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Talal Itani· published 2012
And do not waver, nor feelremorse. You are the superior ones, if you are believers.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Faint not nor grieve, for ye will overcome them if ye are (indeed) believers
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
Do not giveway nor grieve, for ye shall have the upper hand if ye but be believers
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And be not dismayed, neither be ye grieved; for ye shall be superior to the unbelievers if ye believe
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
Mos u dobësoni e mos u pikëlloni, sepse ju jeni më të lartët, nëse jeni besimtarë!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
তোমরা হীনবল হয়ো না এবং দুঃখ করো না। তোমরাই বিজয়ী হবে, যদি তোমরা মু’মিন হও।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Ne klonite duhom, i ne žalostite se! Vi ćete pobijediti, ako vjernici budete.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Ne klonite duhom, i ne žalostite se! Vi ćete pobijediti, ako vjernici budete.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Wata on lo'ino, wata on cuno, ko onon woni toowuɓe ɓen, si on laatike gooŋɗuɓe.
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ქართული · Georgian
და არ დაეცეთ სულით (ო, მორწმუნენო) და ნუ დამწუხრდებით (იმის გამო, რაც უჰუდის მთასთან შეგემთხვათ), მაშინ როდესაც თქვენ იქნებით აღმატებულნი [გაიმარჯვებთ], თუ თქვენ (ნამდვილად) მორწმუნენი ხართ!
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Deutsch · German
Und werdet nicht schwach noch seid traurig, wo ihr doch die Oberhand haben werdet, wenn ihr (wirklich) gläubig seid.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Και μην αποδυναμώνεστε (ω, πιστοί) και μην λυπάστε (επειδή χάσατε κατά τη μάχη του Ούχουντ), ενώ είστε οι ανώτεροι, αν είστε πραγματικά πιστοί.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और तुम कमज़ोर न बनो और न ही शोक करो। और तुम ही सर्वोच्च रहोगे, यदि तुम ईमान वाले हो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
non vi indebolite ﴾contro il nemico﴿ e non rattristatevi ﴾per ciò che non avete ottenuto﴿: sarete i vittoriosi, se siete credenti!
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
139. Taigi nebūkite neryžtingi (prieš savo priešus), nei nusiminę, ir jūs būsite pranašesni (pergalėje), jei iš tiesų esate (tikri) tikintieji.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
hin laafinaa; hin gaddinaas isintu irra aanoodha Yoo mu’uminoota taatan.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И не падайте духом и не печальтесь, когда вы — выше, если вы являетесь верующими.
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Српски · Serbian
Не клоните духом, и не жалостите се! Ви ћете да победите, ако верници будете.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Wala msilegee, wala msihuzunike, kwani nyinyi ndio wa juu ikiwa nyinyi ni Waumini.
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Svenska · Swedish
Förlora inte modet och låt er inte gripas av sorg! Ni har övertaget, om ni verkligen är troende.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Gevşemeyin, hüzünlenmeyin. Eğer (gerçekten) iman etmiş kimseler iseniz üstün olan sizlersiniz.
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اردو · Urdu
تم نہ سستی کرو اور غمگین ہو، تم ہی غالب رہو گے، اگر تم ایماندار ہو.[1]
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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The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Many societies have passed away before you. So travel the earth and note the fate of the deniers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Systems have passed away before you. Do but travel in the land and see the nature of the consequence for those who did deny (the messengers)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Incidents have passed before your time, go on then in the earth, and see what was the end of those who called (the prophets) liars
John Medows Rodwell1861 Already, before your time, have examples been made! Traverse the earth, then, and see what hath been the end of those who treat prophets as liars
George Sale1734 There have already been before you examples of punishment of infidels, therefore go through the earth, and behold what hath been the end of those who accuse God's apostles of imposture
Talal Itani2012 If a wound afflicts you, a similar wound has afflicted the others. Such days We alternate between the people, that God may know those who believe, and take martyrs from among you. God does not love the evildoers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 If ye have received a blow, the (disbelieving) people have received a blow the like thereof. These are (only) the vicissitudes which We cause to follow one another for mankind, to the end that Allah may know those who believe and may choose witnesses from among you; and Allah loveth not wrong-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 If a sore touch you, a sore like it has touched people: these are days which we make to alternate amongst mankind that God may know who it is that believe, and may take from you witnesses, for God loves not the unjust
John Medows Rodwell1861 If a wound hath befallen you, a wound like it hath already befallen others: we alternate these days of successes and reverses among men, that God may know those who have believed, and that He may take martyrs from among you, - but God loveth not the wrongful doers
George Sale1734 If a wound hath happended unto you in war, a like wound hath already happened unto the unbelieving people: And we cause these days of different success interchangeably to succeed each other among men; that God may know those who believe, and may have martyrs from among you: -- God loveth not the workers of iniquity
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 —
0.73 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
computed, not judged.
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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.83
Talal Itani · George Sale0.79
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.78
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.77
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.77
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.76
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.72
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.70
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.52
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sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
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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.