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Talal Itani· published 2012
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."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And if We had so willed, We could have given every soul its guidance, but the word from Me concerningevildoerstookeffect: that I will fill hell with the jinn and mankind together
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
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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Had we pleased we had certainly given to every soul its guidance. But true shall be the word which hath goneforth from me - I will surely fill hell with Djinn and men together
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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
Po të donim Ne, do t'i jepnim çdo shpirti udhëzimin, por fjala Ime do të përmbushet: "Me të vërtetë, Unë do ta mbush Xhehenemin me xhinë e njerëz së bashku!"
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 আমি ইচ্ছা করতাম, তাহলে প্রত্যেক ব্যক্তিকে হিদায়াত দান করতাম। কিন্তু আমার (হিকমত ও ইনসাফ অনুযায়ী) এ কথাই সত্যে পরিণত হবে যে, ‘নিশ্চয় আমি জিন ও মানুষ উভয় দ্বারা জাহান্নাম পূর্ণ করবো।’
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 kad bismo htjeli, svakog čovjeka bismo na Pravi put uputili, ali Ja sam već istinu rekao: “Napunit ću, zaista, Džehennem džinima i ljudima zajedno!”
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 kad bismo htjeli, svakog čovjeka bismo na Pravi put uputili, ali Ja sam već istinu rekao: “Napunit ću, zaista, Pakao džinima i ljudima zajedno!”
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 Min muuyuno, Min ngokkayno kala woŋkii peewal makki. Ko woni tun, konngol jojjii immorde e An : "Ma Mi hebbiniray Jahannama on jinna e yimɓe, ɓe denndaangal".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
თუ მოვისურვებდი, აუცილებლად მივცემდი თითოეულ სულს მის სწორ გზას, მაგრამ ჩემი სიტყვა უკვე დადასტურდა: და უეჭველად, ავავსებ ჯოჯოხეთს [ურწმუნოებით] [როგორც] ჯინებით, ისე ადამიანებით, ყველას ერთად.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und wenn Wir gewollt hätten, hätten Wir jeder Seele ihre Rechtleitung gegeben. Aber das Wort von Mir ist ja unvermeidlich fällig geworden: „Ich werde ganz gewiss die Hölle mit den Jinn und den Menschen allesamt füllen.“
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 θέλαμε, θα είχαμε δώσει σε κάθε άνθρωπο (απ' αυτούς τους άπιστους) την καθοδήγησή του, αλλά ο Λόγος Μου (με τον οποίο προειδοποίησα τον Σατανά και όσους θα τον ακολουθήσουν), θα εκπληρωθεί: «Πράγματι, θα γεμίσω την Κόλαση με όσους από τα τζινν και τους ανθρώπους μαζί (θα ακολουθήσουν τον Σατανά).» [Βλ. Σούρατ Αλ-Α‘ράφ 7:18]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और यदि हम चाहते, तो प्रत्येक प्राणी को उसका मार्गदर्शन प्रदान कर देते। लेकिन मेरी ओर से बात प्रमाणित (निश्चित) हो चुकी कि मैं जहन्नम को जिन्नों तथा इनसानों, सबसे से ज़रूर भरूँगा।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E se avessimo voluto, avremmo concesso a ogni anima la sua Retta Via; ma deve compiersi la Mia volontà: riempirò l’Inferno di tutti i demoni e gli umani.
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
13. Ir jei Mes būtume norėje, tikrai Mes būtume suteikę kiekvienam asmeniui jo vedimą, tačiau Mano Žodis įvyko (dėl bloga darančiųjų), kad Aš užpildysiu Pragarą kartu, džinais ir žmonėmis.
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
А если бы Мы пожелали, то даровали бы каждой душе её руководство, но свершилось Моё слово: «Я непременно наполню Геенну джиннами и людьми, всеми до одного».
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 кад бисмо хтели, сваког човека бисмо на Прави пут упутили, али Ја сам већ истину рекао: „Напунићу, заиста, Пакао духовима и људима заједно!“
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 lau tungelitaka, tungempa kila mtu uongofu wake. Lakini imekwisha kuwa kauli iliyotoka kwangu: Kwa yakini nitaijaza Jahannamu kwa wote hawa, majini na watu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Om vi så önskat kunde vi ha lett varenda själ till den rätta vägen, men mitt ord står fast: ”Jag ska fylla helvetet med jinner och människor, alla tillsammans.”
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
Eğer biz dileseydik her nefse elbette hidayetini verirdik, fakat benden sadır olan: “Cehennemi bütünü ile cinlerden ve insanlardan elbette dolduracağım” sözü hak olmuştur.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اگر ہم چاہتے تو ہر شخص کو ہدایت نصیب[1] فرما دیتے، لیکن میری یہ بات بالکل حق ہو چکی ہے کہ میں ضرور ضرور جہنم کو انسانوں اور جنوں سے پر کردوں گا.[2]
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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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
Talal Itani2012 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 act righteously; we are now convinced."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 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 believe firmly
George Sale1734 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 amazing sight
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
Talal Itani2012 They believe in Our communications, those who, when reminded of them, fall down prostrate, and glorify their Lord with praise, and are not proud.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Only those believe in Our revelations who, when they are reminded of them, fall down prostrate and hymn the praise of their Lord, and they are not scornful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They only believe in our signs who when they are reminded of them fall down adoring and celebrate the praises of their Lord, and are not too big with pride
John Medows Rodwell1861 They only believe in our signs, who, when mention is made of them, fall down in ADORATION, and celebrate the praise of their Lord, and are not puffed up with disdain
George Sale1734 Verily they only believe in our signs, who, when they are warned thereby, fall down adoring, and celebrate the praise of their Lord, and are not elated with pride
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
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.66
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · George Sale0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.58
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.50
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.48
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.42
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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.