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Say: As for him who is in error, the Beneficent will verilyprolong his span of life until, when they behold that which they were promised, whether it be punishment (in the world), or the Hour (of doom), they will know who is worse in position and who is weaker as an army
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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
Say, "Whoever is in error, the Most Merciful will lead him on." Until, when they see what they were promised-either the punishment, or the Hour. Then they will know who was in worse position and weaker in forces.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Say, 'Whosoever is in error, let the Merciful extend to him length of days!- until they see what they are threatened with, whether it be the torment or whether it be the Hour, then they shall know who is worse placed and weakest in forces
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
SAY: As to those who are in error, the God of Mercy will lengthen out to them a length of days Until they see that with which they are threatened, whether it be some presentchastisement, or whether it be "the Hour," and they shall then know which is in the worse state, and which the more weak in forces
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Say, whosoever is in error, the Merciful will grant him a long and prosperous life; until they see that with which they are threatened, whether it be the punishment of this life, or that of the last hour; and hereafter they shall know who is in the worse condition, and the weaker in forces
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
Thuaj: "Atyre që janë në humbje, i Gjithëmëshirshmi ua zgjattë jetën, në mënyrë që të shohin atë që u është premtuar: ose dënimin (në këtë botë), ose Kiametin, e atëherë do ta kuptojnë se cilët janë në pozitë më të keqe dhe kanë ushtri më të dobët.
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বাংলা · Bengali
(হে রাসূল! তুমি তাদেরকে) বলে দাও: ‘যে পথভ্রষ্টতায় রয়েছে, তাকে পরম করুণাময় প্রচুর অবকাশ দিবেন(২০); যতক্ষণ না যে বিষয়ে তাদেরকে প্রতিশ্রুতি দেয়া হয়েছে, তা তারা প্রত্যক্ষ করবে, চাই তা শাস্তি হোক অথবা কিয়ামত। তখন তারা জানতে পারবে কে মর্যাদায় নিকৃষ্ট ও দলবলে দুর্বল।(২১)
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Reci: “Onome ko je u zabludi, neka Svemilosni produži zabludu!” Ali kad takvi dožive da se opomene ostvare, bilo kazna, bilo Smak svijeta, zbilja će saznati ko je u gorem položaju i ko ima pobornika manje.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Reci: “Onome tko je u zabludi, neka Svemilosni produži zabludu!” Ali kad takvi dožive da se opomene ostvare, bilo kazna, bilo Smak svijeta, zbilja će saznati tko je u gorem položaju i tko ima pobornika manje.
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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Fulfulde · Fulani
Maaku: "On laatiiɗo e ndeer majjere nde yo jurmotooɗo fortan mo fontudee, haa si ɓe yi'ii ko ɓe fodaa kon, si tawii ko lepte ɗen maa si ko Darngal ngal, aray ɓe annda on m bonuɗo nukkuure e ɓurɗo lo'ude konu".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
უთხარი [ო, შუამავალო] იმათ, ვინც გზააბნევაშია: «მოწყალემ გაუხანგრძლივოს მას ვადა [გზააბნევაში], ვიდრე არ იხილავენ იმას, რაც მათთვის იყო აღთქმული, ან სასჯელს (ამქვეყნად), ან იმ საათს (განკითხვის დღეს). მაშინ გაიგებენ, ვის აქვს უარესი ადგილი და მდგომარეობა და ვისია უფრო სუსტი ლაშქარი და ძალა».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Sag: „Wer sich im Irrtum befindet, so soll ihn der Allerbarmer lange darin gewähren lassen.“ Wenn sie dann sehen, was ihnen angedroht ist, entweder die Strafe oder die Stunde, da werden sie wissen, wer sich in einer (noch) schlechteren Lage befindet und die schwächere Heerschar hat.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Πες (ω, Προφήτη): «Όποιος βρίσκεται στην πλάνη, ο Αρ-Ραχμάν (Παντελεήμονας) θα του δώσει αναβολή (ώστε να αυξηθεί η πλάνη του και να τον φέρει ο Αλλάχ σταδιακά προς την τιμωρία), ώσπου όταν δουν (οι άπιστοι) αυτό που τους υποσχέθηκε, είτε την τιμωρία (σ' αυτόν τον κόσμο), είτε την Ώρα (της Κρίσεως), μόνο τότε θα ξέρουν ποιος έχει τον χειρότερο τόπο κατοικίας και τους λιγότερους υποστηρικτές!»
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
(हे नबी!) आप कह दें कि जो व्यक्ति गुमराही में पड़ा हुआ है, तो रहमान उसे एक अवधि तक मोहलत देता है। यहाँ तक कि जब वे उस चीज़ को देख लेंगे जिसका उनसे वादा किया जाता है; या तो यातना और या क़ियामत, तो वे अवश्य जान लेंगे कि कौन स्थिति में अधिक बुरा और जत्थे की दृष्टि से अधिक कमज़ोर है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Di’: “A coloro che sono nella perdizione, il Compassionevole dà una proroga finché non vedono ciò che è stato loro promesso – o la punizione o l’ultimo Giorno – così sapranno chi è nella peggiore posizione e ha i più deboli sostenitori”.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
75. Sakyk (Muchammedai ﷺ), kas yra klaidoje, Maloningiausiasis (Allahas) prailgins (turtą ir laiką) jam tol, kol pamatę tai, kas jiems buvo pažadėta, arba kančią arba Valandą, jie sužinos, kas yra blogesnėje padėtyje ir kas yra silpnesnis galioje. [Tai atsakymas į eilutėje 19:73 pateiktą klausimą].
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
Скажи: «Кто пребывает в заблуждении, тому пусть Всемилостивый даст отсрочку, — пока они не увидят то, что им обещано: либо наказание, либо Час. Тогда они узнают, кто хуже положением и слабее воинством»
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
Реци: „Ономе ко је у заблуди, нека Свемилосни дуг живот да!“ Али кад такви доживе да се претње остваре, било казна, било Смак света, заиста ће да сазнају ко је у горем положају и ко има слабију војску и помагаче.
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
Sema: Yule aliye katika upotovu, basi Arrahmani (Mwingi wa rehema) na amuongezee (muda, mali na mengineyo) mpaka atakapoona yale waliyoahidiwa - ima ni adhabu au ni Saa, hapo ndipo watakapojua ni nani mwenye makao maovu zaidi na mwenye jeshi dhaifu zaidi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Säg: ”Må den Nåderike ge uppskov till de som har avvikit från sanningen,” – ända tills de ser vad de har blivit utlovade, antingen straffet [i detta liv] eller den yttersta timmen. Då ska de inse vem som verkligen är i underläge och har det svagaste stödet!
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Türkçe · Turkish
De ki: “Kim sapıklıkta ise Rahman ona verdiği mühleti uzattıkça uzatır. Nihayet kendilerine vaat olunanı, ya azabı yahut kıyameti göreceklerinde hangisinin makamca daha kötü ve askerce daha zayıf olduğunu bileceklerdir."
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اردو · Urdu
کہہ دیجئے! جو گمراہی میں ہوتا ہے رحمنٰ اس کو خوب لمبی مہلت دیتا ہے، یہاں تک کہ وه ان چیزوں کو دیکھ لیں جن کا وعده کیے جاتے ہیں یعنی عذاب یا قیامت کو، اس وقت ان کو صحیح طور پر معلوم ہو جائے گا کہ کون برے مرتبے والا اور کس کا جتھا کمزور ہے.[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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Talal Itani2012 When Our clear revelations are recited to them, those who disbelieve say to those who believe, "Which of the two parties is better in position, and superior in influence?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when Our clear revelations are recited unto them, those who disbelieve say unto those who believe: Which of the two parties (yours or ours) is better in position, and more imposing as an army
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when our signs are recited to them manifest, those who misbelieve say to those who believe, 'Which of the two parties is best placed and in the best company
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when our clear signs are rehearsed to them, the infidels say to those who believe: "Which of the two parties is in the best plight? and which is the most goodly company
George Sale1734 When our manifest signs are read unto them, the infidels say unto the true believers, which of the two parties is in the more eligible condition, and formeth the more excellent assembly
Easy-read (simplified)wakam ahlaknaa qablahum min qarnin hum ahsanu athaathan wari'yaa
DIN 31635wakam ʾahlaknā qablahum min qarnin hum ʾaḥsanu ʾaṯāṯan wariʾyan
Talal Itani2012 How many a generation have We destroyed before them, who surpassed them in riches and splendor?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 How many a generation have We destroyed before them, who were more imposing in respect of gear and outward seeming
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And how many generations before them have we destroyed who were better off in property and appearance
John Medows Rodwell1861 But how many generations have we brought to ruin before them, who surpassed them in riches and in splendour
George Sale1734 But how many generations have We destroyed before them, which excelled them in wealth, and in outward appearance
Talal Itani2012 God increases in guidance those who accept guidance. And the things that endure-the righteous deeds-have the best reward with your Lord, and the best outcome.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah increaseth in right guidance those who walk aright, and the good deeds which endure are better in thy Lord's sight for reward, and better for resort
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And those who are guided God will increase in guidance. And enduring good works are best with thy Lord for a reward, and best for restoration
John Medows Rodwell1861 But God will increase the guidance of the already guided. And good works which abide, are in thy Lord's sight better in respect of guerdon, and better in the issue than all worldly good
George Sale1734 God shall more fully direct those who receive direction; and the good works which remain for ever, are better in the sight of thy Lord than worldly possessions, in respect to the reward, and more eligible in respect to the future recompence
DIN 31635ʾafaraʾayta llaḏī kafara biʾāyātinā waqāla laʾūtayanna mālan wawaladan
Talal Itani2012 Have you seen him who denied Our revelations, and said, "I will be given wealth and children"?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Hast thou seen him who disbelieveth in Our revelations and saith: Assuredly I shall be given wealth and children
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Hast thou seen him who disbelieves in our signs, and says, 'I shall surely be given wealth and children
John Medows Rodwell1861 Hast thou marked him who believeth not in our signs, and saith, "I shall surely have riches and children bestowed upon me
George Sale1734 Hast thou seen him who believeth not in our signs, and saith, I shall surely have riches and children bestowed on me
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.60 on a scale
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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 Rodwell0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.61
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.51
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.49
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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.