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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Lo! those who turn back after the guidance hath been manifested unto them, Satan hath seduced them, and He giveth them the rein
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
Verily, those who turn their backs after the guidance that has been manifested to them - Satan induces them, but (God) lets them go on for a time
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But as to those who return to their errors after "the guidance" hath been made plain to them, Satan shall beguile them, and fill them with his suggestions
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Verily they who turn their backs, after the truedirection is made manifest unto them; Satan shall prepare their wickedness for them, and God shall bear with them for a time
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
Pa dyshim, atyre që u kthyen në mosbesim pasi iu bë e qartë rruga e drejtë, shejtani ua hijeshoi punët e u dha shpresa të kota.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
নিশ্চয় যাদের কাছে হিদায়াত সুস্পষ্ট হয়ে যাওয়ার পর তারা পেছনে ফিরে গেছে, শয়তান তাদের কাছে (তাদের এ কাজকে) শোভনীয় করে তুলেছে এবং তাদেরকে দীর্ঘ মিথ্যা আশা দিয়েছে।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
One koji su od vjere svoje otpali, pošto im je bio jasan Pravi put, šejtan je na grijeh navodio i lažnu im nadu ulijevao.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
One koji su od vjere svoje otpali, pošto im je bio jasan Pravi put, vrag je na grijeh navodio i lažnu im nadu ulijevao.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Pellet, ɓeen ruttorɓe ɓabbe mum ɓaawo nde peewal ngal ɓanngannoo ɓe, ko seytaane cuɗinani ɓe, o hodi ɓe.
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ქართული · Georgian
უეჭველად, ისინი, რომელნიც უკუიქცნენ (ურწმუნონი გახდნენ) მას შემდეგ, რაც ჭეშმარიტი გზა ცხადი გახდა მათთვის, სატანამ გაალამაზა მათ (მათი ცოდვები) და გაუხანგრძლივა მათ (მათი სიცოცხლის იმედი).
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Deutsch · German
Wahrlich, diejenigen, die den Rücken kehren (und abtrünnig wurden), nachdem ihnen die Rechtleitung klar geworden ist, denen hat der Satan (etwas) eingeredet und (Allah) gewährte ihnen Aufschub.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Όσο γι' εκείνους (τους υποκριτές) που επέστρεψαν στην απιστία αφού τους είχε γίνει σαφής η καθοδήγηση, ο Σατανάς ωραιοποίησε στα μάτια τους την απιστία, και (ο Αλλάχ) τους έδωσε αναβολή για την τιμωρία (ώστε να αυξηθούν στην υποκρισία και στην απιστία και να τους φέρει σταδιακά στην τιμωρία από εκεί που δεν την περιμένουν).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
निःसंदेह जो लोग अपनी पीठों के बल फिर गए, इसके बाद कि उनके लिए सीधा रास्ता स्पष्ट हो गया, शैतान ने उनके लिए (उनके कार्य को) सुशोभित कर दिया और उन्हें लंबी आशा दिलाई।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
In verità quelli che tornarono sui loro passi, dopo che apparve loro la Retta Via, è Satana che ha abbellito loro la strada, e li ha guidati alla tentazione.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
25. Iš tiesų, tie, kurie atsiskyrė nusisukę (kaip netikintieji), kai vedimas buvo jiems aiškiai parodytas - tai buvo Šaitan (Šėtonas), kuris išgražino jų darbus, ir pripildė juos (netikra viltimi).
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Русский · Russian
Воистину, те, которые отступили [от веры] после того, как им стало ясно верное руководство, — это шайтан приукрасил им и внушил им надежды.
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Српски · Serbian
Оне који су од вере своје отпали, пошто им је био јасан Прави пут, ђаво је на грех наводио и лажну им наду уливао.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Kwa hakika wale wanaorudi nyuma baada ya uongofu kwisha wabainikia, Shetani huyo amewashawishi na amewaghuri.
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Svenska · Swedish
De som återvände till otro efter att vägledningen blivit tydlig har fått sitt val förskönat av Satan själv och han har ingett dem falska förhoppningar.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Kendilerine hidayet açıkça belli olduktan sonra, gerisin geriye (küfre) dönenlere, Şeytan (kendilerine kötü amellerini) süslemiş ve onları uzunca emellere düşürmüştür.
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اردو · Urdu
جو لوگ اپنی پیٹھ کے بل الٹے پھر گئے اس کے بعد ان کے لئے ہدایت واضح[1] ہو چکی یقیناً شیطان نے ان کے لئے (ان کے فعل کو) مزین کر دیا ہے اور انہیں ڈھیل دے رکھی ہے.[2]
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Talal Itani2012 That is because they said to those who hated what God has revealed, "We will obey you in certain matters." But God knows their secret thoughts.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That is because they say unto those who hate what Allah hath revealed: We will obey you in some matters; and Allah knoweth their secret talk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 That is for that they say to those who are averse from what God has revealed, 'We will obey you in part of the affair!' but God knows their secrets
John Medows Rodwell1861 This - because they say to those who abhor what God hath sent down, "We will comply with you in part of what ye enjoin." But God knoweth their secret reservations
George Sale1734 This shall befall them, because they say privately unto those who detest what God hath revealed, we will obey you in part of the matter. But God knoweth their secrets
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.73 on a scale
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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 Sale0.83
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.78
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.75
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.72
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.71
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.66
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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.