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Talal Itani· published 2012
It is by of grace from God that you were gentle with them. Had you been harsh, hardhearted, they would have dispersed from around you. So pardon them, and ask forgiveness for them, and consult them in the conduct of affairs. And when you make a decision, put your trust in God; God loves the trusting.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
It was by the mercy of Allah that thou wast lenient with them (O Muhammad), for if thou hadst been stern and fierce of heart they would have dispersed from round about thee. So pardon them and ask forgiveness for them and consult with them upon the conduct of affairs. And when thou art resolved, then put thy trust in Allah. Lo! Allah loveth those who put their trust (in Him)
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
It was by a sort of mercy from God thou didst dealgently with them, for hadst thou been rough and rude of heart they had dispersed from around thee. But pardon them, and ask forgiveness for them, and takecounsel with them in the affair. As for what thou hast resolved, rely upon God; verily, God loves those who do rely
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Of the mercy of God thou hast spoken to them in gentle terms. Hadst thou been severe and harsh-hearted, they would have brokenaway from thee. Therefore, forgive and ask for pardon for them, and consult them in the affair of war, and when thou art resolved, then put thou thy trust in God, for God loveth those who trust in Him
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And as to the mercy granted unto the disobedient from God, thou O Mohammed hast been mild towards them; but if thou hadst been severe, and hard-hearted, they had surelyseparated themselves from about thee. Therefore forgive them, and ask pardon for them: And consult them in the affair of war; and after thou hast deliberated, trust in God; for God loveth those who trust in Him
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
Me mëshirën e Allahut ti ishe i butë ndaj tyre. Po të ishe i vrazhdë e zemërashpër, ata do të largoheshin nga ti. Andaj, ndjeji ata, kërko falje për ta dhe këshillohu me ta për çështje. Mirëpo, kur të vendosësh, atëherë mbështetju Allahut, sepse vërtet Allahu i do ata që i mbështeten Atij.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আল্লাহর অতীব দয়ায় তুমি তাদের প্রতি হয়েছিলে কোমল-হৃদয়ের ; যদি তুমি রূঢ় ও কঠোরচিত্ত হতে তবে তারা তোমার আশপাশ থেকে বহু দূরে সরে যেতো। কাজেই তুমি তাদেরকে ক্ষমা করে দাও এবং তাদের জন্য ক্ষমা প্রার্থনা কর এবং কাজে কর্মে তাদের সাথে পরামর্শ কর। তারপর তুমি কোনো কাজ করার সংকল্প করলে আল্লাহর উপর নির্ভর করবে। নিশ্চয় আল্লাহ নির্ভরকারীদের ভালোবাসেন।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
S Allahovom milošću ti si blag prema njima; a da si grub i tvrda srca bio, sigurno bi pobjegli na sve strane od tebe. Zato im praštaj i moli da im bude oprošteno, i dogovaraj se s njima. A kada se odlučiš, na Allaha se osloni; Allah, doista voli one koji se na Njega oslanjaju.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
S Allahovom milošću ti si blag prema njima; a da si grub i tvrda srca bio, sigurno bi pobjegli na sve strane od tebe. Zato im praštaj i moli da im bude oprošteno, i dogovaraj se s njima. A kada se odlučiš, na Allaha se osloni; Allah, doista voli one koji se na Njega oslanjaju.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko sabu yurmeende imoorde ka Alla newaniɗaa ɓe. Si laatino saɗtuɗo tikka ɓerndeejo, ɓe lancotono ɓe iwa takko maa. Yaafo ɓe imsinanoɗaa ɓe, diisinoɗaa ɓe e fiyaake ɗen. Si a fellitii, fawo e Alla. Pellet, Alla no Yiɗi fawotooɓe ɓen [e Makko].
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ქართული · Georgian
ალლაჰის წყალობით, შენ (ო, მოციქულო) იყავი მათ მიმართ რბილი [კეთილი და შემწყნარებელი] (თანამგზავრების მიმართ). ხოლო რომ ყოფილიყავი მკაცრი და გულქვა, ისინი განშორდებოდნენ შენგან. ამიტომ აპატიე მათ (რაც მოხდა უჰუდის დროს), სთხოვე მათთვის ალლაჰისგან მიტევება და ეთათბირე მათ საქმეში (შეეკითხე მათ რჩევა რაიმე საქმეში). ხოლო როდესაც გადაწყვეტ, მაშინ მიენდე მხოლოდ ალლაჰს, რადგან ჭეშმარიტად, ალლაჰს უყვარს ისინი, ვინც მასზე არიან მინდობილნი.
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Deutsch · German
So bist du durch Barmherzigkeit von Allah mild zu ihnen gewesen. Wärst du aber grob und hartherzig, wären sie gewiss rings um dich fortgelaufen. So verzeihe ihnen, bitte für sie um Vergebung und ziehe sie zu Rate in den Angelegenheiten. Und wenn du dich entschlossen hast, dann verlasse dich auf Allah! Wahrlich, Allah liebt die sich (auf Ihn) Verlassenden.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Και με το Έλεος του Αλλάχ (ω, Μωχάμμαντ) έγινες επιεικής απέναντί τους. Και αν ήσουν αυστηρός στο λόγο και σκληρόκαρδος, θα έφευγαν από γύρω σου· έτσι, συγχώρεσέ τους, και ζήτα (από τον Αλλάχ) συγχώρεση γι’ αυτούς. Και ζήτα τη γνώμη τους για τις υποθέσεις. Έτσι, όταν παίρνεις μία απόφαση, εναπόθεσε την εμπιστοσύνη σου στον Αλλάχ. Στ’ αλήθεια ο Αλλάχ αγαπά αυτούς που εναποθέτουν την εμπιστοσύνη τους σ’ Αυτόν.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
अल्लाह की दया के कारण (ऐ नबी!) आप उनके[86] लिए सरल स्वभाव के हैं। और यदि आप प्रखर स्वभाव और कठोर हृदय के होते, तो वे आपके पास से छट जाते। अतः आप उन्हें माफ़ कर दें और उनके लिए क्षमा याचना करें। तथा उनसे मामलों में परामर्श करें। फिर जब आप दृढ़ संकल्प कर लें, तो अल्लाह पर भरोसा करें। निःसंदेह अल्लाह भरोसा करने वालों को पसंद करता है।
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Italiano · Italian
È stato per pietà di Allāh se t’inteneristi per loro. E se fossi stato severo e duro di cuore, si sarebbero allontanati da te, quindi perdonali e supplica pietà in loro favore e ascolta il loro consiglio sul da farsi. Ma se prendi la tua decisione, affidati ad Allāh: in verità Allāh ama quelli che si affidano a Lui.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
159. Dėl Allaho Gailestingumo, tu, o Pranaše, elgiesi su jais švelniai. O jei tu būtum buvęs žiaurus ir šiurkštaširdis, jie būtų ištrūkę nuo tavęs. Taigi atleiski (jų kaltes) ir prašyki (Allaho) Atleidimo jiems, ir patarki jiems jų reikaluose. Tada kai tu priimsi sprendimą, pasitikėk Allahu, be abejonės, Allahas myli tuos, kurie (Juo) pasitiki.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
(Yaa Muhammad!) rahmata Rabbi irraa ta’een isaaniif laafte, Odoo ati nama amala hamaa qalbii gogaa taatee silaa si biraa faca’u, Irra isaaniif dabri; isaaniif araarama kadhu; dhimmoota keessatti isaan mari’achiisi, Yeroo murattes Rabbirratti hirkadhu. Dhugumatti, Rabbiin warra (Isa) irratti hirkatan ni jaalata. [39]
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Русский · Russian
По милости от Аллаха ты был мягок с ними. А если бы ты был грубым, жестокосердным, то они непременно разошлись бы от тебя. Так прощай же их, проси для них прощения и советуйся с ними в делах. Когда же примешь решение, то уповай на Аллаха. Воистину, Аллах любит уповающих.
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Српски · Serbian
Са Аллаховом милошћу ти си благ према њима; а да си груб и тврдог срца, сигурно би се разбежали на све стране од тебе. Зато им праштај и моли да им буде опроштено, и договарај се са њима. А када се одлучиш, ослони се на Аллаха; Аллах, заиста воли оне који се ослањају на Њега.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi ni kwa sababu ya rehema itokayo kwa Mwenyezi Mungu ndiyo umekuwa laini kwao. Na lau ungelikuwa mkali, mwenye moyo mgumu, bila ya shaka wangelikukimbia. Basi wasamehe, na waombee kufutiwa dhambi, na shauriana nao katika mambo. Na ukishakata shauri, basi mtegemee Mwenyezi Mungu. Hakika, Mwenyezi Mungu huwapenda wanaomtegemea.
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Svenska · Swedish
Det var genom Guds barmhärtighet som du var mild mot dem. Om du hade varit sträng och hårdhjärtad, skulle de ha dragit sig ifrån dig. Ha därför överseende med dem och be om förlåtelse för dem och rådgör med dem i saker. När du väl har fattat ditt beslut, sätt då din lit till Gud. Gud älskar de som sätter sin lit till honom.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Allah’ın rahmeti sayesinde sen onlara karşı yumuşak davrandın. Eğer kaba, katı yürekli olsaydın, onlar senin etrafından dağılıp giderlerdi. Artık sen onları affet. Onlar için Allah’tan bağışlama dile. İş konusunda onlarla istişare et. Bir kere de karar verip azmettin mi artık Allah’a tevekkül et! (Ona dayanıp güven). Şüphesiz Allah, tevekkül edenleri sever.
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اردو · Urdu
اللہ تعالیٰ کی رحمت کے باعﺚ آپ ان پر نرم دل ہیں اور اگر آپ بد زبان اور سخت دل ہوتے تو یہ سب آپ کے پاس سے چھٹ جاتے، سو آپ ان سے درگزر کریں اور ان[1] کے لئے استغفار کریں اور کام کا مشوره ان سے کیا کریں[2]، پھر جب آپ کا پختہ اراده ہو جائے تو اللہ تعالیٰ پر بھروسہ کریں[3]، بے شک اللہ تعالیٰ توکل کرنے والوں سے محبت کرتا ہے.
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Easy-read (simplified)wala'in qutiltum fee sabeeli llaahi aw muttum lamaghfiratun mina llaahi warahmatun khayrun mimmaa yajma'oon
DIN 31635walaʾin qutiltum fī sabīli llāhi ʾaw muttum lamaġfiratun mina llāhi waraḥmatun ḫayrun mimmā yaǧmaʿūna
Talal Itani2012 If you are killed in the cause of God, or die-forgiveness and mercy from God are better than what they hoard.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And what though ye be slain in Allah's way or die therein? Surely pardon from Allah and mercy are better than all that they amass
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And if, indeed, ye be killed in God's way or die, surely forgiveness from God and mercy is better than what ye gather
John Medows Rodwell1861 And if ye shall be slain or die on the path of God, then pardon from God and mercy is better than all your amassings
George Sale1734 Moreover if ye be slain, or die in defence of the religion of God; verily pardon from God, and mercy is better than what they heap together of worldly riches
DIN 31635ʾin yanṣurkumu llāhu falā ġāliba lakum waʾin yaḫḏulkum faman ḏā llaḏī yanṣurukum min baʿdihi waʿalā llāhi falyatawakkali l-muʾminūna
Talal Itani2012 If God supports you, there is none who can overcome you. But if He fails you, who is there to help you after Him? So in God let the believers put their trust.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 If Allah is your helper none can overcome you, and if He withdraw His help from you, who is there who can help you after Him? In Allah let believers put their trust
Edward Henry Palmer1880 If God help you, there is none can overcome you; but if He leave you in the lurch, who is there can help you after Him? Upon God then let believers rely
John Medows Rodwell1861 If God help you, none shall overcome you; but if He abandon you, who is he that shall help you when He is gone? In God, then, let the faithful trust
George Sale1734 If God help you, none shall conquer you; but if he desert you, who is it that will help you after Him? Therefore in God let the faithful trust
Talal Itani2012 It is not for a prophet to act dishonestly. Whoever acts dishonestly will bring his dishonesty on the Day of Resurrection. Then every soul will be paid in full for what it has earned, and they will not be wronged.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 It is not for any prophet to embezzle. Whoso embezzleth will bring what he embezzled with him on the Day of Resurrection. Then every soul will be paid in full what it hath earned; and they will not be wronged
Edward Henry Palmer1880 It is not for the prophet to cheat; and he who cheats shall bring what he has cheated on the resurrection day. Then shall each soul be paid what it has earned, and they shall not be wronged
John Medows Rodwell1861 It is not the Prophet who will defraud you; - But he who shall defraud, shall come forth with his defraudings on the day of the resurrection: then shall every soul be paid what it hath merited, and they shall not be treated with injustice
George Sale1734 It is not the part of a prophet to defraud, for he who defraudeth, shall bring with him what he hath defrauded any one of, on the day of the resurrection. Then shall every soul be paid what he hath gained; and they shall not be treated unjustly
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.80
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.52
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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.