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Talal Itani· published 2012
Then he turned away from them, and said, "O my people, I have delivered to you the message of my Lord, and I have advised you, but you do not like those who give advice."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And (Salih) turned from them and said: O my people! I delivered my Lord's message unto you and gave you good advice, but ye love not good advisers
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 he turned away from them and said, 'O my people! I did preach to you the message of my Lord, and I gave you good advice! but ye love not sincere advisers
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
So he turned away from them, and said, "O my people! I did indeedannounce to you the message of my Lord: and I gave you faithfulcounsel, but ye love not faithfulcounsellors
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And Salehdeparted from them, and said, O my people, now have I delivered unto you the message of my Lord; and I advised you well, but ye love not those who advise you well
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
Ai u largua prej tyre duke thënë: "O populli im, unë jua kumtova mesazhin e Zotit tim dhe ju këshillova, por ju nuk i donit këshilluesit."
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
এরপর তিনি তাদের কাছ থেকে মুখ ফিরিয়ে নিলো এবং বললো: ‘হে আমার সম্প্রদায়! আমি তো আমার রবের রিসালত তোমাদের কাছে পৌঁছে দিয়েছি এবং তোমাদের কল্যাণ কামনা করেছি; কিন্তু তোমরা কল্যাণকামীদেরকে পছন্দ কর না।’
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
A on ih napusti i reče: "O narode moj, prenio sam vam poslanicu Gospodara svoga i savjetovao sam vas, ali vi ne volite one koji savjetuju."
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
A on ih napusti i reče: "O narode moj, prenio sam vam poslanicu Gospodara svoga i savjetovao sam vas, ali vi ne volite one koji savjetuju."
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
O ruŋtii ɓe o maaki : "eey mon yo yimɓe am, gooŋɗii mi yottinii e mon Nulal Joomi am ngal mi laaɓanii on (reedu), konon, on njiɗaa laaɓooɓe (reedu) 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
და მან [სალიჰმა] მათგან ზურგი აქცია და თქვა: «ო, ჩემო ხალხო! მე უკვე გადმოგეცით ჩემი უფლის გზავნილი და გულწრფელად გირჩიეთ ის, რაც თქვენთვის სასარგებლოა, მაგრამ თქვენ არ გიყვარდათ მრჩევლები».
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
So kehrte er sich von ihnen ab und sagte: „O mein Volk, ich habe euch bereits die Botschaft meines Herrn übermittelt und euch guten Ratschlag erteilt. Aber ihr liebt nicht die guten Ratgeber.“
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
Τότε (ο Σάλιχ) αποστράφηκε απ' αυτούς και είπε (ως επίπληξη): «Ω, λαέ μου! Πράγματι, σας μετέδωσα το μήνυμα του Κυρίου μου και σας έδωσε ειλικρινείς συμβουλές, αλλά εσείς δεν αγαπάτε εκείνους που δίνουν συμβουλές.»
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
तो सालेह़ ने उनसे मुँह मोड़ लिया और कहा : ऐ मेरी जाति के लोगो! मैंने तुम्हें अपने पालनहार का संदेश पहुँचा दिया और मैंने तुम्हारे लिए मंगलकामना की, लेकिन तुम शुभचिंतकों को पसंद नहीं करते।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Li abbandonò, e disse: «O popolo mio, vi ho già comunicato il messaggio del mio Dio e vi ho dato consigli, ma voi non amate i consiglieri!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
79. Tada jis [Salihas] nusigręžė nuo jų ir tarė: „Mano žmonės, aš tikrai perdaviau jums savo Viešpaties Žinią ir daviau jums gerą patarimą, tačiau jūs nemėgstate gerų patarėjų.“
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 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
(Saalih) isaan irraa gara galee "Yaa ummata kiyya! Dhugumatti, ani ergaa Gooftaa kiyyaa isinin gayeera; tolas isiniif yaadeera (isinii himeera), Garuu isin nama toltu isiniif yaadu hin jaalattan" jedhe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Он отвернулся от них и сказал: «О мой народ, я действительно донёс до вас послание моего Господа и искренне наставлял вас, но вы не любите наставляющих».
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
А он их напусти и рече: „О мој народе, пренео сам вам посланицу свога Господара и саветовао сам вас, али ви не волите оне који саветују.“
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
Basi Swaleh akawaacha na akasema: Enyi watu wangu! Niliwafikishia Ujumbe wa Mola wangu Mlezi, na nikawanasihi, lakini nyinyi hamuwapendi wanaonasihi.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Han lämnade dem med orden: ”Mitt folk! Jag förmedlade min Herres budskap till er och ville er bara väl, men ni har ju aldrig tyckt om välvilliga människor.”
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
Artık, Salih onlardan yüz çevirdi ve; “Andolsun, ben size Rabbimin vahyettiklerini tebliğ ettim ve size nasihatta bulundum. Fakat siz nasihat edenleri sevmiyorsunuz.” dedi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اس وقت (صالح علیہ السلام) ان سے منھ موڑ کر چلے، اور فرمانے لگے[1] کہ اے میری قوم! میں نے تو تم کو اپنے پروردگار کا حکم پہنچادیا تھا اور میں نے تمہاری خیرخواہی کی لیکن تم لوگ خیرخواہوں کو پسند نہیں کرتے۔
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)fa'aqaroo n-naaqata wa'ataw 'an amri rabbihim waqaaloo yaa saalihu tinaa bimaa ta'idunaa in kunta mina l-mursaleen
DIN 31635faʿaqarū n-nāqata waʿataw ʿan ʾamri rabbihim waqālū yā ṣāliḥu ʾtinā bimā taʿidunā ʾin kunta mina l-mursalīna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 So they hamstrung the she-camel, and defied the command of their Lord, and said, "O Saleh, bring upon us what you threaten us with, if you are one of the messengers."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 So they hamstrung the she-camel, and they flouted the commandment of their Lord, and they said: O Salih! Bring upon us that thou threatenest if thou art indeed of those sent (from Allah)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then they did hamstring the camel, and rebelled against the bidding of their Lord and said, 'O Zalih! bring us what thou didst threaten us with, if thou art of those who are sent
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they ham-strung the she-camel, and rebelled against their Lord's command, and said, "O Saleh, let thy menaces be accomplished upon us if thou art one of the Sent Ones
George Sale1734 And they cut off the feet of the camel, and insolently transgressed the command of their Lord, and said, oh, cause that to come upon us, with which thou hast threatened us, if thou art one of those who have been sent by God
DIN 31635faʾaḫaḏathumu r-raǧfatu faʾaṣbaḥū fī dārihim ǧāṯimīna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Whereupon the quake overtook them, and they became lifeless bodies in their homes.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 So the earthquake seized them, and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling-place
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then the earthquake took them, and in the morning they lay prone in their dwellings
John Medows Rodwell1861 Then the earthquake surprised them; and in the morning they were found dead on their faces in their dwellings
George Sale1734 Whereupon a terrible noise from heaven assailed them; and in the morning they were found in their dwellings prostrate on their breasts and dead
Easy-read (simplified)walootan idh qaala liqawmihi ata'toona l-faahishata maa sabaqakum bihaa min ahadin mina l-'aalameen
DIN 31635walūṭan ʾiḏ qāla liqawmihi ʾataʾtūna l-fāḥišata mā sabaqakum bihā min ʾaḥadin mina l-ʿālamīna
Talal Itani2012 And Lot, when he said to his people, "Do you commit lewdness no people anywhere have ever committed before you?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Lot! (Remember) when he said unto his folk: Will ye commit abomination such as no creature ever did before you
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Lot, when he said to his people, 'Do ye approach an abomination which no one in all the world ever anticipated you in
John Medows Rodwell1861 We also sent Lot, when he said to his people, commit ye this filthy deed in which no creature hath gone before you
George Sale1734 And remember Lot, when he said unto his people, do ye commit a wickedness, wherein no creature hath set you an example
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 —
0.52 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 · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.54
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.51
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.50
Talal Itani · George Sale0.46
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.45
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.37
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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.