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Talal Itani· published 2012
Or do you expect to enter Paradise, before God has distinguished those among you who strive, and before He has distinguished the steadfast?
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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 ye think that ye can enter Paradise and God not know those of you who have fought well, or know the patient
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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
A mos mendoni ju se do të hyni në Xhenet pa i spikatur Allahu (përmes sprovave) luftëtarët (e vërtetë) nga mesi juaj dhe pa i nxjerrë në pah të durueshmit?!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
তোমরা কি মনে করে নিয়েছো যে, তোমরা জান্নাতে প্রবেশ করবে? অথচ আল্লাহ এখনো জানেননি (৭৭) তোমাদের মধ্যে কে জিহাদকারী এবং কে ধৈর্যশীল?
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
Zar mislite da ćete ući u Džennet, a da Allah ne zna i ne ukaže na one od vas koji se bore, i da ne zna one koji su strpljivi?!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Zar mislite da ćete ući u Raj, a da Allah ne zna one od vas koji se bore, i da ne zna one koji su strpljivi?!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Kaa on cikku on naatay Aljanna hara Alla Anndaali ɓen tiɗniiɓe e mooɗon O Annda muññiiɓe ɓen?
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ქართული · Georgian
ნუთუ თქვენ (საჰაბებო) ფიქრობდით, რომ სამოთხეში შეხვიდოდით, მაშინ როდესაც ალლაჰმა ჯერ კიდევ არ გამოავლინა თქვენგან ისინი, ვინც იღვწოდა მის გზაზე, და (არ) გამოავლინა მომთმენნი (ურწმუნოთა წინააღმდეგ ბრძოლაში)?
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Deutsch · German
Oder meint ihr etwa, dass ihr in den (Paradies)garten eingehen werdet, noch ehe Allah diejenigen von euch kennt, die unter euch sich abmühten, und die Geduldigen kennt?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ή μήπως νομίζετε ότι θα εισέλθετε στον Παράδεισο χωρίς ο Αλλάχ να ξέρει (-αυτό που ήδη ξέρει- δηλ. να εμφανιστεί σ' εσάς και να δει ο Αλλάχ) αυτούς από εσάς που αγωνίστηκαν (στον δρόμο Του) και αυτούς που παρέμειναν υπομονετικοί;
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
क्या तुमने समझ रखा है कि जन्नत में प्रवेश कर जाओगे, जबकि अल्लाह ने अभी (परीक्षाकर) यह नहीं परखा है कि तुममें से कौन जिहाद करने वाले हैं और कौन (संकट के समय) डटे रहने वाले हैं?
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
O credete di entrare in Paradiso senza che Allāh sappia quali di voi hanno combattuto e quali sono stati i pazienti?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
142. Ar jūs manote, kad įžengsite į Rojų, kol Allahas neišbandys tų iš jūsų, kurie kovojo (vardan Jo) ir (taip pat) neišbandys tų, kurie yra As-Sabirūn (kantrieji)?
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Sila odoo (mokkoramtanii obsitanii) Rabbiin isin irraa warra qabsaa’aniifi warra obsan hin hinbeekin (adda hinbaasin) jannata seenuu yaadduu? (hinyaadinaa).
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Русский · Russian
Неужели вы думали, что войдёте в Рай, прежде чем Аллах узнает тех из вас, которые сражались, и узнает терпеливых?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Зар мислите да ћете да уђете у Рај, а да Аллах не укаже на оне међу вама који се боре, и на оне који су стрпљиви?!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Je, mnadhani kwamba mtaingia Bustanini ilhali Mwenyezi Mungu hajawajua wale miongoni mwenu waliopigana Jihadi, na akawajua waliosubiri?
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Svenska · Swedish
Eller trodde ni att ni skulle få träda in i paradiset utan att Gud gjort tydligt vilka av er som kämpar och vilka som visar tålamod?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Yoksa siz; Allah, içinizden cihad edenleri (sınayıp) ayırt etmeden ve yine sabredenleri (sınayıp) ayırt etmeden Cennet'e gireceğinizi mi sandınız?
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اردو · Urdu
کیا تم یہ سمجھ بیٹھے ہو کہ تم جنت میں چلے جاؤ گے[1] ، حاﻻنکہ اب تک اللہ تعالیٰ نے یہ ﻇاہر نہیں کیا کہ تم سے جہاد کرنے والے کون ہیں اور صبر کرنے والے کون ہیں؟[2]
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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
Easy-read (simplified)wamaa muhammadun illaa rasoolun qad khalat min qablihi r-rusulu afa'in maata aw qutila nqalabtum 'alaa a'qaabikum waman yanqalib 'alaa 'aqibayhi falan yadurra llaaha shay'an wasayajzee llaahu sh-shaakireen
DIN 31635wamā muḥammadun ʾillā rasūlun qad ḫalat min qablihi r-rusulu ʾafaʾin māta ʾaw qutila nqalabtum ʿalā ʾaʿqābikum waman yanqalib ʿalā ʿaqibayhi falan yaḍurra llāha šayʾan wasayaǧzī llāhu š-šākirīna
Talal Itani2012 Muhammad is no more than a messenger. Messengers have passed on before him. If he dies or gets killed, will you turn on your heels? He who turns on his heels will not harm God in any way. And God will reward the appreciative.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Muhammad is but a messenger, messengers (the like of whom) have passed away before him. Will it be that, when he dieth or is slain, ye will turn back on your heels? He who turneth back on his heels doth no hurt to Allah, and Allah will reward the thankful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Mohammed is but an apostle; apostles have passed away before his time; what if he die or is killed, will ye retreat upon your heels? He who retreats upon his heels does no harm to God at all; but God will recompense the thankful
John Medows Rodwell1861 Muhammad is no more than an apostle; other apostles have already passed away before him: if he die, therefore, or be slain, will ye turn upon your heels? But he who turneth on his heels shall not injure God at all: And God will certainly reward the thankful
George Sale1734 Mohammed is no more than an apostle; the other apostles have already deceased before him: If he die therefore, or be slain, will ye turn back on your heels? But he who turneth back on his heels, will not hurt God at all; and God will surely reward the thankful
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
Talal Itani · George Sale0.82
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.76
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.75
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.75
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.73
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.73
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.67
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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.