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.
And We gave them preciserulings. They fell into dispute only after knowledge came to them, out of mutual rivalry. Your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection regarding the things they differed about.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And gave them plain commandments. And they differed not until after the knowledge came unto them, through rivalry among themselves. Lo! thy Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that wherein they used to differ
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 we brought them manifestproofs of the affair, and they disputed not until after knowledge had come to them, through mutual envy. Verily, thy Lord will decide between them on the resurrection day concerning that whereon they did dispute
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And we gave them clearsanctions for our behests: neither did they differ, through mutual envy, till after they had becomepossessed of knowledge; but thy Lord will judge between them on the day of resurrection, as to the subject of their disputes
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And We gave them plain ordinances concerning the business of religion; neither did they fall to variance, except after that knowledge had come unto them, through envy amongst themselves: But thy Lord will decide the controversy between them, on the day of resurrection, concerning that wherein they disagree
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
Gjithashtu, Ne u dhamë atyre prova të qarta lidhur me çështjen (e fesë), por ata ranë në kundërshti vetëm pasi u erdhi dituria, nga zilia që kishin mes vete. S'ka dyshim se Zoti yt do të gjykojë ndërmjet tyre në Ditën e Kiametit për gjërat që kundërshtoheshin.
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 আমি তাদেরকে দীনের যাবতীয় বিষয়ে সুস্পষ্ট প্রমাণাদি দিয়েছিলাম। তাদের কাছে (নবী মুহাম্মাদ সম্পর্কে) সঠিক জ্ঞান আসার পরও কেবল পারস্পরিক হিংসা-বিদ্বেষবশত তারা মতবিরোধ করেছিল। তারা যে সব বিষয়ে মতবিরোধ করত তোমার রব কিয়ামতের দিনে সে সব বিষয়ে মীমাংসা করে দিবেন।
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 jasne smo im dokaze o vjeri dali, a oni su se podvojili baš onda kad su do saznanja došli, i to zbog neprijateljstva i međusobne zavisti. Gospodar tvoj će im na Kijametskom danu, sigurno, presuditi u vezi s onim u čemu su se razilazili.
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
I jasne smo im dokaze o vjeri dali, a oni su se podvojili baš onda kad su do saznanja došli, i to zbog neprijateljstva i međusobne zavisti. Gospodar tvoj će im na Sudnjem danu, sigurno, presuditi u vezi s onim u čemu su se razilazili.
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 totti dallillaaji ɓannginooji ɓe luuraani si wonah caggal nde ganndal ari e mum en sabu bewre hakkunde maɓɓe pellet Jooma na ñaawa hakkunde maɓɓe ñande darnga koɓe njeddandiratnoo ko.
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 ჩვენ მივეცით მათ [ისრაელის შთამომავლებს] ცხადი სამხილები. და მათ შორის უთანხმოება მხოლოდ მას შემდეგ დაიწყო, როდესაც მოუვიდათ ცოდნა, ურთიერთშურით. ჭეშმარიტად, თქვენი უფალი განიკითხავს მათ შორის აღდგომის დღეს იმის შესახებ, რაზეც ისინი ამქვეყნად ვერ შეთანხმდნენ!
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 haben ihnen klare Beweise in der Angelegenheit (der Religion) gegeben. Sie wurden aber erst dann uneinig, nachdem das Wissen zu ihnen gekommen war - aus Missgunst untereinander. Wahrlich, dein Herr wird am Tag der Auferstehung zwischen ihnen über das entscheiden, worüber sie uneinig zu sein pflegten.
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
Τους δώσαμε σαφείς αποδείξεις της θρησκείας (και του ερχομού του Μωχάμμαντ), αλλά δε διαφώνησαν μεταξύ τους (σχετικά με τον ερχομό του) παρά μόνο από αδικία (και φθόνο) μεταξύ τους, αφού τους ήρθε η γνώση, (ότι ο Προφήτης στάλθηκε ανάμεσα στους Άραβες και όχι στους ίδιους). Πράγματι, ο Κύριός σου (ω, Μωχάμμαντ) θα κρίνει μεταξύ τους την Ημέρα της Ανάστασης σε ό,τι διαφώνησαν μεταξύ τους.
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 हमने उन्हें (धर्म के) मामले में स्पष्ट आदेश दिए। फिर उन्होंने अपने पास ज्ञान[6] आ जाने के पश्चात् ही, आपसी द्वेष के कारण विभेद किया। निःसंदेह आपका पालनहार क़ियामत के दिन उनके बीच उस चीज़ के बारे में फ़ैसला कर देगा, जिसमें वे मतभेद किया करते थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Demmo loro delle evidenti prove, ma non ne discordarono, per reciproco odio, se non dopo che arrivò loro la conoscenza. In verità, il Giorno della Resurrezione, il tuo Dio giudicherà tra loro sulle loro discordie.
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
17. ir suteikėme jiems aiškius reikalų įrodymus [apreikšdami jiems Tauratą (Torą)]. Ir jie nesiginčijo tol, kol juos pasiekė žinojimas, per pavydą vienas kitam. Iš tiesų, jūsų Viešpats teis juos Prikėlimo Dieną dėl to, dėl ko jie ginčydavosi.
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 даровали им ясные знамения в этом деле. Однако они впали в разногласия только после того, как к ним явилось знание, из-за зависти и взаимного произвола. Воистину, твой Господь рассудит их в День воскресения в том, о чём они пребывали в разногласиях.
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 дали смо им јасне доказе о вери, а они су се подвојили баш онда кад им је дошло знање, и то због непријатељства и међусобне зависти. Твој Господар ће, сигурно, да им пресуди на Судњем дану у вези са оним у чему су се разилазили.
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 tukawapa maelezo wazi ya amri. Basi hawakuhitalifiana ila baada ya kuwajia elimu kwa sababu ya uhasidi uliokuwa baina yao. Hakika Mola wako Mlezi atahukumu baina yao Siku ya Kiyama katika mambo waliyokuwa wakihitilafiana.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Vi gav dem även klara bevis för vad som är rätt. Trots det blev de oeniga efter att kunskapen nått dem, baserat på rivalitet som uppstått mellan dem. På uppståndelsens dag ska din Herre döma mellan dem i det de tvistade om.
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
Din konusunda onlara apaçık deliller vermiştik. Kendilerine ilim geldikten sonra, aralarındaki bağy/zulüm yüzünden anlaşmazlığa düşmüşlerdi. Şüphesiz Rabbin, kıyamet günü aralarında anlaşmazlığa düştükleri konuda hüküm verecektir.
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 انہیں دین کی صاف صاف دلیلیں دیں[1] ، پھر انہوں نے اپنے پاس علم کے پہنچ جانے کے بعد آپس کی ضد بحﺚ سے ہی اختلاف برپا کر ڈاﻻ[2]، یہ جن جن چیزوں میں اختلاف کر رہے ہیں ان کا فیصلہ قیامت والے دن ان کے درمیان (خود) تیرا رب کرے گا.[3]
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 Whoever does a good deed, it is for his soul; and whoever commits evil, it is against it; then to your Lord you will be returned.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Whoso doeth right, it is for his soul, and whoso doeth wrong, it is against it. And afterward unto your Lord ye will be brought back
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Whosoever acts aright it is for his own soul, and whosoever does evil it is against it; then unto your Lord shall ye be returned
John Medows Rodwell1861 He who doth that which is right, doth it to his own behoof, and whoso doth evil, doth it to his own hurt. Hereafter, to your Lord shall ye be brought back
George Sale1734 Whoso doth that which is right, doth it to the advantage of his own soul; and whoso doth evil, doth it against the same: Hereafter shall ye return unto your Lord
DIN 31635walaqad ʾātaynā banī ʾisrāʾīla l-kitāba wal-ḥukma wan-nubuwwata warazaqnāhum mina ṭ-ṭayyibāti wafaḍḍalnāhum ʿalā l-ʿālamīna
Talal Itani2012 We gave the Children of Israel the Book, and wisdom, and prophecy; and We provided them with the good things; and We gave them advantage over all other people.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And verily we gave the Children of Israel the Scripture and the Command and the Prophethood, and provided them with good things and favoured them above (all) peoples
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And we did bring the children of Israel the Book and judgment and prophecy, and we provided them with good things, and preferred them above the worlds
John Medows Rodwell1861 To the children of Israel gave we of old the Book and the Wisdom, and the gift of Prophecy, and we supplied them with good things, and privileged them above all peoples
George Sale1734 We gave unto the children of Israel the book of the law, and wisdom, and prophecy; and We fed them with good things, and preferred them above all nations
DIN 31635ṯumma ǧaʿalnāka ʿalā šarīʿatin mina l-ʾamri fāttabiʿhā walā tattabiʿ ʾahwāʾa llaḏīna lā yaʿlamūna
Talal Itani2012 Then We set you upon a pathway of faith, so follow it, and do not follow the inclinations of those who do not know.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And now have We set thee (O Muhammad) on a clear road of (Our) commandment; so follow it, and follow not the whims of those who know not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then we did set thee over a law concerning the affair: follow it then, and follow not the lusts of those who do not know
John Medows Rodwell1861 Afterwards we set thee over our divine law: follow it then: and follow not the wishes of those who have no knowledge
George Sale1734 Afterwards We appointed thee, O Mohammed, to promulgate a law concerning the business of religion: Wherefore follow the same, and follow not the desires of those who are ignorant
Easy-read (simplified)innahum lan yughnoo 'anka mina llaahi shay'an wa'inna z-zaalimeena ba'duhum awliyaa'u ba'din wallaahu waliyyu l-muttaqeen
DIN 31635ʾinnahum lan yuġnū ʿanka mina llāhi šayʾan waʾinna ẓ-ẓālimīna baʿḍuhum ʾawliyāʾu baʿḍin wallāhu waliyyu l-muttaqīna
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Talal Itani2012 They will not help you against God in any way. The wrongdoers are allies of one another, while God is the Protector of the righteous.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! they can avail thee naught against Allah. And lo! as for the wrong-doers, some of them are friends of others; and Allah is the Friend of those who ward off (evil)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, they shall not avail thee against God at all; and, verily, the wrong-doers are patrons of each other, but God is the patron of those who fear
John Medows Rodwell1861 For against God shall they avail thee nothing. And in sooth, the doers of evil are one another's patrons; but the patron of them that fear Him is God himself
George Sale1734 Verily they shall not avail thee against God at all: The unjust are the patrons of one another; but God is the patron of the pious
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.71
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.66
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.58
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.53
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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.