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Talal Itani· published 2012
Do they not see that they are tested once or twice every year? Yet they do not repent, and they do not learn.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
See they not that they are tested once or twice in every year? Still they turn not in repentance, neither pay they heed
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
Do they not see that they are tried in every year once or twice? Yet they do not turn again, nor do they mind
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Do they not see that they are tried every year once or twice? Yet they repent not, neither are they warned
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
A nuk e shohin ata se çdo vit sprovohen një herë ose dy, e sërish nuk pendohen e as marrin mësim?!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
তারা (মুনাফিকরা) কি দেখে না যে, তাদেরকে প্রতিবছর একবার বা দু’বার (মুনাফিকি ও তাদের গোমর ফাঁস করে) বিপর্যস্ত করা হয়? এর পরও তারা (কুফরি থেকে) তাওবাহ করে না এবং উপদেশ গ্রহণ করে না।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Zar oni ne vide da svake godine jedanput ili dvaput u iskušenje padaju, pa opet, oni se ne kaju, niti se prisjećaju i pouku ne uzimaju!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Zar oni ne vide da svake godine jedanput ili dvaput u iskušenje padaju, pa opet, oni se ne kaju, niti se prisjećaju i pouku ne uzimaju!
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Fulfulde · Fulani
E ɓee njiaani won de kamɓe heɓe njarribee hitaande kala laawol maa laaɓi ɗiɗi? refti ɓe tuubataa, ɓe ngonnah waactotooɓe.
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ქართული · Georgian
ნუთუ ისინი [ორპირნი] ვერ ხედავენ, რომ ყოველ წელს ერთხელ ან ორჯერ გამოიცდებიან? შემდეგ კი ამის შემდეგაც არ ინანიებენ და არ იღებენ შეგონებას.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Sehen sie denn nicht, dass sie in jedem Jahr einmal oder zweimal heimgesucht werden? Aber hierauf bereuen sie nicht, und sie bedenken nicht.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Δε βλέπουν (οι υποκριτές) ότι δοκιμάζονται μία ή δύο φορές κάθε χρόνο (με φτώχεια και κακουχίες ή με το να φανεί η υποκρισία τους στους πιστούς ή με το να δουν τη νίκη του Προφήτη και των πιστών); Έπειτα, ούτε στρέφονται με μεταμέλεια προς τον Αλλάχ, ούτε λαμβάνουν νουθεσία!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और क्या वे नहीं देखते कि निःसंदेह वे प्रत्येक वर्ष एक या दो बार आज़माए[59] जाते हैं? फिर भी वे न तौबा करते हैं और न ही वे उपदेश ग्रहण करते हैं!
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Non vedono che vengono messi alla prova ogni anno una o due volte? Poi non si pentono e non riflettono.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
126. Argi nemato jie, kad yra išbandomi kartą arba du kasmet (skirtingomis nelaimėmis, ligomis, badu)? Ir vis tiek, jie neatsigręžia į atgailavimą, anei išmoksta pamoką (iš to).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Sila isaan waggaa hunda keessa yeroo tokko yookiin yeroo lama mokkoramuu isaanii hin arganuu? Ergasii hin tawbatanii? Isaan hin gorfamanuu?
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Русский · Russian
Неужели они не видят, что каждый год подвергаются испытанию раз или дважды? После чего они не каются и не внимают напоминанию.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Зар они не виде да им сваке године једном или двапута долазе искушења, и опет се не кају, нити поуку примају!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Je, hawaoni ya kwamba wanajaribiwa kila mwaka mara moja au mara mbili? Kisha hawatubu, wala hawakumbuki.
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Svenska · Swedish
Inser de inte att de varje år prövas både en och två gånger? Ändå ångrar de sig inte och låter sig inte förmanas!
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Türkçe · Turkish
Görmüyorlar mı ki, onlar her yıl bir veya iki kere belaya çarptırılıp imtihan ediliyorlar? Sonra ne tevbe ederler, ne de ibret alırlar.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور کیا ان کو نہیں دکھلائی دیتا کہ یہ لوگ ہر سال ایک بار یا دو بار کسی نہ کسی آفت میں پھنستے رہتے ہیں[1] پھر بھی نہ توبہ کرتے اور نہ نصیحت قبول کرتے ہیں۔
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Easy-read (simplified)wa'idhaa maa unzilat sooratun faminhum man yaqoolu ayyukum zaadathu haadhihi eemaanan fa'ammaa lladheena aamanoo fazaadathum eemaanan wahum yastabshiroon
DIN 31635waʾiḏā mā ʾunzilat sūratun faminhum man yaqūlu ʾayyukum zādathu hāḏihi ʾīmānan faʾammā llaḏīna ʾāmanū fazādathum ʾīmānan wahum yastabširūna
Talal Itani2012 Whenever a chapter is revealed, some of them say, "Which of you has this increased in faith?" As for those who believe: it increases them in faith, and they rejoice.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And whenever a surah is revealed there are some of them who say: Which one of you hath thus increased in faith? As for those who believe, it hath increased them in faith and they rejoice (therefor)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And whenever a surah is sent down, there are some of them who say, 'Which of you has this increased in faith?' But as for those who believe, it does increase them in faith, and they shall rejoice
John Medows Rodwell1861 Whenever a Sura is sent down, there are some of them who say, "Whose faith hath it increased?" It will increase the faith of those who believe, and they shall rejoice
George Sale1734 Whenever a sura is sent down, there are some of them who say, which of you hath this caused to increase in faith? It will increase the faith of those who believe, and they shall rejoice
Talal Itani2012 But as for those in whose hearts is sickness: it adds disgrace to their disgrace, and they die as unbelievers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But as for those in whose hearts is disease, it only addeth wickedness to their wickedness, and they die while they are disbelievers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 but as for those in whose hearts is sickness, it only adds a plague to their plague, and they die misbelievers
John Medows Rodwell1861 But as to those in whose hearts is a disease, it will add doubt to their doubt, and they shall die infidels
George Sale1734 But unto those in whose hearts there is an infirmity, it will add farther doubt unto their present doubt; and they shall die in their infidelity
Easy-read (simplified)wa'idhaa maa unzilat sooratun nazara ba'duhum ilaa ba'din hal yaraakum min ahadin thumma nsarafoo sarafa llaahu quloobahum bi'annahum qawmun laa yafqahoon
DIN 31635waʾiḏā mā ʾunzilat sūratun naẓara baʿḍuhum ʾilā baʿḍin hal yarākum min ʾaḥadin ṯumma nṣarafū ṣarafa llāhu qulūbahum biʾannahum qawmun lā yafqahūna
Talal Itani2012 And whenever a chapter is revealed, they look at one another, "Does anyone see you?" Then they slip away. God has diverted their hearts, because they are a people who do not understand.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And whenever a surah is revealed, they look one at another (as who should say): Doth anybody see you? Then they turn away. Allah turneth away their hearts because they are a folk who understand not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And whenever a surah is sent down, some of them look at the others - 'Does any one see you?' - Then they turn away! God has turned their hearts, for that they are a people who do not discern
John Medows Rodwell1861 And whenever a Sura is sent down, they look at one another. . . . "Doth any one see you?" then turn they aside. God shall turn their hearts aside, because they are a people devoid of understanding
George Sale1734 And whenever a sura is sent down, they look at one another, saying, doth any one see you? Then do they turn aside. God shall turn aside their hearts from the truth; because they are a people who do not understand
Easy-read (simplified)laqad jaa'akum rasoolun min anfusikum 'azeezun 'alayhi maa 'anittum hareesun 'alaykum bil-mu'mineena ra'oofun raheem
DIN 31635laqad ǧāʾakum rasūlun min ʾanfusikum ʿazīzun ʿalayhi mā ʿanittum ḥarīṣun ʿalaykum bil-muʾminīna raʾūfun raḥīmun
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 There has come to you a messenger from among yourselves, concerned over your suffering, anxious over you. Towards the believers, he is compassionate and merciful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 There hath come unto you a messenger, (one) of yourselves, unto whom aught that ye are overburdened is grievous, full of concern for you, for the believers full of pity, merciful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 There has come to you an apostle from amongst yourselves; hard for him to bear is it that ye commit iniquity; he is anxious over you after the believers, pitiful, compassionate
John Medows Rodwell1861 Now hath an Apostle come unto you from among yourselves: your iniquities press heavily upon him. He is careful over you, and towards the faithful, compassionate, merciful
George Sale1734 Now hath an apostle come unto you of our own nation, an excellent person: It is grievous unto him that ye commit wickedness; He is careful over you, and compassionate and merciful towards the 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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where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.52
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.45
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.45
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.40
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.38
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.38
Talal Itani · George Sale0.32
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.22
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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.