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Talal Itani· published 2012
We will question those to whom messengers were sent, and We will question the messengers.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Then verily We shall question those unto whom (Our message) hath been sent, and verily We shall question the messengers
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 we will of a surety question those to whom the prophets were sent
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Surely, therefore, will we call those to account, to whom an Apostle hath been sent, and of the sent ones themselves will we certainlydemand a reckoning
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
We will surely call those to an account, unto whom a prophet hath been sent; and We will also call those to account who have been sent unto them
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
Ne, patjetër, do t'i marrim në pyetje ata të cilëve u janë dërguar të dërguarit dhe sigurisht do t'i pyesim edhe vetë të dërguarit.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
অতঃপর আমি (কিয়ামতের দিন) অবশ্যই যাদের কাছে রাসূল পাঠানো হয়েছিল তাদেরকে জিজ্ঞেস করব(১) এবং অবশ্যই রাসূলগণকেও জিজ্ঞেস করব।(২)
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
I sigurno ćemo pitati one kojima smo poslanike slali, a pitat ćemo, doista, i poslanike,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
I sigurno ćemo pitati one kojima smo poslanike slali, a pitat ćemo, doista, i poslanike,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Wollahi ma min Laɓditoyo ɓeen ɓe (Min) Nulnoo e muen, Ma Min Laɓnditoyo kadi Nulaaɓe ɓe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და აუცილებლად ვკითხავთ მათ, ვისთანაც გაგზავნილნი იყვნენ (ალლაჰის მოციქულები), და აუცილებლად ვკითხავთ გაგზავნილებს [მოციქულებსაც].
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
So werden Wir ganz gewiss diejenigen, zu denen Gesandte gesandt worden sind, fragen, und Wir werden ganz gewiss die Gesandten fragen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Πράγματι, θα ρωτήσουμε (την Ημέρα της Κρίσεως) εκείνους (τους λαούς) στους οποίους στάλθηκαν οι Αγγελιαφόροι (για το τι απάντησαν στους Αγγελιαφόρους τους), και πράγματι, θα ρωτήσουμε και τους ίδιους τους Αγγελιαφόρους (για το τι τους απάντησαν οι λαοί τους).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तो निश्चय हम उन लोगों से अवश्य पूछेंगे, जिनके पास रसूल भेजे गए तथा निश्चय हम रसूलों से (भी) ज़रूर[3] पूछेंगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Senza dubbio interrogheremo quelli a cui fu inviato, e interrogheremo i Messaggeri.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
6. Tada tikrai, Mes apklausime tuos (žmones), kuriems tai (Knyga) buvo siųsta ir tikrai, Mes apklausime Pasiuntinius.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Dhugumatti, isaan (ergamaan) gara isaaniitti ergame (ummata) ni gaafanna; ergamtootas ni gaafanna.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Мы непременно спросим тех, к которым было послано, и непременно спросим [и самих] посланцев.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
И сигурно ћемо питати оне којима смо слали посланике, а питаћемо, заиста, и посланике,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na hakika tutawauliza wale waliotumiwa Ujumbe, na pia hakika tutawauliza hao Wajumbe.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Vi ska sannerligen utfråga de som fick ta emot budskapet, och vi ska sannerligen utfråga sändebuden.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Andolsun ki, kendilerine peygamber gönderilenleri de, peygamberleri de elbette sorgulayacağız.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
پھر ہم ان لوگوں سے ضرور پوچھیں گے جن کے پاس پیغمبر بھیجے گئے تھے اور ہم پیغمبروں سے ضرور پوچھیں گے۔[1]
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
About these translations
5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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Easy-read
Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation,
not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil
Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the
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Easy-read (simplified)wakam min qaryatin ahlaknaahaa fajaa'ahaa ba'sunaa bayaatan aw hum qaa'iloon
DIN 31635wakam min qaryatin ʾahlaknāhā faǧāʾahā baʾsunā bayātan ʾaw hum qāʾilūna
Talal Itani2012 How many a town have We destroyed? Our might came upon them by night, or while they were napping.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 How many a township have We destroyed! As a raid by night, or while they slept at noon, Our terror came unto them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Yet how many a town have we destroyed, and our violence came upon it by night, or while they slept at noon; and their cry, when our violence came upon them
John Medows Rodwell1861 How many cities have we destroyed! By night, or while they were in their midday slumber, did our wrath reach them
George Sale1734 How many cities have We destroyed; which our vengeance overtook by night, or while they were reposing themselves at noon-day
DIN 31635falanaquṣṣanna ʿalayhim biʿilmin wamā kunnā ġāʾibīna
Talal Itani2012 We will narrate to them with knowledge, for We were never absent.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then verily We shall narrate unto them (the event) with knowledge, for We were not absent (when it came to pass)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and we will narrate to them with knowledge, for we were not absent
John Medows Rodwell1861 And with knowledge will we tell them of their deeds, for we were not absent from them
George Sale1734 And We will declare their actions unto them with knowledge; for We are not absent from them
DIN 31635wal-waznu yawmaʾiḏin l-ḥaqqu faman ṯaqulat mawāzīnuhu faʾūlāʾika humu l-mufliḥūna
Talal Itani2012 The scales on that Day will be just. Those whose weights are heavy-it is they who are the successful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 The weighing on that day is the true (weighing). As for those whose scale is heavy, they are the successful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The balance on that day is true, and whosesoever scales are heavy, they are prosperous
John Medows Rodwell1861 The weighing on that day, with justice! and they whose balances shall be heavy, these are they who shall be happy
George Sale1734 The weighing of mens actions on that day shall be just; and they whose balances laden with their good works shall be heavy, are those who shall be happy
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 —
0.66 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
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.75
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.74
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.74
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.71
Talal Itani · George Sale0.71
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.52
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.44
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
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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.