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When they came upon you from above you and from below you, and when your eyesights were distracted and your hearts came up into your throats, and ye suspected God with certainsuspicions
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
When they came upon you, from above you, and from beneath you; and the eyes became dazed, and the hearts reached the throats, and you harboreddoubts about God.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
When they came upon you from above you and from below you, and when eyes grewwild and hearts reached to the throats, and ye were imagining vain thoughts concerningAllah
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
John Medows Rodwell1808–1900 · published 1861
When they assailed you from above you, and from below you, and when your eyes became distracted, and your hearts came up into your throat, and ye thought divers thoughts of God
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
When they came against you from above you, and from below you, and when your sight became troubled, and your hearts came even to your throats for fear, and ye imagined of God variousimaginations
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
Kujtoni kur ata u vërsulën drejt jush prej së larti e prej së poshtmi dhe kur sytë tuaj u shtangën e zemrat ju erdhën në fyt dhe ju vinin për Allahun lloj-lloj mendimesh.
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
যখন তারা তোমাদের ওপরের দিক থেকে এবং তোমাদের নিচের দিক থেকে তোমাদের কাছে এসেছিল। (৬) আর যখন চোখগুলো বাঁকা হয়ে পড়েছিলো এবং প্রাণ কণ্ঠ পর্যন্ত পৌঁছেছিলো। আর তোমরা আল্লাহ সম্পর্কে নানা রকম ধারণা পোষণ করছিলে।(৭)
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
Kad su vam došle i odozgo i odozdo, a duša došla do grkljana, i kad ste o Allahu svašta pomišljali.
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
Kad su vam došle i odozgor i odozdol, a duša došla do grkljana, i kad ste o Allahu svašta pomišljali.
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 ɓe ngardirannoo on, ka seŋgo dow mon e ka ley [saare] mon, e tuma nde gite ooñinoo, ɓerɗe ɗen lewwtiri ka lookoƴe, hoɗon cikka Alla (on tuma) sikke luutondirɗe.
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 გაიხსენეთ) როცა ისინი მოგადგნენ ზემოდან [ხეობის ზედა მხრიდან] და ქვემოდან [ხეობის ქვედა მხრიდან], და თქვენი თვალები გაშეშდა (უზარმაზარი ლაშქრის ხედვით), და გულები ყელამდე აგივიდათ (შიშისაგან), და თქვენ ალლაჰზე სხვადასხვაგვარად დაიწყეთ ფიქრი [გაგიჩნდათ ცუდი აზრები, თითქოს ალლაჰი შესაძლოა არ დახმარებოდა თავისი სიტყვის დამკვიდრებას].
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Als sie von oben zu euch kamen und von unten her, und als die Blicke unsicher wurden und die Herzen die Kehle erreichten und ihr von Allah verschiedene Meinungen hattet.
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
Όταν ήρθαν (οι άπιστοι) από πάνω σας και από κάτω σας (από την κορυφή και το κάτω μέρος της κοιλάδας), και τα μάτια σας κοιτούσαν μόνο προς τους εχθρούς σας, και οι καρδιές σας έφτασαν στους λαιμούς σας (από το φόβο), και νομίζατε διάφορες σκέψεις για τον Αλλάχ (δηλ. οι υποκριτές νόμιζαν ότι ο Προφήτης και οι πιστοί θα ηττηθούν, ενώ οι πιστοί ήταν βέβαιοι για τη νίκη από τον Αλλάχ).
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
जब वे तुमपर, तुम्हारे ऊपर से तथा तुम्हारे नीचे से चढ़ आए, तथा जब आँखें फिर गईं, और दिल गले तक पहुँच गए, तथा तुम अल्लाह के बारे में तरह-तरह के गुमान करने लगे।[8]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E vi attaccarono da monte e valle e vi si annebbiò la vista e vi saltò il cuore in gola, e avete fatto su Allāh pensieri discordanti.
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
10. Kai jie atėjo pas jus iš virš jūsų ir iš po jūsų, ir kai akys įniršo, o širdys pasiekė gerkles, o jūs puoselėjote abejones dėl Allaho.
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 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И вот они пришли к вам сверху и снизу, и когда ваши взоры затуманились, а сердца подступили к горлу, и вы стали строить об Аллахе разные домыслы.
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
Кад су вам војске дошле и одозго и одоздо, кад су вам погледи скренули, а душа дошла до гркљана, и кад сте о Аллаху помишљали свашта.
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
Walipowakujieni kutoka juu yenu, na kutoka chini yenu; na macho yalipokodoka, na nyoyo zikapanda kooni, nanyi mkamdhania Mwenyezi Mungu dhana mbalimbali.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
När de stormade fram mot er ovanifrån och nedanifrån stirrade era ögon av fasa och era hjärtan for upp i halsgropen, och ni tänkte motstridiga tankar om Gud.
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
Hani onlar, size hem üst tarafınızdan, hem alt tarafınızdan gelmişlerdi. Hani gözler kaymış ve yürekler ağızlara gelmişti. Allah hakkında bir takım zanlarda bulunuyordunuz.
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
جب کہ (دشمن) تمہارے پاس اوپر سے اور نیچے سے چڑھ آئے[1] اور جب کہ آنکھیں پتھرا گئیں اور کلیجے منھ کو آگئے اور تم اللہ تعالیٰ کی نسبت طرح طرح کے گمان کرنے لگے.[2]
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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Talal Itani2012 O you who believe! Remember God's blessings upon you, when forces came against you, and We sent against them a wind, and forces you did not see. God is Observant of what you do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye who believe! Remember Allah's favour unto you when there came against you hosts, and We sent against them a great wind and hosts ye could not see. And Allah is ever Seer of what ye do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who believe! remember God's favours towards you when hosts came to you and we sent against them a wind and hosts that ye could not see;- and God knew what ye were doing
John Medows Rodwell1861 O believers! remember the goodness of God towards you, when the armies came against you, and we sent against them a blast, and hosts that ye saw not; for the eye of God was upon your doings
George Sale1734 O true believers, remember the favour of God towards you, when armies of infidels came against you, and We sent against them a wind, and hosts of angels which ye saw not: And God beheld that which ye did
Talal Itani2012 When the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is sickness said, "God and His Messenger promised us nothing but illusion."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, were saying: Allah and His messenger promised us naught but delusion
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when the hypocrites and those in whose hearts was sickness said, 'God and His Apostle have only promised us deceitfully
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when the disaffected and the diseased of heart said, "God and his Apostle have made us but a cheating promise
George Sale1734 And when the hypocrites, and those in whose heart was an infirmity, said, God and his apostle have made you no other than a fallacious promise
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 —
0.63 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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 Sale0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.66
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.52
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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.