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Talal Itani· published 2012
Have they not travelled through the earth, and seen the consequences for those before them? They were stronger than them, and they left more impact on earth. But God seized them for their sins, and they had no defender against God.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Have they not travelled in the land to see the nature of the consequence for those who disbelieved before them? They were mightier than these in power and (in the) traces (which they left behind them) in the earth. Yet Allah seized them for their sins, and they had no protector from Allah
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
Have, they not journeyed on in the earth and seen how was the end of those who journeyed on before them? They were stronger than them in might, and their vestiges are in the land, but God caught them up in their sins, and they had none to guard them against God
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Have they never journeyed in this land, and seen what hath been the end of those who flourished before them? Mightier were they in strength than these Meccans, and their traces remain in the land: Yet God took them in their sins, and there was none to defend them against God
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Have they not gone through the earth, and seen what hath been the end of those who were before them? They were more mighty than these in strength, and left more considerablefootsteps of their power in the earth: Yet God chastised them for their sins, and there was none to protect them from God
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
A nuk udhëtuan ata nëpër tokë, që të shihnin se si ka qenë fundi i atyre që ishin para tyre?! Ata ishin më të fortë dhe lanë më shumë gjurmë se këta, por Allahu i shkatërroi për shkak të gjynaheve të tyre dhe nuk pati kush t'i mbronte nga Allahu.
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.
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বাংলা · Bengali
তারা তথা মুশরিকরা কি পৃথিবীতে ভ্রমণ করে না? তাহলে দেখত, তাদের পূর্বে যারা ছিল, তাদের পরিণাম কেমন হয়েছিল? অথচ সে সব জাতি এদের তুলনায় পৃথিবীতে শক্তিমত্তা ও (স্থাপনা নির্মাণ) কীর্তিতে অধিকতর প্রবল ছিল। অতঃপর আল্লাহ তাদের পাপাচারের কারণে তাদেরকে পাকড়াও (ধ্বংস) করলেন। আর তাদের জন্য ছিল না, আল্লাহর পক্ষ থেকে কোন রক্ষাকারী।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Zašto oni ne putuju po svijetu pa da vide kako su završili oni prije njih? Bili su od njih moćniji i više su tragova na Zemlji ostavili, ali ih je Allah, zbog grijeha njihovih, kaznio i niko ih od Allahove kazne nije odbranio.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Zašto oni ne putuju po svijetu pa da vide kako su završili oni prije njih? Bili su od njih moćniji i više su tragova na Zemlji ostavili, ali ih je Allah, zbog grijeha njihovih, kaznio i nitko ih od Allahove kazne nije odbranio.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Hara ɓee njiilaaki ka leydi, ɓe ndaara no battane ado mabbe ɓen wa'unoo? Ɓeen le no ɓurunoo tiiɗude doole e batteeji, ka leydi. Allah nanngitiri ɓe bakkaauuji maɓɓe ɗiin, ɓe heɓaano daɗndoowo ɓe e (lepte) Allah ɗeen.
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ქართული · Georgian
განა არ იმოგზაურეს მათ [მექქის ურწმუნოებმა და სხვებმა] მიწაზე [განა არ იყვნენ ისინი იემენში და შამში] და განა არ დაინახეს, რა ეწიათ მათ, ვინც მათ უწინ იყვნენ ['ადს, სამუდს და სხვებს]? ნუთუ ისინი [ადები და სამუდელები] უფრო ძლიერები არ იყვნენ მათზე [მექქელებზე] (ფიზიკური) ძალითა და მიწაზე დატოვებული კვალებით [თავიანთი შენობებით]? და ალლაჰმა მოიცვა (დასაჯა) ისინი მათი ცოდვების გამო. და მათ არ ჰყავდათ მფარველი (რომელიც იხსნიდა მათ) ალლაჰისგან.
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Deutsch · German
Sind sie denn nicht auf der Erde umhergereist, sodass sie schauen (konnten), wie das Ende derjenigen war, die vor ihnen waren? Sie hatten ja mehr Kraft und Wirkung auf der Erde als sie. Da ergriff sie Allah für ihre Sünden, und sie hatten vor Allah keinen Behüter.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Δεν ταξίδεψαν (οι άπιστοι από τον λαό σου, ω, Προφήτη) στη γη για να δουν πώς ήταν το τέλος εκείνων (των άπιστων) που ήταν πριν απ' αυτούς; Οι οποίοι ήταν πιο ισχυροί απ' αυτούς και έχτισαν περισσότερα και πιο δυνατά κτήρια στη γη, αλλά ο Αλλάχ τους άρπαξε με την τιμωρία για τις αμαρτίες τους, και δεν είχαν κανέναν να τους προστατεύσει από τον Αλλάχ.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
क्या वे धरती में चले-फिरे नहीं, ताकि देखते कि उन लोगों का परिणाम कैसा रहा, जो इनसे पहले थे? वे इनसे अधिक शक्तिशाली थे तथा धरती में इनसे अधिक चिह्न भी छोड़ गए। तो अल्लाह ने उन्हें उनके पापों के कारण पकड़ लिया और उन्हें अल्लाह से बचाने वाला कोई न था।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Non hanno percorso la terra e osservato quale fu la fine di quelli che li hanno preceduti? Erano più forti di loro e avevano lasciato più orme in terra, eppure Allāh li ha puniti per i loro peccati e non hanno avuto nessuno a proteggerli dalla punizione di Allāh.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
21. Argi jie nekeliavo žeme ir nematė, kokia buvo pabaiga tų, kurie buvo prieš juos? Jie buvo viršesni už juos galioje, ir pėdsakuose (kuriuos jie paliko) žemėje. Tačiau Allahas pričiupo juos su bausme už jų nuodėmes. Ir nieko jie neturėjo, kas apsaugotų juos nuo Allaho.
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Русский · Russian
Неужели они не ходили по земле и не видели, каков был конец тех, которые были до них? Они превосходили их силой и следами [деятельности] на земле. Но Аллах схватил их за их грехи, и не было у них от Аллаха защитника.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Зашто они не путују по Земљи, па да виде какав је био крај оних пре њих? Били су од њих моћнији и више су трагова на Земљи оставили, али их је Аллах, због њихових греха, казнио и није имао ко да их од Аллахове казне заштити.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Kwani hawatembei katika ardhi wakaona jinsi ulivyokuwa mwisho wa wale waliokuwa kabla yao? Hao walikuwa wamewazidi hawa kwa nguvu na athari katika nchi. Na Mwenyezi Mungu aliwatia mkononi kwa sababu ya madhambi yao. Na wala hapakuwa wa kuwalinda na Mwenyezi Mungu.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Har de inte färdats på jorden och sett hur det slutade för de som levde förr? De var starkare än dem och lämnade större avtryck på jorden. Gud straffade dem för deras synder och de hade ingen som kunde skydda dem mot honom.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Onlar yeryüzünde dolaşıp, kendilerinden öncekilerin akıbetlerinin nasıl olduğuna bakmadılar mı? Onlar, kendilerinden daha güçlü ve yeryüzündeki eserleri daha üstündü. Böyle iken Allah, günahları sebebiyle onları yakaladı. Onları Allah’ın azabından koruyacak hiç kimse olmadı.
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اردو · Urdu
کیا یہ لوگ زمین میں چلے پھرے نہیں کہ دیکھتے کہ جو لوگ ان سے پہلے تھے ان کا نتیجہ کیسا کچھ ہوا؟ وه باعتبار قوت و طاقت کے اور باعتبار زمین میں اپنی یادگاروں کے ان سے بہت زیاده تھے، پس اللہ نے انہیں ان کے گناہوں پر پکڑ لیا اور کوئی نہ ہوا جو انہیں اللہ کے عذاب سے بچا لیتا.[1]
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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.
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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.
Easy-read (simplified)wallaahu yaqdee bil-haqqi walladheena yad'oona min doonihi laa yaqdoona bishay'in inna llaaha huwa s-samee'u l-baseer
DIN 31635wallāhu yaqḍī bil-ḥaqqi wallaḏīna yadʿūna min dūnihi lā yaqḍūna bišayʾin ʾinna llāha huwa s-samīʿu l-baṣīru
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 God judges with justice, while those whom they invoke besides Him cannot judge with anything. It is God who is the Hearing, the Seeing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah judgeth with truth, while those to whom they cry instead of Him judge not at all. Lo! Allah, He is the Hearer, the Seer
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and God decides with truth; but those they call on beside Him do not decide at all: verily, God, He both hears and looks
John Medows Rodwell1861 And everything will God decide with truth: But nothing shall those gods whom men call on beside him, decide. Verily, God! the Hearer, the Beholder, He
George Sale1734 and God will judge with truth: But the false gods which they invoke, besides Him, shall not judge at all; for God is He who heareth and seeth
Talal Itani2012 That is because their messengers used to come to them with clear proofs, but they disbelieved, so God seized them. He is Strong, Severe in retribution.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That was because their messengers kept bringing them clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty) but they disbelieved; so Allah seized them. Lo! He is Strong, severe in punishment
Edward Henry Palmer1880 That is for that their apostles did come to them with manifest signs, and they misbelieved, and God caught them up; verily, He is mighty, keen to punish
John Medows Rodwell1861 This, because their apostles had come to them with proofs of their mission, and they believed not: so God took them in hand; for He is mighty, vehement in punishing
George Sale1734 This they suffered, because their apostles had come unto them with evident signs, and they disbelieved: Wherefore God chastised them; for He is strong, and severe in punishing
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 —
0.61 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.
The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.75
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · George Sale0.63
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.49
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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.