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Talal Itani· published 2012
As for those who disbelieve after having believed, then plungedeeper into disbelief, their repentance will not be accepted; these are the lost.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Lo! those who disbelieve after their (profession of) belief, and afterwardgrowviolent in disbelief: their repentance will not be accepted. And such are those who are astray
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
Verily, those who misbelieve after believing, and then increase in misbelief, their repentance shall not be accepted; these are those who err
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
As for those who become infidels, after having believed, and then increase their infidelity - their repentance shall never be accepted. These! they are the erring ones
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Moreover they who become infidels after they have believed, and yet increase in infidelity, their repentance shall in no wise be accepted, and they are those who go astray
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
S'ka dyshim se atyre që mohojnë pasi të kenë besuar dhe më pas e shtojnë mosbesimin, nuk do t'u pranohet pendimi (kur t'u vijë vdekja) dhe pikërisht ata janë të humburit.
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
নিশ্চয় যারা ঈমান আনার পর কুফরীতে লিপ্ত হয়েছে, তারপর
তারা তাদের কুফরী বৃদ্ধি করেছে , তাদের তাওবা কখনো কবুল করা হবে না।(৫৩) আর তারাই পথভ্রষ্ট।
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
Doista, onima koji postanu nevjernici, nakon što su vjerovali, zatim postanu još veći nevjernici, pokajanje neće biti primljeno i oni su sigurno zalutali.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Doista, onima koji postanu nevjernici, nakon što su vjerovali, zatim postanu još veći nevjernici, pokajanje neće biti primljeno i oni su sigurno zalutali.
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.
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ქართული · Georgian
ჭეშმარიტად, ისინი, ვინც ურწმუნონი გახდნენ მას შემდეგ, რაც ირწმუნეს, და შემდეგ კიდევ გაძლიერდნენ ურწმუნოებაში, — მათი მონანიება არ იქნება მიღებული (სიკვდილის მომენტში), და ასეთნი არიან ჭეშმარიტად გზას აცდენილნი.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Wahrlich, jene (aber), die ungläubig werden, nachdem sie den Glauben (angenommen) haben, und hierauf an Unglauben zunehmen, deren Reue wird nicht angenommen werden, und jene sind die Irregehenden.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Στ’ αλήθεια, αυτοί που απέρριψαν την πίστη αφού είχαν πιστέψει, κι έπειτα αυξάνανε την απιστία τους (μέχρι τη στιγμή του θανάτου τους), ποτέ η μεταμέλειά τους (κατά τη στιγμή του θανάτου τους) δεν θα γίνει αποδεκτή. Και αυτοί είναι οι παραστρατημένοι.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
निःसंदेह जिन लोगों ने अपने ईमान के बाद कुफ़्र किया, फिर कुफ़्र में बढ़ गए, उनकी तौबा कदापि[48] स्वीकार न की जाएगी तथा वही लोग पथभ्रष्ट हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
In verità di quelli che hanno negato dopo aver creduto, ma poi aumentarono la loro miscredenza, non verrà accettato il pentimento, e in verità quelli sono in perdizione.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
90. Iš tiesų, tie kurie nepatikėjo po savo patikėjimo ir tada toliau tęsė, didindami savo netikėjimą (t. y. netikėjimą Koraną ir Pranašą Muchammedą ﷺ) – niekada jų atgaila nebus priimta [nes jie atgailauja tik savo liežuviais, o ne iš širdžių]. Ir jie yra tie, kurie paklydę.
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Русский · Russian
Воистину, те, которые отвергли веру после своей веры, а затем лишь усугубили это неверие, — никогда не будет принято их покаяние, и такие — они и есть заблудшие.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Заиста, онима који постану неверници, након што су веровали, затим постану још већи неверници, покајање неће бити примљено и они су сигурно залутали.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Hakika, wale waliokufuru baada ya kuamini kwao, kisha wakazidi kukufuru, haitakubaliwa toba yao, na hao ndio waliopotea.
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Svenska · Swedish
De som blir otrogna efter att ha varit troende och därefter förhärdas i sin otro kommer aldrig att få sin ånger godtagen. Det är dessa som är de verkligt vilsna.
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Türkçe · Turkish
İman ettikten sonra kâfir olup küfürlerini arttıranların tevbeleri asla kabul edilmeyecektir. Onlar sapıkların ta kendileridir.
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اردو · Urdu
بے شک جو لوگ[1] اپنے ایمان ﻻنے کے بعد کفر کریں پھر کفر میں بڑھ جائیں، ان کی توبہ ہرگز ہرگز قبول نہ کی جائے گی[2]، یہی گمراه لوگ 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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DIN 31635ʾinna llaḏīna kafarū wamātū wahum kuffārun falan yuqbala min ʾaḥadihim milʾu l-ʾarḍi ḏahaban walawi ftadā bihi ʾūlāʾika lahum ʿaḏābun ʾalīmun wamā lahum min nāṣirīna
Talal Itani2012 As for those who disbelieve and die disbelievers, even the earth full of gold would not be accepted from any of them, were he to offer it for ransom. These will have a painful torment, and will have no saviors.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! those who disbelieve, and die in disbelief, the (whole) earth full of gold would not be accepted from such an one if it were offered as a ransom (for his soul). Theirs will be a painful doom and they will have no helpers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, those who misbelieve and die in misbelief, there shall not be accepted from any one of them the earth-full of gold, though he should give it as a ransom. For them is grievous woe, and helpers have they none
John Medows Rodwell1861 As for those who are infidels, and die infidels, from no one of them shall as much gold as the earth could contain be accepted, though he should offer it in ransom. These! a grievous punishment awaiteth them; and they shall have none to help them
George Sale1734 Verily they who believe not, and die in their unbelief, the world full of gold shall in no wise be accepted from any of them, even though he should give it for his ransom; they shall suffer a grievous punishment, and they shall have none to help them
DIN 31635lan tanālū l-birra ḥattā tunfiqū mimmā tuḥibbūna wamā tunfiqū min šayʾin faʾinna llāha bihi ʿalīmun
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 You will not attain virtuous conduct until you give of what you cherish. Whatever you give away, God is aware of it.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Ye will not attain unto piety until ye spend of that which ye love. And whatsoever ye spend, Allah is Aware thereof
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Ye cannot attain to righteousness until ye expend in alms of what ye love. But what ye expend in alms, that God knows
John Medows Rodwell1861 Ye shall never attain to goodness till ye give alms of that which ye love; and whatever ye give, of a truth God knoweth it
George Sale1734 Ye will never attain unto righteousness, until ye give in alms of that which ye love: And whatever ye give, God knoweth it
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 —
0.65 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.77
Talal Itani · George Sale0.76
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.66
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.55
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.