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Talal Itani· published 2012
But they said, "Our Lord, lengthen the distances of our journeys." They wronged themselves; so We made them history, and We scattered them in every direction. In this are lessons for every steadfast and appreciative person.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
But they said: Our Lord! Make the stage between our journeys longer. And they wronged themselves, therefore We made them bywords (in the land) and scattered them abroad, a total scattering. Lo! herein verily are portents for each steadfast, grateful (heart)
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 said, 'Our Lord! make a greater distance between our journeys;' and they wronged themselves, and we made them legends; and we tore them all to pieces; verily, in that are signs to every patient, grateful person
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But they said, "O Lord! make the distance between our journeys longer," - and against themselves did they actunjustly: so we made them a tale, and scattered them with an utter scattering. Truly herein are signs to everyone that is patient, grateful
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But they said, O Lord, put a greater distance between our journeys: And they were unjust unto themselves; and We made them the subject of discourse, and dispersed them with a total dispersion. Verily herein are signs, unto every patient, grateful person
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
Por, ata thanë: "Zoti ynë, zgjate largësinë e udhëtimeve tona!" Pra, ata i bënë padrejtësi vetvetes, kështu që Ne i bëmë rrëfime (të së kaluarës) dhe i shpërndamë në të gjitha anët. Vërtet, në këtë ka shenja për çdokënd që është njëmend i durueshëm dhe falënderues.
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বাংলা · Bengali
কিন্তু তারা বললো: ‘হে আমাদের রব! আমাদের সফরের মাঝে দূরত্ব বাড়িয়ে দিন।’ আর তারা (নিজেদের প্রতি যুলম করলো। ফলে আমি তাদেরকে (ইতিহাসের) কাহিনীর বিষয়ে পরিণত করলাম এবং তাদেরকে একেবারে ছিন্নভিন্ন করে দিলাম। নিশ্চয় এতে প্রত্যেক ধৈর্যশীল কৃতজ্ঞ ব্যক্তির জন্য রয়েছে নিদর্শন।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Ali oni rekoše: “Gospodaru naš, učini veće rastojanje prilikom putovanja naših!” – i zulum sebi učiniše, i Mi učinismo da se o njima samo priča, a njih posvuda raselismo. Doista su u tome znaci za svakog strpljivog i zahvalnog.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Ali oni rekoše: “Gospodaru naš, učini veće rastojanje prilikom putovanja naših!" i nepravdu sebi učiniše, i Mi učinismo da se o njima samo priča, a njih posvuda raselismo. Doista su u tome znaci za svakog strpljivog i zahvalnog.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɓe mbi'i'i: "Joomi amen, woɗɗindir hakkunde yaaduuji amen", ɓe tooñi ko'e maɓɓe, Min mbaɗti fillitee ɓe fii mum, Min cenndindiri ɓe hattirde e senndirgol. Pellet, wonii e ɗuum, Ma'andeeji wonan'de kala keewuɗo muñal, jettoowo (neema).
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ქართული · Georgian
და თქვეს მათ [საბაიელები] [როდესაც მობეზრდათ კეთილდღეობით ცხოვრების ერთფეროვნება]: «უფალო ჩვენო! გაზარდე მანძილი ჩვენს მოგზაურობებს შორის [დასახლებებს შორის]!» და უსამართლობა მიაყენეს საკუთარ თავს. და გავხადეთ ჩვენ ისინი იგავებად და დავგლიჯეთ ნაწილებად [გავფანტეთ მიწაზე ისე, რომ აღარ დაბრუნდნენ]. ჭეშმარიტად, ამაში უეჭველად, სასწაულებია ყოველი მოთმინების მქონესთვის, მადლიერისთვის.
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Deutsch · German
Sie aber sagten: „Unser Herr, vergrößere die Entfernungen zwischen unseren Reise(abschnitte)n.“ Und sie taten sich selbst Unrecht. So machten Wir sie zu(m Gegenstand von) Geschichten und rissen sie vollständig in Stücke. Wahrlich, darin sind ja Zeichen für jeden sehr Geduldigen und sehr Dankbaren.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Αλλά εκείνοι (ήταν αχάριστοι και) είπαν: «Κύριέ μας! Κάνε τις αποστάσεις κατά τα ταξίδια μας να είναι πιο μακρινές [για να καβαλάμε τις καμήλες μας και να πάρουμε εφόδια μαζί μας]», και αδίκησαν τον εαυτό τους (με την αχαριστία τους). Έτσι, τους κάναμε ειδήσεις (στα λόγια των μεταγενέστερων ανθρώπων) και τους διασκορπίσαμε (στη γη). Πράγματι, υπάρχουν σ' αυτό Σημάδια για κάθε υπομονετικό και ευγνώμων.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तो उन्होंने कहा : ऐ हमारे पालनहार! हमारी यात्राओं के बीच दूरी[18] बना दे! तथा उन्होंने अपने ऊपर ज़ुल्म किया। अंततः हमने उन्हें कहानियाँ[19] बना दिया और उन्हें पूरी तरह तित्तर-बित्तर कर दिया। निःसंदेह इसमें हर बड़े धैर्यवान् और बहुत शुक्र करने वाले के लिए कई निशानियाँ (शिक्षाएँ) हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
Ma dissero: «Nostro Dio, allungaci le soste», e fecero un torto a loro stessi: abbiamo fatto di loro un oggetto di racconti e li abbiamo dispersi ovunque. In verità in ciò ci sono dei segni per chi è paziente e grato.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
19. Tačiau jie sakė: „Mūsų Viešpatie, padaryk etapus tarp mūsų kelionės ilgesnius.“ Ir jie nuskriaudė patys save. Taigi Mes padarėme juos kaip uodegas (žemėje), ir Mes išsklaidėme jus visiškai. Iš tiesų, tame yra aiškūs ženklai kiekvienam tvirtam, dėkingam (asmeniui).
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Русский · Russian
Но они сказали: «Господь наш! Увеличь расстояния наших путешествий». Тем самым они поступили несправедливо с самими собой, и Мы сделали их предметом сказаний и разорвали их в клочья. Воистину, в том — знамения для каждого терпеливого, благодарного.
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Српски · Serbian
Али они рекоше: „Господару наш, учини веће растојање приликом наших путовања!“ - И огрешише се према себи, и Ми учинисмо да се о њима само прича, а њих посвуда раселисмо. Заиста, су у томе знаци за сваког стрпљивог и захвалног.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Lakini wakasema, "Mola wetu Mlezi! Weka mwendo mrefu baina ya safari zetu." Na wakazidhulumu nafsi zao. Basi tukawafanya ni masimulizi tu, na tukawatawanya tawanya. Hakika katika hayo bila ya shaka zimo Ishara kwa kila mwenye kusubiri sana na akashukuru mno.
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Svenska · Swedish
Men de bad: ”Herre! Gör avstånden längre på våra resor.” Med det gjorde de orätt mot sig själva, så vi [förstörde deras samhälle och] lät endast deras sägner bli kvar, och vi skingrade dem i alla riktningar. Detta är en lärdom för de som ständigt visar tålamod och innerlig tacksamhet.
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Türkçe · Turkish
“Rabbimiz yolculuklarımız arasını uzaklaştır” diye dua ettiler ve kendi nefislerine zulmettiler. Biz de onları, ibret kıssaları haline getirdik ve onları büsbütün parçaladık. Şüphesiz bunda, çok sabreden ve çok şükreden herkes için ibretler vardır.
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اردو · Urdu
لیکن انہوں نے پھر کہا کہ اے ہمارے پروردگار! ہمارے سفر دور دراز کردے[1] چونکہ خود انہوں نے اپنے ہاتھوں اپنا برا کیا اس لئے ہم نے انہیں (گزشتہ) فسانوں کی صورت میں کردیا[2] اور ان کے ٹکڑے ٹکڑے اڑا دیئے[3]۔ بلاشبہ ہر ایک صبروشکر کرنے والے کے لئے اس (ماجرے) میں بہت سی عبرتیں ہیں.
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DIN 31635waǧaʿalnā baynahum wabayna l-qurā llatī bāraknā fīhā quran ẓāhiratan waqaddarnā fīhā s-sayra sīrū fīhā layāliya waʾayyāman ʾāminīna
Talal Itani2012 Between them and the towns We had blessed, We placed prominent towns, and We made the travel between them easy. "Travel between them by night and day, in safety."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And We set, between them and the towns which We had blessed, towns easy to be seen, and We made the stage between them easy, (saying): Travel in them safely both by night and day
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And we made between them and the cities which we had blessed (other) cities which were evident; and we measured out the journey: 'Journey ye thereto nights and days in safety
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we placed between them and the cities which we have blessed, conspicuous cities, and we fixed easy stages: "Travel ye through them by night and day, secure
George Sale1734 And We placed between them and the cities which We have blessed, cities situate near each other; and We made the journey easy between them, saying, travel through the same by night and by day, in security
DIN 31635walaqad ṣaddaqa ʿalayhim ʾiblīsu ẓannahu fāttabaʿūhu ʾillā farīqan mina l-muʾminīna
Talal Itani2012 Satan was correct in his assessment of them. They followed him, except for a group of believers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Satan indeed found his calculation true concerning them, for they follow him, all save a group of true believers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Iblis verified his suspicion concerning them, and they followed him, save a party of the believers
John Medows Rodwell1861 And Eblis found that he had judged truly of them: and they all except a remnant of the faithful, followed him
George Sale1734 And Eblis found his opinion of them to be true: And they followed him, except a party of the true believers
Easy-read (simplified)wamaa kaana lahu 'alayhim min sultaanin illaa lina'lama man yu'minu bil-'aakhirati mimman huwa minhaa fee shakkin warabbuka 'alaa kulli shay'in hafeez
DIN 31635wamā kāna lahu ʿalayhim min sulṭānin ʾillā linaʿlama man yuʾminu bil-ʾāḫirati mimman huwa minhā fī šakkin warabbuka ʿalā kulli šayʾin ḥafīẓun
Talal Itani2012 He had no authority over them; except that We willed to distinguish him who believes in the Hereafter, from him who is doubtful about it. Your Lord is Guardian over all things.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And he had no warrant whatsoever against them, save that We would know him who believeth in the Hereafter from him who is in doubt thereof; and thy Lord (O Muhammad) taketh note of all things
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Yet had he no authority over them, save that we might know who it was that believed in the hereafter from him who amongst them was in doubt; for thy Lord guards everything
John Medows Rodwell1861 Yet no power had he over them. Only we would discern him who believed in the life to come, from him who doubted of it; for thy Lord watcheth all things
George Sale1734 And he had no power over them, unless to tempt them, that We might know him who believed in the life to come, from him who doubted thereof. Thy Lord observeth all things
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.63 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 · John Medows Rodwell0.72
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.67
Talal Itani · George Sale0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.61
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.55
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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.