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Talal Itani· published 2012
And when Your Lord summoned the descendants of Adam, and made them testify about themselves. "Am I not your Lord?" They said, "Yes, we testify." Thus you cannot say on the Day of Resurrection, "We were unaware of this."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And (remember) when thy Lord brought forth from the Children of Adam, from their reins, their seed, and made them testify of themselves, (saying): Am I not your Lord? They said: Yea, verily. We testify. (That was) lest ye should say at the Day of Resurrection: Lo! of this we were unaware
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
And when thy Lord took from the children of Adam out of their loins their seed, and made them bear witness against themselves, ' Am I not your Lord?' They said, 'Yea! we do bear witness' - lest ye should say on the day of resurrection, 'Verily, for this we did not care
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when thy Lord brought forth their descendants from the reins of the sons of Adam and took them to witness against themselves, "Am I not," said He, "your Lord?" They said, "Yes, we witness it." This we did, lest ye should say on the day of Resurrection, "Truly, of this were we heedless, because uninformed
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And remember when thy Lord brought forth from Adam's children -- out of their loins -- their offspring and made them to bear witness against their ownselves saying, 'Yea, we do bear witness.' This He did lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection, 'We were surely unaware of this
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
Dhe (kujto) kur Zoti yt nxori nga kurrizi i bijve të Ademit pasardhësit e tyre dhe i bëri të dëshmojnë kundër vetes së tyre, duke u thënë: "A nuk jam unë Zoti juaj?" Ata thanë: "Po, pa dyshim, Ne dëshmojmë." (Këtë e bëri) që të mos thoni në Ditën e Kijametit: "Ne nuk e kemi ditur këtë."
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.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর স্মরণ করো, যখন তোমার রব আদম-সন্তানের পিঠ থেকে তাদের বংশধরকে বের করেছিলেন এবং তাদের নিজেদের ওপর নিজেদের সাক্ষ্য গ্রহণ করেছিলেন। তিনি তাদেরকে জিজ্ঞেস করেছিলেন: ‘আমি কি তোমাদের রব নই?’ তারা সমস্বরে বলেছিলো: ‘হ্যাঁ, অবশ্যই। আমরা সাক্ষী রইলাম।’ এটা এ জন্যে যে, তোমরা যেন কিয়ামতের দিন বলতে না পারো: ‘আমরা তো এ বিষয়ে গাফিল ছিলাম।’
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I kad je Gospodar tvoj od Ademovih sinova, iz njihovih kičmi, izveo potomstvo njihovo i zatražio od njih da posvjedoče protiv sebe: "Zar Ja nisam Gospodar vaš?", oni su odgovarali: "Jesi, mi svjedočimo ", i zato da na Kijametskom danu ne reknete: "Mi o ovome nismo ništa znali."
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I kad je Gospodar tvoj od Adamovih sinova, iz njihovih kičmi, izveo potomstvo njihovo i zatražio od njih da posvjedoče protiv sebe: "Zar Ja nisam Gospodar vaš?" oni su odgovarali: "Jesi, mi svjedočimo", i zato da na Sudnjem danu ne reknete: "Mi o ovome nismo ništa znali."
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Fulfulde · Fulani
siftoro kadi nde Joomi maa ƴettunoo e ɓiɗɓe Aadama ɓen ka keeci maɓɓe jurriiyaaji maɓɓe ɗin, O seendintini ɓe e woŋkiiji maɓɓe ɗin : "Wanaa kon min woni Joomi mon?" ɓe mb'i : "Ko non woniri, min seedike". Ko fii (wata) on mb'oy Ñande Darngal : "minn min ngoniino welsindiiɓe e ɗuum ɗoo".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და აი, შენმა უფალმა გამოიყვანა ადამის შთამომავლებიდან, მათი ზურგებიდან, მათი მოდგმა და აიძულა ისინი დაემოწმებინათ საკუთარ თავზე: «განა მე არ ვარ თქვენი უფალი?» მათ თქვეს: «დიახ, ვამოწმებთ (რომ შენ ხარ ჩვენი უფალი)». (ეს) იმისთვის, რომ აღდგომის დღეს არ თქვათ: «ჭეშმარიტად, ჩვენ ამაზე უყურადღებონი ვიყავით».
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
Und (gedenke,) als dein Herr aus den Kindern Adams, aus ihren Rücken, ihre Nachkommenschaft nahm und sie gegen sich selbst bezeugen ließ (und sagte): „Bin Ich denn nicht euer Herr?“ Sie sagten: „Doch, wir bezeugen (es)!“ (Dies,) damit ihr nicht am Tag der Auferstehung sagt: „Wir waren dessen unachtsam“,
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
Και (ανάφερε, ω, Μωχάμμαντ) όταν ο Κύριός σου έβγαλε από την οσφύ των παιδιών του Αδάμ τους απογόνους τους [δηλ. από την οσφύ του Αδάμ τα παιδιά του και ούτω καθεξής] και τους έκανε να μαρτυρήσουν ως απόδειξη εναντίον του εαυτού τους, (ρωτώντας τους γι' αυτό που έχει ήδη βάλει στην έμφυτη φύση τους): «Δεν είμαι ο Κύριός σας;» Είπαν: «Ναι, πράγματι, Εσύ είσαι, και μαρτυρούμε γι' αυτό.» (Το κάναμε αυτό) για να μην πείτε την Ημέρα της Ανάστασης: «Στ' αλήθεια, δεν το ξέραμε αυτό!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा (वह समय याद करें) जब आपके पालनहार ने आदम के बेटों की पीठों से उनकी संतति को निकाला और उन्हें स्वयं उनपर गवाह बनाते हुए कहा : क्या मैं तुम्हारा पालनहार नहीं हूँ? उन्होंने कहा : क्यों नहीं, हम (इसके) गवाह[64] हैं। (ऐसा न हो) कि तुम क़ियामत के दिन कहो निःसंदेह हम इससे ग़ाफ़िल थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E quando il tuo Dio ha estratto i discendenti dai lombi dei figli di Ǣdem, rendendoli testimoni riguardo se stessi: «Non sono forse il vostro Dio?» Dissero: «Certo, testimoniamo!» Ciò perché il Giorno del Giudizio non diciate: «Noi in verità ne eravamo ignari!»
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
172. Ir (atminkite) kai jūsų Viešpats išvedė iš Adomo Vaikų, iš jų strėnų, jų sėklas (arba iš Adomo strėnų jo palikuonis) ir privertė juos paliudyti patiems sau (sakant): „Argi aš nesu jūsų Viešpats?“ Jie tarė: „Taip! Mes liudijame.“ tam, kad Prikėlimo dieną nesakytumėte: „Iš tiesų, mes to nežinojome.“
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
И вот твой Господь взял у сынов Адама — из их чресл[40] — их потомство и сделал их свидетелями против самих себя [, сказав]: «Разве Я — не ваш Господь?» Они сказали: «Напротив, мы засвидетельствовали!» [Это — для того], чтобы в День воскресения вы не сказали: «Воистину, мы пребывали в неведении об этом»,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
И кад је Господар твој од Адамових синова, из њихових кичми, извео њихово потомство и затражио од њих да посведоче против себе: „Зар нисам Ја ваш Господар?“ Они су одговарали: „Јеси, ми сведочимо“, и зато да на Судњем дану не кажете: „Ми о овоме нисмо ништа знали.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na pale Mola wako Mlezi alipochukua kutoka kwa wanadamu kutoka katika migongo yao dhuria zao na akawashuhudisha juu ya nafsi zao (na kuwaambia), "Je, mimi si Mola wenu Mlezi?" Wakasema, "Ndiyo, tumeshuhudia." Mje mkasema Siku ya Kiyama, "Hakika sisi tulikuwa tumeghafilika mbali na haya."
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Svenska · Swedish
Och minns när din Herre tog fram avkomman ur Adams avkomlingars länder och fick dem att vittna om sig själva: ”Är jag inte er Herre?” De sa: ”Jo, vi vittnar!” Detta skedde för att ni inte ska säga på uppståndelsens dag: ”Vi hade ingen aning om detta!”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Hani Rabbin (ezelde) Âdemoğullarının sulplerinden zürriyetlerini almış, onları kendilerine karşı şahit tutarak: “Ben sizin Rabbiniz değil miyim?” demişti. Onlar da: “Evet, şahit olduk (ki Rabbimizsin)” demişlerdi. Böyle yapmamız kıyamet günü: “Biz bundan habersizdik” dememeniz içindir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور جب آپ کے رب نے اوﻻد آدم کی پشت سے ان کی اوﻻد کو نکالا اور ان سے ان ہی کے متعلق اقرار لیا کہ کیا میں تمہارا رب نہیں ہوں؟ سب نے جواب دیا کیوں نہیں! ہم سب گواه بنتے ہیں[1] ۔ تاکہ تم لوگ قیامت کے روز یوں نہ کہو کہ ہم تو اس سے محض بے خبر تھے۔
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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Talal Itani2012 Those who adhere to the Scripture, and practice prayer-We will not waste the reward of the reformers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And as for those who make (men) keep the Scripture, and establish worship - lo! We squander not the wages of reformers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But those who hold fast by the Book and are steadfast in prayer - verily, we will not waste the hire of those who do right
John Medows Rodwell1861 And who hold fast the Book, and observe prayer: verily, we will not suffer the reward of the righteous to perish
George Sale1734 And as for those who hold fast by the Book and observe Prayer, surely, We suffer not the reward of the righteous to perish
Talal Itani2012 And when We suspended the mountain over them, as if it was an umbrella, and they thought it would fall on them: "Hold fast to what We have given you, and remember what it contains, so that you may be saved."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when We shook the Mount above them as it were a covering, and they supposed that it was going to fall upon them (and We said): Hold fast that which We have given you, and remember that which is therein, that ye may ward off (evil)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when we shook the mountain over them, as though it were a shadow, and they thought it would fall upon them (saying), 'Take ye what we have given you with firmness, and remember what is therein; haply ye may fear
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when we shook the mount over them as if it had been a shadow, and they thought it falling upon them, . . . "Receive, said we, with steadfastness what we have brought you, and remember what is therein to the end that ye may fear God
George Sale1734 And when We shook the mountain over them as though it were a covering and they thought it was going to fall on them, We said, 'Hold fast that which We have given you and remember what is therein that you may guard against evil
Easy-read (simplified)aw taqooloo innamaa ashraka aabaa'unaa min qablu wakunnaa dhurriyyatan min ba'dihim afatuhlikunaa bimaa fa'ala l-mubtiloon
DIN 31635ʾaw taqūlū ʾinnamā ʾašraka ʾābāʾunā min qablu wakunnā ḏurriyyatan min baʿdihim ʾafatuhlikunā bimā faʿala l-mubṭilūna
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Talal Itani2012 Nor can you Say, "Our ancestors practiced idolatry before; and we are their descendants who came after them; will you destroy us for what the falsifiers did?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Or lest ye should say: (It is) only (that) our fathers ascribed partners to Allah of old and we were (their) seed after them. Wilt Thou destroy us on account of that which those who follow falsehood did
Edward Henry Palmer1880 or say, 'Verily, our fathers associated others with God before us, and we were but their seed after them: wilt Thou then destroy us for what vaindoers did
John Medows Rodwell1861 Or lest ye should say, "Our fathers, indeed, aforetime joined other gods with our God, and we are their seed after them: wilt thou destroy us for the doings of vain men
George Sale1734 Or lest you should say, 'It was only our fathers who associated co-partners with God in the past and we were merely a generation after them. Wilt Thou then destroy us for what those, who lied, did
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.72
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.60
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.51
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.51
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.47
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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.