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.
Talal Itani· published 2012
"You merge the night into the day, and You merge the day into the night; and you bring the living out of the dead, and You bring the dead out of the living; and You provide for whom you will without measure."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Thou causest the night to pass into the day, and Thou causest the day to pass into the night. And Thou bringest forth the living from the dead, and Thou bringest forth the dead from the living. And Thou givest sustenance to whom Thou choosest, without stint
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
Thou dost turn night to day, and dost turn day to night, and dost bring forth the living from the dead, and dost provide for whom Thou pleasest without takingcount
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Thou causest the night to pass into the day, and thou causest the day to pass into the night. Thou bringest the living out of the dead, and thou bringest the dead out of the living; and thou givest sustenance to whom thou wilt, without measure
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Thou makest the night to succeed the day: Thou bringest forth the living out of the dead, and thou bringest forth the dead out of the living; and providestfood for whom thou wilt without measure
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
Ti fut natën në ditë dhe ditën në natë. Ti nxjerr të gjallën prej së vdekurës dhe nxjerr të vdekurën prej së gjallës, si dhe begaton pa masë atë që do."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আপনি রাতকে দিনের মধ্যে প্রবেশ করান(১১) এবং দিনকে রাতের মধ্যে প্রবেশ করান। (১২) আর মৃত থেকে জীবিতকে বের করেন এবং জীবিত থেকে মৃতকে বের করেন।(১৩) আর যাকে চান অপরিমিত রিযক দান করেন।
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
Ti uvodiš noć u dan i uvodiš dan u noć! Živo izvodiš iz mrtvog i mrtvo izvodiš iz živog! Ti opskrbljuješ koga hoćeš, bez ikakva računa!
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
Ti uvodiš noć u dan i uvodiš dan u noć! Živo izvodiš iz mrtvog i mrtvo izvodiš iz živog! Ti opskrbljuješ koga hoćeš, bez ikakva računa!
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Haɗa Naatna jehma on ndeer ñalawma he, Haɗa Naatna ñalawma o ndeer jehma he. Haɗa Yaltina ko wuuri immorde e ko maayi, yaltinaa ko maayi immorde e ko wuuri. Haɗa Arsikina on mbo Muuyɗaa ko aldaa e limoore.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
შენ შეგყავს ღამე დღეში და დღე ღამეში, და გამოგყავს ცოცხალი მკვდრისაგან და მკვდარი ცოცხალისგან; და აძლევ სარჩოს ვისაც ინებებ, უანგარიშოდ.
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Deutsch · German
Du lässt die Nacht in den Tag übergehen und Du lässt den Tag in die Nacht übergehen. Und Du lässt das Lebendige aus dem Toten hervorbringen und Du lässt das Tote aus dem Lebendigen hervorbringen. Und Du versorgst, wen Du willst, ohne Berechnung.
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
(Και από τα σημάδια της Δύναμής Σου είναι ότι) εισάγεις τη νύχτα στην ημέρα, και εισάγεις την ημέρα στη νύχτα (δηλ. αυξάνεις και μειώνεις τις ώρες τους κατά το χειμώνα και το καλοκαίρι), βγάζεις τον ζωντανό από τον νεκρό (όπως το φυτό που βγαίνει από το σπόρο, και ο πιστός γιος που έρχεται από έναν άπιστο πατέρα), και βγάζεις τον νεκρό από τον ζωντανό (όπως το αυγό που βγαίνει από την κότα, και ο άπιστος γιος που έρχεται από έναν πιστό πατέρα), και παραχωρείς αγαθά σ’ όποιον θέλεις χωρίς λογαριασμό (απεριόριστα).»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तू रात को दिन में दाख़िल करता है तथा दिन को रात में दाख़िल[12] करता है। और तू जीवित को मृत से निकालता है तथा मृत को जीवित से निकालता है और तू जिसे चाहे असंख्य जीविका देता है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Tu fai penetrare la notte nel giorno e fai penetrare il giorno nella notte, ed estrai il vivo dal morto ed estrai il morto dal vivo, e dai sostentamento a chi vuoi senza limiti.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
27. Tu priverti naktį įsilieti į dieną, ir Tu priverti dieną įsilieti į naktį (t. y. padidini ir sumažini nakties ir dienos valandų skaičių žiemą ir vasarą), Tu ištrauki gyvuosius iš mirties, ir Tu ištrauki mirusiuosius iš gyvenimo. Ir Tu suteiki turtą ir išlaikymą tiems, kam Tu nori, neribotai (maste arba naudoje).
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.
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.
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Русский · Russian
Ты вводишь ночь в день и вводишь день в ночь; Ты выводишь живое из мёртвого и выводишь мёртвое из живого; Ты наделяешь уделом, кого пожелаешь, без счёта».
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
Ти уводиш ноћ у дан и уводиш дан у ноћ! Живо изводиш из мртвог и мртво изводиш из живог! Ти опскрбљујеш кога желиш, без икаквог рачуна!
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 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Wewe huuingiza usiku katika mchana, na huuingiza mchana katika usiku. Na humtoa hai kutokana na maiti, na humtoa maiti kutokana na aliye hai. Na unamruzuku umtakaye bila ya hesabu.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Du låter natten träda in i dagen och dagen träda in i natten. Du låter det levande komma ur det döda och det döda ur det levande. Och du försörjer den du vill utan gräns.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Geceyi gündüze geçirir, gündüzü de geceye sokarsın. Diriyi ölüden çıkarır, ölüyü de diriden çıkarırsın. Dilediğine de hesapsız rızık verirsin.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
تو ہی رات کو دن میں داخل کرتا ہے اور دن کو رات میں لے جاتا ہے[1] ، تو ہی بے جان سے جاندار پیدا کرتا ہے اور تو ہی جاندار سے بے جان پیدا کرتا ہے[2]، تو ہی ہے کہ جسے چاہتا ہے بے شمار روزی دیتا ہے۔
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 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
The translators word this verse differently
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
Easy-read (simplified)laa yattakhidhi l-mu'minoona l-kaafireena awliyaa'a min dooni l-mu'mineena waman yaf'al dhaalika falaysa mina llaahi fee shay'in illaa an tattaqoo minhum tuqaatan wayuhadhdhirukumu llaahu nafsahu wa'ilaa llaahi l-maseer
DIN 31635lā yattaḫiḏi l-muʾminūna l-kāfirīna ʾawliyāʾa min dūni l-muʾminīna waman yafʿal ḏālika falaysa mina llāhi fī šayʾin ʾillā ʾan tattaqū minhum tuqātan wayuḥaḏḏirukumu llāhu nafsahu waʾilā llāhi l-maṣīru
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Believers are not to take disbelievers for friends instead of believers. Whoever does that has nothing to do with God, unless it is to protect your own selves against them. God warns you to beware of Him. To God is the destiny.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Let not the believers take disbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. Whoso doeth that hath no connection with Allah unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them, taking (as it were) security. Allah biddeth you beware (only) of Himself. Unto Allah is the journeying
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Those who believe shall not take misbelievers for their patrons, rather than believers, and he who does this has no part with God at all, unless, indeed, ye fear some danger from them. But God bids you beware of Himself, for unto Him your journey is
John Medows Rodwell1861 Let not believers take infidels for their friends rather than believers: whoso shall do this hath nothing to hope from God - unless, indeed, ye fear a fear from them: But God would have you beware of Himself; for to God ye return
George Sale1734 Let not the faithful take the infidels for their protectors, rather than the faithful: He who doth this, shall not be protected of God at all; unless ye fear any danger from them: But God warneth you to beware of himself; for unto God must ye return
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Whether you conceal what is in your hearts, or disclose it, God knows it." He knows everything in the heavens and the earth. God is Powerful over everything.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say, (O Muhammad): Whether ye hide that which is in your breasts or reveal it, Allah knoweth it. He knoweth that which is in the heavens and that which is in the earth, and Allah is Able to do all things
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'If ye hide that which is in your breasts, or if ye show it, God knows it: He knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, for God is mighty over all
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Whether ye hide what is in your breasts, or whether ye publish it abroad, God knoweth it: He knoweth what is in the heavens and what is in the earth; and over all things is God potent
George Sale1734 Say, whether ye conceal that which is in your breasts, or whether ye declare it, God knoweth it; for he knoweth whatever is in heaven, and whatever is on earth: God is 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 —
0.55 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
computed, not judged.
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
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Talal Itani · George Sale0.56
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.54
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.42
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.33
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
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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.