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.
God is He Who created seven heavens, and their like of earth. The command descends through them, so that you may know that God is Capable of everything, and that God Encompasses everything in knowledge.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Allah it is who hath created seven heavens, and of the earth the like thereof. The commandment cometh down among them slowly, that ye may know that Allah is Able to do all things, and that Allahsurroundeth all things in knowledge
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
God it is who created seven heavens, and of the earth the like thereof. The bidding descends between them, that ye may know that God is mighty over all, and that God has encompassed all things with His knowledge
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is God who hath created seven heavens and as many earths. The Divine command cometh down through them all, that ye may know that God hath power over all things, and that God in his knowledge embraceth all things
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
It is God who hath created seven heavens, and as many differentstories of the earth: The divine command descendeth between them; that ye may know that God is omnipotent, and that God comprehendeth all things by his knowledge
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
Allahu është Ai që krijoi shtatë qiej dhe po aq toka. Vendimi i Tij zbret ndërmjet tyre, që ta dini se Allahu është i Plotfuqishëm për çdo gjë dhe se Allahu ka përfshirë gjithçka me diturinë e Tij.
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
তিনি আল্লাহ, যিনি সাত আসমান এবং অনুরূপ জমিন সৃষ্টি করেছেন। এগুলোর মাঝে তাঁর আদেশ অবতীর্ণ হয়, যেন তোমরা জানতে পারো যে, আল্লাহ সর্ববিষয়ে ক্ষমতাবান এবং আল্লাহর জ্ঞানতো সব কিছুকে বেষ্টন করে আছে।
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
Allah je sedam nebesa i isto toliko slojeva zemlje stvorio; Njegova odredba do svih njih dospijeva da biste vi znali da Allah nad svime ima moć i da Allah znanjem Svojim sve obuhvata!
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
Allah je sedam nebesa i isto toliko slojeva zemlje stvorio; Njegova odredba do svih njih dospijeva da biste vi znali da Allah nad svime ima moć i da Allah znanjem Svojim sve obuhvaća!
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
Alla talɗo kammuuji jeeɗiɗi e leydi yeru majji, yamiroore Alla na tello hakkunde majji ngam nganndon wonde Alla ko kattanɗo kala hu'unde Alla fiiltariima kala hu'unde e ganndal.
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
ქართული · Georgian
ალლაჰია ის, ვინც შექმნა შვიდი ზეცა და მათ მსგავსად (შვიდი) დედამიწა. მათ შორის [ცათა და მიწათა] ჩამოდის ბრძანება [ალლაჰის გამოცხადება], რათა იცოდეთ, რომ ალლაჰი ყოვლისშემძლეა და რომ ალლაჰი ცოდნით ყოველივეს მოიცავს [ყოვლისმცოდნეა].
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
Allah ist es, Der sieben Himmel erschaffen hat, und von der Erde gleich (viel). Der Befehl (Allahs) kommt wahrhaftig zwischen ihnen herab, damit ihr wisst, dass Allah zu allem die Macht hat und dass Allah ja alles mit Seinem Wissen umfasst.
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
Ο Αλλάχ είναι Αυτός που έπλασε επτά ουρανούς, και ομοίως για τη γη (επτά). Η Εντολή Του κατεβαίνει ανάμεσά τους (τους ουρανούς και τη γη), για να μάθετε ότι ο Αλλάχ είναι για τα πάντα Ικανός, και ότι ο Αλλάχ περιβάλλει τα πάντα με τη Γνώση (Του).
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
अल्लाह ही है, जिसने सात आकाश बनाए तथा धरती से भी उन्हीं के समान। उनके बीच आदेश उतरता है, ताकि तुम जान लो कि अल्लाह हर चीज़ पर सर्वशक्तिमान है और यह कि अल्लाह ने निश्चय प्रत्येक वस्तु को अपने ज्ञान के साथ घेर रखा है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Allāh, Lui ha creato sette cieli e altrettante terre, e tra questi scende il Suo ordine, perché sappiate che Allāh è in verità Onnipotente. E in verità Allāh ha circondato ogni cosa con la sua Sapienza.
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
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
12. Tai Allahas, Kuris sukūrė septynis dangus ir (tiek pat) žemių, kaip ir jų. (Jo) įsakymas nusileidžia tarp jų tam, kad jūs žinotumėte, jog Allahas yra Sugebantis viską ir kad Allahas apima viską Žinojimu.
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
Аллах — Тот, Кто сотворил семь небес и из земли — подобное им. Его повеление нисходит между ними, чтобы вы знали, что Аллах мощен над всем сущим и что Аллах объял знанием всё сущее.
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
Аллах је седам небеса створио, а исто толико је и земаља створио; Његова одредба до свих њих доспева да бисте ви знали да Аллах над свиме има моћ и да Аллах знањем Својим све обухвата!
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
Mwenyezi Mungu ni yule ambaye ameziumba mbingu saba, na ardhi kwa mfano wa hizo. Amri zake zinashuka baina yake, ili mjue kwamba Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mwenye uweza mno juu ya kila kitu, na kwamba Mwenyezi Mungu amekizingira kila kitu kukijua vilivyo kwa elimu yake.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Gud är den som skapat sju himlar och lika många jordskikt. Han låter sin befallning sänka sig mellan dem, för att ni ska inse att Gud har makt över allt och att hans kunskap omsluter allting.
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
Allah, yedi kat göğü ve yerden bir o kadarını yaratandır. Onun emri bunlar arasından inip durmaktadır ki, böylece Allah'ın her şeye kadir olduğunu ve her şeyi ilmiyle kuşattığını bilesiniz.
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
اللہ وه ہے جس نے سات آسمان بنائے اور اسی کے مثل زمینیں بھی[1] ۔ اس کا حکم ان کے درمیان اترتا ہے[2] تاکہ تم جان لو کہ اللہ ہر چیز پر قادر ہے۔ اور اللہ تعالیٰ نے ہر چیز کو بہ اعتبار علم گھیر رکھا ہے.[3]
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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DIN 31635ʾaʿadda llāhu lahum ʿaḏāban šadīdan fāttaqū llāha yā ʾūlī l-ʾalbābi llaḏīna ʾāmanū qad ʾanzala llāhu ʾilaykum ḏikran
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Talal Itani2012 God has prepared for them a severe retribution. So beware of God, O you who possess intellect and have faith. God has sent down to you a Reminder.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah hath prepared for them stern punishment; so keep your duty to Allah, O men of understanding! O ye who believe! Now Allah hath sent down unto you a reminder
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God prepared for them severe torment;- then fear God, ye who are endowed with minds
John Medows Rodwell1861 A vehement chastisement hath God prepared for them! Fear God, then, O ye men of understanding! Believers! Now hath God sent down to you a warning
George Sale1734 God hath prepared for them a severe punishment: Wherefore fear God, O ye who are indued with understanding. True believers, now hath God sent down unto you an admonition
DIN 31635rasūlan yatlū ʿalaykum ʾāyāti llāhi mubayyinātin liyuḫriǧa llaḏīna ʾāmanū waʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti mina ẓ-ẓulumāti ʾilā n-nūri waman yuʾmin billāhi wayaʿmal ṣāliḥan yudḫilhu ǧannātin taǧrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru ḫālidīna fīhā ʾabadan qad ʾaḥsana llāhu lahu rizqan
Talal Itani2012 A messenger who recites to you God's Verses, clear and distinct, that he may bring those who believe and work righteousness from darkness into light. Whoever believes in God and acts with integrity, He will admit him into gardens beneath which rivers flow, therein to abide forever. God has given him an excellent provision.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 A messenger reciting unto you the revelations of Allah made plain, that He may bring forth those who believe and do good works from darkness unto light. And whosoever believeth in Allah and doeth right, He will bring him into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, therein to abide for ever. Allah hath made good provision for him
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Ye who believe! God has sent down to you a reminder; - an apostle to recite to you God's manifest signs;- to bring forth those who believe and act aright from darkness into light! and whoso believes in God and acts right He will bring him into gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for ever and for aye! God has made goodly for him his provision
John Medows Rodwell1861 a prophet, who reciteth to you the clear signs of God, that he may bring those who believe, and do the things that are right, out of the darkness into the light. And - whoso believeth in God, and doeth the things that are right, God will cause them to enter the gardens beneath which the rivers flow, to remain therein for aye! A goodly provision now hath God made for him
George Sale1734 an apostle who may rehearse unto you the perspicuous signs of God; that he may bring forth those who believe and do good works, from darkness into light. And whoso believeth in God, and doth that which is right, him will He lead into gardens beneath which rivers flow, to remain therein for ever: Now hath God made an excellent provision for him
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 —
0.55 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 · George Sale0.63
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.63
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.58
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.49
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.42
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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.