أَمْ ءَاتَيْنَٰهُمْ كِتَٰبًا مِّن قَبْلِهِۦ فَهُم بِهِۦ مُسْتَمْسِكُونَ
Easy-read (simplified)am aataynaahum kitaaban min qablihi fahum bihi mustamsikoon
DIN 31635ʾam ʾātaynāhum kitāban min qablihi fahum bihi mustamsikūna
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
The translators word this verse differently
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.
Or have We given them a book prior to this one, to which they adhere?
Talal Itani, ClearQuran ·ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB·Talal Itani / ClearQuran.com ·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International·retrieved 7 Sep 2026
Translation by Talal Itani, ClearQuran.com https://clearquran.com
Or have We given them any scripture before (this Qur'an) so that they are holding fast thereto
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
Have we given them a book before it to which they might hold
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an ·1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Have we ere this given them a Book? and do they possess it still
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an ·1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Have We given them a book of revelations before this; and do they keep the same in their custody
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
Mos vallë u kemi dhënë Ne atyre ndonjë libër para këtij, të cilit i përmbahen?!
নাকি আমি তাদেরকে কুরআনের পূর্বে কোন কিতাব দিয়েছি(৯), ফলে তারা তা দৃঢ়ভাবে ধারণ করে আছে?
Ili smo im dali Knjigu prije toga pa se nje pridržavaju?!
Ili smo im dali Knjigu prije toga pa se nje pridržavaju?!
Kaa ko defftere Min ngaddani ɓe ado ndee ɗoo, hara ko nden woni ko ɓe njogitii?
ნუთუ ჩვენ მივეცით მათ ამის [ყურანის] წინ რაიმე წიგნი, რომელსაც ისინი იცავენ (მტკიცედ)?
Oder haben Wir ihnen etwa vor ihm eine Schrift gegeben, an der sie sich festhalten könnten?
Ή μήπως τους δώσαμε (στους άπιστους) πριν απ' αυτό (το Κορ’άν), ένα βιβλίο (που τους επιτρέπει να λατρεύουν άλλους εκτός από τον Αλλάχ), και έτσι προσκολλώνται σ' αυτό (ως απόδειξη);
या हमने उन्हें इससे पहले कोई पुस्तक प्रदान की है? तो वे उसे दृढ़ता से थामने वाले हैं?[7]
O abbiamo dato loro un libro, prima di Esso, a cui attenersi?
21. Arba ar Mes davėme jiems kokią nors Knygą prieš šią (Koraną), kurios jie tvirtai laikosi?
Moo (Qur’aana) kana dura kitaaba isaaniif kennine, kan isaan isa qabatoo tahan?
Или же Мы даровали им Писание прежде этого, за которое они крепко держатся?
Или смо им дали Књигу пре тога па се ње придржавају?!
Kwani tuliwapa Kitabu kabla ya hiki, na ikawa wao wanakishikilia hicho.
Eller har vi skänkt dem en skrift före denna som de klamrar sig fast vid?
Yoksa daha önceden onlara bir kitap verdik de, onlar o kitaba mı tutunuyorlar?
کیا ہم نے انہیں اس سے پہلے کوئی (اور) کتاب دی ہے جسے یہ مضبوط تھامے ہوئے ہیں.[1]
5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
Which translations appear here is set by copyright: they are the ones whose rights could be documented and cleared. The selection is not a judgement that these are the best.
Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation, not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading. Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the same edition and their orthography differs.
shown so it's never read alone
وَجَعَلُوا۟ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةَ ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عِبَٰدُ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ إِنَٰثًا أَشَهِدُوا۟ خَلْقَهُمْ سَتُكْتَبُ شَهَٰدَتُهُمْ وَيُسْـَٔلُونَ
Easy-read (simplified)waja'aloo l-malaa'ikata lladheena hum 'ibaadu r-rahmaani inaathan ashahidoo khalqahum satuktabu shahaadatuhum wayus'aloon
DIN 31635waǧaʿalū l-malāʾikata llaḏīna hum ʿibādu r-raḥmāni ʾināṯan ʾašahidū ḫalqahum satuktabu šahādatuhum wayusʾalūna
And they appoint the angels, who are servants to the Most Gracious, as females. Have they witnessed their creation? Their claim will be recorded, and they will be questioned.
And they make the angels, who are the slaves of the Beneficent, females. Did they witness their creation? Their testimony will be recorded and they will be questioned
And have they made the angels, who are the servants of the Merciful One, females? Were they witnesses of their creation? their witness shall be written down, and they shall be questioned
And they make the angels who are the servants of God of Mercy, females. What! did they witness their creation? Their witness shall be taken down, and they shall hereafter be enquired at
And do they make the angels, who are the servants of the Merciful, females? Were they present at their creation? Their testimony shall be written down, and they shall be examined concerning the same, on the day of judgment
وَقَالُوا۟ لَوْ شَآءَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ مَا عَبَدْنَٰهُم مَّا لَهُم بِذَٰلِكَ مِنْ عِلْمٍ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَخْرُصُونَ
Easy-read (simplified)waqaaloo law shaa'a r-rahmaanu maa 'abadnaahum maa lahum bidhaalika min 'ilmin in hum illaa yakhrusoon
DIN 31635waqālū law šāʾa r-raḥmānu mā ʿabadnāhum mā lahum biḏālika min ʿilmin ʾin hum ʾillā yaḫruṣūna
And they say, "Had the Most Gracious willed, we would not have worshiped them." But they have no knowledge of that; they are merely guessing.
And they say: If the Beneficent One had (so) willed, we should not have worshipped them. They have no knowledge whatsoever of that. They do but guess
and they say, 'Had the Merciful pleased we should never have worshipped them.' They have no knowledge of that, they only conjecture
And they say: "Had the God of Mercy so willed it we should never have worshipped them." No knowledge have they in this: they only lie
And they say, if the Merciful had pleased, we had not worshipped them. They have no knowledge herein: They only utter a vain lie
43:21 — the verse above
بَلْ قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا وَجَدْنَآ ءَابَآءَنَا عَلَىٰٓ أُمَّةٍ وَإِنَّا عَلَىٰٓ ءَاثَٰرِهِم مُّهْتَدُونَ
Easy-read (simplified)bal qaaloo innaa wajadnaa aabaa'anaa 'alaa ummatin wa'innaa 'alaa aathaarihim muhtadoon
DIN 31635bal qālū ʾinnā waǧadnā ʾābāʾanā ʿalā ʾummatin waʾinnā ʿalā ʾāṯārihim muhtadūna
But they say, "We found our parents on a course, and we are guided in their footsteps."
Nay, for they say only: Lo! we found our fathers following a religion, and we are guided by their footprints
Nay; they say, 'We found our fathers (agreed) upon a religion, and, verily, we are guided by their traces
But say they: "Verily we found our fathers of that persuasion, and verily, by their footsteps do we guide ourselves
But they say, verily we found our fathers practising a religion; and we are guided in their footsteps
وَكَذَٰلِكَ مَآ أَرْسَلْنَا مِن قَبْلِكَ فِى قَرْيَةٍ مِّن نَّذِيرٍ إِلَّا قَالَ مُتْرَفُوهَآ إِنَّا وَجَدْنَآ ءَابَآءَنَا عَلَىٰٓ أُمَّةٍ وَإِنَّا عَلَىٰٓ ءَاثَٰرِهِم مُّقْتَدُونَ
Easy-read (simplified)wakadhaalika maa arsalnaa min qablika fee qaryatin min nadheerin illaa qaala mutrafoohaa innaa wajadnaa aabaa'anaa 'alaa ummatin wa'innaa 'alaa aathaarihim muqtadoon
DIN 31635wakaḏālika mā ʾarsalnā min qablika fī qaryatin min naḏīrin ʾillā qāla mutrafūhā ʾinnā waǧadnā ʾābāʾanā ʿalā ʾummatin waʾinnā ʿalā ʾāṯārihim muqtadūna
Likewise, We sent no warner before you to any town, but the wealthy among them said, "We found our parents on a course, and we are following in their footsteps."
And even so We sent not a warner before thee (Muhammad) into any township but its luxurious ones said: Lo! we found our fathers following a religion, and we are following their footprints
Thus, too, did we never send before thee to a city any warner, but the affluent ones thereof said, 'Verily, we found our fathers (agreed) upon a religion, and, verily, we are led by their traces
And thus never before thy time did we send a warner to any city but its wealthy ones said: "Verily we found our fathers with a religion, and in their tracks we tread
Thus We sent no preacher, before thee, unto any city, but the inhabitants thereof who lived in affluence, said, verily we found our fathers practising a religion: And we tread in their footsteps
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Uthmani, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
أَمْ آتَيْنَاهُمْ كِتَابًا مِّن قَبْلِهِ فَهُم بِهِ مُسْتَمْسِكُونَ
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
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 — 0.66 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.
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
The platform does not say which is right, and does not characterise what the difference means. The renderings are placed together so the difference is visible; reading it is the reader's work.
SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
7 sources stand behind this page. Each is listed once, in the order the page first cites it, with the licence it was cleared under and what was actually read. Nothing on this page rests on a source that is not here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CLEARED. Parallel edition, held in ayah_text_variants. It sits alongside the Uthmani spine for search normalisation and is never used to correct it.
Qur'anic text from the Tanzil Project. Copyright (C) 2007-2026 Tanzil Project License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Source: tanzil.net · Updates: tanzil.net/updates/ https://tanzil.net/updates/