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Talal Itani· published 2012
Until, when the messengers have despaired, and thought that they were rejected, Our help came to them. We savewhomever We will, and Our severity is not averted from the guilty people.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Till, when the messengers despaired and thought that they were denied, then came unto them Our help, and whom We would was saved. And Our wrath cannot be warded from the guilty
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
Until when the apostles despaired and they thought that they were proved liars, our help came to them, and whosoever we pleased was saved; but our violence is not averted from the sinful people
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
When at last the Apostles lost all hope, and deemed that they were reckoned as liars, our aidreached them, and we delivered whom we would; but our vengeance was not averted from the wicked
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Their predecessors were born with for a time, until, when our apostles despaired of their conversion, and they thought that they were liars, our help came unto them, and We delivered whom We pleased; but our vengeance was not turnedaway from the wicked people
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
Kur të dërguarit e humbën shpresën dhe (jobesimtarët) kujtuan se janë gënjyer (nga të dërguarit), atyre u erdhi ndihma Jonë dhe shpëtuan ata që deshëm Ne. E, dënimi Ynë nuk sprapset nga njerëzit keqbërës.
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বাংলা · Bengali
অবশেষে যখন (তাদের ধ্বংস বিলম্বিত হওয়ায়) রাসূলগণ নিরাশ হয়ে পড়লেন এবং (কাফিররা) ধারণা করল যে তাদেরকে দেওয়া প্রতিশ্রুতি মিথ্যা ছিল, তখন আমাদের সাহায্য এসে পৌঁছাল। অতঃপর আমরা যাকে ইচ্ছা রক্ষা করি; আর অপরাধী জাতির কাছ থেকে আমাদের শাস্তি কখনোই প্রতিহত করা যায় না।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I kad bi poslanici gotovo nadu gubili i pomišljali da će ih za lašce proglasiti, pomoć Naša bi im došla. Spasili bismo one koje smo Mi htjeli, a kazna Naša ne bi mimoišla ljude prestupnike.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I kad bi poslanici gotovo nadu gubili i pomišljali da će ih za lašce proglasiti, pomoć Naša bi im došla. Spasili bismo one koje smo Mi htjeli, a kazna Naša ne bi mimoišla ljude prestupnike.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Haa si tawii nulaaɓe ɓen taƴike, (heeferɓe ɓen) fellita won´de kamɓe ɓe fennaama, ballal amen ngal ara e maɓɓe; min daɗnda on mo min muuyi, lepte amen ɗen ruttetaake gaayi e yimɓe bonɓe ɓen.
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ქართული · Georgian
(ურწმუნოებმა ასევე უარყვეს წინა წინასწარმეტყველები და შუამავლები, და საქმე იქამდე მივიდა, რომ) როდესაც (წინა) შუამავლები (უკვე) სასოწარკვეთილნი (რომ ხალხი, რომელსაც მოუწოდებდნენ, დაიჯერებდა) და ფიქრობდნენ, რომ უარყოფილნი იყვნენ [მოციქულები დარწმუნებულნი იყვნენ, რომ მათ ხალხს არ სურდა ურწმუნოების დატოვება], (მხოლოდ მაშინ) მიიღეს [მოციქულებმა] ჩვენი დახმარება [სასჯელი მათთვის, ვინც ურწმუნოებაში დაჟინებით რჩებოდა, და ხსნა მორწმუნეებისთვის] და ისინი, ვინც ჩვენ გვსურდა [წინასწარმეტყველები და ისინი, ვინც მათ ჭეშმარიტებით მიჰყვნენ], გადარჩნენ. და ჩვენი სასჯელი ვერ იქნება მოგერიებული ურწმუნოების მიერ.
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Deutsch · German
Erst dann, als die Gesandten die Hoffnung aufgegeben hatten und sie meinten, dass sie belogen worden seien, kam Unsere Unterstützung zu ihnen. Und so wird errettet, wen Wir wollen. Und Unsere Strafe wird nicht vom verbrecherischen Volk zurückgehalten.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
(Δεν τιμωρήσαμε κανένα έθνος που διέψευδε) μέχρι που οι Αγγελιαφόροι απελπίστηκαν (από τους λαούς τους) και (οι λαοί τους) βεβαιώθηκαν ότι (οι Αγγελιαφόροι) τους είπαν ψέματα (για τον ερχομό της τιμωρίας), τότε τους ήρθε (στους Αγγελιαφόρους) η βοήθειά Μας, και σώσαμε όποιους θέλαμε, και η τιμωρία Μας δεν αποτρέπεται μακριά από τους κακούς ανθρώπους (όταν τους έρθει).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
यहाँ तक कि जब रसूल बिलकुल निराश हो गए और लोगों को विश्वास हो गया कि निश्चय उनसे झूठ बोला गया था, तो उनके पास हमारी सहायता आ गई। फिर हम जिसे चाहते थे, उसे बचा लिया गया। और हमारी यातना अपराधियों से हटाई नहीं जाती।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
Finché i Messaggeri furono nella disperazione e credettero di essere smentiti, arrivò loro il Nostro aiuto: si salvò chi Noi volemmo salvare. La Nostra punizione non potrà mai essere deviata dal popolo dei criminali!
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
110. (Jiems buvo leista atsikvėpti) kol Pasiuntiniai prarado viltį ir galvojo, kad yra paneigti (savo žmonių), tada atėjo jiems Mūsų Pagalba ir ką panorėjome, tą Mes išgelbėjome. Ir Mūsų bausmė negali būti atremta žmonių, kurie yra Mudžrimūn (nusikaltėliai, nuodėmingieji, netikintieji, daugiadieviai).
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Русский · Russian
И вот когда посланники уже отчаялись, а [отвергшие веру] решили, что они были обмануты, — к ним пришла Наша помощь, и Мы спасли тех, кого пожелали. И Наша мощь неотвратима от преступного народа.
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Српски · Serbian
И кад би посланици готово наду губили и помишљали да ће за лажове да их прогласе, Наша помоћ би им дошла. Спасили бисмо оне које смо Ми хтели, а Наша казна не би мимоишла невернички народ.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Mpaka Mitume walipokata tamaa (ya watu wao kuamini) na wakaona kuwa wamekadhibishwa, hapo ikawajia nusura yetu, kwa hivyo wakaokolewa sawasawa tuwatakao. Na adhabu yetu haiwezi kurudishwa dhidi ya kaumu wahalifu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Till sist, när sändebuden nästan gett upp hoppet [om sina fienders undergång] – och [fienderna] var övertygade om att [de utlovade straffen bara] var tomma hot – kom vår hjälp till dem. Vi räddade dem vi ville rädda, och vårt straff kan inte avvärjas från ett folk av obotfärdiga syndare.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Nihayet peygamberler (kendilerini yalanlayanların imanlarından) ümitlerini kesip de yalanlandıklarını düşündükleri sırada, onlara yardımımız geldi de, böylece dilediğimiz kimseler kurtuluşa erdirildi. Azabımız ise suçlular topluluğundan geri çevrilemez.
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اردو · Urdu
یہاں تک کہ جب رسول ناامید ہونے لگے[1] اور وه (قوم کے لوگ) خیال کرنے لگے کہ انہیں جھوٹ کہا گیا[2]۔ فوراً ہی ہماری مدد ان کے پاس آپہنچی[3] جسے ہم نے چاہا اسے نجات دی گئی[4]۔ بات یہ ہے کہ ہمارا عذاب گناهگاروں سے واپس نہیں کیا جاتا.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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DIN 31635qul hāḏihi sabīlī ʾadʿū ʾilā llāhi ʿalā baṣīratin ʾanā wamani tabaʿanī wasubḥāna llāhi wamā ʾanā mina l-mušrikīna
Talal Itani2012 Say, "This is my way; I invite to God, based on clear knowledge-I and whoever follows me. Glory be to God; and I am not of the polytheists."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: This is my Way: I call on Allah with sure knowledge. I and whosoever followeth me - Glory be to Allah! - and I am not of the idolaters
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'This is my way; I call now unto God on clear proof, I and those who follow me; and celebrated be God's praises, for I am not of the idolaters
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: This is my way: resting on a clear proof, I call you to God, I and whoso followeth me: and glory be to God! I am not one of those who add other deities to Him
George Sale1734 Say unto those of Mecca, this is my way: I invite you unto God, by an evident demonstration; both I and he who followeth me; and, praise be unto God! I am not an idolater
Easy-read (simplified)wamaa arsalnaa min qablika illaa rijaalan noohee ilayhim min ahli l-quraa afalam yaseeroo fee l-'ardi fayanzuroo kayfa kaana 'aaqibatu lladheena min qablihim waladaaru l-'aakhirati khayrun lilladheena taqaw afalaa ta'qiloon
DIN 31635wamā ʾarsalnā min qablika ʾillā riǧālan nūḥī ʾilayhim min ʾahli l-qurā ʾafalam yasīrū fī l-ʾarḍi fayanẓurū kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu llaḏīna min qablihim waladāru l-ʾāḫirati ḫayrun lillaḏīna taqaw ʾafalā taʿqilūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 We did not send before you except men, whom We inspired, from the people of the towns. Have they not roamed the earth and seen the consequences for those before them? The Home of the Hereafter is better for those who are righteous. Do you not understand?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 We sent not before thee (any messengers) save men whom We inspired from among the folk of the townships - Have they not travelled in the land and seen the nature of the consequence for those who were before them? And verily the abode of the Hereafter, for those who ward off (evil), is best. Have ye then no sense
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Nor did we ever send before thee any save men whom we inspired, of the people of the cities. Have they not journeyed on in the earth, and beheld how was the end of those before them? But the abode of the future is surely better for those who believe;- what! have they then no sense
John Medows Rodwell1861 Never before thee have we sent any but men, chosen out of the people of the cities, to whom we made revelations. Will they not journey through the land, and see what hath been the end of those who were before them? But the mansions of the next life shall be better for those who fear God. Will they not then comprehend
George Sale1734 We sent not any apostles before thee, except men, unto whom We revealed our will, and whom We chose out of those who dwelt in cities. Will they not go through the earth, and see what hath been the end of those who have preceded them. But the dwelling of the next life shall surely be better for those who fear God. Will they not therefore understand
Talal Itani2012 In their stories is a lesson for those who possess intelligence. This is not a fabricated tale, but a confirmation of what came before it, and a detailed explanation of all things, and guidance, and mercy for people who believe.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 In their history verily there is a lesson for men of understanding. It is no invented story but a confirmation of the existing (Scripture) and a detailed explanation of everything, and a guidance and a mercy for folk who believe
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Their stories were a lesson to those endowed with minds. It was not a tale forged, but a verification of what was before it, and a detailing of everything, and a guide and a mercy to a people who believe
John Medows Rodwell1861 Certainly in their histories is an example for men of understanding. This is no new tale of fiction, but a confirmation of previous scriptures, and an explanation of all things, and guidance and mercy to those who believe
George Sale1734 Verily in the histories of the prophets and their people there is an instructive example unto those who are indued with understanding. The Koran is not a new invented fiction; but a confirmation of those scriptures which have been revealed before it, and a distinct explication of every thing necessary, in respect either to faith or practice, and a direction and mercy unto people who believe
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.62 on a scale
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
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.74
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.72
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.65
Talal Itani · George Sale0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.52
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.47
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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.