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
With Him are the keys of the unseen; none knows them except He. And He knows everything on land and in the sea. Not a leaf falls but He knows it; and there is not a single grain in the darkness of earth, nor is there anything wet or dry, but is in a clear record.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And with Him are the keys of the Invisible. None but He knoweth them. And He knoweth what is in the land and the sea. Not a leaf falleth but He knoweth it, not a grain amid the darkness of the earth, naught of wet or dry but (it is noted) in a clear record
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
With Him are the keys of the unseen. None knows them save He; He knows what is in the land and in the sea; and there falls not a leaf save that He knows it; nor a grain in the darkness of the earth, nor aught that is moist, nor aught that is dry, save that is in His perspicuous Book
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And with Him are the keys of the secretthings; none knoweth them but He: He knoweth whatever is on the land and in the sea; and no leaf falleth but He knoweth it; neither is there a grain in the darknesses of the earth, nor a thing green or sere, but it is noted in a distinctwriting
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And with Him are the keys of the unseen; none knows them but He. And He knows whatsoever is in the land and in the sea. And there falls not a leaf but He knows it; nor is there a grain in the deep darkness of the earth, nor anything green or dry, but it is recorded in a clear book
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
Ai i ka çelësat e së fshehtës, të cilën nuk e di askush përveç Tij. Ai e di çfarë ka në tokë dhe çfarë ka në det. Asnjë gjethe nuk bie pa e ditur Ai, as ndonjë kokërr në brendësinë e tokës, madje nuk ka asgjë të njomë e as të thatë që nuk është në një Libër[3] të qartë.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর গায়িবের চাবিসমূহ তাঁরই কাছে। তিনি ছাড়া তা কেউ জানে না। আর স্থলে ও সমুদ্রের অন্ধকারসমূহে যা কিছু আছে, তা তিনিই অবগত আছেন। গাছের একটি পাতাও পড়ে না, তাঁর অবগতি ছাড়া। মাটির অন্ধকারে এমন কোন শস্যকণাও অঙ্কুরিত হয় না বা আদ্র কিংবা শুষ্ক এমন কোন বস্তু নেই, যা সুস্পষ্ট কিতাবে নেই।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
U Njega su ključevi onoga što je čulima nedokučivo, samo ih On zna, i On jedini zna šta je na kopnu i šta je u moru, i nijedan list ne opadne a da On ne zna za njega; i nema zrna u tminama Zemlje niti ičeg svježeg niti ičeg suhog, a da nije u jasnoj Knjizi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
U Njega su ključevi onoga što je čulima nedokučivo, samo ih On zna, i On jedini zna što je na kopnu i što je u moru, i nijedan list ne opadne a da On ne zna za njega; i nema zrna u tminama Zemlje niti ičeg svježeg niti ičeg suhog, a da nije u jasnoj Knjizi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko kañum jogi coktirɗe ko wirnii, anndaa ɗum si wanaa Kaŋko. Homo Anndi ko woni ka jeeri e ka maayo. Kaakol yanataa si wanaa hara homo Anndi fii maggol, wanaa abbere ka niɓe leydi, wanaa keccol wanaa joorungol, si wanaa no e deftere ɓanngunde. (Feeñnde).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
۞ და მასთან არის უხილავის გასაღებები. ეს არავინ იცის მის გარდა. და მან იცის (ყველაფერი), რაც არის ხმელეთზე და ზღვაში. და არც ერთი ფოთოლი არ ჩამოვარდება, რომ მან ამის შესახებ არ იცოდეს. და არ არის (არც ერთი) მარცვალი მიწის სიბნელეში, და არ არის (რაიმე) სველი ან მშრალი, რაც არ იყოს ჩაწერილი ნათელ წიგნში [დაცულ ფირფიტაში].
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und Er verfügt über die Schlüssel des Verborgenen; niemand kennt sie außer Ihm. Und Er weiß, was auf dem Festland und im Meer ist. Und kein Blatt fällt, außer dass Er es weiß; und (es gibt) kein Korn in den Finsternissen der Erde und nichts Feuchtes und nichts Trockenes, außer dass es in einem deutlichen Buch (verzeichnet) wäre.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αυτός είναι που έχει τα κλειδιά του αόρατου, κανείς δεν τα ξέρει εκτός απ' Αυτόν. Ξέρει ό,τι υπάρχει στη στεριά και στη θάλασσα. Κανένα φύλλο δεν πέφτει χωρίς να το ξέρει. Δεν υπάρχει ούτε ένας κόκκος στο σκοτάδι της Γης, ούτε τίποτα υγρό ή ξερό, παρά να είναι γραμμένο σε ένα ξεκάθαρο Βιβλίο (Αλ-Λάουχ Αλ-Μαχφούδ).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और उसी (अल्लाह) के पास ग़ैब (परोक्ष) की कुंजियाँ[45] हैं, उन्हें उसके सिवा कोई नहीं जानता। तथा वह जानता है जो कुछ थल और जल में है और कोई पत्ता नहीं गिरता, परंतु वह उसे जानता है। और धरती के अँधेरों में कोई दाना नहीं और न कोई गीली चीज़ है और न कोई सूखी चीज़, परंतु वह एक स्पष्ट पुस्तक में (अंकित) है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E Sue sono le chiavi dell’Ignoto, che conosce solo Lui, e conosce ciò che è in terra e in mare, e non cade foglia che Lui non sappia, né granello nel buio del sottosuolo, né cosa umida o secca che non sia scritta in un chiaro Libro.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
59. Ir pas Jį yra Ghaib (viso, kas paslėpta) raktai, niekas nežino jų, tik Jis. Ir Jis žino viską, kas yra žemėje ir jūroje. Nenukrenta lapas, apie kurį Jis nesužino. Nėra grūdo žemės tamsybėje, nei nieko šviežio ar sudžiūvusio, kas nebūtų įrašyta Aiškiame Įraše.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Furtuuwwan fagoo (ghaybii) Isa biratti tahe. Isa malee (tokkolleenuu) ishee hin beeku. Inni waan dachii (goggoyduu) keessa jiruufi waan bahra keessa jirus ni beeka. Baala (mukaa) irraa tokkollee inni beeku malee hin buutu. Firiin dukkana dachii keessaa, jiidhaafi gogaanis kitaaba mul'ataa tahe keessa tahu malee hin taane. [11]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
У Него — ключи сокровенного; не знает их никто, кроме Него. И Он знает всё, что на суше и в море. И ни один лист не падает иначе как Он знает о нём, и нет зёрнышка во тьме земли, и нет ни свежего, ни сухого, иначе как [будучи записанным] в ясном Писании.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
У Њега су кључеви онога што је чулима недокучиво, само их Он зна, и Он једини зна шта је на копну и шта је у мору, и ниједан лист не опадне а да Он за њега не зна; и нема зрна у тамама Земље нити ичег свежег нити ичег сувог, а да није у Јасној књизи.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na ziko kwake funguo za ghaibu; hakuna azijuaye ila Yeye tu. Na Yeye anajua kilicho katika nchi kavu na baharini. Na halidondoki jani ila analijua. Wala punje katika giza la ardhi, wala kinyevu, wala kikavu ila kimo katika Kitabu kinachobainisha.
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Svenska · Swedish
Hos honom finns nycklarna till det fördolda; ingen känner till dem utom han. Han vet vad som finns på land och i hav. Inte ett löv faller utan att han vet om det, och inget frö i jordens mörker – och ingenting fuktigt eller torrt – förutom att det finns i en klar bok.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Gaybın anahtarları O’nun yanındadır. Onları, kendisinden başkası bilmez. Karada ve denizde olan her şeyi bilir. Onun ilmi olmadan hiçbir yaprak düşmez ve yerin karanlıklarında hiçbir tane, hiçbir yaş ve hiçbir kuru yoktur ki apaçık bir kitapta bulunmasın.
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اردو · Urdu
اور اللہ تعالیٰ ہی کے پاس ہیں غیب کی کنجیاں، (خزانے) ان کو کوئی نہیں جانتا بجز اللہ کے۔ اور وه تمام چیزوں کو جانتا ہے جو کچھ خشکی میں ہیں اور جو کچھ دریاؤں میں ہیں اور کوئی پتا نہیں گرتا مگر وه اس کو بھی جانتا ہے اور کوئی دانہ زمین کے تاریک حصوں میں نہیں پڑتا اور نہ کوئی تر اور نہ کوئی خشک چیز گرتی ہے مگر یہ سب کتاب مبین میں ہیں۔[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.
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Talal Itani2012 Say, "I stand on clear evidence from my Lord, and you have rejected Him. I do not possess what you seek me to hasten; the decision belongs solely to God. He states the truth, and He is the Best of Judges."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: I am (relying) on clear proof from my Lord, while ye deny Him. I have not that for which ye are impatient. The decision is for Allah only. He telleth the truth and He is the Best of Deciders
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'I stand on a manifestation from my Lord, which ye call a lie. I have not with me what ye fain would hasten on, ???MISSING
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: I act upon proofs from my Lord, but ye treat them as falsehoods. That punishment which ye desire to be hastened is not in my power; judgment is with God only: He will declare the truth; and He is the best settler of disputes
George Sale1734 Say, 'I take my stand on a clear evidence from my Lord and you reject it. That which you desire to be hastened is not in my power. The decision rest with God alone. He explains the truth and He is the Best of Judges
Easy-read (simplified)qul law anna 'indee maa tasta'jiloona bihi laqudiya l-'amru baynee wabaynakum wallaahu a'lamu biz-zaalimeen
DIN 31635qul law ʾanna ʿindī mā tastaʿǧilūna bihi laquḍiya l-ʾamru baynī wabaynakum wallāhu ʾaʿlamu biẓ-ẓālimīna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Say, "If I possessed what you seek me to hasten, the matter between you and me would have been settled. God is well aware of the unjust."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: If I had that for which ye are impatient, then would the case (ere this) have been decided between me and you. Allah is Best Aware of the wrong-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Missing??? that the matter might be settled between me and you; but God knows best who are the unjust
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: If what ye would hasten on, were in my power, the matter between me and you had been decided: but God best knoweth the impious
George Sale1734 Say, 'If that which you desire to be hastened were in my power, surely the matter would have been decided between me and you. And God knows best the unjust
Talal Itani2012 It is He Who takes you by night, and He knows what you earn by day. Then He raises you up in it, until a fixed term is fulfilled. Then to Him is your return, then He will inform you of what you used to do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He it is Who gathereth you at night and knoweth that which ye commit by day. Then He raiseth you again to life therein, that the term appointed (for you) may be accomplished. And afterward unto Him is your return. Then He will proclaim unto you what ye used to do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He it is who takes you to Himself at night, and knows what ye have gained in the day; then He raises you up again, that your appointed time may be fulfilled; then unto Him is your return, and then will He inform you of what ye have done
John Medows Rodwell1861 It is He who taketh your souls at night, and knoweth what ye have merited in the day: then he awaketh you therein, that the set life-term may be fulfilled: then unto Him shall ye return; and then shall be declare to you that which ye have wrought
George Sale1734 And He it is who takes your soul by night and knows what you do by day, then He raises you up again therein, that the appointed term may be completed. Then to Him is your return. Then will He inform you of what you used to do
Talal Itani2012 He is the Conqueror over His servants, and He sends guardians over you, until, when death overtakes one of you, Our envoys take him away, and they never fail.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He is the Omnipotent over His slaves. He sendeth guardians over you until, when death cometh unto one of you, Our messengers receive him, and they neglect not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He triumphs over His servants; He sends to them guardian angels, until, when death comes to any one of you, our messengers take him away; they pass not over any one
John Medows Rodwell1861 Supreme over his servants, He sendeth forth guardians who watch over you, until, when death overtaketh any one of you, our messengers take his soul, and fail not
George Sale1734 And He is Supreme over His servants, and He sends guardians to watch over you, until, when death comes to anyone of you, Our Messengers take his soul, and they fail not
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 —
0.45 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
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.53
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.50
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.44
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.40
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.39
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.35
Talal Itani · George Sale0.26
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
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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.