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Talal Itani· published 2012
So He completed them as seven universes in two days, and He assigned to each universe its laws. And We decorated the lower universe with lamps, and for protection. That is the design of the Almighty, the All-Knowing.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Then He ordained them seven heavens in two Days and inspired in each heaven its mandate; and We decked the nether heaven with lamps, and rendered it inviolable. That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Knower
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 He decreed them seven heavens in two days, and inspired every heaven with its bidding: and we adorned the lower heaven with lamps and guardian angels; that is the decree of the mighty, the knowing One
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And He made them seven heavens in two days, and in each heaven madeknown its office: And we furnished the lower heaven with lights and guardian angels. This, the disposition of the Almighty, the All-knowing
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And He formed them into seven heavens, in two days; and revealed unto every heaven its office. And We adorned the lower heaven with lights, and placed therein a guard of angels. This is the disposition of the mighty, the wiseGod
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
Ai krijoi shtatë qiej brenda dy ditësh dhe secilit qiell ia caktoi detyrën e vet. Ndërkaq, qiellin më të afërt e zbukuruam me yje ndriçues dhe e mbrojtëm atë. Ky është përcaktimi i të Gjithëfuqishmit, të Gjithëdijshmit.
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বাংলা · Bengali
তারপর তিনি দু’দিনে(৯) আসমানসমূহকে সাত আসমানে পরিণত করলেন। আর প্রত্যেক আসমানে তার কার্যাবলী ওহীর মাধ্যমে জানিয়ে দিলেন।(১০) আর আমি (দুনিয়ার) নিকটবর্তী আসমানকে প্রদীপমালা (তারকারাজি)-র দ্বারা সুসজ্জিত করেছি এবং (১১)সুরক্ষিত করেছি। এগুলো হল মহা পরাক্রমশালী সর্বজ্ঞের নির্ধারণ।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Tada ih je u dva dana, kao sedam nebesa stvorio, i odredio šta će se na svakom nebu nalaziti. A najbliže nebo smo svjetiljkama ukrasili i njih kao zaštitu učinili. To je odredba Silnoga i Sveznajućeg.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Tada ih je u dva dana, kao sedam nebesa stvorio, i odredio što će se na svakom nebu nalaziti. A najbliže nebo smo svjetiljkama ukrasili i njih kao zaštitu učinili. To je odredba Silnoga i Sveznajućeg.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
O timminiri ɗi kammuuji jeeɗiɗi ndeer balɗe ɗiɗi, O yamiri kala kammu, fiyaaku maggu. Min cuɗiniri kammu aduna ngun, koode e reenirɗum. Ɗum ko eɓɓoore pooluɗo, gannduɗo On.
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ქართული · Georgian
და მან ორი დღეში დაამტკიცა ისინი [ცანი] შვიდად და თითოეულ ცას თავისი საქმე დაუწესა. და ჩვენ უახლოესი ცა (რომელსაც ჩვენს ზემოთ ვხედავთ) მნათობებით [ვარსკვლავებით] შევამკეთ, და დავიცავით (ეშმაკებისგან, რომლებიც ცაში ალლაჰის სიტყვას ეპარებიან). ასეთია (ალლაჰის) — დიდებულის, ყოვლისმცოდნის — განგება!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
So führte Er sie als sieben Himmel in zwei Tagen aus und gab jedem Himmel seine Aufgabe ein. Und Wir haben den untersten Himmel mit Lampen geschmückt, und auch als Schutz. Dies ist die Anordnung des Allmächtigen und des Allwissenden.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Έτσι, τους έκανε (τους ουρανούς) επτά ουρανούς σε δύο Ημέρες, και αποκάλυψε σε κάθε ουρανό ό,τι έχει ορίσει εκεί.» Πράγματι, στολίσαμε τον χαμηλότερο ουρανό με λαμπτήρες (αστέρια), και τα κάναμε (τα αστέρια) ως προστασία (για το χαμηλότερο ουρανό, από κάθε διάβολο που προσπαθεί να κρυφακούσει). Όλα αυτά τα έχει ορίσει ο Αλ-‘Αζείζ (Παντοδύναμος, Ανίκητος), ο Αλ-‘Αλείμ (Παντογνώστης).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर उसने उन्हें दो दिनों में सात आकाश बना दिए और प्रत्येक आकाश में उससे संबंधित काम की वह़्य की। तथा हमने निकटतम (निचले) आकाश को दीपों (चमकदार सितारों) से सुशोभित किया, तथा (उनके द्वारा) उसको सुरक्षित कर दिया।[4] यह अत्यंत प्रभुत्वशाली, सब कुछ जानने वाले (अल्लाह) की योजना है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Così formò sette cieli in due giorni, e per ogni cielo stabilì la sua funzione. E ornammo il cielo inferiore di lumi, a sua protezione: questo è ordine del Potente, il Sapiente.»
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
12. Tada Jis užbaigė jų kūrimą (kaip) septynis dangus per dvi dienas ir Jis padarė kiekviename danguje jo reikalus. Ir Mes papuošėme arčiausią (žemiausią) dangų šviesuliais (žvaigždėmis) kaip puošmenomis ir padarėme jas apsauga. Toks yra Jo, Visa Galingiausiojo, Visa Žinančiojo Įsakymas.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Samii torba godhee isheewwan xumuree Guyyaa lama keessatti. samii hunda keessatti, dhimma ishee beeksisa itti godhe. Samii addunyaas ifaadhaaleen (urjiileen) miidhagsinee, tika cimaas (tiksine). Kun murtii (Rabbii) injifataa, beekaati.
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Русский · Russian
И Он завершил их [сотворение] семью небесами за два дня и внушил каждому небу его предназначение. Мы украсили ближайшее небо светильниками и сделали его охраняемым. Таково установление Могущественного, Знающего.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Тада их је створио у два дана, као седам небеса, и одредио је шта ће на сваком небу да се налази. А најближе небо смо украсили светиљкама и њих смо учинили као заштиту. То је одредба Силнога и Свезнајућег.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi akazifanya mbingu saba kwa siku mbili, na akazipangia kila mbingu mambo yake. Na tukaipamba mbingu ya chini kwa mataa na kwa ulinzi. Hiki ndicho kipimo cha Mwenye Nguvu, ajuaye zaidi.
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Svenska · Swedish
Under två dagar formade han dem till sju himlar och tilldelade varje himmel dess uppgift. Och den lägsta himlen har vi smyckat med lysande stjärnor som ett skydd [mot intrång]. Sådant är den Allmäktiges, den Allvetandes verk.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Böylece onları yedi gök olarak iki günde varedip, her bir göğe kendi işini bildirdi. Dünya göğünü ise kandillerle/yıldızlarla süsledik ve koruduk. İşte bu; Hakim, Aziz olan (Allah'ın) takdiridir.
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اردو · Urdu
پس دو دن میں سات آسمان بنا دیئے اور ہر آسمان میں اس کے مناسب احکام کی وحی بھیج دی[1] اور ہم نے آسمان دنیا کو چراغوں سے زینت دی اور نگہبانی کی[2]، یہ تدبیر اللہ غالب و دانا کی ہے.
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DIN 31635waǧaʿala fīhā rawāsiya min fawqihā wabāraka fīhā waqaddara fīhā ʾaqwātahā fī ʾarbaʿati ʾayyāmin sawāʾan lilssāʾilīna
Talal Itani2012 He placed stabilizers over it; and blessed it; and planned its provisions in four days, equally to the seekers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He placed therein firm hills rising above it, and blessed it and measured therein its sustenance in four Days, alike for (all) who ask
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And He placed thereon firm mountains above it and blessed it, and apportioned therein its foods in four days alike for those who ask
John Medows Rodwell1861 And he hath placed on the earth the firm mountains which tower above it; and He hath blessed it, and distributed food throughout it, for the cravings of all alike, in four days
George Sale1734 And He placed in the earth mountains firmly rooted, rising above the same: And He blessed it; and provided therein the food of the creatures designed to be the inhabitants thereof, in four days; equally, for those who ask
Talal Itani2012 Then He turned to the sky, and it was smoke, and said to it and to the earth, "Come, willingly or unwillingly." They said, "We come willingly."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then turned He to the heaven when it was smoke, and said unto it and unto the earth: Come both of you, willingly or loth. They said: We come, obedient
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then He made for the heaven and it was but smoke, and He said to it and to the earth, 'Come, ye two, whether ye will or no!' They said, 'We come willingly
John Medows Rodwell1861 Then He applied himself to the Heaven, which then was but smoke: and to it and to the Earth He said, "Come ye, whether in obedience or against your will?" and they both said, "We come obedient
George Sale1734 Then He set his mind to the creation of heaven; and it was smoke: And He said unto it, and to the earth, come, either obediently, or against your will. They answered, we come, obedient to thy command
DIN 31635faʾin ʾaʿraḍū faqul ʾanḏartukum ṣāʿiqatan miṯla ṣāʿiqati ʿādin waṯamūda
Talal Itani2012 But if they turn away, say, "I have warned you of a thunderbolt, like the thunderbolt of Aad and Thamood."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But if they turn away, then say: I warn you of a thunderbolt like the thunderbolt (which fell of old upon the tribes) of A'ad and Thamud
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But if they turn aside, then say, 'I have warned you of a thunder-clap like the thunder-clap of 'Ad and Thamud
John Medows Rodwell1861 If they turn away, then SAY: I warn you of a tempest, like the tempest of Ad and Themoud
George Sale1734 If the Meccans withdraw from these instructions, say, I denounce unto you a sudden destruction, like the destruction of Ad and Thamud
DIN 31635ʾiḏ ǧāʾathumu r-rusulu min bayni ʾaydīhim wamin ḫalfihim ʾallā taʿbudū ʾillā llāha qālū law šāʾa rabbunā laʾanzala malāʾikatan faʾinnā bimā ʾursiltum bihi kāfirūna
Talal Itani2012 Their messengers came to them, from before them and from behind them, saying, "Do not worship anyone but God." They said, "Had our Lord willed, He would have sent down angels; Therefore, we reject what you are sent with."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 When their messengers came unto them from before them and behind them, saying: Worship none but Allah! they said: If our Lord had willed, He surely would have sent down angels (unto us), so lo! we are disbelievers in that wherewith ye have been sent
Edward Henry Palmer1880 when their apostles came to them from before them and from behind them (saying), "Serve ye none but God."' They said, 'If our Lord pleased He would send down angels; so we in what ye are sent with disbelieve
John Medows Rodwell1861 When the apostles came to them on every side, saying, "Worship none but God," they said, "Had our Lord been pleased to send down, He had surely sent down angels; and in sooth, your message we do not believe
George Sale1734 When the apostles came unto them before them and behind them, saying, worship God alone; they answered, if our Lord had been pleased to send messengers, He had surely sent angels: And we believe not the message with which ye are sent
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
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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 Sale0.73
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.61
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.52
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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.