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But when Jesus perceived their unbelief, he said, who will be my helpers towards God? The apostles answered, we will be the helpers of God; we believe in God, and do thou bear witness that we are truebelievers
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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
When Jesus sensed disbelief on their part, he said, "Who are my allies towards God?" The disciples said, "We are God's allies; we have believed in God, and bear witness that we submit."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
But when Jesus becameconscious of their disbelief, he cried: Who will be my helpers in the cause of Allah? The disciples said: We will be Allah's helpers. We believe in Allah, and bear thou witness that we have surrendered (unto 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
And when Jesus perceived their unbelief, He said, 'Who are my helpers for God?' Said the apostles, 'We are God's helpers. We believe in God, so bear witness that we are resigned
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when Jesus perceived unbelief on their part, He said, "Who my helpers with God?" The apostles said, "We will be God's helpers! We believe in God, and bear thou witness that we are Muslims
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Kur Isai pa (këmbëngulësinë në) mosbesimin e tyre, tha: "Cilët janë ndihmëtarët e mi në rrugën e Allahut?" Nxënësit e tij thanë: "Ne jemi ndihmëtarët e (fesë së) Allahut. Ne besojmë Allahun, andaj dëshmo se ne jemi muslimanë (të nënshtruar ndaj Allahut)!"
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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
অতঃপর যখন ঈসা তাদের (বানূ ইসরাঈলদের) পক্ষ হতে কুফরী উপলব্ধি করল তখন সে বলল: ‘কে আল্লাহর জন্য আমার সাহায্যকারী হবে’? হাওয়ারীগণ বললো: ‘আমরা আল্লাহর (দ্বীনের) সাহায্যকারী। আমরা আল্লাহর প্রতি ঈমান এনেছি ।আপনি সাক্ষী থাকুন যে, আমরা মুসলিম।(২৮)
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
I kada je Isa osjetio da oni ne vjeruju, rekao je: "Ko su pomagači moji na putu prema Allahu?" "Mi smo pomagači Allahovi", rekoše učenici, "mi u Allaha vjerujemo, a ti budi svjedok da smo mi muslimani – predani.
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 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
I kada je Isus osjetio da oni ne vjeruju, rekao je: "Tko su pomagači moji na putu prema Allahu?" "Mi smo pomagači Allahovi," rekoše učenici, "mi u Allaha vjerujemo, a ti budi svjedok da smo mi muslimani – predani."
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 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Tuma nde Iisaa so'unoo keeferaaku ngu e maɓɓe, o wii: "Ko hommbo wallata kam e [diina] Alla [kan]?". Hawaaruyaŋko en wi'i: "Menen ko men wallooɓe [e diina] Alla [kan], men gomɗinii Alla, seedo won de ko men jebbiiliiɓe".
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
۞ და როცა 'ისამ იგრძნო მათში ურწმუნოება, უთხრა (თავის გულწრფელ მიმდევრებს): «ვინ იქნებიან ჩემი დამხმარენი (ალლაჰის გზაზე)?» თქვეს მოწაფეებმა: «ჩვენ ვართ ალლაჰის დამხმარენი. ვირწმუნეთ ალლაჰი, მაშ, დაამოწმე (ო, 'ისა), რომ ჩვენ ვართ მორჩილნი».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Als dann 'Isa ihren Unglauben (ver)spürte, sagte er: „Wer sind meine Helfer (auf dem Weg hin) zu Allah?“ Die Jünger sagten: „Wir sind die Helfer Allahs. Wir glauben an Allah, und bezeuge, dass wir (Ihm ergebene) Muslime sind!“
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 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Μα όταν ο Ιησούς αντιλήφτηκε την απιστία από μέρους τους (των παιδιών του Ισραήλ, και ότι θέλουν να τον σκοτώσουν), είπε: «Ποιοι θα είναι οι υποστηρικτές μου στο δρόμο του Αλλάχ;» Οι στενοί (του) μαθητές είπαν: «Είμαστε οι υποστηρικτές (της θρησκείας) του Αλλάχ. Πιστεύουμε στον Αλλάχ και να μαρτυρήσεις ότι είμαστε Μουσουλμάνοι (υποταγμένοι στη Θεία Βούληση).
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
हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर जब ईसा ने उनसे कुफ़्र महसूस किया, तो कहा : कौन हैं जो अल्लाह की ओर (बुलाने में) मेरे सहायक हैं? ह़वारियों (साथियों) ने कहा : हम अल्लाह के सहायक हैं। हम अल्लाह पर ईमान लाए और तुम गवाह रहो कि निःसंदेह हम आज्ञाकारी हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E quando ‘Īsa presagì in loro la miscredenza, disse: «Chi sono i miei sostenitori in favore di Allāh?» Dissero gli apostoli: «Noi siamo i sostenitori di Allāh! Crediamo in Allāh, e testimonia che in verità siamo musulmani!
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
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
52. Tuomet, kai Isa (Jėzus) sužinojo apie jų netikėjimą, tarė: „Kas bus mano pagalbininkais vardan Allaho?“ Al-Havaryjūn (apaštalai) tarė: „Mes esame Allaho padėjėjai, mes tikime Allahą ir liudijame, kad esame musulmonai (t. y. mes paklūstame Allahui).“
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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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И когда ‘Иса почувствовал от них неверие, он сказал: «Кто [из вас] мои помощники на пути к Аллаху?» Его ученики сказали: «Мы — помощники Аллаха; мы уверовали в Аллаха. Засвидетельствуй что мы — покорившиеся [Аллаху].
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
И када је Исус осетио да они не верују, рекао је: „Ко су помагачи моји на путу према Аллаху?“ „Ми смо Аллахови помагачи“, рекоше ученици, „ми у Аллаха верујемо, а ти буди сведок да смо ми Аллаху предани.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Isa alipohisi ukafiri miongoni mwao, akasema: Ni nani watakaonisaidia katika kulingania kwa Mwenyezi Mungu? Wanafunzi wake wakasema: Sisi tutamnusuru Mwenyezi Mungu. Tumemuamini Mwenyezi Mungu, na shuhudia kwamba sisi hakika ni Waislamu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
När Jesus märkte att de höll fast vid sin otro sa han: ”Vilka kommer att hjälpa mig [i kallelsen] till Gud?” Lärjungarna svarade: ”Vi är Guds hjälpare. Vi tror på Gud, så vittna du att vi är muslimer.
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
Türkçe · Turkish
İsa, onların küfrünü hissedince: "Allah uğrunda bana yardımcı olacak kim vardır?" dedi. Havariler de şöyle cevap verdiler: "Biz Allah’ın yardımcılarıyız, Allah’a iman ettik, O’na teslim olduğumuza da şahit ol!"
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
مگر جب حضرت عیسیٰ علیہ السلام نے ان کا کفر محسوس کر لیا[1] تو کہنے لگے اللہ تعالیٰ کی راه میں میری مدد کرنے واﻻ کون کون ہے؟[2] حواریوں[3] نے جواب دیا کہ ہم اللہ تعالیٰ کی راه کے مددگار ہیں، ہم اللہ تعالیٰ پر ایمان ﻻئے اور آپ گواه رہئے کہ ہم تابعدار ہیں۔
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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Easy-read (simplified)wamusaddiqan limaa bayna yadayya mina t-tawraati wali'uhilla lakum ba'da lladhee hurrima 'alaykum waji'tukum bi'aayatin min rabbikum faattaqoo llaaha wa'atee'oon
DIN 31635wamuṣaddiqan limā bayna yadayya mina t-tawrāti waliʾuḥilla lakum baʿḍa llaḏī ḥurrima ʿalaykum waǧiʾtukum biʾāyatin min rabbikum fāttaqū llāha waʾaṭīʿūni
Talal Itani2012 "And verifying what lies before me of the Torah, and to make lawful for you some of what was forbidden to you. I have come to you with a sign from your Lord; so fear God, and obey me."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And (I come) confirming that which was before me of the Torah, and to make lawful some of that which was forbidden unto you. I come unto you with a sign from your Lord, so keep your duty to Allah and obey me
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And I will confirm what is before you of the law, and will surely make lawful for you some of that which was prohibited from you. I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, so fear God and follow me
John Medows Rodwell1861 And I have come to attest the law which was before me; and to allow you part of that which had been forbidden you; and I come to you with a sign from your Lord: Fear God, then, and obey me
George Sale1734 And I come to confirm the law which was revealed before me, and to allow unto you as lawful, part of that which hath been forbidden you: And I come unto you with a sign from your Lord; therefore fear God, and obey me
DIN 31635rabbanā ʾāmannā bimā ʾanzalta wāttabaʿnā r-rasūla faktubnā maʿa š-šāhidīna
Talal Itani2012 "Our Lord, we have believed in what You have revealed, and we have followed the Messenger, so count us among the witnesses."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Our Lord! We believe in that which Thou hast revealed and we follow him whom Thou hast sent. Enrol us among those who witness (to the truth)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Lord, we have believed in what Thou hast revealed, and we have followed the Apostle, so write us down with those which bear witness
John Medows Rodwell1861 O our Lord! we believe in what thou hast sent down, and we follow the apostle; write us up, then, with those who bear witness to him
George Sale1734 O Lord, we believe in that which thou hast sent down, and we have followed thy apostle; write us down therefore with those who bear witness of him
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Talal Itani · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.58
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.51
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.47
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.40
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.33
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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.