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Talal Itani· published 2012
If only you could see, when they are stationed before their Lord. He will say, "Is this not real?" They will say, "Yes indeed, by our Lord." He will say, "Then taste the torment for having disbelieved."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
If thou couldst see when they are set before their Lord! He will say: Is not this real? They will say: Yea, verily, by our Lord! He will say: Taste now the retribution for that ye used to disbelieve
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
But couldst thou see when they are set before their Lord; he says, 'Is not this the truth?' They say, 'Yea, by our Lord !' he says, 'Then taste the torment, for that ye did misbelieve
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But if thou couldest see when they shall be set before their Lord! He shall say to them, "Is not this it in truth?" They shall say, "Yea, by our Lord!" "Taste then," saith He, "the torment, for that ye believed not
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And if thou couldst only see when they are made to stand before their Lord, He will say, 'Is not this secondlife the truth? They will say, 'Yea, by our Lord.' He will say, 'Then taste the punishment because you disbelieved
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
Sikur t'i shihje kur të dalin para Zotit të tyre! Ai do t'u thotë: "A nuk është kjo (ringjallje) e vërtetë?" Ata do të thonë: "Po, për Zotin tonë." Ai do t'u thotë: "Atëherë, shijoni dënimin për shkak se e mohonit!"
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 যদি তুমি তাদেরকে (পুনরুত্থান অস্বীকারকারীদেরকে) দেখতে যখন তাদেরকে দাঁড় করানো হবে তাদের রবের সামনে এবং তিনি বলবেন: ‘এটা (পুনরুত্থান) কি সত্য নয়’? তারা বলবে, ‘হ্যাঁ, আমাদের রবের শপথ!’(এটা বাস্তব সত্য) । তিনি বলবেন: ‘সুতরাং তোমরা যে কুফরী করতে তার কারণে, আজ তোমরা (জাহান্নামের) শাস্তি আস্বাদন করো।’
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
A da ti je vidjeti kako će, kada pred Gospodarem svojim budu zaustavljeni i kad ih On upita: "Zar ovo nije istina?", odgovoriti: "Jest, tako nam Gospodara našeg!", a i kako će On reći: "E, pa iskusite onda patnju zbog toga što niste vjerovali!"
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
A da ti je vidjeti kako će, kada pred Gospodarem svojim budu zaustavljeni i kad ih On upita: "Zar ovo nije istina?" odgovoriti: "Jest, tako nam Gospodara našeg!" a i kako će On reći: "E, pa iskusite onda patnju zbog toga što niste vjerovali!"
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
Sinno a tinno tuma nde ɓe ndarnaa yeeso Joomi amɓɓe. O Daala : "Ɗum laataaki goonga?" Ɓe mbi'a : "Ko non woniri! Men woondirii Joomi amen!". O Daala : "Awa meeɗee non lepte ɗen sabu kon ko njeddiraynoɗon".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ნეტავ გენახა, როდესაც თავიანთი უფლის წინაშე დააყენებენ და ეტყვის: «განა ეს არ არის ჭეშმარიტება?» ისინი ეტყვიან: «დიახ, ჩვენს უფალს ვფიცავთ». ისიც ეტყვის: «მაშ, იგემეთ სასჯელი იმის, რასაც უარყოფდით».
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 wenn du sehen würdest, wenn sie vor ihren Herrn gestellt werden! Er wird (hierauf) sagen: „Ist dies nicht die Wahrheit?“ Sie werden sagen: „Ja doch, bei unserem Herrn!“ Er wird sagen: „So kostet nun die Strafe dafür, dass ihr stets ungläubig wart.“
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 αν έβλεπες (ω, Προφήτη, εκείνους που διέψευδαν την ανάσταση και την Ημέρα της Κρίσεως) όταν θα στέκονται ενώπιον του Κυρίου τους, (θα έβλεπες σε ποια άθλια κατάσταση θα βρίσκονται). Θα πει (ο Αλλάχ): «Αυτή (η ανάσταση) δεν είναι η αλήθεια;» Θα πουν: «(Ορκιζόμαστε) μα τον Κύριό μας! Όντως είναι (η αλήθεια).» Θα πει (ο Αλλάχ): «Γευτείτε, λοιπόν, το μαρτύριο για ό,τι αρνηθήκατε (από την αλήθεια).»
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 यदि आप उस समय देखें, जब वे अपने पालनहार के समक्ष खड़े किए जाएँगे।वह कहेगा : क्या यह (जीवन) सत्य नहीं है? वे कहेंगे : क्यों नहीं, हमारे पालनहार की क़सम! वह (अल्लाह) कहेगा : तो अब यातना चखो उसके बदले जो तुम कुफ़्र किया करते थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E se potessi vedere quando saranno fermi davanti al loro Dio! Disse: «Non è questa la verità?» Dissero: «Certo, per il nostro Dio!» Disse: «Assaggiate la punizione per ciò che negavate!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
30. Jei tik tu galėtum pamatyti, kai jie bus laikomi (atvesti ir priversti stovėti) priešais savo Viešpatį! Jis sakys: „Argi nėra tai (Prikėlimas ir atsiskaitymas) tiesa?“ Jie sakys: „Taip, prisiekiame mūsų Viešpačiu!”Jis tada tars: „Taigi ragaukite jūs kančią, nes jūs netikėjote.“
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
Если бы ты увидел, как их поставят пред их Господом, — Он скажет: «Разве это не истина?» Они скажут: «Напротив, — клянёмся нашим Господом!» Он скажет: «Тогда вкусите наказание за то, что вы отвергали веру».
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
А да ти је видети како ће, када пред својим Господарем буду заустављени и кад их Он упита: „Зар ово није истина?“ Одговорити: „Јесте, тако нам Господара нашег!“ А и како ће Он рећи: „Искусите онда патњу због тога што нисте веровали!“
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 lau utaona walivyosimamishwa mbele ya Mola wao Mlezi, akasema, "Je, huu si uhakika?" Na wao wakasema, "Ndiyo? Tunaapa kwa Mola wetu Mlezi (ni uhakika)." Yeye akasema: Basi onjeni adhabu kwa sababu ya vile mlivyokuwa mnakufuru.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Om du bara kunde se när de ställs inför sin Herre och han säger: ”Är inte detta verkligt?” De svarar: ”Jo, vid vår Herre!” Då säger han: ”Känn då straffet för ert förkastande av [tron på] det!”
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
Rablerinin huzurunda durduruldukları zaman, sen onları bir görsen: O vakit Allah onlara, bu yeniden dirilme olayı gerçek değil miymiş? diyecek, onlar da “Rabbimize andolsun ki, evet” diyeceklerdir (Allah): “Öyleyse inkâr etmekte olduğunuzdan dolayı tadın azabı!” diyecek.
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
اردو · Urdu
اور اگر آپ اس وقت دیکھیں جب یہ اپنے رب کے سامنے کھڑے کئے جائیں گے۔ اللہ فرمائے گا کہ کیا یہ امر واقعی نہیں ہے؟ وه کہیں گے بےشک قسم اپنے رب کی۔ اللہ تعالیٰ فرمائے گا تو اب اپنے کفر کے عوض عذاب چکھو۔[1]
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)bal badaa lahum maa kaanoo yukhfoona min qablu walaw ruddoo la'aadoo limaa nuhoo 'anhu wa'innahum lakaadhiboon
DIN 31635bal badā lahum mā kānū yuḫfūna min qablu walaw ruddū laʿādū limā nuhū ʿanhu waʾinnahum lakāḏibūna
Talal Itani2012 What they used to conceal before will become clear to them. And even if they were sent back, they would revert to what they were forbidden. They are liars.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Nay, but that hath become clear unto them which before they used to hide. And if they were sent back they would return unto that which they are forbidden. Lo! they are liars
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Nay! now is shown to them what they did hide before; and could they be sent back, they would return to that they were forbidden, for they are very liars
John Medows Rodwell1861 Aye! that hath become clear to them which they before concealed; but though they should return, they would surely go back to that which was forbidden them; for they are surely liars
George Sale1734 Nay, that which they used to hide before has now become clear to them. And if they were sent back, they would surely return to that which they are forbidden. And they are certainly liars
Talal Itani2012 Losers are those who deny the encounter with God. Then, when the Hour comes upon them suddenly, they will say, "Alas for us, how we have neglected it." And they will carry their burdens on their backs-evil is what they carry.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They indeed are losers who deny their meeting with Allah until, when the Hour cometh on them suddenly, they cry: Alas for us, that we neglected it! They bear upon their backs their burdens. Ah, evil is that which they bear
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Losers are they who disbelieved in meeting God, until when the hour comes suddenly upon them they say, 'Woe is us for our neglect thereof!' for they shall bear their burdens on their backs, evil is what they bear
John Medows Rodwell1861 Lost are they who deny the meeting with God until "the Hour" cometh suddenly upon them! Then will they say, "Oh, our sighs for past negligence of this hour!" and they shall bear their burdens on their back! Will not that be evil with which they shall be burdened
George Sale1734 Those indeed are the losers who deny the meeting with God, so much so, that when the Hour shall come on them unawares, they will say, 'O our grief for our neglecting this Hour!' And they shall bear their burdens on their backs. Surely, evil is that which they bear
Talal Itani2012 The life of this world is nothing but game and distraction, but the Home of the Hereafter is better for those who are righteous. Do you not understand?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Naught is the life of the world save a pastime and a sport. Better far is the abode of the Hereafter for those who keep their duty (to Allah). Have ye then no sense
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The life of this world is nothing but a game and a sport, and surely the next abode were better for those who fear. What! do they not understand
John Medows Rodwell1861 The life in this world is but a play and pastime; and better surely for men of godly fear will be the future mansion! Will ye not then comprehend
George Sale1734 And the life of this world is nothing but a sport and pastime. And surely the abode of the Hereafter is better for those who are righteous. Will you not then understand
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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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
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.65
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.61
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.57
Talal Itani · George Sale0.56
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.48
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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.