إِنَّا زَيَّنَّا ٱلسَّمَآءَ ٱلدُّنْيَا بِزِينَةٍ ٱلْكَوَاكِبِ
Easy-read (simplified)innaa zayyannaa s-samaa'a d-dunyaa bizeenatin l-kawaakib
DIN 31635ʾinnā zayyannā s-samāʾa d-dunyā bizīnatin l-kawākibi
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
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.
We have adorned the lower heaven with the beauty of the planets.
Talal Itani, ClearQuran ·ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB·Talal Itani / ClearQuran.com ·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International·retrieved 7 Sep 2026
Translation by Talal Itani, ClearQuran.com https://clearquran.com
Lo! We have adorned the lowest heaven with an ornament, the planets
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
Verily, we have adorned the lower heaven with the adornment of the stars
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an ·1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
We have adorned the lower heaven with the adornment of the stars
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an ·1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
We have adorned the lower heaven with the ornament of the stars
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
Ne e kemi stolisur qiellin më të ulët me bukurinë e yjeve,
নিশ্চয় আমি (জমিনের) নিকটবর্তী আসমানকে নক্ষত্ররাজির সৌন্দর্যের দ্বারা সুশোভিত করেছি।
Mi smo nebo najbliže vama sjajnim zvijezdama okitili,
Mi smo nebo najbliže vama sjajnim zvijezdama okitili,
Min cuɗirii kammu (hikkii ngu) aduna ngun: cuɗaari koode ɗeen,
ჭეშმარიტად, ჩვენ შევამკეთ უახლოესი ზეცა [სამყარო] ვარსკვლავების სილამაზით.
Wir haben ja den untersten Himmel mit einem Schmuck geziert: mit den Himmelskörpern;
Πράγματι, έχουμε στολίσει τον κοντινότερο ουρανό με τα αστέρια,
निःसंदेह हमने संसार के आकाश को एक सुंदर शृंगार के साथ सुशोभित किया है, जो सितारे हैं।
In verità abbiamo abbellito il cielo inferiore con un ornamento: le stelle,
6. Iš tiesų, Mes papuošėme artimiausią dangų žvaigždėmis (dėl grožio).
Nuti samii addunyaa faaya urjiileetiin miidhagsineerra.
Воистину, Мы украсили ближайшее небо украшением — звёздами,
Ми смо најближе небо звездама украсили,
Hakika Sisi tumeipamba mbingu ya karibu kwa pambo la nyota.
Vi har prytt den lägsta himlen med stjärnornas skimrande ljus,
Biz, en yakın göğü yıldızlarla süsledik.
ہم نے آسمان دنیا کو ستاروں کی زینت سے آراستہ کیا.
5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
Which translations appear here is set by copyright: they are the ones whose rights could be documented and cleared. The selection is not a judgement that these are the best.
Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation, not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading. Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the same edition and their orthography differs.
shown so it's never read alone
إِنَّ إِلَٰهَكُمْ لَوَٰحِدٌ
Easy-read (simplified)inna ilaahakum lawaahid
DIN 31635ʾinna ʾilāhakum lawāḥidun
Your God is indeed One.
Lo! thy Lord is surely One
Verily, your God is one
Truly your God is but one
verily your God is one
رَّبُّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا وَرَبُّ ٱلْمَشَٰرِقِ
Easy-read (simplified)rabbu s-samaawaati wal-'ardi wamaa baynahumaa warabbu l-mashaariq
DIN 31635rabbu s-samāwāti wal-ʾarḍi wamā baynahumā warabbu l-mašāriqi
Lord of the heavens and the earth, and everything between them; and Lord of the Easts.
Lord of the heavens and of the earth and all that is between them, and Lord of the sun's risings
the Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between the two, and the Lord of the sunrises
Lord of the Heavens and of the Earth, and of all that is between them, and Lord of the East
The Lord of heaven and earth, and of whatever is between them, and the Lord of the east
37:6 — the verse above
وَحِفْظًا مِّن كُلِّ شَيْطَٰنٍ مَّارِدٍ
Easy-read (simplified)wahifzan min kulli shaytaanin maarid
DIN 31635waḥifẓan min kulli šayṭānin māridin
The translators word this verse differently
And guarded it against every defiant devil.
With security from every froward devil
and to preserve it from every rebellious devil
They serve also as a guard against every rebellious Satan
And We have placed therein a guard, against every rebellious devil
لَّا يَسَّمَّعُونَ إِلَى ٱلْمَلَإِ ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ وَيُقْذَفُونَ مِن كُلِّ جَانِبٍ
Easy-read (simplified)laa yassamma'oona ilaa l-mala'i l-'a'laa wayuqdhafoona min kulli jaanib
DIN 31635lā yassammaʿūna ʾilā l-malaʾi l-ʾaʿlā wayuqḏafūna min kulli ǧānibin
They cannot eavesdrop on the Supernal Elite, for they get bombarded from every side.
They cannot listen to the Highest Chiefs for they are pelted from every side
that they may not listen to the exalted chiefs; for they are hurled at from every side
That they overhear not what passeth in the assembly on high, for they are darted at from every side
that they may not listen to the discourse of the exalted princes, -- for they are darted at from every side
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Uthmani, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
إِنَّا زَيَّنَّا السَّمَاءَ الدُّنْيَا بِزِينَةٍ الْكَوَاكِبِ
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
In plain words — none yet for this verse
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 — 0.38 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.
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
The platform does not say which is right, and does not characterise what the difference means. The renderings are placed together so the difference is visible; reading it is the reader's work.
SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
7 sources stand behind this page. Each is listed once, in the order the page first cites it, with the licence it was cleared under and what was actually read. Nothing on this page rests on a source that is not here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CLEARED. Parallel edition, held in ayah_text_variants. It sits alongside the Uthmani spine for search normalisation and is never used to correct it.
Qur'anic text from the Tanzil Project. Copyright (C) 2007-2026 Tanzil Project License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Source: tanzil.net · Updates: tanzil.net/updates/ https://tanzil.net/updates/