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Talal Itani· published 2012
Those who despise Our revelations are not hidden from Us. Is he who is hurled into the Fire better? Or he who arrivessafely on the Day of Resurrection? Do as you please; He is Seeing of everything you do.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Lo! those who distort Our revelations are not hid from Us. Is he who is hurled into the Fire better, or he who cometh secure on the Day of Resurrection? Do what ye will. Lo! He is Seer of what ye do
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
Verily, those who are inclined to oppose our signs are not hidden from us. Is he who is cast into the fire better, or he who comes safe on the resurrection day? Do what ye will: verily, He on what ye do doth look
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They truly who with obloquydisown our signs are not hidden from us. Is he then who shall be cast into the fire, or he who shall come forth secure on the day of resurrection, in the better position? Do what ye will: but His eye is on all your doings
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Verily those who impiouslywrong our signs, are not concealed from Us. Is he, therefore, better, who shall be cast into hell fire, or he who shall appear secure on the day of resurrection? Work that which ye will: He certainlybeholdeth whatever ye do
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
Ata që shtrembërojnë ajetet Tona, nuk mund të fshihen prej Nesh. A është më i mirë ai që hidhet në Zjarr apo ai që vjen i sigurt në Ditën e Kiametit? Bëni çfarë të doni, se Ai sheh mirë gjithçka që veproni!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
নিশ্চয় যারা আমার আয়াতসমূহের ব্যাপারে (২১) সত্য থেকে বিমুখ থাকে, তাদের অবস্থা আমার নিকট গোপন নয়। যাকে আগুনে নিক্ষেপ করা হবে সে কি উত্তম, না যে কিয়ামত দিবসে (শাস্তি থেকে) নিরাপদ হয়ে উপস্থিত হবে? হে মানুষ! তোমাদের যা ইচ্ছা আমল কর। নিশ্চয় তোমরা যা আমল করো, তিনি তার সম্যক দ্রষ্টা।
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
Oni koji riječi Naše izvrću neće se, doista, od Nas sakriti. Pa hoće li biti ugodnije onom koji u Vatru bude bačen ili onom koji na Sudnji dan dođe smiren? Radite šta hoćete, On zaista vidi šta vi radite.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Oni koji riječi Naše izvrću neće se, doista, od Nas sakriti. Pa hoće li biti ugodnije onom koji u Vatru bude bačen ili onom koji na Sudnji dan dođe smiren? Radite što hoćete, On zaista vidi što vi radite.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Pellet, ooñotooɓe ɓeen e aayeeje Amen ɗeen, ɓe vuuɗotaako Min. E ko feroyteeɗo on ka Yiite ɓuri moƴƴude kaa ko aroyoowo on Ñalnde Darngal hino hoolii? NGollee ko paalaɗon, ko pellet, Homo reeni ko ngolloton kon.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ჭეშმარიტად, ისინი, ვინც ჩვენს აიათებს ზურგს აქცევენ [არ აღიარებენ ყურანის ჭეშმარიტებას და ცდილობენ მის დამახინჯებას], ჩვენთვის დაფარულნი არ არიან! ვინ არის უკეთესი: ის, ვინც ცეცხლში იქნება ჩაგდებული, თუ ის, ვინც აღდგომის დღეს [ალლაჰის სასჯელისგან] უსაფრთხოდ მოვა? აკეთეთ, რაც გსურთ, რადგან, ჭეშმარიტად, ის [ალლაჰი] ხედავს, რასაც აკეთებთ!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Wahrlich, diejenigen, die mit Unseren Zeichen abwegig umgehen, sind Uns nicht verborgen. Ist denn einer, der ins (Höllen)feuer geworfen wird, besser oder jemand, der am Tag der Auferstehung in Sicherheit kommt. Tut, was ihr wollt, denn Er ist sehend über das, was ihr tut.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Πράγματι, όσο γι' αυτούς που παρεκκλίνουν από (την αλήθεια σχετικά με) τα Εδάφια (και τα Σημάδια) Μας (και τα διαψεύδουν, τα χλευάζουν ή διαστρεβλώνουν τις έννοιές τους), η κατάστασή τους δεν είναι κρυφή από Εμάς! Είναι καλύτερος αυτός που θα ριχτεί στη Φωτιά ή αυτός που θα έρθει ασφαλής την Ημέρα της Ανάστασης; Κάντε ό,τι θέλετε, πράγματι, Αυτός βλέπει όλα όσα κάνετε.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
निःसंदेह जो लोग हमारी आयतों में टेढ़ापन अपनाते हैं, वे हमसे छिपे हुए नहीं हैं। तो क्या जो व्यक्ति आग में डाला जाएगा, वह उत्तम है अथवा जो क़ियामत के दिन निश्चिंत होकर आएगा? तुम जो चाहो करो। निःसंदेह, तुम जो कुछ करते हो, वह उसे ख़ूब देखने वाला है।[13]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
In verità quelli che negano i Nostri Segni non possono nascondersi a Noi: chi sarà gettato nelle fiamme è forse migliore di chi si presenterà al Giudizio con animo tranquillo? Fate ciò che volete: Lui è Osservatore di ciò che fate.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
40. Iš tiesų, tie, kurie nusigręžia nuo Mūsų Ajat (įrodymų, įkalčių, eilučių, pamokų, ženklų, apreiškimų ir t. t., puldami, iškreipdami ir neigdami juos) nėra paslėpti nuo Mūsų. Ar tas, kuris įmetamas į Ugnį, geresnis, ar tas, kuris yra saugus Prikėlimo Dieną? Darykite, ką norite. Tikrai Jis yra Visa Matantis, ką jūs darote (tai yra žiaurus grasinimas netikintiesiems).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Dhugumatti, isaan keeyyattoota keenya bakkarraa jallisan nu jalaa hindhokatan. Sila isa ibidda keessatti darbamu ccaala moo, isa nagaa ta’ee Guyyaa Qiyaamaa dhufutu caala? Waan feetan dalagaa; Inni waan isin dalagdan hunda argaadha.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Воистину, те, которые отклоняются [от истины] в отношении Наших знамений, не скроются от Нас. Неужели тот, кого ввергают в адский огонь, лучше, или же тот, кто предстанет в безопасности в День воскресения? Делайте, что пожелаете, воистину, Он видит то, что вы совершаете.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Збиља, они који Наше речи изврћу неће се сакрити од Нас. Па да ли је бољи онај који у Ватру буде бачен или онај који на Судњем дану дође сигуран? Радите шта хоћете, Он, заиста, добро види шта ви радите.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Hakika wale wanaopindukia mipaka katika Ishara zetu, hawafichikani kwetu. Je, atakayetupwa Motoni ni bora au atakayekuja kwa amani Siku ya Kiyama? Tendeni mpendavyo, kwa hakika Yeye anayaona vyema mnayoyatenda.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
De som förvanskar [betydelsen av] våra verser undgår inte vår uppsikt. Vem är väl bättre [ställd]: den som störtas i elden eller den som möter uppståndelsens dag i trygghet? Gör vad ni behagar; han har full insyn i allt ni gör.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Ayetlerimiz hakkında doğru yoldan sapanlar muhakkak onlar bize gizli kalmazlar. O halde ateşe atılacak kimse mi hayırlıdır yoksa kıyamet gününde emin olarak gelen kimse mi? Dilediğinizi yapın, çünkü o ne yaptığınızı çok iyi görendir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
بیشک جو لوگ ہماری آیتوں میں کج روی کرتے ہیں[1] وه (کچھ) ہم سے مخفی نہیں[2]، (بتلاؤ تو) جو آگ میں ڈاﻻ جائے وه اچھا ہے یا وه جو امن و امان کے ساتھ قیامت کے دن آئے[3]؟ تم جو چاہو کرتے چلے جاؤ[4] وه تمہارا سب کیا کرایا دیکھ رہا ہے.
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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Talal Itani2012 But if they are too proud-those in the presence of your Lord praise Him night and day, and without ever tiring.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But if they are too proud - still those who are with thy Lord glorify Him night and day, and tire not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But if they be too big with pride - yet those who are with thy Lord celebrate His praises by night and day, and they are never weary
John Medows Rodwell1861 But if they are too proud for this, yet they who are with thy Lord do celebrate His praises night and day, and cease not
George Sale1734 But if they proudly disdain his service; verily the angels, who are with thy Lord, praise Him night and day, and are not wearied
Talal Itani2012 And of His signs is that you see the land still. But when We send down water upon it, it stirs and grows. Surely, He Who revived it will revive the dead. He is Able to do all things.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And of His portents (is this): that thou seest the earth lowly, but when We send down water thereon it thrilleth and groweth. Lo! He Who quickeneth it is verily the Quickener of the Dead. Lo! He is Able to do all things
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And of His signs (is this), that thou mayest see the earth drooping, and when we send down water upon it it stirs and swells; verily, He who quickens it will surely quicken the dead; verily, He is mighty over all
John Medows Rodwell1861 And among His signs is this, that thou seest the earth drooping: but, when we send down the rain upon it, it is stirred and swelleth; verily He who giveth it life, will surely give life to the dead; for His might extendeth over all things
George Sale1734 And among his signs another is, that thou seest the land waste: But when we send down rain thereon, it is stirred and fermenteth. And he who quickeneth the earth, will surely quicken the dead; for he is almighty
DIN 31635ʾinna llaḏīna kafarū biḏ-ḏikri lammā ǧāʾahum waʾinnahu lakitābun ʿazīzun
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Those who reject the Reminder when it has come to them-it is an invincible Book.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! those who disbelieve in the Reminder when it cometh unto them (are guilty), for lo! it is an unassailable Scripture
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, those who misbelieve in the reminder when it comes to them - and, verily, it is a glorious Book
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily, they who believe not in "the warning," after it hath come to them . . . and yet the Koran is a glorious book
George Sale1734 Verily they who believe not in the admonition of the Koran, after it hath come unto them, shall one day be discovered. It is certainly a book of infinite value
Easy-read (simplified)laa ya'teehi l-baatilu min bayni yadayhi walaa min khalfihi tanzeelun min hakeemin hameed
DIN 31635lā yaʾtīhi l-bāṭilu min bayni yadayhi walā min ḫalfihi tanzīlun min ḥakīmin ḥamīdin
Talal Itani2012 Falsehood cannot approach it, from before it or behind it. It is a revelation from One Wise and Praiseworthy.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Falsehood cannot come at it from before it or from behind it. (It is) a revelation from the Wise, the Owner of Praise
Edward Henry Palmer1880 falsehood shall not come to it, from before it, nor from behind it - a revelation from the wise, the praiseworthy One
John Medows Rodwell1861 Falsehood, from whatever side it cometh, shall not come night it; it is a missive down from the Wise, the Praiseworthy
George Sale1734 Vanity shall not approach it, either from before it, or from behind it: It is a revelation from a wise God, whose praise is justly to be celebrated
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lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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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 · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.56
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.49
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.46
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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.