Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.
Those who perpetrated the slander are a band of you. Do not consider it bad for you, but it is good for you. Each person among them bears his share in the sin. As for him who played the majorrole-for him is a terrible punishment.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Lo! they who spread the slander are a gang among you. Deem it not a bad thing for you; nay, it is good for you. Unto every man of them (will be paid) that which he hath earned of the sin; and as for him among them who had the greater share therein, his will be an awfuldoom
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
Verily, those who bringforward the lie, a band of you,- reckon it not as an evil for you, nay, it is good for you; every man of them shall have what he has earned of sin; and he of them who managed to aggravate it, for him is mightywoe
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Of a truth, they who advanced that lie were a largenumber of you; but regard it not as an evil to you. No, it is an advantage to you. To every man among them shall it be done according to the offence he hath committed; and as to that person among them who took on himself to aggravate it, a sore punishment doth await him
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
As to the party among you who have published the falsehoodconcerningAyesha, think it not to be an evil unto you: On the contrary, it is better for you. Every man of them shall be punished according to the injustice of which he hath been guilty; and he among them who hath undertaken to aggravate the same, shall suffer a grievous punishment
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
Në të vërtetë, ata që trilluan shpifjen janë një grup prej jush. Mos e mendoni si të keqe për ju! Përkundrazi, ajo është në të mirën tuaj. Çdonjëri prej tyre do të marrë dënimin për gjynahun që ka bërë, por ai që i priu kësaj (shpifjeje) do të ketë një dënim të madh.
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বাংলা · Bengali
নিশ্চয় যারা (আয়িশা রা. এর ব্যাপারে অশ্লীল কাজের) অপবাদ রটনা করেছে, তারা তোমাদেরই একটি দল। এটাকে তোমরা তোমাদের জন্য অকল্যাণকর মনে করো না; বরং এটা তোমাদের জন্য কল্যাণকর। (৪) (অপবাদে অংশীদারি) তাদের প্রত্যেকের জন্য রয়েছে, তাদের পাপকাজের অনুরূপ শাস্তি। আর তাদের থেকে যে ব্যক্তি(৫) এ ব্যাপারে প্রধান ভূমিকা পালন করেছে, তার জন্য রয়েছে মহা আযাব।
Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Dawah Association in Rabwah, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Među vama je bilo onih koji su iznosili potvoru. Vi ne smatrajte to nekim zlom po vas. Ne, to je dobro po vas. Svaki od njih bit će kažnjen prema grijehu koji je zaslužio, a onog od njih koji je to najviše činio čeka patnja velika.
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
Među vama je bilo onih koji su iznosili potvoru. Vi ne smatrajte to nekim zlom po vas. Ne, to je dobro po vas. Svaki od njih bit će kažnjen prema grijehu koji je zaslužio, a onog od njih koji je to najviše činio čeka patnja velika.
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.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Pellet, ɓeen adduɓe penaale ɗen ko ɓe jamaa jeyaaɗo e mooɗon, wota on cikku ɗum ko bone mo'on; ko woni ɗum ko moƴƴere mo'on. No woodani kala neɗɗo immorde e maɓɓe ko o faggitii kon e bakkaat, on fawtiiɗo [bakkaat on] immorde e maɓɓe, no woodani mo Lepte mawɗe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ჭეშმარიტად, ისინი, ვინც ეს შეთხზული ცილისწამება მოიტანეს [რომ თითქოს აიშამ, მოციქულის ცოლმა, მრუშობა ჩაიდინა], თქვენგან (ო, მორწმუნენო) წარმოშობილი ჯგუფია. ნუ ჩათვლით ამას [მათ ცილისწამებას] თქვენთვის ბოროტებად; პირიქით, ეს თქვენთვის სიკეთეა [რადგან ამ ამბავს კეთილი დასასრული ექნება და მორწმუნეები ამ განსაცდელში მოთმინებისთვის დიდ საზღაურს მიიღებენ]. თითოეულ მათგანს [იმათგან, ვინც ეს ცილისწამება გაავრცელა] იმ ცოდვის წილი ერგება, რაც მოიხვეჭა. ხოლო იმას, ვინც ამ საქმეში უდიდესი წილი იტვირთა [მთავარი თვალთმაქცი [1]], დიდი სასჯელი ელის (მარადიულ ცხოვრებაში).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Wahrlich, diejenigen, die die ungeheuerliche Lüge vorgebracht haben, sind eine (gewisse) Schar von euch. Meint nicht, es sei schlecht für euch; nein! Vielmehr ist es gut für euch. Jedem von ihnen wird zuteil, was er an Sünde erworben hat. Und für denjenigen unter ihnen, der den Hauptanteil daran auf sich genommen hat, wird es eine gewaltige Strafe geben.
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 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Πράγματι, αυτοί που έφεραν το ψέμα [ενάντια της συζύγου του Προφήτη, της μητέρας των πιστών, Αΐσα, που χάθηκε από το στρατό, και τη βρήκε ο Σαφουάν μπιν Αλ-Μουάταλ, -που τον έβαλε ο Προφήτης πίσω από τον στρατό να βρει τα χαμένα αντικείμενα-. Και ο οποίος της έδωσε την καμήλα του καθώς αυτός περπατούσε οδηγώντας την καμήλα, μέχρι τη Μαντίνα, χωρίς να της μιλήσει, ούτε μία λέξη], είναι μία ομάδα από σας (όπως ο επικεφαλής των υποκριτών, ο Αμπντ Αλλάχ μπιν Ουμπάι μπιν Σαλούλ που τους συκοφάντησε, και οι τρεις που επανέλαβαν τη συκοφαντία του και έπειτα στράφηκαν με μεταμέλεια, ο Χασσάν μπιν Θάμπιτ, η Χάμνα μπινετ Τζάχς, ο Μίσταχ μπιν Ουθάθα). Μη νομίζετε ότι αυτό (το ψέμα που έφεραν) είναι κακό για σας, αλλά είναι καλό για σας (για να φανούν οι αληθινοί πιστοί). Για καθέναν τους (η τιμωρία για) αυτό που φορτώθηκε από (εκείνη) την αμαρτία. Και εκείνος (ο μπιν Σαλούλ) που έχει φορτωθεί με το μεγαλύτερο μέρος εκείνης της αμαρτίας (και ξεκίνησε αυτή τη συκοφαντία), γι' αυτόν θα υπάρχει ένα τρομερό μαρτύριο (στη Μέλλουσα Ζωή).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
निःसंदेह जो लोग झूठ गढ़[11] लाए हैं, वे तुम्हारे ही भीतर के एक समूह हैं। तुम उसे अपने लिए बुरा मत समझो, बल्कि वह तुम्हारे लिए बेहतर[12] है। उनमें से प्रत्येक आदमी के लिए गुनाह में से उतना ही भाग है, जितना उसने कमाया। और उनमें से जो उसके बड़े भाग का ज़िम्मेदार[13] बना, उसके लिए बहुत बड़ी यातना है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
In verità quelli che hanno portato e hanno difeso le menzogne peggiori sono un gruppo tra voi: non considerate ciò un danno per voi, ma un vantaggio. Ma ognuno di loro dovrà rispondere dei peccati da lui commessi, e chi si insuperbisce avrà una grande punizione.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
11. Iš tiesų, tie, kurie paskleidė šmeižtą (apie Aišą (lai Allahas būna ja patenkintas), Pranašo ﷺ žmoną) yra grupė iš jūsų tarpo. Nelaikykit to blogu sau. Ne, tai gerai jums. Kiekvienam žmogui iš jų bus sumokėta tai, ką jis užsidirbo už nuodėmę, ir tam iš jų, kurio dalis didesnė tame, jam bus didesnė kančia.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
isaan (Aa’ishaa iratti) kijibaan dhufan (maqaa balleessan) garee isin irraa ta’aniidha, Isa isiniif hamtuu hin sehinaa, Inumaa inni isiniif caalaadha, Nama isaan irraa ta’e hundaafuu, hamtuu irraa wantuma inni carraaqqatetu isaaf jira. Isa isaan irraa (soba) guddaa baadhate immoo adabbii guddaa ta'etu isaaf jira. [6]
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Русский · Russian
Воистину, те, которые пришли с клеветой, — группа из вас. Не считайте это злом для себя: нет, напротив, это — благо для вас. Каждому из них — то, что он снискал из этого греха, а кто из них взял на себя наибольшую долю из этого, тому — великое наказание.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Међу вама је било оних који су износили потвору. Ви не сматрајте то неким злом по вас; не, то је добро по вас. Сваки од њих биће кажњен према греху који је заслужио, а онога од њих који је то највише радио чека велика патња.
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
Hakika wale walioleta uongo ni kundi miongoni mwenu. Msifikiri ni shari kwenu, bali hiyo ni kheri kwenu. Kila mtu katika wao atapata aliyoyachuma katika madhambi. Na yule aliyejitwika sehemu yake kubwa miongoni mwao, atapata adhabu kubwa.
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Svenska · Swedish
En skara bland er förde den falska anklagelsen vidare. Men se det inte som något dåligt för er – tvärtom, det var till er fördel. Var och en av dessa [ryktesspridare] ska stå till svars för sin synd, och den ledande bland dem ska få ett oerhört straff.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
O ağır iftirayı uyduranlar, sizin içinizden bir güruhtur. Bu iftirayı kendiniz için kötü bir şey sanmayın. Aksine o sizin için bir hayırdır. Onlardan her biri için işledikleri günahın cezası vardır. İçlerinden (elebaşılık ederek) o günahın büyüğünü üstlenen için ise ağır bir azap vardır.
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اردو · Urdu
جو لوگ یہ بہت بڑا بہتان باندھ ﻻئے ہیں[1] یہ بھی تم میں سے ہی ایک گروه[2] ہے۔ تم اسے اپنے لئے برا نہ سمجھو، بلکہ یہ تو تمہارے حق میں بہتر ہے[3]۔ ہاں ان میں سے ہر ایک شخص پر اتنا گناه ہے جتنا اس نے کمایا ہے اور ان میں سے جس نے اس کے بہت بڑے حصے کو سرانجام دیا ہے اس کے لئے عذاب بھی بہت ہی بڑا ہے.[4]
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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Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
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DIN 31635walawlā faḍlu llāhi ʿalaykum waraḥmatuhu waʾanna llāha tawwābun ḥakīmun
Talal Itani2012 Were it not for God's grace upon you, and His mercy, and that God is Conciliatory and Wise.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy unto you, and that Allah is Clement, Wise, (ye had been undone)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And were it not for God's grace upon you and His mercy, and that God is relenting, wise
John Medows Rodwell1861 And but for the goodness and mercy of God towards you, and that God is He who loveth to turn, Wise
George Sale1734 If it were not for the indulgence of God towards you, and his mercy, and that God is easy to be reconciled, and wise; He would immediately discover your crimes
Talal Itani2012 Why, when you heard about it, the believing men and women did not think well of one another, and say, "This is an obvious lie"?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Why did not the believers, men and women, when ye heard it, think good of their own own folk, and say: It is a manifest untruth
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Why did not, when ye heard it, the believing men and believing women think good in themselves, and say, 'This is an obvious lie
John Medows Rodwell1861 Did not the faithful of both sexes, when ye heard of this, form a favourable judgment in their own minds, and say, "This is a manifest lie
George Sale1734 Did not the faithful men, and the faithful women, when ye heard this, judge in their own minds for the best; and say, this is a manifest falsehood
Talal Itani2012 Why did they not bring four witnesses to testify to it? If they fail to bring the witnesses, then in God's sight, they are liars.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Why did they not produce four witnesses? Since they produce not witnesses, they verily are liars in the sight of Allah
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Why did they not bring four witnesses to it? but since they did not bring the witnesses, then they in God's eyes are the liars
John Medows Rodwell1861 Have they brought four witnesses of the fact? If they cannot produce the witnesses, they are the liars in the sight of God
George Sale1734 Have they produced four witnesses thereof? Wherefore since they have not produced the witnesses, they are surely liars in the sight of God
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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 Sale0.81
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.78
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.72
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.63
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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.