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Talal Itani· published 2012
He said, "Son of my mother, do not seize me by my beard or my head. I feared you would say, `You have caused division among the Children of Israel, and did not regard my word.'"
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
He said: O son of my mother! Clutch not my beard nor my head! I feared lest thou shouldst say: Thou hast caused division among the Children of Israel, and hast not waited for my word
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
Said he, 'O son of my mother! seize me not by my beard, or my head! Verily, I feared lest thou shouldst say, "Thou hast made a division amongst the children of Israel, and hast not observed my word
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
He said, "O Son of my mother! seize me not by my beard, nor by my head: indeed I feared lest thou shouldst say, Thou hast rent the children of Isrealasunder, and hast not observed my orders
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Aaronanswered, O son of my mother, drag me not by my beard, nor by the hair of my head. Verily I feared lest thou shouldest say, thou hast made a division among the children of Israel, and thou hast not observed my saying
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
Haruni tha: "O biri i nënës sime, mos më kap për mjekre, as për koke! Kisha frikë se do të thoshe: "Ke shkaktuar përçarje mes bijve të Israilit dhe nuk e ke përfillur porosinë time."
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
সে (হারূন) বললো: ‘হে আমার সহোদর! আমার দাড়িও ধরো না, মাথার চুলও ধরো না। আমি আশঙ্কা করেছিলাম যে, তুমি বলবে, তুমি বানূ ইসরাঈলের মধ্যে বিভেদ সৃষ্টি করেছো এবং আমার কথা রক্ষা করোনি।’(১৮)
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
“O sine majke moje”, reče Harun, “ne hvataj me za bradu i za kosu moju! Ja sam se plašio da ti ne rekneš: ‘Razdor si među sinovima Israilovim posijao i nisi postupio onako kako sam ti rekao.’ ”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
“O sine majke moje,” reče Aron, “ne hvataj me za bradu i za kosu moju! Ja sam se plašio da ti ne rekneš: ‘Razdor si među sinovima Izraelovim posijao i nisi postupio onako kako sam ti rekao.’”
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Fulfulde · Fulani
[Haaruuna] maaki: "eeyma ɓiy neene am, wota a nanngu wahre am nde wonaa hoore am nden kadi, miin dey, mi hulu wata a wi'i: Mi seerdii hakkunde ɓiɗɓe Israa'iila ɓe, mi heɗaaki konngol maaɗa ngol".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
(ჰარუნმა) უთხრა (მუსას, რომელმაც მარჯვენა ხელით თმებში ჩაავლო, ხოლო მარცხენათი — წვერში): «ო, დედაჩემის შვილო! ნუ ჩამავლებ ხელს წვერში და ნუ მომქაჩავ თავს. მე მეშინოდა, რომ შენ მეტყოდი: "შენ განხეთქილება ჩამოაგდე ისრაელის შთამომავლებს შორის და არ დაიცავი ჩემი დანაბარები"».
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Deutsch · German
Er (also Harun) sagte: „O Sohn meiner Mutter, pack mich nicht am Bart und nicht am Kopf. Ich fürchtete ja, du würdest sagen: ,Du hast unter den Kindern Israils Zwietracht gestiftet und mein Wort nicht beachtet.‘“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
(Ο Ααρών) είπε: «Ω, γιε της μητέρας μου! (Παρακαλώ) μη τραβάς τα γένιά μου, ούτε το κεφάλι μου! Φοβόμουν (αν τους άφηνα και ερχόμουν σε σένα) ότι θα έλεγες: «Άφησες τα παιδιά του Ισραήλ να διαιρεθούν, και δε διατήρησες τα λόγια μου!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
उसने कहा : ऐ मेरी माँ के बेटे! न मेरी दाढ़ी पकड़ और न मेरा सिर। मैं तो इससे डरा कि तू कहेगा : तूने बनी इसराईल में फूट डाल दी और मेरी बात की प्रतीक्षा नहीं की।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Disse: „O figlio di mia madre! Non prendermi per la barba, né per i capelli: in verità temevo che tu dicessi: ‘Hai diviso i figli d’Israīl e non hai aspettato le mie direttive’».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
94. Jis [Harūnas (Aronas)] tarė: „Mano motinos sūnau, nepričiupk (manęs) nei už mano barzdos, nei mano galvos! Iš tiesų, aš baiminausi, kad tu nesakytum: „Tu sukėlei skilimą tarp Israelio (Izraelio) vaikų ir negerbei mano žodžio!
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
(Haaruunis) nijedhe “Yaa ilma aayyoo tiyyaa! Areeda kiyyas ta’ee mataa kiyya na hin qabin, ‘Ati gidduu ilmaan Israa’iil addaan baafte; jecha kiyyas hin eegdu (naan) jettaan sodaadhe”.[13]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Он сказал: «О сын моей матери! Не хватай меня за бороду и не хватай за голову. Воистину, я боялся, что ты скажешь: “Ты разобщил сынов Исраила и не соблюл моего слова”».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
„Брате мој“, рече Арон, „не хватај ме за браду и за косу! Ја сам се плашио да не кажеш: 'Раздор си међу Изриљевим синовима посејао и ниси поступио онако како сам ти рекао.'“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Akasema: Ewe mwana wa mama yangu! Usinishike ndevu zangu, wala kichwa changu. Kwa hakika naliogopa usijesema: Umewatenganisha Wana wa Israili, na hukungojea kauli yangu.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Han svarade: ”Min moders son! Dra inte i mitt skägg eller hår! Jag var rädd att du skulle säga att jag har splittrat israeliterna och inte följt dina instruktioner.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Dedi ki: “Anamın oğlu! Sakalıma, başıma yapışma. Ben, bana: İsrailoğulları arasında tefrika çıkardın ve benim sözüme (neden) uymadın, diyeceğinden korktum.”
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اردو · Urdu
ہارون (علیہ السلام) نے کہا اے میرے ماں جائے بھائی! میری داڑھی نہ پکڑ اور سر کے بال نہ کھینچ، مجھے تو صرف یہ خیال دامن گیر ہوا کہ کہیں آپ یہ (نہ) فرمائیں[1] کہ تو نے بنی اسرائیل میں تفرقہ ڈال دیا اور میری بات کا انتظار نہ کیا.[2]
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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Easy-read (simplified)qaala basurtu bimaa lam yabsuroo bihi faqabadtu qabdatan min athari r-rasooli fanabadhtuhaa wakadhaalika sawwalat lee nafsee
DIN 31635qāla baṣurtu bimā lam yabṣurū bihi faqabaḍtu qabḍatan min ʾaṯari r-rasūli fanabaḏtuhā wakaḏālika sawwalat lī nafsī
Talal Itani2012 He said, "I saw what they did not see, so I grasped a handful from the Messenger's traces, and I flung it away. Thus my soul prompted me."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He said: I perceived what they perceive not, so I seized a handful from the footsteps of the messenger, and then threw it in. Thus my soul commended to me
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Said he, 'I beheld what they beheld not, and I grasped a handful from the footprint of the messenger and cast it; for thus my soul induced me
John Medows Rodwell1861 He said, "I saw what they saw not: so I took a handful of dust from the track of the messenger of God, and flung it into the calf, for so my soul prompted me
George Sale1734 He answered, I saw that which they saw not; wherefore I took a handful of dust from the footsteps of the messenger of God, and I cast it into the molten calf; for so did my mind direct me
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.48 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 · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.58
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.50
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.49
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.46
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.45
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.44
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.41
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.41
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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.