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And lo! they surely turn them from the way of Allah, and yet they deem that they are rightly guided
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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
They hinder them from the path, though they think they are guided.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
And the devils shall turn them aside from the way of truth; yet they shall imagine themselves to be rightly directed
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
Ata i pengojnë nga rruga e drejtë, ndërsa këta mendojnë se janë të udhëzuar.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর নিশ্চয় তারাই মানুষদেরকে আল্লাহর পথ থেকে বাধা দেয়; অথচ মানুষ মনে করে তারা হিদায়াতপ্রাপ্ত।
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
oni – šejtani ljude će od Pravog puta odvraćati, a oni će misliti da su na Pravom putu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
oni – đavli ljude će od Pravog puta odvraćati, a oni će misliti da su na Pravom putu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɗiin (awaseeji) noon, ko sakkorayɗi ɓe e peewal ngal, haa ka ɓe cikkata hiɓe peewi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და უეჭველად, ისინი [სატანები] აცდენენ მათ [ჭეშმარიტ] გზას და ჰგონიათ, რომ სწორ გზაზე დგანან.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und sie halten sie ja fürwahr vom Weg ab, und diese meinen, sie seien Rechtgeleitete.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Οι οποίοι (διάβολοι) θα τους αποτρέψουν από τον ίσιο δρόμο (ωραιοποιώντας την πλάνη στα μάτια όσων απομακρύνονται από το Κορ’άν), και έτσι θα νομίζουν ότι είναι καθοδηγούμενοι (στην αλήθεια, και ότι η πλάνη τους είναι η καθοδήγηση).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और निःसंदेह ये (शैतान) उन्हें सत्य मार्ग से रोकते हैं और वे समझते हैं कि वे सीधे मार्ग पर चलने वाले हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E loro in verità li sviano dalla Retta Via, e credono di essere ben guidati,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
37. Ir iš tiesų, jie (Šėtonai/velniai) klaidina juos nuo (Allaho) Kelio, tačiau jie galvoja, kad jie teisingai vedami.
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, воистину, они отвращают их от пути истины, тогда как те считают, что следуют верным путём.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
и ђаволи ће их од Правог пута одвраћати, а они ће мислити да су на Правом путу.
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 hakika wao wanawazuilia Njia na wenyewe wanadhani kuwa wameongoka.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Dessa [djävlar] leder dem så bort från den rätta vägen, allt medan de [förledda] tror sig följa rätt väg.
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
Şüphesiz bu Şeytanlar; onları doğru yoldan alıkoyarlar da onlar, kendilerinin doğru yolda olduklarını sanırlar.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور وه انہیں راه سے روکتے ہیں اور یہ اسی خیال میں رہتے ہیں کہ یہ ہدایت یافتہ ہیں.[1]
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 And decorations. Yet all that is nothing but the stuff of this life. Yet the Hereafter, with your Lord, is for the righteous.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And ornaments of gold. Yet all that would have been but a provision of the life of the world. And the Hereafter with your Lord would have been for those who keep from evil
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and gilding,- for, verily, all that is a provision of the life of this world, but the hereafter is better with thy Lord for those who fear
John Medows Rodwell1861 And ORNAMENTS OF GOLD: for all these are merely the good things of the present life; but the next life doth thy Lord reserve for those who fear Him
George Sale1734 and ornaments of gold: For all this is the provision of the present life; but the next life with thy Lord shall be for those who fear Him
Talal Itani2012 Whoever shuns the remembrance of the Most Gracious, We assign for him a devil, to be his companion.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And he whose sight is dim to the remembrance of the Beneficent, We assign unto him a devil who becometh his comrade
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And whosoever turns from the reminder of the Merciful One, we will chain to him a devil, who shall be his mate
John Medows Rodwell1861 And whoso shall withdraw from the Warning of the God of Mercy, we will chain a Satan to him, and he shall be his fast companion
George Sale1734 Whoever shall withdraw from the admonition of the Merciful, We will chain a devil unto him; and he shall be his inseparable companion
Talal Itani2012 Until, when He comes to Us, he will say, "If only there were between me and you the distance of the two Easts." What an evil companion!
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Till, when he cometh unto Us, he saith (unto his comrade): Ah, would that between me and thee there were the distance of the two horizons - an evil comrade
Edward Henry Palmer1880 until when he comes to us he shall say, 'O, would that between me and thee there were the distance of the two orients, for an evil mate (art thou)
John Medows Rodwell1861 Until when man shall come before us, he shall say, "O Satan, would that between me and thee were the distance of the East and West." And a wretched companion is a Satan
George Sale1734 Until, when he shall appear before us at the last day, he shall say unto the devil, would to God that between me and thee there was the distance of the east from the west! Oh how wretched a companion art thou
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.71 on a scale
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.87
Talal Itani · George Sale0.84
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.81
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.74
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.68
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
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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.