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Talal Itani· published 2012
So be patient. The promise of God is true. Whether We show you some of what We have promised them, or take you to Us, to Us they will be returned.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Then have patience (O Muhammad). Lo! the promise of Allah is true. And whether we let thee see a part of that which We promise them, or (whether) We cause thee to die, still unto Us they will be brought back
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
But be thou patient; verily, the promise of God is true; and whether we show thee a part of what we promised them, or whether we surely take thee to ourself, unto us shall they be returned
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Therefore be thou steadfast in patience: for the promise of God is truth: and whether we shall make thee see part of the woes with which we threatened them, or whether we cause thee first to die, unto us shall they be brought back
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Whereforepersevere with patience, O Mohammed; for the promise of God is true. Whether We cause thee to see any part of the punishment with which We have threatened them, or whether We cause thee to die before thou see it; before Us shall they be assembled at the lastday
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
Bëj durim, sepse premtimi i Allahut është i vërtetë! Pavarësisht nëse të tregojmë diçka nga ajo me të cilën i kemi kërcënuar apo ta marrim shpirtin (para se t'i dënojmë), ata gjithsesi do të kthehen te Ne.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
অতএব, (৩৭)তুমি ধৈর্যধারণ কর। নিশ্চয় আল্লাহর ওয়াদা সত্য। আর আমি তাদেরকে (শাস্তির) যে ওয়াদা দেই, তার কিছু অংশ যদি তোমাকে দেখাই অথবা তোমাকে মৃত্যু দেই, তাহলেও আমার কাছেই তাদের প্রত্যাবর্তন হবে।(৩৮)
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
Zato ti budi strpljiv, Allahova prijetnja će se, sigurno, obistiniti! Bilo da ti pokažemo dio onog čime im Mi prijetimo, bilo da ti prije život oduzmemo, Nama će se oni vratiti.
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
Zato ti budi strpljiv, Allahova prijetnja će se, sigurno, obistiniti! Bilo da ti pokažemo dio onog čime im Mi prijetimo, bilo da ti prije život oduzmemo, Nama će se oni vratiti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Muñño. Pellet, fodoore Allah nden, ko goonga. Ko si Min hollete yoga e ko Min podi ɓe kon, maa hara Min ƴettite (ado mum) ko ka Amen ɓe ruttirtee.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
მაშ, მოითმინე! ჭეშმარიტად, ალლაჰის აღთქმა ჭეშმარიტია. და ან ჩვენ გაჩვენებთ იმის ნაწილს, რასაც შევპირდით მათ, ან მოგივლენთ სიკვდილს, და ისინი მაინც ჩვენთან იქნებიან დაბრუნებულნი.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
So sei geduldig. Wahrlich, das Versprechen Allahs ist wahr. Ob Wir dich einen Teil dessen, was Wir ihnen androhen, sehen lassen oder dich (vorher) abberufen, zu Uns werden sie dann zurückgebracht.
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
Κάνε, λοιπόν, υπομονή (ω, Προφήτη). Πράγματι, η υπόσχεση του Αλλάχ (για τη νίκη σου εναντίον τους) είναι αληθινή. Είτε σου δείξουμε κάτι από ό,τι τους υποσχεθήκαμε (από την τιμωρία), είτε αφαιρέσουμε τη ζωή σου (χωρίς να το δεις), (και στις δύο περιπτώσεις) προς Εμάς θα είναι η επιστροφή τους (την Ημέρα της Κρίσεως)!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
अतः आप धैर्य रखें। निःसंदेह अल्लाह का वादा सच्चा है। फिर यदि हम आपको उस (यातना) का कुछ भाग दिखा दें, जिसका हम उनसे वादा करते हैं या हम आपको (उससे पहले ही) मृत्यु दे दें, तो वे हमारी ही ओर लौटाए जाएँगे।[22]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
Sii paziente! In verità la promessa di Allāh è vera: sia che ti mostriamo parte di ciò che abbiamo loro promesso, o che ti facciamo morire prima, loro torneranno a Noi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
77. Tad būk kantrus (Muchammedai ﷺ). Iš tiesų, Allaho Pažadas yra tiesa ir ar Mes parodytume tau (Muchammedai ﷺ šiame pasaulyje) dalį to, ką esame jiems pažadėję, ar priverstume tave mirti, tada vis tiek pas Mus jie visi bus sugąžinti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Obsi waadaan Rabbii dhugaadha. Yoo garii waan waadaa isaaniif gallee si agarsiifne (waa tole); yookiin yoo si ajjeefne, garuma keenya deebifamu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Будь же терпелив — воистину, обещание Аллаха истинно. И Мы либо непременно покажем тебе часть того, что обещаем им, либо мы упокоим тебя и к Нам они будут возвращены.
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
Зато се стрпи! Заиста је Аллахова претња истина! Било да ти покажемо део онога што им Ми претимо, било да ти пре тога живот одузмемо - Нама ће они да се врате.
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
Basi subiri, hakika ahadi ya Mwenyezi Mungu ni ya kweli. Na ama tukikuonyesha baadhi ya yale tuliyowaahidi au tukikufisha, lakini wao watarudishwa kwetu tu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Ha tålamod! Guds löfte är verkligen sant. Vare sig vi låter dig bevittna något av det vi hotat dem med eller låter dig dö innan dess ska de likväl återvända till oss.
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
Şu halde sen sabret. Şüphesiz Allah'ın vaadi gerçektir. Onlara vaadettiklerimizin bir kısmını sana göstersek de senin dünya hayatını sona erdirsek de, sonuçta bize döndürülürler.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
پس آپ صبر کریں اللہ کا وعده قطعاً سچا ہے[1] ، انہیں ہم نے جو وعدے دے رکھے ہیں ان میں سے کچھ ہم آپ کو دکھائیں[2] یا (اس سے پہلے) ہم آپ کو وفات دے دیں، ان کا لوٹایا جانا تو ہماری ہی طرف ہے.[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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Talal Itani2012 That is because you used to rejoice on earth in other than the truth, and because you used to behave with vanity.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 (And it is said unto them): This is because ye exulted in the earth without right, and because ye were petulant
Edward Henry Palmer1880 There! for 'that ye did rejoice in the land without right; and for that ye did exult
John Medows Rodwell1861 This for you, because of your unrighteous insolence and immoderate joys on earth
George Sale1734 This hath befallen you, for that ye rejoiced insolently on earth, in that which was false; and for that ye were elated with immoderate joy
Easy-read (simplified)walaqad arsalnaa rusulan min qablika minhum man qasasnaa 'alayka waminhum man lam naqsus 'alayka wamaa kaana lirasoolin an ya'tiya bi'aayatin illaa bi'idhni llaahi fa'idhaa jaa'a amru llaahi qudiya bil-haqqi wakhasira hunaalika l-mubtiloon
DIN 31635walaqad ʾarsalnā rusulan min qablika minhum man qaṣaṣnā ʿalayka waminhum man lam naqṣuṣ ʿalayka wamā kāna lirasūlin ʾan yaʾtiya biʾāyatin ʾillā biʾiḏni llāhi faʾiḏā ǧāʾa ʾamru llāhi quḍiya bil-ḥaqqi waḫasira hunālika l-mubṭilūna
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Talal Itani2012 We sent messengers before you. Some of them We told you about, and some We did not tell you about. No messenger can bring a miracle except by leave of God. Then, when the command of God is issued, fair judgment will be passed, and there and then the seekers of vanity will lose.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Verily We sent messengers before thee, among them those of whom We have told thee, and some of whom We have not told thee; and it was not given to any messenger that he should bring a portent save by Allah's leave, but when Allah's commandment cometh (the cause) is judged aright, and the followers of vanity will then be lost
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And we did send apostles before thee: of them are some whose stories we have related to thee, and of them are some whose stories we have not related to thee; and no apostle might ever bring a sign except by the permission of God; but when God's bidding came it was decided with truth, and there were those lost who deemed it vain
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we have already sent apostles before thee: of some we have told thee, and of others we have told thee nothing: but no apostle had the power to work a miracle unless by the leave of God. But when God's behest cometh, everything will be decided with truth: and then they perish who treated it as a vain thing
George Sale1734 We have sent a great number of apostles before thee; the histories of some of whom We have related unto thee, and the histories of others of them We have not related unto thee: But no apostle had the power to produce a sign, unless by the permission of God. When the command of God, therefore, shall come, judgment shall be given with truth; and then shall they perish who endeavour to render the signs of God of no effect
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.73
Talal Itani · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.58
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.52
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.50
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.44
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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.