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Talal Itani· published 2012
God has promised you abundantgains, which you will capture. He has expedited this for you, and has restrained people's hands from you; that it may be a sign to the believers, and that He may guide you on a straight path.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Allah promiseth you much booty that ye will capture, and hath given you this in advance, and hath withheld men's hands from you, that it may be a token for the believers, and that He may guide you on a right path
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
God promised you many spoils and hastened this on for you, and restrained men's hands from you; and it may be a sign for the believers and guide you in a right way
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
God promised you the taking of a rich booty and sped it to you; and He withheld men's hands from you, for a sign to the faithful, and that He might guide you along the right way
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
God promised you many spoils which ye should take; but He gave you these by way of earnest: And He restrained the hands of men from you: That the same may be a sign unto the true believers; and that He may guide you into the right way
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
Allahu ju ka premtuar shumë pre që do t'i zini. Këtë jua përshpejtoi e i pengoi duart e njerëzve prej jush, që të jetë kjo një shenjë për besimtarët dhe t'ju udhëzojë në rrugën e drejtë.
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
আল্লাহ তোমাদেরকে বিপুল গনীমতের ওয়াদা দিয়েছেন, যা তোমরা গ্রহণ করবে, অতঃপর তিনি এটা (খায়বারের গনীমত) তোমাদের জন্য ত্বরান্বিত করেছেন। আর মানুষের হাত তোমাদের থেকে ফিরিয়ে রেখেছেন(৯) এবং যাতে এটি মু’মিনদের জন্য একটি নিদর্শন হয়, আর তিনি তোমাদেরকে সরল পথ দেখান।
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
Allah vam obećava bogat plijen koji ćete uzeti, a s ovim je požurio i ruke ljudi je od vas zadržao – da bi to bio poučan primjer za vjernike i da bi vam na Pravi put ukazao –
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
Allah vam obećava bogat plijen koji ćete uzeti, a s ovim je požurio i ruke ljudi je od vas zadržao – da bi to bio poučan primjer za vjernike i da bi vam na Pravi put ukazao –
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
Allah fodii on konu-heyri ɗuuɗundi ndi keɓɓitoɗon, O yaccinani on ndii ɗoo, o suri juuɗe yimɓe ɓeen e mo'on, fii yo wonu Ma'ande wonan'de gooŋɗinɓe ɓen, O fewnira on laawol Pocciingol.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ალლაჰი შეგპირდათ თქვენ უხვ ნადავლს, რომელსაც (კიდევ) აიღებთ. მან დააჩქარა თქვენთვის ეს და შეაკავა ხალხის ხელები თქვენგან, რათა ეს ყოფილიყო ნიშანი მორწმუნეებისთვის და (რათა) მან გიჩვენოთ სწორი გზა.
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
Allah hat euch versprochen, dass ihr viel (Kriegs)beute machen werdet. So hat Er euch diese schnell gewährt und die Hände der Menschen von euch zurückgehalten, und (dies,) damit es ein Zeichen für die Gläubigen sei und Er euch einen geraden Weg leite.
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
Ο Αλλάχ σας υποσχέθηκε άφθονα λάφυρα που θα τα πάρετε, και επέσπευσε για σας αυτή (τη νίκη και τα λάφυρα στη μάχη της Χάιμπερ), και εμπόδισε τα χέρια των ανθρώπων (των Εβραίων της Μαντίνας) από σας (από το να βλάψουν τα παιδιά και τα σπίτια σας αφού φύγατε από τη Μαντίνα προς τη Μάκκα για προσκύνημα), ώστε να είναι ένα σημάδι για τους πιστούς (για την υποστήριξη του Αλλάχ) και για να σας καθοδηγήσει στον ίσιο δρόμο.
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
अल्लाह ने तुमसे बहुत-सी ग़नीमतों का वादा किया है, जिन्हें तुम प्राप्त करोगे। फिर उसने तुम्हें यह जल्दी प्रदान कर दी। तथा लोगों के हाथ तुमसे रोक दिए और ताकि[10] यह ईमान वालों के लिए एक निशानी बन जाए और (ताकि) वह तुम्हें सीधी राह पर चलाए।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Allāh vi aveva promesso un bottino abbondante che raccoglierete, e ve ne ha anticipato una parte, e ha tenuto lontane da voi le mani dei nemici, perché ciò fosse un Segno per i credenti e vi guidasse sulla Retta Via.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
20. Allahas jums pažadėjo jog atsiimsite didžiulį laimikį, ir Jis paskubino tai dėl jūsų, ir sulaikė žmonių rankas nuo jūsų, tam, kad tai būtų ženklas tikintiesiems, ir kad vestų jus Tiesiu Keliu.
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
Аллах обещал вам многочисленные трофеи, которые вы возьмёте. Он ускорил это для вас и удержал от вас руки людей — чтобы это было знамением для верующих и чтобы наставить вас на прямой путь.
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
Аллах вам обећава обилни плен који ћете узети, а са овим је пожурио и руке људи од вас је задржао - да би то био поучан пример за вернике и да би вам на Прави пут указао.
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
Mwenyezi Mungu anawaahidi ngawira nyingi mtakazozichukua, basi amewatangulizia hizi kwanza, na akaizuia mikono ya watu isiwafikie, na ili hayo yawe ni Ishara kwa Waumini, na akawaongoza njia iliyonyooka.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Gud har lovat att ett stort antal krigsbyten ska hamna i era händer. Detta [första] påskyndade han åt er och han hindrade människor från att angripa er, för att detta ska vara ett tecken för de troende och för att leda er på en rak 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
Allah, size elde edeceğiniz bir çok ganimet vaadi vermiştir. Bunu sizin için çabuklaştırmış ve Müminlere bir işaret olması, sizin de doğru yolu bulmanız için insanların ellerini sizden çekmiştir.
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
اللہ تعالیٰ نے تم سے بہت ساری غنیمتوں کا وعده کیا ہے[1] جنہیں تم حاصل کرو گے پس یہ تو تمہیں جلدی ہی عطا فرما دی[2] اور لوگوں کے ہاتھ تم سے روک دیئے[3]، تاکہ مومنوں کے لئے یہ ایک نشانی ہو جائے[4] اور (تاکہ) وه تمہیں سیدھی راه چلائے.[5]
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 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
DIN 31635waʾuḫrā lam taqdirū ʿalayhā qad ʾaḥāṭa llāhu bihā wakāna llāhu ʿalā kulli šayʾin qadīran
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 And other things, of which you were incapable, but God has encompassed them. God is Capable of everything.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And other (gain), which ye have not been able to achieve, Allah will compass it, Allah is Able to do all things
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and other (spoils) which ye could not gain; but God has encompassed them; for God is mighty over all
John Medows Rodwell1861 And other booty, over which ye have not yet had power: but now hath God compassed them for you; for God is over all things Potent
George Sale1734 And He also promiseth you other spoils, which ye have not yet been able to take: But now hath God encompassed them for you; and God is almighty
Talal Itani2012 If those who disbelieve had fought you, they would have turned back and fled, then found neither protector nor helper.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if those who disbelieve join battle with you they will take to flight, and afterward they will find no protecting friend nor helper
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And had those who misbelieved fought you, they would have turned their backs; then they would have found neither patron nor helper
John Medows Rodwell1861 If the Infidels shall fight against you, they shall assuredly turn their backs; then, neither protector nor helper shall they find
George Sale1734 If the unbelieving Meccans had fought against you, verily they had turned their backs; and they would not have found a patron or protector
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 —
0.62 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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 · George Sale0.74
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Talal Itani · George Sale0.65
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.57
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.53
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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.