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
It is a message for you, and for your people; and you will be questioned.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And lo! it is in truth a Reminder for thee and for thy folk; and ye will be questioned
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, verily, it is a reminder to thee and to thy people, but in the end they shall be asked
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And it is a memorial unto thee and thy people, and hereafter shall ye be examinedconcerning your observancethereof
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
Me të vërtetë, ky (Kuran) është nder për ty dhe popullin tënd dhe ju do të merreni në llogari.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
নিশ্চয় এ আল-কুরআন তোমার জন্য এবং তোমার জাতির জন্য উপদেশ। আর অচিরেই তোমাদেরকে জিজ্ঞাসা করা হবে।(১৯)
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Kur’an je, zaista, čast i tebi i narodu tvome; pa bit ćete pitani!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Kuran je, zaista, čast i tebi i narodu tvome; pa bit ćete pitani!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Ndee non [Alqur'aanaare], ko nde teddungal maa an e yimɓe maa ɓeen. Aray nde laɓnditeeɗon.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და, ჭეშმარიტად, ეს [ყურანი] უეჭველად არის საპატიო შეხსენება შენთვის (ო, მუჰამმად) და შენი ხალხისთვის, და თქვენ (ამის გამო) პასუხს აგებთ.
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Deutsch · German
Und das ist ja fürwahr eine Ermahnung für dich und dein Volk, und ihr werdet befragt werden.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Πράγματι, αυτό (το Κορ’άν) είναι δόξα (και δύναμη) για σένα και για τον λαό σου (αν το ακολουθήσει, και είναι υπενθύμιση για σας), και πράγματι, θα ερωτηθείτε (για το πώς τελέσατε τις εντολές του).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और निःसंदेह वह निश्चय आपके लिए तथा आपकी जाति के लिए एक नसीहत (तथा सम्मान) है और शीघ्र ही तुमसे प्रश्न किया जाएगा।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Ed è in verità un onore per te e per la tua gente, e ne sarete interrogati.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
44. Ir tikrai tai (Koranas) yra tikras Priminimas tau (Muchammedai ﷺ) ir tavo žmonėms (Kuraišų žmonėms, arba tavo pasekėjams) ir tu būsi klausinėjamas (apie tai).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Inni (Qur’aanni) siifi ummata keetiifis gorsa. Fuula dura ni gaafatamtu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И, воистину, это — напоминание для тебя и твоего народа, и вы ещё будете спрошены!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Кур'ан је, заиста, част и теби и твоме народу; па бићете питани!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na hakika haya ni ukumbusho kwako na kwa kaumu yako. Na mtakuja ulizwa.
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Svenska · Swedish
Denna [Koran] är sannerligen en ära för dig och ditt folk, och ni ska alla utfrågas [om ert gensvar till den].
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Şüphesiz bu Kur’an; sana ve kavmine bir şereftir, ondan sorguya çekileceksiniz.
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اردو · Urdu
اور یقیناً یہ (خود) آپ کے لیے اور آپ[1] کی قوم کے لیے نصیحت ہے اور عنقریب تم لوگ پوچھے جاؤ گے.
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.
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DIN 31635ʾaw nuriyannaka llaḏī waʿadnāhum faʾinnā ʿalayhim muqtadirūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Or show you what We have promised them; for We have absolute power over them.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Or (if) We show thee that wherewith We threaten them; for lo! We have complete command of them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 or whether we show thee that which we have promised them; for, verily, we have power over them
John Medows Rodwell1861 Or whether we make thee a witness of the accomplishment of that with which we threatened them, we will surely gain the mastery over them
George Sale1734 or whether We cause thee to see the punishment with which We have threatened them, executed, We will certainly prevail over them
Easy-read (simplified)was'al man arsalnaa min qablika min rusulinaa aja'alnaa min dooni r-rahmaani aalihatan yu'badoon
DIN 31635wasʾal man ʾarsalnā min qablika min rusulinā ʾaǧaʿalnā min dūni r-raḥmāni ʾālihatan yuʿbadūna
Talal Itani2012 Ask those of Our messengers We sent before you: "Did We appoint gods besides the Most Gracious to be worshiped?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before thee: Did We ever appoint gods to be worshipped beside the Beneficent
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And ask those whom we have sent before thee amongst the prophets, 'Did we make gods beside the Merciful One for them to serve
John Medows Rodwell1861 And ask our Sent Ones whom we have sent before thee, "Appointed we gods beside the God of Mercy whom they should worship
George Sale1734 And ask our apostles whom We have sent before thee, whether We have appointed gods for them to worship, besides the Merciful
Talal Itani2012 We sent Moses with Our revelations to Pharaoh and his dignitaries. He said, "I am the Messenger of the Lord of the Worlds."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And verily We sent Moses with Our revelations unto Pharaoh and his chiefs, and he said: I am a messenger of the Lord of the Worlds
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We did send Moses with our signs to Pharaoh and his chiefs, and he said, 'Verily, I am the apostle of the Lord of the worlds
John Medows Rodwell1861 Of old sent we Moses with our signs to Pharaoh and his nobles: and he said, "I truly am the Apostle of the Lord of the worlds
George Sale1734 We formerly sent Moses with our signs unto Pharaoh and his princes, and he said, verily I am the apostle of the Lord of all creatures
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 —
0.70 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 · John Medows Rodwell0.80
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.75
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.74
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.71
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.71
Talal Itani · George Sale0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
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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.