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
Have you not observed those who claim that they believe in what was revealed to you, and in what was revealed before you, yet they seekSatanicsources for legislation, in spite of being commanded to reject them? Satan means to mislead them far away.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Hast thou not seen those who pretend that they believe in that which is revealed unto thee and that which was revealed before thee, how they would go for judgment (in their disputes) to falsedeities when they have been ordered to abjure them? Satan would mislead them far 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
Do ye not see those who pretend that they believe in what has been revealed to them, and what was revealed before thee; they wish to refer their judgment to Taghut, but they are bidden to disbelieve therein, and Satan wishes to lead them into a remote error
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Hast thou not marked those who profess that they believe in what hath been sent down to thee, and what hath been sent down before thee? Fain would they be judged before Thagout, though commanded not to believe in him; and fain would Satan make them wander with wanderings wide of truth
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Hast thou not observed those who pretend they believe in what hath been revealed unto thee, and what been revealed before thee? They desire to go to judgment before Taghut, although they have been commanded not to believe in him; and Satan desireth to seduce them into a wide error
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
A nuk i sheh ata (dyfytyrëshit) që pretendojnë se kanë besuar atë që të është shpallur ty dhe atë që është shpallur para teje sesi dëshirojnë që mes tyre të gjykojë taguti[11], ndonëse janë urdhëruar që ta mohojnë atë?! Shejtani dëshiron t'i shpjerë ata në një humbje të sigurt.
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
(হে নবী) তুমি কি তাদেরকে দেখোনি যারা দাবি করে যে, তোমার প্রতি যা নাযিল হয়েছে এবং তোমার পূর্বে যা নাযিল হয়েছে তারা তাতে ঈমান এনেছে; কিন্তু তারা তাগূতের কাছে বিচারপ্রার্থী হতে চায়। অথচ তাদের তাগূতকে প্রত্যাখ্যান করতে নির্দেশ দেয়া হয়েছে। আর শয়তান তাদেরকে দূরবর্তী বিভ্রান্তির দিকে নিতে চায়।
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
Zar ne vidiš one koji tvrde da vjeruju u ono što je objavljeno tebi i u ono što je objavljeno prije tebe kako žele da im se pred tagutom – lažnim sudijom sudi, iako im je naređeno da u njega ne vjeruju?! A šejtan samo želi da ih u veliku zabludu navede.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Zar ne vidiš one koji tvrde da vjeruju u ono što je objavljeno tebi i u ono što je objavljeno prije tebe kako žele da im se pred tagutom – lažnim sudijom sudi, iako im je naređeno da u njega ne vjeruju?! A sotona samo želi da ih u veliku zabludu navede.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
E a yi'aali ɓen ɓe no nodditooɓe wonnde kamɓe ɓe gooŋɗiniɗinii kon ko Jippinaa e maaɗa e kon ko Jippinaa ado maaɗa? Hiɓe faalaa nde ɓe ñaawinoytoo ka bewinayɗi ɗin, gooŋɗii heɓe njamiraama nde ɓe njeddata ɗi. Seytaane non hino faalaa majjinnde ɓe majjere woɗɗunde.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ნუთუ შენ (ო, მოციქულო) არ გინახავს ისინი [მუნაფიყები], რომლებიც ამტკიცებენ, რომ ირწმუნეს ის, რაც შენზე ჩამოევლინა, და ის, რაც შენამდე ჩამოევლინა, და ამავე დროს სურთ განსასჯელად მიმართონ ცრუ ღვთაებას [ტაღუთს], მაშინ როცა მათ ნაბრძანები აქვთ, არ ირწმუნონ იგი [ცრუ კანონი]? და სატანას სურს შეიყვანოს ისინი შორეულ ცდომილებაში.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Hast du nicht jene gesehen, die behaupten, an das zu glauben, was zu dir (als Offenbarung) hinabgesandt worden ist, und was vor dir hinabgesandt wurde, während sie sich in Entscheidungsfragen an den Taghut (also falsche Gottheiten) wenden wollen, wo ihnen doch befohlen worden ist, sie zu verleugnen? Aber der Satan will sie weit in die Irre führen.
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
Δεν έχεις δει (ω, Προφήτη) εκείνους (τους υποκριτές) που ισχυρίζονται ότι πιστεύουν σε ό,τι στάλθηκε σ' εσένα (το Κορ’άν) και σε ό,τι στάλθηκε πριν από σένα (από Θεία Βιβλία), ενώ αναζητούν τους παραπλανητικούς νόμους να κρίνουν μεταξύ τους (στις διαφορές τους), παρόλο που είχαν διαταχθεί να τους απορρίψουν; Ο Σατανάς θέλει να τους παραστρατήσει πολύ μακριά.
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
(ऐ नबी!) क्या आपने उन लोगों को नहीं देखा, जिनका यह दावा है कि जो कुछ आपकी ओर उतारा गया है और जो कुछ आपसे पहले उतारा गया है उसपर वे ईमान रखते हैं, किंतु वे चाहते हैं कि अपने विवाद के निर्णय के लिए ताग़ूत (अल्लाह की शरीयत के अलावा से फैसला करने वाले) के पास जाएँ, जबकि उन्हें उस (ताग़ूत) का इनकार करने का आदेश दिया गया है? और शैतान चाहता है कि उन्हें सच्चे धर्म से बहुत दूर[45] कर दे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Non vedi quelli che pretendono di credere in ciò che abbiamo fatto discendere su di te e in ciò che è stato fatto discendere prima di te? Vorrebbero affidarsi agli idoli, anche se è stato loro ordinato di negarli, e Satana vuole sviarli completamente.
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. Argi jūs nematėte tų (veidmainių), kurie teigia tikintys tuo, kas buvo nuleista tau, ir tuo, kas buvo nuleista iki tavęs, ir nori dėl (savo ginčų) sprendimų eiti pas Taghūt [13] (neteisingus teisėjus), nors jiems buvo įsakyta juos atstumti. Tačiau Šaitan (Šėtonas) trokšta juos paklaidinti. [14]
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
Sila gara warra waan gara keetti buufamee (qur'aanaa)fi waan si dura buufame (kitaaba nabiyyootaa)tti amanne jedhanii hin ilaallee? Odoo isatti kafaruu ajajamanii jiranuu gara xaaghuutaatti murteeffachuu barbaadu. Sheyxaanni jallina fagoo ta’e isaan jallisuu fedha.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Разве ты не видишь тех, которые утверждают, что они уверовали в то, что было ниспослано тебе, и в то, что было ниспослано до тебя, — и при этом хотят обращаться за судом к тагуту, хотя им было велено отвергнуть веру в него? А шайтан хочет ввести их в далёкое заблуждение.
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
Зар не видиш оне који тврде да верују у оно што је објављено теби и у оно што је објављено пре тебе како желе да им се пред лажним судијом суди, иако им је наређено да у њега не верују?! А ђаво само жели да их у велику заблуду одведе.
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
Je, hukuwaona wale wanaodai kwamba wameamini yale yaliyoteremshwa kwako na yale yaliyoteremshwa kabla yako? Wanataka kupeleka kesi yao kwa Twaghut, na ilhali kwa hakika waliamrishwa kwamba wazikufuru! Na anataka Shetani kwamba awapoteze kupotea kwa mbali.
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Svenska · Swedish
Har du inte sett de som påstår att de tror på det som uppenbarats för dig och det som uppenbarades före dig? De vill överlåta dömandet till de som inte dömer efter Guds regler, fastän de har beordrats att förkasta dem. Ja, Satan vill få dem att gå alldeles vilse.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
(Ey Muhammed!) Sana indirilen Kur’an’a ve senden önce indirilene iman ettiklerini iddia edenleri görmüyor musun? Tâğût’u inkâr etmeleri kendilerine emrolunduğu halde, onun önünde muhakeme olmak istiyorlar. Şeytan da onları derin bir sapıklığa düşürmek istiyor.
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اردو · Urdu
کیا آپ نے انہیں نہیں دیکھا؟ جن کا دعویٰ تو یہ ہے کہ جو کچھ آپ پر اور جو کچھ آپ سے پہلے اتارا گیا ہے اس پر ان کا ایمان ہے، لیکن وه اپنے فیصلے غیر اللہ کی طرف لے جانا چاہتے ہیں حاﻻنکہ انہین حکم دیا گیا ہے کہ شیطان کا انکار کریں، شیطان تو یہ چاہتا ہے کہ انہیں بہکا کر دور ڈال دے۔
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 God instructs you to give back things entrusted to you to their owners. And when you judge between people, judge with justice. God's instructions to you are excellent. God is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! Allah commandeth you that ye restore deposits to their owners, and, if ye judge between mankind, that ye judge justly. Lo! comely is this which Allah admonisheth you. Lo! Allah is ever Hearer, Seer
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, God bids you pay your trusts to their owners, and when ye judge between men to judge with justice. Verily, God, excellent is what He admonishes you with; verily, God both hears and sees
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily, God enjoineth you to give back your trusts to their owners, and when ye judge between men, to judge with fairness. Excellent is the practice to which God exhorteth you. God Heareth, Beholdeth
George Sale1734 Moreover God commandeth you to restore what ye are trusted with, to the owners; and when ye judge between men, that ye judge according to equity: And surely an excellent virtue it is to which God exhorteth you; for God both heareth and seeth
Talal Itani2012 O you who believe! Obey God and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you. And if you dispute over anything, refer it to God and the Messenger, if you believe in God and the Last Day. That is best, and a most excellent determination.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye who believe! Obey Allah, and obey the messenger and those of you who are in authority; and if ye have a dispute concerning any matter, refer it to Allah and the messenger if ye are (in truth) believers in Allah and the Last Day. That is better and more seemly in the end
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who believe! obey God, and obey the Apostle and those in authority amongst you; and if ye quarrel about anything, refer to God and the Apostle, if ye believe in God and the last day; that is better and fairer as a settlement
John Medows Rodwell1861 O ye who believe! obey God and obey the apostle, and those among you invested with authority; and if in aught ye differ, bring it before God and the apostle, if ye believe in God and in the latter day. This is the best and fairest way of settlement
George Sale1734 O true believers, obey God, and obey the apostle, and those who are in authority among you, and if ye differ in any thing, refer it unto God and the apostle, if ye believe in God, and the last day: This is better, and a fairer method of determination
Talal Itani2012 And when it is said to them, "Come to what God has revealed, and to the Messenger," you see the hypocrites shunning you completely.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when it is said unto them: Come unto that which Allah hath revealed and unto the messenger, thou seest the hypocrites turn from thee with aversion
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when it is said to them, 'Come round to what God has sent down and unto the Apostle,' thou seest the hypocrites turning from thee, turning away
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when it is said to them, "Accede to that which God hath sent down, and to the apostle," thou seest the hypocrites avert them from thee with utter aversion
George Sale1734 And when it is said unto them, come unto the book which God hath sent down, and to the apostle; thou seest the ungodly turn aside from thee, with great aversion
Talal Itani2012 How about when a disaster strikes them because what their hands have put forward, and then they come to you swearing by God: "We only intended goodwill and reconciliation"?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 How would it be if a misfortune smote them because of that which their own hands have sent before (them)? Then would they come unto thee, swearing by Allah that they were seeking naught but harmony and kindness
Edward Henry Palmer1880 How then when there befalls them a mischance through what their hands have sent on before? then will they come to you, and swear by God, 'We meant naught but good and concord
John Medows Rodwell1861 But how, when some misfortune shall fortune them, for their previous handywork? Then will they come to thee, swearing by God, "We desire nothing but to promote good and concord
George Sale1734 But how will they behave when a misfortune shall befall them, for that which their hands have sent before them? Then will they come unto thee, and swear by God, saying, if we intended any other, than to do good, and to reconcile the parties
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 —
0.68 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
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.75
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.74
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.73
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Talal Itani · George Sale0.70
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.60
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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.