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Talal Itani· published 2012
And he said, "You have chosen idols instead of God, out of affection for one another in the worldly life. But then, on the Day of Resurrection, you will disown one another, and curse one another. Your destiny is Hell, and you will have no saviors."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
He said: Ye have chosen only idols instead of Allah. The love between you is only in the life of the world. Then on the Day of Resurrection ye will deny each other and curse each other, and your abode will be the Fire, and ye will have no helpers
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
He said, 'Verily, ye take beside God idols, through mutualfriendship in the life of this world; then on the day of judgment ye shall deny each other, and shall curse each other, and your resort shall be the fire, and ye shall have none to help
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And Abraham said, "Of a truth ye have taken idols along with God as your bond of union in this life present; But on the day of resurrection some of you shall deny the others, and some of you shall curse the others; and your abode shall be the fire, and ye shall have none to help
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And Abraham said, ye have taken idols, besides God, to cement affection between you in this life: But on the day of resurrection, the one of you shall deny the other, and the one of you shall curse the other; and your abode shall be hell fire, and there shall be none to deliver you
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
Ai (Ibrahimi) tha: "Në të vërtetë, ju keni marrë idhuj për t'i adhuruar në vend të Allahut, për të shtuar dashurinë ndërmjet jush në jetën e kësaj bote. Por, në Ditën e Kiametit ju do të mohoni e do të mallkoni njëri-tjetrin. Vendstrehimi juaj do të jetë Zjarri dhe për ju s'do të ketë ndihmëtarë."
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
আর ইবরাহীম (তার সম্প্রদায়কে) বললো: ‘দুনিয়ার জীবনে তোমাদের মধ্যে পারস্পরিক ভালোবাসা ও পরিচয় রক্ষা করার জন্যই তো তোমরা আল্লাহকে ছেড়ে মূর্তিদেরকে গ্রহণ করেছো। তারপর কিয়ামতের দিন তোমরা একে অপরকে অস্বীকার করবে এবং পরস্পর পরস্পরকে লা‘নত করবে, আর তোমাদের আশ্রয়স্থল হবে জাহান্নাম এবং (সেদিন) তোমাদের জন্য থাকবে না কোনো সাহায্যকারী।’
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
“Vi ste”, reče on, “mimo Allaha kumire prihvatili da biste u životu na ovom svijetu međusobne prijateljske odnose održavali, a poslije, na Sudnjem danu, jedni drugih ćete se odricati i jedni druge ćete proklinjati, Vatra će vaše boravište biti i niko vam u pomoć neće moći priteći.”
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
“Vi ste”, reče on, “mimo Allaha kumire prihvatili da biste u životu na ovom svijetu međusobne prijateljske odnose održavali, a poslije, na Sudnjem danu, jedni drugih ćete se odricati i jedni druge ćete proklinjati, Vatra će vaše boravište biti i nitko vam u pomoć neće moći priteći.”
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
O maaki: "nganndee ko ndewoton kon ga Alla, ko sanamuuji, fii yiɗindiro hakkunde mon, ka nguurndam aduna, hooti non, Ñande Darndal, yoga mon yeddoyay yoga, yoga mon kadi huɗo yoga, hara non, jaaƴorde mon nden, ko ka Yiite, hara wallooɓe alanaa on".
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
და მან [მოციქულმა იბრაჰიმმა] უთხრა [თავის ხალხს]: «თქვენ აიყვანეთ ალლაჰის გარდა კერპები ერთმანეთის სიყვარულის გამო ამქვეყნიურ ცხოვრებაში. შემდეგ აღდგომის დღეს თქვენ უარყოფთ ერთმანეთს, და დასწყევლით ერთმანეთს, და თქვენი თავშესაფარი იქნება ცეცხლი, და არ გეყოლებათ [არანაირი] დამხმარე».
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
Und er sagte: „Ihr habt euch ja anstatt Allahs nur Götzen genommen aus Freundschaft zueinander im diesseitigen Leben. Aber hierauf, am Tag der Auferstehung, werden die einen von euch die anderen verleugnen und die einen von euch die anderen (auch) verfluchen. Und euer Zufluchtsort ist das (Höllen)feuer, und ihr werdet keine Helfer haben.“
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
(Ο Αβραάμ) είπε: «Έχετε πάρει είδωλα αντί του Αλλάχ για να τα λατρεύετε, και για (να γνωριστείτε και) να έχετε στοργή μεταξύ σας στην εγκόσμια ζωή, αλλά την Ημέρα της Ανάστασης θα απαρνηθείτε ο ένας τον άλλον και θα καταραστείτε ο ένας τον άλλον. Η κατοικία σας θα είναι η Φωτιά, και δε θα έχετε υποστηρικτές!»
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
और उसने कहा : बात यही है कि तुमने अल्लाह के सिवा मूर्तियाँ बना रखी हैं, दुनिया के जीवन में पारस्परिक दोस्ती के कारण। फिर क़ियामत के दिन तुम एक-दूसरे का इनकार करोगे तथा तुम एक-दूसरे पर ला'नत करोगे। और तुम्हारा ठिकाना आग ही है और तुम्हारे लिए कोई मदद करने वाले नहीं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E disse: «In verità vi siete presi, all’infuori di Allāh, degli idoli, motivo di benevolenza tra di voi in questa vita terrena; poi il Giorno della Resurrezione vi rinnegherete tra di voi e vi maledirete a vicenda, e la vostra dimora sarà il Fuoco e non avrete sostenitori».
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
25. Ir [Ibrahimas (Abraomas)] tarė: „Jūs pasirinkote (garbinti) stabus vietoje Allaho. Meilė tarp jūsų tėra tik šio pasaulio gyvenime, tačiau Prikėlimo Dieną, jūs išsižadėsite vienas kito, ir prakeiksite vienas kitą ir jūsų buveinė bus Ugnis, ir neturėsite jūs padėjėjų.“
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.
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
И он сказал: «Воистину, вы избрали себе идолов вместо Аллаха лишь ради взаимной привязанности в этой мирской жизни. Затем, в День воскресения, одни из вас отрекутся от других и станут проклинать друг друга. А ваше прибежище — адский огонь, и не будет вам помощников».
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
„Ви сте“, рече он, „мимо Аллаха прихватили кипове да бисте у овосветском животу одржавали међусобне пријатељске односе, а после, на Судњем дану, једни других ћете да се одричете и једни друге ћете да проклињете, Ватра ће да буде ваше боравиште и нико вам у помоћ неће моћи притећи.”
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
Na alisema, "Hakika nyinyi mmeyashika masanamu (kuyaabudu) badala ya Mwenyezi Mungu kwa mapenzi yaliyo baina yenu katika uhai wa duniani. Kisha Siku ya Kiyama mtakataana nyinyi kwa nyinyi, na mtalaaniana nyinyi kwa nyinyi. Na makazi yenu ni Motoni. Wala hamtapata wa kukunusuru wowote."
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Svenska · Swedish
[Abraham] sa: ”Ni har valt dessa gudabilder i stället för Gud bara för att stärka banden mellan er här på jorden. På uppståndelsens dag kommer ni att ta avstånd från och fördöma varandra. Er slutliga hemvist blir elden och ni har ingen som kan rädda er.”
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
İbrahim, onlara dedi ki: “Sırf aranızda dünya hayatına mahsus bir sevgi (ve çıkar) uğruna Allah’ı bırakıp birtakım putlar edindiniz. Sonra kıyamet gününde kiminiz kiminizi inkâr edip tanımayacak; kiminiz kiminize lânet edecektir. Barınağınız Cehennem olacaktır. Yardımcılarınız da olmayacaktır.”
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
اردو · Urdu
(حضرت ابراہیم علیہ السلام نے) کہا کہ تم نے جن بتوں کی پرستش اللہ کے سوا کی ہے انہیں تم نے اپنی آپس کی دنیوی دوستی کی بنا ٹھہرا لی ہے[1] ، تم سب قیامت کے دن ایک دوسرے سے کفر کرنے لگو گے[2] اور ایک دوسرے پر لعنت کرنے لگو گے۔ اور تمہارا سب کا ٹھکانہ دوزخ ہوگا اور تمہارا کوئی مددگار نہ ہوگا.
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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DIN 31635wallaḏīna kafarū biʾāyāti llāhi waliqāʾihi ʾūlāʾika yaʾisū min raḥmatī waʾūlāʾika lahum ʿaḏābun ʾalīmun
Talal Itani2012 Those who disbelieved in God's signs and His encounter-these have despaired of My mercy. For them is a painful torment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those who disbelieve in the revelations of Allah and in (their) Meeting with Him, such have no hope of My mercy. For such there is a painful doom
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And those who disbelieve in God's signs and in meeting with Him, these shall despair of my mercy; and these, for them is grievous woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 As for those who believe not in the signs of God, or that they shall ever meet him, these of my mercy shall despair, and these doth a grievous chastisement await
George Sale1734 As for those who believe not in the signs of God, or that they shall meet Him at the resurrection, they shall despair of my mercy, and for them is a painful punishment prepared
Talal Itani2012 But the only response from his people was their saying, "Kill him, or burn him." But God saved him from the fire. Surely in that are signs for people who believe.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But the answer of his folk was only that they said: "Kill him" or "Burn him." Then Allah saved him from the Fire. Lo! herein verily are portents for folk who believe
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But the answer of his people was only to say, 'Kill him or burn him!' But God saved him from the fire; verily, in that are signs unto a people who believe
John Medows Rodwell1861 And the only answer of his people was to say, "Slay him or burn him." But from the fire did God save him! Verily, herein are signs to those who believe
George Sale1734 And the answer of his people was no other than that they said, slay him, or burn him. But God saved him from the fire. Verily herein were signs unto people who believed
DIN 31635faʾāmana lahu lūṭun waqāla ʾinnī muhāǧirun ʾilā rabbī ʾinnahu huwa l-ʿazīzu l-ḥakīmu
Talal Itani2012 Then Lot believed in him, and said, "I am emigrating to my Lord. He is the Noble, the Wise."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Lot believed him, and said: Lo! I am a fugitive unto my Lord. Lo! He, only He, is the Mighty, the Wise
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Lot believed him. And (Abraham) said, 'Verily, I flee unto my Lord! Verily, He is mighty, wise
John Medows Rodwell1861 But Lot believed on him, and said, "I betake me to my Lord, for He truly is the Mighty, the Wise
George Sale1734 And Lot believed on Him. And Abraham said, verily I fly from my people, unto the place which my Lord hath commanded me; for He is the mighty, the wise
Talal Itani2012 And We granted him Isaac and Jacob, and conferred on his descendants the Prophethood and the Book, and gave him his reward in this life; and in the Hereafter he will be among the upright.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And We bestowed on him Isaac and Jacob, and We established the prophethood and the Scripture among his seed, and We gave him his reward in the world, and lo! in the Hereafter he verily is among the righteous
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and we granted him Isaac and Jacob; and we placed in his seed prophecy and the Book; and we gave him his hire in this world; and, verily, he in the next shall be among the righteous
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we bestowed on him Isaac and Jacob, and placed the gift of prophecy and the Scripture among his posterity; And we gave him his reward in this world, and in the next he shall be among the just
George Sale1734 And We gave him Isaac, and Jacob; and We placed among his descendants the gift of prophecy and the scriptures: And We gave him his reward in this world; and in the next he shall be one of the righteous
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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 · Edward Henry Palmer0.72
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.55
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.43
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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.