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Talal Itani· published 2012
If the hypocrites, and those with sickness in their hearts, and the rumormongers in the City, do not desist, We will incite you against them; then they will not be your neighbors there except for a short while.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
If the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, and the alarmists in the city do not cease, We verily shall urge thee on against them, then they will be your neighbours in it but a little while
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
Surely if the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a sickness and the insurrectionists in Medinah do not desist, we will surely incite thee against them. Then they shall not dwell near thee therein save for a little while
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
If the Hypocrites, and the men of tainted heart, and the stirrers of sedition in Medina desist not, we will surely stir thee up against them. Then shall they not be suffered to dwell near thee therein, but a little while
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Verily if the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is an infirmity, and they who raisedisturbances in Medina, do not desist; we will surely stir thee up against them, to chastise them: Henceforth they shall not be suffered to dwell near thee therein, except for a little time
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
Nëse hipokritët dhe ata që kanë sëmundje në zemrat e tyre, si dhe ata që përhapin lajme të rreme në Medinë, nuk heqin dorë, Ne patjetër do të të japim pushtet mbi ta e atëherë ata nuk do të mbesin me ty në qytet përveçse për pak kohë.
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
যদি মুনাফিকরা এবং যাদের অন্তরে ব্যাধি রয়েছে, তারা আর শহরে মিথ্যা সংবাদ প্রচারকারীরা বিরত না হয়, তবে আমি অবশ্যই তাদের বিরুদ্ধে তোমাকে ক্ষমতাবান করে দিবো। অতঃপর তারা এ নগরীতে তোমার প্রতিবেশী হয়ে অল্প সময়ই থাকবে,
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
Ako se dvoličnjaci i oni čija su srca bolesna i oni koji po Medini šire laži – ne okane toga, Mi ćemo ti vlast nad njima prepustiti i oni će samo kratko vrijeme kao susjedi tvoji u njoj ostati,
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
Ako se dvoličnjaci i oni čija su srca bolesna i oni koji po Medini šire laži – ne okane toga, Mi ćemo ti vlast nad njima prepustiti i oni će samo kratko vrijeme kao susjedi tvoji u njoj ostati,
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
Pellet, si naafiqiiɓe ɓen kaɗitaaki, e ɓeen ɓe ñawu (sikkitaare) woni e ɓerɗe mum, e fena-fenta'en ka saare Madiina, ma Min ngurtite e maɓɓe, refi ɓe kawtirtaa e maaɗa ton, si wonaa seeɗa.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
თუ ორპირები, და ისინი, რომელთა გულებში არის სენი [ეჭვი], ასევე ისინი, ვინც ავრცელებენ ჭორებს მედინაში, არ შეწყვეტენ ამას, მაშინ ჩვენ მოგმართავთ შენ [ო, მოციქულო] მათ წინააღმდეგ და გიწყალობებთ ჩვენს მხარდაჭერას. ამის შემდეგ ისინი შენს გვერდით მედინაში იცხოვრებენ მხოლოდ ცოტა ხანს.
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
Wenn nicht die Heuchler und diejenigen, in deren Herzen Krankheit ist, und diejenigen, die beunruhigende Gerüchte in der Stadt verbreiten, (damit) aufhören, werden Wir dich sicherlich gegen sie antreiben. Hierauf werden sie nur noch kurze Zeit darin deine Nachbarn sein.
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
Εάν δε σταματήσουν οι υποκριτές (που κρύβουν μέσα τους την απιστία ενώ δείχνουν την πίστη) και εκείνοι που έχουν αρρώστια (της αμφιβολίας, της αγάπης της μοιχείας και των λάγνων) στις καρδιές τους, και εκείνοι που σκορπίζουν τα ψέματα στη Μαντίνα (και λένε ψευδώς στους πιστούς ότι ήρθαν οι εχθροί σε σας, ή υπερβάλουν για τη δύναμη των εχθρών για να αποθαρρύνουν τους πιστούς, ή όταν οι πιστοί βγαίνουν σε κάποια μάχη, λένε ψευδώς στους ανθρώπους ότι οι πιστοί ηττήθηκαν και σκοτώθηκαν), τότε θα σε στείλουμε (ω, Προφήτη) να τους τιμωρήσεις, έπειτα (θα τους διώξουμε και) δε θα μείνουν στη γειτονιά σου σ' αυτή (την πόλη) παρά μόνο για λίγο.
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
यदि मुनाफ़िक़[44] तथा वे लोग जिनके दिलों में रोग है और मदीना में अफ़वाह फैलाने वाले बाज़ नहीं आए, तो हम आपको उनके पीछे लगा देंगे। फिर वे आपके साथ उसमें थोड़े ही समय के लिए रह सकेंगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Se gli ipocriti e quelli che hanno un male nel cuore e gli impostori a La Medinah non la smettono, ti manderemo contro di loro, poi non potranno più convivere con te se non per poco.
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
60. O jei veidmainiai, ir tie, kurių širdyse liga (blogas troškimas neleistinų lytinių santykių), ir tie, kurie skleidžia melagingas žinias tarp žmonių Medinoje nesiliaus, Mes tikrai leisime tau įveikti juos. Tada jie nebegalės likti joje tavo kaimynais, tik trumpam laikui.
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
Munaafiqoonniifi warri onnee isaanii keessa dhukkubni jiruufi isaan Madiina keessatti shororkeessitoota ta’aniis yoo (badii isaanii kanarraa) hin dhorgamin, Nuti dhugumatti isaan irratti si kakaafna (moosifna); sana booda yeroo gabaabaaf malee ishee (Madiina) keessa sitti olloomanii hin jiraatan.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Если лицемеры и те, в чьих сердцах болезнь, а также распространяющие слухи в Медине не прекратят, Мы непременно поднимем тебя против них. После этого они останутся твоими соседями в ней лишь ненадолго,
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
Ако се лицемери и они у чијим срцима је болест и они који по Медини шире лажи - не окане тога, Ми ћемо власт над њима да ти препустимо и они ће само кратко време као твоји суседи у њој да остану.
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
Kama wanafiki na wale wenye maradhi nyoyoni mwao, na waenezao fitina katika Madina hawataacha, basi kwa yakini tutakupa mamlaka juu yao, kisha hawatakaa humo karibu yako isipokuwa muda mchache tu.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Om inte de skenbart troende och de vars hjärtan är sjuka, samt de som sprider oro i Medina, upphör [med att sprida falska rykten], ska vi ge dig makt över dem, och då blir deras grannskap med dig där inte långvarigt.
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
Münafıklar, kalplerinde hastalık olanlar ve Medine’de bozgunculuk yapıp asılsız haber yayanlar; eğer buna son vermezlerse, seni onlara musallat ederiz de sonra çevrende az bir zamandan fazla kalamazlar.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اگر (اب بھی) یہ منافق اور وه جن کے دلوں میں بیماری ہے اور وه لوگ جو مدینہ میں غلط افواہیں اڑانے والے ہیں[1] باز نہ آئے تو ہم آپ کو ان (کی تباہی) پر مسلط کردیں گے پھر تو وه چند دن ہی آپ کے ساتھ اس (شہر) میں ره سکیں گے.
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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Talal Itani2012 Those who harm believing men and believing women, for acts they did not commit, bear the burden of perjury and a flagrant sin.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And those who malign believing men and believing women undeservedly, they bear the guilt of slander and manifest sin
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And those who annoy the believers for what they have not earned, such have to bear (the guilt of) calumny and obvious sin
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they who shall affront believing men and believing women, for no fault of theirs, they shall surely bear the guilt of slander, and of a clear wrong
George Sale1734 And they who shall injure the true believers of either sex, without their deserving it, shall surely bear the guilt of calumny and a manifest injustice
Talal Itani2012 O Prophet! Tell your wives, and your daughters, and the women of the believers, to lengthen their garments. That is more proper, so they will be recognized and not harassed. God is Forgiving and Merciful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O Prophet! Tell thy wives and thy daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them (when they go abroad). That will be better, so that they may be recognised and not annoyed. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O thou prophet! tell thy wives and thy daughters, and the women of the believers, to let down over them their outer wrappers; that is nearer for them to be known and that they should not be annoyed; but God is forgiving, merciful
John Medows Rodwell1861 O Prophet! speak to thy wives and to thy daughters, and to the wives of the Faithful, that they let their veils fall low. Thus will they more easily be known, and they will not be affronted. God is Indulgent, Merciful
George Sale1734 O prophet, speak unto thy wives, and thy daughters, and the wives of the true believers, that they cast their outer garments over them when they walk abroad; this will be more proper, that they may be known to be matrons of reputation, and may not be affronted by unseemly words or actions. God is gracious and merciful
DIN 31635sunnata llāhi fī llaḏīna ḫalaw min qablu walan taǧida lisunnati llāhi tabdīlan
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Talal Itani2012 Such has been God's precedent with those who passed away before. You will find no change in God's system.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That was the way of Allah in the case of those who passed away of old; thou wilt not find for the way of Allah aught of power to change
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God's course with those who have passed away before: and thou shalt never find in God's course any alteration
John Medows Rodwell1861 Such hath been the way of God with those who lived before them; and no change canst thou find in the way of God
George Sale1734 according to the sentence of God concerning those who have been before; and thou shalt not find any change in the sentence of God
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lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Talal Itani · George Sale0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.51
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.47
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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.