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Talal Itani· published 2012
Perhaps you may destroy yourself with grief, chasing after them, if they do not believe in this information.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Yet it may be, if they believe not in this statement, that thou (Muhammad) wilt torment thy soul with grief over their footsteps
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
Haply thou wilt grieve thyself to death for sorrow after them, if they believe not in this new revelation
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Peradventure thou wilt kill thy self with grief after them, out of thy earnestzeal for their conversion, if they believe not in this new revelation of the Koran
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 vallë do ta shkatërrosh veten nga pikëllimi për ta, nëse ata nuk besojnë në këtë Fjalë (Kuran)?!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
তারা যদি এ বাণীর(আল কুরআনের) প্রতি ঈমান না আনে, তবে মনে হয় তুমি তাদের পেছনে আফসোস করতে করতে নিজেকে প্রায় ধ্বংস করে ফেলবে।(৩)
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Pa zar ćeš ti za njima od tuge svisnuti, ako oni u govor ovaj neće povjerovati?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Pa zar ćeš ti za njima od tuge svisnuti, ako oni u govor ovaj neće povjerovati?
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Mbele jo'o aan a tanpinat hoore-maa e dow batteeji maɓɓe, si ngooŋɗinaani ndee Yewtere ka suno.
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ქართული · Georgian
ნუთუ შენ [ო, შუამავალო] მზად ხარ, რომ თავი დაიღუპო მწუხარებით მათ გამო [შენი ხალხის გამო], რადგან იმათ არ ირწმუნეს ეს შეგონება [ყურანი]?
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Deutsch · German
So magst du vielleicht nach ihrer Abwendung noch dich selbst umbringen, wenn sie nicht an diese Botschaft glauben, und dies aus Bedauern.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
(Ω, Μωχάμμαντ) θα κατέστρεφες τον εαυτό σου από τη θλίψη (γι' εκείνους τους άπιστους) αφού αποστράφηκαν, επειδή δεν πιστεύουν σ' αυτό τον λόγο (το Κορ’άν); [Μη λυπάσαι γι' αυτούς, επειδή αν ο Αλλάχ ήξερε ότι υπάρχει καλοσύνη μέσα τους, θα τους είχε καθοδηγήσει, αλλά η ευθύνη σου είναι μόνο να διαβιβάσεις το μήνυμα ξεκάθαρα].
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
ऐसा लगता है कि यदि वे इस 'हदीस' (क़ुरआन) पर ईमान नहीं लाए, तो आप इनके पीछे दुःख से अपना प्राण ही खो देंगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Forse tu ti affliggi a causa loro: se non credono a questo messaggio, ti arrabbi.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
6. Galbūt tu nusižudytum (Muchammedai ﷺ) iš sielvarto dėl jų žingsnių (dėl jų nusigręžimo nuo tavęs), nes jie netiki šiuo pasakojimu (Koranu).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Быть может, ты погубишь себя от скорби по их следам, если они не уверуют в это повествование?
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Српски · Serbian
Па зар ћеш да уништиш себе од туге за њима, ако они у Кур'ан неће да поверују?!
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Huenda ukajihiliki nafsi yako kwa ajili yao, kuwasikitikia kwa kuwa hawayaamini mazungumzo haya!
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Svenska · Swedish
Kommer du kanske att gå under av sorg över att de vägrar tro på denna skrift?
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Türkçe · Turkish
Belki de sen, bu kitaba iman etmiyorlar diye onların arkasından üzüntüden kendini helâk edeceksin.
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اردو · Urdu
پس اگر یہ لوگ اس بات[1] پر ایمان نہ ﻻئیں تو کیا آپ ان کے پیچھے اسی رنج میں اپنی جان ہلاک کر ڈالیں گے؟
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation,
not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
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Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the
same edition and their orthography differs.
Easy-read (simplified)maa lahum bihi min 'ilmin walaa li'aabaa'ihim kaburat kalimatan takhruju min afwaahihim in yaqooloona illaa kadhibaa
DIN 31635mā lahum bihi min ʿilmin walā liʾābāʾihim kaburat kalimatan taḫruǧu min ʾafwāhihim ʾin yaqūlūna ʾillā kaḏiban
Talal Itani2012 They have no knowledge of this, nor did their forefathers. Grave is the word that comes out of their mouths. They say nothing but a lie.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 (A thing) whereof they have no knowledge, nor (had) their fathers, Dreadful is the word that cometh out of their mouths. They speak naught but a lie
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They have no knowledge thereof, nor their fathers; a serious word it is that comes forth from their mouths! verily, they only speak a lie
John Medows Rodwell1861 No knowledge of this have either they or their fathers! A grievous saying to come out of their mouths! They speak no other than a lie
George Sale1734 of which matter they have no knowledge, neither had their fathers. A grievous saying it is, which proceedeth from their mouths: They speak no other than a lie
Talal Itani2012 We made what is upon the earth an ornament for it, to test them as to which of them is best in conduct.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! We have placed all that is on the earth as an ornament thereof that We may try them: which of them is best in conduct
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, we have made what is on the earth an ornament thereof, to try them, which of them is best in works
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily, we have made all that is on earth as its adornment, that we might make trial who among mankind would excel in works
George Sale1734 Verily we have ordained whatsoever is on the earth for the ornament thereof, that we might make trial of men, and see which of them excelleth in works
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 —
0.69 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 · John Medows Rodwell0.82
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.76
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.72
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.72
Talal Itani · George Sale0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.68
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.57
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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.