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
And mention the brother of Aad, as he warned his people at the dunes. Warnings have passed away before him, and after him: "Worship none but God; I fear for you the punishment of a tremendous Day."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And make mention (OMuhammad) of the brother of A'ad when he warned his folk among the wind-curvedsandhills - and verily warners came and went before and after him - saying: Serve none but Allah. Lo! I fear for you the doom of a tremendous Day
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
Remember too the brother of 'Ad when he warned his people at ElA'hqaf,- though warners have passed away before him and after him,- 'Serve not other than God; verily, I fear for you the torment of a mighty day
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Remember, too, the brother of Ad when he warned his people in AL AHKAF - and before and since his time there have been warners - "Worship none but God: verily I fear for you the punishment of the great day
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Remember the brother of Ad, when he preached unto his people in al Ahkaf, -- and there were preachers before him, and after him, -- saying, worship none but God: Verily I fear for you the punishment of a great day
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
Kujto vëllanë e adëve (Hudin), kur e paralajmëroi popullin e vet në Ahkaf, – ndonëse edhe para tij e pas tij pati paralajmërues, – (duke thënë): "Mos adhuroni askënd tjetër përveç Allahut! Me të vërtetë, unë kam frikë për ju nga dënimi i një Dite të madhe."
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 রাসূল! স্মরণ করো ‘আদ সম্প্রদায়ের ভাই (হূদ)-য়ের কথা, যখন সে আহকাফ(৬) উপত্যকায় স্বীয় সম্প্রদায়কে সতর্ক করেছিল। আর এমন সতর্ককারীরা তার পূর্বে এবং তার পরেও এসেছিল, (৭) ‘তোমরা আল্লাহ ছাড়া কারো ইবাদাত করো না। নিশ্চয় আমি তোমাদের ওপর এক ভয়াবহ দিনের শাস্তির আশঙ্কা করছি।’
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 spomeni brata Adovog, kad je narod svoj u Ahkafu upozoravao – a bilo je i prije njega i poslije njega upozoravatelja: “Samo Allahu ibadet činite! Ja se bojim za vas patnje na Velikom danu!”
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 spomeni brata Adovog, kad je narod svoj u Ahkafu upozoravao – a bilo je i prije njega i poslije njega upozoravatelja: “Samo Allaha obožavajte! Ja se bojim za vas patnje na Velikom danu!”
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
Jaŋto fii musiɗɓe Aadi (Huudi) ɓeen, nde o jertinirnoo yimɓe makko ɓen aynde nden - gooŋɗii hari jeertinooji yawtiino ye'eso makko e ɓaawo makko - won'de: "Wota on rew si wonaa Allah. Miin miɗo hulani on lepte ñalaande mawnde".
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 შეახსენე 'ადის ძმაზე [შენს ხალხს], აი, მან გააფრთხილა თავისი ხალხი ალ-აჰყაფში, როცა უკვე იყვნენ გამაფრთხილებლები მასზე წინ და მის შემდეგ: «არ ეთაყვანოთ არავის, გარდა ალლაჰისა. ჭეშმარიტად, მე მეშინია თქვენთვის დიდებული დღის სასჯელის!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und gedenke des Bruders der 'Ad (, der Hud hieß), als er bei den windgewellten Sandhügeln (arab. „Ahqaf“) sein Volk warnte. Ihm gingen ja bereits Warner vor und (auch) nach ihm (kamen welche): „Ihr sollt nur Allah dienen. Wahrlich, ich fürchte für euch die Strafe eines gewaltigen Tages.“
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
Ανάφερε (ω, Μωχάμμαντ), (τον Προφήτη Χουντ) τον αδελφό της φυλής ‘Αντ, όταν προειδοποίησε τον λαό του στους Αλ-Αχκάφ (τους ψηλούς αμμόλοφους όπου ήταν τα σπίτια τους) – και πράγματι, ήρθαν προειδοποιητές πριν και μετά απ' αυτόν – (λέγοντας): «Μη λατρεύετε κανέναν παρά μόνο τον Αλλάχ. Πράγματι, φοβάμαι για σας από το μαρτύριο μίας μεγάλης Ημέρας.»
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 आद के भाई (हूद)[16] को याद करो, जब उसने अपनी जाति को अहक़ाफ़ में डराया, जबकि उससे पहले और उसके बाद कई डराने वाले गुज़र चुके कि अल्लाह के अतिरिक्त किसी की इबादत न करो, निःसंदेह मैं तुमपर एक बड़े दिन की यातना से डरता हूँ।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E ricorda il confratello degli ‘Aditi, quando avvertì il suo popolo presso le «al-Aħqaf»[88] e degli ammonitori passarono prima e dopo di lui: «Non adorate altro che Allāh! Io temo per voi la punizione di un terribile Giorno!»
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
21. Ir atmink (Hudą) Ad brolį, kuomet jis perspėjo savo žmones buvusius kopose (pietų Arabijos pusiasalyje). Ir išties, perspėjimas buvo duotas prieš jį ir po jo (sakant): „Negarbinkite nieko, išskyrus Allahą, iš tiesų, aš bijau jums kančios didžią Dieną (t. y. Prikėlimo Dieną).“
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
obboleessa Aad (Huud) yaadadhu, yeroo Ahqaafitti ummata isaa dinniine. Isa duraafi isa boodas sodaachiftoonni dabartee turte. “Allaah malee waan biraa hin gabbarinaa; ani adabbii guyyaa guddaan isin irratti sodaadha” (jechuun).
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
Вспомни брата [из] племени ‘ад, когда он предостерегал свой народ в аль-Ахкафе[64], — а ведь предостерегающие уже приходили и до него, и после него, — [говоря]: «Не поклоняйтесь никому, кроме Аллаха! Воистину, я боюсь для вас наказания Великого дня».
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 спомени Адовог брата, кад је народ свој у Ахкафу опомињао – а било је и пре њега и после њега посланика: “Аллаха само обожавајте, ја, заиста, страхујем да ћете бити у мукама на Великом дану!”
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 mtaje ndugu wa kina 'Adi, alipowaonya watu wake kwenye vilima vya mchanga. Na kwa yakini waonyaji wengi walitokea kabla yake na baada yake kuwaambia: 'Msimuabudu isipokuwa Mwenyezi Mungu. Hakika mimi nawahofia ije kukupateni adhabu ya siku iliyo kuu.'
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Minns när [stammen] ʿĀds broder varnade sitt folk vid sanddynerna efter att varnare redan hade kommit, både före och efter honom, [med orden]: ”Dyrka ingen annan än Gud! Jag fruktar sannerligen för er straffet på en fruktansvärd dag.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Âd kavminin kardeşini (Hûd'u) an! Zira o, kendinden önce ve sonra uyarıcıların da gelip geçtiği Ahkâf bölgesindeki kavmine: "Allah'tan başkasına ibadet etmeyin. Ben sizin büyük bir günün azabına uğramanızdan korkuyorum." demişti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور عاد کے بھائی کو یاد کرو، جبکہ اس نے اپنی قوم کو احقاف میں ڈرایا[1] اور یقیناً اس سے پہلے بھی ڈرانے والے گزر چکے ہیں اور اس کے بعد بھی یہ کہ تم سوائے اللہ تعالیٰ کے اور کسی کی عبادت نہ کرو، بیشک میں تم پر بڑے دن کے عذاب سے خوف کھاتا ہوں.[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 31635walikullin daraǧātun mimmā ʿamilū waliyuwaffiyahum ʾaʿmālahum wahum lā yuẓlamūna
Talal Itani2012 There are degrees for everyone, according to what they have done, and He will repay them for their works in full, and they will not be wronged.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And for all there will be ranks from what they do, that He may pay them for their deeds; and they will not be wronged
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and for all are degrees of what they have done, so that He may repay them their works, and they shall not be wronged
John Medows Rodwell1861 And there are grades for all, according to their works, that God may repay them for their works; and they shall not be dealt with unfairly
George Sale1734 For every one is prepared a certain degree of happiness or misery, according to that which they shall have wrought; that God may recompense them for their works: And they shall not be treated unjustly
Talal Itani2012 On the Day when the faithless will be paraded before the Fire: "You have squandered your good in your worldly life, and you took pleasure in them. So today you are being repaid with the torment of shame, because of your unjust arrogance on earth, and because you used to sin."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And on the day when those who disbelieve are exposed to the Fire (it will be said): Ye squandered your good things in the life of the world and sought comfort therein. Now this day ye are rewarded with the doom of ignominy because ye were disdainful in the land without a right, and because ye used to transgress
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And the day when those who misbelieve shall be exposed to the fire: 'Ye made away with your good things in your worldly life, and ye enjoyed them; wherefore today shall ye be rewarded with the torment of disgrace, for that ye were big with pride in the earth without the right, and for that ye did abomination
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they who believe not shall one day be set before the fire. "Ye made away your precious gifts during your life on earth; and ye took your fill of pleasure in them: This day, therefore, with punishment of shame shall ye be rewarded, for that ye behaved you proudly and unjustly on the earth, and for that ye were given to excesses
George Sale1734 On a certain day, the unbelievers shall be exposed before the fire of hell; and it shall be said unto them, ye received your good things in your life-time, while ye were in the world; and ye enjoyed yourselves therein: Wherefore this day ye shall be rewarded with the punishment of ignominy; for that ye behaved insolently in the earth, without justice, and for that ye transgressed
Easy-read (simplified)qaaloo aji'tanaa lita'fikanaa 'an aalihatinaa fa'tinaa bimaa ta'idunaa in kunta mina s-saadiqeen
DIN 31635qālū ʾaǧiʾtanā litaʾfikanā ʿan ʾālihatinā faʾtinā bimā taʿidunā ʾin kunta mina ṣ-ṣādiqīna
Talal Itani2012 They said, "Did you come to us to divert us from our gods? Then bring us what you threaten us with, if you are being truthful."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They said: Hast come to turn us away from our gods? Then bring upon us that wherewith thou threatenest us, if thou art of the truthful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They said, 'Hast thou come to us to turn us from our gods? then bring us what thou dost threaten us with, if thou art of those who speak the truth
John Medows Rodwell1861 They said, "Art thou come to us to turn us away from our gods? Bring on us now the woes which thou threatenest if thou speakest truth
George Sale1734 They answered, art thou come unto us that thou mayest turn us aside from the worship of our gods? Bring on us now the punishment with which thou threatenest us, if thou art a man of veracity
Talal Itani2012 He said, "The knowledge is only with God, and I inform you of what I was sent with; but I see you are an ignorant people."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He said: The knowledge is with Allah only. I convey unto you that wherewith I have been sent, but I see you are a folk that know not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Said he, 'Knowledge is only with God: but I will preach to you that which I am sent with, though I see you are a people who are ignorant
John Medows Rodwell1861 That knowledge," said he, "is with God alone: I only proclaim to you the message with which I am sent. But I perceive that ye are a people sunk in ignorance
George Sale1734 He said, verily the knowledge of the time when your punishment will be inflicted, is with God; and I only declare unto you that which I am sent to preach; but I see ye are an ignorant people
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 —
0.58 on a scale
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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 Rodwell0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.58
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Talal Itani · George Sale0.54
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.53
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.36
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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.