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.
O ye who believe! ask not about things which, if revealed to you, would cause you trouble, though if you ask about them while the Qur'an is being sent down they will be revealed to you. God has left them out on purpose. And God is Most Forgiving and Forbearing
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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
O you who believe! Do not ask about things that would trouble you if disclosed to you. But if you were to ask about them while the Quran is being revealed, they will becomeobvious to you. God forgives that. God is Forgiving and Clement.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
O ye who believe! Ask not of things which, if they were made unto you, would trouble you; but if ye ask of them when the Qur'an is being revealed, they will be madeknown unto you. Allah pardoneth this, for Allah is Forgiving, Clement
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
O ye who believe! ask not about things which if they be shown to you will pain you; but if ye ask about them when the (whole) Qur'an is revealed, they shall be shown to you. God pardons that, for God is forgiving and clement
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O believers! ask us not of things which if they were told might only pain you; but if ye ask of such things when the entireKoran shall have been sent down, they will be declared to you: God will pardon you for this, for God is Forgiving, Gracious
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O besimtarë! Mos pyetni për gjëra, që, sikur t'ju thuheshin haptazi, nuk do t'ju pëlqenin. E, nëse pyesni për to teksa shpallet Kurani, ato do t'ju bëhen të qarta, ndërkohë që Allahu jua ka falur ato. Allahu është Falës i Madh e i Butë.
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
হে তোমরা যারা ঈমান এনেছো! তোমরা এমন বিষয়াবলি সম্পর্কে প্রশ্ন করো না, যা তোমাদের কাছে প্রকাশ করা হলে তা তোমাদেরকে কষ্ট দিবে। আর আলকুরআন অবতীর্ণকালে যদি তোমরা সে সম্পর্কে প্রশ্ন করো, তাহলে তা তোমাদের জন্য প্রকাশ করা হবে। আল্লাহ তা ক্ষমা করেছেন । আর আল্লাহ অতি ক্ষমাশীল, পরম সহনশীল।
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
O vi koji vjerujete, ne zapitkujte o onome što će vam pričiniti neprijatnosti ako vam bude objašnjeno; a ako budete pitali za to dok Kur'an bude objavljivan, bit će vam objašnjeno; ono ranije Allah vam je već oprostio. A Allah je Onaj Koji oprašta grijehe i Onaj Koji ne žuri s kaznom.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
O vi koji vjerujete, ne zapitkujte o onome što će vam pričiniti nelagodnosti ako vam bude objašnjeno; a ako budete pitali za to dok Kuran bude objavljivan, bit će vam objašnjeno; ono ranije Allah vam je već oprostio. A Allah je Onaj Koji oprašta grijehe i Onaj Koji ne žuri s kaznom.
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
Eehey monn gooŋɗinɓe ! wata on laɓndo fii piiji, tawi si ɗi peññinanaama on, mettay on. Si on laɓndino fii majji fewndo Alqur'aanaare nden Jippotoo, ɗi peññinante on. Alla Yaafike fii majji. Alla ko kaforoowo, jurmotooɗo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ჰეი თქვენ, რომელთაც ირწმუნეთ! ნუ იკითხავთ იმ საკითხებზე, რომლებიც თუ გაგეხსნებათ, დაგამწუხრებთ [იმაზე, რაც არ არის თქვენთვის დავალებული; იმაზე, რაშიც სარგებელი არ არის]. და თუ ჰკითხავთ მათ შესახებ მაშინ, როცა ყურანი გარდმოევლინება, ისინი გაგეხსნებათ [მოციქულის მეშვეობით გეცნობებათ] და დაგეკისრებათ მათი შესრულება, რაც გაგიძნელდებათ. ალლაჰმა გაპატიათ ეს, რადგან ალლაჰი შემნდობი, ლმობიერია.
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
O die ihr glaubt, fragt nicht nach Dingen, die, wenn sie euch offengelegt werden, euch missfallen, wenn ihr nach ihnen fragt zu der Zeit, da der Quran offenbart wird, sie euch (gewiss) offengelegt werden, wo Allah sie übergangen hat. Und Allah ist allvergebend und nachsichtig.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ω, εσείς που πιστεύετε! Μη ρωτάτε για πράγματα που, αν σας φανερωνόντουσαν, μόνο δυσκολία θα σας προκαλούσαν [όπως εκείνος που ρώτησε τον Προφήτη για το ποιος είναι ο πατέρας του. Και ο άλλος που τον ρώτησε όταν επιβλήθηκε το προσκύνημα, αν είναι για μία φορά στη ζωή ή πρέπει να τελείται κάθε χρόνο]. Εάν ρωτήσετε γι' αυτά καθώς αποκαλύπτεται το Κορ’άν (και τα αναφέρει), θα σας φανερωθούν. Ο Αλλάχ τα άφησε (και δεν τα ανέφερε ως έλεος για σας, γι' αυτό μη ρωτάτε για κάτι που δεν το ανέφερε ο Αλλάχ για να μην επιβληθεί ή να απαγορευτεί σε σας λόγω της ερώτησής σας). Πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ είναι Γαφούρ (Αυτός που συγχωρεί τα πάντα) και Χαλείμ (Μακρόθυμος).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
ऐ ईमान वालो! उन चीज़ों के विषय में प्रश्न न करो, जो यदि तुम्हारे लिए प्रकट कर दी जाएँ, तो तुम्हें बुरी लगें, तथा यदि तुम उनके विषय में उस समय प्रश्न करोगे, जब क़ुरआन उतारा जा रहा है, तो वे तुम्हारे लिए प्रकट कर दी जाएँगी। अल्लाह ने उन्हें क्षमा कर दिया और अल्लाह बहुत क्षमा करने वाला, अत्यंत सहनशील[68] है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
O credenti, non chiedete sempre di cose che, se vi fossero mostrate, vi farebbero un danno. Ma se farete le domande quando viene fatto scendere il Corano, e vi sarà chiarito, Allāh vi perdonerà ciò, e Allāh è in verità Perdonatore, Benevolo.
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
101. O jūs, kurie tikite! Neklausinėkite apie tuos dalykus, kurie, jei jie jums išaiškinti, gali jums pridaryti bėdos. Tačiau, jei jūs klausiate apie juos, kol Koranas yra apreiškiamas, jie bus jums išaiškinti. Allahas atleido tai, ir Allahas yra Dažnai Atleidžiantis, Pakančiausiasis.
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
О вы, которые уверовали! Не спрашивайте о вещах, которые, если они будут открыты вам, опечалят вас. Но если вы спросите о них, когда ниспосылается Коран, то они будут открыты вам. Аллах простил это [прежде], и Аллах — прощающий, сдержанный.
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
О ви који верујете, не запиткујте о ономе што ће да вам причини непријатности ако вам буде објашњено; а ако будете питали за то док буде објављиван Кур'ан, биће вам објашњено; оно раније Аллах вам је већ опростио. А Аллах опрашта грехе и не жури са казном.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Enyi mlioamini! Msiulize kuhusu mambo ambayo mkidhihirishiwa, yatawachukiza. Na mkiuliza juu yake wakati inateremshwa Qur-ani, mtadhihirishiwa hayo. Mwenyezi Mungu amesamehe hayo. Na Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mwenye kufuta dhambi, Mpole.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Troende! Ställ inte frågor om sådant som, om det klargörs för er, skulle bli er till besvär. Och om ni frågar om det när Koranen uppenbaras, kommer det att klargöras för er; Gud har haft överseende med detta. Gud är ständigt förlåtande och fördragsam.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Ey iman edenler! Size açıklandığı takdirde sizi üzecek olan şeylere dair soru sormayın. Eğer Kur’an indirilirken bunlara dair soru sorarsanız size açıklanır. (Hâlbuki) Allah onları bağışlamıştır. Allah, çok bağışlayandır, Halîm'dir. (Hemen cezalandırmaz, mühlet verir.)
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اردو · Urdu
اے ایمان والو! ایسی باتیں مت پوچھو کہ اگر تم پر ﻇاہر کر دی جائیں تو تمہیں ناگوار ہوں اور اگر تم زمانہٴ نزول قرآن میں ان باتوں کو پوچھو گے تو تم پر ﻇاہر کردی جائیں گی[1] سواﻻت گزشتہ اللہ نے معاف کردیئے اور اللہ بڑی مغفرت واﻻ بڑے حلم واﻻ ہے۔
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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5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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Talal Itani2012 Say: "The bad and the good are not equal, even though the abundance of the bad may impress you. So be conscious of God, O you who possess intelligence, that you may succeed."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: The evil and the good are not alike even though the plenty of the evil attract thee. So be mindful of your duty to Allah, O men of understanding, that ye may succeed
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'The vile shall not be deemed equal with the good, although the abundance of the vile please thee.' Fear God then, O ye who have minds! haply ye may prosper
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: The evil and the good shall not be valued alike, even though the abundance of evil please thee; therefore fear God, O ye of understanding! that it may be well with you
George Sale1734 Say, 'The bad and the good are not alike,' even though the abundance of bad may please thee. So be mindful of your duty to God, O men of understanding, that you may prosper
Talal Itani2012 God did not institute the superstitions of Bahirah, Saibah, Wasilah, or of Hami; but those who disbelieve fabricate lies about God-most of them do not understand.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah hath not appointed anything in the nature of a Bahirah or a Sa'ibah or a Wasilah or a Hami, but those who disbelieve invent a lie against Allah. Most of them have no sense
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And God has not ordained any Ba'hirah or Saibah, nor Wazilah nor 'Hami, but those who misbelieve invent a lie against God, for most of them do not understand
John Medows Rodwell1861 God hath not ordained anything on the subject. of Bahira, or Saiba, or Wasila, or Hami; but the unbelievers have invented this lie against God: and most of them had no understanding
George Sale1734 God has not ordained any 'Bahira' or 'Sa'ibah' or Wasilah' or 'Hami' but those who disbelieve forge a lie against God, and most of them do not make use of their understanding
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.58 on a scale
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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
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.74
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.56
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.52
Talal Itani · George Sale0.52
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.48
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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.