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Talal Itani· published 2012
God is He Who created you weak, then after weakness gave you strength, then after strength gave you weakness and gray hair. He creates whatever He wills. He is the Omniscient, the Omnipotent.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Allah is He Who shaped you out of weakness, then appointed after weakness strength, then, after strength, appointed weakness and grey hair. He createth what He will. He is the Knower, the Mighty
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 created you of weakness, then made for you after weakness strength; then made for you after strength, weakness and grey hairs: He creates what He pleases, for He is the knowing, the powerful
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is God who hath created you in weakness, then after weakness hath given you strength: then after strength, weakness and grey hairs: He createth what He will; and He is the Wise, the Powerful
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is God who created you in weakness, and after weakness hath given you strength; and after strength, he will again reduce you to weakness, and grey hairs: He createth that which He pleaseth; and He is the wise, the powerful
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 ju krijoi në gjendje dobësie, pastaj pas dobësisë ju jep forcë e pas fuqisë ju bën të dobët e të thinjur. Ai krijon çfarë të dojë dhe Ai është i Gjithëdijshmi, i Plotfuqishmi.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আল্লাহই তিনি, যিনি তোমাদেরকে দুর্বল বস্তু (তুচ্ছ পানি) থেকে সৃষ্টি করেছেন; অতঃপর তিনি দুর্বলতার পর (যৌবনের) শক্তি দান করেছেন, তারপর শক্তির পর আবার (বার্ধক্যের) দুর্বলতা ও বার্ধক্য সৃষ্টি করেছেন। তিনি যা ইচ্ছা সৃষ্টি করেন; আর তিনি সর্বজ্ঞ, সর্বশক্তিমান।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Allah je Taj Koji vas nejakim stvara i onda vam, poslije nejakosti, snagu daje, a poslije snage iznemoglost i sijede vlasi. On stvara što hoće. On sve zna i sve može.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Allah je Taj Koji vas nejakim stvara i onda vam, poslije nejakosti, snagu daje, a poslije snage iznemoglost i sijede vlasi. On stvara što hoće. On sve zna i sve može.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko Alla woni takɗo on e lo'ere, refti O waɗi ɓaawo lo'ere nde semmbe, refti o waɗi ɓaawo cemmbe ɗen lo'ere e puri(dandanndi). Homo taga ko O muuyi, Ko Kaŋko woni gannduɗo, kattanɗo.
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ქართული · Georgian
ალლაჰია ის, ვინც შეგქმნათ თქვენ სისუსტიდან [სპერმის წვეთისგან], შემდეგ სისუსტის (ბავშვობის) შემდეგ მოგანიჭათ ძალა (სრულწლოვნობისა), მერე კი ძალის შემდეგ გაძლევთ სისუსტეს [მოხუცებულობას] და ჭაღარას. ის ქმნის, რასაც ინებებს. და ის არის ყოვლისმცოდნე, ყოვლისშემძლე!
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Deutsch · German
Allah ist es, der euch (zuerst) in Schwäche erschafft. Hierauf verleiht Er nach der Schwäche Kraft. Dann verleiht Er nach der Kraft Schwäche und graues Haar. Er erschafft, was Er will, und Er ist der Allwissende und der Allmächtige.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ο Αλλάχ είναι Αυτός που σας δημιούργησε από αδυναμία (από αδύναμες εκκρίσεις των δύο φύλων), έπειτα μετά από την αδυναμία, σας έδωσε δύναμη, έπειτα μετά από τη δύναμη, σας έκανε σε κατάσταση αδυναμίας και γηρατειών. Δημιουργεί ό,τι θέλει, και Αυτός είναι ο Αλ-‘Αλείμ (Παντογνώστης), ο Αλ-Καντείρ (Ικανός για τα πάντα).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
अल्लाह वह है, जिसने तुम्हें कमज़ोरी (की स्थिति) से पैदा, फिर (बचपन की) कमज़ोरी के बाद शक्ति प्रदान की, फिर शक्ति के बाद कमज़ोरी और बुढ़ापा[20] बना दिया। वह जो चाहता है, पैदा करता है। और वही सब कुछ जानने वाला, हर चीज़ पर सर्वशक्तिमान है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Allāh, Colui che vi ha creati dalla debolezza, poi ha trasformato la debolezza in forza, poi ha trasformato la forza in debolezza e vecchiaia. Crea ciò che vuole, e Lui è il Sapiente, il Potente.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
54. Allahas yra Tas, Kuris sukūrė tave silpnumo (būsenoje), tada suteikė tau galią po silpnumo, tada po galios suteikė (tau) silpnumą ir žilus plaukus. Jis sukuria, ką Jis nori. Ir tai Jis, Kuris yra Visa Žinantis, Visa Galingas (t. y. Galintis daryti viską).
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Русский · Russian
Аллах — Тот, Кто сотворил вас из слабости, затем после слабости наделил силой, затем сделал после силы слабость и старость. Он творит, что пожелает, и Он — Знающий, Могущественный.
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Српски · Serbian
Аллах је Тај Који вас нејаким ствара, и онда вам, после нејакости, даје снагу, а после снаге изнемоглост и седе власи; Он ствара шта хоће, Он све зна и све може.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Mwenyezi Mungu ndiye aliyewaumba kutokana na udhaifu, kisha akajaalia nguvu baada ya unyonge, kisha akajaalia baada ya nguvu unyonge tena na ukongwe. Anaumba atakavyo. Naye ndiye ajuaye zaidi, Mwenye uweza wote.
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Svenska · Swedish
Gud är den som skapade er; först i ett svagt tillstånd, och efter det i ett starkare, för att till sist låta styrkan följas av bräcklighet och grått hår. Han skapar det han vill; han vet allt och har makt över allt.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Allah; sizi güçsüz olarak yaratan, sonra güçsüzlüğün ardından bir güç veren, sonra gücün ardından bir güçsüzlük ve yaşlılık verendir. O, dilediğini yaratır. O; hakkıyla bilendir, hakkıyla kudret sahibidir.
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اردو · Urdu
اللہ تعالیٰ وه ہے جس نے تمہیں کمزوری کی حالت[1] میں پیدا کیا پھر اس کمزوری کے بعد توانائی[2] دی، پھر اس توانائی کے بعد کمزوری اور بڑھاپا دیا[3] جو چاہتا ہے پیدا کرتا ہے[4]، وه سب سے پورا واقف اور سب پر پورا قادر 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 You cannot make the dead hear, nor can you make the deaf hear the call when they turn away.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 For verily thou (Muhammad) canst not make the dead to hear, nor canst thou make the deaf to hear the call when they have turned to flee
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But, verily, thou canst not make the dead to hear, nor canst thou make the deaf to hear the call, when they turn their backs and flee
John Medows Rodwell1861 Thou canst not make the dead to hear, neither canst thou make the deaf to hear the call, when they withdraw and turn their backs
George Sale1734 Thou canst not make the dead to hear, neither canst thou make the deaf to hear thy call, when they retire and turn their backs
Easy-read (simplified)wamaa anta bihaadi l-'umyi 'an dalaalatihim in tusmi'u illaa man yu'minu bi'aayaatinaa fahum muslimoon
DIN 31635wamā ʾanta bihādi l-ʿumyi ʿan ḍalālatihim ʾin tusmiʿu ʾillā man yuʾminu biʾāyātinā fahum muslimūna
Talal Itani2012 Nor can you guide the blind out of their error. You can make hear only those who believe in Our signs, and so have submitted.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Nor canst thou guide the blind out of their error. Thou canst make none to hear save those who believe in Our revelations so that they surrender (unto Him)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 nor hast thou to guide the blind out of their error; thou canst only make those to hear who believe in our signs and who are resigned
John Medows Rodwell1861 Neither canst thou guide the blind out of their error: in sooth, none shalt thou make to hear, save him who shall believe in our signs: for they are resigned to our will (Muslims)
George Sale1734 neither canst thou direct the blind out of their error: Thou shalt make none to hear, except him who shall believe in our signs; for they are resigned unto Us
Talal Itani2012 On the Day when the Hour takes place, the sinners will swear they had stayed but an hour. Thus they were deluded.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And on the day when the Hour riseth the guilty will vow that they did tarry but an hour - thus were they ever deceived
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And on the day when the Hour shall rise, the sinners shall swear that they have not tarried save an hour; thus were they wont to lie
John Medows Rodwell1861 And on the day whereon the Hour shall arrive, the wicked will swear. That not above an hour have they waited: Even so did they utter lies on earth
George Sale1734 On the day whereon the last hour shall come, the wicked will swear that they have not tarried above an hour: In like manner did they utter lies in their life-time
Talal Itani2012 But those endowed with knowledge and faith will say, "You remained in God's Book until the Day of Resurrection. This is the Day of Resurrection, but you did not know."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But those to whom knowledge and faith are given will say: The truth is, ye have tarried, by Allah's decree, until the Day of Resurrection. This is the Day of Resurrection, but ye used not to know
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But those who are given knowledge and faith will say, 'We have tarried according to the Book of God, until the day of resurrection;' and this is the day of resurrection, but ye - ye do not know
John Medows Rodwell1861 But they to whom knowledge and faith have been given will say, "Ye have waited, in accordance with the book of God, till the day of Resurrection: for this is the day of the Resurrection - but ye knew it not
George Sale1734 But those on whom knowledge hath been bestowed, and faith, will say, ye have tarried, according to the book of God, until the day of resurrection: For this is the day of resurrection; but ye knew it not
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 —
0.56 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 · George Sale0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.68
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.41
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.28
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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.