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Talal Itani· published 2012
It is that thought of yours about your Lord that led you to ruin-so you became of the losers.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
That, your thought which ye did think about your Lord, hath ruined you; and ye find yourselves (this day) among the lost
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 that thought of yours which ye thought concerning your Lord has destroyed you, and ye have now become of those who lose
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
This was your opinion, which ye imagined of your Lord: It hath ruined you; and ye are become lost people
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
Pikërisht ky mendim që patët për Zotin tuaj ju shkatërroi, kështu që u bëtë të humbur.
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বাংলা · Bengali
বস্তুত তোমাদের রবের ব্যাপারে এই কুধারণাই তোমাদেরকে ধ্বংস করেছে। ফলে তোমরা (ইহকাল ও পরকালে) ক্ষতিগ্রস্তদের অন্তর্ভুক্ত হয়ে গেলে।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
I to vaše uvjerenje, koje ste o Gospodaru svom imali, upropastilo vas je i sad ste nastradali.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I to vaše uvjerenje, koje ste o Gospodaru svom imali, upropastilo vas je i sad ste nastradali.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko ɗuum mooɗon, cikkunoɗon Joomi mon, ɗuum halki on. Waɗtinɗon jeyyaaɓe e pertuɓe ɓeen.
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ქართული · Georgian
აი, ამ თქვენმა წარმოდგენამ, რომელიც თქვენს უფალზე გქონდათ, დაგღუპათ თქვენ და აღმოჩნდით წაგებულთა შორის.
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Deutsch · German
Und diese eure Meinung, die ihr von eurem Herrn hattet, hat euch ins Verderben gestürzt, sodass ihr nunmehr zu den Verlierern gehört.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αυτό ήταν που νομίζατε για τον Κύριό σας, το οποίο σας κατέστρεψε, και έτσι, γίνατε από τους χαμένους.»
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तुम्हारी इसी दुर्भावना ने, जो तुमने अपने पालनहार के प्रति रखा, तुम्हें विनष्ट कर दिया और तुम घाटा उठाने वालों में से हो गए।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E quelle sono le vostre supposizioni; ciò che avete sospettato nei confronti del vostro Dio vi ha rovinato, e ora siete tra i perdenti».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
23. Ir ta jūsų mintis, kurią galvojote apie savo Viešpatį atvedė jus į sunaikinimą. Ir jūs tapote (šią Dieną) iš visiškai pralaimėjusiųjų.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Sun yaada hamaa keessan, kan isin Gooftaa keessanitti yaaddaniidha. Isin balleessee, warra hoonga’an irraa taatan.
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Русский · Russian
И это ваше предположение, которое вы допускали о вашем Господе, погубило вас, и вы оказались в числе потерпевших убыток.
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Српски · Serbian
И то уверење које сте имали о своме Господару вас је упропастило, и сад сте настрадали.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi hiyo dhana yenu mliyokuwa mkimdhania Mola wenu Mlezi, imekuangamizeni; na mmekuwa miongoni mwa waliohasiri.
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Svenska · Swedish
Och just denna förmodan som ni hade om er Herre har lett till er undergång, och nu står ni som förlorare.
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Türkçe · Turkish
İşte Rabbiniz hakkındaki bu zannınız sizi helâk etti de, hüsrana uğrayanlardan oldunuz.
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اردو · Urdu
تمہاری اسی بدگمانی نےجو تم نے اپنے رب سے کر رکھی تھی تمہیں ہلاک کر دیا[1] اور بالﺂخر تم زیاں کاروں میں ہو گئے.
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DIN 31635waqālū liǧulūdihim lima šahidttum ʿalaynā qālū ʾanṭaqanā llāhu llaḏī ʾanṭaqa kulla šayʾin wahuwa ḫalaqakum ʾawwala marratin waʾilayhi turǧaʿūna
Talal Itani2012 And they will say to their skins, "Why did you testify against us?" They will say, "God, Who made all things speak, made us speak. It is He who created you the first time, and to Him you are returned."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And they say unto their skins: Why testify ye against us? They say: Allah hath given us speech Who giveth speech to all things, and Who created you at the first, and unto Whom ye are returned
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And they shall say to their skins, 'Why have ye borne witness against us?' they shall say, 'God gave us speech who has given speech to everything; He created you at first, and unto Him shall ye be returned
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they shall say to their skins, "Why witness ye against us?" They shall say, "God, who giveth a voice to all things, hath given us a voice: He created you at first, and to Him are ye brought back
George Sale1734 And they shall say unto their skins, wherefore do ye bear witness against us? They shall answer, God hath caused us to speak, who giveth speech unto all things: He created you the first time; and unto Him are ye returned
Talal Itani2012 You were unable to hide yourselves from your hearing, and your sight, and your skins, to prevent them from testifying against you, and you imagined that God was unaware of much of what you do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Ye did not hide yourselves lest your ears and your eyes and your skins should testify against you, but ye deemed that Allah knew not much of what ye did
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and ye could not conceal yourselves that your hearing and your eyesight should not be witness against you, nor your skins; but ye thought that God did not know much of what ye do
John Medows Rodwell1861 And ye did not hide yourselves so that neither your ears nor your eyes nor your skins should witness against you: but ye thought that God knew not many a thing that ye did
George Sale1734 Ye did not hide your selves, while ye sinned, so that your ears, and your eyes, and your skins could not bear witness against you: But ye thought that God was ignorant of many things which ye did
DIN 31635faʾin yaṣbirū fan-nāru maṯwan lahum waʾin yastaʿtibū famā hum mina l-muʿtabīna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 If they endure patiently, the Fire will be their residence; and if they make up excuses, they will not be pardoned.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And though they are resigned, yet the Fire is still their home; and if they ask for favour, yet they are not of those unto whom favour can be shown
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And if they are patient, still the fire is a resort for them; and if they ask for favour again, they shall not be taken into favour
John Medows Rodwell1861 And be they patient, still the fire shall be their abode: or if they beg for favour, yet shall they not be of favoured
George Sale1734 Whether they bear their torment, hell fire shall be their abode; or whether they beg for favour, they shall not obtain favour
Easy-read (simplified)waqayyadnaa lahum quranaa'a fazayyanoo lahum maa bayna aydeehim wamaa khalfahum wahaqqa 'alayhimu l-qawlu fee umamin qad khalat min qablihim mina l-jinni wal-'insi innahum kaanoo khaasireen
DIN 31635waqayyaḍnā lahum quranāʾa fazayyanū lahum mā bayna ʾaydīhim wamā ḫalfahum waḥaqqa ʿalayhimu l-qawlu fī ʾumamin qad ḫalat min qablihim mina l-ǧinni wal-ʾinsi ʾinnahum kānū ḫāsirīna
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Talal Itani2012 We had assigned companions for them, who glamorized to them what was in front of them, and what was behind them. And the Word proved true against them in communities of jinn and humans that have passed away before them. They were losers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And We assigned them comrades (in the world), who made their present and their past fairseeming unto them. And the Word concerning nations of the jinn and humankind who passed away before them hath effect for them. Lo! they were ever losers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We will allot to them mates, for they have made seemly to them what was before them and what was behind them; and due against them was the sentence on the nations who passed away before them; both of ginns and of mankind; verily, they were the losers
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we will appoint Satans as their fast companions; for it was they who made their present and future state seem fair and right to them; and the sentence passed on the peoples of Djinn and men who flourished before them hath become their due, and they shall perish
George Sale1734 And We will give them the devils to be their companions; for they dressed up for them the false notions which they entertained of this present world, and of that which is to come; and the sentence justly fitteth them, which was formerly pronounced on the nations of genii and men who were before them; for they perished
These figures count the words the translations share. They measure wording, not meaning, and they do not say which translation is right.
Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.68 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 Sale0.83
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.77
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.77
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.76
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.74
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.72
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.54
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.52
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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.