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Talal Itani· published 2012
That is because they said, "The Fire will not touch us except for a limited number of days." They have been misled in their religion by the lies they fabricated.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
That is because they say: The Fire will not touch us save for a certain number of days. That which they used to invent hath deceived them regarding their religion
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
that is because they say the fire shall not touch us save for a certain number of days. But that deceived them in their religion which they had invented
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
This they did because they said, the fire of hell shall by no means touch us, but for a certain number of days: And that which they had falslydevised, hath deceived them in their religion
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
Kjo, sepse ata thoshin: "Ne nuk do të na prekë zjarri i Xhehenemit, përveçse disa ditë." Shpifjet që bënë i mashtruan ata për fenë e tyre.
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বাংলা · Bengali
এটা এ জন্যে যে, তারা বলে: ‘গুটি কয়েকদিন ব্যতীত জাহান্নামের আগুন আমাদেরকে কখনই স্পর্শ করবে না’। আর তারা যা মিথ্যা (বাতিল ও বানোয়াট) রচনা করত, তা তাদেরকে তাদের দীনের ব্যাপারে প্রতারিত করেছে।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
To je zato što oni govore: "Vatra nas neće ni dodirnuti više od nekoliko dana!", i u njihovoj vjeri ih zavarava to što su izmišljali.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
To je zato što oni govore: "Vatra nas neće ni dodirnuti više od nekoliko dana!" i u njihovoj vjeri ih zavarava to što su izmišljali.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Waɗi noon ɓe wi'ii: "Yiite ngen meemataa men si wanaa ñalɗi limtaaɗi". hoomtiiɓe he diina maɓɓe kan, huunde nde ɓe fefindotonoo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ეს (მათი გადახრა ჭეშმარიტებისგან) იმიტომაა, რომ ამბობდნენ: «ცეცხლი (ჯოჯოხეთი) არასოდეს შეგვეხება, გარდა დათვლილი რამდენიმე დღისა». და მოატყუა ისინი თავიანთ სარწმუნოებაში იმან, რასაც თავად იგონებდნენ.
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Deutsch · German
Dies, da sie sagten: „Das (Höllen)feuer wird uns nur für eine bestimmte Anzahl von Tagen berühren.“ Und was sie (an Lügen) zu ersinnen pflegten, hat sie über ihre Religion getäuscht.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αυτή (η απομάκρυνσή τους από την αλήθεια ήταν) επειδή είπαν: «Δεν θα μας αγγίξει το Πυρ (κατά την Έσχατη Ημέρα), παρά για λίγες μετρημένες μέρες (και έπειτα θα μπούμε στον Παράδεισο).» Και έτσι τους παραπλάνησαν στη θρησκεία τους, αυτά που επινόησαν από ψέματα.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
उनका यह हाल इसलिए है कि उन्होंने कहा कि दोज़ख़ की आग हमें गिनती के कुछ दिन ही छुएगी! तथा उन्हें उनके धर्म (के बारे) में उन बातों ने धोखा दिया, जो वे गढ़ा करते थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Ciò perché dissero: «Il fuoco non ci toccherà se non per giorni contati!» E li hanno illusi, sulla loro fede, le loro bugie.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
24. Taip yra todėl, kad jie sako: „Ugnis nepalies mūsų, išskyrus tam tikrą skaičių dienų.“ Ir tai, ką jie išgalvodavo apie savo tikėjimą, suklaidino juos.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Kun waan isaan “ibiddi guyyoota lakkaa’amtuu malee nu hin tuqxu” jedhaniifi. Kijibni isaan (of biraa) uumaa turan amantii isaanii keessatti isaan gowwoomse.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Это потому, что они сказали: «Адский огонь никогда не коснётся нас, кроме как на считанные дни!» И обольстило их в их религии то, что они измышляли.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
То је зато што они говоре: „Ватра нас неће дотаћи више од неколико дана!“ - А лажи које измишљају у њиховом веровању обмањују их.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Hayo ni kwa sababu walisema: "Hautatugusa Moto isipokuwa kwa siku chache tu." Na yakawadanganya katika dini yao yale ambayo wenyewe walikuwa wakiyazua.
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Svenska · Swedish
Detta därför att de säger: ”Elden ska endast drabba oss under ett begränsat antal dagar.” Deras falska föreställningar har förlett dem i deras religion.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Bu, (haktan yüz çeviriş) onların: "Sayılı günlerden başka bize, asla ateş dokunmayacak" demeleri yüzündendir. Ve uydura geldikleri yalanlar, dinlerinde kendilerini aldatmıştır.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اس کی وجہ ان کا یہ کہنا کہ ہمیں تو گنے چنے چند دن ہی آگ جلائے گی، ان کی گڑھی گڑھائی باتوں نے انہیں ان کے دین کے بارے میں دھوکے میں ڈال رکھا ہے۔[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.
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Talal Itani2012 Have you not considered those who were given a share of the Scripture, as they were called to the Scripture of God to arbitrate between them; then some of them turned back, and declined?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Hast thou not seen how those who have received a portion of the Scripture invoke the Scripture of Allah (in their disputes) that it may judge between them; then a faction of them turn away, being opposed (to it)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Did ye not see those who have been given a portion of the Book? they were called unto the Book of God to decide between them; and then a sect of them turned their backs and turned away
John Medows Rodwell1861 Hast thou not marked those who have received a portion of the Scriptures, when they are summoned to the Book of God, that it may settle their differences? Then did a part of them turn back, and withdrew far off
George Sale1734 Hast thou not observed those unto whom part of the scripture was given? They were called unto the book of God, that it might judge between them; then some of them turned their backs, and retired afar off
Talal Itani2012 How about when We gather them for a Day in which there is no doubt, and each soul will be paid in full for what it has earned, and they will not be wronged?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 How (will it be with them) when We have brought them all together to a Day of which there is no doubt, when every soul will be paid in full what it hath earned, and they will not be wronged
Edward Henry Palmer1880 How will it be when we have gathered them together for a day whereof there is no doubt, when each soul shall be paid what it has earned, and they shall not be wronged
John Medows Rodwell1861 But how, when we shall assemble them together for the day of (which) whose coming there is no doubt, and when every soul shall be paid what it hath earned, and they shall not be wronged
George Sale1734 How then will it be with them, when we shall gather them together at the day of judgment, of which there is no doubt; and every soul shall be paid that which it hath gained, neither shall they be treated unjustly
Easy-read (simplified)quli llaahumma maalika l-mulki tu'tee l-mulka man tashaa'u watanzi'u l-mulka mimman tashaa'u watu'izzu man tashaa'u watudhillu man tashaa'u biyadika l-khayru innaka 'alaa kulli shay'in qadeer
DIN 31635quli llāhumma mālika l-mulki tuʾtī l-mulka man tašāʾu watanziʿu l-mulka mimman tašāʾu watuʿizzu man tašāʾu watuḏillu man tašāʾu biyadika l-ḫayru ʾinnaka ʿalā kulli šayʾin qadīrun
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Talal Itani2012 Say, "O God, Owner of Sovereignty. You grant sovereignty to whom You will, and You strip sovereignty from whom you will. You honor whom you will, and You humiliate whom you will. In Your hand is all goodness. You are Capable of all things."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: O Allah! Owner of Sovereignty! Thou givest sovereignty unto whom Thou wilt, and Thou withdrawest sovereignty from whom Thou wilt. Thou exaltest whom Thou wilt, and Thou abasest whom Thou wilt. In Thy hand is the good. Lo! Thou art Able to do all things
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'O God, Lord of the kingdom! Thou givest the kingdom to whomsoever Thou pleasest, and strippest the kingdom from whomsoever Thou pleasest; Thou honourest whom Thou pleasest, and abasest whom Thou pleasest; in Thy hand is good. Verily, Thou art mighty over all
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: O God, possessor of all power, thou givest power to whom thou wilt, and from whom thou wilt, thou takest it away! Thou raisest up whom thou wilt, and whom thou wilt thou dost abase! In thy hand is good; for thou art over all things potent
George Sale1734 Say, O God, who possessest the kingdom; thou givest the kingdom unto whom thou wilt, and thou takest away the kingdom from whom thou wilt: Thou exaltest whom thou wilt, and thou humblest whom thou wilt: In thy had is good, for thou art almighty
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 —
0.52 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 · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.55
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.42
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.42
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.33
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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.