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Talal Itani· published 2012
When something good came their way, they said, "This is ours." And when somethingbadhappened to them, they ascribed the evil omen to Moses and those with him. In fact, their omen is with God, but most of them do not know.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
But whenever good befell them, they said: This is ours; and whenever evil smote them they ascribed it to the evil auspices of Moses and those with him. Surely their evil auspice was only with Allah. But most of them knew not
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 when there came to them a good thing they said, 'This is ours;' and if there befell them an evil, they took the augury from Moses and those with him; - is not their augury only in God'shands? - but most of them know not
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when good fell to their lot they said, "This is our due." But if illbefel them, they regarded Moses and his partisans as (the birds) of evil omen. Yet, was not their evil omen from God? But most of them knew it not
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But whenever good befell them, they said, 'This is for us.' And if evil afflicted them, they ascribed the evil fortune to Moses and those with him. Now, surely, the cause of their evil fortune was with God. But most of them know not
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
Kur u vinte ndonjë e mirë, thoshin: " Këtë e kemi merituar", por kur i godiste ndonjë e keqe, mendonin se atë ua ndillte Musai dhe ata që ishin me të. Vini re! Oguri i tyre është prej Allahut, por shumica e tyre nuk e dinë.
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বাংলা · Bengali
অতঃপর যখনই তাদের কাছে কল্যাণ আসত, তখন তারা বলত: ‘এটা তো আমাদের প্রাপ্য।’(২৬) আর যখন তাদের কাছে অকল্যাণ পৌঁছত, তখন তারা মূসা ও তার সঙ্গীদেরকে অলক্ষুণে মনে করত। সাবধান! তাদের অকল্যাণ তো কেবল আল্লাহর নিয়ন্ত্রণে; কিন্তু তাদের অধিকাংশই তা জানে না।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I kad bi im bilo dobro, oni bi govorili: "Ovo smo zaslužili", a kad bi ih snašla kakva nevolja, zloslutnju su nalazili u Musau i onima koji su s njim vjerovali. Ali ne! Njihova je zloslutnja od Allaha bila, samo što većina njih nije znala!
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I kad bi im bilo dobro, oni bi govorili: "Ovo smo zaslužili", a kad bi ih snašla kakva nevolja, zloslutnju su nalazili u Mojsiju i onima koji su s njim vjerovali. Ali ne! Njihova je zloslutnja od Allaha bila, samo što većina njih nije znala!
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Si moƴƴere nden arii ɓe, ɓe mbi'a : "miɗen kaan di e ndee ɗoo" ; si bone on heɓii ɓe, ɓe kiitinora Muusaa e won duɓe e makko ɓeen. nganndee pellet, kiiti maɓɓe ɗin ko ka Alla iwri, kono ko ɓuri ɗuuɗude e yimɓe ɓen nganndaa.
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ქართული · Georgian
როდესაც მათთან [ფარაონსა და მის ხალხთან] მოდიოდა სიკეთე, ისინი ამბობდნენ: «ეს — ჩვენს გამოა». ხოლო როცა მათ ეწეოდათ ბოროტება [გვალვა და უმოსავლობა], ისინი მას უკავშირებდნენ მუსას და მათ, ვინც მასთან ერთად იყვნენ. ო, დიახ! სინამდვილეში მათი მოვლენათა დაკავშირება ალლაჰთან არის, მაგრამ მათმა უმეტესობამ არ იცის!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Wenn dann (etwas) Gutes zu ihnen kam, sagten sie: „Dies gehört uns.“ Und wenn sie etwas Schlechtes traf, sahen sie ein (schlechtes) Omen in Musa und denjenigen, die mit ihm waren. Aber ihr Vorzeichen (und alles an Vorherbestimmungen) ist sicherlich bei Allah, jedoch wissen die meisten von ihnen nicht.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Όταν τους ήρθε (στον λαό του Φαραώ) κάτι καλό (από αγαθά και βιοπορισμό), είπαν: «Αυτό είναι για μας (επειδή το αξίζουμε).», αλλά όταν τους έπληξε κάτι κακό (από ξηρασία, ασθένειες και έλλειψη καρπών), έγιναν απαισιόδοξοι αισθανόμενοι ότι ο Μωυσής και όσοι είναι μαζί του τους έφεραν κακή τύχη. Πράγματι, αυτό που τους συνέβη έχει οριστεί από τον Αλλάχ (και δεν έχει σχέση με τον Μωυσή παρά μόνο τις επικλήσεις που έκανε εναντίον τους), αλλά οι περισσότεροι απ' αυτούς δεν έξεραν (γι' αυτό το απέδωσαν σ' άλλους εκτός του Αλλάχ).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर जब उन्हें संपन्नता प्राप्त होती, तो कहते कि यह तो हमारा हक़ है और यदि उन्हें कोई विपत्ति पहुँचती, तो मूसा और उसके साथियों से अपशकुन लेते। सुन लो! उनका अपशकुन तो अल्लाह ही के पास[44] है, परंतु उनमें से अधिकतर लोग नहीं जानते।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Quando arrivò loro l’abbondanza, dissero: «Questa è per noi!» Ma quando li prese il male, ne attribuirono la provenienza al malaugurio di Mūsā e dei suoi. Ma in verità il loro malaugurio non era che da Allāh, ma molti di loro non lo sapevano.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
131. Tačiau, kaskart, kai gėris pasiekdavo juos, jie sakydavo: „Tai mūsų.“ O jei juos kamuodavo blogis, jie priskirdavo tai blogiems pranašingiesiems ženklams, susijusiems su Mūsa (Moze) ir tiems, kurie su juo. Žinokite! Iš tiesų, jų blogi pranašingieji ženklai yra su Allahu, tačiau dauguma iš jų nežino.
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Русский · Russian
И когда к ним приходило добро, они говорили: «Это принадлежит нам по праву!» А если их постигало зло, они связывали это с Мусой и теми, которые были с ним. Знайте же: воистину, лишь у Аллаха их дурные предзнаменования, однако большинство из них не знают.
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Српски · Serbian
И кад би им наишло добро, они би говорили: „Ово смо заслужили“, а кад би их снашла каква невоља, злослутњу су налазили у Мојсију и онима који су са њим веровали. Али не! Њихова је злослутња од Аллаха била, само што већина њих није знала!“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi wakijiwa na zuri, wanasema, "Ni haki yetu hii." Na likiwasibu ovu, wanaona mkosi kwa Musa na wale walio pamoja naye. Tazama! Hakika mkosi wao huo unatoka kwa Mwenyezi Mungu. Lakini wengi wao hawajui.
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Svenska · Swedish
När goda tider kom sa de: ”Detta är vad vi förtjänar!” Men när något dåligt drabbade dem skyllde de på Mose och hans följe. Deras öde vilar hos Gud allena, men de flesta av dem vet inte.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Onlara bir iyilik geldiği zaman; “Bu bizim hakkımızdır” derler. Onlara bir kötülük dokunduğu zaman onu Mûsâ ve onun yanındakilerin uğursuzluğuna verirlerdi. Dikkat edin! Onların başına gelen uğursuzlukları sadece Allah katındandır. Fakat onların çoğu bilmiyorlar.
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اردو · Urdu
سو جب ان پر خوشحالی آجاتی تو کہتے کہ یہ تو ہمارے لیے ہونا ہی چاہئے اور اگر ان کو کوئی بدحالی پیش آتی تو موسیٰ (علیہ السلام) اور ان کے ساتھیوں کی نحوست بتلاتے[1] ۔ یاد رکھو کہ ان کی نحوست اللہ تعالیٰ کے پاس ہے[2]، لیکن ان کے اکثر لوگ نہیں جانتے۔
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Talal Itani2012 They said, "We were persecuted before you came to us, and after you came to us." He said, "Perhaps your Lord will destroy your enemy, and make you successors in the land; then He will see how you behave."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They said: We suffered hurt before thou camest unto us, and since thou hast come unto us. He said: It may be that your Lord is going to destroy your adversary and make you viceroys in the earth, that He may see how ye behave
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They said, 'We have been hurt before thou didst come to us, and since thou hast come to us.' Said he, 'It may be that your Lord will destroy your foe, and will make you succeed him in the earth; and He will see how ye act
John Medows Rodwell1861 We have been oppressed," they said, "before thou camest to us, and since thou hast been with us:" "Perhaps," said he, "your Lord will destroy your enemy, and will make you his successors in the land, and He will see how ye will act therein
George Sale1734 They replied, 'We were persecuted before thou camest to us and even after thou camest to us.' He said, 'Your Lord is about to destroy your enemy and make you rulers in the land, that He may see how you act
Talal Itani2012 So We let loose upon them the flood, and the locusts, and the lice, and the frogs, and blood-all explicit signs-but they were too arrogant. They were a sinful people.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 So We sent against them the flood and the locusts and the vermin and the frogs and the blood - a succession of clear signs. But they were arrogant and became a guilty folk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then we sent upon them the flood and the locusts and the lice and the frogs and the blood, - signs detailed; but they were big with pride and were a people who did sin
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we sent upon them the flood and the locusts and the kummal (lice) and the frogs and the blood, - clear signs - but they behaved proudly, and were a sinful people
George Sale1734 Then We sent upon them the storm and the locust and the lice and the frogs and the blood -- clear Signs; but they behaved proudly and were a sinful people
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.57 on a scale
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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
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.67
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.65
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
Talal Itani · George Sale0.54
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.52
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.51
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.47
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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.