Easy-read (simplified)qul huwa l-qaadiru 'alaa an yab'atha 'alaykum 'adhaaban min fawqikum aw min tahti arjulikum aw yalbisakum shiya'an wayudheeqa ba'dakum ba'sa ba'din nzur kayfa nusarrifu l-'aayaati la'allahum yafqahoon
DIN 31635qul huwa l-qādiru ʿalā ʾan yabʿaṯa ʿalaykum ʿaḏāban min fawqikum ʾaw min taḥti ʾarǧulikum ʾaw yalbisakum šiyaʿan wayuḏīqa baʿḍakum baʾsa baʿḍin nẓur kayfa nuṣarrifu l-ʾāyāti laʿallahum yafqahūna
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Talal Itani· published 2012
Say, "He is Able to send upon you an affliction, from above you, or from under your feet. Or He can divide you into factions, and make you taste the violence of one another. Note how We explain the revelations, so that they may understand."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Say: He is able to send punishment upon you from above you or from beneath your feet, or to bewilder you with dissension and make you taste the tyranny one of another. See how We display the revelations so that they may understand
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
Say, 'He is able to send torment on you from above you and from beneath your feet, and to confuse you in sects, and to make some of you taste the violence of others.' See how we turn about the signs, that haply they may discriminate
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
SAY: It is He who hath power to send on you a punishment from above you, or from beneath your feet, or to clothe you with discord, and to make some of you to taste the violence of others. See how variously we handle the wondrousverses, that haply they may becomewise
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Say, 'He has the power to send punishment upon you from above you or from beneath your feet, or to confound you by splitting you into sects and make you taste the violence of one another. See how We expound the Signs in variousways that they may understand
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
Thuaj: "Ai ka mundësi t'ju godasë me ndëshkim prej së larti ose poshtë këmbëve tuaja, ose t'ju ndajë në grupe dhe t'ju bëjë të vuani nga njëri-tjetri. Shih si ua shpjegojmë ajetet, që ata të mund të kuptojnë.
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বাংলা · Bengali
(হে নবী! তুমি) বলো: ‘তিনি তো তোমাদের ওপর থেকে (পাথর, বজ্র ও তুফানের শাস্তি) অথবা তোমাদের পায়ের নীচ থেকে (ভূমি ধস ও ভূমিকম্পন দিয়ে) তোমাদের ওপর শাস্তি প্রেরণ করতে, অথবা তোমাদেরকে বিভিন্ন দলে বিভক্ত করে দিতে এবং তোমাদের একদলকে অন্য দলের শাস্তির আস্বাদন করাতে সক্ষম।‘ দেখ, কীভাবে আমি আয়াতসমূহ (বিভিন্ন দলিল ও অকাট্য প্রমাণসহ) নানাভাবে বর্ণনা করি, যাতে তারা ভালোভাবে বুঝতে পারে।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Reci: "On je kadar poslati protiv vas kaznu iznad vaših glava ili ispod vaših nogu, ili vas u stranke podijeliti i učiniti da silu jedni drugih iskusite. Pogledaj samo kako Mi potanko izlažemo ajete i znakove, ne bi li ljudi shvatili."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Reci: "On je kadar poslati protiv vas kaznu iznad vaših glava ili ispod vaših nogu, ili vas u stranke podijeliti i učiniti da silu jedni drugih iskusite." Pogledaj samo kako Mi potanko izlažemo ajete i znakove, ne bi li ljudi shvatili.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Maaku : "Ko O kattanɗo nulugol lepte e dow mo'on, maa ɗe iwra les koyde mon, maa o Jillindira on dente-dente, O Meeɗna yoga e mo'on lepte yoga". Ndaaru no men pirlitita Aayeeje ɗen, mbelejo'o, ɓe paamat.
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ქართული · Georgian
უთხარი (ო, მოციქულო): «მას შეუძლია მოგივლინოთ სასჯელი ზემოდან [ქვები ციდან, წყალდიდობა…] ან თქვენი ფეხქვეშიდან [მიწისძვრა, ჩაქცევები…], და გაგყოთ თქვენ სხვადასხვა ჯგუფებად და იგემოს ერთმა თქვენგანმა მეორის რისხვა [თქვენ შორის ომი გააჩინოს]». შეხედე, როგორ ვანაწილებთ ჩვენ ნიშნებს [მტკიცებულებებს], რათა მათ გაიგონ (და აიღონ მათგან შეგონება)!
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Deutsch · German
Sag: „Er hat die Macht dazu, euch eine Strafe von oben oder unter euren Füßen zu schicken, oder euch in (gespaltene) Gruppierungen durcheinanderzubringen und die einen von euch die Gewalt der anderen kosten zu lassen!“ Schau, wie Wir die Zeichen verschiedenartig darlegen, auf dass sie verstehen mögen!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Πες (ω, Προφήτη, στους ειδωλολάτρες): «Είναι Ικανός να στείλει σε σας τιμωρία από πάνω σας ή κάτω από τα πόδια σας, ή να σας χωρίσει σε (αντιμαχόμενες) ομάδες, και έτσι, να κάνει μερικούς από σας να γευτούν τη δύναμη των άλλων (και να πολεμήσει ο ένας τον άλλον).» Κοίτα πως δίνουμε διάφορα σημάδια (και επιχειρήματα), ίσως και να κατανοήσουν!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
आप (उनसे) कह दें : वही इसका सामर्थ्य रखता है कि तुमपर तुम्हारे ऊपर से यातना भेज दे, या तुम्हारे पैरों के नीचे से, या तुम्हें विभिन्न समूह बनाकर परस्पर भिड़ा दे और तुममें से कुछ को कुछ की लड़ाई[48] (का स्वाद) चखा दे। देखिए, हम कैसे आयतों को विभिन्न प्रकार से बयान करते हैं, ताकि वे समझें।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Di’: «Lui è Colui che è capace di mandarvi un castigo dall’alto o da sotto i vostri piedi, o di farvi subire gli uni la tirannia degli altri!» Osserva come chiariamo i Segni affinché capiscano!
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
65. Sakyk: „Jis turi galią atsiųsti jums kančią iš viršaus, ir iš po jūsų pėdų, arba apdengti jus painiava jūsų tarpusavio nesantaikoje, ir priversti jus patirti vienas kito žiaurumą.“ Pažvelkite, kaip įvairiai Mes aiškiname Ajat (įrodymus, įkalčius, eilutes, pamokas, ženklus, apreiškimus ir t. t.), tam, kad jie suprastų.
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Русский · Russian
Скажи: «Он способен наслать на вас наказание сверху вас или из-под ваших ног, или ввергнуть вас в смятение, разделив на партии, и дать одним из вас вкусить жестокость других». Посмотри, как Мы разнообразно разъясняем знамения, — быть может, они уразумеют.
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Српски · Serbian
Реци: „Он је у стању да пошаље против вас казну изнад ваших глава или испод ваших ногу, или да вас подели у странке и учини да искусите силу једни других. Погледај само како Ми подробно излажемо доказе и знакове, како би људи схватили.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Sema: Yeye ndiye Muweza wa kuwatumia adhabu kutoka juu yenu au kutoka chini ya miguu yenu, au awavishe fujo la mfarakano, na awaonjeshe baadhi yenu jeuri ya wenzi wenu. Tazama vipi tunavyozieleza Aya ili wafahamu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Säg: ”Han är fullt kapabel att låta ett straff drabba er ovanifrån eller underifrån, eller att splittra er i grupper och låta er drabbas av varandras våld.” Se hur vi varierar bevisen, så att de ska förstå.
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Türkçe · Turkish
De ki: "Üzerinizden veya ayaklarınızın altından bir azap göndermeye ya da sizi gruplara ayırarak kiminizin şiddetini kiminize (savaş ve fitne ile) tattırmaya kadîr olan O’dur. (ibret alıp) anlasınlar diye ayetlerimizi nasıl açıkladığımıza bir bak!"
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اردو · Urdu
آپ کہئے کہ اس پر بھی وہی قادر ہے کہ تم پر کوئی عذاب تمہارے اوپر سے بھیج دے[1] یا تمہارے پاؤں تلے سے[2] یا کہ تم کو گروه گروه کرکے سب کو بھڑا دے اور تمہارے ایک کو دوسرے کی لڑائی چکھا دے[3]۔ آپ دیکھیے تو سہی ہم کس طرح دﻻئل مختلف پہلوؤں سے بیان کرتے ہیں شاید وه سمجھ جائیں۔
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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5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
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Easy-read (simplified)qul man yunajjeekum min zulumaati l-barri wal-bahri tad'oonahu tadarru'an wakhufyatan la'in anjaanaa min haadhihi lanakoonanna mina sh-shaakireen
DIN 31635qul man yunaǧǧīkum min ẓulumāti l-barri wal-baḥri tadʿūnahu taḍarruʿan waḫufyatan laʾin ʾanǧānā min hāḏihi lanakūnanna mina š-šākirīna
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Who delivers you from the darkness of land and sea?" You call upon Him humbly and inwardly: "If He delivers us from this, We will surely be among the thankful."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: Who delivereth you from the darkness of the land and the sea? Ye call upon Him humbly and in secret, (saying): If we are delivered from this (fear) we truly will be of the thankful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Who rescues you from the darkness of the land and of the sea?' ye call upon Him in humility and in secret, 'Indeed, if He would rescue us from this, we will surely be of those who give Him thanks
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Who rescueth you from the darkness of the land and of the sea, when humbly and secretly ye cry to Him - "If thou rescue us from this, we will surely be of the thankful
George Sale1734 Say, 'Who delivers you from the calamities of the land and the sea, when you call upon Him in humility and in secret, saying, 'If He deliver us from this, we will surely be of those who are grateful
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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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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.61
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Talal Itani · George Sale0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.48
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.39
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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.