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Talal Itani· published 2012
Those who deny Our revelations and the meeting of the Hereafter-their deeds will come to nothing. Will they be repaid except according to what they used to do?
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Those who deny Our revelations and the meeting of the Hereafter, their works are fruitless. Are they requited aught save what they used to do
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 those who say our signs and the meeting of the lastday are lies,-- vain are their works: shall they be rewarded save for that which they have done
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And those who reject Our Signs and the meeting of the Hereafter -- their works are vain. Can they expect to be rewarded for anything except for what they do
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
Atyre që përgënjeshtrojnë ajetet Tona dhe takimin e botës tjetër, do t'u asgjësohen veprat. A do të ndëshkohen ndryshe, përveçse sipas asaj që kanë punuar?
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর যারা আমার আয়াতসমূহ ও আখিরাতের সাক্ষাতকে(৩৮) অস্বীকার করেছে, তাদের আমলসমূহ নিষ্ফল হয়ে গেছে। তারা যা করে, সে অনুযায়ীই তাদের প্রতিফল দেয়া হবে।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Djela će biti poništena onima koji poriču znakove Naše i susret na onom svijetu. Zar će biti drukčije kažnjeni nego kako su radili?
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Djela će biti poništena onima koji poriču znakove Naše i susret na onom svijetu. Zar će biti drukčije kažnjeni nego kako su radili?
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɓeen yedduɓe kaawniiɗe amen ɗen e kawraangal e laakara, golle maɓɓe ɗe mbonii. Hara ɓeen njoɓoyte si wanaa kon ko ɓe ngollaynoo?
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ქართული · Georgian
ხოლო ისინი, ვინც უარყვეს ჩვენი ნიშნები და უარყვეს შეხვედრა მარადიულ ცხოვრებაში, – მათი საქმეები ფუჭი იქნება. ნუთუ მათ მიეზღებათ რამე სხვა, გარდა იმისა, რასაც აკეთებდნენ?
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Deutsch · German
Und diejenigen, die Unsere Zeichen und die Begegnung mit dem Jenseits für Lüge erklären, deren Werke werden hinfällig. Wird ihnen (denn) etwas anderes vergolten als das, was sie zu tun pflegten?
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Εκείνοι που διέψευδαν τα σημάδιά Μας και τη συνάντηση στη Μέλλουσα Ζωή, οι (καλές) πράξεις τους έχουν καταστεί μάταιες. Θα λάβουν κάτι άλλο παρά μόνο (την τιμωρία) γι' αυτά που έκαναν (από απιστία και αμαρτίες);
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हिन्दी · Hindi
और जिन लोगों ने हमारी आयतों तथा परलोक (में हमसे) मिलने को झुठलाया, उनके कर्म व्यर्थ हो गए और उन्हें उसी का बदला मिलेगा, जो वे किया करते थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
E di quelli che smentirono i Nostri Segni e l’Incontro dell’Aldilà, verranno vanificate le azioni. Saranno puniti per ciò che hanno fatto?
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
147. Tų, kurie neigia Mūsų Ajat (įrodymus, įkalčius, pamokas, ženklus, apreiškimus ir t.t.) ir Susitikimą Amžinybėje (Prikėlimo Dieną), bergždi yra jų darbai. Ar jiems bus atlyginta kuo nors kitu, nei tuo, ką jie darydavo?
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Русский · Russian
Те, которые сочли ложью Наши знамения и встречу Последней жизни — их деяния стали тщетными. Разве им воздастся иначе, чем за то, что они совершали?
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Српски · Serbian
Дела ће да буду поништена онима који поричу Наше речи и доказе и сусрет на Будућем свету. Зар ће да буду другачије кажњени него како су радили?
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na wale waliozikadhibisha Ishara zetu na kukutana na Akhera, matendo yao yameharibika. Kwani watalipwa isipokuwa yale waliyokuwa wakiyatenda?
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Svenska · Swedish
För de som vägrar tro på våra tecken och på mötet i det kommande livet ska handlingarna gå om intet. Lönas de för annat än vad de själva gjort?
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Türkçe · Turkish
Ayetlerimizi ve ahiret buluşmasını yalanlayanların amelleri boşa gitmiştir. Onlar (dünyada) yaptıklarından başkasıyla mı cezalandırılacaklardı?
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اردو · Urdu
اور یہ لوگ جنہوں نے ہماری آیتوں کو اور قیامت کے پیش آنے کو جھٹلایا ان کے سب کام غارت گئے۔ ان کو وہی سزا دی جائے گی جو کچھ یہ کرتے تھے۔[1]
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Talal Itani2012 And We inscribed for him in the Tablets all kinds of enlightenments, and decisive explanation of all things. "Hold fast to them, and exhort your people to adopt the best of them. I will show you the fate of the sinners."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And We wrote for him, upon the tablets, the lesson to be drawn from all things and the explanation of all things, then (bade him): Hold it fast; and command thy people (saying): Take the better (course made clear) therein. I shall show thee the abode of evil-livers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And we wrote for him upon tablets an admonition concerning everything, and a detailing of everything: 'Take them then with firmness, and bid thy people take them for what is best thereof. I will show you the abode of those who work abominations
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we wrote for him upon the tables a monition concerning every matter, and said, "Receive them thyself with steadfastness, and command thy people to receive them for the observance of its most goodly precepts: - I will shew you the abode of the wicked
George Sale1734 And We wrote for him upon the Tablets about everything an admonition and an explanation of all things. 'So hold them fast and bid thy people follow the best thereof. Soon shall I show you the abode of the transgressors
Talal Itani2012 I will turn away from My revelations those who behave proudly on earth without justification. Even if they see every sign, they will not believe in it; and if they see the path of rectitude, they will not adopt it for a path; and if they see the path of error, they will adopt it for a path. That is because they denied Our revelations, and paid no attention to them.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 I shall turn away from My revelations those who magnify themselves wrongfully in the earth, and if they see each token believe it not, and if they see the way of righteousness choose it nor for (their) way, and if they see the way of error choose if for (their) way. That is because they deny Our revelations and are used to disregard them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 I will turn from my signs those who are big with pride in the earth without right; and if they see every sign they shall not believe therein, and if they see the path of rectitude they shall not take it for a path; but if they see the path of error they shall take it for a path; - that is because they have said our signs are lies and have been careless of them
John Medows Rodwell1861 The unjustly proud ones of the earth will I turn aside from my signs, for even if they see every sign they will not believe them; and if they see the path of uprightness, they will not take it for their path, but if they see the path of error, for their path will they take it. This, - for that they treated our signs as lies, and were heedless of them
George Sale1734 I shall soon turn away from My Signs those who behave proudly in the land in an unjust manner; and even if they see all the Signs, they will not believe therein; and if they see the way of righteousness, they will not adopt it as their way; but if they see the way of error, they will adopt it as their way. That is because they treated Our Signs as lies and were heedless of them
Easy-read (simplified)waattakhadha qawmu moosaa min ba'dihi min huliyyihim 'ijlan jasadan lahu khuwaarun alam yaraw annahu laa yukallimuhum walaa yahdeehim sabeelan takhadhoohu wakaanoo zaalimeen
DIN 31635wāttaḫaḏa qawmu mūsā min baʿdihi min ḥuliyyihim ʿiǧlan ǧasadan lahu ḫuwārun ʾalam yaraw ʾannahu lā yukallimuhum walā yahdīhim sabīlan taḫaḏūhu wakānū ẓālimīna
Talal Itani2012 In his absence, the people of Moses adopted a calf made from their ornaments-a body which lowed. Did they not see that it could not speak to them, nor guide them in any way? They took it for worship. They were in the wrong.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And the folk of Moses, after (he left them), chose a calf (for worship), (made) out of their ornaments, of saffron hue, which gave a lowing sound. Saw they not that it spake not unto them nor guided them to any way? They chose it, and became wrong-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Moses' people after him took to themselves of their ornaments a corporeal calf that lowed; did they not see that it could not speak with them, nor could it guide them in the path? They took it and they were unjust
John Medows Rodwell1861 And the people of Moses took during his absence a calf made of their ornaments, and ruddy like gold, and lowing. Saw they not that it could not speak to them, nor guide them in the way? Yet they took if for a God and became offenders
George Sale1734 And the people of Moses made, in his absence, out of their ornaments, a calf -- a lifeless body, producing a lowing sound. Did they not see that it spoke not to them, nor guided them to any way? They took it for worship and they were transgressors
Easy-read (simplified)walammaa suqita fee aydeehim wara'aw annahum qad dalloo qaaloo la'in lam yarhamnaa rabbunaa wayaghfir lanaa lanakoonanna mina l-khaasireen
DIN 31635walammā suqiṭa fī ʾaydīhim waraʾaw ʾannahum qad ḍallū qālū laʾin lam yarḥamnā rabbunā wayaġfir lanā lanakūnanna mina l-ḫāsirīna
Talal Itani2012 Then, when they regretted, and realized that they had erred, they said, "Unless our Lord extends His mercy to us, and forgives us, we will be among the losers."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when they feared the consequences thereof and saw that they had gone astray, they said: Unless our Lord have mercy on us and forgive us, we verily are of the lost
Edward Henry Palmer1880 but when they bit their hands with fruitless rage and saw that they had gone astray, they said,' Verily, if our Lord have not compassion on us and forgive us we shall surely be of those who lose
John Medows Rodwell1861 But when they repented, and saw that they had erred, they said, Truly if our Lord have not mercy on us, and forgive us, we shall surely be of those who perish
George Sale1734 And when they were smitten with remorse and saw that they had indeed gone astray, they said, 'If our Lord have not mercy on us and forgive us, we shall surely be of the losers
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 —
0.60 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.76
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.72
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.67
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · George Sale0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.50
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.47
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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.