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48:16

قُل لِّلْمُخَلَّفِينَ مِنَ ٱلْأَعْرَابِ سَتُدْعَوْنَ إِلَىٰ قَوْمٍ أُو۟لِى بَأْسٍ شَدِيدٍ تُقَٰتِلُونَهُمْ أَوْ يُسْلِمُونَ فَإِن تُطِيعُوا۟ يُؤْتِكُمُ ٱللَّهُ أَجْرًا حَسَنًا وَإِن تَتَوَلَّوْا۟ كَمَا تَوَلَّيْتُم مِّن قَبْلُ يُعَذِّبْكُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)qul lilmukhallafeena mina l-'a'raabi satud'awna ilaa qawmin oolee ba'sin shadeedin tuqaatiloonahum aw yuslimoona fa'in tutee'oo yu'tikumu llaahu ajran hasanan wa'in tatawallaw kamaa tawallaytum min qablu yu'adhdhibkum 'adhaaban aleemaa

DIN 31635qul lilmuḫallafīna mina l-ʾaʿrābi satudʿawna ʾilā qawmin ʾūlī baʾsin šadīdin tuqātilūnahum ʾaw yuslimūna faʾin tuṭīʿū yuʾtikumu llāhu ʾaǧran ḥasanan waʾin tatawallaw kamā tawallaytum min qablu yuʿaḏḏibkum ʿaḏāban ʾalīman

EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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Talal Itani · published 2012

Say to the Desert-Arabs who lagged behind, "You will be called against a people of great might; you will fight them, unless they submit. If you obey, God will give you a fine reward. But if you turn away, as you turned away before, He will punish you with a painful punishment."

Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Talal Itani, ClearQuran ·ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB·Talal Itani / ClearQuran.com ·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International·retrieved 7 Sep 2026

Translation by Talal Itani, ClearQuran.com https://clearquran.com

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 1875–1936 · published 1930

Say unto those of the wandering Arabs who were left behind: Ye will be called against a folk of mighty prowess, to fight them until they surrender; and if ye obey, Allah will give you a fair reward; but if ye turn away as ye did turn away before, He will punish you with a painful doom

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 Palmer 1840–1882 · published 1880

Say to those desert Arabs who were left behind, 'Ye shall be called out against a people endowed with vehement valour, and shall fight them or they shall become Muslims. And if ye obey, God will give you a good hire; but if ye turn your backs, as ye turned your backs before, He will torment you with grievous woe

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Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired

Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an ·1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

John Medows Rodwell 1808–1900 · published 1861

SAY to those Arabs of the desert, who took not the field, ye shall be called forth against a people of mighty valour. Ye shall do battle with them, or they shall profess Islam. If ye obey, a goodly recompense will God give you; but if ye turn back, as ye turned back aforetime, He will chastise you with a sore chastisement

Sources

Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired

John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an ·1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

George Sale 1697–1736 · published 1734

Say unto the Arabs of the desert who were left behind, ye shall be called forth against a mighty and a warlike nation: Ye shall fight against them, or they shall profess Islam. If ye obey, God will give you a glorious reward: But if ye turn back, as ye turned back heretofore, He will chastise you with a grievous chastisement

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

Thuaju beduinëve që mbetën pas: "Ju do të thirreni (për të luftuar) kundër një populli të fuqishëm; do t'i luftoni ose do të dorëzohen. Nëse bindeni, Allahu do t'ju japë shpërblim të mirë, por, nëse ktheni shpinën, siç e kthyet më parë, Ai do t'ju ndëshkojë me një dënim të dhembshëm."

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.

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বাংলা · Bengali

হে রাসূল! তুমি পেছনে পড়ে থাকা বেদুঈনদেরকে বলো: ‘এক কঠোর যোদ্ধা জাতির বিরুদ্ধে শীঘ্রই তোমাদেরকে (যুদ্ধ করতে) ডাকা হবে; তোমরা তাদের বিরুদ্ধে যুদ্ধ করবে অথবা তারা ইসলামে প্রবেশ করবে। অতঃপর তোমরা যদি আনুগত্য করো তবে আল্লাহ তোমাদেরকে উত্তম প্রতিদান দিবেন। আর পূর্বে (মক্কায় যাওয়া থেকে) তোমরা যেমন ফিরে গিয়েছিলে তেমনি যদি ফিরে যাও, তবে তিনি তোমাদেরকে যন্ত্রণাদায়ক শাস্তি 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.

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Bosanski · Bosnian

Reci beduinima koji su izostali: “Bit ćete pozvani da se borite protiv naroda veoma hrabrog i moćnog, sve dok se ne pokori. Pa ako poslušate, Allah će vam lijepu nagradu dati. A ako izbjegnete, kao što ste i dosad izbjegavali, na muke će vas nesnosne staviti.”

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.

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Hrvatski · Croatian

Reci beduinima koji su izostali: “Bit ćete pozvani da se borite protiv naroda veoma hrabrog i moćnog, sve dok se ne pokori. Pa ako poslušate, Allah će vam lijepu nagradu dati. A ako izbjegnete, kao što ste i dosad izbjegavali, na muke će vas nesnosne staviti.”

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.

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Fulfulde · Fulani

Maakan tultuɓe ɓen e yimɓe ladde ɓeen: "Arma nde noddeteɗon e yimɓe joomiraaɓe doole tiiɗuɓe. Hoɓon ɓe maaɗum ɓe silma. Si on ɗoftike, Allah okkat on mbarjaari moƴƴundi; si on nduŋtii ii no huccitirnoɗon oya tuma, O leptira lepte mu'usuuɗe".

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.

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ქართული · Georgian

უთხარი იმ ბედუინ არაბებს, რომლებიც ჩამორჩნენ: «მოგიწევთ ბრძოლა (ზოგიერთ) ხალხთან, რომლებსაც (ძალა და) სასტიკი რისხვა გააჩნიათ. (ან) თქვენ იბრძოლებთ მათ წინააღმდეგ, ან (სხვაგვარად) ისინი დანებდებიან (ბრძოლის გარეშე). და თუ (ალლაჰის) მორჩილნი იქნებით, ალლაჰი კეთილ საზღაურს მოგცემთ, ხოლო თუ ზურგს შეაქცევთ (როგორც ადრე შეაქციეთ ზურგი, როდესაც ალლაჰის შუამავლის თანხლებით არ წახვედით), მაშინ ის მტკივნეული სასჯელით დაგსჯით».

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

Sag zu den Zurückgelassenen unter den Wüstenarabern: „Ihr werdet zu Leuten gerufen werden, die eine starke Gewalt besitzen, gegen die ihr kämpfen sollt, es sei denn, sie werden (vorher) Muslime. Wenn ihr nun gehorcht, gibt Allah euch schönen Lohn; wenn ihr euch jedoch abkehrt, wie ihr euch zuvor abgekehrt habt, wird Er euch mit schmerzhafter Strafe strafen.“

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

Πες (ω, Προφήτη) στους (προαναφερόμενους) Βεδουίνους που έμειναν πίσω: «Θα κληθείτε σε μάχη εναντίον ανθρώπων μεγάλης δύναμης, θα τους πολεμήσετε ή θα υποταχθούν. Τότε, αν υπακούσετε, ο Αλλάχ θα σας δώσει μία καλή ανταμοιβή, αλλά αν απομακρυνθείτε όπως απομακρυνθήκατε πριν, θα σας τιμωρήσει με μία οδυνηρή τιμωρία.

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

आप पीछे रह जाने वाले बद्दुओं से कह दें : जल्द ही तुम एक भयंकर युद्ध करने वाली जाति (से युद्ध) की ओर[7] बुलाए जाओगे। तुम उनसे युद्ध करोगे, या वे मुसलमान बन जाएँगे। फिर यदि तुम आज्ञा का पालन करोगे, तो अल्लाह तुम्हें उत्तम प्रतिफल प्रदान करेगा और यदि तुम फिर जाओगे, जैसे तुम इससे पहले फिर गए थे, तो वह तुम्हें दर्दनाक यातना देगा।

Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari

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Italiano · Italian

Di’ a quelli che sono rimasti indietro tra i Nomadi: «Verrete mossi contro un popolo di grande forza, e li combatterete, o si sottometteranno. Se obbedirete, Allāh vi riserverà una degna ricompensa. E se tornerete indietro, come avete fatto prima, vi infliggerà una dolorosa punizione.»

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

16. Sakyk (O Muchammedai ﷺ) beduinams, kurie pasiliko užnugaryje: „Jūs būsite pakviesti kautis su galingais žmonėmis, tuomet jūs kovosite su jais arba jie pasiduos. Jeigu paklusite, Allahas jums atlygins, bet jeigu nusisuksite kaip anksčiau, Jis jus nubaus skausminga kančia.“

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 1.0.8

Afaan Oromoo · Oromo

Shanaanota irraa isaan hafaniin jedhi: “gara namoota lolatti cimoo ta’aniitti waamamuuf jirtu; isaaniin loltu yookiin harka kennu (islaamawu). yoo tole jettan, Rabbiin mindaa bareedaa isiniif kenna. Yoo akkuma duraan garagaltanitti ammas garagaltan, Inni adabbii laalessaa isin adaba.

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Русский · Russian

Скажи оставшимся позади из бедуинов: «Вы будете призваны к сражению с народом, обладающим великой силой. Вы будете сражаться с ними, или они покорятся. И если вы повинуетесь, Аллах дарует вам прекрасную награду, а если отвернётесь, как отвернулись прежде, — Он подвергнет вас мучительному наказанию».

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

Реци бедуинима који су изостали: “Бићете позвани да се борите против народа веома храброг и моћног, све док се не покори. Па ако послушате, Аллах ће вам лепу награду дати. А ако избегнете, као што сте и досад избегавали, казниће вас болном патњом.“

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.

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Kiswahili · Swahili

Waambie wale walioachwa nyuma katika mabedui: 'Mtakuja itwa kwenda kupigana na watu wakali kwa vita, mpigane nao au wasalimu amri. Basi mkimtii, Mwenyezi Mungu atawapa ujira mzuri. Na mkigeuka kama mlivyogeuka kwanza, atawaadhibu kwa adhabu iliyo chungu.'

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Svenska · Swedish

Säg till de beduiner som stannade kvar: ”Ni kommer att kallas för att möta ett folk med stor stridskraft. Ni kommer då att strida mot dem, eller så kommer de att bli muslimer. Om ni lyder [när befallningen kommer] ska Gud skänka er en riklig belöning, men om ni vänder er bort, så som tidigare, väntar er ett smärtsamt straff.”

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.

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Türkçe · Turkish

Bedevilerden (seferden) geri kalanlara de ki: "Çok güçlü bir kavme karşı savaşmak için çağrılacaksınız ya da onlar Müslüman olacaklar. Eğer itaat ederseniz, Allah size güzel bir mükâfat verir. Eğer daha önce yüz çevirdiğiniz gibi yüz çevirirseniz, sizi acı bir azapla cezalandırır."

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اردو · Urdu

آپ پیچھے چھوڑے ہوئے بدویوں سے کہہ دو کہ عنقریب تم ایک سخت جنگجو قوم کی طرف بلائے جاؤ گے کہ تم ان سے لڑوگے یا وه مسلمان ہوجائیں گے[1] پس اگر تم اطاعت کرو[2] گے تو اللہ تمہیں بہت بہتر بدلہ دے گا[3] اور اگر تم نے منھ پھیر لیا جیسا کہ اس سے پہلے تم منھ پھیر چکے ہو تو وه تمہیں دردناک عذاب دے گا.[4]

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.

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The verses around this oneSource fact

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48:14

وَلِلَّهِ مُلْكُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ يَغْفِرُ لِمَن يَشَآءُ وَيُعَذِّبُ مَن يَشَآءُ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ غَفُورًا رَّحِيمًا

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)walillaahi mulku s-samaawaati wal-'ardi yaghfiru liman yashaa'u wayu'adhdhibu man yashaa'u wakaana llaahu ghafooran raheemaa

DIN 31635walillāhi mulku s-samāwāti wal-ʾarḍi yaġfiru liman yašāʾu wayuʿaḏḏibu man yašāʾu wakāna llāhu ġafūran raḥīman

Talal Itani2012 To God belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. He forgives whomever He wills, and He punishes whomever He wills. God is Forgiving and Merciful.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Allah's is the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth. He forgiveth whom He will, and punisheth whom He will. And Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful

Edward Henry Palmer1880 God's is the kingdom of the heavens and of the earth. He pardons whom He pleases, and torments whom He pleases; and God is forgiving, merciful

John Medows Rodwell1861 And God's is the kingdom of the Heavens and of the Earth: Whom He will He forgiveth, and whom He will He punisheth: and God is Gracious, Merciful

George Sale1734 Unto God belongeth the kingdom of heaven and earth: He forgiveth whom He pleaseth, and He punisheth whom He pleaseth; and God is inclined to forgive, and merciful

48:15

سَيَقُولُ ٱلْمُخَلَّفُونَ إِذَا ٱنطَلَقْتُمْ إِلَىٰ مَغَانِمَ لِتَأْخُذُوهَا ذَرُونَا نَتَّبِعْكُمْ يُرِيدُونَ أَن يُبَدِّلُوا۟ كَلَٰمَ ٱللَّهِ قُل لَّن تَتَّبِعُونَا كَذَٰلِكُمْ قَالَ ٱللَّهُ مِن قَبْلُ فَسَيَقُولُونَ بَلْ تَحْسُدُونَنَا بَلْ كَانُوا۟ لَا يَفْقَهُونَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)sayaqoolu l-mukhallafoona idhaa ntalaqtum ilaa maghaanima lita'khudhoohaa dharoonaa nattabi'kum yureedoona an yubaddiloo kalaama llaahi qul lan tattabi'oonaa kadhaalikum qaala llaahu min qablu fasayaqooloona bal tahsudoonanaa bal kaanoo laa yafqahoona illaa qaleelaa

DIN 31635sayaqūlu l-muḫallafūna ʾiḏā nṭalaqtum ʾilā maġānima litaʾḫuḏūhā ḏarūnā nattabiʿkum yurīdūna ʾan yubaddilū kalāma llāhi qul lan tattabiʿūnā kaḏālikum qāla llāhu min qablu fasayaqūlūna bal taḥsudūnanā bal kānū lā yafqahūna ʾillā qalīlan

Talal Itani2012 Those who lagged behind will say when you depart to collect the gains, "Let us follow you." They want to change the Word of God. Say, "You will not follow us; God has said so before." Then they will say, "But you are jealous of us." In fact, they understand only a little.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those who were left behind will say, when ye set forth to capture booty: Let us go with you. They fain would change the verdict of Allah. Say (unto them, O Muhammad): Ye shall not go with us. Thus hath Allah said beforehand. Then they will say: Ye are envious of us. Nay, but they understand not, save a little

Edward Henry Palmer1880 Those who were left behind shall say when ye have gone forth to spoils that ye may take, 'Let us follow you;' they wish to change God's words. Say, 'Ye shall by no means follow us; thus did God say before!' They will say, 'Nay! but ye envy us!' Nay! they did not understand save a little

John Medows Rodwell1861 They who took not the field with you will say, when ye go forth to the spoil to take it, "Let us follow you." Fain would they change the word of God. SAY: Ye shall by no means follow us: thus hath God said already. They will say, "Nay, ye are jealous of us." Nay! they are men of little understanding

George Sale1734 Those who were left behind will say, when ye go forth to take the spoil, suffer us to follow you. They seek to change the word of God. Say, ye shall by no means follow us: Thus hath God said heretofore. They will reply, nay; ye envy us a share of the booty. But they are men of small understanding

48:16 — the verse above

48:17

لَّيْسَ عَلَى ٱلْأَعْمَىٰ حَرَجٌ وَلَا عَلَى ٱلْأَعْرَجِ حَرَجٌ وَلَا عَلَى ٱلْمَرِيضِ حَرَجٌ وَمَن يُطِعِ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥ يُدْخِلْهُ جَنَّٰتٍ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ وَمَن يَتَوَلَّ يُعَذِّبْهُ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)laysa 'alaa l-'a'maa harajun walaa 'alaa l-'a'raji harajun walaa 'alaa l-mareedi harajun waman yuti'i llaaha warasoolahu yudkhilhu jannaatin tajree min tahtihaa l-'anhaaru waman yatawalla yu'adhdhibhu 'adhaaban aleemaa

DIN 31635laysa ʿalā l-ʾaʿmā ḥaraǧun walā ʿalā l-ʾaʿraǧi ḥaraǧun walā ʿalā l-marīḍi ḥaraǧun waman yuṭiʿi llāha warasūlahu yudḫilhu ǧannātin taǧrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru waman yatawalla yuʿaḏḏibhu ʿaḏāban ʾalīman

Talal Itani2012 There is no blame on the blind, nor any blame on the lame, nor any blame on the sick. Whoever obeys God and His Messenger-He will admit him into gardens beneath which rivers flow; but whoever turns away-He will punish him with a painful punishment.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 There is no blame for the blind, nor is there blame for the lame, nor is there blame for the sick (that they go not forth to war). And whoso obeyeth Allah and His messenger, He will make him enter Gardens underneath which rivers flow; and whoso turneth back, him will He punish with a painful doom

Edward Henry Palmer1880 There is no compulsion on the blind, and no compulsion on the lame, and no compulsion on the sick, but whoso obeys God and His Apostle, He will make him enter gardens beneath which rivers flow; but whoso turns his back He will torment with grievous woe

John Medows Rodwell1861 It shall be no crime on the part of the blind, the lame, or the sick, if they go not to the fight. But whoso shall obey God and His Apostle, he shall bring him into the gardens 'neath which the rivers flow: but whoso shall turn back, He will punish him with a sore punishment

George Sale1734 It shall be no crime in the blind, neither shall it be a crime in the lame, neither shall it be a crime in the sick, if they go not forth to war: And whoso shall obey God and his apostle, he shall lead him into gardens beneath which rivers flow; but whoso shall turn back, He will chastise him with a grievous chastisement

48:18

لَّقَدْ رَضِىَ ٱللَّهُ عَنِ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِذْ يُبَايِعُونَكَ تَحْتَ ٱلشَّجَرَةِ فَعَلِمَ مَا فِى قُلُوبِهِمْ فَأَنزَلَ ٱلسَّكِينَةَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَأَثَٰبَهُمْ فَتْحًا قَرِيبًا

Easy-read · not authoritative

Easy-read (simplified)laqad radiya llaahu 'ani l-mu'mineena idh yubaayi'oonaka tahta sh-shajarati fa'alima maa fee quloobihim fa'anzala s-sakeenata 'alayhim wa'athaabahum fathan qareebaa

DIN 31635laqad raḍiya llāhu ʿani l-muʾminīna ʾiḏ yubāyiʿūnaka taḥta š-šaǧarati faʿalima mā fī qulūbihim faʾanzala s-sakīnata ʿalayhim waʾaṯābahum fatḥan qarīban

Talal Itani2012 God was pleased with the believers, when they pledged allegiance to you under the tree. He knew what was in their hearts, and sent down serenity upon them, and rewarded them with an imminent conquest.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah was well pleased with the believers when they swore allegiance unto thee beneath the tree, and He knew what was in their hearts, and He sent down peace of reassurance on them, and hath rewarded them with a near victory

Edward Henry Palmer1880 God was well pleased with the believers when they did swear allegiance to thee beneath the tree; and He knew what was in their hearts, and He sent down His shechina upon them and rewarded them with a victory nigh at hand

John Medows Rodwell1861 Well pleased now hath God been with the believers when they plighted fealty to thee under the tree; and He knew what was in their hearts: therefore did He send down upon them a spirit of secure repose, and rewarded them with a speedy victory

George Sale1734 Now God was well pleased with the true believers, when they sware fidelity unto thee under the tree; and He knew that which was in their hearts: Wherefore He sent down on them tranquillity of mind, and rewarded them with a speedy victory

Sources

EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Uthmani, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

Parallel edition — Simple, Version 1.1

قُل لِّلْمُخَلَّفِينَ مِنَ الْأَعْرَابِ سَتُدْعَوْنَ إِلَىٰ قَوْمٍ أُولِي بَأْسٍ شَدِيدٍ تُقَاتِلُونَهُمْ أَوْ يُسْلِمُونَ فَإِن تُطِيعُوا يُؤْتِكُمُ اللَّهُ أَجْرًا حَسَنًا وَإِن تَتَوَلَّوْا كَمَا تَوَلَّيْتُم مِّن قَبْلُ يُعَذِّبْكُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا

EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

Analysis detailsDerived

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 — 0.54 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 Rodwell 0.63
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell 0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell 0.56
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer 0.56
Talal Itani · George Sale 0.54
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale 0.51
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale 0.51
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 0.48
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale 0.42

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.
As at
13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC
Gate
verify/divergence_gate.py re-derives and fails on drift

The platform does not say which is right, and does not characterise what the difference means. The renderings are placed together so the difference is visible; reading it is the reader's work.

Easy-read

SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026

ReceiptsSource fact

7 sources stand behind this page. Each is listed once, in the order the page first cites it, with the licence it was cleared under and what was actually read. Nothing on this page rests on a source that is not here.

Source Tanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) · Uthmani, Version 1.1
Edition
Uthmani, Version 1.1
Custodian
Tanzil Project
Layer
canonical text
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Commercial use
yes
Modification
contradictory
Licence text
read verbatim
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
203f0f1bf3158b1e5be4ab9f8f6870e5…
Located at
https://tanzil.net/pub/download/index.php?quranType=uthmani&outType=xml
Convention
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.

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Source Talal Itani, ClearQuran · ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB
Edition
ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB
Custodian
Talal Itani / ClearQuran.com
Layer
translation
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
Commercial use
yes
Modification
no
Licence text
terms page read
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
7 September 2026
Digest
70b0a8bb6f862f43670f7da1c0da59a4…
Located at
https://www.clearquran.com/downloads/quran-in-english-clearquran.epub
Convention
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.

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Source Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran · 1930 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Edition
1930 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
Layer
translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
aaff752d4349005282d977eebb863982…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-mohammedmarmadu.json

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.

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Source Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an · 1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Edition
1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
Layer
translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
32b2330e332339ace53509539efe9040…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-edwardhenrypalm.json
Convention
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.

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Source John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an · 1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Edition
1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
Layer
translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
91423dea6a6dccc192457870ed2c08fb…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-johnmedowsrodwe.json
Convention
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.

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Source George Sale, English translation of the Qur'an · 1734 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Edition
1734 translation, digital edition of unverified printing
Custodian
None — public domain work
Layer
translation
Licence
Public domain — copyright term expired
Licence URL
— none published —
Commercial use
yes
Modification
yes
Licence text
not applicable — no licence exists
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
05b679f5df49b0579e65f4b83b4c7235…
Located at
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e/editions/eng-georgesale.json
Convention
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.

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Source Tanzil Qur'an text (Simple) · Simple, Version 1.1
Edition
Simple, Version 1.1
Custodian
Tanzil Project
Layer
canonical text
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Commercial use
yes
Modification
contradictory
Licence text
read verbatim
Review state
cleared
Retrieved
24 August 2026
Digest
d9b5bad94e4725191aa8da9a0404bd8e…
Located at
https://tanzil.net/pub/download/index.php?quranType=simple&outType=xml
Convention
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.

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