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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
These will be given their reward twice over, because they are steadfast and repel evil with good, and spend of that wherewith We have provided them
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
John Medows Rodwell1808–1900 · published 1861
Twice shall their reward be given them, for that they suffered with patience, and repelled evil with good, and gave alms out of that with which we provided them
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
These shall receive their reward twice, because they have persevered, and repel evil by good, and distribute alms out of that which We have bestowed on them
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
Atyre do t'u jepet shpërblimi dyfish, për shkak se duruan. Ata e largojnë të keqen me të mirë dhe japin nga ajo që Ne u kemi dhënë.
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
এরাই সেই সব লোক, যাদেরকে তাদের প্রতিদান দ্বিগুণ দেওয়া হবে, কারণ তারা ধৈর্য ধারণ করেছে।(৯) আর তারা ভালো দ্বারা মন্দকে প্রতিহত করে এবং আমি তাদেরকে যে রিযিক দিয়েছি, তা থেকে তারা ব্যয় করে।
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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Oni će dobiti dvostruku nagradu zato što bili strpljivi i što dobrim djelom odbijaju zlo i što od onoga što im dajemo udjeljuju.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Oni će dobiti dvostruku nagradu zato što bili strpljivi i što dobrim djelom odbijaju zlo i što od onoga što im dajemo udjeljuju.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɓeen ɗon, ɓe jonniroyte njoɓdi maɓɓe ndin, laabi ɗiɗi, sabu ko ɓe muñinoo kon, heɓe nduñiraynoo moƴƴere nden, bone on, e hu'unde nde Min ngarsiki ɓe nden, heɓe nafqa.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ასეთებს მიეცემათ მათი ჯილდო ორმაგად, იმისთვის, რომ მოთმინებას იჩენდნენ [და ჭეშმარიტებას მისდევდნენ]. და ისინი სიკეთით იგერიებენ ბოროტებას და იმიდან, რაც ჩვენ მივანიჭეთ მათ, ხარჯავენ.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Jene erhalten ihren Lohn zweimal dafür, dass sie geduldig waren. Und sie wehren mit dem Guten das Schlechte ab und geben von dem aus, womit Wir sie versorgt haben.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Εκείνοι θα λάβουν την ανταμοιβή τους διπλά, για ό,τι έδειξαν από υπομονή. Αποκρούουν το κακό με το καλό, και από ό,τι τους παράσχουμε, ξοδεύουν (σε ελεημοσύνη).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
ये वे लोग हैं जिन्हें उनका प्रतिफल दोहरा[17] दिया जाएगा, इसके बदले कि उन्होंने सब्र किया और वे भलाई के साथ बुराई को दूर करते हैं और जो कुछ हमने उन्हें दिया है उसमें से खर्च करते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Quelli verranno doppiamente ricompensati per ciò che hanno sopportato. E ripagano il torto ricevuto con una buona azione e condividono ciò che abbiamo loro donato.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
54. Šiems bus suteiktas jų atlygis dukart, nes jie buvo kantrūs ir atrėmė blogį gėriu ir leido (labdarai) iš to, ką Mes suteikėme jiems.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Isaan sun mindaa isaanii yeroo lama kennamu waan obsanii, hamtuu toltuudhaan deebisanii, waan Nuti isaaniif kennine irraas kennataniif jecha.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Такие получат свою награду дважды — за то, что проявляли терпение. Они отвращают зло добром и расходуют из того, чем Мы их наделили.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Они ће да добију двоструку награду за то што трпе и што лепим на зло узвраћају и што од онога што им дајемо удељују;
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Hao watapewa ujira wao mara mbili kwa walivyovumilia, na wakaondoa ubaya kwa wema, na wakatoa katika tulivyowaruzuku.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Dessa kommer att få dubbel belöning för sitt tålamod och för att de bemöter ondska med godhet och delar med sig av det vi har skänkt dem.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
İşte onlar; sabrettikleri şeylerden ötürü, iki defa mükâfatlandırılırlar, kötülüğü iyilikle savarlar ve kendilerine verdiğimiz rızıklardan da infak ederler.
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اردو · Urdu
یہ اپنے کیے ہوئے صبر کے بدلے دوہرا دوہرا اجر دیئے جائیں گے[1] ۔ یہ نیکی سے بدی کو ٹال دیتے ہیں[2] اور ہم نے جو انہیں دے رکھا ہے اس میں سے دیتے رہتے ہیں.
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)wa'idhaa yutlaa 'alayhim qaaloo aamannaa bihi innahu l-haqqu min rabbinaa innaa kunnaa min qablihi muslimeen
DIN 31635waʾiḏā yutlā ʿalayhim qālū ʾāmannā bihi ʾinnahu l-ḥaqqu min rabbinā ʾinnā kunnā min qablihi muslimīna
Talal Itani2012 When it is recited to them, they say, "We have believed in it; it is the truth from our Lord; we were Muslims prior to it."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when it is recited unto them, they say: We believe in it. Lo! it is the Truth from our Lord. Lo! even before it we were of those who surrender (unto Him)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and when it is recited to them they say, 'We believe in it as truth from our Lord; verily, we were resigned before it came
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when it is recited to them they say, "We believe in it, for it is the truth from our Lord. We were Muslims before it came
George Sale1734 and when it is read unto them, say, we believe therein; it is certainly the truth from our Lord: Verily we were Moslems before this
Talal Itani2012 And when they hear vain talk, they avoid it, and say, "We have our deeds, and you have your deeds; peace be upon you; we do not desire the ignorant."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when they hear vanity they withdraw from it and say: Unto us our works and unto you your works. Peace be unto you! We desire not the ignorant
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when they hear vain talk, they turn away from it and say, 'We have our works, and ye have your works. Peace be upon you! we do not seek the ignorant
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when they hear light discourse they withdraw from it, and say, "Our works for us and your works for you! Peace be on you! We are not in quest of fools
George Sale1734 and when they hear vain discourse, avoid the same, saying, we have our works, and ye have your works: Peace be on you; we covet not the acquaintance of the ignorant
Easy-read (simplified)innaka laa tahdee man ahbabta walaakinna llaaha yahdee man yashaa'u wahuwa a'lamu bil-muhtadeen
DIN 31635ʾinnaka lā tahdī man ʾaḥbabta walākinna llāha yahdī man yašāʾu wahuwa ʾaʿlamu bil-muhtadīna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 You cannot guide whom you love, but God guides whom He wills, and He knows best those who are guided.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! thou (O Muhammad) guidest not whom thou lovest, but Allah guideth whom He will. And He is Best Aware of those who walk aright
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, thou canst not guide whom thou dost like, but God guides whom He pleases; for He knows best who are to be guided
John Medows Rodwell1861 Thou truly canst not guide whom thou desirest; but God guideth whom He will; and He best knoweth those who yield to guidance
George Sale1734 Verily thou canst not direct whom thou wilt: But God directeth whom He pleaseth, and He best knoweth those who will submit to be directed
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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
Talal Itani · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.57
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.50
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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.