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Talal Itani· published 2012
Even if We sent down the angels to them, and the dead spoke to them, and We gathered all things before them, they still would not believe, unless God wills; but most of them are ignorant.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And though We should send down the angels unto them, and the dead should speak unto them, and We should gather against them all things in array, they would not believe unless Allah so willed. Howbeit, most of them are ignorant
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 had we sent down unto them the angels, or the dead had spoken to them, or we had gathered everything unto them in hosts, they would not have believed unless that God pleased - but most of them are ignorant
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And though we had sent down the angels to them, and the dead had spoken to them, and we had gathered all things about them in tribes, they had not believed, unless God had willed it! but most of them do not know it
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And though We had sent down angels unto them, and the dead had spoken unto them, and We had gathered together before them all things in one view; they would not have believed, unless God had so pleased: But the greaterpart of them know it not
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
Edhe sikur t'ua zbritnim melekët e t'u flisnin atyre të vdekurit dhe t'i mblidhnim të gjitha gjërat para (syve të) tyre, ata nuk do të besonin, përveç nëse do të donte Allahu. Por, shumica e tyre nuk dinë.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর যদি আমি তাদের নিকট ফিরিশতা নাযিল করতাম এবং মৃতরা তাদের সাথে কথা বলত আর তাদের সামনে সবকিছু এনেও যদি হাজির করতাম, তবুও তারা ঈমান আনতো না, তবে আল্লাহ চাইলে ভিন্ন কথা। কিন্তু তাদের অধিকাংশই মূর্খ।
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
Kad bismo im meleke poslali, i kad bi im mrtvi progovorili, i kad bismo pred njih sve dokaze sabrali – oni, opet, ne bi vjerovali, osim ako bi Allah htio, ali većina njih ne zna.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Kad bismo im anđele poslali, i kad bi im mrtvi progovorili, i kad bismo pred njih sve dokaze sabrali - oni, opet, ne bi vjerovali, osim ako bi Allah htio, ali većina njih ne zna.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Sinno Minn njippinno e maɓɓe maleykaaji, maayɓe ɓeen njeewtidi e maɓɓe, min moooɓi e maɓɓe kala huunde yeeso maɓɓe ; ɓe laatotanooko gooŋɗinɓe si wonaa nde Alla Muuyi. Kono ko ɗuuɗi e maɓɓe hino majjaa.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
۞ და თუკი ჩვენ მათთან ჩამოვუშვებდით ანგელოზებს, და ელაპარაკებოდნენ მათ მკვდრები, და შევკრებდით მათ წინაშე ყველაფერს პირისპირ (აშკარად), ისინი მაინც არ ირწმუნებდნენ, თუ არა ის, რასაც ალლაჰი ინებებს. მაგრამ მათი უმეტესობა უმეცარია.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und würden Wir auch zu ihnen die Engel hinabsenden, die Toten würden zu ihnen sprechen und Wir alle Dinge vor ihren Augen versammelt hätten, sie würden unmöglich glauben, es sei denn, Allah würde es wollen. Und die meisten von ihnen sind unwissend.
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
Ακόμα κι αν (τους στέλναμε τα σημάδια όπως πρότειναν, και) τους στέλναμε τους αγγέλους, και τους μιλούσαν οι νεκροί (και τους επιβεβαίωναν ότι είσαι ο Αγγελιαφόρος του Αλλάχ), και μαζεύαμε μπροστά τους τα πάντα (που πρότειναν), δε θα πίστευαν, εκτός αν το ήθελε ο Αλλάχ, αλλά οι περισσότεροι απ' αυτούς δεν το γνωρίζουν (και γι' αυτό δε στρέφονται στον Αλλάχ για να τους καθοδηγήσει).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और यदि हम उनकी ओर फ़रिश्ते उतार देते और उनसे मुर्दे बातें करते और हम प्रत्येक चीज़ उनके सामने लाकर इकट्ठा कर देते, तो भी वे ऐसे न थे कि ईमान लाते, परंतु यह कि अल्लाह चाहे, लेकिन उनमें से अधिकतर लोग अज्ञानता से काम लेते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Se avessimo fatto scendere su di loro gli angeli, e avessero parlato loro i morti, e avessimo riunito davanti a loro ogni cosa evidente, non avrebbero creduto se non per il volere di Allāh, ma gran parte di loro ignora.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
111. Ir net jei Mes būtume nuleidę jiems angelus ir mirusieji būtų kalbėję jiems, ir Mes būtume surinkę kartu viską priešais jų pačių akis, jie nebūtų patikėję, nebent Allahas būtų to norėjęs, tačiau dauguma jų elgėsi neišmanančiai.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Odoo Nuti malaykota gara isaaniitti buufnee, du’aawwanis isaaniin haasa'anii, waan hundayyuu isaan duratti walitti qabnellee, isaan yoo Rabbiin fedhe malee kan amanan hintaane. Garuu irra hedduun isaanii ni wallaalu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Даже если бы Мы низвели к ним ангелов, и мёртвые заговорили бы с ними, и Мы собрали бы перед ними всё лицом к лицу — они ни за что не уверовали бы, если только Аллах не пожелал. Однако большинство их пребывает в невежестве.
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
Кад бисмо им анђеле послали, и кад би им мртви проговорили, и кад бисмо пред њима све доказе сабрали - они, опет, не би веровали, осим ако би Аллах хтео, али већина њих не зна.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na lau kuwa tungeliwateremshia Malaika, na maiti wakazungumza nao, na tukawakusanyia kila kitu mbele yao, bado hawakuwa ni wa kuamini, isipokuwa Mwenyezi Mungu atake. Lakini wengi wao hawajui.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Även om vi sände ned änglar till dem och de döda talade till dem och vi samlade allting framför dem, skulle de inte tro om inte Gud ville det. Men de flesta av dem är okunniga.
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
Biz, onlara melekleri de indirsek, onlarla ölüler de konuşsa ve her şeyi toplayıp önlerine de koysak, Allah dilemedikçe onlar yine de iman etmezlerdi. Fakat onların çoğu bilmiyorlar.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور اگر ہم ان کے پاس فرشتوں کو بھیج دیتے[1] اور ان سے مردے باتیں کرنے لگتے[2] اور ہم تمام موجودات کو ان کے پاس ان کی آنکھوں کے روبرو ﻻ کر جمع کر دیتے ہیں[3] تب بھی یہ لوگ ہرگز ایمان نہ ﻻتے ہاں اگر اللہ ہی چاہے تو اور بات ہے لیکن ان میں زیاده لوگ جہالت کی باتیں کرتے ہیں۔[4]
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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Talal Itani2012 They swear by God, with their most solemn oaths, that if a miracle were to come to them, they would believe in it. Say, "The miracles are only with God." But how do you know? Even if it did come, they still would not believe.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And they swear a solemn oath by Allah that if there come unto them a portent they will believe therein. Say; Portents are with Allah and (so is) that which telleth you that if such came unto them they would not believe
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They swore by God with their most strenuous oath, that if there come to them a sign they will indeed believe therein. Say, 'Signs are only in God's hands;- but what will make you understand that even when one has come, they will not believe
John Medows Rodwell1861 With their most solemn oath have they sworn by God, that if a sign come unto them they will certainly believe it; SAY: Signs are in the power of God alone; and He teacheth you not thereby, only because when they were wrought, ye did not believe
George Sale1734 And they swear by God their strongest oaths that if there came to them a Sign, they would surely believe therein. Say, 'Surely, Signs are with God. And what should make you know that when the signs come, they will not believe
Talal Itani2012 And We turn away their hearts and their visions, as they refused to believe in it the first time, and We leave them blundering in their rebellion.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 We confound their hearts and their eyes. As they believed not therein at the first, We let them wander blindly on in their contumacy
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We will overturn their hearts and their eye-sights, even as they believed not at first; and we will leave them, in their rebellion, blindly wandering on
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we will turn their hearts and their eyes away from the truth, because they did not believe therein at first, and we will leave them in their transgressions, wandering in perplexity
George Sale1734 And We shall confound their hearts and their eyes, for they believe not therein the first time, and We shall leave them in their transgression to wander in distraction
Talal Itani2012 Likewise, We have assigned for every prophet an enemy-human and jinn devils-inspiring one another with fancy words in order to deceive. But had your Lord willed, they would not have done it. So leave them to their fabrications.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Thus have We appointed unto every prophet an adversary - devils of humankind and jinn who inspire in one another plausible discourse through guile. If thy Lord willed, they would not do so; so leave them alone with their devising
Edward Henry Palmer1880 So have we made for every prophet an enemy,- devils of men and ginns; some of them inspire others with specious speech to lead astray; but had thy Lord pleased they would not have done it; so leave them with what they do devise
John Medows Rodwell1861 Thus have we given an enemy to every prophet Satans among men and among Djinn: tinsel discourses do they suggest the one to the other, in order to deceive: and had thy Lord willed it, they would not have done it. Therefore, leave them and their vain imaginings
George Sale1734 Thus have We appointed unto every prophet an enemy; the devils of men, and of genii: Who privately suggest the one to the other specious discourses to deceive; but if thy Lord pleased, they would not have done it. Therefore leave them, and that which they have falsely imagined
Talal Itani2012 So that the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter may incline to it, and be content with it, and that they may perpetrate whatever they perpetrate.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That the hearts of those who believe not in the Hereafter may incline thereto, and that they may take pleasure therein, and that they may earn what they are earning
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And let the hearts of those who believe not in the hereafter listen to it; and let them be well pleased with it; and let them gain what they may gain
John Medows Rodwell1861 And let the hearts of those who believe not in the life to come incline thereto, and let them find their content in this, and let them gain what they are gaining
George Sale1734 and let the hearts of those be inclined thereto, who believe not in the life to come; and let them please themselves therein, and let them gain that which they are gaining
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.54 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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 · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · George Sale0.58
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.47
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.47
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.41
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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.