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
And do not use your oaths to deceive one another, so that a foot may not slip after being firm, and you taste misery because you hindered from God's path, and incur a terribletorment.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Make not your oaths a deceit between you, lest a foot should slip after being firmly planted and ye should taste evil forasmuch as ye debarred (men) from the way of Allah, and yours should be an awfuldoom
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
Take not therefore your oaths for mutual intrigue, lest a foot slip after being planted firmly, and ye taste of evil for that ye turned folks off the path of God, and for you there be mightywoe
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Therefore take not your oaths with mutual fraud, lest your foot slip after it hath been firmly fixed, and ye taste of evil because ye have turned others aside from the way of God, and great be your punishment
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Therefore take not your oaths between you deceitfully, lest your foot slip, after it hath been stedfastly fixed, and ye taste evil in this life, for that ye have turned aside from the way of God; and ye suffer a grievous punishment in the life to come
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
Mos i përdorni betimet tuaja për të mashtruar njëri-tjetrin, që të mos ju rrëshqasin këmbët (nga rruga e drejtë) pasi qenë të qëndrueshme e të shijoni dënimin për shkak të pengimit (të njerëzve) nga rruga e Allahut dhe të keni dënim të madh.
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
আর তোমরা তোমাদের অঙ্গীকারগুলোকে তোমাদের পরস্পর প্রতারণার মাধ্যম হিসেবে গ্রহণ করো না। (যদি এরূপ করো) তাহলে (সঠিক পথের ওপর) পা অবিচল হওয়ার পরও তা পিছলে যাবে এবং তোমরা আল্লাহর রাস্তায় (মানুষকে) বাধা দেওয়ার কারণে শাস্তি আস্বাদন করতে হবে। আর তোমাদের জন্য রয়েছে, (জাহান্নামের) মহা শাস্তি।
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
I ne služite se zakletvama svojim zato da biste jedni druge varali, da se ne bi pokliznula noga koja čvrsto stoji i da ne biste nesreću iskusili zato što ste od Allahova puta odvraćali; a patnja velika vas još čeka.
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
I ne služite se zakletvama svojim zato da biste jedni druge varali, da se ne bi pokliznula noga koja čvrsto stoji i da ne biste nesreću iskusili zato što ste od Allahova puta odvraćali; a patnja velika vas još čeka.
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
Wota on njogitor gooɗndooje mon jamfondiro hakkunde mon, sakko koyngal [mon] mortotoo (fergito) ɓaawo ngal tabitude, meeɗiron bone sabu ko paddiɗon ko e laawol Alla ngol. hino woodani on lepte mawɗe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და ნუ გამოიყენებთ თქვენს ფიცებს ერთმანეთის მოსატყუებლად, თორემ დაგიცდებათ ფეხი გამყარების შემდეგ და იგემებთ ბოროტებას იმის გამო, რომ (ხალხს) აცდენდით ალლაჰის გზიდან; და თქვენთვისაა სასჯელი უდიდესი.
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
Und nehmt euch nicht eure Eide als Mittel des Betrugs untereinander; denn sonst könnte ein Fuß straucheln, nachdem er fest gestanden hat, und ihr würdet Böses erleiden dafür, dass ihr vom Weg Allahs abgehalten habt, und für euch wird es (dann) gewaltige Strafe geben.
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
Μην κάνετε τους όρκους σας μέσο εξαπάτησης μεταξύ σας, για να μη γλιστρήσει το πόδι (σας από τον ίσιο δρόμο προς την καταστροφή) αφού ήταν σταθερό (στον ίσιο δρόμο και στην ασφάλεια), και τότε θα γευτείτε το κακό λόγω (αυτών των ανθρώπων) που αποτρέψατε από τον Δρόμο του Αλλάχ (μέσω των όρκων και της εξαπάτησης, επειδή είδαν ότι προδίδετε τους όρκους σας και έτσι δε θα σας πιστέψουν), και τότε θα έχετε ένα μεγάλο μαρτύριο!
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
और अपनी क़समों को आपस में धोखे का साधन न बनाओ। कहीं ऐसा न हो कि कोई क़दम जमने के बाद फिसल[42] जाए और तुम्हें अल्लाह के मार्ग से रोकने के कारण बुरा परिणाम चखना पड़े और तुम्हारे लिए (परलोक में) बड़ी यातना हो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E non usate i vostri giuramenti per ingannarvi tra di voi, così che il piede, dopo essersi ben saldato, scivoli; poi dovrete assaggiare la punizione per aver sbarrato la strada di Allāh, e avrete una grande punizione.
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
94. Ir nepadarykite savo priesaikų kaip apgaulės tarp savęs, kad koja nepaslystų po to, kai buvo tvirtai pastatyta, ir kad netektų jums ragauti blogio (bausmės šiame pasaulyje) dėl vertimo (žmonių) nuo Allaho Kelio (t. y. Tikėjimo Allaho Vienumą ir Jo Pasiuntinį, Muchammedą ﷺ) ir jūsų bus didelė kančia (t. y. Pragaro Ugnis Amžinybėje).
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 не используйте свои клятвы как средство обмана между собой, иначе нога поскользнётся после того, как она стояла твёрдо, и вы вкусите зло за то, что отвращали от пути Аллаха, и вам — великое наказание..
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
И не служите се заклетвама својим зато да бисте једни друге варали, да се не би поклизнула нога која чврсто стоји и да не бисте несрећу искусили зато што сте од Аллаховог пута одвраћали; а патња велика вас још чека.
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
Wala msifanye viapo vyenu kuwa njia ya kudanganyana baina yenu, mguu ukajateleza baada ya kuwa thabiti, na mkaonja mabaya kwa sababu ya kule kuzuilia kwenu njia ya Mwenyezi Mungu, na mkapata adhabu kubwa.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Använd inte era eder som ett medel för att bedra varandra, för då kan era fötter slinta, efter att ha stått stadigt, och ni får bära de onda följderna för att ni hindrade andra från Guds väg; och er väntar då ett oerhört straff.
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
Yeminlerinizi aranızda hile ve fesat sebebi yapmayın. Sonra sağlamca bastıktan sonra ayaklarınız kayar da Allah yolundan sapmanız sebebiyle kötülüğü tadarsınız. (Ahirette de) sizin için büyük bir azap vardır.
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
اور تم اپنی قسموں کو آپس کی دغابازی کا بہانہ نہ بناؤ۔ پھر تو تمہارے قدم اپنی مضبوطی کے بعد ڈگمگا جائیں گے اور تمہیں سخت سزا برداشت کرنا پڑے گی کیونکہ تم نے اللہ کی راه سے روک دیا اور تمہیں بڑا سخت عذاب ہوگا.[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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Talal Itani2012 And do not be like her who unravels her yarn, breaking it into pieces, after she has spun it strongly. Nor use your oaths as means of deception among you, because one community is more prosperous than another. God is testing you thereby. On the Day of Resurrection, He will make clear to you everything you had disputed about.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And be not like unto her who unravelleth the thread, after she hath made it strong, to thin filaments, making your oaths a deceit between you because of a nation being more numerous than (another) nation. Allah only trieth you thereby, and He verily will explain to you on the Day of Resurrection that wherein ye differed
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And be not like her who unravels her yarn, fraying it out after she hath spun it close, by taking your oaths for mutual intrigue, because one nation is more numerous than another; God only tries you therewith, but He will make manifest to you on the resurrection day that whereon ye did dispute
John Medows Rodwell1861 And, because you are a more numerous people than some other people, be not like her who unravelleth the thread which she had strongly spun, by taking your oaths with mutual perfidy. God is making trial of you in this: and in the day of resurrection he will assuredly clear up to you that concerning which ye are now at variance
George Sale1734 And be not like unto her who undoeth that which she hath spun, untwisting it after she hath twisted it strongly; taking your oaths between you deceitfully, because one party is more numerous than another party. Verily God only tempteth you therein; and He will make that manifest unto you, on the day of resurrection, concerning which ye now disagree
Easy-read (simplified)walaw shaa'a llaahu laja'alakum ummatan waahidatan walaakin yudillu man yashaa'u wayahdee man yashaa'u walatus'alunna 'ammaa kuntum ta'maloon
DIN 31635walaw šāʾa llāhu laǧaʿalakum ʾummatan wāḥidatan walākin yuḍillu man yašāʾu wayahdī man yašāʾu walatusʾalunna ʿammā kuntum taʿmalūna
Talal Itani2012 Had God willed, He would have made you one congregation, but He leaves astray whom He wills, and He guides whom He wills. And you will surely be questioned about what you used to do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Had Allah willed He could have made you (all) one nation, but He sendeth whom He will astray and guideth whom He will, and ye will indeed be asked of what ye used to do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But had God pleased He would have made you one nation; but He leads astray whom He will, and guides whom He will;- but ye shall be questioned as to that which ye have done
John Medows Rodwell1861 Had God pleased, He could have made you one people: but He causeth whom He will to err, and whom He will He guideth: and ye shall assuredly be called to account for your doings
George Sale1734 If God had pleased, He would surely have made you one people: But He will lead into error whom He pleaseth, and He will direct whom He pleaseth; and ye shall surely give an account of that which ye have done
Easy-read (simplified)walaa tashtaroo bi'ahdi llaahi thamanan qaleelan innamaa 'inda llaahi huwa khayrun lakum in kuntum ta'lamoon
DIN 31635walā taštarū biʿahdi llāhi ṯamanan qalīlan ʾinnamā ʿinda llāhi huwa ḫayrun lakum ʾin kuntum taʿlamūna
Talal Itani2012 And do not exchange God's covenant for a small price. What is with God is better for you, if you only knew.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And purchase not a small gain at the price of Allah's covenant. Lo! that which Allah hath is better for you, if ye did but know
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And sell not God's covenant for a little price; with God only is what is better for you, if ye did but know
John Medows Rodwell1861 And barter not the covenant of God for a mean price; for with God is that which is better for you, if ye do but understand
George Sale1734 And sell not the covenant of God for a small price; for with God is a better recompense prepared for you, if ye be men of understanding
Talal Itani2012 What you have runs out, but what is with God remains. We will reward those who are patient according to the best of their deeds.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That which ye have wasteth away, and that which Allah hath remaineth. And verily We shall pay those who are steadfast a recompense in proportion to the best of what they used to do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 What ye have is spent, but what God has endures; and we will recompense the patient with their hire for the best deeds they have done
John Medows Rodwell1861 All that is with you passeth away, but that which is with God abideth. With a reward meet for their best deeds will we surely recompense those who have patiently endured
George Sale1734 That which is with you will fail; but that which is with God is permanent: And We will surely reward those who shall persevere, according to the utmost merit of their actions
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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 cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.81
Talal Itani · George Sale0.77
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.77
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.74
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.46
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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.