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Talal Itani· published 2012
Before them the people of Noah rejected the truth, as did the confederates after them. Every communityplotted against their messenger, to capture him. And they argued with falsehood, to defeat with it the truth. But I seized them. What a punishment it was!
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
The folk of Noah and the factions after them denied (their messengers) before these, and every nation purposed to seize their messenger and argued falsely, (thinking) thereby to refute the Truth. Then I seized them, and how (awful) was My punishment
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
The people of Noah before them called the prophets liars; and the confederates after them; and every nation schemed against their Apostle to catch him. And they wrangled with falsehood that they might refute the truth thereby, but I seized them, and how was my punishment
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
The people of Noah, and the confederates after them, have brought the charge of imposture before these Meccans: each nation schemed against their apostle to layviolenthold on him, and disputed with vain words to refute the truth. Therefore did I layviolenthold on them; and how great was my chastisement
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
The people of Noah, and the confederated infidels which were after them, accused their respective prophets of imposture before these; and each nation hatchedilldesigns against their apostle, that they might get him into their power; and they disputed with vain reasoning; that they might thereby invalidate the truth: Wherefore I chastised them; and how severe was my punishment
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
Edhe para tyre kishin përgënjeshtruar populli i Nuhut dhe grupet e tjera pas tij. Çdo popull përpiqej të vriste të dërguarin e vet. Ata kundërshtonin, duke dashur që, përmes së pavërtetës, të shuanin të vërtetën. Por, pastaj i kapa me ndëshkim. Ah, si ishte dënimi Im!
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বাংলা · Bengali
তাদের পূর্বে নূহের জাতি এবং তাদের পরেও অনেক দল মিথ্যারোপ করেছিল।(৫) প্রত্যেক জাতিই স্বীয় রাসূলকে পাকড়াও করার সংকল্প করেছিল এবং সত্যকে বিদূরিত করার উদ্দেশ্যে তারা বাতিলের পক্ষে বিতর্কে লিপ্ত হয়েছিল। ফলে আমিও তাদেরকে (শাস্তি দ্বারা) পাকড়াও করলাম। সুতরাং, ভেবে দেখো, কেমন ছিল আমার শাস্তি!
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I Nuhov je narod prije njih poricao, a i poslije njega oni koji su se protiv poslanikā urotili. Svaki narod nastojao je domoći se svog poslanika i trudio se neistinom ugušiti istinu, pa sam ga Ja kažnjavao – a kakva je bila kazna Moja!
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I Noin je narod prije njih poricao, a i poslije njega oni koji su se protiv poslanikā urotili. Svaki narod nastojao je domoći se svog poslanika i trudio se neistinom ugušiti istinu, pa sam ga Ja kažnjavao – a kakva je bila kazna Moja!
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ado maɓɓe, yimɓe Nuuhu ɓeen e peɗle ɓaawo maɓɓe, yedduno (Nulaaɓe mum ɓeen), mofte kala himmiri nanngugol Nulaaɗo mun oon. Ɓe njeddiri meere, fii no bonnitira (goonga) kan. Kono Min nanngi ɓe. Taskii no nanngal am ngal waɗtinirnoo !
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ქართული · Georgian
მათზე ადრე უარყვეს ნუჰის ხალხმა და მათ შემდგომ მოსულმა თაობებმა. და ყოველი თემი განიზრახავდა თავისი შუამავლის წინააღმდეგ, რათა შეეპყრათ იგი, და ცრუ არგუმენტებით დავობდნენ, რათა ამით ჭეშმარიტება გაექარწყლებინათ. მაშინ მე შევიპყარი ისინი. და როგორი (სასტიკი) იყო ჩემი სასჯელი.
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Deutsch · German
(Schon) vor ihnen haben das Volk Nuhs und nach diesen (auch) die Gruppierungen (ihre Gesandten) der Lüge bezichtigt. Jede Gemeinschaft hatte vor, (gegen) ihren Gesandten (vorzugehen, um ihn) zu ergreifen. Und sie stritten mit der Falschheit, um damit die Wahrheit zu widerlegen. Da ergriff Ich sie. Wie war da Meine Bestrafung!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Και πριν απ' αυτούς (τους άπιστους από τη φυλή Κουράις) διέψευσαν (τους Προφήτες): οι άνθρωποι από τον λαό του Νώε και μετά απ' αυτούς οι ομάδες [δηλ. η φυλή Θαμούντ, ο λαός του Λωτ, και οι κάτοικοι της κωμόπολης των στριμμένων δέντρων κοντά στη Μαδιάμ]. Οι άνθρωποι τού καθενός έθνους (απ' αυτά) συνωμότησαν για να συλλάβουν και να σκοτώσουν τον Αγγελιαφόρο τους. Και υποστήριξαν το ψεύδος για να αντικρούσουν μ' αυτό την αλήθεια. Έτσι τους άρπαξα με την τιμωρία. Πόσο τρομερή ήταν η τιμωρία Μου!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
इनसे पहले नूह की जाति ने झुठलाया तथा उनके बाद के (दूसरे) समूहों ने भी (झुठलाया)। और प्रत्येक समुदाय के लोगों ने इरादा किया कि अपने रसूल को पकड़ लें। तथा उन्होंने असत्य के साथ झगड़ा किया ताकि उसके द्वारा सत्य को ग़लत ठहरा दें। अंततः मैंने उन्हें पकड़ लिया। तो मेरी सज़ा कैसी थी?
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Prima di loro rinnegò il popolo di Nūħ e successivamente le Fazioni; ogni popolo ha complottato contro il proprio Messaggero per rovinarlo e discussero con ingiustizia per confutare la verità, quindi li ho carpiti. Come fu terribile allora la Mia punizione!
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
5. Nūho (Nojaus) žmonės ir Sąjungininkai po jų neigė (savo Pasiuntinius) prieš šiuos. Ir kiekviena (netikinti) tauta kūrė sąmokslus prieš savo Pasiuntinį, kad pričiuptų jį, ir ginčijosi melagingais būdais, kad paneigtų tuo tiesą. Taigi Aš prigriebiau juos (su bausme) ir kokia (baisi) buvo Mano bausmė.
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Русский · Russian
До них истину сочли ложью народ Нуха и племена, что были после них. Каждая община замышляла против своего посланника, чтобы схватить его. И они вели споры, опираясь на ложное, чтобы этим опровергнуть истину, но Я настиг их. И каково же было Моё возмездие!
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Српски · Serbian
И Нојев је народ пре њих порицао, а и после њега они који су се били против посланика уротили. Сваки народ настојао је домоћи се свог посланика и трудио се неистином угушити истину, па сам га Ја кажњавао – а каква је била казна Моја!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Kabla yao walikadhibisha kaumu ya Nuhu na makundi mengine baada yao. Na kila taifa lilikuwa na hamu juu ya Mtume wao wamkamate. Na walibishana kwa upotovu ili kuipindua haki. Kwa hivyo niliwakamata. Basi ilikuwaje adhabu yangu!
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Svenska · Swedish
Före dem vägrade Noas folk att tro, och efter dem följde andra sammansvurna grupper samma väg. Varje folk försökte döda sitt sändebud, och argumentera med falska påståenden för att kväva sanningen. Men jag straffade dem, och hur [strängt] var inte mitt straff!
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Türkçe · Turkish
Onlardan önce Nûh’un kavmi ve onlardan sonra gelen topluluklar da yalanlamıştı. Her ümmet kendi peygamberini yakalayıp cezalandırmaya azmetmişti. Hakkı yok etmek için batıl şeyler ileri sürerek tartışmışlardı. Bu yüzden onları kıskıvrak yakaladım. İşte cezalandırmamın nasıl olduğunu gör.
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اردو · Urdu
قوم نوح نے اور ان کے بعد کے گروہوں نے بھی جھٹلایا تھا۔ اور ہر امت نے اپنے رسول کو گرفتار کر لینے کا اراده کیا[1] اور باطل کے ذریعہ کج بحثیاں کیں، تاکہ ان سے حق کو بگاڑ دیں[2] پس میں نے ان کو پکڑ لیا، سو میری طرف سے کیسی سزا ہوئی.[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 31635ġāfiri ḏ-ḏanbi waqābili t-tawbi šadīdi l-ʿiqābi ḏī ṭ-ṭawli lā ʾilāha ʾillā huwa ʾilayhi l-maṣīru
Talal Itani2012 Forgiver of sins, Accepter of repentance, Severe in punishment, Bountiful in bounty. There is no god but He. To Him is the ultimate return.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 The Forgiver of sin, the Accepter of repentance, the Stern in punishment, the Bountiful. There is no Allah save Him. Unto Him is the journeying
Edward Henry Palmer1880 the forgiver of sin and accepter of repentance, keen at punishment, longsuffering! there is no god but He! to whom the journey is
John Medows Rodwell1861 Forgiver of sin, and receiver of penitence, - vehement in chastisement, Long-suffering! There is no God but He: to Him shall be the final gathering
George Sale1734 the forgiver of sin, and the accepter of repentance; severe in punishing; long suffering. There is no God but He: Before Him shall be the general assembly at the last day
Talal Itani2012 None argues against God's revelations except those who disbelieve. So do not be impressed by their activities in the land.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 None argue concerning the revelations of Allah save those who disbelieve, so let not their turn of fortune in the land deceive thee (O Muhammad)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 None wrangle concerning the signs of God but those who misbelieve; then let not their going to and fro in the cities deceive thee
John Medows Rodwell1861 None but infidels gainsay the signs of God: but let not their prosperity in the land deceive thee
George Sale1734 None disputeth against the signs of God, except the unbelievers: But let not their prosperous dealing in the land deceive thee with vain allurement
Talal Itani2012 Those who carry the Throne, and those around it, glorify their Lord with praise, and believe in Him, and ask for forgiveness for those who believe: "Our Lord, You have encompassed everything in mercy and knowledge; so forgive those who repent and follow Your path, and protect them from the agony of the Blaze.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those who bear the Throne, and all who are round about it, hymn the praises of their Lord and believe in Him and ask forgiveness for those who believe (saying): Our Lord! Thou comprehendest all things in mercy and knowledge, therefor forgive those who repent and follow Thy way. Ward off from them the punishment of hell
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Those who bear the throne and those around it celebrate the praise of their Lord, and believe in Him, and ask pardon for those who believe: 'Our Lord! thou dost embrace all things in mercy and knowledge, then pardon those who turn repentant and follow thy way, and guard them from the torment of hell
John Medows Rodwell1861 They who bear the throne and they who encircle it, celebrate the praise of their Lord and believe in Him, and implore forgiveness for the believers: - "O our Lord! thou embracest all things in mercy and knowledge; forgive, therefore, those who turn to thee and follow thy path; keep them from the pains of hell
George Sale1734 The angels who bear the throne of God, and those who stand about it, celebrate the praise of their Lord, and believe in Him; and they ask pardon for the true believers, saying, O Lord, thou encompassest all things by thy mercy and knowledge; wherefore forgive those who repent, and follow thy path, and deliver them from the pains of hell
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.64 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 · George Sale0.74
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.73
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.58
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.53
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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.