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It is He who created the heavens and the earth in truth. On the Day when He says: "Be," it will be. His saying is the truth, and His is the sovereignty on the Day when the trumpet is blown. The Knower of secrets and declarations. He is the Wise, the Expert.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in truth. In the day when He saith: Be! it is. His Word is the Truth, and His will be the Sovereignty on the day when the trumpet is blown. Knower of the Invisible and the Visible, He is the Wise, the Aware
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
He it is who has created the heavens and the earth in truth; and on the day when He says, 'BE,' then it is. His word is truth; to Him is the kingdom on the day when the trumpets shall be blown; the knower of the unseen and of the evident; He is wise and well aware
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And it is He who hath created the Heavens and the Earth, in truth, and when He saith to a thing, "Be," it is. His word is the truth: and His the kingdom, on the day when there shall be a blast on the trumpet: He knowethalike the unseen and the seen: and He is the Wise, the Cognisant
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in accordance with the requirements of wisdom; and on the day when He will say, 'Be', it will be. His word is the truth, and His will be the Kingdom on the day when the trumpet will be blown. He is the Knower of the unseen and the seen. And He is the Wise, the All-Aware
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
Është Ai që krijoi qiejt dhe Tokën me urtësi. Ditën kur Ai thotë: Bëhu!" Sakaq bëhet. Fjala e Tij është e vërteta dhe i Tiji është sundimi Ditën kur do t'i fryhet Surit[4]. Ai e di të fshehtën e të dukshmen dhe Ai është i Urti dhe i Gjithëdituri.
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 তিনিই, আসমানসমূহ ও জমিনকে যথাযথভাবে সৃষ্টি করেছেন। আর যেদিন তিনি বলবেন: ‘হও’ তখন হয়ে যাবে।(১৪) তাঁর কথাই সত্য। আর যেদিন শিংগায় ফুঁক দেয়া হবে, তাঁর জন্যই রয়েছে সেদিনের রাজত্ব। তিনি গায়িব ও উপস্থিত বিষয়ে পরিজ্ঞাত এবং তিনি প্রজ্ঞাময়, অধিক অবহিত।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
i On je Taj Koji je nebesa i Zemlju s istinom stvorio. Čim On za nešto rekne: 'Budi!' – ono biva; riječ Njegova je istina; samo će On imati vlast na Dan kada se u rog puhne; On zna ono što je čulima nedokučivo i ono što je pojavno; On je Mudri i Onaj Koji sve u potpunosti zna."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
i On je Taj Koji je nebesa i Zemlju s istinom stvorio. Čim On za nešto rekne: "Budi!" ono biva; riječ Njegova je istina; samo će On imati vlast na Dan kada se u rog puhne; On zna ono što je čulima nedokučivo i ono što je pojavno; On je Mudri i Onaj Koji sve u potpunosti zna.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko Kaŋko woni onn tagirɗo kammuuli ɗin e leydi ndin goonga. Ñande O Daaloyta : "laato!", ɗum laatoo, Daalol Makko ngol ko goonga. Ko Kaŋko [tan] laamu woodani Ñande wuttoytee ka alaadu. gannnduɗo ko wirnii e ko feeñi. Ko Kaŋko woni Ñeeñɗo, kumpitiiɗo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და იგია, ვინც შექმნა ცები და მიწა ჭეშმარიტებით. და იმ დღეს როდესაც იტყვის: «იყავ!» — და ის მაშინვე იქნება. მისი სიტყვა — ჭეშმარიტებაა. და მხოლოდ მას ეკუთვნის მმართველობა იმ დღეს, როდესაც ჩაბერილი იქნება საყვირში. ის არის მცოდნე დაფარულისა და ხილულისა, და იგია ბრძენი, ყოვლისმცოდნე.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und Er ist es, Der die Himmel und die Erde in Wahrheit erschaffen hat. Und an dem Tag, da Er sagt: „Sei!“ da wird es sein. Sein Wort ist die Wahrheit. Und Er hat die Herrschaft an dem Tag, da ins Horn geblasen wird. (Er ist) der Kenner des Verborgenen und des Offenbaren, und Er ist der Allweise und Allkundige.
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
Είναι Αυτός που δημιούργησε τους ουρανούς και τη Γη με την αλήθεια. Την Ημέρα (της Ανάστασης) θα πει: «Γεννηθήτω», και έτσι θα γίνει. Ο Λόγος του είναι η αλήθεια. Όλη η κυριαρχία ανήκει σ' Αυτόν την Ημέρα κατά την οποία θα φυσηχτεί το Κέρας (Σάλπιγγα). Είναι ο Παντογνώστης των αοράτων και των ορατών, και είναι ο Αλ-Χακείμ (Πάνσοφος) και ο Αλ-Χαμπείρ (Αυτός που γνωρίζει πλήρως τα πάντα).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और वही है, जिसने आकाशों तथा धरती की रचना सत्य के साथ की[54] और जिस दिन वह कहेगा "हो जा" तो वह हो जाएगा। उसकी बात सत्य है और उसी का राज्य होगा, जिस दिन सूर में फूँका जाएगा। वह परोक्ष[55] तथा प्रत्यक्ष को जानने वाला है और वही पूर्ण हिकमत वाला, हर चीज़ की खबर रखने वाला है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E Lui è Colui che ha creato i cieli e la terra con Verità, e il giorno che dirà: «Sii!», tutto sarà! La Sua Parola è la Verità! Ed è Sua la sovranità il giorno in cui si soffierà nel Corno! Lui è Conoscitore sia dell’Ignoto che dell’Evidente, e Lui è in verità il Saggio, il Conoscitore!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
73. Tai Jis, Kuris sukūrė dangus ir žemę tiesoje, ir Dieną (t. y. Prikėlimo Dieną) Jis sakys: „Būk!“ - ir tai yra! Jo Žodis yra Tiesa. Jo Valdžia bus tą Dieną, kai bus pučiamas Trimitas. Visa Žinantis apie nematomą ir matomą. Jis yra Visa Išmanantis, Gerai Žinantis (apie visus dalykus).“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Inni Isa samiileefi dachii dhugaan uume. Guyyaa ‘ta’i’ jennaan achumaan ta’u san (yaadadhu). Jechi Isaa dhugaadha. mootummaan isaaf tahe Guyyaa xurumbaan afuufamu. Inni beekaa fagoo (gheybii)fi dhihooti. Inni ogeessa, keessa beekaadha.
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Русский · Russian
Он — Тот, Кто сотворил небеса и землю с истиной. [Вспомни] день, когда Он скажет: «Будь!» — и оно возникает. Его слово — истина. Ему принадлежит власть в День, когда протрубят в Рог. [Он —] Знающий сокровенное и явное, и Он — Мудрый, Сведущий.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
и Он је Тај Који је створио небеса и Земљу са истином. Чим Он за нешто каже: „Буди!“ - Оно буде; Његова реч је истина; само ће Он да има власт на Дан када се дуне у рог; Он зна оно што је чулима недокучиво и оно што је видљиво; Он је Мудри и све у потпуности зна.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Naye ndiye aliyeziumba mbingu na ardhi kwa Haki. Siku atakaposema: "Kuwa!" Na yawe. Kauli yake ni Haki. Na ufalme wote ni wake Siku litakapopulizwa barugumu, Mjuzi wa yaliyofichikana na yanayoonekana. Naye ndiye Mwenye hekima, Mwenye habari zote.
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Svenska · Swedish
Det är han som har skapat himlarna och jorden för ett alldeles visst syfte. Den dag han säger: ”Bli!” – och det blir. Hans ord är sanningen. Herraväldet är hans den dag det blåses i hornet. Han känner väl till det som är fördolt och det som är synligt; han är den Vise, den väl Medvetne.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
O, gökleri ve yeri hak ile yaratandır. O’nun “ol!” diyeceği (kıyamet) günü her şey oluverir. O’nun sözü haktır. Sûr’a üfürüleceği günde mülk (ve hakimiyet) yalnız O’nundur. Görüneni de görünmeyeni de bilendir. O Hakîm'dir, her şeyden haberdar olandır.
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اردو · Urdu
اور وہی ہے جس نے آسمانوں اور زمین کو برحق پیدا کیا[1] اور[2] جس وقت اللہ تعالیٰ اتنا کہہ دے گا تو ہوجا بس وه ہو پڑے گا۔ اس کا کہنا حق اور بااﺛر ہے۔ اور ساری حکومت خاص اسی کی ہوگی جب کہ صُور میں پھونک ماری جائے گی[3] وه جاننے واﻻ ہے پوشیده چیزوں کا اور ﻇاہر چیزوں کا اور وہی ہے بڑی حکمت واﻻ پوری خبر رکھنے واﻻ۔
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, "Shall we invoke besides God something that can neither benefit us nor harm us, and turn back on our heels after God has guided us; like someone seduced by the devils and confused on earth, who has friends calling him to guidance: 'Come to us'?" Say, "The guidance of God is the guidance, and we are commanded to surrender to the Lord of the Universe."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: Shall we cry, instead of unto Allah, unto that which neither profiteth us nor hurteth us, and shall we turn back after Allah hath guided us, like one bewildered whom the devils have infatuated in the earth, who hath companions who invite him to the guidance (saying): Come unto us? Say: Lo! the guidance of Allah is Guidance, and we are ordered to surrender to the Lord of the Worlds
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Shall we call on what neither profits us nor harms us, and be thrown back upon our heels after God has guided us, like him whom Satan hath led away bewildered in the earth, who has companions who call him to guidance, "Come to us?" ' Say, 'Verily, God's guidance is the guidance, and we are bidden to resign ourselves unto the Lord of the worlds
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Shall we, beside God, call upon those who can neither help nor hurt us? Shall we turn upon our heel after that God hath guided us? Like some bewildered man whom the Satans have spell-bound in the desert, though his companions call him to the true guidance, with, "Come to us!" SAY: Verily, guidance from God, that is the true guidance; and we are commanded to surrender ourselves to the Lord of the Worlds
George Sale1734 Say, 'Shall we call beside God, upon that which can neither profit us nor harm us, and shall we be turn back on our heels after God guided us? -- Like one whom the evil ones entice away, leaving him bewildered in the land, and who has companions who call him to guidance, saying, 'Come to us.' Say : 'Surely, the guidance of God is the only true guidance and we have been commanded to submit to the Lord of all the worlds
Talal Itani2012 Abraham said to his father Azar, "Do you take idols for gods? I see that you and your people are in evident error."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 (Remember) when Abraham said unto his father Azar: Takest thou idols for gods? Lo! I see thee and thy folk in error manifest
Edward Henry Palmer1880 When Abraham said to his father Azar, 'Dost thou take idols for gods? verily, I see thee and thy people in obvious error
John Medows Rodwell1861 And remember when Abraham said to his father Azar, Takest thou images as gods? Verily, I see that thou and thy people are in manifest error
George Sale1734 And remember the time when Abraham said to his father, Azar, 'Dost thou take idols for gods? Surely, I see thee and thy people in manifest error
Easy-read (simplified)wakadhaalika nuree ibraaheema malakoota s-samaawaati wal-'ardi waliyakoona mina l-mooqineen
DIN 31635wakaḏālika nurī ʾibrāhīma malakūta s-samāwāti wal-ʾarḍi waliyakūna mina l-mūqinīna
Talal Itani2012 Thus We showed Abraham the empire of the heavens and the earth, that he might be one of those with certainty.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Thus did We show Abraham the kingdom of the heavens and the earth that he might be of those possessing certainty
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Thus did we show Abraham the kingdom of heaven and of the earth, that he should be of those who are sure
John Medows Rodwell1861 And thus did we shew Abraham the kingdom of the Heavens and of the Earth, that he might be stablished in knowledge
George Sale1734 And thus did we show Abraham the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth that he should have full knowledge and that he might be of those who possess certainty of faith
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 —
0.47 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
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.51
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.51
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.47
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.46
Talal Itani · George Sale0.45
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.37
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.30
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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.