbë, ulur e të shtrirë dhe mendojnë rreth krijimit të qiejve dhe Tokës (duke thënë): "Zoti ynë! Këto nuk i ke krijuar kot, Ti je i Patëmeta! Andaj, na ruaj nga dënimi i Zjarrit!
Translated by the team of 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 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
যারা দাঁড়িয়ে, বসে ও শুয়ে আল্লাহর স্মরণ করে এবং আসমানসমূহ ও জমিনের সৃষ্টি সম্বন্ধে চিন্তা-ভাবনা করে, আর বলে: ‘হে আমাদের রব! আপনি এগুলো অনর্থক সৃষ্টি করেননি, আপনি অত্যন্ত পবিত্র। অতএব আপনি আমাদেরকে জাহান্নামের শাস্তি হতে রক্ষা করুন।’
Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Dawah Association in Rabwah, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
koji Allaha spominju stojeći, sjedeći i ležeći na svojim bokovima, i o stvaranju nebesa i Zemlje razmišljaju. "Gospodaru naš, Ti ovo nisi uzalud stvorio! Uzvišen si Ti i sačuvaj nas od patnje u Vatri!
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 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
koji Allaha spominju stojeći, sjedeći i ležeći na svojim bokovima, i o stvaranju nebesa i Zemlje razmišljaju. "Gospodaru naš, Ti ovo nisi uzalud stvorio! Uzvišen si Ti i sačuvaj nas od patnje u Vatri!
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 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɓen annditooɓe Alla ka ɓe darii e ka ɓe jooɗii e ka ɓe lelori becce maɓɓe, hiɓe miijitoo fii takgol kammuuli ɗin e leydi ndin : "Joomi amen, A Tagiraani ɗum meere, senayee woodanii Ma, Ɗaɗndu men lepte yiite".
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
ქართული · Georgian
რომელნიც იხსენებენ ალლაჰს მდგომარედ, მჯდომარედ და თავიანთ გვერდებზე (დაწოლილ მდგომარეობაში), და ფიქრობენ ცათა და მიწის შექმნაზე (და ამბობენ): «ო, ჩვენო უფალო! ეს ყველაფერი ამაოდ არ შეგიქმნია. ყოვლდაუნაკლო ხარ შენ! დაგვიფარე ცეცხლის სასჯელისაგან».
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 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
(Sie sind diejenigen,) die Allahs stehend, sitzend und auf ihren Seiten (liegend) gedenken und über die Schöpfung der Himmel und der Erde nachdenken (und sagen): „Unser Herr, Du hast (all) dies nicht umsonst erschaffen. Gepriesen seist Du! So bewahre uns vor der Strafe des (Höllen)feuers.
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 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αυτοί που μνημονεύουν τον Αλλάχ όρθιοι, καθισμένοι ή ξαπλωμένοι πλάγια και στοχάζονται για τη δημιουργία των ουρανών και της γης, (λέγοντας): «Κύριέ μας, δεν τα δημιούργησες αυτά άσκοπα• Ύψιστος είσαι (και Ανώτερος από το να τα έχεις δημιουργήσει άσκοπα)• προστάτεψέ μας, λοιπόν, από το μαρτύριο του Πυρός.
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
जो खड़े और बैठे और अपनी करवटों पर लेटे हुए अल्लाह को याद करते हैं तथा आसमानों और ज़मीन की रचना में सोच-विचार करते हैं। (वे कहते हैं :) ऐ हमारे पालनहार! तूने यह सब कुछ बेकार[116] नहीं रचा है। अतः हमें आग के अज़ाब से बचा ले।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
quelli che nominano Allāh in piedi e seduti e stesi su un fianco, e meditano sulla creazione dei cieli e della terra, e dicono: «Dio nostro, non hai creato tutto ciò invano! Gloria a Te! Risparmiaci la pena del Fuoco!
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
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
191. Tie, kurie prisimena Allahą (visada ir maldose) stovėdami, sėdėdami ir gulėdami ant savo šonų, ir giliai apmąsto dangų ir žemės sukūrimą, (sakydami): „Mūsų Viešpatie, Tu nesukūrei (viso) to be priežasties, garbė Tau! (Išaukštintas esi Tu virš visko, ką jie Tau priskiria kaip partnerius). Suteik mums išsigelbėjimą nuo Ugnies kančios.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
(Isaan) warra dhaabatanii, taa’anii, cinaachoowwan isaanii irratti (ciisanii) Rabbiin faarsanii. uumama samiileefi dachii keessattis xiinxalaniidha. “yaa Gooftaa keenya! Ati (uumama guddaa) kana taphaaf hin uumne, qulqulloofte, adabbii ibiddaa irraa nu baraarsi" jedhan.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
— тех, которые поминают Аллаха стоя, сидя и лёжа на своих боках, и размышляют о сотворении небес и земли: «Господь наш! Ты не сотворил этого попусту. Пречист Ты! Защити же нас от наказания адского огня.
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 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
који Аллаха спомињу стојећи, седећи и лежећи на својим боковима, и размишљају о стварању небеса и Земље. „Господару наш, Ти ово ниси створио узалуд! Узвишен си Ти и сачувај нас од патње у Ватри!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Ambao humkumbuka Mwenyezi Mungu hali ya kuwa wamesimama, na wameketi, na kwenye mbavu zao. Na hutafakari katika kuumbwa kwa mbingu na ardhi, wakisema: Mola wetu Mlezi! Hukuviumba hivi bure. Subhanaka (umetakasika)! Basi tukinge kutokana na adhabu ya Moto.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
de som minns Gud stående, sittande och liggande, och som begrundar skapelsen av himlarna och jorden [och säger]: ”Herre! Du har inte skapat detta förgäves. Upphöjd är du! Beskydda oss från eldens straff.
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
Onlar ayaktayken, otururken ve yanları üzerine yatarken Allah’ı zikrederler. Göklerin ve yerin yaratılışı üzerinde düşünürler. “Rabbimiz! Bunu boş yere yaratmadın, seni tüm noksanlıklardan tenzih ederiz. Bizi ateş azabından koru!” derler.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
جو اللہ تعالیٰ کا ذکر کھڑے اور بیٹھے اور اپنی کروٹوں پر لیٹے ہوئے کرتے ہیں اور آسمانوں وزمین کی پیدائش میں غوروفکر کرتے ہیں اور کہتے ہیں اے ہمارے پروردگار! تو نے یہ بے فائده نہیں بنایا، تو پاک ہے پس ہمیں آگ کے عذاب سے بچا لے.[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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5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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Talal Itani2012 In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of night and day, are signs for people of understanding.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! In the creation of the heavens and the earth and (in) the difference of night and day are tokens (of His Sovereignty) for men of understanding
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the succession of night and day, are signs to those possessed of minds
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily, in the creation of the Heavens and of the Earth, and in the succession of the night and of the day, are signs for men of understanding heart
George Sale1734 Now in the creation of heaven and earth, and the vicissitude of night and day, are signs unto those who are indued with understanding
Easy-read (simplified)rabbanaa innaka man tudkhili n-naara faqad akhzaytahu wamaa lilzzaalimeena min ansaar
DIN 31635rabbanā ʾinnaka man tudḫili n-nāra faqad ʾaḫzaytahu wamā lilẓẓālimīna min ʾanṣārin
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 "Our Lord, whomever You commit to the Fire, You have disgraced. The wrongdoers will have no helpers."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Our Lord! Whom Thou causest to enter the Fire: him indeed Thou hast confounded. For evil-doers there will be no helpers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Lord! verily, whomsoever Thou hast made to enter the fire, Thou hast disgraced him; and the unjust shall have none to help them
John Medows Rodwell1861 O our Lord! surely thou wilt put him to shame whom thou shalt cause to enter into the Fire, and the wrong-doers shall have none to help them
George Sale1734 O Lord, surely whom thou shalt throw into the fire, thou wilt also cover with shame: Nor shall the ungodly have any to help them
Talal Itani2012 "Our Lord, we have heard a caller calling to the faith: `Believe in your Lord,' and we have believed. Our Lord! Forgive us our sins, and remit our misdeeds, and make us die in the company of the virtuous."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Our Lord! Lo! we have heard a crier calling unto Faith: "Believe ye in your Lord!" So we believed. Our Lord! Therefor forgive us our sins, and remit from us our evil deeds, and make us die the death of the righteous
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Lord! verily, we heard a crier calling to the faith, "Believe in your Lord," and we did believe. Lord! forgive us our sins and cover our offences, and let us die with the righteous
John Medows Rodwell1861 O our Lord! we have indeed heard the voice of one that called. He called us to the faith - 'Believe on your Lord' - and we have believed. O our Lord! forgive us then our sin, and hide away from us our evil deeds, and cause us to die with the righteous
George Sale1734 O Lord, we have heard a preacher inviting us to the faith, and saying, believe in your Lord: And we believed. O Lord, forgive us therefore our sins, and expiate our evil deeds from us, and make us to die with the righteous
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.53
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.49
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.45
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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.