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
He made drowsiness overcome you, as a security from Him. And He sent down upon you water from the sky, to cleanse you with it, and to rid you of Satan's pollution, and to fortify your hearts, and to strengthen your foothold.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
When He made the slumberfall upon you as a reassurance from him and sent down water from the sky upon you, that thereby He might purify you, and remove from you the fear of Satan, and make strong your hearts and firm (your) feet thereby
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
When drowsiness covered you as a security from Him, and He sent down upon you from the heavens water to purify you withal, and to takeaway from you the plague of Satan, and to tie up your hearts and to make firm your footsteps
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Recollect when sleep, a sign of security from Him, fell upon you, and he sent down upon you water from Heaven that he might thereby cleanse you, and cause the pollution of Satan to pass from you, and that he might gird up your hearts, and stablish your feet by it
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when He caused sleep to come upon you as a sign of security from Him, and He sent down water upon you from the clouds, that thereby He might purify you, and remove from you the uncleanliness of Satan, and that He might strengthen your hearts and make your steps firm therewith
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
Kujtoni kur Ai bëri që të bini në dremitje si siguri prej Tij dhe dërgoi shi nga qielli për t'ju pastruar, për t'jua hequr ndyrësinë e shejtanit, për t'jua forcuar zemrat dhe për t'jua bërë të qëndrueshme këmbët.
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
তোমরা স্মরণ করো, যখন তিনি তাঁর পক্ষ থেকে স্বস্তির জন্য তোমাদেরকে তন্দ্রায় আচ্ছন্ন করেন এবং আকাশ থেকে তোমাদের উপর বৃষ্টি বর্ষণ করেন, যাতে এর মাধ্যমে তিনি তোমাদেরকে পবিত্র করেন, তোমাদের থেকে শয়তানের কুমন্ত্রণা দূর করেন, তোমাদের অন্তরসমূহ সুদৃঢ় রাখেন এবং এর মাধ্যমে তোমাদের পাসমূহ স্থির রাখেন।
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
Kad je On učinio da vas san, kao spokojstvo od Njega, obuzme i s neba vam vodu spustio da bi vas njome očistio, i da bi od vas šejtanovo uznemiravanje odstranio, i da bi srca vaša jakim učinio i da bi njome stopala učvrstio.
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
Kad je On učinio da vas san, kao spokojstvo od Njega, obuzme i s neba vam vodu spustio da bi vas njome očistio, i da bi od vas sotonino uznemiravanje odstranio, i da bi srca vaša jakim učinio i da bi njome stopala učvrstio.
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 Tuma nde ŋoŋre nden hippaynoo on hoolaare immorde ka makko, Homo Jippinana on ndiyam immorde ka kammu fii yo o laɓɓinir on ɗam, O ittana on soɓe seytaane, e fii yo O tiiɗinir (ɗum) e ɓerɗe mon O tabintinira ɗam teppe [mon] ɗen.(teppe)
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
აი, ის [ალლაჰი] გაფარებთ ძილს, რათა მოგანიჭოთ სიმშვიდე მისგან, და ჩამოგიგზავნით ციდან წყალს, რათა გაგწმინდოთ მისით, და მოგაშოროთ სატანის სიბილწე, და გაამტკიცოს თქვენი გულები (ბრძოლის დროს მოთმინებით), და ამით განამტკიცოს თქვენი ნაბიჯები.
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
(Gedenkt,) als Er Schläfrigkeit euch überkommen ließ als (Gefühl der) Sicherheit von Ihm und Wasser vom Himmel auf euch herabsandte, um euch damit zu reinigen und das Unheil des Satans von euch zu entfernen und um eure Herzen zu stärken und (eure) Füße damit zu festigen.
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
(Και θυμηθείτε, ω, πιστοί) όταν (ο Αλλάχ) έκανε τον ύπνο να σας καλύψει ως ασφάλεια απ' Αυτόν (μετά από το φόβο σας από τον εχθρό σας), και έστειλε πάνω σας νερό (βροχή) από τον ουρανό για να σας εξαγνίσει μ' αυτό (για την προσευχή σας), και να απομακρύνει από σας τους ψίθυρους του Σατανά (που σας ψυθίρισε ότι δεν έχετε νερό για να εξαγνιστείτε για την προσευχή), και να δυναμώσει τις καρδιές σας και να σταθεροποιήσει μ' αυτό τα πόδια σας (κάνοντας με το νερό τη γη να γίνει συμπαγής, γιατί ήταν από μαλακή άμμο).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और वह समय याद करो जब अल्लाह अपनी ओर से शांति के लिए तुमपर ऊँघ डाल रहा था और तुमपर आकाश से जल बरसा रहा था, ताकि उसके द्वारा तुम्हें पाक कर दे और तुमसे शैतान की मलिनता दूर कर दे और तुम्हारे दिलों को मज़बूत कर दे और उसके द्वारा (तुम्हारे) पाँव जमा दे।[5]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E quando vi prese il sonno, come un tranquillante da Lui sceso, e fece scendere dal cielo su di voi la pioggia per purificarvi e togliere da voi lo sporco del demonio, e per rafforzarvi i cuori e irrobustirvi i piedi.
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
11. (Atminkite) kai Jis apgaubė jus snauduliu kaip Jo apsauga ir Jis privertė vandenį (lietų) kristi ant jūsų iš dangaus, kad juo apvalytų jus ir pašalintų nuo jūsų Šaitan (Šėtono) Ridžz (šnabždėjimą, piktus patarimus), ir kad sustiprintų jūsų širdis ir sutvirtintų juo jūsų pėdas.
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
И вот Он окутал вас дремотой, даруя безопасность от Себя, и ниспослал вам с неба воду, чтобы очистить вас ею, избавить вас от скверны шайтана, скрепить ваши сердца и утвердить тем самым ваши стопы.
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
Кад је Он учинио да вас сан, као спокојство од Њега, обузме и са неба вам кишу спустио да би вас њоме очистио, и да би од вас отклонио ђавољево узнемиравање, и да би учинио ваша срца јаким и да би њоме учврстио стопала.
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
Alipowafunika kwa usingizi uwe ni amani kutoka kwake, na akawateremshia maji kutoka mbinguni ili awasafishe kwayo na awaondolee uchafu wa Shetani, na ili azifunge nyoyo zenu, na aimarishe kwayo miguu yenu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Han lät slummer svepa över er som en trygghet från honom själv, och sände ned regn från himlen för att rena er och befria er från Satans onda ingivelser och för att stärka era hjärtan och göra era steg stadiga.
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
Hani (Allah) kendi tarafından bir güvenlik olarak sizi hafif bir uykuya daldırıyor; sizi temizlemek, sizden Şeytan'ın vesvesesini gidermek, kalplerinizi pekiştirmek ve ayaklarınızı sağlam bastırmak için üzerinize gökten yağmur yağdırıyordu.
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
اس وقت کو یاد کرو جب کہ اللہ تم پر اونگھ طاری کر رہا تھا اپنی طرف سے چین دینے کے لیے[1] اور تم پر آسمان سے پانی برسا رہا تھا کہ اس پانی کے ذریعہ سے تم کو پاک کر دے اور تم سے شیطانی وسوسہ کو دفع کر دے[2] اور تمہارے دلوں کو مضبوط کر دے اور تمہارے پاؤں جما دے۔[3]
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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DIN 31635ʾiḏ tastaġīṯūna rabbakum fastaǧāba lakum ʾannī mumiddukum biʾalfin mina l-malāʾikati murdifīna
Talal Itani2012 When you appealed to your Lord for help, He answered you, "I am reinforcing you with one thousand angels in succession."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 When ye sought help of your Lord and He answered you (saying): I will help you with a thousand of the angels, rank on rank
Edward Henry Palmer1880 When ye asked for succour from your Lord, and He answered you, 'I will assist you with a thousand angels, with others in reserve
John Medows Rodwell1861 When ye sought succour of your Lord, and he answered you, "I will verily aid you with a thousand angels, rank on rank
George Sale1734 When you implored the help of your Lord, and He answered your prayer saying, 'I will surely help you with a thousand of the angels, rank on rank
DIN 31635wamā ǧaʿalahu llāhu ʾillā bušrā walitaṭmaʾinna bihi qulūbukum wamā n-naṣru ʾillā min ʿindi llāhi ʾinna llāha ʿazīzun ḥakīmun
Talal Itani2012 God only made it a message of hope, and to set your hearts at rest. Victory comes only from God. God is Mighty and Wise.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah appointed it only as good tidings, and that your hearts thereby might be at rest. Victory cometh only by the help of Allah. Lo! Allah is Mighty, Wise
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God made it only glad tidings to quiet your hearts therewith; for victory is only from God! verily, God is mighty and wise
John Medows Rodwell1861 And God made this promise as pure good tidings, and to assure your hearts by it: for succour cometh from God alone! Verily God is Mighty, Wise
George Sale1734 And God made it only as a glad tidings so that your hearts might be at rest. But help comes from God alone; surely God is Mighty, Wise
Talal Itani2012 Your Lord inspired the angels: "I am with you, so support those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. So strike above the necks, and strike off every fingertip of theirs."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 When thy Lord inspired the angels, (saying): I am with you. So make those who believe stand firm. I will throw fear into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Then smite the necks and smite of them each finger
Edward Henry Palmer1880 When your Lord inspired the angels - 'Verily, I am with you; make ye firm then those who believe; I will cast dread into the hearts of those who misbelieve,- strike off their necks then, and strike off from them every finger tip
John Medows Rodwell1861 When thy Lord spake unto the angels, "I will be with you: therefore stablish ye the faithful. I will cast a dread into the hearts of the infidels." Strike off their heads then, and strike off from them every finger-tip
George Sale1734 When thy Lord revealed to the angels, saying, 'I am with you; so make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Smite them above their necks, and smite off all finger-tips
Talal Itani2012 That is because they opposed God and His Messenger. Whoever opposes God and His Messenger-God is severe in retribution.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That is because they opposed Allah and His messenger. Whoso opposeth Allah and His messenger, (for him) lo! Allah is severe in punishment
Edward Henry Palmer1880 That is, because they went into opposition against God and His Apostle; for he who goes into opposition against God and His Apostle - verily, God is keen to punish
John Medows Rodwell1861 This, because they have opposed God and his apostle: And whoso shall oppose God and his apostle. . . . Verily, God will be severe in punishment
George Sale1734 That is because they have opposed God and His Messenger. And whoso opposes God and His Messenger, Then God is surely Severe in retribution
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 —
0.56 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 · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.55
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.51
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.44
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
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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.