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Talal Itani· published 2012
Have they not journeyed through the land, and seen the outcome for those before them? They were more numerous than they, and had greater power and influence in the land. But what they had achieved availed them nothing.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Have they not travelled in the land to see the nature of the consequence for those before them? They were more numerous than these, and mightier in power and (in the) traces (which they left behind them) in the earth. But all that they used to earn availed them not
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
Have they not journeyed on in the land and seen how was the end of those before them, who were more numerous than they and stronger in might, and in their vestiges which are still in the land? but of no avail to them was that which they had earned
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Have they not journeyed in this land, and seen what hath been the end of those who flourished before them? More were they than these in number and mightier in strength, and greater are the traces of their power remaining in the land: yet their labours availed them nothing
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Do they not pass through the earth, and see what hath been the end of those who were before them? They were more numerous than these, and more mighty in strength, and left more considerablemonuments of their power in the earth: Yet that which they had acquired, profited them not
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
A nuk kanë udhëtuar ata nëpër tokë për të parë se si ka qenë fundi i atyre që ishin para tyre?! Ata ishin më të shumtë e më të fortë dhe lanë më shumë gjurmë në tokë, por asgjë nuk u vlejti ajo që fituan.
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বাংলা · Bengali
তারা কি পৃথিবীতে ভ্রমণ করেনি, যাতে দেখতে পেত তাদের পূর্ববর্তীদের পরিণতি কী হয়েছিল? তারা ছিল এদের চেয়ে সংখ্যায় বেশি, শক্তিতে প্রবলতর এবং পৃথিবীতে অধিক নিদর্শন/কীর্তির অধিকারী। কিন্তু তারা যা অর্জন করেছিল, তা (আল্লাহর শাস্তি থেকে) তাদের কোনো উপকারে আসেনি।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Zašto oni ne putuju po svijetu, pa da vide kako su završili oni prije njih? Oni su bili od njih mnogobrojniji i jači i više su tragova na Zemlji ostavili, i ništa im nije koristilo ono što su stekli.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Zašto oni ne putuju po svijetu, pa da vide kako su završili oni prije njih? Oni su bili od njih mnogobrojniji i jači i više su tragova na Zemlji ostavili, i ništa im nije koristilo ono što su stekli.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
E ɓee yiilaaki ka leydi, ɓe ndaara ko holno battane ɓeya ado maɓɓe mbattinirnoo? Ɓen no ɓurunoo ɓe ɗuude e saɗtude doole e batteeji [waɗaaɗi] ka leydi. Kono kon ko ɓe paggotonoo, duncanaano ɓe.
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ქართული · Georgian
განა არ მოგზაურობდნენ ისინი [მექქის ურწმუნოები და სხვები] დედამიწაზე [განა არ იყვნენ იემენსა და შამში] და (განა) არ იხილეს, რა ბოლო ეწიათ მათ [ვინც ალლაჰს არ დაემორჩილა], ვინც მათ უწინ იყო [ადებს, სამუდელებს და სხვებს]? ისინი [ადები და სამუდელები] უფრო მრავალრიცხოვანნი იყვნენ, ვიდრე ისინი [მექქელები], და უფრო ძლიერნი (ფიზიკური) ძალითა და მიწაზე დატოვებული კვალებით [მათი შენობებით]. მაგრამ ვერ იხსნა ისინი [ალლაჰის სასჯელისგან] მათმა მონაპოვარმა.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Sind sie denn nicht auf der Erde umhergereist, sodass sie schauen (konnten), wie das Ende derjenigen war, die vor ihnen waren? Sie waren zahlreicher als sie und hatten mehr Kraft und Einflüsse auf der Erde als sie. So nützte ihnen nicht, was sie erworben hatten.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Δεν ταξίδεψαν (οι άπιστοι από τον λαό σου, ω, Μωχάμμαντ) στη γη για να δουν πώς ήταν το τέλος εκείνων (των άπιστων) που ήταν πριν απ' αυτούς; Οι οποίοι ήταν περισσότεροι απ' αυτούς, ανώτεροι σε δύναμη και άφησαν πιο δυνατά σημάδια στη γη (έσκαψαν στα βουνά σπίτια και έχτισαν πιο δυνατά κτήρια), αλλά δεν τους προστάτεψαν (από την τιμωρία του Αλλάχ) ό,τι κέρδισαν (από δύναμη).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तो क्या वे धरती में चले-फिरे नहीं, ताकि देखते कि उन लोगों का परिणाम कैसा रहा, जो उनसे पहले गुज़र चुके हैं? वे (धन में) इनसे अधिक तथा शक्ति और धरती में (छोड़ी हुई) निशानियों[24] में अधिक बढ़कर थे। किंतु वे जो कुछ कमाते थे, वह उनके कुछ काम न आया।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
Non hanno viaggiato in terra e visto quale fu la fine di quelli che li hanno preceduti? Erano più numerosi, più forti e più ricchi in terra, ma a nulla gli è servito ciò che possedevano!
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
82. Argi jie nekeliavo žeme ir nematė, kokia pabaiga buvo tų, anksčiau jų? Jų buvo daugiau nei jų ir galingesnių jėga, ir pėdsakais (kuriuos jie paliko po savęs) žemėje. Tačiau vis tiek viskas, ką jie įgydavo, jiems nedavė naudos.
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Русский · Russian
Неужели они не ходили по земле и не видели, каков был итог тех, которые были до них? Они превосходили их числом, силой и следами [деятельности] на земле. Но не спасло их то, что они приобретали.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Зашто они не путују по свету, па да виде како су завршили они пре њих? Они су били од њих бројнији и јачи и више су трагова на Земљи оставили, и ништа им није користило оно што су стекли.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Kwani hawatembei katika ardhi wakaona namna ulivyokuwa mwisho wa wale waliokuwa kabla yao? Wao walikuwa wengi kuliko hawa, na wamewashinda kwa nguvu na athari katika nchi. Wala hayakuwafaa hayo waliyokuwa wakiyachuma.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Har de då inte färdats på jorden och sett hur det slutade för de som levde förr? De var fler än de själva och väldigare i styrka, och de lämnade större avtryck på jorden. Men inget av det de åstadkommit var dem till någon nytta.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Kendilerinden öncekilerin akıbetlerinin nasıl olduğuna bakmaları için yeryüzünde gezip dolaşmadılar mı? Onlar bunlardan daha çok, kuvvetçe de, yerlerinde eserleri itibari ile de daha güçlü ve daha çetin idiler ama kazanageldikleri şeyler onlara fayda vermedi.
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اردو · Urdu
کیا انہوں نے زمین میں چل پھر کر اپنے سے پہلوں کا انجام نہیں دیکھا[1] ؟ جو ان سے تعداد میں زیاده تھے قوت میں سخت اور زمین میں بہت ساری یادگاریں چھوڑی تھیں[2]، ان کے کیے کاموں نے انہیں کچھ بھی فائده نہیں پہنچایا.[3]
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Talal Itani2012 And in them you have other benefits as well, and through them you satisfy your needs. And on them, and on the ships, you are transported.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 (Many) benefits ye have from them - and that ye may satisfy by their means a need that is in your breasts, and may be borne upon them as upon the ship
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and ye have in them advantages;- and that ye may attain thereon a want which is in your breasts; upon them and upon ships are ye borne
John Medows Rodwell1861 (Other advantages too do ye derive from them) - and that by them ye may effect the projects ye cherish in your breasts; for on them, and on ships are ye borne
George Sale1734 ye also receive other advantages therefrom; -- and that on them ye may arrive at the business proposed in your mind: And on them are ye carried by land, and on ships by sea
Easy-read (simplified)falammaa jaa'athum rusuluhum bil-bayyinaati farihoo bimaa 'indahum mina l-'ilmi wahaaqa bihim maa kaanoo bihi yastahzi'oon
DIN 31635falammā ǧāʾathum rusuluhum bil-bayyināti fariḥū bimā ʿindahum mina l-ʿilmi waḥāqa bihim mā kānū bihi yastahziʾūna
Talal Itani2012 When their messengers came to them with clear proofs, they rejoiced in the knowledge they had, and the very things they used to ridicule besieged them.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when their messengers brought them clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty) they exulted in the knowledge they (themselves) possessed. And that which they were wont to mock befell them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when there came to them their apostles with manifest signs they rejoiced in what knowledge they had; but there closed in upon them that whereat they had mocked
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when their apostles had come to them with the tokens of their mission, they exulted in what they possessed of knowledge; but that retribution at which they scoffed, encompassed them
George Sale1734 And when their apostles came unto them with evident proofs of their mission, they rejoiced in the knowledge which was with them: But that which they mocked at, encompassed them
Talal Itani2012 Then, when they witnessed Our might, they said, "We believe in God alone, and we reject what we used to associate with Him."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then, when they saw Our doom, they said: We believe in Allah only and reject (all) that we used to associate (with Him)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when they saw our violence they said, 'We believe in God alone, and we disbelieve in what we once associated with Him
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when they beheld our vengeance they said, "We believe in God alone, and we disbelieve in the deities we once associated with Him
George Sale1734 And when they beheld our vengeance, they said, we believe in God alone, and we renounce the idols which we associated with Him
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.61
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.58
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.56
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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.