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Talal Itani· published 2012
God is He who sends the winds. They stir up clouds. Then He spreads them in the sky as He wills. And He breaks them apart. Then you see rain drops issuing from their midst. Then, when He makes it fall upon whom He wills of His servants, behold, they rejoice.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Allah is He Who sendeth the winds so that they raise clouds, and spreadeth them along the sky as pleaseth Him, and causeth them to break and thou seest the rain downpouring from within them. And when He maketh it to fall on whom He will of His bondmen, lo! they rejoice
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
God it is who sends forth the winds to stir up clouds; then He spreads them forth over the sky as he pleases; and He breaks them up and ye see the rain comeforth from amongst them; and when He causes it to fall upon whom He pleases of His servants, behold they hail it with joy
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is God who sendeth the winds and uplifteth the clouds, and, as He pleaseth, spreadeth them on high, and breaketh them up; and thou mayest see the rain issuing from their midst; and when He poureth it down on such of his servants as He pleaseth, lo! they are filled with joy
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is God who sendeth the winds, and raiseth the clouds, and spreadeth the same in the heaven, as He pleaseth; and afterwardsdisperseth the same: And thou mayest see the rain issuing from the midst thereof; and when He poureth the same down on such of his servants as He pleaseth, behold, they are filled with joy
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
Allahu është Ai që i dërgon erërat që t'i lëvizin retë, pastaj i shpërndan në qiell si të dojë dhe i ndan pjesë-pjesë, e më pas sheh shiun sesi del prej tyre. Pastaj, sapo të bjerë mbi ata që do nga robërit e Vet, ata gëzohen përnjëherë,
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বাংলা · Bengali
আল্লাহই বাতাস প্রেরণ করেন। ফলে তা মেঘমালাকে ধাওয়া করে; অতঃপর তিনি মেঘমালাকে যেমন ইচ্ছা আকাশে ছড়িয়ে দেন এবং তাকে খণ্ড বিখণ্ড করে দেন, ফলে তুমি দেখতে পাও, তার মধ্য থেকে নির্গত হয় বৃষ্টিধারা। অতঃপর যখন তিনি তাঁর বান্দাদের মধ্যে যাদের ওপর ইচ্ছা বৃষ্টি বর্ষণ করেন, তখন তারা হয় আনন্দিত।(১৩)
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Allah je Taj Koji vjetrove šalje, pa oni oblake tjeraju i On ih po nebu, kako On hoće, rasprostire i na komade dijeli, pa ti vidiš kišu kako iz njih pada, i kad je On na robove Svoje na koje želi prolije, oni se odjednom radošću ispune,
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Allah je Taj Koji vjetrove šalje, pa oni oblake tjeraju i On ih po nebu, kako On hoće, rasprostire i na komade dijeli, pa ti vidiš kišu kako iz njih pada, i kad je On na robove Svoje na koje želi prolije, oni se odjednom radošću ispune,
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko Alla woni nuloowo keneeɗi ɗin, ɗi cogga duule ɗen; O saakitira ɗuum ka weeyo no o yiɗiri; O waɗta ɗuum taƴe-taƴe. A yi'ay toɓo ngon no yalta hakkude mun. Si O heewtinii ngo e on mo o muuyi e jeyaaɓe makko ɓen, e jaka kamɓe heɓe weltoo.
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ქართული · Georgian
ალლაჰია, ვინც გზავნის ქარებს [და არა სხვა ვინმე], (რომლებიც) შემდეგ აღამაღლებენ ღრუბლებს. იგი განფენს მათ [ღრუბლებს] ცაზე, როგორც ის ინებებს, და აქცევს მათ ნაწილებად. და შენ ხედავ, როგორ გამოდის წვიმის წვეთები ღრუბლებიდან. ხოლო როცა იგი უგზავნის მას [წვიმას] თავის მსახურთაგან იმას, ვისაც ისურვებს, – მაშინ, ისინი ხარობენ.
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Deutsch · German
Allah ist es, der die Winde schickt, und da wühlen sie die Wolken auf. Dann breitet Er sie im Himmel aus, wie Er will, und macht sie zu Stücken. Da siehst du den Platzregen dazwischen herauskommen. Wenn Er dann von Seinen Dienern, wen Er will, damit trifft, freuen sie sich sogleich,
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Ο Αλλάχ είναι Αυτός που στέλνει τους ανέμους, οι οποίοι δημιουργούν και κινούν τα σύννεφα, μετά (ο Αλλάχ) τα απλώνει (τα σύννεφα) στον ουρανό όπως θέλει, και τα χωρίζει σε διάφορα κομμάτια, και μετά βλέπεις τη βροχή να πέφτει από μέσα τους. Όταν τη στέλνει (τη βροχή) σε όποιους θέλει από τους δούλους Του, τότε χαίρονται,
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हिन्दी · Hindi
अल्लाह ही है, जो हवाओं को भेजता है। तो वे बादल उठाती हैं। फिर वह उसे जैसे चाहता है, आकाश में फैला देता है, और उसे टुकड़े-टुकड़े कर देता है। तो तुम वर्षा की बूँदों को उसके बीच से निकलते देखते हो। फिर जब वह उसे अपने बंदों में से जिसपर चाहता है, बरसाता है, तो सहसा वे बहुत खुश हो जाते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
Allāh, è Lui che invia i venti che rimuovono le nuvole, che Lui stende nel cielo come vuole, e le separa: da cui vedi poi nascere la pioggia. E se ne irrora chi Lui vuole dei Suoi servi, ed eccoli rallegrarsene,
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
48. Allahas yra Tas, Kuris siunčia vėjus tam, kad jie iškeltų debesis, ir paskleistų juos po dangų taip, kaip Jis nori, o tada išdalintų juos į nuolaužas kol jūs pamatote lietaus lašus trykštančius iš jų vidurio. Tada, kai Jis privertė juos kristi ant tų iš Savo vergų, ant kurių Jis nori, štai, jie džiūgauja.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Rabbiin Isa qilleensa erge, isiin duumessa sochoofte. akka fedhetti samii keessa isa bittinneessa; addaan kukkutamaas isa taasisa. Roobas kan gidduu isaatii bahu argita. Yeroo ittiin (rooba sanaan) gabroota Isaa irraa nama fedhe tuqe, yeroma san isaan ni gammadu.
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Русский · Russian
Аллах — Тот, Кто посылает ветры, и они вздымают облака. Затем Он распростирает их по небу, как пожелает, и разделяет их на части, и ты видишь, как дождь изливается из их расщелин. А когда Он прольёт его на тех из Своих рабов, кого пожелает — вот они и радуются,
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Српски · Serbian
Аллах је Тај Који шаље ветрове, па они облаке гоне и Он их по небу, како Он хоће, распростире и дели на комаде, па ти видиш кишу како из њих пада, и кад је Он на оне Своје слуге, на које жели, пролије, они се одједном радошћу испуне,
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Mwenyezi Mungu ndiye anayezituma pepo zikayatimua mawingu, kisha akayatandaza mbinguni kama apendavyo. Na akayafanya mapande mapande, basi ukaiona mvua inatoka ndani yake. Anapowafikishia awatakao katika waja wake, mara hao huwa na furaha.
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Svenska · Swedish
Gud sänder ut vindarna som sätter molnen i rörelse och han låter dem breda ut sig över himlen så som han vill. Därefter fördelar han dem i skikt och låter regnet strömma fram ur deras mitt. Sedan faller regnet över den han så önskar av sina tjänare, och med ens fylls de av glädje.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Allah, rüzgârları gönderendir. Onlar da bulutları harekete geçirir. Allah, onları dilediği gibi, (bazen) yayar ve (bazen) yoğunlaştırır. Nihayet yağmurun onların arasından çıktığını görürsün. Onu kullarından dilediklerine uğrattığı zaman bir de bakarsın sevinirler.
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اردو · Urdu
اللہ تعالیٰ ہوائیں چلاتا ہے وه ابر کو اٹھاتی ہیں[1] پھر اللہ تعالیٰ اپنی منشا کے مطابق اسے آسمان میں پھیلا دیتا ہے [2]اور اس کے ٹکڑے ٹکڑے کر دیتا ہے[3] پھر آپ دیکھتے ہیں کہ اس کےاندر سے قطرے نکلتے ہیں،[4] اور جنہیں اللہ چاہتا ہے ان بندوں پر پانی برساتا ہے تو وه خوش خوش ہو جاتے ہیں۔
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Easy-read (simplified)wamin aayaatihi an yursila r-riyaaha mubashshiraatin waliyudheeqakum min rahmatihi walitajriya l-fulku bi'amrihi walitabtaghoo min fadlihi wala'allakum tashkuroon
DIN 31635wamin ʾāyātihi ʾan yursila r-riyāḥa mubašširātin waliyuḏīqakum min raḥmatihi walitaǧriya l-fulku biʾamrihi walitabtaġū min faḍlihi walaʿallakum taškurūna
Talal Itani2012 And of His signs is that He sends the winds bearing good news, to give you a taste of His mercy, and so that the ships may sail by His command, and so that you may seek of His bounty, and so that you may give thanks.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And of His signs is this: He sendeth herald winds to make you taste His mercy, and that the ships may sail at His command, and that ye may seek his favour, and that haply ye may be thankful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And of His signs is this, that He sends forth the winds with glad tidings, to make you taste of His mercy, and to make the ships go on at His bidding, and that ye may crave of His grace, and haply ye may give thanks
John Medows Rodwell1861 And one of his signs is that He sendeth the winds with glad tidings of rain, both that He may cause you to taste his mercy, and that ships may sail at his command, that out of his bounties ye may seek wealth, and that haply ye may render thanks
George Sale1734 Of his signs one is, that He sendeth the winds, bearing welcome tidings of rain, that He may cause you to taste of his mercy; and that ships may sail at his command, that ye may seek to enrich your selves of his abundance by commerce; and that ye may give thanks
Easy-read (simplified)walaqad arsalnaa min qablika rusulan ilaa qawmihim fajaa'oohum bil-bayyinaati faantaqamnaa mina lladheena ajramoo wakaana haqqan 'alaynaa nasru l-mu'mineen
DIN 31635walaqad ʾarsalnā min qablika rusulan ʾilā qawmihim faǧāʾūhum bil-bayyināti fāntaqamnā mina llaḏīna ʾaǧramū wakāna ḥaqqan ʿalaynā naṣru l-muʾminīna
Talal Itani2012 Before you, We sent messengers to their people. They came to them with clear proofs. Then We took revenge on those who sinned. It is incumbent on Us to help the believers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Verily We sent before thee (Muhammad) messengers to their own folk. Then we took vengeance upon those who were guilty (in regard to them). To help believers is ever incumbent upon Us
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We have sent before thee apostles unto their people, and they came to them with manifest signs: and we took vengeance upon those who sinned, but due from us it was to help the believers
John Medows Rodwell1861 We have sent apostles before thee to their peoples, and they presented themselves to them with clear proofs of their mission; and while it behoved us to succour the faithful, we took vengeance on the guilty
George Sale1734 We sent apostles, before thee, unto their respective people, and they came unto them with evident proofs: And We took vengeance on those who did wickedly; and it was incumbent on Us to assist the true believers
Talal Itani2012 So observe the effects of God's mercy-how He revives the earth after it was dead. Indeed, He is the Reviver of the dead. He is Capable of everything.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Look, therefore, at the prints of Allah's mercy (in creation): how He quickeneth the earth after her death. Lo! He verily is the Quickener of the Dead, and He is Able to do all things
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Look then to the vestiges of God's mercy, how He quickens the earth after its death; verily, that is the quickener of the dead, and He is mighty over all
John Medows Rodwell1861 Look then at the traces of God's mercy - how after its death he quickeneth the earth! This same God will surely quicken the dead, for to all things His might is equal
George Sale1734 Consider therefore the traces of God's mercy; how He quickeneth the earth, after its state of death: Verily the same will raise the dead; for He is almighty
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
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 · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.68
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Talal Itani · George Sale0.63
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.41
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.31
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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.