Easy-read (simplified)istajeeboo lirabbikum min qabli an ya'tiya yawmun laa maradda lahu mina llaahi maa lakum min malja'in yawma'idhin wamaa lakum min nakeer
DIN 31635istaǧībū lirabbikum min qabli ʾan yaʾtiya yawmun lā maradda lahu mina llāhi mā lakum min malǧaʾin yawmaʾiḏin wamā lakum min nakīrin
Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.
Talal Itani· published 2012
Respond to your Lord before there comes from God a Day that cannot be turned back. You will have no refuge on that Day, and no possibility of denial.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Answer the call of your Lord before there cometh unto you from Allah a Day which there is no averting. Ye have no refuge on that Day, nor have a ye any (power of) refusal
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
Assent to your Lord before the day comes of which there is no averting from God; there is no refuge for you on that day; and for you there is no denial
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Hearken then to your Lord ere the day come, which none can put back when God doth ordain its coming. No place of refuge for you on that day! no denying your own works
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Hearken unto your Lord, before the day come, which God will not keep back: Ye shall have no place of refuge on that day; neither shall ye be able to deny your sins
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
Përgjigjjuni Zotit tuaj para se të vijë një Ditë e caktuar nga Allahu, e cila nuk mund të zmbrapset. Atë Ditë nuk do të keni kurrfarë strehimi e as do të mund të mohoni asgjë.
Translated by the team of 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 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
(হে মানুষ!) তোমরা তোমাদের রবের ডাকে সাড়া দাও, আল্লাহর পক্ষ থেকে সেই দিন আসার আগেই, যাকে ফিরিয়ে দেওয়ার কোনো উপায় নেই। সেদিন তোমাদের জন্য কোনো আশ্রয়স্থল থাকবে না এবং তোমাদের (অপরাধ) অস্বীকার করারও কোনো সুযোগ থাকবে না।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Odazovite se Gospodaru svome prije nego što dođe Dan koji Allah neće zaustaviti. Taj Dan utočišta nećete imati i nećete moći poricati.
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
Odazovite se Gospodaru svome prije nego što dođe Dan koji Allah neće zaustaviti. Taj Dan utočišta nećete imati i nećete moći poricati.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Nootee Joomi mon, ado ñalaande arde, nde ruttoowo alaa ɗuum ka Allah. Nden ñalnde, faaborde alanaa on, jeddugol kadi alanaa oon.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
უპასუხეთ თქვენს უფალს (ო, ურწმუნოებო), სანამ დადგება ის დღე [განკითხვის დღე], რომლისგანაც უკან დასახევი გზა არ არის ალლაჰისგან. იმ დღეს არც თავშესაფარი გექნებათ და არც თქვენი დანაშაულების უარყოფას შეძლებთ!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Hört auf euren Herrn, bevor ein Tag kommt, der von Allah nicht zurückgewiesen wird. Keinen Zufluchtsort werdet ihr an jenem Tag haben und keine Möglichkeit zur Missbilligung.
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
Ανταποκριθείτε στον Κύριό σας (τελώντας τις εντολές Του) προτού έρθει από τον Αλλάχ μία Ημέρα, που τίποτε δε θα μπορέσει να την αποτρέψει. Εκείνη την Ημέρα δε θα έχετε κανένα καταφύγιο, ούτε θα μπορείτε να αρνηθείτε (τις αμαρτίες σας, ούτε να δείξετε αντίρρηση, ούτε θα έχετε κανέναν υπερασπιστή).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
अपने पालनहार का निमंत्रण स्वीकार करो, इससे पहले कि वह दिन आए, जिसे अल्लाह की ओर से टलना नहीं। उस दिन तुम्हारे लिए न कोई शरण स्थल होगा और न तुम्हारे लिए इनकार का कोई रास्ता होगा।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Date ascolto al vostro Dio, prima che arrivi un giorno in cui non ci sarà scampo da Allāh: quel giorno non avrete più rifugio e non avrete nulla da negare».
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
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
47. Atsiliepkite į savo Viešpaties Kvietimą (t. y. priimkite islamiškąjį monoteizmą, žmonės ir džinai) anksčiau nei ateis iš Allaho Diena, kurios negalima išvengti (t. y. Prikėlimo Diena). Neturėsit prieglobsčio tą Dieną, nei nebus jums jokio neigimo (jūsų nusikaltimų, nes jie visi yra įrašyti jūsų veiksmų Knygoje).
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 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Rabbii keessaniif owwaadhaa Guyyaan namni isa deebisuu danda’u hin jirre sun Rabbi irraa odoo isinitti hin dhufin dura. Guyyaa san hirkoon homaatuu isiniif hin jiru. Mormiinis isiniif hin jiru.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Ответьте своему Господу прежде, чем наступит от Аллаха День, который нельзя отвратить! В тот день у вас не будет убежища, и вы не сможете отрицать [содеянного].
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
Одазовите се своме Господару пре него што дође Дан који Аллах неће да заустави. Тог Дана уточишта нећете да имате и нећете моћи да поричете.
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
Muitikieni Mola wenu Mlezi kabla haijafika siku isiyoepukika, itokayo kwa Mwenyezi Mungu. Siku hiyo hamtakuwa na pa kukimbilia wala hamtakuwa na cha kukingia.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Besvara er Herres kall innan den dag infaller som Gud har fastställt, och som ingen kan avvärja. Då har ni ingenstans att fly och ingen möjlighet att förneka [era handlingar].
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Allah’tan, geri çevrilmesi imkânsız olan bir gün gelmeden önce Rabbinizin çağrısına uyun. O gün sizin için ne sığınacak bir yer vardır, ne de (günahlarınızı) inkâr edebilirsiniz.
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
اردو · Urdu
اپنے رب کا حکم مان لو اس سے پہلے کہ اللہ کی جانب سے وه دن آجائے جس کا ہٹ جانا ناممکن[1] ہے، تمہیں اس روز نہ تو کوئی پناه کی جگہ ملے گی نہ چھﭗ کر انجان بن جانے کی.[2]
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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DIN 31635watarāhum yuʿraḍūna ʿalayhā ḫāšiʿīna mina ḏ-ḏulli yanẓurūna min ṭarfin ḫafiyyin waqāla llaḏīna ʾāmanū ʾinna l-ḫāsirīna llaḏīna ḫasirū ʾanfusahum waʾahlīhim yawma l-qiyāmati ʾalā ʾinna ẓ-ẓālimīna fī ʿaḏābin muqīmin
Talal Itani2012 And you will see them exposed to it, cowering from disgrace, looking with concealed eyes. Those who believed will say, "The losers are those who lost themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection." Indeed, the evildoers are in a lasting torment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And thou wilt see them exposed to (the Fire), made humble by disgrace, and looking with veiled eyes. And those who believe will say: Lo! the (eternal) losers are they who lose themselves and their housefolk on the Day of Resurrection. Lo! are not the wrong-doers in perpetual torment
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and thou mayest see them exposed to it, humbled with abasement, looking with a stealthy glance. And those who believe shall say, 'Verily the losers are they who have lost themselves and their family's too upon the resurrection day!' Ay, verily, the unjust are in lasting torment
John Medows Rodwell1861 And thou shalt see them when set before it, downcast for the shame: they shall look at it with stealthy glances: and the believers shall say, "Truly are the losers they who have lost themselves and their families on the day of Resurrection! Shall not the perpetrators of injustice be in lasting torment
George Sale1734 And thou shalt see them exposed unto hell fire; dejected, because of the ignominy they shall undergo: They shall look at the fire sideways, and by stealth; and the true believers shall say, verily the losers are they who have lost their own souls, and their families, on the day of resurrection: Shall not the ungodly continue in eternal torment
Easy-read (simplified)wamaa kaana lahum min awliyaa'a yansuroonahum min dooni llaahi waman yudlili llaahu famaa lahu min sabeel
DIN 31635wamā kāna lahum min ʾawliyāʾa yanṣurūnahum min dūni llāhi waman yuḍlili llāhu famā lahu min sabīlin
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 They will have no allies to support them against God. Whomever God leaves astray has no way out.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And they will have no protecting friends to help them instead of Allah. He whom Allah sendeth astray, for him there is no road
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And they shall have no patrons to help them beside God, and whomsoever God leads astray, there is no way for him
John Medows Rodwell1861 And no other protectors shall there be to succour them than God; and no pathway for him whom God shall cause to err
George Sale1734 They shall have no protectors to defend them against God: And whom God shall cause to err, he shall find no way to the truth
Talal Itani2012 But if they turn away-We did not send you as a guardian over them. Your only duty is communication. Whenever We let man taste mercy from Us, he rejoices in it; but when misfortune befalls them, as a consequence of what their hands have perpetrated, man turns blasphemous.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But if they are averse, We have not sent thee as a warder over them. Thine is only to convey (the message). And lo! when We cause man to taste of mercy from Us he exulteth therefor. And if some evil striketh them because of that which their own hands have sent before, then lo! man is an ingrate
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But if they turn aside, we have not sent thee to them as a guardian, thou hast only thy message to preach. And, verily, when we have made man taste of mercy from us he rejoices therein; but if there befall them an evil for what their hands have done before - then, verily, man is ungrateful
John Medows Rodwell1861 But if they turn aside from thee, yet we have not sent thee to be their guardian. 'Tis thine but to preach. When we cause man to taste our gifts of mercy, he rejoiceth in it; but if for their by-gone handy-work evil betide them, then lo! is man ungrateful
George Sale1734 But if those to whom thou preachest turn aside from thy admonitions, verily We have not sent thee to be a guardian over them: Thy duty is preaching only. When We cause man to taste mercy from Us, he rejoiceth thereat: But if evil befall them, for that which their hands have formerly committed, verily man becometh ungrateful
Easy-read (simplified)lillaahi mulku s-samaawaati wal-'ardi yakhluqu maa yashaa'u yahabu liman yashaa'u inaathan wayahabu liman yashaa'u dh-dhukoor
DIN 31635lillāhi mulku s-samāwāti wal-ʾarḍi yaḫluqu mā yašāʾu yahabu liman yašāʾu ʾināṯan wayahabu liman yašāʾu ḏ-ḏukūra
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. He creates whatever He wills. He grants daughters to whomever He wills, and He grants sons to whomever He wills.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Unto Allah belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth. He createth what He will. He bestoweth female (offspring) upon whom He will, and bestoweth male (offspring) upon whom He will
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, He creates what He pleases, He grants to whom He pleases females, and He grants to whom He pleases males, or He gives them in pairs, males and females
John Medows Rodwell1861 God's, the kingdom of the Heavens and of the Earth! He createth what He will! and he giveth daughters to whom He will, and sons to whom He will
George Sale1734 Unto God appertaineth the kingdom of heaven and earth: He createth that which He pleaseth; He giveth females unto whom He pleaseth, and He giveth males unto whom He pleaseth
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.77
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.73
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.64
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.47
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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.