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Talal Itani· published 2012
In order to make Satan'ssuggestions a trial for those whose hearts are diseased, and those whose hearts are hardened. The wrongdoers are in profounddiscord.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
That He may make that which the devilproposeth a temptation for those in whose hearts is a disease, and those whose hearts are hardened - Lo! the evil-doers are in open schism
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
to make what Satan throws a trial unto those in whose hearts is sickness, and those whose hearts are hard; and, verily, the wrong - doers are in a wide schism
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
That He may make that which Satan hath injected, a trial to those in whose hearts is a disease, and whose hearts are hardened. - Verily, the wicked are in a far-goneseverance from the truth
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But this He permitteth, that He may make that which Satan hath suggested, a temptation unto those in whose hearts there is an infirmity, and whose hearts are hardened: -- for the ungodly are certainly in a wide disagreement from the truth
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
(Allahu lejon një gjë të tillë) që Ai ta bëjë atë (pështjellim) që hedh shejtani sprovë për ata që kanë sëmundje në zemrat e tyre dhe për ata, zemrat e të cilëve janë të ngurtësuara. Me të vërtetë, keqbërësit janë në kundërshtim të thellë.
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বাংলা · Bengali
এটা এজন্য যে, শয়তান (নবীর পড়ার মধ্যে) যা নিক্ষেপ করে, তা যাতে তিনি তাদের জন্য পরীক্ষার বস্তু বানিয়ে দেন, যাদের অন্তরসমূহে ব্যাধি রয়েছে এবং যাদের হৃদয়সমূহ পাষাণ। আর নিশ্চয় যালিমরা অনেক মতভেদে লিপ্ত রয়েছে।(২৩)
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Bosanski · Bosnian
To je zato da ono što šejtan ubaci učini iskušenjem za one u čijim srcima je bolest i za one čija su srca okrutna – a nepravedni su, zaista, u rascjepu i na stranputici dalekoj,
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Hrvatski · Croatian
To je zato da ono što sotona ubaci učini iskušenjem za one u čijim srcima je bolest i za one čija su srca okrutna – a nepravedni su, zaista, u rascjepu i na stranputici dalekoj,
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Fii yo o waɗuko Seytaane wernotoo ko njarraboye wonan'de ɓeen ɓe nawnaare woni ka ɓerɗe mu'uen ɓe ɓerɗe mu'uen njo'ori ɓen. Pellet, tooñooɓe ɓen ɓe wonii e luural goɗɗungal.
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ქართული · Georgian
(ეს კი სატანისგან დამოუკიდებლად არ ხდება, არამედ ალლაჰი ამის ნებას რთავს), რათა ის, რასაც სატანა აგდებს [ჩაგონებებსა და ეჭვებს], გამოცდად აქციოს მათთვის, რომელთა გულებშიც სნეულებაა [ეჭვი და თვალთმაქცობა], და მათთვისაც, რომელთა გულები გამქვავებულია. და ჭეშმარიტად, უსამართლოები უეჭველად შორსმყოფ განხეთქილებაში არიან (ჭეშმარიტებისგან).
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Deutsch · German
(Das ist so,) damit Er das, was der Satan dazwischenwirft, zu einer Versuchung für diejenigen macht, in deren Herzen Krankheit ist und deren Herzen verhärtet sind. Und die Ungerechten befinden sich fürwahr in tiefem Widerstreit.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Για να κάνει (ο Αλλάχ) αυτά που έριξε ο Σατανάς (από ψιθύρους και παρανοήσεις) ως δοκιμασία γι' εκείνους (τους υποκριτές) που έχουν στις καρδιές τους την αρρώστια (της υποκρισίας), και γι' εκείνους (τους άπιστους) των οποίων οι καρδιές είναι σκληρές. Πράγματι, οι άδικοι βρίσκονται σε ακραία εναντίωση (προς τον Αλλάχ και τους Αγγελιαφόρους Του), μακριά από την αλήθεια.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
ताकि वह (अल्लाह) शैतान के डाले हुए संशय को उनके लिए परीक्षण बना दे, जिनके दिलों में रोग है और जिनके दिल कठोर हैं। और निःसंदेह अत्याचारी लोग विरोध में बहुत दूर चले गए हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
per fare, di ciò che Satana sussurra, una tentazione per quelli che hanno in cuore una malattia, e per quelli che hanno un cuore duro – e in verità gli ingiusti sono in un’eterna discordia –
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
53. Kad Jis (Allahas) padaro tai, kas yra Šaitan (Šėtono) įmetama, išbandymu tiems, kurių širdyse liga (veidmainystės ir netikėjimo) ir kurių širdys kietos. Ir be abejonės, Zalimūn (daugiadieviai ir bloga darantys) yra nutolę priešininkai (nuo tiesos prieš Allaho Pasiuntinį ir tikinčiuosius).
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Русский · Russian
[Это для того], чтобы сделать подброшенное шайтаном искушением для тех, чьи сердца поражены недугом и чьи сердца ожесточены. Воистину, несправедливые — в глубоком расколе.
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Српски · Serbian
Да би оно што је Сотона убацио учинио искушењем за оне у чијим срцима је болест и за оне чија су срца окорела. А заиста су неверници у бескрајној неслози.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Hayo ni ili alifanye lile analolitia Shetani liwe ni majaribu kwa wale wenye maradhi ndani ya nyoyo zao, na wale ambao nyoyo zao ni ngumu. Na hakika madhalimu wako katika upinzani wa mbali.
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Svenska · Swedish
Detta fick ske för att Satans försök till förvrängning skulle bli en prövning för dem med sjuka hjärtan och för de hårdhjärtade. Ja, de orättfärdiga är djupt försjunkna i sin förvillelse.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Allah, Şeytan'ın attığı o vesveseyi kalplerinde hastalık bulunan ve kalpleri kaskatı olan kimseler için bir fitne kılmıştır. Muhakkak zalimler uzak bir ayrılık içindedirler.
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اردو · Urdu
یہ اس لئے کہ شیطانی ملاوٹ کو اللہ تعالیٰ ان لوگوں کی آزمائش کا ذریعہ بنا دے جن کے دلوں میں بیماری ہے اور جن کے دل سخت ہیں[1] ۔ بیشک ﻇالم لوگ گہری مخالفت میں ہیں.
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Easy-read (simplified)wamaa arsalnaa min qablika min rasoolin walaa nabiyyin illaa idhaa tamannaa alqaa sh-shaytaanu fee umniyyatihi fayansakhu llaahu maa yulqee sh-shaytaanu thumma yuhkimu llaahu aayaatihi wallaahu 'aleemun hakeem
DIN 31635wamā ʾarsalnā min qablika min rasūlin walā nabiyyin ʾillā ʾiḏā tamannā ʾalqā š-šayṭānu fī ʾumniyyatihi fayansaḫu llāhu mā yulqī š-šayṭānu ṯumma yuḥkimu llāhu ʾāyātihi wallāhu ʿalīmun ḥakīmun
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 We never sent a messenger before you, or a prophet, but when he had a desire Satan interfered in his wishes. But God nullifies what Satan interjects, and God affirms His revelations. God is Omniscient and Wise.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Never sent We a messenger or a prophet before thee but when He recited (the message) Satan proposed (opposition) in respect of that which he recited thereof. But Allah abolisheth that which Satan proposeth. Then Allah establisheth His revelations. Allah is Knower, Wise
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We have not sent before thee any apostle or prophet, but that when he wished, Satan threw not something into his wish; but God annuls what Satan throws; then does God confirm his signs, and God is knowing, wise
John Medows Rodwell1861 We have not sent any apostle or prophet before thee, among whose desires Satan injected not some wrong desire, but God shall bring to nought that which Satan had suggested. Thus shall God affirm His revelations for God is Knowing, Wise
George Sale1734 We have sent no apostle, or prophet, before thee, but, when he read, Satan suggested some error in his reading. But God shall make void that which Satan hath suggested: Then shall God confirm his signs; for God is knowing and wise
Talal Itani2012 And so that those endowed with knowledge may know that it is the truth from your Lord, and so believe in it, and their hearts soften to it. God guides those who believe to a straight path.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And that those who have been given knowledge may know that it is the truth from thy Lord, so that they may believe therein and their hearts may submit humbly unto Him. Lo! Allah verily is guiding those who believe unto a right path
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and that those who have been given 'the knowledge' may know that it is the truth from thy Lord, and may believe therein, and that their hearts may be lowly; for, verily, God surely will guide those who believe into a right way
John Medows Rodwell1861 And that they to whom "the Knowledge" hath been given, may know that the Koran is the truth from thy Lord, and may believe in it, and their hearts may acquiesce in it: for God is surely the guider of those who believe, into the straight path
George Sale1734 And that they on whom knowledge hath been bestowed, may know that this book is the truth from thy Lord, and may believe therein; and that their hearts may acquiesce in the same: For God is surely the director of those who believe, into the right way
Talal Itani2012 Those who disbelieve will continue to be hesitant about it, until the Hour comes upon them suddenly, or there comes to them the torment of a desolate Day.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And those who disbelieve will not cease to be in doubt thereof until the Hour come upon them unawares, or there come unto them the doom of a disastrous day
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But those who misbelieve will not cease to be in doubt thereof until the Hour comes on them suddenly, or there comes on them the torment of the barren day
John Medows Rodwell1861 But the Infidels will not cease to doubt concerning it, until "the Hour" come suddenly upon them, or until the chastisement of the day of desolation come upon them
George Sale1734 But the infidels will not cease to doubt concerning it, until the hour of judgment cometh suddenly upon them; or until the punishment of a grievous day overtake them
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.74
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.70
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.55
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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.