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And those who were but followers will say: If a return were possible for us, we would disown them even as they have disowned us. Thus will Allah show them their own deeds as anguish for them, and they will not emerge from the Fire
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
Those who followed will say, "If only we can have another chance, we will disown them, as they disowned us." Thus God will show them their deeds, as regrets to them, and they will not come out of the Fire.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
those who followed shall say, 'Had we but another turn, then would we clear ourselves of them as they have cleared themselves of us.' So will God show them their works; for them are sighs, and they shall not come forth from out the fire
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
The followers shall say, "Could we but return to life we would keep ourselves clear from them, as they have declared themselves clear of us." So will God shew them their works! Sighing is upon them! but, forth from the fire they come not
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
the followers shall say, if we could return to life, we would separate our selves from them, as they have now separated themselves from us. So God will shew them their works; they shall sigh grievously and shall not come forth from the fire of hell
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
Ata që u shkuan pas, do të thonë: "Ah, sikur të mund të ktheheshim edhe njëherë e t'i braktisnim ata, ashtu siç na braktisën ne!" Kështu, Allahu do t'ua tregojë veprat e tyre si dëshpërim për ta dhe ata s'kanë për të dalë kurrë nga Zjarri.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর যারা অনুসরণ করেছিল তারা বলবে: ‘হায়! যদি একবার আমাদের ফিরে যাওয়ার সুযোগ হতো, তবে আমরাও তাদের থেকে সম্পর্ক ছিন্ন করতাম, যেমন তারা আমাদের থেকে সম্পর্ক ছিন্ন করেছে।’ এভাবে আল্লাহ তাদের কার্যাবলী তদেরকে দেখাবেন, তাদের জন্য আক্ষেপস্বরূপ। আর তারা কখনোই জাহান্নামের আগুন থেকে বের হতে পারবে না।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
tada će sljedbenici njihovi reći: "Da nam je samo da se za trenutak vratimo, pa da se i mi njih odreknemo kao što su se oni nas odrekli!" Eto, tako će Allah njima pokazati pogubnim djela njihova i oni iz Vatre neće izlaziti.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
tada će sljedbenici njihovi reći: "Da nam je samo da se za trenutak vratimo, pa da se i mi njih odreknemo kao što su se oni nas odrekli!" Eto, tako će Allah njima pokazati pogubnim djela njihova i oni iz Vatre neće izlaziti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Jokkunooɓe ɓen (rewnooɓe ɓee) mbi'a: "Hara fehre ruttagol no woodannoo men, men pottitora ɓe wano ɓe pottitori men nii". Ko wano nii Allah Hollirta ɓe golleeji maɓɓe ɗin; hayrere e dow maɓɓe, ɓe ngonaali njaltooɓe e yiite ngen.
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ქართული · Georgian
და იტყვიან ისინი, ვინც მიჰყვებოდნენ: «ნეტავ გვქონოდა (ამ სამყაროში) კიდევ ერთხელ დაბრუნების შესაძლებლობა, მაშინ ჩვენ განვშორდებოდით მათ, როგორც ისინი განგვშორდნენ ჩვენ (აქ, განკითხვის დღეს)!» ასე უჩვენებს მათ ალლაჰი მათ საქმეებს სინანულად და მწუხარებად მათთვის, და ისინი (ვერასდროს) ვერ გამოვლენ ცეცხლიდან.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und diejenigen, die (ihnen) gefolgt sind, sagen: „Hätten wir doch eine (Möglichkeit zur) Rückkehr, dann würden wir uns von ihnen lossagen, so wie sie sich von uns losgesagt haben.“ Auf diese Weise zeigt ihnen Allah ihre Werke, (und dies) als klägliches Bedauern für sie. Und sie werden aus dem (Höllen)feuer nicht herauskommen.
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 αυτοί που ακολούθησαν θα πουν: «Μακάρι να είχαμε ακόμα μια ευκαιρία επιστροφής (στην εγκόσμια ζωή) ώστε να τους απαρνηθούμε όπως μας απαρνούνται τώρα αυτοί.» Έτσι, ο Αλλάχ θα τους δείξει τις πράξεις τους ως τύψεις πάνω τους. Και ποτέ δεν θα βγουν από το Πυρ.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा जिन लोगों ने अनुसरण किया था, कहेंगे : काश! हमारे लिए एक बार पुनः (संसार में) जाना होता, तो हम इनसे वैसे ही बिल्कुल अलग हो जाते, जैसे ये हमसे बिल्कुल अलग हो गए। ऐसे ही अल्लाह उनके कर्मों को उनके लिए अफ़सोस बनाकर दिखाएगा और वे किसी भी तरह आग से निकलने वाले नहीं हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E i seguaci dissero: “In verità, se solo potessimo avere un’altra vita, e rinnegarli come ci hanno rinnegato!” Così Allāh mostrerà loro le azioni che hanno compiuto perché si pentano, ma non usciranno dal Fuoco.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
167. Ir tie, kurie (paklaidinti) sekėjai, sakys: „Jei tik mes turėtume dar vieną galimybę grįžti (į žemiškąjį gyvenimą), mes išsižadėtume (sakytume esantys nekalti dėl) jų, kaip jie išsižadėjo (sakė esantys nekalti dėl) mūsų.“ Taigi Allahas parodys jiems jų darbus kaip apgailestavimą jiems. Ir jie niekada neištrūks iš Ugnies.
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Русский · Russian
И те, которые последовали, скажут: «Если бы нам было позволено вернуться обратно, то мы бы отреклись от них, как они отреклись от нас». Так Аллах покажет им их деяния как скорбь для них, и они никогда не выйдут из адского огня.
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Српски · Serbian
Тада ће следбеници њихови рећи: "Да нам је само да се на тренутак вратимо, па да се и ми њих одрекнемо као што су се они нас одрекли!" Ето, тако ће Аллах њима показати погубним дела њихова и они никада неће из Пакла изаћи.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na watasema wale waliofuata: 'Laiti tungeweza kurudi tukawakataa wao kama wanavyotukataa sisi!' Hivi ndivyo Mwenyezi Mungu atakavyowaonyesha vitendo vyao kuwa majuto yao; wala hawatakuwa wenye kutoka Motoni.[1]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Och efterföljarna säger då: ”Om vi bara kunde återvända [till det jordiska livet] och ta avstånd från dem så som de nu tagit avstånd från oss!” Så visar Gud dem deras handlingar och de fylls av förtvivlan, men de kommer inte att lämna elden.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
(Kötülere) Uyanlar şöyle derler: “Keşke dünyaya bir dönüşümüz olsaydı da onların şimdi bizden uzaklaştıkları gibi, biz de onlardan uzaklaşsaydık.” Böylece Allah, onlara işledikleri fiilleri pişmanlık kaynağı olarak gösterir. Onlar ateşten çıkacak da değillerdir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور تابعدار لوگ کہنے لگیں گے، کاش ہم دنیا کی طرف دوباره جائیں تو ہم بھی ان سے ایسے ہی بیزار ہوجائیں جیسے یہ ہم سے ہیں، اسی طرح اللہ تعالیٰ انہیں ان کے اعمال دکھائے گا ان کو حسرت دﻻنے کو، یہ ہرگز جہنم سے نہ نکلیں گے۔[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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Talal Itani2012 Yet among the people are those who take other than God as equals to Him. They love them as the love of God. But those who believe have greater love for God. If only the wrongdoers would realize, when they see the torment; that all power is God's, and that God is severe in punishment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Yet of mankind are some who take unto themselves (objects of worship which they set as) rivals to Allah, loving them with a love like (that which is the due) of Allah (only) - those who believe are stauncher in their love for Allah - Oh, that those who do evil had but known, (on the day) when they behold the doom, that power belongeth wholly to Allah, and that Allah is severe in punishment
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Yet are there some amongst mankind who take to themselves peers other than God; they love them as they should love God while those who believe love God more. O that those who are unjust could only see, when they see the torment, that power is altogether God's! Verily, God is keen to torment
John Medows Rodwell1861 Yet there are men who take to them idols along with God, and love them with the love of God: But stronger in the faithful is the love of God. Oh! the impious will see, when they see their chastisement, that all power is God's, and that God is severe in chastising
George Sale1734 Yet some men take idols beside God, and love them as with the love due to God; but the true believers are more fervent in love towards God. Oh that they who act unjustly did perceive, when they behold their punishment, that all power belongeth unto God, and that he is severe in punishing
DIN 31635ʾiḏ tabarraʾa llaḏīna tubiʿū mina llaḏīna tabaʿū waraʾawu l-ʿaḏāba wataqaṭṭaʿat bihimu l-ʾasbābu
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Talal Itani2012 Those who were followed will then disown those who followed them, and they will see the retribution, and ties between them will be severed.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 (On the day) when those who were followed disown those who followed (them), and they behold the doom, and all their aims collapse with them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 When those who are followed clear themselves of those who followed them, and see the torment, and the cords are cut asunder
John Medows Rodwell1861 When those who have had followers shall declare themselves clear from their followers after that they have seen the chastisement, and when the ties between them shall be cut asunder
George Sale1734 When those who have been followed, shall separate themselves from their followers, and shall see the punishment, and the cords of relation between them shall be cut in sunder
Talal Itani2012 O people! Eat of what is lawful and good on earth, and do not follow the footsteps of Satan. He is to you an open enemy.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O mankind! Eat of that which is lawful and wholesome in the earth, and follow not the footsteps of the devil. Lo! he is an open enemy for you
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye folk! eat of what is in the earth, things lawful and things good, and follow not the footsteps of Satan, verily, to you he is an open foe
John Medows Rodwell1861 Oh men! eat of that which is lawful and good on the earth, but follow not the steps of Satan, for he is your avowed enemy
George Sale1734 O men, eat of that which is lawful and good on the earth; and tread not in the steps of the devil, for he is your open enemy
Talal Itani2012 He commands you to do evil and vice, and to say about God what you do not know.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He enjoineth upon you only the evil and the foul, and that ye should tell concerning Allah that which ye know not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He does but bid you evil and sin, and that ye should speak against God what ye do not know
John Medows Rodwell1861 He only enjoineth you evil and wickedness, and that ye should aver of God that which ye know not
George Sale1734 Verily he commandeth you evil and wickedness, and that ye should say that of God which ye know not
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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 · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · George Sale0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.58
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.56
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.51
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.39
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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.