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Two men of those who feared, but whom God had blessed, said, "Go at them by the gate; and when you have entered it, you will prevail. And put your trust in God, if you are believers."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Then out spake two of those who feared (their Lord, men) unto whom Allah had been gracious: Enter in upon them by the gate, for if ye enter by it, lo! ye will be victorious. So put your trust (in Allah) if ye are indeed believers
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
Then said two men of those who fear, - God had been gracious to them both, - 'Enter ye upon them by the door, and when ye have entered it, verily, ye shall be victorious; and upon God do ye rely if ye be believers
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Then said two men of those who feared their Lord and to whom God had been gracious, "Enter in upon them by the gate: and when ye enter it, ye overcome! If ye be believers, put ye your trust in God
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And two men of those who feared God, unto whom God had been gracious, said, enter ye upon them suddenly by the gate of the city; and when ye shall have entered the same, ye shall surely be victorious: Therefore trust in God, if ye are true believers
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
Dy burra nga ata që kishin frikë (Allahun) dhe të cilët i kishte begatuar Allahu thanë: "U hyni atyre nga porta (e qytetit)! Sapo të hyni në të, ju do të jeni ngadhënjimtarë! Vetëm Allahut mbështetjuni, nëse jeni besimtarë!"
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 ভয় করত তাদের মধ্যে দুজন, যাদের প্রতি আল্লাহ অনুগ্রহ করেছিলেন, তারা বলল: ‘তোমরা তাদের মোকাবিলা করে দরজায় প্রবেশ করো, প্রবেশ করলেই তোমরা বিজয়ী হবে। আর আল্লাহর ওপরই তোমরা তাওয়াক্কুল করো, যদি তোমরা মু’মিন হও।
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
Dva čovjeka, koja su se Allaha bojala i kojima je On darovao blagodat Svoju, rekoše: "Navalite na njihovu kapiju, pa kad kroz nju prođete, bit ćete sigurno pobjednici; a u Allaha se pouzdajte, ako ste vjernici."
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
Dva čovjeka, koja su se Allaha bojala i kojima je On darovao blagodat Svoju, rekoše: "Navalite na njihovu kapiju, pa kad kroz nju prođete, bit ćete sigurno pobjednici; a u Allaha se pouzdajte, ako ste vjernici."
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
Worɓe ɗiɗo jeyaaɓe e hulɓe, ɓe Alla waɗi e dokkem eheɓe mbi'i : "Naatiraneeɓe ka damal, si on naatirii e maggal, pellet, onon ko o foolooɓe. Ko e Alla fawotoɗon si on laatike gooŋɗinɓe".
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
თქვა ორმა კაცმა იმათგან, ვისაც ეშინოდა ალლაჰის, და რომლებსაც ალლაჰმა თავისი წყალობა უბოძა: «შედით მათთან ქალაქის კარიბჭით. თუ თქვენ შეხვალთ, მაშინ აუცილებლად გამარჯვებულები იქნებით. და მხოლოდ ალლაჰს დაეყრდენით, თუ თქვენ ნამდვილად მორწმუნეები ხართ!»
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
Zwei Männer von denen, die (Allah) fürchteten und denen Allah Gunst erwiesen hatte, sagten: „Tretet gegen sie durch das Tor ein; wenn ihr nun dadurch eintretet, dann werdet ihr Sieger sein. Und verlasst euch auf Allah, wenn ihr (wirklich) Gläubige seid.“
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
Δύο άντρες (από τους συντρόφους του Μωυσή) απ' εκείνους που φοβούνταν τον Αλλάχ και ο Αλλάχ είχε ευνοήσει και τους δύο (με την υπακοή προς Αυτόν), είπαν: «Μπείτε σ' αυτούς από την πύλη, και όταν θα μπείτε απ' αυτή, σίγουρα θα είστε οι νικητές (αφού εκτελείτε την εντολή του Αλλάχ, ακολουθώντας τις αιτίες της νίκης). Και στον Αλλάχ εναποθέστε την εμπιστοσύνη σας αν είστε πιστοί.»
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
दो व्यक्तियों ने कहा, जो उन लोगों में से थे जो (अल्लाह से) डरते थे, जिनपर अल्लाह ने अनुग्रह किया था : तुम उनपर दरवाज़े में प्रवेश कर जाओ। जब तुम वहाँ प्रवेश कर गए, तो निश्चय तुम विजेता हो। तथा अल्लाह ही पर भरोसा करो, यदि तुम ईमान वाले हो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Dissero due uomini a cui Allāh aveva concesso la Sua grazia: «Forzate la loro porta! Se la attraversate, trionferete! E affidatevi ad Allāh se siete dei credenti!»
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
23. Du vyrai, kurie bijojo (Allaho ir) kuriems Allahas suteikė Savo Malonę (jie buvo Jūša ir Kalab) sakė: „Šturmuokite juos pro vartus, nes tada jūs būsite viduje, pergalė bus jūsų, ir pasitikėkite Allahu, jei iš tikrųjų esate tikintieji.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Namoota (Rabbiin) sodaatan, kan Rabbiin ni’imaa Isaatiin isaan qanansiise irraa dhiirotiin lama ni jedhan: "balbala isaan irratti seenaa. Yeroo isa seentan isin injifattoota. Yoo mu’uminoota taataniif Rabbi qofarratti hirkadhaa."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Двое мужчин из тех, которые боятся [наказания Аллаха], и кого Аллах облагодетельствовал, сказали: «Войдите к ним через врата, и когда войдёте, то, воистину, вы непременно одержите верх. Уповайте на Аллаха, если вы являетесь верующими».
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
Два човека која су се бојала Аллаха и којима је Он даровао Своју благодат - рекоше: „Навалите на њихову капију, па кад кроз њу прођете, бићете сигурно победници; а у Аллаха се поуздајте, ако сте верници.“
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
Wanaume wawili miongoni mwa wale wanaohofu ambao Mwenyezi Mungu amewaneemesha, wakasema: Waingilieni mlangoni. Na mtakapowaingilia, basi kwa yakini nyinyi mtashinda. Na mtegemeeni Mwenyezi Mungu ikiwa nyinyi ni Waumini.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Då sa två gudfruktiga män, som Gud hade välsignat: ”Gå in till dem genom stadsporten! Går ni in där kommer ni att segra. Och sätt all er lit till Gud, om ni är sanna troende!”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
(Allah'tan) Korkanlar arasında bulunan Allah’ın kendilerine nimet verdiği iki adam, üzerlerine (şehrin) kapısından girin, oradan girerseniz, muhakkak galip gelirsiniz. Eğer, Mümin kimseler iseniz, ancak Allah’a tevekkül edin, demişlerdi.
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
دو شخصوں نے جو خدا ترس لوگوں میں سے تھے، جن پر اللہ تعالیٰ کا فضل تھا کہا کہ تم ان کے پاس دروازے میں تو پہنچ جاؤ، دروازے میں قدم رکھتے ہی یقیناً تم غالب آجاؤ گے، اور تم اگر مومن ہو تو تمہیں اللہ تعالیٰ ہی پر بھروسہ رکھنا چاہیئے۔[1]
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 "O my people, enter the Holy Land which God has assigned for you, and do not turn back, lest you return as losers."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O my people! Go into the holy land which Allah hath ordained for you. Turn not in flight, for surely ye turn back as losers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O my people! enter the Holy Land which God has prescribed for you; and be ye not thrust back upon your hinder parts and retreat losers
John Medows Rodwell1861 Enter, O my people! the holy land which God hath destined for you. Turn not back, lest ye be overthrown to your ruin
George Sale1734 O my people, enter the holy land, which God hath decreed you, and turn not your backs, lest ye be subverted and perish
DIN 31635qālū yā mūsā ʾinna fīhā qawman ǧabbārīna waʾinnā lan nadḫulahā ḥattā yaḫruǧū minhā faʾin yaḫruǧū minhā faʾinnā dāḫilūna
Talal Itani2012 They said, "O Moses, there are tyrannical people in it; we will not enter it until they leave it. If they leave it, we will be entering."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They said: O Moses! Lo! a giant people (dwell) therein and lo! we go not in till they go forth from thence. When they go forth from thence, then we will enter (not till then)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They said, ' O Moses! verily, therein is a people, giants; and we will surely not enter therein until they go out from thence; but if they go out then we will enter in
John Medows Rodwell1861 They said, "O Moses! Therein are men of might. And verily, we can by no means enter it till they be gone forth. But if they go forth from it, then verily will we enter in
George Sale1734 They answered, O Moses, verily there are a gigantic people in the land; and we will by no means enter it, until they depart thence; but if they depart thence, then will we enter therein
Easy-read (simplified)qaaloo yaa moosaa innaa lan nadkhulahaa abadan maa daamoo feehaa fadhhab anta warabbuka faqaatilaa innaa haahunaa qaa'idoon
DIN 31635qālū yā mūsā ʾinnā lan nadḫulahā ʾabadan mā dāmū fīhā faḏhab ʾanta warabbuka faqātilā ʾinnā hāhunā qāʿidūna
Talal Itani2012 They said, "O Moses, we will not enter it, ever, as long as they are in it. So go ahead, you and your Lord, and fight. We are staying right here."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They said: O Moses! We will never enter (the land) while they are in it. So go thou and thy Lord and fight! We will sit here
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They said, 'O Moses! we shall never enter it so long as they are therein; so, go thou and thy Lord and fight ye twain; verily, we will sit down here
John Medows Rodwell1861 They said, "O Moses! never can we enter while they remain therein. Go thou and thy Lord and fight; for here will we sit us down
George Sale1734 They replied, O Moses, we will never enter the land, while they remain therein: Go therefore thou, and thy Lord, and fight; for we will sit here
Talal Itani2012 He said, "My Lord! I have control only over myself and my brother, so separate between us and between the wicked people."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He said: My Lord! I have control of none but myself and my brother, so distinguish between us and the wrong-doing folk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Said he, 'My Lord, verily, I can control only myself and my brother; therefore part us from these sinful people
John Medows Rodwell1861 He said, "O my Lord, Verily of none am I master but of myself and my brother: put thou therefore a difference between us and this ungodly people
George Sale1734 Moses said, O Lord, surely I am not master of any except my self, and my brother; therefore make a distinction between us and the ungodly people
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.63
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Talal Itani · George Sale0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.49
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.48
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.43
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.38
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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.