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Talal Itani· published 2012
Do those who perpetrate the evil deeds assume that We will regard them as equal to those who believe and do righteous deeds, whether in their life or their death? Evil is their judgment!
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Or do those who commit ill-deeds suppose that We shall make them as those who believe and do good works, the same in life and death? Bad is their judgment
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 those who commit evil deeds count that we will make them like those who, believe and work righteous deeds, equal in their life and their death?- ill it is they judge
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Deem they whose gettings are only evil, that we will deal with them as with those who believe and work righteousness, so that their lives and deaths shall be alike? Ill do they judge
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Do the workers of iniquityimagine that We will deal with them as with those who believe and do good works; so that their life and their death shall be equal? An ill judgment do they make
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 mos mendojnë ata që bëjnë vepra të këqija se do t'i trajtojmë njëjtë si ata që besojnë dhe bëjnë vepra të mira, në jetën e tyre dhe pas vdekjes? Sa keq që gjykojnë!
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
যারা মন্দকর্ম করেছে, তারা কি মনে করে যে, আমি তাদেরকে ঈমান এনেছে ও সৎকাজ করেছে এমন লোকদের সমান করে দেব, যাতে তাদের জীবন ও মৃত্যু সমান হয়ে যায়? তারা কতই না নিকৃষ্ট ফয়সালা করে!
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
Misle li oni koji čine zla djela da ćemo s njima postupiti jednako kao s onima koji vjeruju i dobra djela čine, da će u ovom životu i nakon smrti biti isti?! Kako loše rasuđuju!
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
Misle li oni koji čine zla djela da ćemo s njima postupiti jednako kao s onima koji vjeruju i dobra djela čine, da će u ovom životu i nakon smrti biti isti?! Kako loše rasuđuju!
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
Mbele ɓeen waɗɓe boneeji na nanndi e gooŋɗinɓe ɓe ngolli golle lobbe hoɓe fota e nguurndam mum en e maayde maɓɓe bonii koɓe ñaawata.
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
ნუთუ მართლა ეგონათ მათ, ვინც ბოროტ საქმეებს სჩადიოდნენ, რომ ჩვენ მათ ისევე მოვექცევით, როგორც მათ, ვინც (ალლაჰის) ირწმუნა და ღირსეული საქმეები აღასრულა, და რომ მათი მდგომარეობა ცხოვრებაში და სიკვდილის შემდეგ ერთნაირი იქნება? რაოდენ ცუდად [მცდარად] მსჯელობენ!
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
Oder meinen diejenigen, die schlechte Taten verüben, dass Wir sie denjenigen, die glauben und rechtschaffene Werke tun, gleichstellen sowohl in ihrem Leben als in ihrem Tod? Wie schlecht ist doch, was sie urteilen!
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
Ή νομίζουν εκείνοι που διαπράττουν κακές πράξεις ότι θα τους κάνουμε ίσους μ' αυτούς που πιστεύουν και κάνουν ενάρετες πράξεις, κατά τη ζωή τους (στην εγκόσμια ζωή) και μετά τον θάνατό τους (στη Μέλλουσα Ζωή); Πόσο άθλιο είναι αυτό που κρίνουν!
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
या वे लोग जिन्होंने बुराइयाँ की हैं, यह समझ रखा है कि हम उन्हें उन लोगों जैसा कर देंगे, जो ईमान लाए और उन्होंने अच्छे कर्म किए? उनका जीना और उनका मरना समान[7] होगा? बहुत बुरा है जो वे निर्णय कर रहे हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Quelli che hanno compiuto azioni malvagie pensano che li tratteremo allo stesso modo di quelli che hanno creduto e hanno fatto opere buone, sia in vita che in morte? Come giudicano male!
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
21. Arba argi tie, kurie įgyja blogus darbus, mano, kad Mes laikysime juos lygiais tiems, kurie tiki (Allaho Vienumą – islamiškąjį monoteizmą) ir daro teisingus gerus darbus, jų dabartiniame gyvenime ir po jų mirties? Blogiausias yra sprendimas, kurį jie daro.
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
Или же те, которые совершали злодеяния, считали, что Мы приравняем их к тем, которые уверовали и совершали праведные деяния, так что их жизнь и смерть будут равны? Сколь же скверно то, как они судят!
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
Мисле ли они који раде зла дела да ћемо са њима да поступимо једнако као са онима који верују и раде добра дела, да ће у овом животу и након смрти да буду исти?! Како лоше расуђују!
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, wanadhani wale wanaotenda maovu kuwa tutawafanya wawe sawasawa na wale walioamini, na wakatenda mema, uhai wao na kufa kwao? Ni hukumu mbaya mno wanayoihukumu!
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Tror de som utför onda handlingar att vi ska behandla dem som de som tror och handlar rättfärdigt, både i livet och efter döden? Vilket felaktigt antagande!
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
Yoksa kötülük işleyenler, ölümlerinde ve hayatlarında kendilerini iman edip salih amel yapanlarla bir tutacağımızı mı sanıyorlar. Ne kötü hüküm veriyorlar.
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
کیا ان لوگوں کا جو برے کام کرتے ہیں یہ گمان ہے کہ ہم انہیں ان لوگوں جیسا کردیں گے جو ایمان ﻻئے اور نیک کام کیے کہ ان کا مرنا جینا یکساں ہوجائے[1] ، برا ہے وه فیصلہ جو وه کررہے ہیں.
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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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
The translators word this verse differently
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
Talal Itani2012 God created the heavens and the earth with justice, so that every soul will be repaid for what it has earned. And they will not be wronged.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Allah hath created the heavens and the earth with truth, and that every soul may be repaid what it hath earned. And they will not be wronged
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And God created the heavens and the earth in truth; and every soul shall be recompensed for that which it has earned, and they shall not be wronged
John Medows Rodwell1861 In all truth hath God created the Heavens and the Earth, that he may reward every one as he shall have wrought; and they shall not be wronged
George Sale1734 God hath created the heavens and the earth in truth; that He may recompense every soul according to that which it shall have wrought: And they shall not be treated unjustly
Talal Itani2012 Have you considered him who has taken his desire for his god? God has knowingly led him astray, and has sealed his hearing and his heart, and has placed a veil over his vision. Who will guide him after God? Will you not reflect?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Hast thou seen him who maketh his desire his god, and Allah sendeth him astray purposely, and sealeth up his hearing and his heart, and setteth on his sight a covering? Then who will lead him after Allah (hath condemned him)? Will ye not then heed
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Hast thou considered him who takes his lusts for his god, and God leads him astray wittingly, and has set a seal upon his hearing and his heart, and has placed upon his eyesight dimness? who then shall guide him after God? Will they not then mind
John Medows Rodwell1861 What thinkest thou? He who hath made a God of his passions, and whom God causeth wilfully to err, and whose ears and whose heart he hath sealed up, and over whose sight he hath placed a veil - who, after his rejection by God, shall guide such a one? Will ye not then be warned
George Sale1734 What thinkest thou? He who taketh his own lust for his God, and whom God causeth knowingly to err, and whose ears, and whose heart He hath sealed up, and over whose eyes He hath cast a veil; who shall direct him, after God shall have forsaken him? Will ye not therefore be admonished
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 —
0.60 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.73
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.73
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.51
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.50
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
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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.