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Talal Itani· published 2012
If those who did wrong ownedeverything on earth, and the like of it with it, they would redeem themselves with it from the terriblesuffering on the Day of Resurrection. But there will appear to them from God what they never anticipated.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And though those who do wrong possess all that is in the earth, and therewith as much again, they verily will seek to ransom themselves therewith on the Day of Resurrection from the awfuldoom; and there will appear unto them, from their Lord, that wherewith they never reckoned
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 had those who do wrong all that is in the earth, and the like thereof with it, they would ransom themselves therewith from the evil of the torment on the resurrection day! but there shall appear to them from God that which they had not reckoned on
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
If the wicked possessed all that is in the earth and as much again therewith, verily they would ransom themselves with it from the pain of the punishment on the day of the resurrection; and there shall appear to them, from God, things they had never reckoned on
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
If those who actunjustly were masters of whatever is in the earth, and as much more therewith, verily they would give it to ransom themselves from the evil of the punishment, on the day of resurrection: And there shall appear unto them, from God, terrors which they never imagined
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
Sikur keqbërësit të kishin gjithë pasurinë që gjendet në Tokë, madje edhe një herë aq, do ta jepnin atë për të shpëtuar nga dënimi i tmerrshëm në Ditën e Kiametit. Atyre do t'u shfaqet prej Allahut ajo që nuk e kishin paramenduar.
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 যারা (২৮) যুলম করেছে, যদি জমিনে যা আছে, তা সব এবং এর সমপরিমাণ সম্পদও তাদের জন্য হয়; তবে কিয়ামতের দিন কঠিন শাস্তি থেকে রক্ষা পেতে মুক্তিপণস্বরূপ তারা তা দিয়ে দিবে।(২৯) সেখানে আল্লাহর কাছে থেকে তাদের জন্য এমন কিছু (নানা ধরনের শাস্তি) প্রকাশিত হবে, যা তারা কখনো কল্পনাও করত না।
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
Kad bi mnogobošci imali sve što je na Zemlji, i još toliko, na Sudnjem danu oni bi sve to dali da bi se od teške patnje iskupili. A Allah će ih kazniti kaznom kakvu nisu mogli ni naslutiti,
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
Kad bi mnogobošci imali sve što je na Zemlji, i još toliko, na Sudnjem danu oni bi sve to dali da bi se od teške patnje iskupili; a Allah će ih kazniti kaznom kakvu nisu mogli ni naslutiti,
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
Si tawno no woodanno tooñɓe ɓeen, ko woni kon ka leydi fow, e yeru mum, wond'ude e mum, ɓe sottorayno ɗum, bone lepte ɗen, Ñande Darngal; feeñirana ɓe ka Allah, kon ko ɓe tijjanooki.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და უსამართლობის ჩამდენთ რომ ჰქონოდათ ყოველივე, რაც დედამიწაზეა [მთელი სიმდიდრე], და კიდევ იმდენივე მასთან ერთად, ისინი ნამდვილად შესთავაზებდნენ მას გამოსასყიდად (თავის გადასარჩენად) საშინელი სასჯელის აღდგომის დღეს. და მათ ალლაჰისგან ეუწყათ ის [სასჯელი], რომელსაც არ მოელოდნენ.
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
Und wenn diejenigen, die Unrecht tun, alles hätten, was auf der Erde ist, und noch einmal dasselbe dazu, würden sie sich gewiss damit von der bösen Strafe am Tag der Auferstehung loskaufen. Ihnen wird dann (nämlich) von Allah her klar, womit sie nicht gerechnet haben.
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
Εάν οι άδικοι κατείχαν ό,τι υπάρχει στη γη και άλλα τόσα, θα τα πρόσφεραν για να σωθούν από το χειρότερο μαρτύριο, την Ημέρα της Ανάστασης! Θα τους εμφανιστεί από τον Αλλάχ, αυτό (το μαρτύριο) που δεν το περίμεναν ποτέ.
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
और जिन लोगों ने अत्याचार किया है, अगर धरती की सारी चीज़ें उनकी हो जाएँ, और उनके साथ उतना ही और भी, तो वे क़ियामत के दिन बुरी यातना से बचने के लिए इन सारी चीज़ों को फ़िदया में दे देंगे।[10] तथा अल्लाह की ओर से उनके लिए वह बात खुल जाएगी, जिसका वे गुमान भी न करते थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E se gli ingiusti avessero tutto ciò che è in terra e altro ancora, lo avrebbero offerto il Giorno del Giudizio per riscattarsi dalla dura punizione, e apparve loro da parte di Allāh ciò che non si aspettavano.
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
47. O tie, kurie darė blogą (daugiadieviai ir netikintieji Allaho Vienumą), jei jie turėtų viską žemėje ir po to dar sykį tiek, jie tikrai, siūlytų tai kaip išpirką sau tuo Prikėlimo Dieną nuo baisios kančios. Ir taps akivaizdu jiems nuo Allaho tai, ko jie nesitikėjo.
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
Odoo wanti dachii keessa jiru hundi isaan miidhaa dalaganiif ta’ee fakkaataan isaas isaa waliin (isaanif ta’e), adabbii Guyyaa Qiyaamaa hamaa san irraa isaan of bitu turan. Waan isaan hin yaadintu (azaabarraa) Rabbi irraa isaaniif mul’ate.
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
Если бы у тех, которые поступали несправедливо, было всё, что на земле, и ещё столько же в придачу к этому, — они непременно откупились бы этим от ужасного наказания в День воскресения. И откроется им от Аллаха то, чего они не ожидали.
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
Када би незнанобошци имали све што је на Земљи, и још толико, на Судњем дану они би све то дали како би се искупили од тешке патње; а Аллах ће их казнити казном какву нису могли ни наслутити,
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 kuwa wale waliodhulumu wangelikuwa na vyote vilivyomo duniani na pamoja navyo vingine kama hivyo, bila ya shaka wangelivitoa kujikomboa kutokana na adhabu mbaya hiyo Siku ya Kiyama. Na yatawadhihirikia kwa Mwenyezi Mungu wasiyokuwa wakiyatarajia.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Om de orättfärdiga ägde allt på jorden och lika mycket därtill skulle de försöka köpa sig fria från det fasansfulla straffet på uppståndelsens dag. Men Gud ska visa dem något de aldrig kunnat föreställa sig.
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 yeryüzünde bulunan her şey tümüyle ve onlarla beraber bir o kadarı da zulmedenlerin olsa, kıyamet günü kötü azaptan kurtulmak için elbette onları verirlerdi. Artık hiç hesap etmedikleri şeyler, Allah tarafından karşılarına çıkmıştır.
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
اردو · Urdu
اگر ﻇلم کرنے والوں کے پاس وه سب کچھ ہو جو روئے زمین پر ہے اور اس کے ساتھ اتنا ہی اور ہو، تو بھی بدترین سزا کے بدلے میں قیامت کے دن یہ سب کچھ دے دیں[1] ، اور ان کے سامنے اللہ کی طرف سے وه ﻇاہر ہوگا جس کا گمان بھی انہیں نہ تھا.[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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DIN 31635waʾiḏā ḏukira llāhu waḥdahu šmaʾazzat qulūbu llaḏīna lā yuʾminūna bil-ʾāḫirati waʾiḏā ḏukira llaḏīna min dūnihi ʾiḏā hum yastabširūna
Talal Itani2012 When God alone is mentioned, the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter shrink with resentment. But when those other than Him are mentioned, they become filled with joy.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when Allah alone is mentioned, the hearts of those who believe not in the Hereafter are repelled, and when those (whom they worship) beside Him are mentioned, behold! they are glad
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when God alone is mentioned the hearts of those who believe not in the hereafter quake, and when those beside Him are mentioned, lo, they are joyful
John Medows Rodwell1861 But when the One God is named, the hearts of those who believe not in the life to come, shrivel up: but when the deities who are adored beside Him are named, lo! they are filled with joy
George Sale1734 When the one sole God is mentioned, the hearts of those who believe not in the life to come, shrink with horror: But when the false gods, which are worshipped besides Him, are mentioned, behold, they are filled with joy
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Our God, Initiator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of all secrets and declarations. You will judge between your servants regarding what they had differed about."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: O Allah! Creator of the heavens and the earth! Knower of the Invisible and the Visible! Thou wilt judge between Thy slaves concerning that wherein they used to differ
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'O God! originator of the heavens and the earth, who knowest the unseen and the visible, thou wilt judge between thy servants concerning that whereon they do dispute
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: O God, creator of the Heaven and of the Earth, who knowest the hidden and the manifest, thou shalt judge between thy servants as to the subject of their disputes
George Sale1734 Say, O God, the creator of heaven and earth, who knowest that which is secret, and that which is manifest; thou shalt judge between thy servants concerning that wherein they disagree
Talal Itani2012 There will appear to them the evils of their deeds, and they will be surrounded by what they used to ridicule.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And the evils that they earned will appear unto them, and that whereat they used to scoff will surround them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and the evils of what they have earned shall appear to them; but that shall close in on them at which they mocked
John Medows Rodwell1861 And their own ill deeds shall be clearly perceived by them, and that fire at which they mocked shall encircle them on every side
George Sale1734 and there shall appear unto them the evils of that which they shall have gained; and that which they mocked at shall encompass them
DIN 31635faʾiḏā massa l-ʾinsāna ḍurrun daʿānā ṯumma ʾiḏā ḫawwalnāhu niʿmatan minnā qāla ʾinnamā ʾūtītuhu ʿalā ʿilmin bal hiya fitnatun walākinna ʾakṯarahum lā yaʿlamūna
Talal Itani2012 When adversity touches the human being, he calls on Us. But then, when We favor him with a blessing from Us, he says, "I have attained this by virtue of my knowledge." However, it is a test, but most of them do not know.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Now when hurt toucheth a man he crieth unto Us, and afterward when We have granted him a boon from Us, he saith: Only by force of knowledge I obtained it. Nay, but it is a test. But most of them know not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when harm touches man he calls on us; then, when we grant him favour from us, he says, 'Verily, I am given it through knowledge!' nay, it is a trial,- but most of them do not know
John Medows Rodwell1861 When trouble befalleth a man he crieth to Us; afterwards, when we have vouchsafed favour to him, he saith, "God knew that I deserved it." Nay, it is a trial. But the greater part of them knew it not
George Sale1734 When harm befalleth man, he calleth upon Us; yet afterwards, when We have bestowed on him favour from Us, he saith, I have received it merely because of God's knowledge of my deserts. On the contrary, it is a trial; but the greater part of them know it not
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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
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.56
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.50
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.46
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.45
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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.