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And if they believe in the like of that which ye believe, then are they rightly guided. But if they turn away, then are they in schism, and Allah will suffice thee (for defence) against them. He is the Hearer, the Knower
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
If they believe in the same as you have believed in, then they have been guided. But if they turn away, then they are in schism. God will protect you against them; for He is the Hearer, the Knower.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
If they believe in that in which ye believe, then are they guided; but if they turn back, then are they only in a schism, and God will suffice thee against them, for He both hears and knows
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
If therefore they believe even as ye believe, then have they trueguidance; but if they turn back, then do they cut themselves off from you: and God will suffice to protect thee against them, for He is the Hearer, the Knower
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Now if they believe according to what ye believe, they are surelydirected, but if they turn back, they are in schism. God shall support thee against them, for he is the hearer, the wise
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
Nëse ata besojnë njësoj sikurse ju, atëherë janë në rrugë të drejtë, e, nëse shmangen, atëherë do të jenë në kundërshtim. Ty (o Muhamed) do të të mjaftojë Allahu kundrejt tyre. Ai është Gjithëdëgjuesi, i Gjithëdijshmi.
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বাংলা · Bengali
অতএব তোমরা (মুসলিমরা) যেরূপ ঈমান এনেছো, তারাও যদি সেরূপ ঈমান আনে, তবে নিশ্চয় তারা হিদায়াত (সঠিক পথ) পাবে। আর যদি তারা মুখ ফিরিয়ে নেয়, তবে অবশ্যই তারা বিরোধিতায় লিপ্ত। সুতরাং তাদের বিরুদ্ধে তোমার জন্য আল্লাহই যথেষ্ট। আর তিনি সর্বশ্রোতা ও সর্বজ্ঞ।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Pa, ako oni budu vjerovali u ono u što vi vjerujete, na Pravom su putu; a ako se okrenu, oni su onda raskol počinili. Allah će te sigurno od njih zaštititi. On je Svečujući i Sveznajući.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Pa, ako oni budu vjerovali onako kako vi vjerujete, na Pravom su putu; a ako se okrenu, oni su onda raskol počinili. Allah će te sigurno od njih zaštititi. On je Svečujući i Sveznajući.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
So tawii ɓe ngoonɗinii wano (hono) ko ngoonɗin-ɗon koo ndeen tawa ɓe peewii so ɓe ɗuurniima ndeen ɓe ngoni ko he luutndaade maa Alla suran ma ɓe ko Kanko woni nanoowo ngannduɗo fof.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და თუ ისინი ირწმუნებენ იმას, რისიც თქვენ [მორწმუნენო] გწამთ [რომ ყურანი ალლაჰის წიგნია და მუჰამმადი მისი შუამავალია], მაშინ ისინი ჭეშმარიტ გზაზე იქნებიან; ხოლო თუ ზურგს შეგაქცევენ, მაშინ ისინი განხეთქილებაში არიან, და ალლაჰი საკმარისი იქნება თქვენთვის (დაგიცავთ მათგან), რადგან ის ყოვლისმსმენი, ყოვლისმცოდნეა.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Wenn sie nun an das gleiche glauben, woran ihr glaubt, dann sind sie somit rechtgeleitet. Und wenn sie sich jedoch abkehren, dann befinden sie sich in Widerstreit. Sodann wird Allah dir gegen sie genüge sein, und Er ist der (All)hörende, der (All)wissende.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αν, λοιπόν, πιστέψουν (οι Εβραίοι και οι Χριστιανοί) στα ίδια που πιστεύετε κι εσείς (δηλ. σε όλους τους Αγγελιαφόρους και σε όλα τα Βιβλία του Αλλάχ), τότε καθοδηγήθηκαν (στην Αλήθεια)· μα, αν στρέφονται μακριά, τότε βρίσκονται σε μεγάλη διαφωνία. Έτσι, ο Αλλάχ θα σε προστατεύει (ω, Μωχάμμαντ) απ' αυτούς. Και Αυτός είναι ο Ασ-Σαμεί‘ (Αυτός που ακούει τα πάντα), ο Αλ-‘Αλείμ (Παντογνώστης).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर यदि वे उस जैसी चीज़ पर ईमान लाएँ, जिसपर तुम ईमान लाए हो, तो निश्चय वे मार्गदर्शन पा गए और यदि वे फिर जाएँ, तो वे मात्र विरोध में पड़े हुए हैं। अतः निकट ही अल्लाह तुझे उनके मुक़ाबले में काफ़ी हो जाएगा और वही सब कुछ सुनने वाला, सब कुछ जानने वाला है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Se credono in ciò a cui voi avete creduto, allora sono sulla retta via; ma se si tirano indietro, sono nello scisma. Vi basterà Allāh contro di loro: Lui è l’Ascoltatore, il Sapiente.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
137. Taigi jei jie tiki taip, kaip tikite jūs, tada jie yra teisingai vedami. Bet jei jie nusigręžia, tada jie tėra tik (tiesos) priešingybėje. Taigi Allahas padės jums prieš juos. Ir Jis yra Visa Girdintis, Visa Žinantis.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Yoo fakkaataa waan isin itti amantaniititti amanan dhugumatti qajeelaniiru, Yoo isa irraa gara galan immoo isaan mormii keessa jiru, Rabbiin isaan siif ga’a (sirraa dhorga), Inni dhagayaa, beekaadha.
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Русский · Russian
И если они уверуют в то же, во что уверовали вы, то, несомненно, последуют верным путём, а если отвернутся, то, воистину, они лишь в расколе. Аллах избавит тебя от них, и Он — Слышащий, Знающий.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Па, ако они буду веровали у оно у шта ви верујете, на Правом су путу; а ако се окрену, они су онда раскол починили. Аллах ће те сигурно од њих заштитити. Он је Свечујући и Свезнајући.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi wakiamini kama mnavyoamini nyinyi, itakuwa kweli wameongoka. Na wakikengeuka, basi wao wamo katika upinzani tu. Na Mwenyezi Mungu atakutosheni kukukingeni kutokana na shari yao, na Yeye ndiye Mwenye kusikia mno, ajuaye zaidi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Om de sedan tror på det som ni tror på kommer de säkerligen att vägledas. Men om de vänder om ska de hamna i riktig osämja. Gud kommer att skydda dig [från deras ondska]; han är den som hör allt, vet allt.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Eğer onlar (Yahudi ve Hıristiyanlar) böyle sizin iman ettiğiniz gibi iman ederlerse, gerçekten doğru yolu bulmuş olurlar; yüz çevirirlerse onlar elbette derin bir ayrılığa düşmüş olurlar. Allah, onlara karşı sana yeter. O, hakkıyla işitendir, hakkıyla bilendir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اگر وه تم جیسا ایمان ﻻئیں تو ہدایت پائیں، اور اگر منھ موڑیں تو وه صریح اختلاف میں ہیں، اللہ تعالی ان سے عنقریب آپ کی کفایت کرے گا[1] اور وه خوب سننے اور جاننے واﻻ ہے۔
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Easy-read (simplified)waqaaloo koonoo hoodan aw nasaaraa tahtadoo qul bal millata ibraaheema haneefan wamaa kaana mina l-mushrikeen
DIN 31635waqālū kūnū hūdan ʾaw naṣārā tahtadū qul bal millata ʾibrāhīma ḥanīfan wamā kāna mina l-mušrikīna
Talal Itani2012 And they say, "Be Jews or Christians, and you will be guided." Say, "Rather, the religion of Abraham, the Monotheist; he was not an idolater."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And they say: Be Jews or Christians, then ye will be rightly guided. Say (unto them, O Muhammad): Nay, but (we follow) the religion of Abraham, the upright, and he was not of the idolaters
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They say, 'Be ye Jews or Christians so shall ye of Abraham be guided.' Say, 'Not so! but the faith of Abraham the 'Hanif, be was not of the idolaters
John Medows Rodwell1861 They say, moreover, "Become Jews or Christians that ye may have the true guidance." SAY: Nay! the religion of Abraham, the sound in faith, and not one of those who join gods with God
George Sale1734 They say, become Jews or Christians that ye may be directed. Say, nay, we follow the religion of Abraham the orthodox, who was no idolater
Talal Itani2012 Say, "We believe in God; and in what was revealed to us; and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs; and in what was given to Moses and Jesus; and in what was given to the prophets-from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and to Him we surrender."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say (O Muslims): We believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto us and that which was revealed unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received, and that which the prophets received from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and unto Him we have surrendered
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say ye, 'We believe in God, and what has been revealed to us, and what has been revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Tribes, and what was brought to Moses and Jesus, and what was brought unto the Prophets from their Lord; we will not distinguish between any one of them, and unto Him are we resigned
John Medows Rodwell1861 Say ye: "We believe in God, and that which hath been sent down to us, and that which hath been sent down to Abraham and Ismael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes: and that which hath been given to Moses and to Jesus, and that which was given to the prophets from their Lord. No difference do we make between any of them: and to God are we resigned (Muslims)
George Sale1734 Say, we believe in God, and that which hath been sent down unto us, and that which hath been sent down unto Abraham, and Ismael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which was delivered unto Moses, and Jesus, and that which was delivered unto the prophets from their Lord: We make no distinction between any of them, and to God are we resigned
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Do you argue with us about God, when He is our Lord and your Lord, and We have our works, and you have your works, and we are sincere to Him?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say (unto the People of the Scripture): Dispute ye with us concerning Allah when He is our Lord and your Lord? Ours are our works and yours your works. We look to Him alone
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Do ye dispute with us concerning God, and He is our Lord and your Lord? Ye have your works and we have ours, and unto Him are we sincere
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Will ye dispute with us about God? when He is our Lord and your Lord! We have our works and ye have your works; and we are sincerely His
George Sale1734 Say, will ye dispute with us concernig God, who is our Lord, and your Lord? We have our works, and ye have your works, and unto him are we sincerely devoted
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.63
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.60
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.45
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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.