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Such was the case with the people of Pharaoh, and those before them. They denied the signs of their Lord, so We annihilated them for their wrongs, and We drowned the people of Pharaoh-they were all evildoers.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
(Their way is) as the way of Pharaoh's folk and those before them; they denied the revelations of their Lord, so We destroyed them in their sins. And We drowned the folk of Pharaoh. All were 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
As was the wont of Pharaoh's people and those before them! they said our signs were lies, and we destroyed them in their sins, and drowned Pharaoh's people; and all of them were evildoers
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Their state is like that of the people of Pharaoh, and of those before them who treated their Lord's signs as lies. We therefore destroyed them in their sins, and we drowned the people of Pharaoh; for they were all doers of wrong
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
According to the wont of the people of Pharaoh, and of those before them, who charged the signs of their Lord with imposture, have they acted: Wherefore We destroyed them in their sins, and We drowned the people of Pharaoh; for they were all unjustpersons
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
Kështu u ndodhi njerëzve të Faraonit dhe atyre që ishin para tyre, të cilët përgënjeshtruan ajetet e Zotit të tyre, prandaj i shkatërruam për shkak të gjynaheve të tyre, ndërkaq njerëzit e Faraonit i fundosëm. Ata ishin të gjithë keqbërës.
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
ফির’আউনের বংশধর ও তাদের পূর্ববর্তীদের অভ্যাসের মতো, তারা তাদের রবের আয়াতসমূহকে মিথ্যারোপ করেছিল। ফলে তাদের পাপের কারণে আমি তাদেরকে ধ্বংস করেছি এবং ফির’আউনের বংশধরকে নিমজ্জিত করেছি। আর তারা সকলেই ছিল যালিম।
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
Tako je bilo i s faraonovim ljudima i onima prije njih: dokaze Gospodara svog nisu priznavali, pa smo ih Mi, zbog grijeha njihovih, uništili, a faraonove smo ljude potopili – svi su oni nepravedni bili.
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
Tako je bilo i s faraonovim ljudima i onima prije njih – dokaze Gospodara svog nisu priznavali, pa smo ih Mi, zbog grijeha njihovih, uništili, a faraonove smo ljude potopili – svi su oni nepravedni bili.
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
Wano mboowdi yimɓe Fir'awna e ɓen adinooɓe ɓe. Ɓe njeddi Aayeeje Joomi maɓɓe ɗeen. min kalkiri ɓe bakkatuuji maɓɓe ɗi, Men njooli yimɓe Fir'awna ɓeen. Kala (maɓɓe) laatino tooñooɓe.
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
(მათი ქცევა) ჰგავს ფარაონის თანამოძმეთა ჩვეულებებს, ასევე იმ ხალხთა ჩვეულებებს, რომლებიც მათამდე ცხოვრობდნენ. მათ უარყვეს თავიანთი უფლის სასწაულები, ამიტომ ალლაჰმა გაანადგურა ისინი მათი ცოდვების გამო. ჩვენ ფარაონის თანამოძენი ჩავძირეთ ზღვაში, და ისინი ყველანი უსამართლო ბოროტმოქმედნი იყვნენ.
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
(Es ist wie) nach der Art der Leute Fir'auns und derjenigen vor ihnen: Sie erklärten die Zeichen ihres Herrn für Lüge, und da vernichteten Wir sie für ihre Sünden, und Wir ließen die Leute Fir'auns ertrinken. Und sie alle waren ungerecht.
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
Όπως έγινε πριν με τους ανθρώπους από τον λαό του Φαραώ και εκείνους που ήταν πριν απ' αυτούς - διέψευσαν τα Σημάδια του Κυρίου τους, και έτσι, τους καταστρέψαμε για τις αμαρτίες τους και πνίξαμε τον λαό του Φαραώ, και όλοι τους ήταν άδικοι!
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
इनकी दशा फ़िरऔनियों तथा उन लोगों जैसी हुई, जो उनसे पहले थे। उन्होंने अल्लाह की आयतों को झुठलाया, तो हमने उन्हें उनके पापों के कारण विनष्ट कर दिया तथा फ़िरऔनियों को डुबो दिया। और वे सभी अत्याचारी थे।[26]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Come il popolo del Faraone e quelli che l’hanno preceduto: smentivano i Segni del loro Dio, e li abbiamo annientati per i loro peccati, e annegammo la gente del Faraone, e tutti erano ingiusti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
54. Panašiai į elgesį Firauno (Faraono) žmonių ir tų, kurie buvo prieš juos. Jie neigė savo Viešpaties Ajat (įrodymus, įkalčius, eilutes, pamokas, ženklus, apreiškimus ir t.t.), taigi, Mes sunaikinome juos už jų nuodėmes ir Mes paskandinome Firauno (Faraono) žmones, nes jie visi buvo Zalimūn (daugiadieviai ir nusidėjėliai).
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
[Такова была] участь рода Фараона и тех, которые были до них: они сочли знамения своего Господа ложью, и тогда Мы погубили их за их грехи и утопили род Фараона. И все они были несправедливы.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Тако је било са фараоновим људима и онима пре њих: знакове свога Господара нису признавали, па смо их Ми, због њихових греха, уништили, а фараонове људе смо потопили – сви су они били неверници.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Ni kama ada ya watu wa Firauni na wale waliokuwa kabla yao, walizikadhibisha Ishara za Mola wao Mlezi, basi tukawaangamiza kwa madhambi yao, na tukawazamisha watu wa Firauni. Na kila mmoja wao walikuwa madhalimu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Likt Faraos män och de före dem – de vägrade tro på sin Herres budskap, så vi förgjorde dem för deras synder och dränkte Faraos män. Alla var de orättfärdiga.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Bunların durumu tıpkı Firavun ailesi ve onlardan öncekilerin durumu gibidir. Onlar Rablerinin ayetlerini yalanlamışlar, biz de onları günahları sebebiyle helâk etmiştik ve Firavun ailesini de suda boğmuştuk. Hepsi de zalim kimselerdi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
مثل حالت فرعونیوں کے اور ان سے پہلے کے لوگوں کے کہ انہوں نے اپنے رب کی باتیں جھٹلائیں۔ پس ان کے گناہوں کے باعﺚ ہم نے انہیں برباد کیا اور فرعونیوں کو ڈبو دیا۔ یہ سارے ﻇالم تھے۔[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.
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DIN 31635kadaʾbi ʾāli firʿawna wallaḏīna min qablihim kafarū biʾāyāti llāhi faʾaḫaḏahumu llāhu biḏunūbihim ʾinna llāha qawiyyun šadīdu l-ʿiqābi
Talal Itani2012 Like the behavior of the people of Pharaoh, and those before them. They rejected the signs of God, so God seized them for their sins. God is Powerful, Severe in punishment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 (Their way is) as the way of Pharaoh's folk and those before them; they disbelieved the revelations of Allah, and Allah took them in their sins. Lo! Allah is Strong, severe in punishment
Edward Henry Palmer1880 As was the wont of Pharaoh's people and those before them! they disbelieved in the signs of God, and God overtook them in their sins; verily, God is strong and keen to punish
John Medows Rodwell1861 Their state is like that of the people of Pharaoh and of those before them who believed not in the signs of God: therefore God seized upon them in their sin! God is Mighty, severe in punishing
George Sale1734 These have acted according to the wont of the people of Pharaoh, and of those before them, who disbelieved in the signs of God: Therefore God took them away in their iniquity; for God is mighty, and severe in punishing
Talal Itani2012 That is because God would never change a blessing He has bestowed on a people unless they change what is within themselves, and because God is Hearing and Knowing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That is because Allah never changeth the grace He hath bestowed on any people until they first change that which is in their hearts, and (that is) because Allah is Hearer, Knower
Edward Henry Palmer1880 That is because God is not one to change a favour He has favoured a people with, until they change what they have in themselves, and for that God both hears and knows
John Medows Rodwell1861 This, because God changeth not the favour with which he favoureth a people, so long as they change not what is in their hearts; and for that God Heareth, Knoweth
George Sale1734 This hath come to pass because God changeth not his grace, wherewith He hath favoured any people, until they change that which is in their souls; and for that God both heareth and seeth
Talal Itani2012 Those of them with whom you made a treaty, but they violate their agreement every time. They are not righteous.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those of them with whom thou madest a treaty, and then at every opportunity they break their treaty, and they keep not duty (to Allah)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 with whom if thou dost make a league, they break their league each time, for they fear not God
John Medows Rodwell1861 They with whom thou hast leagued, and who are ever breaking their league, and who fear not God
George Sale1734 As to those who enter into a league with thee, and afterwards violate their league at every convenient opportunity, and fear not God
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Talal Itani · George Sale0.55
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.54
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.51
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.51
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.49
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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.