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.
If thou couldest see, when the wicked shall bow down their heads before their Lord, saying, O Lord, we have seen, and have heard: Suffer us therefore to return into the world, and we will work that which is right; since we are now certain of the truth of what hath been preached to us: Thou wouldst see an amazingsight
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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
If only you could see the guilty, bowing their heads before their Lord: "Our Lord, we have seen and we have heard, so send us back, and we will actrighteously; we are now convinced."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Couldst thou but see when the guilty hang their heads before their Lord, (and say): Our Lord! We have now seen and heard, so send us back; we will do right, now we are sure
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 couldst thou see when the sinners hang down their heads before their Lord, 'O Lord! we have seen and we have heard; send us back then and we will do right. Verily, we are sure
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Couldst thou but see when the guilty shall droop their heads before their Lord, and cry, "O our Lord! we have seen and we have heard: return us then to life: we will do that which is right. Verily we believefirmly
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Sikur t'i shihje keqbërësit kokulur para Zotit të tyre, duke thënë: "Zoti ynë, pamë dhe dëgjuam, andaj kthena (në dynja) që të bëjmë vepra të mira, se tashmë jemi bindur!"
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
আর যদি তুমি দেখতে, যখন অপরাধীরা তাদের রবের সামনে অবনত মস্তকে বলবে: ‘হে আমাদের রব! আমরা (পুনরুত্থান) দেখেছি ও (রাসূলগণ যা নিয়ে এসেছে তা) শুনেছি। কাজেই আমাদেরকে পুনরায় (দুনিয়াতে) পাঠিয়ে দিন, আমরা সৎকর্ম করব। নিশ্চয় এখন আমরা (তাতে) পূর্ণ বিশ্বাসী।’
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
A da ti je vidjeti grešnike kako će, oborenih glava pred Gospodarom svojim, reći: “Gospodaru naš, vidjeli smo i čuli smo, pa nas povrati da dobra djela činimo, mi, doista, čvrsto vjerujemo!”
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
A da ti je vidjeti grešnike kako će, oborenih glava pred Gospodarom svojim, reći: “Gospodaru naš, vidjeli smo i čuli smo, pa nas povrati da dobra djela činimo, mi doista čvrsto vjerujemo!”
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
Fulfulde · Fulani
Sinno a yi'atno, tuma nde bonɓe ɓen ugginta ko'e-maɓɓe ka Joomi maɓɓe! [lƁe mbi'a]: "Joomi amen, min nji'ii min nanii, rutton min, min ngolla ko moƴƴi; minen men njananaama".
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 ნეტავ გენახა, როგორ დახრიან თავიანთ თავებს (სირცხვილისგან) ურჩნი თავიანთი უფლის წინაშე (და იტყვიან): «უფალო ჩვენო! ჩვენ ვიხილეთ (ჩვენი ბოროტი საქმეები) და მოვისმინეთ, დაგვაბრუნე (კვლავ ამქვეყნიურ ცხოვრებაში), რათა (შევძლოთ) კეთილი საქმეების კეთება! (რადგან) ჭეშმარიტად, (ახლა) ჩვენ დარწმუნებულნი ვართ (იმ ყველაფრის ჭეშმარიტებაში, რასაც ამქვეყნიურ ცხოვრებაში უარვყოფდით)».
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 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und könntest du nur sehen, wenn die Übeltäter vor ihrem Herrn die Köpfe hängenlassen (und sagen): „Unser Herr, jetzt haben wir gesehen und gehört. So bringe uns doch zurück, wir wollen rechtschaffen handeln. Wir sind nun fürwahr Überzeugte!“
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
Αν έβλεπες (ω, Προφήτη, την Ημέρα της Κρίσεως) τους κακούς όταν θα χαμηλώσουν (με ατίμωση) τα κεφάλια τους ενώπιον του Κυρίου τους (και θα πουν): «Κύριέ μας! Τώρα βλέπουμε (τη Μέλλουσα Ζωή που τη διαψεύσαμε πριν) και ακούμε. Στείλε μας πίσω (στην εγκόσμια ζωή), για να πράξουμε ενάρετες πράξεις. Πράγματι, τώρα πιστεύουμε με βεβαιότητα (στη Μέλλουσα Ζωή).», (τότε θα έβλεπες πόσο άθλια είναι η κατάστασή τους)!
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
हिन्दी · Hindi
और यदि आप देखें, जब अपराधी लोग अपने पालनहार के सामने अपने सिर झुकाए (खड़े) होंगे। (वे कहेंगे :) ऐ हमारे पालनहार! हमने देख लिया और सुन लिया। अतः हमें (दुनिया में) वापस भेज दे कि हम अच्छे कार्य करें। निःसंदेह हम विश्वास करने वाले हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E se tu vedessi i criminali, davanti al loro Dio, a testa bassa, dire: «O nostro Dio, abbiamo visto e ascoltato; facci tornare in vita per fare buone azioni: in verità ora crediamo fermamente!»
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
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
12. Ir jei tik jūs galėtumėte matyti, kai Al-Mudžrimūn (nusikatėliai, netikintieji, daugiadieviai, nuodėmiautojai) pakabins savo galvas prieš savo Viešpatį (sakydami): „Mūsų Viešpatie, dabar mes pamatėme ir išgirdome, taigi siųsk mus atgal (į pasaulį), kad mes darytume teisingus gerus darbus. Iš tiesų, dabar mes užtikrintai tikime.“
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 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И если бы ты только видел, как преступные, склонив головы перед своим Господом, [взмолятся]: «Господь наш! Мы теперь видим и слышим, так верни же нас, — мы совершим праведное! Воистину, мы [теперь] убеждены!»
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
А да ти је видети како ће (на Судњем дану) одметници, оборених глава, пред својим Господаром да кажу: „Господару наш, видели смо и чули смо, па нас врати да радимо добра дела; ми заиста, чврсто верујемо!“
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
Na ungeliwaona wakosefu wanavyoinamisha vichwa vyao mbele ya Mola wao Mlezi, wakisema: Mola wetu Mlezi! Tumeshaona, na tumeshasikia. Turejeshe tukatende mema, kwani hakika sisi tumekwisha kuwa na yakini sasa.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Om du kunde se de obotfärdiga syndarna stå inför sin Herre med böjda huvuden [och vädja]: ”Herre! Nu har vi förstått och vi har lyssnat väl. Låt oss återvända så att vi kan göra rätt; vi är verkligen övertygade!”
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
Türkçe · Turkish
Günahkârları Rablerinin huzurunda başlarını eğip: “Rabbimiz gördük, işittik. Artık bizi geri döndür. Salih amel işleyelim. Gerçekten biz inandık” diyecekleri vakit bir görsen.
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
اردو · Urdu
کاش کہ آپ دیکھتے جب کہ گناه گار لوگ اپنے رب تعالیٰ کے سامنے سر جھکائے ہوئے ہوں[1] گے، کہیں گے اے ہمارے رب! ہم نے دیکھ لیا اور سن لیا اب[2] تو ہمیں واپس لوٹا دے ہم نیک اعمال کریں گے ہم یقین کرنے والے ہیں.[3]
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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
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DIN 31635waqālū ʾaʾiḏā ḍalalnā fī l-ʾarḍi ʾaʾinnā lafī ḫalqin ǧadīdin bal hum biliqāʾi rabbihim kāfirūna
Talal Itani2012 And they say, "When we are lost into the earth, shall we be in a new creation?" In fact, they deny the meeting with their Lord.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And they say: When we are lost in the earth, how can we then be re-created? Nay but they are disbelievers in the meeting with their Lord
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And they say, 'When we are lost in the earth, shall we then become a new creation?' Nay! in the meeting of their Lord they disbelieve
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they say, "What! when we shall have lain hidden in the earth, shall we become a new creation?" Yea, they deny that they shall meet their Lord
George Sale1734 And they say, when we shall lie hidden in the earth, shall we be raised thence a new creature? Yea, they deny the meeting of their Lord at the resurrection
Talal Itani2012 Say, "The angel of death put in charge of you will reclaim you. Then to your Lord you will be returned."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: The angel of death, who hath charge concerning you, will gather you, and afterward unto your Lord ye will be returned
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'The angel of death shall take you away, he who is given charge of you; then unto your Lord shall ye be returned
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: The angel of death who is charged with you shall cause you to die: then shall ye be returned to your Lord
George Sale1734 Say, the angel of death, who is set over you, shall cause you to die: Then shall ye be brought back unto your Lord
DIN 31635walaw šiʾnā laʾātaynā kulla nafsin hudāhā walākin ḥaqqa l-qawlu minnī laʾamlaʾanna ǧahannama mina l-ǧinnati wan-nāsi ʾaǧmaʿīna
Talal Itani2012 Had We willed, We could have given every soul its guidance, but the declaration from Me will come true: "I will fill Hell with jinn and humans, altogether."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if We had so willed, We could have given every soul its guidance, but the word from Me concerning evildoers took effect: that I will fill hell with the jinn and mankind together
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Had we pleased we would have given to everything its guidance; but the sentence was due from me;-I will surely fill hell with the ginns and with men all together
John Medows Rodwell1861 Had we pleased we had certainly given to every soul its guidance. But true shall be the word which hath gone forth from me - I will surely fill hell with Djinn and men together
George Sale1734 If we had pleased, we had certainly given unto every soul its direction: But the word which hath proceeded from Me must necessarily be fulfilled, when I said, verily I will fill hell with genii and men, altogether
Talal Itani2012 So taste, because you forgot the meeting of this Day of yours; We have forgotten you; so taste the eternal torment for what you used to do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 So taste (the evil of your deeds). Forasmuch as ye forgot the meeting of this your day, lo! We forget you. Taste the doom of immortality because of what ye used to do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 So taste ye, for that ye forgat the meeting of this day of yours,- verily, we have forgotten you! and taste ye the torment of eternity for that which ye have done
John Medows Rodwell1861 Taste then the recompense of your having forgotten the meeting with this your day. We, too, we have forgotten you: taste then an eternal punishment for that which ye have wrought
George Sale1734 Taste therefore the torment prepared for you, because ye have forgotten the coming of this your day: We also have forgotten you; taste therefore a punishment of eternal duration, for that which ye have wrought
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 —
0.59 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 Sale0.73
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.69
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.51
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.46
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.32
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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.