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Talal Itani· published 2012
Let those who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter fight in the cause of God. Whoever fights in the cause of God, and then is killed, or achievesvictory, We will grant him a great compensation.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward
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
Let those then fight in God's way who sell this life of the world for the next; and whoso fights in God's way, then, be he killed or be he victorious, we will give him a mightyhire
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Let those then fight on the path of God, who barter this present life for that which is to come; for whoever fighteth on God's path, whether he be slain or conquer, we will in the end give him a great reward
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Let them therefore fight for the religion of God, who part with the present life in exchange for that which is to come; for whosoever fighteth for the religion of God, whether he be slain, or be victorious, we will surely give him a great reward
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
Le të luftojnë në rrugën e Allahut ata që japin jetën e kësaj bote për jetën tjetër! Atij që lufton në rrugën e Allahut dhe vritet ose ngadhënjen, do t'i japim shpërblim të madh.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
সুতরাং যারা আখিরাতের বিনিময়ে পার্থিব জীবনকে বিক্রয় করে, তারাই আল্লাহর পথে যুদ্ধ করুক। আর কেউ আল্লাহর পথে যুদ্ধ করলে সে নিহত হোক বা বিজয়ী হোক, আমি তো তাকে অচিরেই মহাপুরস্কার প্রদান করব।
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
I neka se zato na Allahovu putu vjernici bore protiv onih koji život na ovome svijetu kupuju za onaj svijet, a onoga ko se na Allahovu putu bori, pa pogine ili pobijedi, Mi ćemo, sigurno, velikom nagradom nagraditi.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I neka se zato na Allahovu putu vjernici bore protiv onih koji život na ovom svijetu kupuju za onaj svijetu, a onoga tko se na Allahovu putu bori, pa pogine ili pobijedi, Mi ćemo, sigurno, velikom nagradom nagraditi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Yo haɓe fii laawol Alla ngol, ɓen ɓe no soottira nguurdam aduna ɗam laakara on ! Kala on kaɓaaɗo fii laawol Alla ngol o waraa maa o fooli, arma min ngokku mo njoɓdi mawndi.
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ქართული · Georgian
მაშ, დაე იბრძოლონ ალლაჰის გზაზე მათ, ვინც ამქვეყნიურ ცხოვრებას ცვლის მარადიულ ცხოვრებაზე! და ვინც იბრძოლებს ალლაჰის გზაზე (მხოლოდ მისი კმაყოფილებისათვის) და მოკლული იქნება ან გაიმარჯვებს — ჩვენ მივანიჭებთ მას დიდ საზღაურს.
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Deutsch · German
So sollen diejenigen auf dem Weg Allahs kämpfen, die das diesseitige Leben für das Jenseits verkaufen. Und wer auf dem Weg Allahs kämpft und dann getötet wird oder siegt, dem werden Wir gewaltigen Lohn geben.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ας πολεμήσουν στον δρόμο του Αλλάχ, εκείνοι που ανταλάσσουν τη ζωή αυτού του κόσμου με τη Μέλλουσα Ζωή. Και όποιος πολεμήσει στο δρόμο του Αλλάχ, και έπειτα είτε σκοτωθεί είτε νικήσει, θα του δώσουμε μεγάλη ανταμοιβή.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तो जो लोग आख़िरत के बदले सांसारिक जीवन को बेच चुके हैं, उन्हें अल्लाह के मार्ग[51] में लड़ना चाहिए। और जो अल्लाह के मार्ग में युद्ध करेगा, चाहे वह मारा जाए अथवा विजयी हो जाए, तो हम उसे बड़ा बदला प्रदान करेंगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
E che lottino per la causa di Allāh quelli che scambiano la vita terrena con quella futura! E chi combatte per la causa di Allāh e viene ucciso o è vincente, gli daremo un’abbondante ricompensa.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
74. Lai tie (tikintieji), kurie parduoda šį žemiškąjį gyvenimą dėl Amžinybės, kovoja vardan Allaho, o tam, kas kovoja vardan Allaho ir yra nužudomas arba laimi – Mes suteiksime jam didį atlygį.
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Русский · Russian
Так пусть же сражаются на пути Аллаха те, которые продают мирскую жизнь за Последнюю. И кто сражается на пути Аллаха и будет убит или одержит верх, тому Мы даруем великую награду.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
И нека се зато на Аллаховом путу верници боре против оних који живот на oвом свету купују за живот на Будућем свету, а онога ко се бори на Аллаховом путу, па погине или победи, Ми ћемо, сигурно, великом наградом да наградимо.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi na wapigane katika Njia ya Mwenyezi Mungu wale ambao wanauza uhai wa dunia kwa Akhera. Na mwenye kupigana katika Njia ya Mwenyezi Mungu, kisha akauwawa au akashinda, basi tutampa ujira mkubwa.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Låt då dem strida för Guds sak, som är villiga att sälja detta jordiska liv för det kommande! Den som strider för Guds sak, vare sig han stupar eller segrar, ska vi skänka en riklig belöning.
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Türkçe · Turkish
O halde, dünya hayatı yerine ahireti alanlar, Allah yolunda savaşsınlar. Kim Allah yolunda savaşır, öldürülür veya galip gelirse, biz ona büyük bir ecir vereceğiz.
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اردو · Urdu
پس جو لوگ دنیا کی زندگی کو آخرت کے بدلے بیچ چکے ہیں[1] ، انہیں اللہ تعالیٰ کی راه میں جہاد کرنا چاہئے اور جو شخص اللہ تعالیٰ کی راه میں جہاد کرتے ہوئے شہادت پا لے یا غالب آجائے، یقیناً ہم اسے بہت بڑا ﺛواب عنایت فرمائیں گے۔
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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DIN 31635waʾinna minkum laman layubaṭṭiʾanna faʾin ʾaṣābatkum muṣībatun qāla qad ʾanʿama llāhu ʿalayya ʾiḏ lam ʾakun maʿahum šahīdan
Talal Itani2012 Among you is he who lags behind. Then, when a calamity befalls you, he says, "God has favored me, that I was not martyred with them."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! among you there is he who loitereth; and if disaster overtook you, he would say: Allah hath been gracious unto me since I was not present with them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, there is of you who tarries behind, and, if a mischance befalls you, says, 'God has been gracious to me, since I am not with them a martyr
John Medows Rodwell1861 There is of you who will be a laggard: and if a reverse befall you he saith, "Now hath God dealt graciously with me, since I was not with you in the fight
George Sale1734 There is of you who tarrieth behind; and if a misfortune befall you, he saith, verily God hath been gracious unto me, that I was not present with them
DIN 31635walaʾin ʾaṣābakum faḍlun mina llāhi layaqūlanna kaʾan lam takun baynakum wabaynahu mawaddatun yā laytanī kuntu maʿahum faʾafūza fawzan ʿaẓīman
Talal Itani2012 But when some bounty from God comes to you, he says-as if no affection existed between you and him-"If only I had been with them, I would have achieved a great victory."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if a bounty from Allah befell you, he would surely cry, as if there had been no love between you and him: Oh, would that I had been with them, then should I have achieved a great success
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But if there befalls you grace from God, he would say - as though there were no friendship between you and him - 'O would that I had been with thee to attain this mighty happiness
John Medows Rodwell1861 But if a success from God betide you, he will say, as if there had never been any friendship between you and him, "Would I had been with them! a rich prize should I have won
George Sale1734 But if success attend you from God, he will say, -- as if there was no friendship between you and him, -- would to God I had been with them, for I should have acquired great merit
Easy-read (simplified)wamaa lakum laa tuqaatiloona fee sabeeli llaahi wal-mustad'afeena mina r-rijaali wan-nisaa'i wal-wildaani lladheena yaqooloona rabbanaa akhrijnaa min haadhihi l-qaryati z-zaalimi ahluhaa waj'al lanaa min ladunka waliyyan waj'al lanaa min ladunka naseeraa
DIN 31635wamā lakum lā tuqātilūna fī sabīli llāhi wal-mustaḍʿafīna mina r-riǧāli wan-nisāʾi wal-wildāni llaḏīna yaqūlūna rabbanā ʾaḫriǧnā min hāḏihi l-qaryati ẓ-ẓālimi ʾahluhā waǧʿal lanā min ladunka waliyyan waǧʿal lanā min ladunka naṣīran
Talal Itani2012 And why would you not fight in the cause of God, and the helpless men, and women, and children, cry out, "Our Lord, deliver us from this town whose people are oppressive, and appoint for us from Your Presence a Protector, and appoint for us from Your Presence a Victor."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 How should ye not fight for the cause of Allah and of the feeble among men and of the women and the children who are crying: Our Lord! Bring us forth from out this town of which the people are oppressors! Oh, give us from thy presence some protecting friend! Oh, give us from Thy presence some defender
Edward Henry Palmer1880 What ails you that ye do not fight in God's way, and for the weak men and women and children, who say, 'Lord, bring us out of this town of oppressive folk, and make for us from Thee a patron, and make for us from Thee a help
John Medows Rodwell1861 But what hath come to you that ye fight not on the path of God, and for the weak among men, women and children, who say, "O our Lord! bring us forth from this city whose inhabitants are oppressors; give us a champion from thy presence; and give us from thy presence a defender
George Sale1734 And what ails you, that ye fight not for God's true religion, and in defence of the weak among men, women, and children, who say, O Lord, bring us forth from this city, whose inhabitants are wicked; grant us from before thee a protector, and grant us from before thee a defender
Talal Itani2012 Those who believe fight in the cause of God, while those who disbelieve fight in the cause of Evil. So fight the allies of the Devil. Surely the strategy of the Devil is weak.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those who believe do battle for the cause of Allah; and those who disbelieve do battle for the cause of idols. So fight the minions of the devil. Lo! the devil's strategy is ever weak
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Those who believe fight in the way of God; and those who disbelieve fight in the way of Taghut; fight ye then against the friends of Satan, verily, Satan's tricks are weak
John Medows Rodwell1861 They who believe, fight on the path of God; and they who believe not, fight on the path of Thagout: Fight therefore against the friends of Satan. Verily craft of Satan shall be powerless
George Sale1734 They who believe fight for the religion of God; but they who believe not fight for the religion of Taghut. Fight therefore against the friends of Satan, for the stratagem of Satan is weak
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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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.
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.67
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.58
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.47
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.40
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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.