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Lo! Allah will cause those who believe and do good works to enter Gardens underneath which rivers flow; while those who disbelieve take their comfort in this life and eat even as the cattle eat, and the Fire is their habitation
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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
God will admit those who believe and do good deeds into gardens beneath which rivers flow. As for those who disbelieve, they enjoy themselves, and eat as cattle eat, and the Fire will be their dwelling.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Verily, God causes those who believe and do right to enter into gardens beneath which rivers flow; but those who misbelieve enjoy themselves and eat as the cattle eat; but the fire is the resort for them
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Verily God will bring those who believe, and do the things that are right, into the Gardens, beneath whose shades the rivers flow: but they who believe not, take their fill, and eat as the beasts eat! And their dwelling-place the fire
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Verily God will introduce those who believe, and do good works, into gardens beneath which rivers flow: But the unbelieversindulge themselves in pleasures, and eat as beasts eat; and their abode shall be hell fire
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, Allahu do t'i fusë ata që besojnë dhe bëjnë vepra të mira në Xhenete, nëpër të cilat rrjedhin lumenj. Ndërkaq, ata që mohojnë, dëfrehen e hanë ashtu siç hanë bagëtia, ndërkohë që Zjarri do të jetë vendstrehimi i tyre.
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বাংলা · Bengali
নিশ্চয় যারা ঈমান এনেছে ও সৎকর্ম করেছে, আল্লাহ তাদেরকে জান্নাতে প্রবেশ করাবেন, যার পাদদেশ দিয়ে নহরসমূহ প্রবাহিত। কিন্তু যারা কুফরী করে তারা (দুনিয়ার) ভোগ-বিলাসে মত্ত থাকে এবং তারা আহার করে যেমন চতুষ্পদ জন্তুরা আহার করে। আর জাহান্নামই তাদের বাসস্থান।
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
Allah će one koji vjeruju i dobra djela čine uvesti u džennetske bašče, kroz koje rijeke teku. A oni koji ne vjeruju – koji se naslađuju i žderu kao što stoka ždere – njihovo će prebivalište Vatra biti!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Allah će one koji vjeruju i dobra djela čine uvesti u rajske bašče, kroz koje rijeke teku. A oni koji ne vjeruju – koji se naslađuju i žderu kao što stoka ždere – njihovo će prebivalište Vatra biti!
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.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
უეჭველად, ალლაჰი შეიყვანს მათ, რომელთაც ირწმუნეს და კეთილი საქმეები აკეთეს, სამოთხეებში, რომელთა ქვეშაც მდინარეები მოედინება. ხოლო რომელთაც უარყვეს, ტკბებიან და ჭამენ, როგორც პირუტყვი ჭამს, და ცეცხლია მათი სამყოფელი.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Wahrlich, Allah lässt diejenigen, die glauben und rechtschaffene Taten verrichten, in Gärten eingehen, unter denen Bäche fließen. Diejenigen aber, die ungläubig sind, genießen und essen (im Diesseits), wie das Vieh frisst; und das (Höllen)feuer wird ein Aufenthaltsort für sie sein.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ θα εισάγει, αυτούς που πιστεύουν και κάνουν ενάρετες πράξεις, σε κήπους, κάτω από τους οποίους (δηλ. κάτω από τα παλάτια και τα δέντρα τους) ρέουν ποτάμια. Όσο γι' εκείνους που αρνήθηκαν την πίστη, απολαμβάνουν (στην εγκόσμια ζωή ακολουθώντας τους πόθους τους) και τρώνε όπως τρώνε τα βοοειδή, αλλά (στη Μέλλουσα Ζωή) η Φωτιά θα είναι η κατοικία τους.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
निश्चय अल्लाह उन लोगों को जो ईमान लाए और उन्होंने अच्छे कर्म किए, ऐसे बाग़ों में दाखिल करेगा जिनके नीचे से नहरें बहती हैं। तथा जिन लोगों ने कुफ़्र किया, वे फ़ायदा उठाते और खाते हैं, जैसे पशु खाते हैं और आग उनके लिए रहने की जगह है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
In verità Allāh farà entrare quelli che hanno creduto e hanno fatto il bene in paradisi sotto cui scorrono fiumi. E per i miscredenti che godono la vita e mangiano come gli animali, il Fuoco sarà l’ultimo rifugio.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
12. Iš tiesų, Allahas įleis tuos, kurie tikėjo (Allaho Vienumą) ir darė gerus darbus, į sodus su žemai tekančiom upėm. Bet tie, kurie netiki mėgaujasi (žemės gėrybėmis) ir ėda lyg gyvuliai. Ugnis bus jų buveinė.
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
Воистину, Аллах введёт тех, которые уверовали и совершали праведные деяния, в сады, внизу которых текут реки. А те, которые отвергли веру, наслаждаются и едят подобно тому, как ест скот, и адский огонь — обитель для них.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Аллах ће оне који верују и раде добра дела да уведе у рајске баште, кроз које теку реке, а они који не верују - који се наслађују и једу као што једе стока - њихово пребивалиште ће да буде Ватра!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Hakika Mwenyezi Mungu atawaingiza wale walioamini na wakatenda mema katika Bustani za mbinguni zipitiwazo na mito kati yake. Na wale waliokufuru hujifurahisha na hula kama walavyo wanyama, na Moto ndio makazi yao.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
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Svenska · Swedish
De som tror och handlar rättfärdigt ska Gud föra in i trädgårdar genom vilka floder rinner. [I dag] roar de otrogna sig och de äter [glupskt] som boskap, men elden ska bli deras slutliga boning.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Şüphesiz Allah, iman edip, salih ameller işleyenleri içinden ırmaklar akan Cennetlere koyacaktır. Kâfirler ise (dünya zevklerinden) yararlanırlar ve hayvanların yediği gibi yerler. Onların kalacakları yer ateştir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
جو لوگ ایمان ﻻئے اور انہوں نے نیک اعمال کیے انہیں اللہ تعالیٰ ایسے باغوں میں داخل کرے گا جن کے نیچے نہریں جاری ہیں اور جو لوگ کافر ہوئے وه (دنیا ہی کا) فائده اٹھا رہے ہیں اور مثل چوپایوں کے کھا رہے ہیں[1] ، ان کا (اصل) ٹھکانہ جہنم ہے.
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 31635ʾafalam yasīrū fī l-ʾarḍi fayanẓurū kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu llaḏīna min qablihim dammara llāhu ʿalayhim walilkāfirīna ʾamṯāluhā
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Have they not journeyed through the earth and seen the consequences for those before them? God poured destruction upon them, and for the unbelievers is something comparable.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Have they not travelled in the land to see the nature of the consequence for those who were before them? Allah wiped them out. And for the disbelievers there will be the like thereof
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Have they not journeyed through the land and seen how was the end of those before them? God destroyed them; and for the misbelievers is the like thereof
John Medows Rodwell1861 Have they not journeyed through the land, and seen what hath been the end of those who flourished before them? God brought destruction on them: and the like of this doth await the infidels
George Sale1734 Do they not travel through the earth, and see what hath been the end of those who were before them? God utterly destroyed them: And the like catastrophe awaiteth the unbelievers
Easy-read (simplified)waka'ayyin min qaryatin hiya ashaddu quwwatan min qaryatika llatee akhrajatka ahlaknaahum falaa naasira lahum
DIN 31635wakaʾayyin min qaryatin hiya ʾašaddu quwwatan min qaryatika llatī ʾaḫraǧatka ʾahlaknāhum falā nāṣira lahum
Talal Itani2012 How many a town was more powerful than your town which evicted you? We destroyed them, and there was no helper for them.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And how many a township stronger than thy township (O Muhammad) which hath cast thee out, have We destroyed, and they had no helper
Edward Henry Palmer1880 How many a city, stronger than thy city which has driven thee out, have we destroyed, and there was none to help them
John Medows Rodwell1861 And how many cities were mightier in strength than thy city, which hath thrust thee forth! We destroyed them, and there was none to help them
George Sale1734 How many cities were more mighty in strength than thy city which hath expelled thee; yet have We destroyed them, and there was none to help them
DIN 31635ʾafaman kāna ʿalā bayyinatin min rabbihi kaman zuyyina lahu sūʾu ʿamalihi wāttabaʿū ʾahwāʾahum
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Is he who stands upon evidence from his Lord, like someone whose evil deed is made to appear good to him? And they follow their own desires?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Is he who relieth on a clear proof from his Lord like those for whom the evil that they do is beautified while they follow their own lusts
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Is he who rests upon a manifest sign from his Lord like him, the evil of whose works is made seemly to him, and who follow their lusts
John Medows Rodwell1861 Shall he who followeth the clear teaching of his Lord be as he, the evil of whose doings hath been made to seem good to him, or like those who follow their own lusts
George Sale1734 Shall he, therefore, who followeth the plain declaration of his Lord, be as he whose evil works have been dressed up for him by the devil; and who follow their own lusts
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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 Rodwell0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.57
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · George Sale0.49
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.49
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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.