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Talal Itani· published 2012
They made for him whatever he wished: sanctuaries, statues, bowls like pools, and heavy cauldrons. "O House of David, work with appreciation," but a few of My servants are appreciative.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
They made for him what he willed: synagogues and statues, basins like wells and boilersbuilt into the ground. Givethanks, O House of David! Few of My bondmen are thankful
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 they made for him what he pleased of chambers, and images, and dishes like troughs, and firm pots;- work, O ye family of David! thankfully; few is it of my servants who are thankful
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They made for him whatever he pleased, of loftyhalls, and images, and dishes large as tanks for wateringcamels, and cooking pots that stoodfirmly. "Work," said we, "O family of David with thanksgiving:" But few of my servants are the thankful
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They made for him whatever he pleased, of palaces, and statues, and large dishes like fishponds, and cauldrons standing firm on their trevets; and We said, work righteousness, O family of David, with thanksgiving; for few of my servants are thankful
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
Ata punonin për të çfarë dëshironte ai: faltore, shtatore, legenë të mëdhenj dhe kazanë të palëvizshëm. "Bëni falënderim, oj familja e Davudit!" Por, pak nga robërit e Mi janë falënderues.
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বাংলা · Bengali
তারা (এসব জিনেরা) সুলাইমানের ইচ্ছানুযায়ী তার জন্য তৈরি করতো উঁচু প্রাসাদ (৫), ভাস্কর্য, সুবিশাল হাউযের মত বড় পাত্র ও
মজবুতভাবে স্থাপিত বৃহদাকার ডেক। ‘হে দাঊদ পরিবার! তোমরা কৃতজ্ঞতাস্বরূপ আমল করে যাও এবং আমার বান্দাদের মধ্যে অল্প সংখ্যকই কৃতজ্ঞ।’
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Oni su mu izrađivali šta god je htio: hramove i spomenike, i zdjele kao čatrnje, i kotlove nepokretne. “Trudite se i budite zahvalni, o čeljadi Davudova!” A malo je zahvalnih među robovima Mojim.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Oni su mu izrađivali što god je htio: hramove i spomenike, i zdjele kao čatrnje, i kotlove nepokretne. “Trudite se i budite zahvalni, o čeljadi Davidova!” A malo je zahvalnih među robovima Mojim.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Hiɗi ngollana mo ko o faalaa: gila e tataaji, e nanndollaaji, e looɗe wa'iɗe wa beeli, e payanɗe feŋiiɗe. "Gollee, onon ɓeynguure Daawuuda, njetton (Alla)", fanɗii e jiyaaɓe Am ɓen, jettoowo (Kam).
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ქართული · Georgian
ისინი [ჯინები] აკეთებდნენ მისთვის, რაც კი ის მოესურვებოდა: ნაგებობები, ქანდაკებები, თასები თითქოს წყალსაცავები [რომლითაც ამოაქვთ წყალი ჭიდან] და უზარმაზარი, უძრავი ქვაბები. [ჩვენ ვუთხარით]: «აღასრულეთ [ალლაჰისადმი მორჩილების საქმეები] დაუდის მოდგმავ, მადლიერების ნიშნად!» მაგრამ ჩემს მონათაგან ცოტანი არიან მადლიერნი!
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Deutsch · German
Sie verrichteten für ihn (an Taten), was er wollte, an Gebetsräumen, Bildwerken, Schüsseln wie Wasserbecken und feststehenden Kesseln. - „Verrichtet (nun Taten), ihr Sippe Dawuds, aus Dankbarkeit, denn (nur) wenige von Meinen Dienern sind wirklich dankbar.“
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Ελληνικά · Greek
(Τα τζινν) του έφτιαξαν ό,τι ήθελε από κτίρια (και τεμένους), εικόνες [σημ. ή παρομοιώσεις άψυχων πραγμάτων], λεκάνες μεγάλες σαν δεξαμενές και τεράστια σταθερά καζάνια. (Και είπαμε): «Ω, οικογένεια του Δαβίδ! Πράξτε (καλές πράξεις) ως ευγνωμοσύνη!» Πράγματι, λίγοι είναι αυτοί από τους δούλους Μου που είναι ευγνώμονες!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
वे उसके लिए बनाते थे, जो वह चाहता था; भवन (मस्जिदें), प्रतिमाएँ, हौज़ों
के जैसे बड़े-बड़े लगन तथा एक ही जगह जमी हुई देगें। ऐ दाऊद के परिजनो! कृतज्ञता के तौर पर सत्कर्म करो। और मेरे बंदों में थोड़े ही लोग कृतज्ञ हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Gli costruivano tutte le fortezze che voleva: palazzi, statue, piatti come vasche, e calderoni ben fissati: «Fate del bene, familiari di Dāwūd, con gratitudine», ma quanto sono pochi i riconoscenti tra i Miei servi!
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
13. Jie dirbo jam taip, kaip jis troško, (darydami) aukštus kambarius, paveikslus, dubenis plačius kaip rezervuarai, ir (virimo) katilus pritaisytus (jų vietose). „Dirbkite, jūs, Davūdo (Dovydo) šeima, dėkodami!“ Tačiau keli iš Mano vergų yra dėkingi.
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Русский · Russian
Они изготавливали для него то, что он пожелает: дворцы, изваяния, чаши, [огромные] как водоёмы, и прочно стоящие котлы. [И было сказано:] «Трудитесь, о род Дауда, из благодарности!» Но немногие из Моих рабов благодарны.
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Српски · Serbian
Они су му израђивали што год је хтео: богомоље и споменике, и зделе као чатрње, и котлове непокретне. „Трудите се и будите захвални, о Давидова породицо!“ А мало је захвалних међу Мојим слугама.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Walikuwa wakimfanyia alipendalo, kama mihrabu, na vitu vifananavyo vingine, na madeste makubwa kama mahodhi, na masufuria makubwa yaliyo madhubuti. Enyi watu wa Daudi, fanyeni kazi kwa kushukuru. Na ni wachache katika waja wangu wanaoshukuru.
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Svenska · Swedish
De tillverkade åt honom allt han önskade: böneplatser, skulpturer, kar stora som bassänger och stadigt stående kittlar. [Vi sa]: ”Davids familj, visa er tacksamhet genom handling!” Endast få av mina tjänare visar verklig tacksamhet.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Cinler, Süleyman için dilediği biçimde kaleler, heykeller, havuz gibi çanaklar ve sabit kazanlar yapıyorlardı. Ey Dâvud ailesi! Şükür için çalışın. Kullarımdan şükredenler pek azdır.
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اردو · Urdu
جو کچھ سلیمان چاہتے وه جنات تیار کردیتے مثلا قلعے اور مجسمے اور حوضوں کے برابر لگن اور چولہوں پر جمی ہوئی مضبوط دیگیں[1] ، اے آل داؤد اس کے شکریہ میں نیک عمل کرو، میرے بندوں میں سے شکرگزار بندے کم ہی ہوتے ہیں.
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Talal Itani2012 "Make coats of armor, and measure the links well; and work righteousness. I am Observant of everything you do."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Saying: Make thou long coats of mail and measure the links (thereof). And do ye right. Lo! I am Seer of what ye do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Make thou coats of mail and adapt the rings thereof, and do right; verily, I at what ye do do look
John Medows Rodwell1861 Make coats of mail, and arrange its plates; and work ye righteousness; for I behold your actions
George Sale1734 saying, make thereof complete coats of mail, and rightly dispose the small plates which compose the same: And work ye righteousness, O family of David; for I see that which ye do
DIN 31635walisulaymāna r-rīḥa ġuduwwuhā šahrun warawāḥuhā šahrun waʾasalnā lahu ʿayna l-qiṭri wamina l-ǧinni man yaʿmalu bayna yadayhi biʾiḏni rabbihi waman yaziġ minhum ʿan ʾamrinā nuḏiqhu min ʿaḏābi s-saʿīri
Talal Itani2012 And for Solomon the wind-its outward journey was one month, and its return journey was one month. And We made a spring of tar flow for him. And there were sprites that worked under him, by the leave of his Lord. But whoever of them swerved from Our command, We make him taste of the punishment of the Inferno.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And unto Solomon (We gave) the wind, whereof the morning course was a month's journey and the evening course a month's journey, and We caused the fount of copper to gush forth for him, and (We gave him) certain of the jinn who worked before him by permission of his Lord. And such of them as deviated from Our command, them We caused to taste the punishment of flaming Fire
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And to Solomon the wind; its morning journey was a month, and its evening journey was a month; and we made to flow for him a fountain of molten brass; and of the ginns some to work before him by the permission of his Lord; and whoso swerves amongst them from our bidding we will give him to taste the torment and the blaze
John Medows Rodwell1861 And unto Solomon did we subject the wind, which travelled in the morning a month's journey, and a month's journey in the evening. And we made a fountain of molten brass to flow for him. And of the Djinn were some who worked in his presence, by the will of his Lord; and such of them as swerved from our bidding will we cause to taste the torment of the flame
George Sale1734 And We made the wind subject unto Solomon: It blew in the morning for a month, and in the evening for a month. And We made a fountain of molten brass to flow for him. And some of the genii were obliged to work in his presence, by the will of his Lord; and whoever of them turned aside from our command, We will cause him to taste the pain of hell fire
Talal Itani2012 Then, when We decreed death for him, nothing indicated his death to them except an earthworm eating at his staff. Then, when he fell down, it became clear to the sprites that, had they known the unseen, they would not have remained in the demeaning torment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when We decreed death for him, nothing showed his death to them save a creeping creature of the earth which gnawed away his staff. And when he fell the jinn saw clearly how, if they had known the Unseen, they would not have continued in despised toil
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when we decreed for him death, naught guided them to his death save a reptile of the earth that ate his staff; and when he fell down it was made manifest to the ginns that, had they but known the unseen, they need not have tarried in the shameful torment
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when we decreed the death of Solomon, nothing shewed them that he was dead but a reptile of the earth that gnawed the staff which supported his corpse. And when it fell, the Djinn perceived that if they had known the things unseen, they had not continued in this shameful affliction
George Sale1734 And when We had decreed that Solomon should die, nothing discovered his death unto them, except the creeping thing of the earth, which gnawed his staff. And when his body fell down, the genii plainly perceived that if they had known that which is secret, they had not continued in a vile punishment
Talal Itani2012 In Sheba's homeland there used to be a wonder: two gardens, on the right, and on the left. "Eat of your Lord's provision, and give thanks to Him." A good land, and a forgiving Lord.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 There was indeed a sign for Sheba in their dwelling-place: Two gardens on the right hand and the left (as who should say): Eat of the provision of your Lord and render thanks to Him. A fair land and an indulgent Lord
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Seba had in their dwellings a sign; two gardens, on the right hand and on the left, 'Eat from the provision of your Lord; and give thanks to Him! a good country and a forgiving Lord
John Medows Rodwell1861 A sign there was to SABA, in their dwelling places: - two gardens, the one on the right hand and the other on the left: - "Eat ye of your Lord's supplies, and give thanks to him: Goodly is the country, and gracious is the Lord
George Sale1734 The descendants of Saba had heretofore a sign in their dwellings; namely, two gardens, on the right hand and on the left: And it was said unto them, eat ye of the provision of your Lord, and give thanks unto Him; ye have a good country, and a gracious Lord
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.74
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.66
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.58
Talal Itani · George Sale0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.56
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.51
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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.