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Talal Itani· published 2012
Have they not observed the government of the heavens and the earth, and all the things that God created, and that their time may have drawn near? Which message, besides this, will they believe in?
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Have they not considered the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and what things Allah hath created, and that it may be that their own term draweth nigh? In what fact after this will they believe
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
Do they not behold the kingdoms of the heavens and of the earth, and what things God has created, and (see that), it may be, their time is already drawing nigh? in what relation then will they believe
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Will they not look forth on the realms of the Heaven and of the Earth, and on all things which God hath made, to see whether haply their end be not drawing on? And in what other book will they believe who reject the Koran
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And do they not look into the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth and all things that God has created? And do they not see that, it may be, their own term has already drawn near? Then in what thing after this will they believe
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
A nuk vëzhgojnë ata sundimin e qiejve e të Tokës e gjithçka që krijoi Allahu dhe të mendojnë se fundi i tyre mund të jetë afër?! Në cilën shpallje pas kësaj do të besojnë?!
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
তারা কি লক্ষ্য করে না যে, আসমানসমূহ ও জমিনের সার্বভৌম কর্তৃত্ব সম্পর্কে এবং এতদুভয়ের মাঝে আল্লাহ যা কিছু সৃষ্টি করেছেন, সে সম্পর্কে? আর এর প্রতি যে, হয়তো তাদের নির্ধারিত সময় নিকটে এসে গিয়েছে?(৫০) সুতরাং তারাএরপর আর কোন কথার প্রতি ঈমান আনবে?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
I zašto oni ne promisle o carstvu nebesa i Zemlje i o svemu onome što je On stvorio, i da im se, možda, kraj primakao? Pa u koji će govor, ako ne u Kur'an, vjerovati?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
I zašto oni ne promisle o carstvu nebesa i Zemlje i o svemu onome što je On stvorio, i da im se, možda, kraj primakao? Pa u koji će govor, ako ne u Kuran, vjerovati?
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
E ɓe ndaaraani laamuuji kammuuli ɗin e leydi ndin, e ko Alla tagi e piiji, e haawnaaki hara lajal maɓɓe ngal ɓadike? E ko yewtere honnde ɓaawo ndee ɗoo ɓe ngooŋɗinta?!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ნუთუ ისინი არ შეჰყურებდნენ ალლაჰის სამეფოს ცათა და მიწაზე და ყველაფერს, რაც ალლაჰმა შექმნა, და (ნუთუ არ დაფიქრებულან იმაზე), რომ, შესაძლოა, მათი ვადა ახლოვდება მაშ, ამის შემდეგ [ყურანის შემდეგ] კიდევ რომელი სიტყვა/მოთხრობა ირწმუნონ?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Haben sie sich denn nicht im Reich der Himmel und der Erde umgeschaut und was Allah an Dingen erschaffen hat und dass ihre Frist vielleicht nahegerückt ist? An welche Aussage nach dieser wollen sie denn (sonst) glauben?
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
Μα δε βλέπουν (τα Σημάδιά Μας) στο βασίλειο των ουρανών και της Γης και σε ό,τι δημιούργησε ο Αλλάχ (ώστε να τα λάβουν υπόψη); Και (δε βλέπουν) ότι ίσως η ώρα (του θανάτου) τους έχει πλησιάσει (και έτσι να πεθάνουν ως άπιστοι και να καταλήξουν στο Πυρ); (Αν δεν πιστεύουν σ' αυτό το Κορ’άν, τότε) σε ποιον άλλο λόγο μετά απ' αυτό θα πιστέψουν;
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
क्या उन्होंने आकाशों तथा धरती के विशाल राज्य पर और जो चीज़ भी अल्लाह ने पैदा की है, उसपर दृष्टि नहीं डाली[71], और इस बात पर कि हो सकता है कि उनका (निर्धारित) समय बहुत निकट आ गया हो? तो फिर इस (क़ुरआन) के बाद वे किस बात पर ईमान लाएँगे?
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
O non osservano il Regno dei cieli e della terra e le cose che Allāh ha creato, e che forse si è già avvicinata la loro fine? In quale discorso, oltre questo, credono?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
185. Argi jie nežiūri į dangų ir žemės karalystę, ir visus daiktus, kuriuos sukūrė Allahas? Ir į tai, kad jų gyvenimų pabaiga gali būti arti? Kokia žinia po to jie tikės?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Sila mootummaa samiileefii dachiifi, keessatti hinlaalanii? waan Rabbiin wantoota irraa uumes, akkasumas beellamni (yeroon du’a) isaanii Dhugumatti kan dhihaate ta’uu (hin ilaalanuu?). Sila booda isaatii (Qur’aanaatii) haasa’a kamitti amanu?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Неужели они не размышляли о владычестве небес и земли, и обо всём том, что сотворил Аллах, и о том, что срок их, быть может, уже приблизился? Так в какое же повествование после этого они уверуют?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
И зашто они не размисле о царству небеса и Земље и о свему ономе што је Он створио, и да им се, можда, крај примакао? Па у који ће говор, ако не у Кур'ан, да верују?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Je, hawatazami ufalme wa mbingu na ardhi, na vile vyote alivyoviumba Mwenyezi Mungu katika vitu, na kwamba huenda muda wao umekwishakaribia? Basi maneno gani baada ya haya watayaamini?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Har de inte begrundat himlarnas och jordens herravälde och allt som Gud har skapat, och att deras tid kanske närmar sig? Vilket budskap ska de tro på efter detta?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Onlar göklerin ve yerin hükümranlığını, Allah’ın yarattığı her şeyi, ecellerinin yaklaşmış olabileceğini görüp düşünmüyorlar mı? Bundan sonra hangi söze iman edecekler?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور کیا ان لوگوں نے غور نہیں کیا آسمانوں اور زمین کے عالم میں اور دوسری چیزوں میں جو اللہ نے پیدا کی ہیں اور اس بات میں کہ ممکن ہے کہ ان کی اجل قریب ہی آ پہنچی ہو[1] ۔ پھر قرآن کے بعد کون سی بات پر یہ لوگ ایمان ﻻئیں گے؟[2]
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 Whomever God misguides has no guide. And He leaves them blundering in their transgression.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those whom Allah sendeth astray, there is no guide for them. He leaveth them to wander blindly on in their contumacy
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He whom God leads astray there is no guide for him! He leaves them in their rebellion, blindly wandering on
John Medows Rodwell1861 No other guide for him whom God shall mislead! He will leave them distraught in their wanderings
George Sale1734 Whomsoever God adjudges astray, there can be no guide for him. And He leave such in their transgression, wandering in distraction
Talal Itani2012 They ask you about the Hour, "When will it come?" Say, "Knowledge of it rests with my Lord. None can reveal its coming except He. It weighs heavily on the heavens and the earth. It will not come upon you except suddenly." They ask you as if you are responsible for it. Say, "Knowledge of it rests with God," but most people do not know.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They ask thee of the (destined) Hour, when will it come to port. Say: Knowledge thereof is with my Lord only. He alone will manifest it at its proper time. It is heavy in the heavens and the earth. It cometh not to you save unawares. They question thee as if thou couldst be well informed thereof. Say: Knowledge thereof is with Allah only, but most of mankind know not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They will ask you about the Hour, for what time it is fixed? - say, 'The knowledge thereof is only with my Lord; none shall manifest it at its time but He; it is heavy in the heavens and the earth, it will not come to you save on a sudden.' They will ask as though thou wert privy to it, say, 'The knowledge thereof is only with God,' - but most folk do not know
John Medows Rodwell1861 They will ask thee of the Hour - for what time is its coming fixed? SAY: The knowledge of it is only with my Lord: none shall manifest it in its time but He: it is the burden of the Heavens and of the Earth: not otherwise than on a sudden will it come on you. They will ask thee as if thou wast privy to it: SAY: The knowledge of it is with none but God. But most men know not this
George Sale1734 They ask thee about the Hour; 'When it will come to pass?' Say, 'The knowledge thereof is only with my Lord. None can manifest it at its time but He. It lies heavy on the heavens and the earth. It shall not come upon you but of a sudden.' They ask thee as if thou were well-acquainted therewith. Say, 'The knowledge thereof is only with God; but most men do not know
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.72
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.67
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.59
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.55
Talal Itani · George Sale0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.43
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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.