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But they say, "If we follow the way in which thou art guided, we shall be driven from our country." But have we not established for them a sacred secure precinct, to which fruits of every kind, our gift for their support, are gatheredtogether? But most of them have no knowledge
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
And they say, "If we follow the guidance with you, we will be snatched from our land." Did We not establish for them a Safe Sanctuary, to which are brought all kinds of fruits, as provision from Ourselves? But most of them do not know.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And they say: If we were to follow the Guidance with thee we should be torn out of our land. Have We not established for them a sure sanctuary, whereunto the produce of all things is brought (in trade), a provision from Our presence? But most of them know not
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
And they say, 'If we follow the guidance we shall be snatched away from the land.' Have we not established for them a safe sanctuary, to which are imported the fruits of everything as a provision from us? but most of them do not know
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
The Meccans say, if we follow the samedirection with thee, we shall be forciblyexpelled our land. Have We not established for them a secure asylum; to which fruits of every sort are brought, as a provision of our bounty? But the greaterpart of them do not understand
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
Ata thonë: "Nëse ndjekim udhëzimin me ty, do të rrëmbehemi nga toka jonë." Vallë, a nuk ua mundësuam atyre të jetojnë në një vend të shenjtë e të sigurt, ku sillen fruta të çdo lloji, si furnizim prej Nesh?! Por, shumica e tyre nuk e dinë.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর তারা বলে: ‘আমরা যদি তোমার সাথে হিদায়াতের অনুসরণ করি তবে আমাদেরকে আমাদের দেশ থেকে উৎখাত করা হবে।’ (এ কথাটা তারা কীভাবে বলে?) আমি কি তাদের জন্য এক নিরাপদ ‘হারাম’ (মক্কা নগরী) -এর সুব্যবস্থা করিনি?(১১) সেখানে সব ধরনের ফলমূল আমদানী করে আনা হয়, আমার পক্ষ থেকে রিযকস্বরূপ? কিন্তু তাদের অধিকাংশই তা (আল্লাহর দেয়া নি‘আমত সম্পর্কে) জানে না।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Oni govore: “Ako s tobom budemo Pravi put slijedili, bit ćemo brzo iz rodnog kraja protjerani.” Zar im Mi ne pružamo priliku da borave u svetom i sigurnom mjestu gdje se, kao Naš dar, slivaju plodovi svakovrsni; međutim, većina njih ne zna.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Oni govore: “Ako s tobom budemo Pravi put slijedili, bit ćemo brzo iz rodnog kraja protjerani.” Zar im Mi ne pružamo priliku da borave u svetom i sigurnom mjestu gdje se, kao Naš dar, slivaju plodovi svakovrsni; međutim, većina njih ne zna.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɓe mbi'i: "Si min njokkidii peewal ngal e maa, men biftete ka leydi amen". E Min hoɗiniraali ɓe e nokku horminaaɗo, koolniiɗo, mo dimɗe noone kaka addetee e mun, arsike immorde ka Amen? Si ko woni, ko ɓuri ɗuuɗude e maɓɓe, ɓe nganndaa.
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ქართული · Georgian
და (მექქელმა მრავალღმერთიანებმა) თქვეს: «თუ ჩვენ შენთან ერთად გავყვებით (ჭეშმარიტ) ხელმძღვანელობას (ო, მუჰამმად) [რწმენას, რომლითაც შენ მოხვედი] (და უარს ვიტყვით ჩვენს კერპებზე), (მაშინ ჩვენ) გამოგვაგდებენ [სხვა არაბები გამოგვაძევებენ] ჩვენი მიწიდან [მექქიდან]». განა ჩვენ არ დავადგინეთ მათთვის (ეს ქალაქი) [მექქა] წმინდა ადგილად (სადაც სისხლის დაღვრა აკრძალულია) და უსაფრთხოდ (იქ მყოფთათვის); იკრიბება მასთან ყოველგვარი ნაყოფი, როგორც საზრდო ჩვენგან. მაგრამ მათმა უმრავლესობამ არ იცის.
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Deutsch · German
Und sie sagen: „Wenn wir der Rechtleitung mit dir folgen, werden wir aus unserem Land fortgetrieben.“ Haben Wir ihnen denn nicht eine feste Stellung in einem sicheren geschützten Bezirk (in Makkah) verliehen, zu dem die Früchte jeder Art zusammengetragen werden als Versorgung von Uns aus? Aber die meisten von ihnen wissen nicht.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Λένε (κάποιοι ειδωλολάτρες): «Αν ακολουθήσουμε την καθοδήγηση (το Ισλάμ) στο δρόμο σου (ω, Μωχάμμαντ, και απαρνηθούμε τους θεούς μας), θα μας αρπάξουν (με φόνο και αιχμαλωσία) από τη γη μας (οι άλλες αραβικές φυλές).» Μα δεν τους κάναμε να μείνουν σε ένα Ιερό και ασφαλές μέρος (τη Μάκκα, που έχει τον Ιερό Οίκο που τον δοξάζουν οι αραβικές φυλές, και έτσι δεν επιτίθενται σ' αυτήν), και προς το οποίο (μέρος) φέρνουν τους καρπούς κάθε είδους (που χρειάζονται), ως αγαθά από Εμάς; Αλλά οι περισσότεροι απ' αυτούς δεν ξέρουν (τις χάρες του Αλλάχ σ' αυτούς)!
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा उन्होंने कहा : यदि हम आपके साथ इस मार्गदर्शन का अनुसरण करें, तो हम अपनी धरती से उचक[19] लिए जाएँगे। और क्या हमने उन्हें एक शांतिपूर्ण (सुरक्षित) हरम[20] में जगह नहीं दी? जिसकी ओर, हमारे पास से रोज़ी के तौर पर, सब वस्तुओं के फल खींचकर लाए जाते हैं। परंतु उनमें से अधिकतर लोग नहीं जानते।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E dissero: «Se seguissimo con te la Retta Via, saremmo portati via dalla nostra terra». Ma come, non gli abbiamo costruito un luogo protetto a cui vengono portati frutti di ogni tipo, come grazia da parte Nostra? Ma la maggior parte di loro non sa.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
57. Ir jie sako: „Jei mes seksime vedimu su tavimi, mes būsime išplėšti iš savo žemės.“ Argi Mes nesuteikėme jiems saugaus draustinio (Mekkos), kuriam atnešami visų rūšių vaisiai, išlaikymas nuo Mūsų Pačių, tačiau dauguma iš jų nežino.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
[Isaan] “yoo si waliin karaa qajeelumaa hordofne dachii teenya irraa butamna (guuramna)” jedhan. Sila nuti [iddoo] kabajamaa, nagayaa, hiree Nu biraa ta’eef fuduraaleen wanta hundaa gara isheetti kan guuramu isaaniif hin mijeessinee? Haa ta’u malee irra hedduun isaanii hin beekanu.
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Русский · Russian
И они сказали: «Если мы последуем верному руководству вместе с тобой, то будем быстро изгнаны из нашей земли». Но разве Мы не утвердили для них безопасное святилище, к которому стекаются плоды всего — как удел от Нас? Однако большинство из них не знает.
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Српски · Serbian
Они говоре: “Ако с тобом будемо Прави пут следили, бићемо брзо из родног краја протерани.” Зар им Ми не пружамо прилику да бораве у светом и сигурном месту где се, као Наш дар, сливају плодови разноврсни; међутим, већина њих не зна.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na wakasema, "Tukiufuata uwongofu huu pamoja nawe, tutanyakuliwa kutoka nchi yetu." Je, kwani Sisi hatukuwaweka imara katika pahala patakatifu, penye amani, ambapo huletewa matunda ya kila aina kuwa ni riziki itokayo kwetu? Lakini wengi wao hawajui.
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Svenska · Swedish
De säger: ”Om vi följer din väg, kommer vi att fördrivas från vårt land!” Har vi inte skänkt dem en säker och helgad fristad dit frukter av alla slag förs som försörjning från oss? Men de flesta är omedvetna om detta.
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Türkçe · Turkish
"Eğer seninle birlikte doğru yolu tutacak olursak, kendi yurdumuzdan çekilip çıkarılırız." dediler. Oysa biz onları, kendi katımızdan bir rızık olarak her şeyin ürünlerinin toplanıp getirildiği; emin, harem kıldığımız bir yere (Mekke'ye) yerleştirmedik mi? Fakat onların çoğu bilmezler.
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اردو · Urdu
کہنے لگے اگر ہم آپ کے ساتھ ہوکر ہدایت کے تابع دار بن جائیں تو ہم تو اپنے ملک سے اچک لیے جائیں[1] ، کیا ہم نے انہیں امن وامان اور حرمت والے حرم میں جگہ نہیں دی[2]؟ جہاں تمام چیزوں کے پھل کِھچے چلے آتے ہیں جو ہمارے پاس بطور رزق کے ہیں[3]، لیکن ان میں سے اکثر کچھ نہیں جانتے.
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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
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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
Easy-read (simplified)wakam ahlaknaa min qaryatin batirat ma'eeshatahaa fatilka masaakinuhum lam tuskan min ba'dihim illaa qaleelan wakunnaa nahnu l-waaritheen
DIN 31635wakam ʾahlaknā min qaryatin baṭirat maʿīšatahā fatilka masākinuhum lam tuskan min baʿdihim ʾillā qalīlan wakunnā naḥnu l-wāriṯīna
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Talal Itani2012 And how many a city did We destroy for turning unappreciative of its livelihood? Here are their homes, uninhabited after them, except for a few. And We became the Inheritors.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And how many a community have We destroyed that was thankless for its means of livelihood! And yonder are their dwellings, which have not been inhabited after them save a little. And We, even We, were the inheritors
Edward Henry Palmer1880 How many a city have we destroyed that exulted in its means of subsistence? These are their dwellings, never dwelt in after them, except a little; for we were the heirs
John Medows Rodwell1861 And how many cities have we destroyed that flourished in wanton ease! And these their dwellings have not been inhabited since their time save by a few, and it is we who became their heirs
George Sale1734 How many cities have We destroyed, whose inhabitants lived in ease and plenty? And these their dwellings are not inhabited after them, unless for a little while; and We were the inheritors of their wealth
Talal Itani2012 Your Lord never destroys cities without first sending a messenger in their midst, reciting to them Our revelations. And We never destroy the cities, unless their people are wrongdoers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And never did thy Lord destroy the townships, till He had raised up in their mother(-town) a messenger reciting unto them Our revelations. And never did We destroy the townships unless the folk thereof were evil-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But thy Lord would never destroy cities until He sent to the metropolis thereof an apostle, to recite to them our signs; nor would we destroy cities unless their people were unjust
John Medows Rodwell1861 But thy Lord did not destroy the cities till He had sent an apostle to their mother-city to rehearse our signs to its people: nor did we destroy the cities unless its people were unjust
George Sale1734 But thy Lord did not destroy those cities, until He had sent unto their capital an apostle, to rehearse our signs unto them: Neither did We destroy those cities, unless their inhabitants were injurious to their apostle
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Verses above it
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Verses measured
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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · George Sale0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.42
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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.