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Talal Itani· published 2012
Even if We had mercy on them, and relieved their problems, they would still blindly persist in their defiance.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Though We had mercy on them and relieved them of the harmafflicting them, they still would wander blindly on in their contumacy
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 if we had mercy on them, and removed the distress they have, they would persist in their rebellion, blindly wandering on
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
If we had had compassion on them, and had taken off from them the calamity which had befallen them, they would surely have more obstinately persisted in their error, wandering in confusion
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
Edhe sikur t'i mëshironim e t'ua hiqnim fatkeqësinë, ata do të vazhdonin të bridhnin verbërisht në humbjen e tyre.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর যদি আমি তাদের প্রতি দয়া করতাম এবং তাদের ওপর আপতিত কষ্ট দূর করে দিতাম, তবুও তারা নিজেদের অবাধ্যতায় বিভ্রান্ত হয়ে অন্ধের মতো ঘুরে বেড়াত।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I kad bismo im se smilovali i nevolje ih oslobodili, opet bi oni u zabludi svojoj jednako lutali.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I kad bismo im se smilovali i nevolje ih oslobodili, opet bi oni u zabludi svojoj jednako lutali.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Sinndo Min Yurmino ɓe, Min hunci ko heɓi ɓe kon immorde e lorra, ɓe duumotono e ndeer bewre maɓɓe heɓe wemmboo.
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ქართული · Georgian
ხოლო ჩვენ რომც წყალობა მოგვეღო მთზე [მექქელ მრავალღმერთიანებზე] და გაგვეთავისუფლებინა იმ უბედურებისგან, რომელიც მათ დაატყდათ თავს [მათზე მოვლენილი მრავალწლიანი შიმშილისგან], ისინი მაინც თავიანთ ურჩობაში [ურწმუნოებაში] დარჩებოდნენ და ბრმად იხეტიალებდნენ თავიანთ უსაზღვრო გადაცდომაში.
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Deutsch · German
Und wenn Wir Uns ihrer erbarmten und das Unheil, das auf ihnen ist, hinwegnähmen, würden sie fürwahr in ihrer Auflehnung verharren und umherirren.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Και αν τους δείχναμε έλεος και αφαιρούσαμε τις κακουχίες (που τους έπληξαν), θα παρέμεναν στην παράβαση (και στην απιστία) τους με σύγχυση (αντί να γίνουν ευγνώμονες)!
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हिन्दी · Hindi
और यदि हम उनपर दया करें और जिस कष्ट[19] से वे पीड़ित हैं, उसे दूर कर दें, तो भी वे निश्चय अपनी सरकशी में दृढ़ता से बने रहेंगे इस हाल में कि भटक रहे होंगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E se fossimo stati misericordiosi con loro, e li avessimo liberati dal male che li affliggeva, avrebbero continuato di certo a dibattersi, persi nella loro superbia.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
75. Ir nors Mes turėtume jiems gailestingumą ir panaikintume nelaimes, ištikusias juos, vis tiek jie atkakliai liktų savo nusidėjime, aklai klaidžiodami.
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Русский · Russian
Даже если бы Мы смиловались над ними и отвели от них постигшее их бедствие, они продолжили бы упорствовать в своём беззаконии, в котором они блуждают вслепую.
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Српски · Serbian
И кад бисмо им се смиловали и отклонили од њих невољу у којој се налазе, опет би они, сигурно, наставили да у својој заблуди лутају.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na lau tungeliwarehemu na tukawaondolea shida waliyo nayo, bila ya shaka wangeliendelea katika upotovu wao, vile vile wakitangatanga.
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Svenska · Swedish
Om vi visade dem nåd genom att ta bort deras plågor skulle de envist ha fortsatt i sitt uppror och famlat omkring i förvirring.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Eğer onlara rahmet edip, başlarındaki sıkıntıyı gidermiş olsaydık bile yine de onlar; azgınlıkları içinde bocalayıp dururlardı.
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اردو · Urdu
اور اگر ہم ان پر رحم فرمائیں اور ان کی تکلیفیں دور کردیں تو یہ تو اپنی اپنی سرکشی میں جم کر اور بہکنے لگیں.[1]
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DIN 31635walaqad ʾaḫaḏnāhum bil-ʿaḏābi famā stakānū lirabbihim wamā yataḍarraʿūna
Talal Itani2012 We have already gripped them with suffering, but they did not surrender to their Lord, nor did they humble themselves.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Already have We grasped them with punishment, but they humble not themselves unto their Lord, nor do they pray
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And we caught them with the torment, but they did not abase themselves before their Lord, nor did they humble themselves
John Medows Rodwell1861 We formerly laid hold on them with chastisement, yet they did not humble them to their Lord, nor did they abase them
George Sale1734 We formerly chastised them with a punishment: Yet they did not humble themselves before their Lord, neither did they make supplications unto Him
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 —
0.59 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.72
Talal Itani · George Sale0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.52
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.48
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.48
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
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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.