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Talal Itani· published 2012
O my people! Yours is the dominion today, supreme in the land; but who will help us against God's might, should it fall upon us?" Pharaoh said, "I do not show you except what I see, and I do not guide you except to the path of prudence."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
O my people! Yours is the kingdom to-day, ye being uppermost in the land. But who would save us from the wrath of Allah should it reach us? Pharaoh said: I do but show you what I think, and I do but guide you to wisepolicy
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
O my people! yours is the kingdom today, ye are eminent in the land, but who will help us against the violence of God, if it comes upon us?' Said Pharaoh, 'I will only show you what I see, and I will only guide you into the way of right direction
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O my people! this day is the kingdom yours, the eminent of the earth! but who shall defend us from the vengeance of God if it come on us?" Pharaoh said, "I would have you see only what I see; and in a right way only will I guide you
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Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O my people, the kingdom is yours this day; and ye are conspicuous in the earth: But who shall defend us from the scourge of God, if it come unto us? Pharaoh said, I only propose to you what I think to be most expedient: And I guide you only into the right path
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
O populli im, sot pushteti është juaji, duke qenë sundues në tokë[2], por kush do të na mbrojë prej dënimit të Allahut, nëse bie mbi ne?" Faraoni tha: "Unë ju them vetëm atë që shoh (si të duhur) dhe unë ju udhëzoj vetëm në rrugën e drejtë."
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
(সে আরও বলল:) ‘হে আমার জাতি! আজ তোমাদের হাতে (মিসরের) রাজত্ব; পৃথিবীতে তোমরাই কর্তৃত্বশীল (বিজয়ী); কিন্তু (ভেবে দেখো,) আল্লাহর শাস্তি আসলে, কে আমাদেরকে সাহায্য করবে?’ (তার বক্তব্যের মধেই) ফির‘আউন বলল: ‘আমি যা সঠিক মনে করি তা-ই আমি তোমাদেরকে দেখাই, আর আমি তোমাদেরকে কেবল সঠিক পথই দেখাই।’(১৮)
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.
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Bosanski · Bosnian
O narode moj, danas vama pripada vlast i nadmoćni ste u zemlji, pa ko će nas odbraniti od Allahove kazne ako nas ona stigne?” A faraon reče: “Savjetujem vam samo ono što mislim, a samo ću vas na Pravi put uputiti.”
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
O narode moj, danas vama pripada vlast i nadmoćni ste u zemlji, pa tko će nas obraniti od Allahove kazne ako nas ona stigne?” A faraon reče: “Savjetujem vam samo ono što mislim, a samo ću vas na Pravi put uputiti.”
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
Eey yo yimɓe am, laamu no woodani on hanndi, ko on foolɓe ka leydi. Kono ko hommbo wallata en, e lepte Allah ɗen, si ɗe ngarii e men?" Fir'awna wi'i: "Mi hollataa on, si wanaa ko mi yi'i kon. Mi tindintaa on kadi, si wonaa e laawol peewal ngol".
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
ქართული · Georgian
«ო, ჩემო ხალხო! დღეს ხელმწიფობა თქვენ გიკავიათ და მიწაზე (ეგვიპტის მიწაზე) სხვებზე უპირატესობა გეკუთვნით. და ვინ დაგვიცავს ალლაჰის რისხვისგან [სასჯელისგან], თუ ის ჩვენ გვეწვევა?» ფარაონმა თქვა: «მე მხოლოდ იმას გიჩვენებთ [გირჩევთ], რასაც თავად ვხედავ; და მხოლოდ სიმართლის გზაზე მიგითითებთ [გიხმობთ]».
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
O mein Volk, euch gehört heute die Herrschaft, und ihr habt die Oberhand im Land. Wer wird uns aber dann gegen die (strafende) Härte Allahs unterstützen, wenn sie über uns kommt?“ Fir'aun sagte: „Ich weise euch nur auf das hin, was ich sehe, und leite euch nur den Weg des besonnenen Handelns.“
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
Ω, λαέ μου! Σήμερα έχετε την κυριαρχία και είστε ανώτεροι στη γη, αλλά ποιος θα μας υποστηρίξει ενάντια στην τιμωρία του Αλλάχ, αν μας έρθει;» Ο Φαραώ είπε: «Δε σας δείχνω (και λέω) παρά μόνο αυτό που βλέπω (σωστό), και δε σας καθοδηγώ παρά μόνο στο σωστό δρόμο.»
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
ऐ मेरी जाति के लोगो! आज तुम्हारा राज्य है। तुम धरती में प्रभावशाली हो। यदि अल्लाह की यातना हमपर आ जाए, तो उससे बचाने के लिए कौन हमारी मदद करेगा? फ़िरऔन ने कहा : मैं तुम सब को वही समझा रहा हूँ, जिसे मैं उचित समझता हूँ और मैं तुम्हें सीधी राह ही दिखा रहा हूँ।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
O popolo mio! Oggi il regno è vostro e siete elevati in terra! Ma chi potrebbe difenderci dalla durezza di Allāh se ci prendesse?» Il Faraone disse: «Non vi mostro se non ciò che vedo e non vi guido se non alla Retta Via «.
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
29. „Mano žmonės, jūsų yra karalystė šiandien, jūs esate viešpataujantys žemėje. Tačiau kas išgelbės mus nuo Allaho Kančios, jei ji užkluptų mus?“ Firaun (Faraonas) tarė: „Aš rodau jums tik tai, ką aš matau (esant teisinga), ir aš vedu jus tik į teisingos krypties kelią.“
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.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
О народ мой! Сегодня у вас власть, и вы господствуете на земле. Но кто защитит нас от наказания Аллаха, если оно придёт к нам?» Фараон сказал: «Я указываю вам лишь то, что сам считаю верным, и веду вас только путём благоразумия!»
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
О народе мој, данас вама припада власт и надмоћни сте у земљи, па ко ће да нас одбрани од Аллахове казне ако нас она стигне?“ А фараон рече: „Саветујем вам само оно што мислим, а само ћу ја да вас на исправни пут упутим.“
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
Enyi watu wangu! Leo mna ufalme, mmeshinda katika nchi; basi ni nani atakayenisaidia kutuokoa na adhabu ya Mwenyezi Mungu kama ikitufikia? Firauni akasema: Sikupeni shauri ila ile niliyoiona, wala siwaongozi ila kwenye njia ya uongofu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Mitt folk! I denna stund är det ni som har makten och ni härskar över landet, men vem ska rädda oss från Guds straff om det drabbar oss?” Farao svarade: ”Min åsikt är den enda som gäller och jag leder er enbart på rätt väg.”
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
Ey kavmim! Bugün (bu) yerde hükümranlık sizindir; hakim olanlar sizsiniz. Fakat Allah'ın şiddetli azabı bize gelirse ona karşı bize kim yardımcı olur?" Firavun: "Ben size kendi görüşümü söylüyorum ve yine size ancak doğru yolu gösteriyorum." dedi.
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.
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اردو · Urdu
اے میری قوم کے لوگو! آج تو بادشاہت تمہاری ہے کہ اس زمین پر تم غالب[1] ہو لیکن اگر اللہ کا عذاب ہم پر آ گیا تو کون ہماری مدد کرے گا[2]؟ فرعون بوﻻ، میں تو تمہیں وہی رائے دے رہا ہوں جو خود دیکھ رہا ہوں اور میں تو تمہیں بھلائی کی راه ہی بتلا رہا ہوں.[3]
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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DIN 31635waqāla mūsā ʾinnī ʿuḏtu birabbī warabbikum min kulli mutakabbirin lā yuʾminu biyawmi l-ḥisābi
Talal Itani2012 Moses said, "I have sought the protection of my Lord and your Lord, from every tyrant who does not believe in the Day of Account."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Moses said: Lo! I seek refuge in my Lord and your Lord from every scorner who believeth not in a Day of Reckoning
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Moses said, 'Verily, I take refuge in my Lord and your Lord from every one who is big with pride and believes not on the day of reckoning
John Medows Rodwell1861 And Moses said, "I take refuge with my Lord and your Lord from every proud one who believeth not in the day of reckoning
George Sale1734 And Moses said unto his people, verily I have recourse unto my Lord, and your Lord, to defend me against every proud person, who believeth not in the day of account
Easy-read (simplified)waqaala rajulun mu'minun min aali fir'awna yaktumu eemaanahu ataqtuloona rajulan an yaqoola rabbiya llaahu waqad jaa'akum bil-bayyinaati min rabbikum wa'in yaku kaadhiban fa'alayhi kadhibuhu wa'in yaku saadiqan yusibkum ba'du lladhee ya'idukum inna llaaha laa yahdee man huwa musrifun kadhdhaab
DIN 31635waqāla raǧulun muʾminun min ʾāli firʿawna yaktumu ʾīmānahu ʾataqtulūna raǧulan ʾan yaqūla rabbiya llāhu waqad ǧāʾakum bil-bayyināti min rabbikum waʾin yaku kāḏiban faʿalayhi kaḏibuhu waʾin yaku ṣādiqan yuṣibkum baʿḍu llaḏī yaʿidukum ʾinna llāha lā yahdī man huwa musrifun kaḏḏābun
Talal Itani2012 A believing man from Pharaoh's family, who had concealed his faith, said, "Are you going to kill a man for saying, `My Lord is God,' and he has brought you clear proofs from your Lord? If he is a liar, his lying will rebound upon him; but if he is truthful, then some of what he promises you will befall you. God does not guide the extravagant imposter.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And a believing man of Pharaoh's family, who hid his faith, said: Would ye kill a man because he saith: My Lord is Allah, and hath brought you clear proofs from your Lord? If he is lying, then his lie is upon him; and if he is truthful, then some of that wherewith he threateneth you will strike you. Lo! Allah guideth not one who is a prodigal, a liar
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And a believing man of Pharaoh's people, who concealed his faith, said, 'Will ye kill a man for saying, My Lord is God, when he has come to you with manifest signs from your Lord? and if he be a liar, against him is his lie; and if he be truthful, there will befall you somewhat of that which he threatens you; verily, God guides not him who is an extravagant liar
John Medows Rodwell1861 And a man of the family of Pharaoh, who was a BELIEVER, but hid his faith, said, "Will ye slay a man because he saith my Lord is God, when he hath already come to you with proofs of his mission from your Lord? and if he be a liar, on him will be his lie: but if he be a man of truth, part at least of what he threateneth will fall upon you. Truly God guideth not him who is a transgressor, a liar
George Sale1734 And a man who was a true believer, of the family of Pharaoh, and concealed in his faith, said, will ye put a man to death, because he saith, God is my Lord; seeing he is come unto you with evident signs from your Lord? If he be a liar, on him will the punishment of his falsehood light; but if he speaketh the truth, some of those judgments with which he threateneth you, will fall upon you: Verily God directeth not him who is a transgressor, or a liar
Talal Itani2012 The one who had believed said, "O my people, I fear for you the like of the day of the confederates.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And he who believed said: O my people! Lo! I fear for you a fate like that of the factions (of old)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And he who believed said, 'O my people! verily, I fear for you the like of the day of the confederates
John Medows Rodwell1861 Then said he who believed, "O my people! truly I fear for you the like of the day of the allies
George Sale1734 And he who had believed, said, O my people, verily I fear for you a day like that of the confederates against the prophets in former times
DIN 31635miṯla daʾbi qawmi nūḥin waʿādin waṯamūda wallaḏīna min baʿdihim wamā llāhu yurīdu ẓulman lilʿibādi
Talal Itani2012 Like the fate of the people of Noah, and Aad, and Thamood, and those after them. God wants no injustice for the servants.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 A plight like that of Noah's folk, and A'ad and Thamud, and those after them, and Allah willeth no injustice for (His) slaves
Edward Henry Palmer1880 the like of the wont of the people of Noah and 'Ad and Haman, and of those after them; for God desires not injustice for His servants
John Medows Rodwell1861 The like of the state of the people of Noah and Ad and Themoud, And of those who came after them; yet God willeth not injustice to his servants
George Sale1734 a condition like that of the people of Noah, and the tribes of Ad, and Thamud, and of those who have lived after them: For God willeth not that any injustice be done unto his servants
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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 · George Sale0.66
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.58
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.56
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.54
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.48
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.42
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
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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.