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Talal Itani· published 2012
Turning aside in contempt, to lead away from the path of God. He will have humiliation in this world, and on the Day of Resurrection We will make him taste the agony of burning.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Turning away in pride to beguile (men) from the way of Allah. For him in this world is ignominy, and on the Day of Resurrection We make him taste the doom of burning
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
twisting his neck from the way of God; for him is disgrace in this world, and we will make him taste, upon the resurrection day, the torment of burning
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Turning aside in scorn to misleadothers from the way of God! Disgrace shall be his in this world; and on the day of the resurrection, We will make him taste the torment of the burning
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
proudly turning his side, that he may seduce men from the way of God. Ignominy shall attend him in this world; and on the day of resurrection We will make him taste the torment of burning
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
duke kthyer qafën (me mendjemadhësi), për t'i shmangur njerëzit nga rruga e Allahut. Këta do të kenë poshtërim në këtë botë, ndërsa në Ditën e Kiametit do t'i bëjmë të shijojnë dënimin e Zjarrit përcëllues.
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 বিতর্ক করে ঘাড় বাঁকিয়ে, মানুষকে আল্লাহর পথ থেকে ভ্রষ্ট করার উদ্দেশ্যে। দুনিয়াতে তার জন্য রয়েছে, লাঞ্ছনা এবং কিয়ামতের দিন আমি তাকে দহনকারী আগুনের যন্ত্রণা আস্বাদন করাব।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
hodeći nadmeno da bi s Allahova puta odvraćali; njih na ovom svijetu čeka poniženje, a na onom svijetu dat ćemo im da iskuse patnju u ognju.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
hodeći nadmeno da bi s Allahova puta odvraćali; njih na ovom svijetu čeka poniženje, a na onom svijetu dat ćemo im da iskuse patnju u ognju.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Hkfɗo balaaji mu'un [mawnintiniiɗo] fii yo o majjin gah Laawol Alla ngol, no woodani mo ka aduna koyeere Min meeɗinoyay mo kadi Ñande Darngal Lepte cumoowe ngen.
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ქართული · Georgian
იგი ამაყად იბრუნებს გვერდს [სიამაყისა და ქედმაღლობის გამო], რათა აცდუნოს სხვა ადამიანები ალლაჰის გზიდან. მისთვის ამ წუთისოფელში დამცირებაა, ხოლო აღდგომის დღეს ვაგემებთ მას მწველი ცეცხლის სასჯელს.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
indem er (hochmütig) seinen Hals zu Seite wendet, um vom Weg Allahs in die Irre zu führen. Ihm steht im Diesseits Schande zu, und Wir lassen ihn am Tag der Auferstehung die Strafe des Feuerbrandes kosten.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Και γυρίζει τον λαιμό του (με αλαζονεία) για να παραπλανήσει τους ανθρώπους μακριά από τον δρόμο του Αλλάχ. Γι' αυτόν θα υπάρχει η ατίμωση στην εγκόσμια ζωή, και την Ημέρα της Ανάστασης θα τον κάνουμε να γευτεί το μαρτύριο της καύσης της Φωτιάς!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
अपनी गरदन मोड़ने[4] वाला है, ताकि (लोगों को) अल्लाह के मार्ग से भटका दे। उसके लिए दुनिया में अपमान है और क़ियामत के दिन हम उसे जलाने वाली आग की यातना चखाएँगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
altezzoso e arrogante – per sviarsi dal sentiero di Allāh; lui avrà umiliazione in questa vita e gli faremo assaggiare, nel Giorno del Giudizio, la punizione del Fuoco:
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
9. Riečiantis savo kaklą iš pasipūtimo (toli nuklydęs nuo Allaho Kelio) ir klaidinantis (kitus) taip pat (toli) nuo Allaho Kelio. Jam yra gėda šio pasaulio gyvenimo ir Prikėlimo Dieną Mes priversim jį paragauti degimo (Ugnies) kančios.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
надменно отворачиваясь, чтобы сбить с пути Аллаха. В этом мире его ждёт позор, а в День воскресения Мы дадим ему вкусить наказание сжигающего огня.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
ходајући надмено, да би одвраћали од Аллаховог пута, њих на овом свету чека понижење, а на Судњем дану даћемо им да искусе патњу у огњу.
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 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Anayegeuza shingo yake ili kupoteza watu waiache njia ya Mwenyezi Mungu. Duniani atapata hizaya, na Siku ya Kiyama tutamwonjesha adhabu ya kuunguza.
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Svenska · Swedish
I högmod vänder han sig bort [från sanningen] för att leda andra bort från Guds väg. Honom väntar förnedring i detta liv, och på uppståndelsens dag ska vi låta honom känna det brännande straffet.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
İnsanları Allah’ın yolundan saptırmak için büyüklenerek yüz çevirir. Dünyada onun için rüsvalık vardır, kıyamet günü de biz ona yakıcı ateş azabını tattırırız.
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اردو · Urdu
جو اپنی پہلو موڑنے واﻻ بن کر[1] اس لئے کہ اللہ کی راه سے بہکادے، اسے دنیا میں بھی رسوائی ہوگی اور قیامت کے دن بھی ہم اسے جہنم میں جلنے کا عذاب چکھائیں گے.
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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DIN 31635waʾanna s-sāʿata ʾātiyatun lā rayba fīhā waʾanna llāha yabʿaṯu man fī l-qubūri
Talal Itani2012 And because the Hour is coming-there is no doubt about it-and because God will resurrect those in the graves.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And because the Hour will come, there is no doubt thereof; and because Allah will raise those who are in the graves
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and because the Hour is coming, there is no doubt therein, and because God raises up those who are in the tombs
John Medows Rodwell1861 And that "the Hour" will indeed come - there is no doubt of it - and that God will wake up to life those who are in the tombs
George Sale1734 and that the hour of judgment will surely come, (there is no doubt thereof), and that God will raise again those who are in the graves
DIN 31635wamina n-nāsi man yuǧādilu fī llāhi biġayri ʿilmin walā hudan walā kitābin munīrin
Talal Itani2012 And among the people is he who argues about God without knowledge, or guidance, or an enlightening scripture.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And among mankind is he who disputeth concerning Allah without knowledge or guidance or a scripture giving light
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And amongst men is one who wrangles about God without knowledge or guidance or an illuminating book
John Medows Rodwell1861 A man there is who disputeth about God without knowledge or guidance or enlightening Book
George Sale1734 There is a man who disputeth concerning God without either knowledge, or a direction, or an enlightening book
DIN 31635ḏālika bimā qaddamat yadāka waʾanna llāha laysa biẓallāmin lilʿabīdi
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 That is for what your hands have advanced, and because God is not unjust to the servants.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 (And unto him it will be said): This is for that which thy two hands have sent before, and because Allah is no oppressor of His slaves
Edward Henry Palmer1880 That is for what thy hands have done before, and for that God is not unjust unto His servants
John Medows Rodwell1861 This, for thy handywork of old! for God is not unjust to His servants
George Sale1734 when it shall be said unto him, this thou sufferest because of that which thy hands have formerly committed; for God is not unjust towards mankind
DIN 31635wamina n-nāsi man yaʿbudu llāha ʿalā ḥarfin faʾin ʾaṣābahu ḫayrun ṭmaʾanna bihi waʾin ʾaṣābathu fitnatun nqalaba ʿalā waǧhihi ḫasira d-dunyā wal-ʾāḫirata ḏālika huwa l-ḫusrānu l-mubīnu
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 And among the people is he who worships God on edge. When something good comes his way, he is content with it. But when an ordeal strikes him, he makes a turnaround. He loses this world and the next. That is the obvious loss.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And among mankind is he who worshippeth Allah upon a narrow marge so that if good befalleth him he is content therewith, but if a trial befalleth him, he falleth away utterly. He loseth both the world and the Hereafter. That is the sheer loss
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And amongst men is one who serves God (wavering) on a brink; and if there befall him good, he is comforted; but if there befall him a trial, he turns round again, and loses this world and the next - that is an obvious loss
John Medows Rodwell1861 There are some who serve God in a single point. If good come upon one of them, he resteth in it; but if trial come upon him, he turneth him round (to infidelity) with the loss both of this world and of the next! This same is the clear ruin
George Sale1734 There are some men who serve God in a wavering manner, standing, as it were, on the verge of the true religion. If good befall one of them, he resteth satisfied therein; but if any tribulation befall him, he turneth himself round, with the loss both of this world, and of the life to come. This is manifest perdition
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
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Talal Itani · George Sale0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.51
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.51
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.51
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.49
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.46
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.42
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.