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Talal Itani· published 2012
So woe to those who write the Scripture with their own hands, and then say, "This is from God," that they may exchange it for a little price. Woe to them for what their hands have written, and woe to them for what they earn.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Therefore woe be unto those who write the Scripture with their hands and then say, "This is from Allah," that they may purchase a small gain therewith. Woe unto them for that their hands have written, and woe unto them for that they earn thereby
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
But woe to those who write out the Book with their hands and say 'this is from God;' to buy therewith a little price! and woe to them for what their hands have written, and woe to them for what they gain
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Woe to those who with their own hands transcribe the Book corruptly, and then say, "This is from God," that they may sell it for some mean price! Woe then to them for that which their hands have written! and, Woe to them for the gains which they have made
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And woe unto them who transcribe corruptly the book of the law with their hands, and then say, this is from God: That they may sell it for a small price. Therefore woe unto them because of that which their hands have written; and woe unto them for that which they have gained
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
Mjerë ata që e shkruajnë Librin me duart e tyre (duke e shtrembëruar atë) e pastaj thonë: "Kjo është prej Allahut", për të nxjerrë me këtë ndonjë fitim të parëndësishëm. Mjerë ata për atë që kanë shkruar duart e tyre dhe mjerë ata për atë që kanë fituar!
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.
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বাংলা · Bengali
কাজেই ধ্বংস-দুর্ভোগ তাদের জন্য যারা নিজ হাতে কিতাব রচনা করে, অতঃপর তুচ্ছ মূল্য পাওয়ার জন্য বলে: ‘এটা আল্লাহর কাছ থেকে (অবতীর্ণ হওয়া)।’ অতএব, তাদের হাত যা রচনা করেছে তার জন্য তাদের ধ্বংস-দুর্ভোগ এবং যা তারা উপার্জন করেছে তার কারণেও তাদের জন্য ধ্বংস-দুর্ভোগ।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
A teško onima koji svojim rukama pišu knjigu, a zatim govore: "Ovo je od Allaha", da bi to za malu vrijednost prodali. I teško njima zbog onoga što ruke njihove pišu, i teško njima što na taj način zarađuju!
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
A teško onima koji svojim rukama pišu knjigu, a zatim govore: "Ovo je od Allaha", da bi za to korist neznatnu izvukli. I teško njima zbog onoga što ruke njihove pišu, i teško njima što na taj način zarađuju!
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
Fulfulde · Fulani
Bone woodanii ɓeen winndirooɓe deftere nde juuɗe maɓɓe eɓe mbi'a ɗum ko to Alla iwri haa ɓe coodira nde coodgu hoyngu, yoo bone wonan ɓe he ko juuɗe maɓɓe mbinndi e kala ko ɓe paggitii heen.
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ქართული · Georgian
ვაი, მათ [მკაცრი სასჯელი] ვინც წერილს [თორას] საკუთარი ხელებით წერენ [ამახინჯებენ მას], შემდეგ კი ამბობენ: «ეს ალლაჰისგან არის ჩამოსული», რათა ამით მცირე ფასად გაყიდონ იგი. ვაი, მათ იმის გამო, რაც მათმა ხელებმა დაწერეს,
და ვაი, მათ იმის გამო, რასაც ისინი იძენენ!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
So wehe denjenigen, die die Schrift mit ihren (eigenen) Händen schreiben und dann sagen: „Das ist von Allah“, um sie für einen geringen Preis zu verkaufen! So wehe ihnen wegen dessen, was ihre Hände geschrieben haben, und wehe ihnen wegen dessen, was sie (an Verdienst) erlangen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αλίμονο (καταστροφή και επώδυνο μαρτύριο) σ' αυτούς που γράφουν το βιβλίο με τα δικά τους χέρια και έπειτα λένε: «Αυτό είναι από τον Αλλάχ (ισχυριζόμενοι ότι είναι η αυθεντική Τορά).», για να λάβουν ως αντάλλαγμα γι' αυτό πενιχρό τίμημα! Αλίμονο σ' αυτούς για ό,τι έγραψαν τα χέρια τους και αλίμονο σ' αυτούς για ό,τι κερδίζουν απ' αυτό.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तो उन लोगों के लिए[37] बड़ा विनाश है, जो अपने हाथों से पुस्तक लिखते हैं, फिर कहते हैं कि यह अल्लाह की ओर से है, ताकि उसके द्वारा थोड़ा मूल्य हासिल करें! तो उनके लिए बड़ा विनाश उसके कारण है, जो उनके हाथों ने लिखा और उनके लिए बड़ा विनाश उसके कारण है जो वे कमाते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Guai a quelli che scrivono il Libro con la propria mano e dicono: «Questo viene da Allāh», per trarne qualche piccolo guadagno! Guai a questi per quello che le loro mani hanno scritto! E guai a loro per quello che hanno guadagnato!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
79. Tada vargas tiems, kurie rašo Knygą savo pačių rankomis ir tada sako: „Tai – iš Allaho.“, kad gautų už tai mažą kainą! Vargas jiems dėl to, ką jų rankos parašė, ir vargas jiems dėl to, ką jie už tai įgyja.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Так горе же тем, кто пишет Писание своими руками, а затем говорит: «Это от Аллаха» — чтобы приобрести за это ничтожную цену. Так горе же им за то, что написали их руки, и горе им за то, что они приобретают!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
А тешко онима који својим рукама пишу књигу, а затим говоре: „Ово је од Аллаха“, да би за то извукли ништавну корист. И тешко њима због онога што њихове руке пишу, и тешко њима што на тај начин зарађују!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi ole wao wanaoandika kitabu kwa mikono yao, kisha wakasema: 'Hiki kimetoka kwa Mwenyezi Mungu', ili wanunue kwacho thamani ndogo. Basi ole wao kwa yale iliyoyaandika mikono yao, na ole wao kwa yale wanayoyachuma.
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Svenska · Swedish
Ett hårt straff väntar de som författar skriften på egen hand och sedan säger: ”Det här är från Gud”, för att tjäna en liten summa pengar på det. Ett hårt straff väntar dem för det deras händer skrivit, och ett hårt straff väntar dem för vad de tjänar ihop!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Kitabı kendi elleriyle yazıp sonra onu az bir bedel karşılığında satabilmek için: «Bu, Allah katındandır» diyenlerin vay haline! Vay ellerinin yazmış olduğundan dolayı başlarına geleceklere! Kazandıklarından dolayı vay onların haline!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
ان لوگوں کے لئے “ویل” ہے جو اپنے ہاتھوں کی لکھی ہوئی کتاب کو اللہ تعالیٰ کی طرف کی کہتے ہیں اور اس طرح دنیا کماتے ہیں، ان کے ہاتھوں کی لکھائی کو اور ان کی کمائی کو ویل (ہلاکت) اور افسوس 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 And they say, "The Fire will not touch us except for a number of days." Say, "Have you received a promise from God-God never breaks His promise-or are you saying about God what you do not know?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And they say: The Fire (of punishment) will not touch us save for a certain number of days. Say: Have ye received a covenant from Allah - truly Allah will not break His covenant - or tell ye concerning Allah that which ye know not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And then they say, 'Hell fire shall not touch us save for a number of days.' Say, 'Have ye taken a covenant with God?' but God breaks not His covenant. Or do ye say of God that which ye do not know
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they say, "Hell fire shall not touch us, but for a few days: "SAY: Have ye received such a promise from God? for God will not revoke his promise: or, Speak ye of God that which ye know not
George Sale1734 They say, the fire of hell shall not touch us but for a certain number of days. Answer, have ye received any promise from God to that purpose? For God will not act contrary to his promise: Or do ye speak concerning God that which ye know not
Easy-read (simplified)balaa man kasaba sayyi'atan wa'ahaatat bihi khatee'atuhu fa'oolaa'ika ashaabu n-naari hum feehaa khaalidoon
DIN 31635balā man kasaba sayyiʾatan waʾaḥāṭat bihi ḫaṭīʾatuhu faʾūlāʾika ʾaṣḥābu n-nāri hum fīhā ḫālidūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Indeed, whoever commits misdeeds, and becomes besieged by his iniquities-these are the inmates of the Fire, wherein they will dwell forever.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Nay, but whosoever hath done evil and his sin surroundeth him; such are rightful owners of the Fire; they will abide therein
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Yea! whoso gains an evil gain, and is encompassed by his sins, those are the fellows of the Fire, and they shall dwell therein for aye
John Medows Rodwell1861 But they whose only gains are evil works, and who are environed by their sins, - they shall be inmates of the fire, therein to abide for ever
George Sale1734 Verily who so doth evil, and is encompassed by his iniquity, they shall be the companions of hell fire, they shall remain therein for ever
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 —
0.49 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
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.55
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.49
Talal Itani · George Sale0.49
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.44
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.43
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.40
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.36
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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.