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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And your Lord hath said: Pray unto Me and I will hear your prayer. Lo! those who scorn My service, they will enter hell, disgraced
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 your Lord said, 'Call upon me, I will answer you; verily, those who are too big with pride to worship shall enter into hell, shrinking up
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Your Lord saith, call upon Me; and I will hear you: But they who proudly disdain my service, shall enter with ignominy into hell
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
Zoti juaj thotë: "Lutmuni Mua, Unë do t'ju përgjigjem!" Ata që tregohen mendjemëdhenj ndaj adhurimit Tim, do të hyjnë në Xhehenem të poshtëruar.
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
আর তোমাদের রব বলেছেন: ‘তোমরা আমাকে ডাক, আমি তোমাদের ডাকে সাড়া দিবো। নিশ্চয় যারা অহংকারবশত আমার ইবাদাত থেকে বিমুখ থাকে(৩১), তারা অচিরেই লাঞ্ছিত অবস্থায় জাহান্নামে প্রবেশ করবে।’
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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Gospodar je vaš rekao: “Pozovite Me i zamolite, Ja ću vam se odazvati! Oni koji iz oholosti neće da Me obožavaju – ući će, sigurno, u Džehennem poniženi.”
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
Gospodar je vaš rekao: “Pozovite Me i zamolite, Ja ću vam se odazvati! Oni koji iz oholosti neće da Me obožavaju – ući će, sigurno, u Pakao poniženi.”
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
Joomi mon daali: "Toree Kam, Mi jaabinana on. Mawtinantooɓe dewugol Lam ɓeen, ko pellet, ɓe naatoyay Jahannama, ko ɓe hoyɓe".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და თქვა თქვენმა უფალმა: «მომიხმეთ მე [ვედრებით], და მე გიპასუხებთ თქვენ! ჭეშმარიტად, ისინი, რომლებიც ამპარტავნობენ ჩემდამი თაყვანისცემაში, შევლენ ჯოჯოხეთში დამცირებულნი (და შეურაცხყოფილნი)!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und euer Herr sagt: „Ruft Mich an, so erhöre Ich euch. Wahrlich, diejenigen, die sich aus Hochmut weigern, Mir zu dienen, werden in die Hölle gedemütigt eingehen.“
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
Ο Κύριός σας λέει: «Επικαλεστείτε Με· θα ανταποκριθώ στις επικλήσεις σας. Πράγματι, εκείνοι που γίνονται αλαζονικοί, αρνούμενοι τη λατρεία προς Εμένα, θα εισέλθουν στο Πυρ της Κολάσεως ταπεινωμένοι.»
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
तथा तुम्हारे पालनहार ने कहा है : तुम मुझे पुकारो। मैं तुम्हारी प्रार्थना[18] स्वीकार करूँगा। निःसंदेह जो लोग मेरी इबादत से अहंकार करते हैं, वे शीघ्र ही अपमानित होकर जहन्नम में प्रवेश करेंगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E il vostro Dio dice: «InvocateMi ed esaudirò.» In verità quelli che, per superbia, non Mi adorano entreranno nell’Inferno umiliati.
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
60. Ir jūsų Viešpats sakė: „Maldaukite Manęs [t. y. tikėkite Mano Vienumą (islamiškąjį monoteizmą) ir prašykite Manęs bet ko], Aš atsiliepsiu į jūsų (maldavimą). Tie, kurie paniekina Mano garbinimą [t. y. nemaldauja Manęs ir netiki Mano Vienumą (islamiškąjį monoteizmą)], jie tikrai įžengs į Pragarą sugėdinti.“
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
Ваш Господь сказал: «Взывайте ко Мне — и Я отвечу вам. Воистину, те, которые превозносятся над поклонением Мне, войдут в Геенну униженными».
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
Ваш Господар каже: „Помолите Ми се, и ја ћу вам се одазвати! Заиста, они који из охолости неће да Ме обожавају - ући ће, сигурно, понижени у Пакао.“
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
Na Mola wenu Mlezi anasema: Niombeni nitakuitikieni. Kwa hakika wale ambao wanajivuna wakaacha kuniabudu Mimi wataingia Jahanamu wadhalilike.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Er Herre säger: ”Be till mig, så ska jag svara er. De som av högmodighet avvisar min dyrkan ska förödmjukade träda in i helvetet.”
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
Rabbiniz şöyle dedi: "Bana dua edin, size icabet edeyim. Bana ibadet etmekten büyüklenenler, aşağılanmış olarak Cehennem'e gireceklerdir."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور تمہارے رب کا فرمان (سرزد ہوچکا ہے) کہ مجھ سے دعا کرو میں تمہاری دعاؤں کو قبول کروں گا[1] یقین مانو کہ جو لوگ میری عبادت سے خودسری کرتے ہیں وه عنقريب ذلیل ہوکر جہنم میں پہنچ جائیں گے.[2]
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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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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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Talal Itani2012 Not equal are the blind and the seeing. Nor are those who believe and work righteousness equal to the sinners. How little you reflect.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And the blind man and the seer are not equal, neither are those who believe and do good works (equal with) the evil-doer. Little do ye reflect
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The blind and the seeing shall not be deemed alike, nor those who believe and do right and the evildoer; little is it that they remember
John Medows Rodwell1861 Moreover, the blind and the seeing, and the evil doer and they who believe and do the things that are right, shall not be deemed equal. How few ponder this
George Sale1734 The blind and the seeing shall not be held equal; nor they who believe and work righteousness, and the evildoer: How few revolve these things in their mind
Talal Itani2012 It is God Who made the night for you, that you may rest therein; and the day allowing sight. God is gracious towards the people, but most people do not give thanks.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah it is Who hath appointed for you night that ye may rest therein, and day for seeing. Lo! Allah is a Lord of bounty for mankind, yet most of mankind give not thanks
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God it is who has made for you the night to repose therein, and the day to see by; verily, God is Lord of grace to men, but most men give no thanks
John Medows Rodwell1861 It is God who hath ordained the night for your rest, and the day to give you light: verily God is rich in bounties to men: but most men render not the tribute of thanks
George Sale1734 It is God who hath appointed the night for you to take your rest therein, and the day to give you light: Verily God is endued with beneficence towards mankind; but the greater part of men do not give thanks
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.61 on a scale
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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 Pickthall0.71
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Talal Itani · George Sale0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.52
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.33
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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.