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.
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.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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 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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
When trouble befalleth a man he crieth to Us; afterwards, when we have vouchsafed favour to him, he saith, "Godknew that I deserved it." Nay, it is a trial. But the greater part of them knew it not
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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
Kur njeriun e godet ndonjë e keqe, ai na lutet Neve, ndërkohë, kur i dhurojmë mirësi nga ana Jonë, thotë: "Kjo më është dhënë vetëm për shkak të diturisë sime." Jo, ajo është një sprovë, por shumica e tyre nuk e dinë.
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
অতঃপর যখন কোন বিপদাপদ (অবিশ্বাসী) মানুষকে স্পর্শ করে, তখন সে আমাকে ডাকে। তারপর যখন আমি আমার পক্ষ থেকে নি‘আমত দিয়ে তাকে অনুগ্রহ করি তখন সে বলে, ‘জ্ঞানের কারণেই কেবল আমাকে তা দেয়া হয়েছে।’ বরং এটা একটি পরীক্ষা। কিন্তু তাদের অধিকাংশই তা জানে না।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Kad čovjeka kakva nevolja snađe, Nama se moli; a kad mu Mi poslije blagodat pružimo, onda govori: “Ovo mi je dato zato što sam to zaslužio.” A nije tako, to je samo kušnja, ali većina njih ne zna.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Kad čovjeka kakva nevolja snađe, Nama se moli; a kad mu Mi poslije blagodat pružimo, onda govori: “Ovo mi je dato zato što sam to zaslužio.” A nije tako, to je samo kušnja, ali većina njih ne zna.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Si lorra heɓii neɗɗo on, o nodda Min. Refti si Min ngokkii mo neema, immorde ka amen, o wi'a: "nganndee ko e ganndal [am] mi okkiira ɗum". Ɗuum ko jarrabuyee kan; kono ko ɓuri ɗuuɗude e maɓɓe, ɓe anndaa.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და როდესაც ადამიანს უბედურება შეემთხვევა, ის ჩვენ მოგვიხმობს (დახმარების სათხოვნელად). შემდეგ, როდესაც ჩვენ მას ჩვენგან წყალობას ვანიჭებთ, ის ამბობს: «ეს მე ალლაჰის ცოდნის გამო მებოძა (რომ მე ამას ვიმსახურებდი)». არა, ეს გამოცდაა (რომელშიც ცხადი ხდება, მისი მსახურებიდან ვინ არის მადლიერი და ვინ — ურჩი), მაგრამ უმეტესობამ მათგანმა არ იცის (ეს) (და ამიტომ ალლაჰის გამოცდას მის საჩუქრად აღიქვამს)!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Wenn dem Menschen nun Unheil widerfährt, ruft er Uns an. Wenn Wir ihm hierauf eine Gunstgabe von Uns gewähren, sagt er: „Es ist mir nur gegeben worden aufgrund von Wissen.“ Vielmehr ist es eine Heimsuchung. Aber die meisten von ihnen wissen nicht.
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
Όταν πλήττει τον άνθρωπο κάποια συμφορά, Μας επικαλείται (με ταπείνωση), έπειτα όταν του δίνουμε μία χάρη από Εμάς, (γίνεται αχάριστος και) λέει: «Έλαβα αυτό λόγω της γνώσης (που έχω, και επειδή ο Αλλάχ ξέρει ότι το αξίζω).» Όχι (δεν ισχύει αυτό), αλλά είναι μία δοκιμασία (αν θα δείχνει ευγνωμοσύνη ή αχαριστία), αλλά οι περισσότεροι απ' αυτούς δε γνωρίζουν.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और जब इनसान को कोई दुःख पहुँचाता है, तो हमें पुकारता है। फिर जब हम उसे अपनी ओर से कोई सुख प्रदान करते हैं, तो कहता हैः "यह तो मुझे ज्ञान के कारण प्राप्त हुआ है।" बल्कि, यह एक परीक्षा है। किन्तु, उनमें से अधिकतर लोग (इसे) नहीं जानते।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Se un male incontra l’uomo, questo ci invoca, poi, se gli concediamo una nostra grazia, dice: «In verità l’ho ottenuta per mia sapienza». Invece si tratta di una prova, ma la maggior parte di loro non sa.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
49. Kai žala paliečia žmogų, jis šaukiasi Mūsų (pagalbos). Tada kai Mes (išgelbėjome jį nuo tos žalos ir) pakeitėme tai į Mūsų malonę, jis sako: „Vien tik dėl žinių (kurias aš turiu) aš tai pasiekiau.“ Ne, tai tik išbandymas, tačiau dauguma iš jų nežino.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Namni yeroo rakkoon isa tuqe nu kadhata. Ergasii yeroo Nuti ni’imaa Nu biraa ta’e isaaf kennine, “beekumsuma kiyyaafiin kenname” jedha. Lakkisaa! isheen sun mokkoraadhaa. Garuu irra hedduun isaanii hin beekann.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И когда человека коснётся бедствие — он взывает к Нам. Затем, когда Мы одариваем его благом от Нас, он говорит: «Воистину, это даровано мне лишь благодаря знанию». Нет, напротив! Это — испытание, но большинство их не знает.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Кад човека снађе каква невоља, Нама се моли; а кад му Ми после благодат пружимо, онда говори: „Ово ми је дато због мог знања!“ А није тако, то је само искушење, али већина њих не зна.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na dhara inapomgusa mtu, hutuomba. Kisha tunapompa neema zitokazo kwetu, husema: Nimepewa haya kwa sababu ya elimu yangu. Sivyo! Huo ni mtihani! Lakini wengi wao hawajui!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
När människan möter svårigheter vädjar hon till oss men när vi sedan skänker henne vår nåd säger hon: ”Detta fick jag tack vare min förmåga!” Nej, det är en prövning men de flesta av dem inser det inte.
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
İnsana bir zarar dokunduğunda bize yalvarır. Sonra ona tarafımızdan bir nimet verdiğimizde; “Bu, bana ancak bilgim sayesinde verilmiştir.” der. Hayır! O bir imtihandır. Fakat onların çoğu bilmezler.
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اردو · Urdu
انسان کو جب کوئی تکلیف پہنچتی ہے تو ہمیں پکارنے لگتا ہے[1] ، پھر جب ہم اسے اپنی طرف سے کوئی نعمت عطا فرمادیں تو کہنے لگتا ہے کہ اسے تو میں محض اپنے علم کی وجہ سے دیا گیا ہوں[2]، بلکہ یہ آزمائش ہے[3] لیکن ان میں سے اکثر لوگ بے علم ہیں.[4]
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.
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Easy-read (simplified)walaw anna lilladheena zalamoo maa fee l-'ardi jamee'an wamithlahu ma'ahu laftadaw bihi min soo'i l-'adhaabi yawma l-qiyaamati wabadaa lahum mina llaahi maa lam yakoonoo yahtasiboon
DIN 31635walaw ʾanna lillaḏīna ẓalamū mā fī l-ʾarḍi ǧamīʿan wamiṯlahu maʿahu laftadaw bihi min sūʾi l-ʿaḏābi yawma l-qiyāmati wabadā lahum mina llāhi mā lam yakūnū yaḥtasibūna
Talal Itani2012 If those who did wrong owned everything on earth, and the like of it with it, they would redeem themselves with it from the terrible suffering on the Day of Resurrection. But there will appear to them from God what they never anticipated.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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 awful doom; and there will appear unto them, from their Lord, that wherewith they never reckoned
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 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
George Sale1734 If those who act unjustly 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
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
Easy-read (simplified)fa'asaabahum sayyi'aatu maa kasaboo walladheena zalamoo min haa'ulaa'i sayuseebuhum sayyi'aatu maa kasaboo wamaa hum bimu'jizeen
DIN 31635faʾaṣābahum sayyiʾātu mā kasabū wallaḏīna ẓalamū min hāʾulāʾi sayuṣībuhum sayyiʾātu mā kasabū wamā hum bimuʿǧizīna
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Talal Itani2012 The evils of their deeds caught up with them. And the wrongdoers among these will also be afflicted by the evils of what they earned, and they cannot prevent it.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But the evils that they earned smote them; and such of these as do wrong, the evils that they earn will smite them; they cannot escape
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and there befell them the evil deeds of what they had earned: and those who do wrong of these (Meccans), there shall befall them too the evil deeds of what they had earned, nor shall they frustrate Him
John Medows Rodwell1861 And their own ill deeds recoiled upon them. And whoso among these (Meccans) shall do wrong, on them likewise their own misdeeds shall light, neither shall they invalidate God
George Sale1734 and the evils which they had deserved, fell upon them. And whoever of these Meccans shall have acted unjustly, on them likewise shall fall the evils which they shall have deserved; neither shall they frustrate the divine vengeance
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.73
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.65
Talal Itani · George Sale0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.54
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.52
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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.