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Talal Itani· published 2012
On that Day, the sinners' excuses will not benefit them, nor will they be excused.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
In that day their excuses will not profit those who did injustice, nor will they be allowed to make amends
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
And on that day their excuse shall profit not those who did wrong; nor shall they be asked to please God again
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
On that day their excuse shall not avail those who have actedunjustly; neither shall they be invited any more to make themselves acceptable unto God
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
Atë Ditë, keqbërësve nuk do t'u bëjë dobi arsyetimi e as do të kërkohet prej tyre që të pendohen.
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
অতঃপর যারা যুলম করেছে, সেদিন তাদের কোনো ওযর-আপত্তি উপকারে আসবে না এবং (তাদেরকে তাওবা করে আল্লাহকে) সন্তুষ্ট করতেও তাদেরকে বলা হবে না।
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
Taj dan neće ničemu poslužiti pravdanja onima koji su prema sebi nepravdu učinili i neće im biti udovoljeno da blagonaklonost za povratak traže.
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
Taj dan neće ničemu poslužiti pravdanja onima koji su prema sebi nepravdu učinili i neće im biti udovoljeno da blagonaklonost za povratak traže.
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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და იმ დღეს არ შეეწევათ მათ, ვინც უსამართლობას სჩადიოდა, მათი მტკიცება (გამართლება), და არც მოეთხოვებათ მათ რაიმე მონანიება.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
So wird an jenem Tag denjenigen, die Unrecht taten, ihre (vorgelegte) Entschuldigung nicht nützen, und es wird von ihnen keine Zufriedenstellung (und Rückkehr) mehr erwartet.
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
Εκείνη την Ημέρα, δε θα ωφελήσουν τους άδικους οι δικαιολογίες τους, ούτε θα τους ζητηθεί να αναζητήσουν την ευχαρίστηση του Αλλάχ (μέσω της μεταμέλειας και της υπακοής)!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तो उस दिन, अत्याचारियों को उनका बहाना लाभ न देगा और न उनसे अल्लाह को खुश करने के लिए कहा जाएगा।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Quel giorno, agli ingiusti non gioverà nessuna scusa, né sarà chiesto loro di ricredersi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
57. Taigi tą Dieną joks jų pasiteisinimas neduos naudos tiems, kurie elgėsi blogai (priskirdami Allahui partnerius garbinime ir neigdami Prikėlimo Dieną), nei jiems bus leista (tada) grįžti, kad siektų Allaho Malonės (turint islamiškąjį tikėjimą su teisingais darbais ir paliekant daugiadievystę, nuodėmes ir nusikaltimus su atgaila).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Guyyaa san warra miidhaa hojjatan rakkoo himachuun isaanii (isaan) hin fayyadu. Isaan ceephoos hin buufachiifamanu.
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 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И в тот день не принесут пользы тем, которые поступали несправедливо, их оправдания, и не будет им позволено снискать прощение.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Тог Дана неће користити правдања онима који су се према себи огрешили и неће се од њих тражити да се Аллаху умиле.
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
Basi Siku hiyo hautawafaa wale waliodhulumu udhuru wao, wala haitatakiwa toba yao.
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Svenska · Swedish
Den dagen ska inga undanflykter gagna de orättfärdiga och de ska inte få någon chans till gottgörelse.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
O gün zulmedenlere özürleri bir yarar sağlamaz, onlardan artık (Allah'ı) razı edecek bir şey yapmaları da istenmez.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
پس اس دن ﻇالموں کو ان کا عذر بہانہ کچھ کام نہ آئے گا اور نہ ان سے توبہ اور عمل طلب کیا جائے گا.[1]
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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
Easy-read (simplified)walaqad darabnaa lilnnaasi fee haadhaa l-qur'aani min kulli mathalin wala'in ji'tahum bi'aayatin layaqoolanna lladheena kafaroo in antum illaa mubtiloon
DIN 31635walaqad ḍarabnā lilnnāsi fī hāḏā l-qurʾāni min kulli maṯalin walaʾin ǧiʾtahum biʾāyatin layaqūlanna llaḏīna kafarū ʾin ʾantum ʾillā mubṭilūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 We have cited in this Quran for the people every sort of parable. But even if you bring them a miracle, those who disbelieve will say, "You are nothing but fakers."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Verily We have coined for mankind in this Qur'an all kinds of similitudes; and indeed if thou camest unto them with a miracle, those who disbelieve would verily exclaim: Ye are but tricksters
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We have struck out to men in this Qur'an every kind of parable; but if thou shouldst bring them a sign then those who misbelieve will surely say, 'Ye are but followers of vanity
John Medows Rodwell1861 And now have we set before men, in this Koran, every kind of parable: yet if thou bring them a single verse of it, the infidels will surely say, "Ye are only utterers of vain things
George Sale1734 And now have We propounded unto men, in this Koran, parables of every kind: Yet if thou bring them a verse thereof, the unbelievers will surely say, ye are no other than publishers of vain falsehoods
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.69 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
Talal Itani · George Sale0.82
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.78
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.75
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.74
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.71
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
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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.