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God takes the souls at the time of their death, and those that have not died during their sleep. He retains those for which He has decreed death, and He releases the others until a predetermined time. In that are signs for people who reflect.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Compare translations (4)Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Allahreceiveth (men's) souls at the time of their death, and that (soul) which dieth not (yet) in its sleep. He keepeth that (soul) for which He hath ordained death and dismisseth the rest till an appointed term. Lo! herein verily are portents for people who take thought
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
God takes to Himself souls at the time of their death; and those which do not die (He takes) in their sleep; and He holds back those on whom He has decreed death, and sends others back till their appointed time;- verily, in that are signs unto a people who reflect
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
God taketh souls unto Himself at death; and during their sleep those who do not die: and he retaineth those on which he hath passed a decree of death, but sendeth the others back till a time that is fixed. Herein are signs for the reflecting
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
God taketh unto himself the souls of men at the time of their death; and those which die not He also taketh in their sleep: And He withholdeth those on which He hath passed the decree of death, but sendeth back the others till a determinedperiod. Verily herein are signs unto people who consider
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
Allahu merr shpirtrat në kohën e vdekjes së tyre dhe ata që nuk kanë vdekur gjatë gjumit të tyre. Pastaj, Ai mban ata për të cilët ka vendosur vdekjen dhe lëshon të tjerët deri në një afat të caktuar. Vërtet, në këtë ka shenja për njerëzit që mendojnë.
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
আল্লাহ জীবসমূহের প্রাণ হরণ করেন তাদের মৃত্যুর সময় এবং যারা মরেনি তাদের নিদ্রার সময়। তারপর যার জন্য তিনি মৃত্যুর ফয়সালা করেন, তার প্রাণ তিনি রেখে দেন এবং অন্যগুলো ফিরিয়ে দেন একটি নির্দিষ্ট সময় পর্যন্ত। নিশ্চয় এতে চিন্তাশীল সম্প্রদায়ের জন্য অনেক নিদর্শন রয়েছে।(২৪)
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
Allah uzima duše u času njihove smrti, a i onih koji spavaju, a koji još umrli nisu, pa zadržava one kojima je odredio da umru, a ostavlja one druge do roka određenog. To su, zaista, dokazi za one koji razmišljaju.
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
Allah uzima duše u času njihove smrti, a i onih koji spavaju, a koji još umrli nisu, pa zadržava one kojima je odredio da umru, a ostavlja one druge do roka određenog. To su, zaista, dokazi za one koji razmišljaju.
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
Allah homo ƴettita pittaali ɗin, saanga maayde majji, e ɗin ɗi maayaani, ka ɗoyngol majji. O jogitoo ɗiin ɗi ñaawani maayde, O accita ɗiya, haa e lajal taƴaangal. Pellet, Ma'andeeji ngoni e ɗuum, wona nde yimɓe miijitotooɓe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ალლაჰი იღებს სულებს მათი სიკვდილის ჟამს და მათ, რომლებიც არ მომკვდარან, ძილში [ძილის დროს სული ასევე ტოვებს სხეულს.]. შემდეგ ის იტოვებს იმას, ვისთვისაც სიკვდილი განუსაზღვრა და აბრუნებს სხვებს დათქმულ დრომდე. ჭეშმარიტად, ამაშია სასწაულები მოაზროვნე ხალხისთვის.
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
Allah beruft die Seelen zur Zeit ihres Todes ab und auch diejenigen, die nicht gestorben sind, während ihres Schlafs. So hält Er die eine, für die Er den Tod beschlossen hat, zurück und gibt die andere auf eine festgesetzte Frist frei. Wahrlich, darin sind ja Zeichen für Leute, die nachdenken.
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
Είναι ο Αλλάχ που αφαιρεί τις ψυχές όταν έρχεται η στιγμή του [μεγάλου] θανάτου τους, και (κρατάει επίσης) εκείνες (τις ψυχές) που δεν πέθαναν (και δεν ήρθε ακόμα η ώρα τους), κατά τον ύπνο τους [δηλ. κατά τον μικρό θάνατό τους]. Στη συνέχεια, κρατάει εκείνες (τις ψυχές) για τις οποίες έχει ορίσει το θάνατο, και στέλνει τις άλλες (ψυχές, ξανά στα σώματά τους) για έναν καθορισμένο χρόνο. Πράγματι, σ' αυτό υπάρχουν Σημάδια γι' αυτούς που συλλογίζονται.
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
अल्लाह ही प्राणों को उनकी मौत के समय क़ब्ज़ करता है, तथा जिसकी मौत का समय नहीं आया, उसकी नींद की अवस्था में। फिर (उसे) रोक लेता है, जिसके बारे में मौत का निर्णय कर दिया हो तथा अन्य को एक निर्धारित समय तक के लिए भेज देता है। निःसंदेह इसमें उन लोगों के लिए निश्चय कई निशानियाँ हैं, जो मनन-चिंतन[8] करते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Allāh prende a Sé le anime degli uomini alla loro morte e quelle di coloro che non muoiono, durante il sonno: così trattiene quelle destinate a morire mentre rinvia le altre a un termine stabilito. In quello ci sono in verità dei Segni per un popolo che riflette.
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
42. Tai Allahas, Kuris paima sielas jų mirties momentu, ir tų, kurie nemiršta miegodami. Jis laiko tas (sielas) tų, kuriems Jis nulėmė mirtį, ir siunčia likusias nustatytam terminui. Iš tiesų, tame yra ženklai žmonėms, kurie giliai mąsto.
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 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Rabbiin lubbuu yeroo du’a isheetti ni ajjeesa; ishee duuti hin ga’inis hirriiba ishee keessatti (ajjeesa). Ergasii ishee du’a itti murteesse ni qaba. Ishee biraa (kan du’a itti hin murteessin) hanga beellama beekamaatti gadi dhiisa. Dhugumatti, kana keessa warra xiinxalaniif mallattooleetu jira.
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
Аллах забирает души в момент их смерти, а [души] тех, кто не умер, — во время их сна. Он удерживает ту, для которой предопределил смерть, а другую отпускает до назначенного срока. Воистину, в этом — знамения для людей, которые размышляют.
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
Аллах узима душе у часу њихове смрти, а и оних који спавају, а који још умрли нису, па задржава оне којима је одредио да умру, а оставља оне друге до рока одређеног. То су, заиста, докази за оне који размишљају.
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
Mwenyezi Mungu huzipokea roho zinapokufa. Na zile zisizokufa wakati wa kulala kwake, huzishika zilizohukumiwa kufa, na huzirudisha nyingine mpaka ufike wakati uliowekwa. Hakika katika hayo bila ya shaka zipo Ishara kwa watu wanaofikiri.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
När döden inträder hämtar Gud människans själ, och själarna hos de som ännu inte dött hämtar han medan de sover. Sedan behåller han de själar som han har bestämt ska dö och låter de övriga återvända, fram till en fastställd tidpunkt. Här finns förvisso tecken för alla som tänker efter.
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
Allah ölümleri vaktinde ruhları alır, ölmeyeninkini de uykusunda (alır). Hakkında ölüm hükmünü verdiğini alıkor, diğerini ise belirli bir süreye kadar salıverir. Muhakkak bunda iyice düşünen bir topluluk için ayetler vardır.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اللہ ہی روحوں کو ان کی موت کے وقت[1] اور جن کی موت نہیں آئی انہیں ان کی نیند کے وقت قبض کر لیتا ہے[2]، پھر جن پر موت کا حکم لگ چکا ہے انہیں تو روک لیتا ہے[3] اور دوسری (روحوں) کو ایک مقرر وقت تک کے لیے چھوڑ دیتا ہے[4]۔ غور کرنے والوں کے لیے اس میں یقیناً بہت سی نشانیاں ہیں.[5]
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 We sent down upon you the Book for mankind in truth. He who follows guidance does so for the good of his soul. And he who strays in error does so to its detriment. You are not their overseer.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! We have revealed unto thee (Muhammad) the Scripture for mankind with truth. Then whosoever goeth right it is for his soul, and whosoever strayeth, strayeth only to its hurt. And thou art not a warder over them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, we have sent down to thee the Book for men in truth; and whosoever is guided it is for his own soul: but whoso goes astray it is against them, and thou art not a guardian for them
John Medows Rodwell1861 Assuredly we have sent down the Book to thee for man and for the ends of truth. Whoso shall be guided by it - it will be for his own advantage, and whoso shall err, shall only err to his own loss. But not to thy keeping are they entrusted
George Sale1734 Verily We have revealed unto thee the book of the Koran, for the instruction of mankind, with truth. Whoso shall be directed thereby, shall be directed to the advantage of his own soul; and whoso shall err, shall only err against the same: And thou art not a guardian over them
DIN 31635ʾami taḫaḏū min dūni llāhi šufaʿāʾa qul ʾawalaw kānū lā yamlikūna šayʾan walā yaʿqilūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Or have they chosen intercessors other than God? Say, "Even though they have no power over anything, and are devoid of reason?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Or choose they intercessors other than Allah? Say: What! Even though they have power over nothing and have no intelligence
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Do they take besides God intercessors? Say, 'What! though they have no control over anything and have no sense
John Medows Rodwell1861 Have they taken aught beside God as intercessors? SAY: What! though they have no power over anything, neither do they understand
George Sale1734 Have the Koreish taken idols for their intercessors with God? Say, what, although they have not dominion over any thing, neither do they understand
Talal Itani2012 Say, "All intercession is up to God. To Him belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. Then to Him you will be returned."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: Unto Allah belongeth all intercession. His is the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth. And afterward unto Him ye will be brought back
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'God's is the intercession, all of it; His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; then unto Him shall ye be sent back
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Intercession is wholly with God: His the kingdom of the Heavens and of the Earth! To him shall ye be brought back hereafter
George Sale1734 Say, intercession is altogether in the disposal of God: His is the kingdom of heaven and earth; and hereafter shall ye return unto Him
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Talal Itani · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.46
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.45
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.35
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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.