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Talal Itani· published 2012
"Now that you have withdrawn from them, and from what they worship besides God, takeshelter in the cave. And your Lord will unfold His mercy for you, and will set your affair towards ease."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And when ye withdraw from them and that which they worship except Allah, then seekrefuge in the Cave; your Lord will spread for you of His mercy and will prepare for you a pillow in your plight
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
So when ye have goneapart from them and what they serve other than God, then resort ye to the cave. Our Lord will unfold His mercy to you, and will dispose for you your affair advantageously
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
So when ye shall have separated you from them and from that which they worship beside God, then betake you to the cave: Your Lord will unfold his mercy to you, and will order your affairs for you for the best
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And they said the one to the other, when ye shall separate yourselves from them, and from the deities which they worship, except God, fly into the cave: Your Lord will pour his mercy on you abundantly, and will dispose your business for you to advantage
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 t'i lini ata dhe gjithçka që adhurojnë përveç Allahut, strehohuni në shpellë, që Zoti juaj t'ju mbërthejë me mëshirën e Tij dhe t'ju bëjë lehtësi në çështjen tuaj."
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 (তারা পরস্পরকে বললো:) যখন তোমরা নিজেদের সম্প্রদায় থেকে আলাদা হয়েছ এবং আল্লাহ ছাড়া যাদের তারা উপাসনা করে তাদের থেকেও, তখন তোমরা গুহায় আশ্রয় গ্রহণ করো। তাহলে তোমাদের রব তোমাদের জন্য তাঁর রহমত উন্মুক্ত করে দিবেন এবং তোমাদের জন্য তোমাদের জীবনোপকরণের বিষয়টি সহজ করে দিবেন।
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
Kad napustite njih i one koje mimo Allaha obožavaju, sklonite se u pećinu, Gospodar vaš će vas milošću Svojom obasuti i za vas će ono što će vam korisno biti pripremiti.
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
Kad napustite njih i one koje mimo Allaha obožavaju, sklonite se u pećinu, Gospodar vaš će vas milošću Svojom obasuti i za vas će ono što će vam korisno biti pripremiti."
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
Tuma nde mgoɗɗitinoɗon ɓe e ko ɓe ndewata ko ko woori Alla, ɓe coroyi to wimbo Joomi mon fontani on e Yurmeende makko nden o newinani on e fiyaake mon neweende.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და აი, როდესაც თქვენ განერიდეთ მათ [თქვენს ხალხს] და იმას [კერპებს], რასაც ისინი ალლაჰის გარდა ეთაყვანებიან, მაშინ შეაფარეთ თავი გამოქვაბულს (რათა მხოლოდ ერთ ალლაჰს ეთაყვანოთ). თქვენი უფალი გადმოგაფენთ თქვენზე თავის წყალობას და მოგიმზადებთ დახმარებას თქვენს საქმეში [გაგიადვილებთ ამ გამოქვაბულში საარსებო საშუალებების მოპოვებას]». (შემდეგ ალლაჰმა მათზე ღრმა ძილი მოავლინა და დაიცვა ისინი.)
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und da ihr euch nun von ihnen und von dem, was sie außer Allah anbeten, fernhaltet, so sucht Zuflucht in der Höhle; euer Herr wird über euch (einiges) von Seiner Barmherzigkeit ausbreiten und euch in eurer Angelegenheit eine milde Behandlung bereiten.“
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
Και όταν θα χωριστείτε απ' αυτούς και από ό,τι λατρεύουν εκτός από τον Αλλάχ, τότε να καταφύγετε στο σπήλαιο, και ο Κύριός σας θα απλώσει για σας από το έλεός Του, και θα διευκολύνει για σας στην κατάστασή σας, με μέσα βιοπορισμού.»
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 जब तुमने उनसे तथा अल्लाह के अतिरिक्त उनके पूज्यों से किनारा कर लिया, तो अब गुफा में शरण लो। तुम्हारा पालनहार तुम्हारे लिए अपनी कुछ दया खोल देगा, तथा तुम्हारे लिए तुम्हारे काम में कोई आसानी पैदा कर देगा।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
»E ora che li avete abbandonati, insieme a ciò che adorano all’infuori di Allāh, andate nella caverna, perché il vostro Dio vi concederà un po’ della Sua grazia e vi darà cose utili per la vostra vita.»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
16. (Jauni vyrai tarė vienas kitam): „Ir kai jūs pasitraukiate nuo jų ir to, ką jie garbina, išskyrus Allahą, tada ieškokite prieglobsčio Urve. Jūsų Viešpats atvers jums kelią iš Savo Gailestingumo ir palengvins jums jūsų reikalus (t. y. suteiks jums tai, ko jums reikia aprūpinimui, būstui).“
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.
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Русский · Russian
«И когда вы отстранились от них и от того, чему они поклоняются, кроме Аллаха, то укройтесь в пещере: ваш Господь прострёт для вас Свою милость и устроит для вас в вашем деле облегчение».
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
Кад напустите њих и оне које мимо Аллаха обожавају, склоните се у пећину, ваш Господар ће Својом милошћу да вас обаспе и припремиће вам све оно што ће да вам буде корисно.
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
Na mkijitenga nao na vile wanavyoviabudu badala ya Mwenyezi Mungu, basi kimbilieni pangoni, awafungulie Mola wenu Mlezi katika rehema zake, na awatengenezee ya kuwafaa katika mambo yenu."
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Svenska · Swedish
[Sedan sa deras ledare till resten av gruppen:] ”När ni väl har övergivit dessa och det de dyrkar vid Guds sida, sök då er tillflykt i grottan. Er Herre kommer att låta sin nåd strömma över er och underlätta er situation.”
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
(Madem ki) Onlardan ve onların Allah’tan başka ibadet ettiklerinden ayrıldınız. O halde mağaraya çekilin ki Rabbiniz size rahmetini yaysın ve işlerinizde kolaylık sağlasın.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
جب کہ تم ان سے اور اللہ کے سوا ان کے اور معبودوں سے کناره کش ہوگئے تو اب تم کسی غار میں [1] جا بیٹھو، تمہارا رب تم پر اپنی رحمت پھیلا دے گا اور تمہارے لئے تمہارے کام میں سہولت مہیا کردے گ.ا
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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Easy-read (simplified)warabatnaa 'alaa quloobihim idh qaamoo faqaaloo rabbunaa rabbu s-samaawaati wal-'ardi lan nad'uwa min doonihi ilaahan laqad qulnaa idhan shatataa
DIN 31635warabaṭnā ʿalā qulūbihim ʾiḏ qāmū faqālū rabbunā rabbu s-samāwāti wal-ʾarḍi lan nadʿuwa min dūnihi ʾilāhan laqad qulnā ʾiḏan šaṭaṭan
Talal Itani2012 And We strengthened their hearts, when they stood up and said, "Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth; we will not call on any god besides Him, for then we would have spoken an outrage."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And We made firm their hearts when they stood forth and said: Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. We cry unto no Allah beside Him, for then should we utter an enormity
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and we braced up their hearts, when they stood up and said, 'Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, we will not call upon any god beside Him, for then we should have said an extravagant thing
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we had made them stout of heart, when they stood up and said, "Our Lord is Lord of the Heavens and of the Earth: we will call on no other God than Him; for in that case we had said a thing outrageous
George Sale1734 And We fortified their hearts with constancy when they stood before the tyrant; and they said, our Lord is the Lord of heaven and earth: We will by no means call on any god besides Him; for then should we surely utter an extravagance
DIN 31635hāʾulāʾi qawmunā taḫaḏū min dūnihi ʾālihatan lawlā yaʾtūna ʿalayhim bisulṭānin bayyinin faman ʾaẓlamu mimmani ftarā ʿalā llāhi kaḏiban
Talal Itani2012 "These people, our people, have taken to themselves gods other than Him. Why do they not bring a clear proof concerning them? Who, then, does greater wrong than he who invents lies and attributes them to God?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 These, our people, have chosen (other) gods beside Him though they bring no clear warrant (vouchsafed) to them. And who doth greater wrong than he who inventeth a lie concerning Allah
Edward Henry Palmer1880 These people of ours have taken to other gods beside Him. Though they do not bring any manifest authority for them. And who is more unjust than he who forges against God a lie
John Medows Rodwell1861 These our people have taken other gods beside Him, though they bring no clear proof for them; but, who more iniquitous than he who forgeth a lie of God
George Sale1734 These our fellow people have taken other gods, besides Him; although they bring no demonstrative argument for them: And who is more unjust than he who deviseth a lie concerning God
Talal Itani2012 You would have seen the sun, when it rose, veering away from their cave towards the right, and when it sets, moving away from them to the left, as they lay in the midst of the cave. That was one of God's wonders. He whom God guides is truly guided; but he whom He misguides, for him you will find no directing friend.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And thou mightest have seen the sun when it rose move away from their cave to the right, and when it set go past them on the left, and they were in the cleft thereof. That was (one) of the portents of Allah. He whom Allah guideth, he indeed is led aright, and he whom He sendeth astray, for him thou wilt not find a guiding friend
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And thou mightst have seen the sun when it rose decline from their cave towards the right hand, and when it set leave them on the left hand, while they were in the spacious part thereof. That is one of the signs of God. Whom God guides he is guided indeed, and whom He leads astray thou shalt surely find for him no patron to guide aright
John Medows Rodwell1861 And thou mightest have seen the sun when it arose, pass on the right of their cave, and when it set, leave them on the left, while they were in its spacious chamber. This is one of the signs of God. Guided indeed is he whom God guideth; but for him whom He misleadeth, thou shalt by no means find a patron, director
George Sale1734 And thou mightest have seen the sun, when it had risen, to decline from their cave towards the right hand; and when it went down, to leave them on the left hand: And they were in the spacious part of the cave. This was one of the signs of God. Whomsoever God shall direct, he shall be rightly directed; and whomsoever He shall cause to err, thou shalt not find any to defend or to direct
Talal Itani2012 You would think them awake, although they were asleep. And We turned them over to the right, and to the left, with their dog stretching its paws across the threshold. Had you looked at them, you would have turned away from them in flight, and been filled with fear of them.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And thou wouldst have deemed them waking though they were asleep, and We caused them to turn over to the right and the left, and their dog stretching out his paws on the threshold. If thou hadst observed them closely thou hadst assuredly turned away from them in flight, and hadst been filled with awe of them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Thou mightst have reckoned them waking though they were sleeping, as we turned them towards the right and towards the left; and their dog spreading out his fore-paws on the threshold. Hadst thou come suddenly upon them thou wouldst surely have turned and fled away from them, and wouldst surely have been filled by them with dread
John Medows Rodwell1861 And thou wouldst have deemed them awake, though they were sleeping: and we turned them to the right and to the left. And in the entry lay their dog with paws outstretched. Hadst thou come suddenly upon them, thou wouldst surely have turned thy back on them in flight, and have been filled with fear at them
George Sale1734 And thou wouldst have judged them to have been awake, while they were sleeping; and We caused them to turn themselves to the right hand, and to the left. And their dog stretched forth his fore-legs in the mouth of the cave: If thou hadst come suddenly upon them, verily thou wouldest have turned thy back and fled from them, and thou wouldest have been filled with fear at the sight of them
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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 · George Sale0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.58
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.50
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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.