Easy-read (simplified)qaaloo aji'tanaa lina'buda llaaha wahdahu wanadhara maa kaana ya'budu aabaa'unaa fa'tinaa bimaa ta'idunaa in kunta mina s-saadiqeen
DIN 31635qālū ʾaǧiʾtanā linaʿbuda llāha waḥdahu wanaḏara mā kāna yaʿbudu ʾābāʾunā faʾtinā bimā taʿidunā ʾin kunta mina ṣ-ṣādiqīna
Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.
Talal Itani· published 2012
They said, "Did you come to us to make us worship God alone, and abandon what our ancestors used to worship? Then bring us what you threaten us with, if you are truthful."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
They said: Hast come unto us that we should serveAllah alone, and forsake what our fathers worshipped? Then bring upon us that wherewith thou threatenest us if thou art of the truthful
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
They said, 'Hast thou come to us that we may worship God alone, and leave what our fathers used to worship? then bring us what thou dost threaten us with, if thou art of those who tell the truth
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They said, "Art thou come to us in order that we may worship one God alone, and leave what our fathers worshipped? Then bring that upon us with which thou threatenest us, if thou be a man of truth
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They said, art thou come unto us, that we should worship God alone, and leave the deities which our fathers worshipped? Now bring down that judgement upon us, with which thou threatenest us, if thou speakest truth
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
Ata thanë: "A mos na ke ardhur që ta adhurojmë vetëm Allahun e t'i lëmë ata që adhuronin baballarët tanë? Atëherë, na e sill atë me të cilën po na kërcënon, nëse je i çiltër."
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 বলল: ‘ তুমি কি আমাদের কাছে এজন্যে এসেছো যে, আমরা যেন এক আল্লাহর ইবাদত করি এবং আমাদের পূর্বপুরুষরা যার ইবাদত করত তা ছেড়ে দেই? কাজেই তুমি সত্যবাদী হলে আমাদেরকে যার ভয় দেখাচ্ছ, তা নিয়ে এসো।’
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
Oni su govorili: "Zar si nam došao zato da samo Allahu ibadet činimo, a da napustimo one koje su preci naši obožavali? Učini da nas snađe to što nam prijeteći obećavaš, ako je istina to što govoriš!"
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 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Oni su govorili: "Zar si nam došao zato da samo Allaha obožavamo, a da napustimo one koje su predci naši obožavali? Učini da nas snađe to što nam prijeteći obećavaš, ako je istina to što govoriš!"
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
Ɓe mbi'i : "E a ar e amen fii yo min ndew Alla tan, min ngacca kon ko baabiraaɓe amen ɓeen ndewatnoo?! Awa addan amen ko podanɗaa men kon (e lepte) si tawii ko a jeyaaɗo e gooŋnuɓe ɓeen.
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
ქართული · Georgian
('ადის ხალხმა) თქვეს: «ნუთუ ამისთვის მოხვედი (ო, ჰუდ), რომ მხოლოდ ერთ ალლაჰს ვეთაყვანოთ და მივატოვოთ ის, რასაც ჩვენი მამები ეთაყვანებოდნენ? მაშ, მოგვიყვანე ის, რითაც გვემუქრები [სასჯელი], თუ შენ მართალთაგანი ხარ!»
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
Sie sagten: „Bist du zu uns gekommen, damit wir Allah allein dienen und das verlassen, dem unsere Väter zu dienen pflegten? So bring uns doch her, was du uns androhst, wenn du wirklich zu den Wahrhaftigen gehörst!“
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
Είπαν: «Ήρθες σε μας να μας διατάζεις να λατρεύουμε μόνο τον Αλλάχ και να εγκαταλείψουμε ό,τι λάτρευαν οι πρόγονοί μας; Φέρε μας, λοιπόν, αυτό (το μαρτύριο) που μας υποσχέθηκες, αν είσαι από τους ειλικρινείς.»
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
हिन्दी · Hindi
उन्होंने कहा : क्या तू हमारे पास इसलिए आया है कि हम अकेले अल्लाह की इबादत करें और उन्हें छोड़ दें जिनकी पूजा हमारे बाप-दादा करते थे? तो जिसकी तू हमें धमकी देता है, वह हमारे ऊपर ले आ, यदि तू सच्चों में से है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Dissero: «Sei venuto forse a farci adorare solo Allāh e lasciare quelli che adoravano i nostri padri? Allora portaci ciò che ci prometti, se sei tra i veritieri!»
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
70. Jie tarė: „Tu atėjai pas mus tam, kad mes garbintume Allahą Vienintelį ir atsižadėtume to, ką mūsų tėvai garbindavo. Taigi, duok mums tai, kuo tu grasinai mums, jei esi teisingas.“
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
Они сказали: «Неужели ты пришёл к нам, чтобы мы поклонялись только одному Аллаху и оставили то, чему поклонялись наши отцы? Так приведи же к нам то, чем ты угрожаешь нам, если ты из правдивых!»
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
Српски · Serbian
Они су говорили: „Зар си нам дошао зато да само Аллаха обожавамо, а да напустимо оне које су преци наши обожавали? Учини да нас снађе то чиме нам претиш, ако је истина то што говориш!“
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 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Wakasema: Je, umetujia ili tumuabudu Mwenyezi Mungu peke yake, na tuyaache waliyokuwa wakiyaabudu baba zetu? Basi tuletee hayo unayotuahidi, ikiwa wewe ni miongoni mwa wakweli.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
De sa: ”Har du kommit för att vi ska dyrka Gud endast och överge det våra förfäder dyrkade? Låt det du hotar oss med drabba oss, om du talar sanning!”
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
Türkçe · Turkish
"Bize, bir tek ilaha ibadet etmemiz ve atalarımızın ibadet ettiklerini bırakmamız için mi geldin? Eğer doğru söylüyorsan, bizi tehdit ettiğin azabı getir bakalım!" dediler.
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 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
انہوں نے کہا کہ کیا آپ ہمارے پاس اس واسطے آئے ہیں کہ ہم صرف اللہ ہی کی عبادت کریں اور جن کو ہمارے باپ دادا پوجتے تھے ان کو چھوڑ دیں[1] ، پس ہم کو جس عذاب کی دھمکی دیتے ہو اس کو ہمارے پاس منگوا دو اگر تم سچے ہو۔[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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Easy-read (simplified)awa'ajibtum an jaa'akum dhikrun min rabbikum 'alaa rajulin minkum liyundhirakum wadhkuroo idh ja'alakum khulafaa'a min ba'di qawmi noohin wazaadakum fee l-khalqi bastatan fadhkuroo aalaa'a llaahi la'allakum tuflihoon
DIN 31635ʾawaʿaǧibtum ʾan ǧāʾakum ḏikrun min rabbikum ʿalā raǧulin minkum liyunḏirakum waḏkurū ʾiḏ ǧaʿalakum ḫulafāʾa min baʿdi qawmi nūḥin wazādakum fī l-ḫalqi basṭatan faḏkurū ʾālāʾa llāhi laʿallakum tufliḥūna
Talal Itani2012 "Are you surprised that a reminder has come to you from your Lord, through a man from among you, to warn you? Remember how He made you successors after the people of Noah, and increased you greatly in stature. And remember God's blessings, so that you may prosper."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Marvel ye that there should come unto you a Reminder from your Lord by means of a man among you, that he may warn you? Remember how He made you viceroys after Noah's folk, and gave you growth of stature. Remember (all) the bounties of your Lord, that haply ye may be successful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 What! do ye then wonder that there comes to you a reminder from your Lord by a man from amongst yourselves, to warn you? remember when He made you vicegerents after Noah's people and increased you in length of stature; remember, then, the benefits of God,- haply ye may prosper
John Medows Rodwell1861 Marvel ye that a warning hath come to you from your Lord through one of yourselves that He may warn you? Remember how he hath made you the successors of the people of Noah, and increased you in tallness of stature. Remember then the favours of God, that it may haply be well with you
George Sale1734 Do ye wonder that an admonition hath come unto you from your Lord, by a man from among you, that he may warn you? Call to mind how He hath appointed you successors unto the people of Noah, and hath added unto you in stature largely. Remember the benefits of God, that ye may prosper
Easy-read (simplified)qaala qad waqa'a 'alaykum min rabbikum rijsun waghadabun atujaadiloonanee fee asmaa'in sammaytumoohaa antum wa'aabaa'ukum maa nazzala llaahu bihaa min sultaanin faantaziroo innee ma'akum mina l-muntazireen
DIN 31635qāla qad waqaʿa ʿalaykum min rabbikum riǧsun waġaḍabun ʾatuǧādilūnanī fī ʾasmāʾin sammaytumūhā ʾantum waʾābāʾukum mā nazzala llāhu bihā min sulṭānin fāntaẓirū ʾinnī maʿakum mina l-muntaẓirīna
Talal Itani2012 He said, "Condemnation and wrath have befallen you from your Lord. Are you arguing with me over names, which you and your ancestors invented, for which God sent down no authority? Just wait; I am waiting with you."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He said: Terror and wrath from your Lord have already fallen on you. Would ye wrangle with me over names which ye have named, ye and your fathers, for which no warrant from Allah hath been revealed? Then await (the consequence), lo! I (also) am of those awaiting (it)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He said, 'There shall fall upon you from your Lord horror and wrath; do ye wrangle with me about names, which ye and your fathers have named yourselves, for which God sent down no power; wait then expectant, and I with you will wait expectant too
John Medows Rodwell1861 He said, "Vengeance and wrath shall suddenly light on you from your Lord. Do ye dispute with me about names that you and your fathers have given your idols, and for which God hath sent you down no warranty? Wait ye then, and I too will wait with you
George Sale1734 Hud answered, now shall there suddenly fall upon you from your Lord vengeance and indignation. Will ye dispute with me concerning the names which ye have named, and your fathers; as to which God hath not revealed unto you any authority? Do ye wait therefore, and I will be one of those who wait with you
Talal Itani2012 So We saved him and those with him, by mercy from Us, and We cut off the roots of those who rejected Our revelations and were not believers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And We saved him and those with him by a mercy from Us, and We cut the root of those who denied Our revelations and were not believers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But we rescued him and those with him, by mercy from ourselves, and we cut off the hindermost parts of those who said our signs were lies and who were not believers
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we delivered him, and those who were on his side, by our mercy, and we cut off, to the last man, those who had treated our signs as lies, and who were not believers
George Sale1734 And We delivered him, and them who believed with him, by our mercy; and We cut off the uttermost part of those who charged our signs with falsehood, and were not believers
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.72
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.71
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.53
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.50
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.45
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.43
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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.