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Talal Itani· published 2012
Those who disbelieved said to their messengers, "We will expel you from our land, unless you return to our religion." And their Lord inspired them: "We will destroy the wrongdoers."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And those who disbelieved said unto their messengers: Verily we will drive you out from our land, unless ye return to our religion. Then their Lord inspired them, (saying): Verily we shall destroy the wrong-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 those who misbelieved said to their apostles, 'We will drive you forth from our land; or else ye shall return to our faith! ' And their Lord inspired them, 'We will surely destroy the unjust
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And they who believed not said to their Apostles, "Forth from our land will we surely drive you, or, to our religion shall ye return." Then their Lord revealed to them, "We will certainly destroy the wicked doers
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And those who believed not, said unto their apostles, we will surely expel you out of our land; or ye shall return unto our religion. And their Lord spake unto them by revelation, saying, We will surely destroy the wicked doers
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
Ndërkaq, ata që mohuan u thanë të dërguarve të tyre: "Do t'ju dëbojmë nga Toka jonë ose do të ktheheni në fenë tonë." Atëherë, atyre u shpalli Zoti i tyre: "Ne, gjithsesi do t'i shkatërrojmë zullumqarët
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর কাফিররা তাদের রাসূলদেরকে বললো: ‘অবশ্যই আমরা তোমাদেরকে আমাদের ভূ-খণ্ড থেকে বের করে দেব, অথবা তোমাদেরকে অবশ্যই আমাদের ধর্মে ফিরে আসতে হবে।’ অতঃপর তাদের (রাসূলদের) রব তাদের নিকট এ মর্মে অহী পাঠালেন: ‘আমি অবশ্যই (কুফরিতে লিপ্ত) যালিমদের ধ্বংস করে দিবো।’
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Oni koji nisu vjerovali govorili su poslanicima svojim: "Ili ćete se u vjeru našu vratiti ili ćemo vas, doista, iz zemlje naše protjerati!" A poslanicima je Gospodar njihov objavljivao: "Mi ćemo nepravedne sigurno uništiti.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Oni koji nisu vjerovali govorili su poslanicima svojim: "Ili ćete se u vjeru našu vratiti ili ćemo vas, doista, iz zemlje naše protjerati!" A poslanicima je Gospodar njihov objavljivao: "Mi ćemo nepravedne sigurno uništiti.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɓeen yedduɓe (kadi) mbi'ani nulaaɓe mun ɓen: "Ma min njaltin on ka leydi amen, maa nduttoɗon e diina amen". Joomi maɓɓe wahayini e maɓɓe: "Ma min kalku tooñuɓe ɓeen,
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ქართული · Georgian
და ურწმუნოებმა უთხრეს თავიანთ შუამავლებს: «აუცილებლად გამოგასახლებთ ჩვენი მიწიდან, ან დაუბრუნდებით ჩვენს რწმენას». და მათმა უფალმა შთააგონა მათ [მოციქულებს]: «ჩვენ უთუოდ გავანადგურებთ უსამართლოებს (მჩაგვრელებს)».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und diejenigen, die ungläubig sind, sagten zu ihren Gesandten: „Wir werden euch ganz gewiss aus unserem Land vertreiben, oder ihr kehrt zu unserer Glaubensrichtung zurück!“ Da gab ihnen ihr Herr (als Offenbarung) ein: „Wir werden ganz gewiss die Ungerechten vernichten.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Οι άπιστοι είπαν στους Αγγελιαφόρους τους: «Σίγουρα θα σας διώξουμε από τη γη μας, εκτός αν θα επιστρέψετε στη θρησκεία μας.» Τότε ο Κύριός τους τους ενέπνευσε: «Πράγματι, θα καταστρέψουμε τους άδικους.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और काफ़िरों ने अपने रसूलों से कहा : हम अवश्य तुम्हें अपने भू-भाग से निकाल देंगे, या अवश्य तुम हमारे पंथ में वापस आओगे। तो उनके पालनहार ने उनकी ओर वह़्य की कि निश्चय हम इन अत्याचारियों को अवश्य विनष्ट कर देंगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
E dissero i miscredenti ai loro Messaggeri: «Vi esilieremo dalla nostra terra, a meno che non rientriate nella nostra fede!» Ma il loro Dio li ispirò: «Distruggeremo gli ingiusti,
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
13. Ir tie, kurie nepatikėjo, tarė savo Pasiuntiniams: „Iš tiesų, mes išvysime jus iš savo žemės arba jūs grįšite į mūsų religiją.“ Taigi, jų Viešpats apreiškė jiems: „Iš tiesų, Mes sunaikinsime Zalimūn (daugiadievius, netikinčiuosius ir nusidėjėlius).“
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Русский · Russian
А те, которые отвергли веру, сказали своим посланникам: «Мы непременно изгоним вас из нашей земли, или вы непременно вернётесь в наше вероучение». И их Господь внушил им: «Мы непременно погубим несправедливых
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Српски · Serbian
Они који нису веровали говорили су својим посланицима: „Или ћете у нашу веру да се вратите или ћемо, заиста, из наше земље да вас протерамо!“ А посланицима је њихов Господар објављивао: „Ми ћемо насилнике сигурно да уништимо.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na wale waliokufuru wakawaambia Mitume wao: Hakika, tutawatoa katika nchi yetu, au lazima mtarudi katika mila yetu. Basi Mola wao Mlezi akawafunulia ufunuo (wahyi): Hakika tutawaangamiza madhalimu!
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Svenska · Swedish
Men de otrogna sa till sina sändebud: ”Om ni inte återvänder till vår religion, kommer vi helt visst att driva ut er från vårt land!” Deras Herre uppenbarade då: ”Vi ska förvisso förgöra de orättfärdiga,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Kâfîr olanlar peygamberlerine; “Andolsun, ya sizi yurdumuzdan çıkaracağız, ya da bizim dinimize dönersiniz” dediler. Rableri de onlara şöyle vahyetti: “Biz zalimleri mutlaka yok edeceğiz.”
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اردو · Urdu
کافروں نے اپنے رسولوں سے کہا کہ ہم تمہیں ملک بدر کر دیں گے یا تم پھر سے ہمارے مذہب میں لوٹ آؤ۔ تو ان کے پروردگار نے ان کی طرف وحی بھیجی کہ ہم ان ﻇالموں کو ہی غارت کر دیں گے.[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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not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil
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same edition and their orthography differs.
Easy-read (simplified)qaalat lahum rusuluhum in nahnu illaa basharun mithlukum walaakinna llaaha yamunnu 'alaa man yashaa'u min 'ibaadihi wamaa kaana lanaa an na'tiyakum bisultaanin illaa bi'idhni llaahi wa'alaa llaahi falyatawakkali l-mu'minoon
DIN 31635qālat lahum rusuluhum ʾin naḥnu ʾillā bašarun miṯlukum walākinna llāha yamunnu ʿalā man yašāʾu min ʿibādihi wamā kāna lanā ʾan naʾtiyakum bisulṭānin ʾillā biʾiḏni llāhi waʿalā llāhi falyatawakkali l-muʾminūna
Talal Itani2012 Their messengers said to them, "We are only humans like you, but God favors whomever He wills from among His servants. We cannot possibly show you any proof, except by leave of God. In God let the faithful put their trust."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Their messengers said unto them: We are but mortals like you, but Allah giveth grace unto whom He will of His slaves. It is not ours to bring you a warrant unless by the permission of Allah. In Allah let believers put their trust
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Their apostles said unto them, 'We are only mortals like yourselves; but God is gracious unto whomsoever He will of His servants, and it is not for us to bring you an authority, save by His permission; but upon God do the believers rely
John Medows Rodwell1861 Their Apostles said to them, "We are indeed but men like you. But God bestoweth favours on such of his servants as he pleaseth, and it is not in our power to bring you any special proof, But by the leave of God. In God therefore let the faithful trust
George Sale1734 Their apostles replied unto them, we are no other than men like unto you; but God is bountiful unto such of his servants as He pleaseth: And it is not in our power to give you a miraculous demonstration of our mission, unless by the permission of God; in God therfore let the faithful trust
Talal Itani2012 "And why should we not trust in God, when He has guided us in our ways? We will persevere in the face of your persecution. And upon God the reliant should rely."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 How should we not put our trust in Allah when He hath shown us our ways? We surely will endure the hurt ye do us. In Allah let the trusting put their trust
Edward Henry Palmer1880 What ails us that we should not rely on God when He has guided us in our paths? we will be surely patient in your hurting us; for upon God rely those who do rely
John Medows Rodwell1861 And why should we not put our trust in God, since He hath already guided us in our ways. We will certainly bear with constancy the harm you would do to us. In God let the trustful trust
George Sale1734 And what excuse have we to allege, that we should not put our trust in God; since He hath directed us our paths? Wherefore we will certainly suffer with patience the persecution wherewith ye shall afflict us: In God therefore let those put their confidence who seek in whom to put their trust
Easy-read (simplified)walanuskinannakumu l-'arda min ba'dihim dhaalika liman khaafa maqaamee wakhaafa wa'eed
DIN 31635walanuskinannakumu l-ʾarḍa min baʿdihim ḏālika liman ḫāfa maqāmī waḫāfa waʿīdi
Talal Itani2012 "And We will settle you in the land after them. That is for him who fears My Majesty, and fears My threats."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And verily We shall make you to dwell in the land after them. This is for him who feareth My Majesty and feareth My threats
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and we will make you to dwell in the land after them. That is for him who fears my place and fears my threat
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we shall certainly cause you to dwell in the land after them. This for him who dreadeth the appearance at my judgment-seat and who dreadeth my menace
George Sale1734 and We will cause you to dwell in the earth, after them. This shall be granted unto him who shall dread the appearance at my tribunal, and shall fear my threatening
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 —
0.50 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 Sale0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.57
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.49
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.45
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.41
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.35
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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.