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Talal Itani· published 2012
And We rained down on them a rain; note the consequences for the sinners.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And We rained a rain upon them. See now the nature of the consequence of evil-doers
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 we rained down upon them a rain; - see then how was the end of the sinners
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And we rained a shower of stones upon them. Behold therefore what was the end of the wicked
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 lëshuam mbi ta rrebesh (gurësh). Shih pra si ishte përfundimi i keqbërësve.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর আমি তাদের ওপর ভীষণভাবে বৃষ্টি বর্ষণ করেছিলাম।(২৫) সুতরাং (হে রাসূল!) দেখো, এ অপরাধীদের পরিণতি কীরূপ ছিল?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
I na njih smo kišu grumenja spustili, pa pogledaj kako su prestupnici skončali.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I na njih smo kišu grumenja spustili, pa pogledaj kako su prestupnici skončali.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Min saaƴini toɓo e maɓɓe. Ndaarii ko holno battane bonɓe ɓeɗn laatornoo?
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ქართული · Georgian
და მოვავლინეთ მათზე ქვის წვიმა (სასჯელად). მაშ, შეხედე (ო, მოციქულო), როგორი იყო ამოხებულთა (ურწმუნოთა) დასასრული.
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Deutsch · German
Und Wir ließen einen Regen auf sie niedergehen. So schau, wie das Ende der Übeltäter war!
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Και ρίξαμε πάνω τους βροχή (από σκληρές πήλινες πέτρες). Κοιτά (ω, Μωχάμμαντ) πως ήταν το τέλος των κακών!
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हिन्दी · Hindi
और हमने उनपर (पत्थरों की) भारी बारिश बरसाई। तो देखो अपराधियों का परिणाम कैसा हुआ?
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
E abbiamo fatto cadere su di loro una pioggia: osserva quale fu la fine dei criminali!
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
84. Ir Mes apliejome juos (akmenų) lietumi. Tad pažiūrėkite, kokia buvo Mudžrimūn (nusikaltėlių, daugiadievių ir nuodėmiautojų) pabaiga.
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Русский · Russian
И Мы пролили на них ливень; так посмотри же, каков был итог преступных..
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Српски · Serbian
И на њих смо кишу грумења спустили, па погледај како су преступници скончали.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na tukawanyeshea mvua. Basi tazama jinsi ulivyokuwa mwisho wa wahalifu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Och vi lät ett regn [av stenar] ösa ner över dem. Se hur det slutade för de obotfärdiga syndarna!
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Türkçe · Turkish
Geriye kalanların üzerine öyle bir yağmur yağdırdık ki! Suçluların sonunun nasıl olduğuna bir bak!
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اردو · Urdu
اور ہم نے ان پر خاص طرح کا مینہ[1] برسایا پس دیکھو تو سہی ان مجرموں کا انجام کیسا ہوا؟[2]
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Easy-read (simplified)wamaa kaana jawaaba qawmihi illaa an qaaloo akhrijoohum min qaryatikum innahum unaasun yatatahharoon
DIN 31635wamā kāna ǧawāba qawmihi ʾillā ʾan qālū ʾaḫriǧūhum min qaryatikum ʾinnahum ʾunāsun yataṭahharūna
Talal Itani2012 And his people's only answer was to say, "Expel them from your town; they are purist people."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And the answer of his people was only that they said (one to another): Turn them out of your township. They are folk, forsooth, who keep pure
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But his people's answer only was to say, 'Turn them out of your village, verily, they are a people who pretend to purity
John Medows Rodwell1861 But the only answer of his people was to say, "Turn them out of your city, for they are men who vaunt them pure
George Sale1734 But the answer of his people was no other than that they said the one to the other, expel them from your city; for they are men who preserve themselves pure from the crimes which ye commit
Easy-read (simplified)wa'ilaa madyana akhaahum shu'ayban qaala yaa qawmi 'budoo llaaha maa lakum min ilaahin ghayruhu qad jaa'atkum bayyinatun min rabbikum fa'awfoo l-kayla wal-meezaana walaa tabkhasoo n-naasa ashyaa'ahum walaa tufsidoo fee l-'ardi ba'da islaahihaa dhaalikum khayrun lakum in kuntum mu'mineen
DIN 31635waʾilā madyana ʾaḫāhum šuʿayban qāla yā qawmi ʿbudū llāha mā lakum min ʾilāhin ġayruhu qad ǧāʾatkum bayyinatun min rabbikum faʾawfū l-kayla wal-mīzāna walā tabḫasū n-nāsa ʾašyāʾahum walā tufsidū fī l-ʾarḍi baʿda ʾiṣlāḥihā ḏālikum ḫayrun lakum ʾin kuntum muʾminīna
Talal Itani2012 And to Median, their brother Shuaib. He said, "O my people, worship God; you have no god other than Him. A clear proof has come to you from your Lord. Give full measure and weight, and do not cheat people out of their rights, and do not corrupt the land once it has been set right. This is better for you, if you are believers."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And unto Midian (We sent) their brother, Shu'eyb. He said: O my people! Serve Allah. Ye have no other Allah save Him. Lo! a clear proof hath come unto you from your Lord; so give full measure and full weight and wrong not mankind in their goods, and work not confusion in the earth after the fair ordering thereof. That will be better for you, if ye are believers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And unto Midian did we send their brother Shohaib, who said, 'O my people! serve God, ye have no god save Him. There has come to you a manifest sign from your Lord; then give good weight and measure, and be not niggardly of your gifts to men, and do not evil in the earth after it has been righted. That is better for you if ye are believers
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we sent to Madian their brother Shoaib. He said, "O my people! worship God; ye have no other God than Him: now hath a clear sign come to you from your Lord: give therefore the full in measures and weights; take from no man his chattels, and commit no disorder on the earth after it has been made so good. This will be better for you, if you will believe it
George Sale1734 And unto Madian we sent their brother Shoaib. He said unto them, O my people, worship God; ye have no God besides Him. Now hath an evident demonstration come unto you from your Lord. Therefore give full measure and just weight, and diminish not unto men ought of their matters; neither act corruptly in the earth, after its reformation. This will be better for you, if ye believe
Talal Itani2012 "And do not lurk on every path, making threats and turning away from the path of God those who believe in Him, seeking to distort it. And remember how you were few, and how He made you numerous. So note the consequences for the corrupters."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lurk not on every road to threaten (wayfarers), and to turn away from Allah's path him who believeth in Him, and to seek to make it crooked. And remember, when ye were but few, how He did multiply you. And see the nature of the consequence for the corrupters
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and sit not down in every path, threatening and turning from the path of God those who believe in Him, and craving to make it crooked. Remember when ye were few and He multiplied you; and see what was the end of the evildoers
John Medows Rodwell1861 And lay not in ambush by every road in menacing sort; nor mislead him who believeth in God, from His way, nor seek to make it crooked; and remember when ye were few and that he multiplied you, and behold what hath been the end of the authors of disorder
George Sale1734 And beset not every way, threatening the passenger; and turning aside from the path of God him who believeth in Him, and seeking to make it crooked. And remember, when ye were few, and God multiplied you: And behold, what hath been the end of those who acted corruptly
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 —
0.55 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
Talal Itani · George Sale0.74
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.65
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.47
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.33
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.33
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
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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.