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Talal Itani· published 2012
That you may mount their backs, and remember the favor of your Lord as you sit firmly upon them, and say, "Glory be to Him Who placed these at our service; surely we could not have done it by ourselves.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
That ye may mount upon their backs, and may remember your Lord's favour when ye mount thereon, and may say: Glorified be He Who hath subdued these unto us, and we were not capable (of subduing them)
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
that ye may settle yourselves on their backs; then remember the favour of your Lord when ye settled thereon, and say, 'Celebrated be the praises of Him who hath subjected this to us! We could not have got this ourselves
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
That ye may sit balanced on their backs and remember the goodness of your Lord as ye sit so evenly thereon, and say: "Glory to Him who hath subjected these to us! We could not have attained to it of ourselves
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
that ye may sit firmly on the backs thereof, and may remember the favour of your Lord, when ye sit thereon, and may say, praise be unto Him, Who hath subjected these unto our service! For we could not have mastered them by our own power
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
që të hipni mbi to e pastaj të kujtoni mirësinë e Zotit tuaj pasi të jeni vendosur mbi to e të thoni: "I patëmeta është Ai që na i nënshtroi këto, se ne nuk do të mund ta bënim
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বাংলা · Bengali
যাতে তোমরা (ভ্রমণকালে) এর পিঠে স্থির থাকতে পারো, তারপর তোমাদের রবের অনুগ্রহ স্মরণ করবে, যখন তোমরা এর ওপর স্থির হয়ে বসবে আর বলবে: ‘পবিত্র-মহান সেই সত্তা যিনি এগুলোকে আমাদের বশীভূত করে দিয়েছেন। আর আমরা এগুলোকে নিয়ন্ত্রণ করতে সক্ষম ছিলাম না’।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
da se na palubama i leđima njihovim smjestite i da se, potom, kada se smjestite na njih, sjetite blagodati Gospodara svoga i da reknete: “Slavljen i uzvišen neka je Onaj Koji nam je ovo potčinio, mi to sami ne bismo mogli postići,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
da se na palubama i leđima njihovim smjestite i da se, potom, kada se smjestite na njih, sjetite blagodati Gospodara svoga i da reknete: “Slavljen i uzvišen neka je Onaj Koji nam je ovo podčinio, mi to sami ne bismo mogli postići,
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Fulfulde · Fulani
fii yo on potondir e hoore majji, refti ngannditon neema Joomi mon on, tuma potondirɗon e majji, mb'on on tuma: "Senaare woodanii eeltanɗo min ɗuum On, min ngonaano taaqanaaɓe ɗum.
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ქართული · Georgian
რათა მოთავსდეთ მათ ზურგებზე, შემდეგ გაიხსენოთ თქვენი უფლის წყალობა, როცა მასზე მოთავსდებით, და თქვათ: «დიდება მას, ვინც დაგვიმორჩილა ეს, და ჩვენ არ ვიყავით ამის შემძლენი,
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Deutsch · German
damit ihr euch auf ihren Rücken zurechtsetzt und hierauf der Gunstgabe eures Herrn gedenkt, wenn ihr euch darauf zurechtgesetzt habt, und sagt: „Gepriesen sei Derjenige, Der uns dies dienstbar gemacht hat, und wir wären hierzu ja nicht imstande gewesen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
για να ανέβετε (στα καταστρώματα και) στις πλάτες τους (των βοοειδών), έπειτα να θυμηθείτε τη χάρη του Κυρίου σας (σε σας) όταν ανεβείτε εκεί, και να πείτε: «Δόξα σ' Αυτόν που το υπέταξε αυτό για μας, γιατί δε θα μπορούσαμε να το είχαμε κάνει μόνοι μας,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
ताकि तुम उनकी पीठों पर जमकर बैठो, फिर अपने पालनहार की नेमत को याद करो जब उनपर जमकर बैठ जाओ और कहो : पवित्र है वह अल्लाह, जिसने इसे हमारे वश में कर दिया। हालाँकि हम इसे वश में करने वाले नहीं थे।[4]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
perché, adagiandovi sui loro dorsi, poi ricordiate la grazia del vostro Dio, una volta adagiati, e diciate: «Gloria a Colui che ci ha asservito ciò, e non saremmo capaci, da soli, di asservirli.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
13. tam, kad jūs užsėstumėte ant jų nugarų, ir tada atmintumėte savo Viešpaties Malonę, kai ten užsėdate ir sakytumėte: „Garbė Tam, Kuris pavergė tai mums, ir mes galėjome niekada to neturėti (savo pastangomis).
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Akka dugda isaanii irratti baatanii, ergasii ni’imaa Gooftaa keessanii yeroo (duuyda) isaarratti (geejjibaarratti) ol baatan yaadattanii “Inni kana nuuf laaffise qulqullaa’e; nuti isa danda’oo hin turre” jettaniif.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Чтобы вы занимали на них своё место, а затем, устроившись на них, поминали милость вашего Господа и говорили: «Пречист Тот, Кто подчинил нам это, ведь сами мы не смогли бы с этим совладать!
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Српски · Serbian
да се сместите на њиховим палубама и леђима и да се, потом, када се сместите на њих, сетите благодати свога Господара и да кажете: „Слављен и Узвишен нека је Онај Који нам је ово потчинио, ми то сами не би могли да постигнемо,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Ili mkae vizuri migongoni mwao, kisha mkumbuke neema za Mola wenu Mlezi mnapokaa sawa sawa juu yao, na mseme: 'Ametakasika aliyemfanya huyu atutumikie, na tusingeliweza kufanya haya wenyewe.'
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Svenska · Swedish
så att ni må sätta er till rätta på deras ryggar och däck och sedan, när ni befinner er på dem, må minnas er Herres välgärning, och säga: ”Upphöjd är han som har ställt detta till vårt förfogande – vi hade aldrig kunnat göra det själva.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Ta ki onların üstüne binerken Rabbinizin nimetini hatırlayasınız ve şöyle diyesiniz: "Emrine boyun eğdirerek bunları, bizim hizmetimize veren (Allah'ı) tesbih ve takdis ederiz. Yoksa biz bunlara güç yetiremezdik."
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اردو · Urdu
تاکہ تم ان کی پیٹھ پر جم کر سوار ہوا کرو[1] پھر اپنے رب کی نعمت کو یاد کرو جب اس پر ٹھیک ٹھاک بیٹھ جاؤ، اور کہو پاک ذات ہے اس کی جس نے اسے ہمارے بس میں کردیا حاﻻنکہ ہمیں اسے قابو کرنے کی[2] طاقت نہ تھی.
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DIN 31635wallaḏī nazzala mina s-samāʾi māʾan biqadarin faʾanšarnā bihi baldatan maytan kaḏālika tuḫraǧūna
Talal Itani2012 He who sends down water from the sky in due proportion; and so We revive thereby a dead land. Thus you will be brought out.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Who sendeth down water from the sky in (due) measure, and We revive a dead land therewith. Even so will ye be brought forth
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and who sent down from the heaven water in due measure; and we raised up thereby a dead country; thus shall ye too be brought forth
John Medows Rodwell1861 And who sendeth down out of Heaven the rain in due degree, by which we quicken a dead land; thus shall ye be brought forth from the grave
George Sale1734 And Who sendeth down rain from heaven by measure, whereby We quicken a dead country; -- so shall ye be brought forth from your graves
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.57 on a scale
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.59
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.54
Talal Itani · George Sale0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.52
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.51
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.46
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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.