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Compare translations (4)Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Allah had already given you the victory at Badr, when ye were contemptible. So observe your duty to Allah in order that ye may be thankful
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
Why! God gave you victory at Bedr when ye were in a poorway; fear God, then, haply ye may givethanks
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And God had already given you the victory at Bedr, when ye were inferior in number; therefore fear God, that ye may be thankful
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
Allahu ju ndihmoi në Bedër, kur ishit të dobët, andaj kijeni frikë Allahun, që të jeni mirënjohës.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর আল্লাহ অবশ্যই তোমাদেরকে বদরের যুদ্ধে সাহায্য করেছেন; অথচ তোমরা তখন ছিলে হীনবল। অতএব তোমরা আল্লাহর তাকওয়া অবলম্বন করো। আশা করা যায়, তোমরা শোকর আদায়কারী হবে।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Allah vas je i na Bedru pomogao, kada ste bili malobrojni! Zato se Allaha bojte, da biste bili zahvalni.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Allah vas je i na Bedru pomogao, kada ste bili malobrojni! Zato se Allaha bojte, da biste bili zahvalni.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Gooŋɗii Alla Wallii on ñande Badri, tawi ko on hoyɓe. Kulee Alla, belajo'o on yettay [Mo].
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ქართული · Georgian
და უკვე (ერთხელ) დაგეხმარათ ალლაჰი ბადრის (ბრძოლის) დროს[1], როცა სუსტნი იყავით [რიცხობრივად ცოტანი და იარაღითაც მცირენი]. მაშ, გეშინოდეთ ალლაჰის, რათა იქნებ მადლიერნი იყოთ.
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Deutsch · German
Und Allah hat euch doch schon in Badr unterstützt, als ihr verächtlich erschient. So fürchtet Allah, auf dass ihr dankbar sein möget!
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Και πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ σάς υποστήριξε χαρίζοντάς σας την νίκη στη (μάχη του) Μπαντρ ενώ ήσασταν αδύναμοι (και λίγοι και με λίγα όπλα). Να φυλαχθείτε λοιπόν από την τιμωρία του Αλλάχ (μέσω της τήρησης των εντολών Του), ίσως έτσι να είστε ευγνώμονες (για τις χάρες Του σ' εσάς).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
और अल्लाह बद्र (के युद्ध) में तुम्हारी सहायता कर चुका है, जबकि तुम कमज़ोर थे। अतः अल्लाह से डरो, ताकि तुम उसके प्रति आभारी हो सको।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
E Allāh vi soccorse a «Badr» ﴿بَدْرٍ﴾ ed eravate deboli; temete Allāh, affinché Gli siate grati.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
123. Ir Allahas jau padarė jus pergalingus Badr (mūšyje), kai buvote jūs silpnas mažas būrys. Taigi stipriai bijokite Allaho [12] tam, kad būtumėte dėkingi.
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Русский · Russian
Действительно, Аллах помог вам при Бадре, когда вы были в униженном положении. Так бойтесь же Аллаха, — быть может, вы будете благодарны.
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Српски · Serbian
Аллах вас је и на Бедру помогао, када сте били малобројни! Зато се Аллаха бојте, да бисте били захвални.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na Mwenyezi Mungu alishawanusuru huko Badri hali ya kuwa nyinyi ni wanyonge. Basi mcheni Mwenyezi Mungu ili mpate kushukuru.
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Svenska · Swedish
Gud gav er seger vid Badr, trots att ni var i underläge. Frukta därför Gud så att ni kan bli tacksamma.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Andolsun, siz son derece güçsüz iken Allah size Bedir’de yardım etmişti. O halde Allah’a karşı gelmekten sakının ki şükretmiş olasınız.
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اردو · Urdu
جنگ بدر میں اللہ تعالیٰ نے عین اس وقت تمہاری مدد فرمائی تھی جب کہ تم نہایت گری ہوئی حالت میں تھے[1] ، اس لئے اللہ ہی سے ڈرو! (نہ کسی اور سے) تاکہ تمہیں شکر گزاری کی توفیق ہو.
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DIN 31635waʾiḏ ġadawta min ʾahlika tubawwiʾu l-muʾminīna maqāʿida lilqitāli wallāhu samīʿun ʿalīmun
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Remember when you left your home in the morning, to assign battle-positions for the believers. God is Hearing and Knowing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when thou settedst forth at daybreak from thy housefolk to assign to the believers their positions for the battle, Allah was Hearer, Knower
Edward Henry Palmer1880 When thou didst set forth early from thy people to settle for the believers a camp to fight;- but God both hears and knows
John Medows Rodwell1861 And remember when thou didst leave thy household at early morn, that thou mightest prepare the faithful a camp for the war; - God heard, knew it
George Sale1734 Call to mind when thou wentest forth early from thy family, that thou mightest prepare the faithful a camp for war; and God heard and knew it
Talal Itani2012 When two groups among you almost faltered, but God was their Protector. So in God let the believers put their trust.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 When two parties of you almost fell away, and Allah was their Protecting Friend. In Allah let believers put their trust
Edward Henry Palmer1880 when two companies of you were on the point of showing cowardice; but God was their guardian, for on God surely the believers do rely
John Medows Rodwell1861 When two troops of you became full of anxious thoughts, and lost heart, and when God became the protector of both! In God, then, let the faithful trust
George Sale1734 when two companies of you were anxiously thoughtful, so that ye became faint-hearted; but God was the supporter of them both; and in God let the faithful trust
Easy-read (simplified)idh taqoolu lilmu'mineena alan yakfiyakum an yumiddakum rabbukum bithalaathati aalaafin mina l-malaa'ikati munzaleen
DIN 31635ʾiḏ taqūlu lilmuʾminīna ʾalan yakfiyakum ʾan yumiddakum rabbukum biṯalāṯati ʾālāfin mina l-malāʾikati munzalīna
Talal Itani2012 When you said to the believers, "Is it not enough for you that your Lord has reinforced you with three thousand angels, sent down?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 When thou didst say unto the believers: Is it not sufficient for you that your Lord should support you with three thousand angels sent down (to your help)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 When thou didst say unto the believers, 'Is it not enough for you that your Lord assists you with three thousand of the angels sent down from on high
John Medows Rodwell1861 Then thou didst say to the faithful, "Is it not enough for you that your Lord aideth you with three thousand angels sent down from on high
George Sale1734 When thou saidst unto the faithful, is it not enough for you, that your Lord should assist you with three thousand angels, sent down from heaven
Easy-read (simplified)balaa in tasbiroo watattaqoo waya'tookum min fawrihim haadhaa yumdidkum rabbukum bikhamsati aalaafin mina l-malaa'ikati musawwimeen
DIN 31635balā ʾin taṣbirū watattaqū wayaʾtūkum min fawrihim hāḏā yumdidkum rabbukum biḫamsati ʾālāfin mina l-malāʾikati musawwimīna
Talal Itani2012 It is; but if you persevere and remain cautious, and they attack you suddenly, your Lord will reinforce you with five thousand angels, well trained.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Nay, but if ye persevere, and keep from evil, and (the enemy) attack you suddenly, your Lord will help you with five thousand angels sweeping on
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Yea, if ye are patient and fear God, and they come upon you on a sudden, now, your Lord will assist you with five thousand of His angels, (angels) of mark
John Medows Rodwell1861 Aye: but ye if be steadfast and fear God, and the foe come upon you in hot haste, your Lord will help you with five thousand angels in their cognisances
George Sale1734 Verily if ye persevere, and fear God, and your enemies come upon you suddenly, your Lord will assist you with five thousand angels, distinguished by their horses and attire
These figures count the words the translations share. They measure wording, not meaning, and they do not say which translation is right.
Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.58 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
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.78
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.52
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.52
Talal Itani · George Sale0.48
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.40
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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.