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
We had assigned companions for them, who glamorized to them what was in front of them, and what was behind them. And the Word provedtrue against them in communities of jinn and humans that have passed away before them. They were losers.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And We assigned them comrades (in the world), who made their present and their pastfairseeming unto them. And the Word concerning nations of the jinn and humankind who passed away before them hath effect for them. Lo! they were ever losers
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
We will allot to them mates, for they have made seemly to them what was before them and what was behind them; and due against them was the sentence on the nations who passed away before them; both of ginns and of mankind; verily, they were the losers
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And we will appointSatans as their fast companions; for it was they who made their present and futurestateseemfair and right to them; and the sentence passed on the peoples of Djinn and men who flourished before them hath become their due, and they shall perish
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And We will give them the devils to be their companions; for they dressed up for them the falsenotions which they entertained of this present world, and of that which is to come; and the sentence justlyfitteth them, which was formerlypronounced on the nations of genii and men who were before them; for they perished
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
Ne u kishim caktuar atyre shokë të këqij, të cilët ua hijeshonin të ardhmen dhe të shkuarën e tyre, kështu që u përmbush vendimi (për dënimin e tyre) siç ndodhi me popujt e xhinëve dhe njerëzve që ishin para tyre. Ata ishin vërtet të humbur.
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
আর আমরা তাদের জন্য এমন সঙ্গী (শয়তান) নির্ধারণ করে দিয়েছিলাম, যারা তাদের সামনে ও পেছনের (দুনিয়া ও আখিরাতের) কাজকে তাদের কাছে শোভনীয় করে দেখাত। আর তাদের ব্যাপারে সেই শাস্তির কথা সত্য হয়ে গেল, যেমনটি তাদের পূর্বে অতিবাহিত জিন ও মানুষের জাতিগুলোর ওপর সত্য হয়েছিল। নিশ্চয়ই তারা ছিল ক্ষতিগ্রস্তদের অন্তর্ভুক্ত।(১৬)
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
Mi smo im bili odredili loše drugove koji su im lijepim prikazivali i ono što su uradili i ono što će uraditi. I na njima se obistinilo ono što je rečeno za narode, džine i ljude koji su prije njih bili i nestali – doista su nastradali.
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
Mi smo im bili odredili loše drugove koji su im lijepim prikazivali i ono što su uradili i ono što će uraditi. I na njima se obistinilo ono što je rečeno za narode, džine i ljude koji su prije njih bili i nestali – doista su nastradali.
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
Min ngurtani ɓe wondiiɓe, ɓeen cuɗinani ɓe ko woni ye'eso maɓɓe, e ko woni ɓaawo maɓɓe. Konngol [lepte] ngol jojji e maɓɓe, won'dude e mofte yawtunooɗe ado maɓɓe, immorde e jinna e yimɓe. Pellet, ɓe laatino hayruɓe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და ჩვენ გამოვგზავნეთ მათთან [ურწმუნოებთან] თანამგზავრები [ეშმაკები] (ჯინებიდან და ადამიანებიდან), რომლებიც ამშვენებდნენ მათთვის იმას, რაც წინ ჰქონდათ [ბოროტი საქმეები ამქვეყნად] და იმას, რაც უკან ჰქონდათ, და მათთვის გამართლდა სიტყვა მათზე წინ მცხოვრებ თემებზე, (ჯინებიდან და) ადამიანებიდან. ჭეშმარიტად, ისინი წაგებულთა შორის აღმოჩნდნენ.
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 Wir hatten ihnen Gesellen verschafft, die ihnen dann ausschmückten, was vor ihnen und was hinter ihnen lag. Und unvermeidlich fällig wurde das (strafende) Wort gegen sie, unter (anderen) Gemeinschaften von den Jinn und den Menschen, die bereits vor ihnen dahingegangen waren. Wahrlich, sie waren Verlierer.
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
Ορίσαμε γι' αυτούς (τους άπιστους στην εγκόσμια ζωή), παρόμοιους συντρόφους (τους διαβόλους), που ωραιοποίησαν γι' αυτούς: ό,τι ήταν μπροστά τους (από πλάνη και απολαύσεις στην εγκόσμια ζωή), και ό,τι θα είναι μετά απ' αυτούς (με το να διαψεύσουν τη Μέλλουσα Ζωή). Έτσι, ο Λόγος (Μου με τον οποίο προειδοποίησα τον Σατανά, ότι θα γεμίσω την Κόλαση μ' αυτόν και όσους θα τον ακολουθήσουν) έγινε αναπόφευκτος (δηλ. η τιμωρία έγινε αναπόφευκτη) γι' αυτούς μαζί με άλλα έθνη από τα τζινν και τους ανθρώπους που πέρασαν πριν απ' αυτούς. Πράγματι, αυτοί (όλοι) ήταν χαμένοι.
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
और हमने उनके लिए कुछ साथी नियुक्त कर दिए, तो उन्होंने उनके अगले और पिछले कामों को उनके लिए शोभित बनाकर पेश किया। तथा उनपर भी जिन्नों और इनसानों के उन समूहों के साथ, जो उनसे पहले गुज़र चुके थे, अल्लाह (की यातना) का वादा सिद्ध हो गया। निश्चय ही वे घाटा उठाने वाले थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E abbiamo assegnato loro dei compagni che abbelliscono loro le azioni presenti e passate, e si è avverata la Parola sulle generazioni – tra i demoni e gli umani – prima di loro. In verità erano perdenti.
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
25. Ir Mes paskyrėme jiems (džinus) artimus kompanjonus (šiame pasaulyje), kurie padarė atrodančiu teisingai jiems tai, kas buvo prieš juos (blogus darbus, kuriuos jie darė dabartiniame žemiškajame gyvenime ir netikėjimą Atsiskaitymu ir Prikėlimu) ir tai, kas buvo už jų (neigimą visko ateinančiame gyvenime Amžinybėje, kaip bausmės ar atlygio). Ir Žodis (t. y. kančia) pateisinamas prieš juos, kaip jis buvo pateisintas prieš tuos, kurie buvo iš ankstesniųjų džinų ir žmonių kartų, kurios mirė anksčiau jų. Tikrai jie (visi) buvo pralaimėtojai.
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 Мы приставили к ним товарищей, и те приукрасили им то, что было перед ними, и то, что было позади них. И сбылось над ними Слово [о наказании] в числе тех общин из числа джиннов и людей, что уже были до них. Воистину, они были потерпевшими убыток.
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
И Ми смо им били одредили пратиоце па су им лепим приказивали оно што су урадили и оно што ће урадити, и на њима се обистинило оно што је речено за народе, духове и људе који су пре њих били и нестали - заиста су настрадали.
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 tukawawekea marafiki, na wakawapambia yaliyo mbele yao na nyuma yao. Basi ikawathibitikia kauli wawe pamoja na mataifa yaliyopita kabla yao, miongoni mwa majini na watu. Hakika hao wamekuwa ni wenye kuhasirika.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Vi tilldelade dem [ondskefulla] följeslagare som förskönade för dem [det onda] som de har begått och vad som väntar dem [i det kommande livet]. Och så föll straffdomen över dem, liksom över förgångna släkten av jinner och människor. De var alla dömda till förlust.
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
Biz onlara yakın arkadaşlar kıldık. Onlar da önlerinde ve arkalarında olanı kendilerine süslediler. Onlardan önce gelen cinlerden ve insanlardan ümmetler arasında onlar üzerine söz hak olmuştur. Şüphesiz onlar zarar edenlerdi.
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
اور ہم نے ان کے کچھ ہم نشیں مقرر کر رکھے تھے، جنہوں نے ان کے اگلے پچھلے اعمال ان کی نگاہوں میں خوبصورت بنا رکھے[1] تھے اور ان کے حق میں بھی اللہ کا قول ان امتوں کے ساتھ پورا ہوا جو ان سے پہلے جنوں انسانوں کی گزر چکی ہیں۔ یقیناً وه زیاں کار ﺛابت ہوئے.
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
About these translations
5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
Which translations appear here is set by copyright: they are the ones whose rights could be documented and cleared. The selection is not a judgement that these are the best.
About easy-read
Easy-read
Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation,
not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil
Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the
same edition and their orthography differs.
Easy-read (simplified)wadhaalikum zannukumu lladhee zanantum birabbikum ardaakum fa'asbahtum mina l-khaasireen
DIN 31635waḏālikum ẓannukumu llaḏī ẓanantum birabbikum ʾardākum faʾaṣbaḥtum mina l-ḫāsirīna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 It is that thought of yours about your Lord that led you to ruin-so you became of the losers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That, your thought which ye did think about your Lord, hath ruined you; and ye find yourselves (this day) among the lost
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And that thought of yours which ye thought concerning your Lord has destroyed you, and ye have now become of those who lose
John Medows Rodwell1861 And this your thought which ye did think of your Lord hath ruined you, so that ye are become of those who perish
George Sale1734 This was your opinion, which ye imagined of your Lord: It hath ruined you; and ye are become lost people
DIN 31635faʾin yaṣbirū fan-nāru maṯwan lahum waʾin yastaʿtibū famā hum mina l-muʿtabīna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 If they endure patiently, the Fire will be their residence; and if they make up excuses, they will not be pardoned.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And though they are resigned, yet the Fire is still their home; and if they ask for favour, yet they are not of those unto whom favour can be shown
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And if they are patient, still the fire is a resort for them; and if they ask for favour again, they shall not be taken into favour
John Medows Rodwell1861 And be they patient, still the fire shall be their abode: or if they beg for favour, yet shall they not be of favoured
George Sale1734 Whether they bear their torment, hell fire shall be their abode; or whether they beg for favour, they shall not obtain favour
Talal Itani2012 Those who disbelieve say, "Do not listen to this Quran, and talk over it, so that you may prevail."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those who disbelieve say: Heed not this Qur'an, and drown the hearing of it; haply ye may conquer
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Those who misbelieve say, 'Listen not to this Qur'an, but talk foolishly about it, haply ye may gain the upper hand
John Medows Rodwell1861 Yet the unbelievers say, "Hearken not to this Koran, but keep up a talking, that ye may overpower the voice of the reader
George Sale1734 The unbelievers say, hearken not unto this Koran: But use vain discourse during the reading thereof; that ye may overcome the voice of the reader by your scoffs and laughter
Talal Itani2012 We will make those who disbelieve taste an intense agony, and We will recompense them according to the worst of what they used to do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But verily We shall cause those who disbelieve to taste an awful doom, and verily We shall requite them the worst of what they used to do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But we will make those who misbelieve taste keen torment; and we will recompense them with the worst of that which they have done
John Medows Rodwell1861 Surely therefore will we cause the unbelievers to taste a terrible punishment; And recompense them according to the worst of their actions
George Sale1734 Wherefore We will surely cause the unbelievers to taste a grievous punishment, and We will certainly reward them for the evils which they shall have wrought
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 —
0.70 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
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.77
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.76
Talal Itani · George Sale0.76
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.75
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.71
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.58
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
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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.