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Talal Itani· published 2012
Those to whom the people have said, "The people have mobilized against you, so fear them." But this only increased them in faith, and they said, "God is enough for us; He is the Excellent Protector."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Those unto whom men said: Lo! the people have gathered against you, therefor fear them. (The threat of danger) but increased the faith of them and they cried: Allah is Sufficient for us! Most Excellent is He in Whom we trust
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
To whom when men said, 'Verily, men have gathered round you, fear then them,' it only increased their faith, and they said, 'God is enough for us, a goodguardian is He
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Who, when men said to them, "Now are the Meccansmustering against you; therefore fear them!" it only increased their faith, and they said, "Our sufficiency is God, and He is an excellent protector
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
unto whom certain men said, verily the men of Mecca have already gathered forces against you, be ye therefore afraid of them: But this increased their faith, and they said, God is our support, and the most excellent patron
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
Kur njerëzit u thanë atyre: "Njerëzit janë mbledhur kundër jush, prandaj kini frikë!", kjo vetëm sa ua shtoi edhe më shumë imanin dhe thanë: "Neve na mjafton Allahu dhe Ai është Mbrojtësi më i mirë!"
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বাংলা · Bengali
লোকেরা তাদেরকে বলেছিল: ‘তোমাদের বিরুদ্ধে বিরাট বাহিনী জড়ো হয়েছে, কাজেই তোমরা তাদেরকে ভয় করো।’(৯৬) কিন্তু এ কথা শুনে আল্লাহর প্রতি তাদের ঈমান আরো বেড়ে গিয়েছিলো এবং তারা বলেছিলো: ‘আল্লাহই আমাদের জন্য যথেষ্ট এবং তিনি কতই না উত্তম কর্মবিধায়ক!’
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Onima kojima se – kada su im ljudi rekli: "Neprijatelji se okupljaju zbog vas, pa pazite ih se!" – vjerovanje povećalo, pa su kazali: "Nama je Allah dovoljan, a divan je On Zaštitnik."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Onima kojima se – kada su im ljudi rekli: "Neprijatelji se okupljaju zbog vas, pa pazite ih se!" vjerovanje povećalo, pa su kazali: "Nama je Allah dovoljan, a divan je On Zaštitnik."
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.
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
(ესენი არიან ისინი), ვისაც ხალხმა [ზოგიერთმა მრავალღმერთიანმა] უთხრეს: «აი, ხალხი [მექქელი მრავალღმერთიანები] შეიკრიბნენ თქვენს წინააღმდეგ (რათა დაბრუნდნენ და გაგანადგურონ), ამიტომ გეშინოდეთ მათი!» მაგრამ ამან მხოლოდ უფრო მეტად გაუძლიერა მათ რწმენა, და თქვეს: «საკმარისია ჩვენთვის ალლაჰი — და რა მშვენიერი მფარველია იგი!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Diejenigen, zu denen die Menschen sagten: „Wahrlich, die Menschen haben sich ja gegen euch versammelt; daher fürchtet sie!“ - Doch da mehrte das (nur) ihren Glauben, und sie sagten: „Unsere Genüge ist Allah, und welch trefflicher Sachwalter!“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Εκείνοι στους οποίους οι άνθρωποι (μερικοί από τους πολυθεϊστές) είπαν: «Οι άνθρωποι (οι Κουράις υπό την ηγεσία του Άμπου Σουφιάν) μαζεύτηκαν (σε μεγάλα πλήθη) εναντίον σας, γι' αυτό να τους φοβάστε.» (Αλλά αυτό) τους αύξησε την πίστη και είπαν: «Μας αρκεί ο Αλλάχ, και είναι ο Καλύτερος Διαχειριστής (όλων των υποθέσεων).»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
ये वही लोग हैं जिनसे लोगों ने कहा कि दुश्मनों ने तुम्हारे विरुद्ध सेना इकट्ठा कर ली है।[97] अतः उनसे डरो। तो इस (सूचना) ने उनके ईमान को और बढ़ा दिया और उन्होंने कहा : हमारे लिए अल्लाह काफ़ी है और वह बहुत अच्छा कार्यसाधक (काम बनाने वाला) है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Quelli a cui la gente disse: «In verità il nemico si è riunito contro di voi, temetelo!», ciò gli è stato utile soltanto a rafforzare la loro fede, e dissero: «A noi è sufficiente Allāh e Lui è il migliore dei protettori!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
173. Tie (t. y. tikintieji), kuriems žmonės (veidmainiai) sakė: „Iš tiesų, žmonės (pagonys) surinko prieš jus (didžiulę armiją), taigi bijokite jų.“ Tačiau tai (tik) padidino jų Tikėjimą ir jie sakė: „Allahas (Vienintelis) yra Pakankamas mums ir Jis yra Geriausias Tvarkytojas (mūsų) reikalų.“
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
[Это] те, кому люди сказали: «Воистину, люди уже собрались против вас, так бойтесь же их!» — но [это] лишь приумножило их веру, и они сказали: «Аллах достаточен для нас, и Он — лучший Покровитель».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Онима којима се - када су им људи рекли: „Непријатељи се окупљају због вас, па их се пазите!“- Веровање повећало, па су казали: „Нама је довољан Аллах, а диван је Он Заштитник.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Wale walioambiwa na watu: 'Hakika, kuna watu wamewakusanyikia, hivyo waogopeni!' Hayo yakawazidishia Imani, na wakasema: Mwenyezi Mungu anatutosha, naye ni mbora zaidi wa kutegemewa.
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Svenska · Swedish
De till vilka det sades: ”Folk har slutit sig samman mot er, så frukta dem!” Men det ökade bara deras tro, och de sa: ”Gud är tillräcklig för oss, och han är den bäste att anförtro sina angelägenheter åt!”
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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Türkçe · Turkish
Onlara bazı kimseler: "İnsanlar sizinle savaşmak için toplandı; onlardan korkun!" dediklerinde bu onların imanını arttırdı ve; “Allah bize yeter, O ne güzel vekildir” diye karşılık verdiler.
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اردو · Urdu
وه لوگ کہ جب ان سے لوگوں نے کہا کہ کافروں نے تمہارے مقابلے پر لشکر جمع کر لئے ہیں، تم ان سے خوف کھاؤ تو اس بات نے انہیں ایمان میں اور بڑھا دیا اور کہنے لگے ہمیں اللہ کافی ہے اور وه بہت اچھا کارساز ہے.[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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DIN 31635yastabširūna biniʿmatin mina llāhi wafaḍlin waʾanna llāha lā yuḍīʿu ʾaǧra l-muʾminīna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 They rejoice in grace from God, and bounty, and that God will not waste the reward of the faithful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They rejoice because of favour from Allah and kindness, and that Allah wasteth not the wage of the believers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 glad at favour from God and grace, and that God wasteth not the hire of the believers
John Medows Rodwell1861 Filled with joy at the favours of God, and at his bounty: and that God suffereth not the reward of the faithful to perish
George Sale1734 They are filled with joy for the favour which they have received from God, and his bounty; and for that God suffereth not the reward of the faithful to perish
Easy-read (simplified)alladheena stajaaboo lillaahi war-rasooli min ba'di maa asaabahumu l-qarhu lilladheena ahsanoo minhum waattaqaw ajrun 'azeem
DIN 31635allaḏīna staǧābū lillāhi war-rasūli min baʿdi mā ʾaṣābahumu l-qarḥu lillaḏīna ʾaḥsanū minhum wāttaqaw ʾaǧrun ʿaẓīmun
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Those who responded to God and the Messenger, despite the persecution they had suffered. For the virtuous and the pious among them is a great reward.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 As for those who heard the call of Allah and His messenger after the harm befell them (in the fight); for such of them as do right and ward off (evil), there is great reward
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Whoso answered to the call of God and of His prophet after sorrow had befallen them, for those, if they do good and fear God, is a mighty hire
John Medows Rodwell1861 As to those who after the reverse which befel them, respond to God and the Apostle - such of them as do good works and fear God, shall have a great reward
George Sale1734 They who hearkened unto God and his apostle, after a wound had befallen them at Ohod, such of them as do good works, and fear God, shall have a great reward
DIN 31635fānqalabū biniʿmatin mina llāhi wafaḍlin lam yamsashum sūʾun wāttabaʿū riḍwāna llāhi wallāhu ḏū faḍlin ʿaẓīmin
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 So they came back with grace from God, and bounty, and no harm having touched them. They pursued what pleases God. God possesses immense grace.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 So they returned with grace and favour from Allah, and no harm touched them. They followed the good pleasure of Allah, and Allah is of Infinite Bounty
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then they retired in favour from God and grace; no evil touched them; they followed the pleasure of God, and God is Lord of mighty grace
John Medows Rodwell1861 They returned, therefore, with the favour of God, enriched by Him, and untouched by harm; and they followed what was well pleasing to God. And God is of great Munificence
George Sale1734 Wherefore they returned with favour from God, and advantage; no evil befell them: And they followed what was well pleasing unto God; for God is endowed with great liberality
Talal Itani2012 That is only Satan frightening his partisans; so do not fear them, but fear Me, if you are believers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 It is only the devil who would make (men) fear his partisans. Fear them not; fear Me, if ye are true believers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 It is only that Satan who frightens his friends. Do not ye fear them, but fear me, if ye be believers
John Medows Rodwell1861 Only would that Satan instil the fear of his adherents: Fear them not, but fear me if ye are believers
George Sale1734 Verily that devil would cause you to fear his friends: But be ye not afraid of them; but fear me, if ye be true believers
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 —
0.64 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
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.75
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.73
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · George Sale0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.60
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.51
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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.