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Talal Itani· published 2012
They took their oaths as a screen, and prevented others from God's path. They will have a shameful punishment.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
They make a shelter of their oaths and turn (men) from the way of Allah; so theirs will be a shameful 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 Palmer1840–1882 · published 1880
They take their faith for a cloak; and they turn men aside from the path of God; and for them is shameful woe
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They have taken their oaths for a cloak, and they have turned men aside from the way of God: Wherefore a shameful punishment awaiteth them
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
Ata marrin betimin e tyre si mburojë dhe i pengojnë njerëzit nga rruga e Allahut. Për ta do të ketë dënim poshtërues.
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
তারা (মুনাফিকরা) তাদের শপথগুলোকে (১০) ঢাল বানিয়েছে। ফলে তারা (মানুষকে) আল্লাহর পথ থেকে বিরত রেখেছে। তাই তাদের জন্য রয়েছে লাঞ্ছনাদায়ক শাস্তি।
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
Uzeli su svoje zakletve štitom, i odvraćaju od Allahova puta, pa im zato pripada ponižavajuća patnja.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Uzeli su svoje zakletve štitom, i odvraćaju od Allahova puta, pa im zato pripada ponižavajuća patnja.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
ɓe nanngarii goonɗdooje mum en ɗe heedo, ɓe palii laawol Alla ngol, woodaniiɓe lepte koynooje.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
მათ [მუნაფიყებმა] თავიანთი (ცრუ) ფიცები საფარველად გამოიყენეს (რათა მათი ურწმუნოების გამო არ მოეკლათ),
და ამით (თავიანთ თავსაც და სხვებსაც) ალლაჰის გზიდან — ისლამიდან აცდენდნენ. მათთვის იქნება დამცირებელი სასჯელი (ჯოჯოხეთში)!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Sie haben sich ihre Eide zu einem Schutzschirm genommen und halten demnach vom Weg Allahs ab. So wird es für sie schmachvolle Strafe geben.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Έκαναν τους (ψεύτικους) όρκους τους προπέτασμα (για τις κακές τους πράξεις). Έτσι, εμπόδισαν (τους ανθρώπους) από το Δρόμο του Αλλάχ (το Ισλάμ): γι' αυτό θα λάβουν ένα ταπεινωτικό μαρτύριο.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
उन्होंने अपनी क़समों को ढाल बना लिया। फिर (लोगों को) अल्लाह के मार्ग से रोका। अतः उनके लिए अपमानकारी यातना है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Hanno preso i loro giuramenti come pretesto e hanno sbarrato il sentiero di Allāh, e avranno una punizione umiliante.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
16. Jie pavertė savo (melagingas) priesaikas priedanga, taigi jie nuvijo (žmones) nuo Allaho Kelio. Tad jiems – žeminanti bausmė.
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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
Они сделали свои клятвы прикрытием и тем самым отвратили [людей] от пути Аллаха, поэтому для них — унизительное наказание.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Штите се својим заклетвама, и тако одвраћају од Аллаховог пута, па им зато припада понижавајућа патња.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Wamefanya viapo vyao ni ngao, na wakaizuilia Njia ya Mwenyezi Mungu. Basi hao watapata adhabu ya kufedhehesha.
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Svenska · Swedish
De använde sina eder [om tro] som en täckmantel samtidigt som de hindrar andra från Guds väg. Ett förnedrande straff väntar dem.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Yeminlerini kalkan edindiler de, Allah yolundan alıkoydular; onlara alçaltıcı bir azap vardır.
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اردو · Urdu
ان لوگوں نے تو اپنی قسموں کو ڈھال بنا رکھا ہے[1] اور لوگوں کو اللہ کی راه سے روکتے ہیں[2] ان کے لیے رسوا کرنے واﻻ عذاب ہے.
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Talal Itani2012 Have you considered those who befriended a people with whom God has become angry? They are not of you, nor of them. And they swear to a lie while they know.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Hast thou not seen those who take for friends a folk with whom Allah is wroth? They are neither of you nor of them, and they swear a false oath knowingly
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Dost thou not look at those who take for patrons a people God is wrath with? they are neither of you nor of them, and they swear to you a lie the while they know
John Medows Rodwell1861 Hast thou not remarked those who make friends of that people with whom God is angered? They are neither of your party nor of theirs; and they swear to a lie, knowing it to be such
George Sale1734 Hath thou not observed those who have taken for their friends a people against whom God is incensed? They are neither of you, nor of them: And they swear to a lie knowingly
DIN 31635lan tuġniya ʿanhum ʾamwāluhum walā ʾawlāduhum mina llāhi šayʾan ʾūlāʾika ʾaṣḥābu n-nāri hum fīhā ḫālidūna
Talal Itani2012 Neither their possessions nor their children will avail them anything against God. These are the inhabitants of the Fire, dwelling therein forever.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Their wealth and their children will avail them naught against Allah. Such are rightful owners of the Fire; they will abide therein
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Their wealth shall not avail them, nor their children at all, against God; they are the fellows of the Fire, and they shall dwell therein for aye
John Medows Rodwell1861 Not at all shall their wealth or their children avail them aught against God. Companions shall they be of the fire: they shall abide therein for ever
George Sale1734 neither their wealth nor their children shall avail them at all against God. These shall be the inhabitants of hell fire; they shall abide therein for ever
Talal Itani2012 On the Day when God will resurrect them altogether-they will swear to Him, as they swear to you, thinking that they are upon something. Indeed, they themselves are the liars.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 On the day when Allah will raise them all together, then will they swear unto Him as they (now) swear unto you, and they will fancy that they have some standing. Lo! is it not they who are the liars
Edward Henry Palmer1880 On the day when God raises them all together, then will they swear to Him as they swore to you; and they will think that they rest on somewhat.- Ay, verily, they are liars
John Medows Rodwell1861 On the day when God shall raise them all, they will swear to Him as they now swear to you, deeming that it will avail them. Are they not - yes they - the liars
George Sale1734 On a certain day God shall raise them all: Then will they swear unto Him, as they swear now unto you, imagining that it will be of service to them. Are they not liars
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 —
0.63 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
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.77
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.77
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.72
Talal Itani · George Sale0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.46
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.44
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
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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.
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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.