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.
Talal Itani· published 2012
And if anyone disputes with you about him, after the knowledge that has come to you, say, "Come, let us call our children and your children, and our women and your women, and ourselves and yourselves, and let us invoke God's curse on the liars."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And whoso disputeth with thee concerning him, after the knowledge which hath come unto thee, say (unto him): Come! We will summon our sons and your sons, and our women and your women, and ourselves and yourselves, then we will prayhumbly (to our Lord) and (solemnly) invoke the curse of Allah upon those who lie
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 whoso disputeth with thee after what has come to thee of knowledge, say, 'Come, let us call our sons and your sons, and our women and your women, and ourselves and yourselves: then we will imprecate and put God's curse on those who lie
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
As for those who dispute with thee about Him, after "theknowledge" hath come to thee, SAY: Come, let us summon our sons and your sons, our wives and your wives, and ourselves and yourselves. Then will we invoke and lay the malison of God on those that lie
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And whoever shall dispute with thee concerning him, after the knowledge which hath been given thee, say unto them, come, let us call together our sons, and your sons, and our wives, and your wives, and our selves, and your selves; then let us makeimprecations, and lay the curse of God on those who lie
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
Atyre që të kundërshtojnë lidhur me të (Isain), pasi të ka ardhur dija, thuaju: "Ejani t'i thërrasim bijtë tanë e bijtë tuaj, gratë tona e gratë tuaja, vetë ne e vetë ju dhe pastaj të lutemi që mallkimi i Allahut të bjerë mbi gënjeshtarët."
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 তোমার নিকট জ্ঞান আসার পর যে তোমার সাথে এ বিষয়ে ঝগড়া করে, তবে তুমি তাকে বল: ‘এসো আমরা আমাদের ছেলেদেরকে ও তোমাদের ছেলেদেরকে , আমাদের নারীদেরকে ও তোমাদের নারীদেরকে এবং আমাদের নিজেদেরকে ও তোমাদের নিজেদেরকে আহবান করি। তারপর আমরা বিনীত প্রার্থনা (মুবাহালা) করি, ‘মিথ্যাবাদীদের ওপর আল্লাহর লা’নত করি।’
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
A onima koji s tobom o njemu budu raspravljali, nakon što ti je došlo znanje, reci: "Dođite, pozvat ćemo sinove naše i sinove vaše, i žene naše i žene vaše, a doći ćemo i mi i vi, pa ćemo se proklinjati i Allahovo prokletstvo na one koji lažu prizvati!"
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
A onima koji s tobom o Njemu budu raspravljali, nakon što ti je došlo znanje, reci: "Dođite, pozvat ćemo sinove naše i sinove vaše, i žene naše i žene vaše, a doći ćemo i mi i vi, pa ćemo se proklinjati i Allahovo prokletstvo na one koji lažu prizvati!"
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Kala wennjuɗo ma fii makko ɓaawo kon ko ar e maa e ganndal, maaku: "Aree nodden ɓiɗɓe amen e ɓiɗɓe mo'on, e rewɓe amen e rewɓe mo'on, e ko'e amen e ko'e mo'on, refti ñaagoɗen mbaɗen kuddi Alla ndin e hoore fenooɓe ɓen".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ხოლო ვინც დაგიწყებს კამათს (ო, მოციქულო) მასზე ('ისა, მარიამის ძეზე) მას შემდეგ, რაც შენამდე მოვიდა ჭეშმარიტი ცოდნა მის შესახებ, უთხარი მათ: «მოდით, მოვუხმოთ ჩვენს შვილებს და თქვენს შვილებს, ჩვენს ქალებს და თქვენს ქალებს, ჩვენ თვითონ და თქვენ თვითონ, შემდეგ მივმართოთ (ალლაჰს) და ვთხოვოთ წყევლა (სასჯელი), და მოვუხმოთ ალლაჰის წყევლა მატყუარებზე (მათზე, ვინც ამბობს, რომ 'ისა ღმერთია)!»
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 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Wer nun mit dir darüber streitet, nach dem, was dir an Wissen zugekommen ist, so sag (zu ihnen): „Kommt her, lasst uns unsere Söhne und eure Söhne, unsere Frauen und eure Frauen, uns selbst und euch selbst zusammenrufen und hierauf (mit dem Gemeinschaftseid) flehen und so den Fluch Allahs über die Lügner (herab)kommen lassen!“
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
Έτσι, όποιος διαφωνεί συζητώντας μαζί σου (ω, Μωχάμμαντ, από την ομάδα των Χριστιανών του Νατζράν που ήλθαν να σε επισκεφτούν) σχετικά μ' αυτόν (τον Ιησού), μετά απ’ αυτό που έχει έλθει σ' εσένα από γνώση - πες: «Ελάτε, ας καλέσουμε τους γιους μας και τους γιους σας, τις γυναίκες μας και τις γυναίκες σας, τους εαυτούς μας και τους εαυτούς σας, στη συνέχεια, να επικαλεστούμε (τον Αλλάχ) για να πέσει η κατάρα του Αλλάχ στους ψεύτες (ανάμεσά μας).»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर जो व्यक्ति आपसे उसके बारे में झगड़ा करे, इसके बाद कि आपके पास ज्ञान आ चुका, तो कह दें : आओ! हम अपने पुत्रों तथा तुम्हारे पुत्रों और अपनी स्त्रियों तथा तुम्हारी स्त्रियों को बुला लें और अपने आपको और तुम्हें भी, फिर गिड़गिड़ाकर प्रार्थना करें और झूठों पर अल्लाह की ला'नत[27] भेजें।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
A chi ti ha contestato in esso, dopo la sapienza che ti è arrivata, di’: “Venite, che invitiamo i nostri e i vostri figli, le nostre e le vostre mogli, noi stessi e voi stessi, poi invochiamo la maledizione di Allāh sui mentitori!”
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
61. Taigi tiems, kas ginčijasi su tavimi dėl jo [Isos (Jėzaus)] po (visos šios) žinios, atėjusios pas tave [ t. y. kad Isa (Jėzus) buvo Allaho vergas ir nesidalijo Dieviškumu], sakyk (Muchammedai ﷺ ): „Ateikite, pakvieskime mūsų sūnus ir jūsų sūnus, mūsų moteris ir jūsų moteris, mus ir jus – tada melskimės ir (nuoširdžiai) prašykime Allaho Prakeiksmo tiems, kurie meluoja.“
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 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Nama erga beekumsi sitti dhufee booda isa keessatti (waayee nabi iisaa ilma mariyam) keessatti siin falmeen “Kottaa; ilmaan keenyaafi ilmaan keessan, dubartoota keenyaafi dubartoota keessan, lubbuulee teenyaafi lubbuulee teessan haa waamnu. Ergasii du'aa'iitti jabaannee abaarsa Rabbii kijibdoota irra haa goonu (kijibdoota haa abaarruu)” jedhiin.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Если кто станет спорить с тобой о нём после того, как к тебе пришло знание, — скажи: «Придите, мы позовём наших сыновей и ваших сыновей, и наших женщин и ваших женщин, и нас самих и вас самих, затем взмолимся и призовём проклятие Аллаха на лжецов».
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
Српски · Serbian
А онима који са тобом о Њему буду расправљали, након што ти је дошло знање, реци: „Дођите, позваћемо наше синове и ваше синове, и наше жене и ваше жене, а доћи ћемо и ми и ви, па ћемо да се прокунемо и Божје проклетство на оне који лажу да призовемо!“
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 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi mwenye kukuhoji katika haya baada ya yale yaliyokufikia katika elimu hii, waambie: Njooni tuwaite watoto wetu na watoto wenu, na wake zetu na wake zenu, na sisi wenyewe na nyinyi wenyewe, kisha tuombe kwa unyenyekevu tutake laana ya Mwenyezi Mungu iwashukie waongo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Och om de tvistar med dig om detta, efter att kunskapen har nått dig, säg då: ”Kom så samlas vi alla: våra söner och era söner, våra kvinnor och era kvinnor, vi själva och ni. Sedan ber vi tillsammans och nedkallar Guds fördömelse över lögnarna.”
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
Sana ilim geldikten sonra, bu hususta seninle kim tartışacak olursa, de ki: "Gelin, oğullarımızı, oğullarınızı, kadınlarımızı, kadınlarınızı, kendilerimizi ve kendilerinizi çağıralım. Sonra da dua ederek Allah’ın lanetinin yalancılara olmasını dileyelim."
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 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اس لئے جو شخص آپ کے پاس اس علم کے آجانے کے بعد بھی آپ سے اس میں جھگڑے تو آپ کہہ دیں کہ آو ہم تم اپنے اپنے فرزندوں کو اور ہم تم اپنی اپنی عورتوں کواور ہم تم خاص اپنی اپنی جانوں کو بلالیں، پھر ہم عاجزی کے ساتھ التجا کریں اور جھوٹوں پر اللہ کی لعنت کریں۔[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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
Which translations appear here is set by copyright: they are the ones whose rights could be documented and cleared. The selection is not a judgement that these are the best.
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Easy-read
Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation,
not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil
Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the
same edition and their orthography differs.
Easy-read (simplified)inna mathala 'eesaa 'inda llaahi kamathali aadama khalaqahu min turaabin thumma qaala lahu kun fayakoon
DIN 31635ʾinna maṯala ʿīsā ʿinda llāhi kamaṯali ʾādama ḫalaqahu min turābin ṯumma qāla lahu kun fayakūnu
Talal Itani2012 The likeness of Jesus in God's sight is that of Adam: He created him from dust, then said to him, "Be," and he was.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! the likeness of Jesus with Allah is as the likeness of Adam. He created him of dust, then He said unto him: Be! and he is
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily the likeness of Jesus with God is as the likeness of Adam. He created him from earth, then He said to him BE, and he was
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily, Jesus is as Adam in the sight of God. He created him of dust: He then said to him, "Be" - and he was
George Sale1734 Verily the likeness of Jesus in the sight of God, is as the likeness of Adam: He created him out of the dust, and then said unto him, be; and he was
DIN 31635ʾinna hāḏā lahuwa l-qaṣaṣu l-ḥaqqu wamā min ʾilāhin ʾillā llāhu waʾinna llāha lahuwa l-ʿazīzu l-ḥakīmu
Talal Itani2012 This is the narrative of truth: there is no god but God. God is the Mighty, the Wise.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! This verily is the true narrative. There is no Allah save Allah, and lo! Allah, He verily is, is the Mighty, the Wise
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, those are the true stories, and there is no god but God, and, verily, God He is the mighty, the wise
John Medows Rodwell1861 This recital is very truth, and there is no god but God; and verily God is the Mighty, the Wise
George Sale1734 Verily this is a true history: And there is no God, but God; and God is most mighty, and wise
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 —
0.60 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 Sale0.72
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.55
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.54
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
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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.