Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.
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.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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
If a soretouch 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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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
Nëse pësoni ndonjë plagë, edhe jobesimtarët kanë pësuar plagë të ngjashme. Ne i ndërrojmë këto ditë (fitoreje e humbjeje) mes njerëzve, që Allahu t'i shquajë besimtarët dhe të zgjedhë dëshmorë nga mesi juaj. Allahu nuk i do të padrejtët.
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.
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বাংলা · Bengali
(হে মু’মিনগণ! উহুদের দিন) যদি তোমাদের আঘাত লেগে থাকে (আহত ও নিহত হয়ে থাকো), অনুরূপ আঘাত তো তাদেরও (কাফিরদেরও তো) লেগেছিল। মানুষের মধ্যে পর্যায়ক্রমে আমি এ দিনগুলোর আবর্তন ঘটাই(৭৬), যাতে আল্লাহ (প্রকৃত) ’মুমিনগণকে (মুনাফিকদের থেকে আলাদা করে) জানতে পারেন এবং তোমাদের মধ্য থেকে কিছু সংখ্যককে শহীদরূপে গ্রহণ করতে পারেন। আর আল্লাহ (জিহাদ পরিত্যাগ করে নিজের ওপর যুলমকারী) যালিমদেরকে পছন্দ করেন 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.
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Ako vas rane spopadnu – pa sigurno su takve rane i druge spopale – i te dane pobjede Mi naizmjenice dajemo ljudima, da bi Allah znao [1] one koji vjeruju, i odabrao neke od vas za šehide. A Allah ne voli nepravedne.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Ako vas rane spopadnu – pa sigurno su takve rane i druge spopale – i te dane pobjede Mi naizmjenice dajemo ljudima, da bi Allah znao one koji vjeruju, i odabrao neke od vas za šehide, A Allah ne voli nepravedne.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Si barme heɓii on, goŋɗii barme sugu mun heɓii yimɓe ɓen. Ɗii ñalɗi, Meɗen Yiltindira ɗi hakkunde yimɓe ɓen, e fii no Alla Anndira gooŋɗinɓe ɓen, O Jogitoo e mooɗon seedatooɓe. Alla Yiɗaa tooñooɓe ɓen.
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
თუ თქვენ ჭრილობამ შეგეხოთ (უჰუდის ბრძოლაში), მაშინ იცოდეთ, რომ ასეთივე ჭრილობა შეეხოთ იმ ხალხსაც [მრავალღმერთიანებს] (ბადრის ბრძოლაში). და ამ დღეებს ჩვენ ვაცვლევინებთ ადამიანებს შორის რიგრიგობით [ისინი ხან იმარჯვებენ, ხან მარცხდებიან], რათა ალლაჰმა გამოავლინოს ისინი, ვინც ჭეშმარიტად ირწმუნეს, და რათა თქვენს შორის აიყვანოს მოწამეები, — ჭეშმარიტად, ალლაჰს არ უყვარს უსამართლონი!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Wenn euch eine Wunde zugefügt werden sollte, so ist dem (ungläubigen) Volk bereits eine gleiche Wunde zugefügt worden. Und jene Tage (der Kriegserfolge) lassen Wir unter den Menschen wechseln. Dies, damit Allah diejenigen, die glauben, kennt und (damit) Er Märtyrer unter euch aussucht. Und Allah liebt nicht die Ungerechten.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Εάν συμβούν σ' εσάς πληγές (και θάνατος την Ημέρα του Ούχουντ), πράγματι έχουν συμβεί και στους άλλους (στους άπιστους) παρόμοιες πληγές (και θάνατος). Και εναλλάσσουμε εκείνες τις μέρες (με νίκη και ήττα) ανάμεσα στους ανθρώπους. Και για να ξέρει ο Αλλάχ (-αυτό που ήδη ξέρει-, δηλ. να εμφανιστεί σ' εσάς και να διαχωρίσει ο Αλλάχ με αυτή την ήττα) εκείνους που πιστεύουν, και για να πάρει μάρτυρες (που σκοτώθηκαν) από εσάς (για να τους τιμήσει με αυτή τη θέση στον Παράδεισο), και ο Αλλάχ δεν αγαπάει τους άδικους.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
यदि तुम्हें आघात पहुँचा है, तो उन लोगों[76] को भी इसी के समान आघात पहुँच चुका है। तथा इन दिनों को हम लोगों के बीच फेरते रहते[77] हैं। और ताकि अल्लाह उन लोगों को जान ले[78] जो ईमान वाले हैं, और तुममें से कुछ लोगों को शहादत नसीब करे। और अल्लाह अत्याचार करने वालों को पसंद नहीं करता।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Se subite una ferita, sappiate che una simile ferita ha già toccato un altro popolo: e quelli sono i giorni che alterniamo tra la gente, affinché Allāh sappia chi sono i credenti e scelga tra voi i martiri – e Allāh non ama gli ingiusti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
140. Jei sužeidimas (ir žudymas) palietė jus, būkite tikri, panašus sužeidimas (ir žudymas) palietė ir kitus. Ir tokios yra dienos (geros ir ne tokios geros), kurias Mes suteikiame žmonėms paeiliui, kad Allahas galėtų išbandyti tuos, kurie tiki, ir kad Jis galėtų pasiimti kankinius iš jūsų tarpo. Ir Allahas nemėgsta Zalimūn (daugiadievių ir nusidėjėlių).
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.
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Русский · Russian
Если вас постигла рана, то и тех людей постигла подобная рана. Мы чередуем эти дни [испытаний] среди людей, чтобы Аллах знал[28] тех, кто уверовал, и избрал [некоторых из вас] мучениками. А Аллах не любит несправедливых.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Ако вас ране спопадну - па сигурно су такве ране и друге спопале, и те дане победе Ми наизменице дајемо људима, да би Аллах указао на оне који верују, и одабрао неке од вас који су животом посведочили. А Аллах не воли неправеднике.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Ikiwa mtaguswa na majeraha, basi kwa hakika hao watu wengine walikwishapatwa na majeraha mfano wake. Na siku za namna hii tunawaletea watu kwa zamu, ili Mwenyezi Mungu awajue wale walioamini na awateue miongoni mwenu wanaokufa kwa ajili ya Dini (Mashahidi). Na Mwenyezi Mungu hawapendi madhalimu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Om ni drabbas av skada, har er fiende redan drabbats av liknande skada. Så låter vi dagarna växla mellan människorna, för att Gud ska låta de troende träda fram och för att utvälja martyrer bland er. Gud tycker inte om de orättfärdiga.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Eğer siz (Uhud’da) bir yara aldıysanız, şüphesiz o topluluk da (Müşrikler de Bedir’de) benzeri bir yara almıştı. İşte (iyi veya kötü) günleri insanlar arasında (böyle) döndürür dururuz. (Bazen bir topluma iyi ya da kötü günler gösteririz, bazen öbürüne.) Allah, sizden iman edenleri ayırt etmek, sizden şahitler edinmek için böyle yapar. Allah, zalimleri sevmez.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اگر تم زخمی ہوئے ہو تو تمہارے مخالف لوگ بھی تو ایسے ہی زخمی ہو چکے ہیں، ہم ان دنوں کو لوگوں کے درمیان ادلتے بدلتے رہتے ہیں[1] ۔ (شکست احد) اس لئے تھی کہ اللہ تعالیٰ ایمان والوں کو ﻇاہر کردے اور تم میں سے بعض کو شہادت کا درجہ عطا فرمائے، اللہ تعالیٰ ﻇالموں سے محبت نہیں کرتا.
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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Talal Itani2012 Or do you expect to enter Paradise, before God has distinguished those among you who strive, and before He has distinguished the steadfast?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Or deemed ye that ye would enter paradise while yet Allah knoweth not those of you who really strive, nor knoweth those (of you) who are steadfast
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Do ye think that ye can enter Paradise and God not know those of you who have fought well, or know the patient
John Medows Rodwell1861 Thought ye that ye should enter Paradise ere God had taken knowledge of those among you who did valiantly, and of those who steadfastly endure
George Sale1734 Did ye imagine that ye should enter paradise, when as yet God knew not those among you who fought strenuously in his cause; nor knew those who persevered with patience
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.64 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.72
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · George Sale0.64
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.54
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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.