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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
So Allahwarded off from him the evils which they plotted, while a dreadfuldoom encompassed Pharaoh's folk
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 God guarded him from the evils of what they plotted, and there closed in upon Pharaoh evil woe
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Wherefore God delivered him from the evils which they had devised; and a grievous punishment encompassed the people of Pharaoh
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
Kështu, Allahu e mbrojti atë nga e keqja që kurdisën, ndërsa popullin e Faraonit e përfshiu dënimi i rëndë.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
অতঃপর আল্লাহ তাকে তাদের ষড়যন্ত্রের অশুভ পরিণাম থেকে রক্ষা করলেন। আর ফির‘আউনের সম্প্রদায়কে (২৫) কঠিন শাস্তি গ্রাস করল।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
I Allah ga je sačuvao od zala onog što su spletkarili, a faraonove pristalice zla patnja zadesi,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
I Allah ga je sačuvao od zala onog što su spletkarili, a faraonove pristalice zla patnja zadesi,
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Allah daɗndi mo, boneeji ɗi ɓe pewjunoo, o fiiltii yimɓe Fir'awna ɓeen, ko ɓuri bon'de e lepte.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და იხსნა იგი (მორწმუნე კაცი) ალლაჰმა მათი მზაკვრობის ბოროტებისგან და ეწია ფარაონის ხალხს სასტიკი სასჯელი.
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Deutsch · German
So bewahrte Allah ihn vor den Bosheiten dessen, was sie an Ränken geschmiedet hatten, und die Leute Fir'auns umschloß die böse Strafe,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Έτσι, ο Αλλάχ τον προστάτεψε από το κακό αυτού που συνωμότησαν (το να τον σκοτώσουν), και μία τρομερή τιμωρία περιέβαλε τους ανθρώπους του Φαραώ (και έτσι πνίγηκαν).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तो अल्लाह ने उसे उनकी चालों की बुराइयों से बचा लिया और फ़िरऔनियों को बुरी यातना ने घेर लिया।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Così Allāh lo difese dalle conseguenze del male che gli tramavano contro, e la peggiore punizione colpì il popolo del Faraone:
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
45. Taigi Allahas išgelbėjo jį nuo blogių, kuriuos jie planavo (prieš jį), kai bloga kančia apėmė Firauno (Faraono) žmones.
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.
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
И Аллах защитил его от зла того, что они замыслили, а род Фараона постигло суровое наказание.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
И Аллах га је сачувао од зала оног што су сплеткарили, а фараонове присталице зла патња задеси.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi Mwenyezi Mungu akamlinda kutokana na ubaya wa hila walizozifanya. Na adhabu mbaya itawazingira watu wa Firauni.
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Svenska · Swedish
Och så skyddade Gud honom från deras onda planer och ett fasansfullt straff slog ned över Faraos folk.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Sonunda Allah kurdukları tuzakların kötülüklerinden korudu onu, Firavun hanedanını ise kötü azap kuşattı.
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اردو · Urdu
پس اسے اللہ تعالیٰ نے تمام بدیوں سے محفوظ رکھ لیا جو انہوں نے سوچ رکھی تھیں[1] اور فرعون والوں پر بری طرح کا عذاب الٹ پڑا.[2]
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Talal Itani2012 Without a doubt, what you call me to has no say in this world, or in the Hereafter; and our turning back is to God; and the transgressors are the inmates of the Fire.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Assuredly that whereunto ye call me hath no claim in the world or in the Hereafter, and our return will be unto Allah, and the prodigals will be owners of the Fire
Edward Henry Palmer1880 no doubt that what ye call me to, ought not to be called on in this world or in the hereafter, and that we shall be sent back to God, and that the extravagant, they are the fellows of the Fire
John Medows Rodwell1861 No doubt is there that they to whom ye invite me are not to be invoked either in this world or in the world to come: and that unto God is our return, and that the transgressors shall be the inmates of the fire
George Sale1734 There is no doubt but that the false gods to which ye invite me, deserve not to be invoked, either in this world or in the next; and that we must return unto God; and that the transgressors shall be the inhabitants of hell fire
Talal Itani2012 The Fire. They will be exposed to it morning and evening. And on the Day the Hour takes place: "Admit the clan of Pharaoh to the most intense agony."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 The Fire; they are exposed to it morning and evening; and on the day when the Hour upriseth (it is said): Cause Pharaoh's folk to enter the most awful doom
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The fire - they shall be exposed to it morning and evening; and 'on the day the Hour shall arise,' enter, O people of Pharaoh! into the keenest torment
John Medows Rodwell1861 It is the fire to which they shall be exposed morning and evening, and on the day when "the Hour" shall arrive - "Bring in the people of Pharaoh into the severest punishment
George Sale1734 They shall be exposed to the fire of hell morning and evening: And the day whereon the hour of judgment shall come, it shall be said unto them, enter O people of Pharaoh, into a most severe torment
DIN 31635waʾiḏ yataḥāǧǧūna fī n-nāri fayaqūlu ḍ-ḍuʿafāʾu lillaḏīna stakbarū ʾinnā kunnā lakum tabaʿan fahal ʾantum muġnūna ʿannā naṣīban mina n-nāri
Talal Itani2012 As they quarrel in the Fire, the weak will say to those who were arrogant, "We were followers of yours; will you then spare us a portion of the Fire?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when they wrangle in the Fire, the weak say unto those who were proud: Lo! we were a following unto you; will ye therefor rid us of a portion of the Fire
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when they argue together in the fire, and the weak say to those who were big with pride, 'Verily, we were followers of yours, can ye then avail us against a portion of the fire
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when they shall wrangle together in the fire, the weak shall say to those who had borne themselves so proudly, "It is you we followed: will ye therefore relieve us from aught of the fire
George Sale1734 And think on the time when the infidels shall dispute together in hell fire; and the weak shall say unto those who behaved with arrogance, verily we were your followers: Will ye, therefore, relieve us from any part of this fire
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 —
0.69 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
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.80
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.79
Talal Itani · George Sale0.76
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.75
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.72
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.62
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.39
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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.