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When God alone is mentioned, the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter shrink with resentment. But when those other than Him are mentioned, they become filled with joy.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And when Allah alone is mentioned, the hearts of those who believe not in the Hereafter are repelled, and when those (whom they worship) beside Him are mentioned, behold! they are glad
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 God alone is mentioned the hearts of those who believe not in the hereafter quake, and when those beside Him are mentioned, lo, they are joyful
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But when the One God is named, the hearts of those who believe not in the life to come, shrivel up: but when the deities who are adored beside Him are named, lo! they are filled with joy
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
When the one sole God is mentioned, the hearts of those who believe not in the life to come, shrink with horror: But when the false gods, which are worshipped besides Him, are mentioned, behold, they are filled with joy
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
Kur përmendet vetëm Allahu, zemrat e atyre që nuk besojnë në botën tjetër neveriten, ndërsa, kur përmenden të tjerët pos Tij, ata gëzohen.
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 আল্লাহকে এককভাবে স্মরণ করা হয়, তখন যারা আখিরাতে বিশ্বাস করে না, তাদের অন্তর সংকুচিত হয়ে যায়। পক্ষান্তরে আল্লাহ ছাড়া অন্য উপাস্যগুলোর কথা বলা হলে তখনই তারা আনন্দে উৎফুল হয়।
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 se Allah samo spomene, grče se srca onih koji u onaj svijet ne vjeruju, a kad se spomenu oni koje oni pored Njega obožavaju, odjednom ih radost obuzme.
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 se Allah samo spomene, grče se srca onih koji u onaj svijet ne vjeruju, a kad se spomenu oni koje oni pored Njega obožavaju, odjednom ih radost obuzme.
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
Si fii Allah tun jaŋtaama, ɓerɓe ɓen ɓe ngooŋɗinaa La'akara ɓen, tamoo. Si fii ɗiya, ɗi wonaa Mo [Kaŋko Allah] jaŋtaama, e jaka yoo, heɓe wewla.
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 მხოლოდ ალლაჰი იხსენიება, ზიზღით ივსება გულები იმათი, ვისაც არ სწამს საიქიო. მაგრამ როდესაც მის გარდა სხვები [მათი ცრუ ღვთაებები] იხსენიება, ისინი ხარობენ (რადგან მრავალღმერთიანობა მათ სურვილებს შეესაბამება).
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
Und wenn Allah allein erwähnt wird, verfallen die Herzen derjenigen in Abneigung, die nicht an das Jenseits glauben. Wenn aber diejenigen erwähnt werden, die es außer Ihm geben soll, freuen sie sich sogleich.
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 αναφέρεται το Όνομα του Αλλάχ και μόνο, αποστρέφονται οι καρδιές εκείνων που δεν πιστεύουν στη Μέλλουσα Ζωή, ενώ όταν αναφέρονται τα ονόματα των άλλων (ψεύτικων θεών και των ειδώλων που τα λατρεύουν) εκτός απ' Αυτόν, τότε χαίρονται.
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
तथा जब अकेले अल्लाह का ज़िक्र किया जाता है, तो उन लोगों के दिल संकीर्ण होने लगते हैं, जो आख़िरत[9] पर ईमान नहीं रखते तथा जब उसके सिवा अन्य पूज्यों का ज़िक्र आता है, तो वे सहसा प्रसन्न हो जाते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E se viene nominato solo Allāh, si contraggono i cuori di quelli che non credono nell’Aldilà. E se vengono nominati quelli che Gli paragonano, subito gioiscono.
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
46. Ir Mes užklojome apdangalus virš jų širdžių, kad jie nesuprastų jo (Korano) ir jų ausyse – kurtumas. Ir kai jūs minite savo Viešpatį Vieninelį [La ilaha illallah (niekas kitas neturi teisės būti garbinamas, tik Allahas) – islamiškasis monoteizmas] Korane, jie atsuka savo nugaras, bėgdami iš didžios antipatijos.
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
Yeroo Rabbiin kophaa Isaa faarfamu onneewwan warra Aakhiratti hin amannee ni sunturroofti. Yeroo warri Isaan (Rabbiin) malee (gabbaramu) faarfaman yeruma san gammadu.
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 когда упоминается один лишь Аллах, сердца тех, которые не веруют в Последнюю жизнь, содрогаются от отвращения. А когда упоминаются те, которые помимо Него, — они радуются этому.
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 се спомене само Аллах, грче се срца оних који у Будући свет не верују, а када се спомену они које они поред Њега обожавају, одједном их обузме радост.
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
Na anapotajwa Mwenyezi Mungu peke yake, nyoyo za wasioiamini Akhera huchafuka. Na wanapotajwa wenginewe wasiokuwa Yeye, basi wao hufurahi mno.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Var gång Gud nämns som den ende [värd dyrkan] vänder hjärtat sig bort i avsky hos de som inte tror på det kommande livet. Men när avgudarna kommer på tal lyser de upp av glädje.
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
Allah, bir tek (ilah) olarak anıldığında ahirete iman etmeyenlerin kalpleri daralır. Allah’tan başkaları (ilahları) anıldığında ise hemen sevince kapılırlar.
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 اللہ اکیلے کا ذکر کیا جائے تو ان لوگوں کے دل نفرت کرنے لگتے ہیں[1] جو آخرت کایقین نہیں رکھتے اور جب اس کے سوا (اور کا) ذکر کیا جائے تو ان کے دل کھل کر خوش ہو جاتے ہیں.[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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DIN 31635ʾami taḫaḏū min dūni llāhi šufaʿāʾa qul ʾawalaw kānū lā yamlikūna šayʾan walā yaʿqilūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Or have they chosen intercessors other than God? Say, "Even though they have no power over anything, and are devoid of reason?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Or choose they intercessors other than Allah? Say: What! Even though they have power over nothing and have no intelligence
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Do they take besides God intercessors? Say, 'What! though they have no control over anything and have no sense
John Medows Rodwell1861 Have they taken aught beside God as intercessors? SAY: What! though they have no power over anything, neither do they understand
George Sale1734 Have the Koreish taken idols for their intercessors with God? Say, what, although they have not dominion over any thing, neither do they understand
Talal Itani2012 Say, "All intercession is up to God. To Him belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. Then to Him you will be returned."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: Unto Allah belongeth all intercession. His is the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth. And afterward unto Him ye will be brought back
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'God's is the intercession, all of it; His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; then unto Him shall ye be sent back
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Intercession is wholly with God: His the kingdom of the Heavens and of the Earth! To him shall ye be brought back hereafter
George Sale1734 Say, intercession is altogether in the disposal of God: His is the kingdom of heaven and earth; and hereafter shall ye return unto Him
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Our God, Initiator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of all secrets and declarations. You will judge between your servants regarding what they had differed about."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: O Allah! Creator of the heavens and the earth! Knower of the Invisible and the Visible! Thou wilt judge between Thy slaves concerning that wherein they used to differ
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'O God! originator of the heavens and the earth, who knowest the unseen and the visible, thou wilt judge between thy servants concerning that whereon they do dispute
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: O God, creator of the Heaven and of the Earth, who knowest the hidden and the manifest, thou shalt judge between thy servants as to the subject of their disputes
George Sale1734 Say, O God, the creator of heaven and earth, who knowest that which is secret, and that which is manifest; thou shalt judge between thy servants concerning that wherein they disagree
Easy-read (simplified)walaw anna lilladheena zalamoo maa fee l-'ardi jamee'an wamithlahu ma'ahu laftadaw bihi min soo'i l-'adhaabi yawma l-qiyaamati wabadaa lahum mina llaahi maa lam yakoonoo yahtasiboon
DIN 31635walaw ʾanna lillaḏīna ẓalamū mā fī l-ʾarḍi ǧamīʿan wamiṯlahu maʿahu laftadaw bihi min sūʾi l-ʿaḏābi yawma l-qiyāmati wabadā lahum mina llāhi mā lam yakūnū yaḥtasibūna
Talal Itani2012 If those who did wrong owned everything on earth, and the like of it with it, they would redeem themselves with it from the terrible suffering on the Day of Resurrection. But there will appear to them from God what they never anticipated.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And though those who do wrong possess all that is in the earth, and therewith as much again, they verily will seek to ransom themselves therewith on the Day of Resurrection from the awful doom; and there will appear unto them, from their Lord, that wherewith they never reckoned
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And had those who do wrong all that is in the earth, and the like thereof with it, they would ransom themselves therewith from the evil of the torment on the resurrection day! but there shall appear to them from God that which they had not reckoned on
John Medows Rodwell1861 If the wicked possessed all that is in the earth and as much again therewith, verily they would ransom themselves with it from the pain of the punishment on the day of the resurrection; and there shall appear to them, from God, things they had never reckoned on
George Sale1734 If those who act unjustly were masters of whatever is in the earth, and as much more therewith, verily they would give it to ransom themselves from the evil of the punishment, on the day of resurrection: And there shall appear unto them, from God, terrors which they never imagined
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 —
0.53 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Talal Itani · George Sale0.49
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.47
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.44
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.36
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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.