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And in the alternation of night and day, and in the sustenance God sends down from the sky, with which He revives the earth after its death, and in the circulation of the winds, are marvels for people who reason.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And the difference of night and day and the provision that Allah sendeth down from the sky and thereby quickeneth the earth after her death, and the ordering of the winds, are portents for a people who have sense
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 in the alternation of night and day, and the provision that God has sent down from heaven and quickened thereby the earth after its death, and in the veering of the winds are signs unto a people who have sense
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And in the succession of night and day, and in the supply which God sendeth down from the Heaven whereby He givethlife to the earth when dead, and in the change of the winds, are signs for a people of discernment
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
and also in the vicissitude of night and day, and the rain which God sendeth down from heaven, whereby He quickeneth the earth after it hath been dead: In the change of the winds also are signs, unto people of understanding
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
Por, edhe në ndërrimin e natës dhe ditës, në shiun që Allahu zbret nga qielli për të gjallëruar tokën pasi të jetë tharë, si dhe në lëvizjen e erërave, ka shenja për njerëzit që mendojnë.
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
আর রাত ও দিনের আবর্তনে, আকাশ থেকে আল্লাহ যে রিযিক (বৃষ্টি) নাযিল করেন, অতঃপর তা দ্বারা জমিনকে তার মৃত্যুর পর জীবিত করেন এবং বায়ুর গতিপরিবর্তনে, বিবেকবান সম্প্রদায়ের জন্য রয়েছে বহু নিদর্শন।(২)
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
i u smjeni noći i dana, i opskrbi – kiši koju Allah s neba spušta da pomoću nje zemlju, nakon mrtvila njezina, oživi, i u usmjeravanju vjetrova – znakovi su za ljude koji razumiju.
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
i u smjeni noći i dana, i opskrbi – kiši koju Allah s neba spušta da pomoću nje zemlju, nakon mrtvila njezina, oživi, i usmjeravanju vjetrova – znakovi su za ljude koji razumiju.
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
Fulfulde · Fulani
E luutondirgol jehma e ñalawma ngol, e kon ko Allah jippiniri ka kammu, immorde e toɓo, O wuurnitiri ngo leydi ndin ɓaawo ndi yo'orude, e firlitagol keneeli ɗin, ko Ma'andeeji wonan'de yimɓe haqqilooɓe ɓen.
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
ქართული · Georgian
და ღამისა და დღის მონაცვლეობაში, და იმაში, რაც გარდმოავლინა ალლაჰმა ციდან სარჩოდ (წვიმა) და გააცოცხლა მისით მიწა, მისი სიკვდილის შემდეგ, და ქარების მონაცვლეობაში, ნიშნებია მოაზროვნე ხალხისთვის.
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 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und (auch in) dem Unterschied von Nacht und Tag und (in) dem, was Allah an Versorgung vom Himmel herabkommen lässt und dann damit die Erde nach ihrem Tod wieder lebendig macht, und im Wechsel der Winde sind fürwahr Zeichen für Leute, die begreifen.
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
Και στη διαδοχή της νύχτας και της ημέρας, και σε ό,τι στέλνει ο Αλλάχ από τον ουρανό από παροχή (βροχή), -με την οποία αναζωογονεί τη γη μετά το θάνατό της-, και στις αλλαγές των κατευθύνσεων των ανέμων, υπάρχουν Σημάδια για τους ανθρώπους που κατανοούν (και συλλογίζονται).
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
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा रात और दिन के फेर-बदल में और उस रोज़ी में जो अल्लाह ने आकाश से उतारा, फिर उसके द्वारा धरती को उसके मरने के पश्चात् जीवित कर दिया, तथा हवाओं के फेरने में, उन लोगों के लिए बहुत-सी निशानियाँ हैं, जो बुद्धि से काम लेते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E nella differenza tra notte e giorno e nelle piogge che Allāh ha fatto scendere dal cielo a vostro sostentamento, ravvivando la terra dopo la sua morte, e nel variare dei venti ci sono Segni per gente che riflette.
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
5. Ir nakties bei dienos kaitoje, ir aprūpinimas (lietus), kurį Allahas nuleidžia iš dangaus, ir atgaivina juo žemę po jos mirties, ir vėjų apgręžime (t. y. kartais į rytus ar šiaurę, kartais link pietų ar vakarų, kartais nešančius gerą žinią apie lietų ir t. t. ir kartais nešančius kančią) yra ženklai žmonėms, kurie suvokia.
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.
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 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И в смене ночи и дня, и в том, что Аллах ниспосылает с неба из удела и оживляет этим землю после её смерти, и в смене ветров — знамения для людей, которые разумеют.
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
и у смени ноћи и дана, и киши коју Аллах спушта са неба да помоћу ње оживи земљу, након њеног мртвила, и усмеравању ветрова - знаци су за људе који разумеју.
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
Na kupishana usiku na mchana, na riziki anayoiteremsha Mwenyezi Mungu kutoka mbinguni, na kwayo akaifufua ardhi baada ya kufa kwake, na mabadiliko ya upepo, ni Ishara kwa watu wenye akili.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Likaså i växlingen mellan natt och dag, och i den försörjning som Gud sänder ned från skyn för att ge liv åt död mark, och i vindarnas rörelse – i allt detta finns tecken för människor som använder sitt förstånd.
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
Türkçe · Turkish
Gece ve gündüzün değişip durmasında, Allah’ın gökten bir rızık indirip onunla yeri ölümünden sonra diriltmesinde ve rüzgârları evirip çevirmesinde de aklını kullanan bir topluluk için ayetler vardır.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور رات دن کے بدلنے میں اور جو کچھ روزی اللہ تعالیٰ آسمان سے نازل فرما کر زمین کو اس کی موت کے بعد زنده کر دیتا ہے[1] ، (اس میں) اور ہواؤں کے بدلنے میں بھی ان لوگوں کے لیے جو عقل رکھتے ہیں نشانیاں ہیں.[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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Easy-read (simplified)wafee khalqikum wamaa yabuththu min daabbatin aayaatun liqawmin yooqinoon
DIN 31635wafī ḫalqikum wamā yabuṯṯu min dābbatin ʾāyātun liqawmin yūqinūna
Talal Itani2012 And in your own creation, and in the creatures He scattered, are signs for people of firm faith.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And in your creation, and all the beasts that He scattereth in the earth, are portents for a folk whose faith is sure
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and in your creation and the beasts that are spread abroad are signs to a people who are sure
John Medows Rodwell1861 And in your own creation, and in the beasts which are scattered abroad are signs to the firm in faith
George Sale1734 And in the creation of yourselves, and of the beasts which are scattered over the face of the earth, are signs unto people of sound judgment
Talal Itani2012 These are God's Verses which We recite to you in truth. In which message, after God and His revelations, will they believe?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 These are the portents of Allah which We recite unto thee (Muhammad) with truth. Then in what fact, after Allah and His portents, will they believe
Edward Henry Palmer1880 These are the signs of God which we recite to thee in truth; and in what new story after God and His signs will they believe
John Medows Rodwell1861 Such are the signs of God: with truth do we recite them to thee. But in what teaching will they believe, if they reject God and his signs
George Sale1734 These are the signs of God; We rehearse them unto thee with truth. In what revelation therefore will they believe, after they have rejected God and his signs
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 —
0.61 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Talal Itani · George Sale0.64
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.47
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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.