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
The Jews and the Christians will not approve of you, unless you follow their creed. Say, "God's guidance is the guidance." Should you follow their desires, after the knowledge that has come to you, you will have in God neither guardian nor helper.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And the Jews will not be pleased with thee, nor will the Christians, till thou follow their creed. Say: Lo! the guidance of Allah (Himself) is Guidance. And if thou shouldst follow their desires after the knowledge which hath come unto thee, then wouldst thou have from Allah no protecting guardian nor helper
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
The Jews will not be satisfied with thee, nor yet the Christians, until thou followest their creed. Say, 'God's guidance is the guidance;' and if thou followest their lusts after the knowledge that has come to thee, thou hast not then from God a patron or a help
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But until thou follow their religion, neither Jews nor Christians will be satisfied with thee. SAY: Verily, guidance of God, - that is the guidance! And if, after "the Knowledge" which hath reached thee, thou follow their desires, thou shalt find neither helper nor protector against God
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But the Jews will not be pleased with thee, neither the Christians, until thou follow their religion; say, the direction of God is the truedirection. And verily if thou follow their desires, after the knowledge which hath been given thee, thou shalt find no patron or protector against God
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
As hebrenjtë e as të krishterët nuk do të jenë të kënaqur me ty, derisa të ndjekësh fenë e tyre. Thuaju: "Pa dyshim, udhëzimi i Allahut është udhëzimi i vërtetë." Ndërkaq, nëse do të ndiqje dëshirat e tyre, edhe pas dijes që të ka ardhur, atëherë nuk do të kishe para Allahut as mbrojtës e as ndihmës.
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 ইয়াহূদী ও খৃস্টানরা আপনার প্রতি কখনোই সন্তুষ্ট হবে না; যতক্ষণ না আপনি তাদের ধর্মের অনুসরণ করেন। বলো: ‘নিশ্চয় আল্লাহর হিদায়াতই প্রকৃত হিদায়াত।’ আর তোমার কাছে জ্ঞান আসার পরেও তুমি যদি তাদের খেয়াল-খুশির অনুসরণ করো, তবে আল্লাহর পক্ষ থেকে তোমার কোন অভিভাবক থাকবে না এবং থাকবে না কোন সাহায্যকারীও।
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
Ni židovi, ni kršćani neće biti tobom zadovoljni sve dok ne budeš slijedio vjeru njihovu. Reci: "Allahova Uputa jest Prava uputa!" A ako bi se ti poveo za željama njihovim, nakon znanja koje si dobio, od Allaha te niko ne bi mogao zaštititi, niti pomoći.
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
Ni židovi, ni kršćani neće biti tobom zadovoljni sve dok ne budeš slijedio vjeru njihovu. Reci: "Allahova Uputa jest Prava uputa!" A ako bi se ti poveo za željama njihovim, nakon znanja koje si dobio, od Allaha te nitko ne bi mogao zaštititi, niti pomoći ti.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Yahuud e nasaara en mbeletaake ma haa njokkaa laawol maɓɓe , wi' ɓe nganndee ko peewal Alla woni peewal so a jokkii beleeɗe maɓɓe ɓaawo nde keɓɗaa ganndal ,ndeen woodantaa ma to Allah keedo wonaa ballo ne .
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და არასოდეს იქნებიან შენით კმაყოფილნი არც იუდეველები და არც ქრისტიანები, სანამ შენ არ გაჰყვები მათ რწმენას. უთხარი: «ჭეშმარიტად, (მხოლოდ) ალლაჰის გზა არის (ჭეშმარიტი) გზა!» და (მე [ალლაჰი] ვფიცავ, რომ) თუ შენ (ო, მოციქულო) გაჰყვები მათ ახირებებს მას შემდეგ, რაც შენთან მოვიდა (ჭეშმარიტი) ცოდნა [ყურანი და სუნნა], მაშინ არ გეყოლება ალლაჰისგან არც მფარველი და არც დამხმარე.
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 weder die Juden noch die Christen werden mit dir zufrieden sein, bis du ihrer Glaubensgemeinschaft folgst. Sag: „Wahrlich, die Rechtleitung Allahs ist die (wahre) Rechtleitung.“ Wenn du jedoch ihren Neigungen folgst nach dem, was dir an Wissen zugekommen ist, so wirst du vor Allah weder Schutzherrn noch Helfer haben.
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 ποτέ δεν πρόκειται οι Εβραίοι, ούτε οι Χριστιανοί, να είναι ευχαριστημένοι (με οτιδήποτε) από σένα μέχρι να ακολουθήσεις τη θρησκεία τους. Πες: «Στ’ αλήθεια, η καθοδήγηση του Αλλάχ (το Ισλάμ) είναι η (μόνη αληθινή) καθοδήγηση.» Αν ήταν να ακολουθήσεις τις επιθυμίες τους μετά απ' αυτό που έφτασε σ' εσένα από γνώση, δεν θα είχες ενώπιον του Αλλάχ κανέναν προστάτη ή υποστηρικτή.
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
(ऐ नबी!) यहूदी तथा ईसाई आपसे हरगिज़ राज़ी न होंगे, यहाँ तक कि आप उनके धर्म की पैरवी करें। आप कह दीजिए कि निःसंदेह अल्लाह का मार्गदर्शन ही असल मार्गदर्शन है, और यदि आपने उनकी इच्छाओं का अनुसरण किया, उस ज्ञान के बाद जो आपके पास आया है, तो अल्लाह से (बचाने में) आपका न कोई मित्र होगा और न कोई सहायक।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E non saranno soddisfatti di te né gli ebrei né i nazareni, finché non seguirai la loro dottrina. Di’: “In verità la retta via di Allāh, è quella la retta via!” E se tu seguirai i loro desideri, dopo che ti è arrivata la conoscenza, non avrai né protettore né sostenitore, all’infuori di Allāh.
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
120. Niekada nei judėjai, nei krikščionys nebus patenkinti tavimi (Muchammedai ﷺ ), kol tu nepaseksi jų tikėjimu. Sakyk: „Iš tiesų, Allaho Teisingas Vedimas (t. y. islamiškasis monoteizmas) - tai (vienintelis) Teisingas Vedimas.“ Ir jei tu (Muchammedai ﷺ), sektum jų (judėjų ir krikščionių) norais po to, ką gavai iš Žinojimo (t. y. Koraną), neturėtum prieš Allahą nei jokio vali (globėjo ar sergėtojo), nei jokio padėjėjo.
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
Никогда не будут довольны тобой ни иудеи, ни христиане, пока ты не последуешь их вероучению. Скажи: «Воистину, руководство Аллаха — оно и есть верное руководство». Если же ты последуешь их прихотям после того, что пришло к тебе из знания, то не будет тебе от Аллаха ни покровителя, ни помощника.
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
Ни Јевреји, ни хришћани неће бити тобом задовољни све док не будеш следио њихову веру. Реци: "Аллахова Упута је Права упута!" А ако би се ти повео за жељама њиховим, након знања које си добио, од Аллаха те нико не би могао заштитити, нити ти помоћи.
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 Mayahudi hawawi radhi nawe, wala Wakristo, mpaka ufuate mila yao. Sema: Hakika uongofu wa Mwenyezi Mungu ndio uongofu. Na kama ukifuata matamanio yao baada ya yaliyokujia katika elimu, hutapata mlinzi wala msaidizi kando na Mwenyezi Mungu.[1]
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Svenska · Swedish
Varken judarna eller de kristna kommer att bli nöjda med dig förrän du följer deras väg. Säg: ”Guds vägledning är förvisso [den enda sanna] vägledningen.” Och om du hade följt deras onda begär, efter att du nåtts av kunskapen, skulle du inte ha haft någon hjälp eller något skydd från Gud.
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
Yahudiler de Hristiyanlar da, sen onların dinine uymadıkça, asla senden hoşnut olmazlar. De ki: Asıl doğru yol Allah’ın gösterdiği yoldur. Sana gelen ilimden sonra eğer onların arzularına uyacak olursan, Allah’tan seni koruyacak bir veli de bir yardımcı da yoktur.
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
آپ سے یہود ونصاریٰ ہرگز راضی نہیں ہوں گے جب تک کہ آپ ان کے مذہب کے تابع نہ بن جائیں[1] ، آپ کہہ دیجیئے کہ اللہ کی ہدایت ہی ہدایت ہے[2] اور اگر آپ نے باوجود اپنے پاس علم آجانے کے، پھر ان کی خواہشوں کی پیروی کی تو اللہ کے پاس آپ کا نہ تو کوئی ولی ہوگا اورنہ مددگار۔[3]
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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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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Easy-read (simplified)waqaala lladheena laa ya'lamoona lawlaa yukallimunaa llaahu aw ta'teenaa aayatun kadhaalika qaala lladheena min qablihim mithla qawlihim tashaabahat quloobuhum qad bayyannaa l-'aayaati liqawmin yooqinoon
DIN 31635waqāla llaḏīna lā yaʿlamūna lawlā yukallimunā llāhu ʾaw taʾtīnā ʾāyatun kaḏālika qāla llaḏīna min qablihim miṯla qawlihim tašābahat qulūbuhum qad bayyannā l-ʾāyāti liqawmin yūqinūna
Talal Itani2012 Those who do not know say, "If only God would speak to us, or a sign would come to us." Thus said those who were before them. Their hearts are alike. We have made the signs clear for people who are certain.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And those who have no knowledge say: Why doth not Allah speak unto us, or some sign come unto us? Even thus, as they now speak, spake those (who were) before them. Their hearts are all alike. We have made clear the revelations for people who are sure
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And those who do not know (the Scriptures) say, 'Unless God speak to us, or there comes a sign.' So spake those before them like unto their speech. Their hearts are all alike. We have made manifest the signs unto a people that are sure
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they who have no knowledge say, "Unless God speak to us, or thou shew us a sign . . . !" So, with like words, said those who were before them: their hearts are alike: Clear signs have we already shewn for those who have firm faith
George Sale1734 And they who know not the scriptures say, unless God speak unto us, or thou shew us a sign, we will not believe. So said those before them, according to their saying: Their hearts resemble each other. We have already shewn manifest signs unto people who firmly believe
Talal Itani2012 We have sent you with the truth-bringing good news, and giving warnings. You will not be questioned about the inmates of Hell.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! We have sent thee (O Muhammad) with the truth, a bringer of glad tidings and a warner. And thou wilt not be asked about the owners of hell-fire
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We have sent thee with the truth, a bearer of good tidings and of warning, and thou shalt not be questioned as to the fellows of hell
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily, with the Truth have we sent thee, a bearer of good tidings and a warner: and of the people of Hell thou shalt not be questioned
George Sale1734 we have sent thee in truth, a bearer of good tidings, and a preacher; and thou shalt not be questioned concerning the companions of hell
Talal Itani2012 Those to whom We have given the Scripture follow it, as it ought to be followed-these believe in it. But as for those who reject it-these are the losers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those unto whom We have given the Scripture, who read it with the right reading, those believe in it. And whoso disbelieveth in it, those are they who are the losers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They to whom we have brought the Book and who read it as it should be read, believe therein; and whoso disbelieve therein, 'tis they who lose thereby
John Medows Rodwell1861 They to whom we have given the Book, and who read it as it ought to be read, - these believe therein: but whoso believeth not therein, shall meet with perdition
George Sale1734 They to whom we have given the book of the Koran, and who read it with its true reading, they believe therein; and whoever believeth not therein, they shall perish
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 —
0.59 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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 · George Sale0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.65
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.63
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.33
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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.