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Talal Itani· published 2012
Those against whom the sentence is justified will say, "Our Lord, these are they whom we misled. We misled them, as we were misled. We beg Your forgiveness; it was not us they used to worship."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Those concerning whom the Word will have cometrue will say: Our Lord! These are they whom we led astray. We led them astray even as we ourselves were astray. We declare our innocence before Thee: us they never worshipped
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 those against whom the sentence is due shall say, 'Our Lord! these are those whom we have seduced; we seduced them as we were seduced ourselves: but we clear ourselves to thee;- they ,did not worship us
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They on whom doom shall be justly pronounced will say, "O our Lord! these are they whom we led astray: we led them astray even as we had been led astray ourselves: Thou hast no cause of blame against us: It was not we whom they worshipped
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And they upon whom the sentence of damnation shall be justly pronounced, shall answer, these, O Lord, are those whom we seduced; we seduced them as we also had been seduced: But now we clearlyquit them, and turn unto Thee. They did not worship Us, but their own lusts
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 që merituan dënimin, do të thonë: "Zoti ynë, këta janë ata që i kemi çuar në humbje; ne i çuam ata në humbje ashtu siç humbëm edhe vetë. Ne shfajësohemi para Teje; ata nuk na adhuronin ne."
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
যাদের জন্য (শাস্তির) বাণী অবধারিত হয়েছে তারা বলবে: ‘হে আমাদের রব, ওরা তো তারা যাদেরকে আমরা পথভ্রষ্ট করেছিলাম। তাদেরকে আমরা পথভ্রষ্ট করেছিলাম যেমন আমরাও পথভ্রষ্ট হয়েছিলাম। আমরা আপনার কাছে (তাদের থেকে) দায় মুক্তি চাচ্ছি। তারা তো আমাদের ইবাদাত করতো না।’
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
reći će oni na kojima će se riječ obistiniti: “Gospodaru naš, ove što smo na stranputicu naveli – naveli smo zato što smo i sami na stranputici bili; mi ih se pred Tobom odričemo, oni nas nisu obožavali.”
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
reći će oni na kojima će se riječ obistiniti: “Gospodaru naš, ove što smo na stranputicu naveli – naveli smo zato što smo i sami na stranputici bili; mi ih se pred Tobom odričemo, oni nas nisu obožavali.”
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 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɓen ɓe Konngol jojji e Mu'um wi'a: "Joomi amen, ko ɓee ngoni ko min bewinnoo. Min bewinirno ɓe, wano men bewirnoo. Min daɗndinike e Maaɗa. Wonaa minen ɓe ndewatnoo".
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 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
იტყვიან ისინი, ვის თავზედაც აღსრულდა [ალლაჰის] სიტყვა: «უფალო ჩვენო, ესენი არიან, რომელნიც ვაცდუნეთ ისე, როგორც ჩვენ შევცდით. ჩვენ უარს ვამბობთ მათზე შენს წინაშე. ისინი ჩვენ არ გვეთაყვანებოდნენ [არამედ ეთაყვანებოდნენ ეშმაკს]».
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 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Diejenigen, gegen die sich das (strafende) Wort bewahrheitet hat, sagen: „Unser Herr, diese, die wir in Verirrung haben fallen lassen, haben wir (nur) in Verirrung fallen lassen, wie wir selbst in Verirrung gefallen waren. Wir sagen uns (nun von ihnen) vor Dir los. Nicht uns dienten sie ja.“
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
Εκείνοι (οι διάβολοι και οι ηγέτες της πλάνης) στους οποίους έγινε η τιμωρία αναπόφευκτη, θα πουν: «Κύριέ μας! Αυτοί που τους παραπλανήσαμε, τους παραπλανήσαμε (από επιλογή τους) όπως παραπλανηθήκαμε κι εμείς, (ψιθυρίσαμε σ' αυτούς, και αυτοί επέλεξαν την πλάνη, αν και έστειλες Αγγελιαφόρους και Βιβλία με υποσχέσεις και προειδοποιήσεις και νουθεσίες). Απαρνούμαστε ενώπιόν Σου (αυτούς και την απιστία τους), δεν λάτρευαν εμάς, (αλλά τους πόθους τους λάτρευαν).»
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 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
वे लोग कहेंगे जिनपर बात[23] सिद्ध हो चुकी : ऐ हमारे पालनहार! ये वे लोग हैं जिन्हें हमने गुमराह किया, हमने उन्हें उसी तरह गुमराह किया जैसे हम गुमराह हुए। हम तेरे सामने (इनसे) अलग होने की घोषणा करते हैं। ये हमारी[24] तो पूजा नहीं करते थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Dissero quelli che hanno meritato la condanna: «Dio nostro, questi sono quelli che abbiamo sviato; li abbiamo sviati come siamo stati noi stessi sviati; ce ne discostiamo, rivolti a Te: loro non adoravano noi.”
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 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
63. Tie, apie kuriuos Žodis pasirodys esant tiesa (būti nubaustiems), sakys: „Mūsų Viešpatie, tai jie, kuriuos mes paklaidinome. Mes paklaidinome juos, nes mes patys paklydę. Mes reiškiame savo nekaltumą (dėl jų) priešais Tave. Tai ne mus jie garbino.“
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 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Warri jechi (azaabaa) isaan irratti mirkanaa’e “Yaa Rabbii keenya! Isaan kun warra nuti jallifneedha, Akkuma ofii jallannetti isaan jallifne, Nuti gara keetti quulqulloofnee, isaan kun nu gabbaraa hin turre” jedhan.
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 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Те, над которыми сбылось Слово, скажут: «Господь наш! Вот те, которых мы сбили с пути! Мы сбили их, как сбились сами. Мы отрекаемся [от них] перед Тобой: не нам они поклонялись».
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 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Рећи ће они на којима ће реч да се обистини: „Господару наш, ове што смо навели на странпутицу, навели смо зато што смо и сами били на странпутици, ми их се пред Тобом одричемо, они нас нису обожавали.“
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
Watasema wale iliyothibiti juu yao kauli, "Mola wetu Mlezi! Hawa ndio tuliowapoteza. Tuliwapoteza kama tulivyopotea sisi. Tunajitenga nao mbele yako. Hawakuwa wakituabudu sisi."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
De som gjort sig förtjänta av straffet ska säga: ”Herre! Här är de vi ledde vilse. Ja, vi förledde dem liksom vi själva gick vilse. Vi tar avstånd från dem inför dig; det var inte oss de dyrkade!”
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 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Haklarında azap sözü gerçekleşmiş olanlar; “Rabbimiz! İşte azdırdıklarımız onlardır. Kendimiz azdığımız gibi, onları da azdırdık. Şimdi ise onlardan uzaklaşarak sana geldik. Zaten onlar, bize de ibadet etmiyorlardı.” dediler.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
جن پر بات آچکی وه جواب دیں گے[1] کہ اے ہمارے پروردگار! یہی وه ہیں جنہیں ہم نے بہکا رکھا تھا[2]، ہم نے انہیں اسی طرح بہکایا جس طرح ہم بہکے تھے[3]، ہم تیری سرکار میں اپنی دست برداری کرتے ہیں[4]، یہ ہماری عبادت نہیں کرتے تھے.[5]
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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Easy-read (simplified)afaman wa'adnaahu wa'dan hasanan fahuwa laaqeehi kaman matta'naahu mataa'a l-hayaati d-dunyaa thumma huwa yawma l-qiyaamati mina l-muhdareen
DIN 31635ʾafaman waʿadnāhu waʿdan ḥasanan fahuwa lāqīhi kaman mattaʿnāhu matāʿa l-ḥayāti d-dunyā ṯumma huwa yawma l-qiyāmati mina l-muḥḍarīna
Talal Itani2012 Can someone to whom We have made a fine promise-which he will attain-be equal to someone to whom We have given enjoyments in this world, but who will be, on Resurrection Day, among the arraigned?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Is he whom We have promised a fair promise which he will find (true) like him whom We suffer to enjoy awhile the comfort of the life of the world, then on the Day of Resurrection he will be of those arraigned
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Is He to whom we have promised a goodly promise, which he shall meet with, like him to whom we have given the enjoyment of the life of this world, and who upon the resurrection day shall be of the arraigned
John Medows Rodwell1861 Shall he then to whom we have promised a goodly promise and who obtaineth it, be as he on whom we have bestowed the enjoyments of this life present, and who on the day of Resurrection shall be brought up for punishment
George Sale1734 Shall he then, unto whom We have promised an excellent promise of future happiness, and who shall attain the same, be as he on whom we have bestowed the provision of this present life, and who, on the day of resurrection, shall be one of those who are delivered up to eternal punishment
DIN 31635waqīla dʿū šurakāʾakum fadaʿawhum falam yastaǧībū lahum waraʾawu l-ʿaḏāba law ʾannahum kānū yahtadūna
Talal Itani2012 And it will be said, "Call on your partners." And they will call on them, but they will not respond to them. And they will see the suffering. If only they were guided.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And it will be said: Cry unto your (so-called) partners (of Allah). And they will cry unto them, and they will give no answer unto them, and they will see the Doom. Ah, if they had but been guided
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And it will be said, 'Call upon your partners;' and they will call upon them, but they will not answer them, and they shall see the torment; would that they had been guided
John Medows Rodwell1861 And it shall be said, "Call now on those whom ye made God's companions:" and they shall call on them, but they will not answer them. And they shall see the punishment, and wish that they had been guided aright
George Sale1734 And it shall be said unto the idolaters, call now upon those whom ye associated with God: And they shall call upon them, but they shall not answer them; and they shall see the punishment prepared for them, and shall wish that they had submitted to be directed
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.79
Talal Itani · George Sale0.74
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.73
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.68
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.53
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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.