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Those who oppose God and His Messenger will be subdued, as those before them were subdued. We have revealed clear messages. The unbelievers will have a demeaning punishment.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Lo! those who oppose Allah and His messenger will be abased even as those before them were abased; and We have sent down clear tokens, and for disbelievers is 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
Verily, those who oppose God and His Apostle shall be upset, as those before them were upset. We have sent down manifest signs: for the misbelievers is shameful woe
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Truly they who oppose God and His Apostle shall be brought low, as those who were before them were brought low. And now have we sent down demonstrative signs: and, for the Infidels is a shameful chastisement
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Verily they who oppose God and his apostle, shall be brought low, as the unbelievers who preceded them were brought low. And now have We sent down manifest signs: And an ignominious punishment awaiteth the unbelievers
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
Me të vërtetë, ata që i kundërvihen Allahut dhe të Dërguarit të Tij, do të poshtërohen, ashtu siç u poshtëruan ata para tyre. Ne kemi zbritur ajete të qarta, kurse për jobesimtarët ka dënim poshtërues,
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বাংলা · Bengali
নিশ্চয় যারা আল্লাহ ও তাঁর রাসূলের বিরোধিতা করে তাদেরকে অপদস্থ করা হবে যেভাবে অপদস্থ করা হয়েছিল, তাদের পূর্বেকার জাতিদেরকে। আর আমি নাযিল করেছি সুস্পষ্ট প্রমাণাদি। বস্তুত কাফিরদের জন্য রয়েছে অপমানজনক শাস্তি।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Doista, oni koji se suprotstavljaju Allahu i Poslaniku Njegovu bit će odbačeni i poniženi, kao što su bili odbačeni i poniženi i oni prije njih. A Mi smo objavili jasne ajete i znakove, a nevjernike čeka ponižavajuća patnja,
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Doista, oni koji se suprotstavljaju Allahu i Poslaniku Njegovu bit će odbačeni i poniženi, kao što su bili odbačeni i poniženi i oni prije njih. A Mi smo objavili jasne ajete i znakove, a nevjernike čeka ponižavajuća patnja,
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Pellet ɓeen luundotooɓe Alla e nelaaɗo makko ɓe koynaama hono no adiiɓe ɓe koynirano, min tellinii aayeeje peeñɗe, woodani he'eferɓe lepte koynooje.
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ქართული · Georgian
უეჭველად, ისინი, ვინც ეწინააღმდეგებიან ალლაჰსა და მის შუამავალს, დამცირებულნი იქნებიან, ისევე როგორც დამცირებულნი იქნენ ისინი, ვინც მათზე უწინ იყვნენ (უწინდელი ერები და თემები, რომლებიც ალლაჰსა და მის მუციქულებს ეურჩებოდნენ). და ჩვენ ხომ გარდმოვავლინეთ ცხადი აიათები (სასწაულები). ხოლო ურწმუნოთათვის დამამცირებელი სასჯელია.
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Deutsch · German
Wahrlich, diejenigen, die Allah und Seinem Gesandten zuwiderhandeln, werden erniedrigt, wie diejenigen vor ihnen erniedrigt worden sind. Wir haben ja bereits klare Zeichen hinabgesandt. Und für die Ungläubigen wird es schmachvolle Strafe geben.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Πράγματι, εκείνοι που αντιτίθενται στον Αλλάχ (παραβιάζοντας τις εντολές Του και δείχνοντας εχθρότητα σ' Αυτόν) και στον Αγγελιαφόρο Του, θα ταπεινωθούν όπως ταπεινώθηκαν εκείνοι πριν απ' αυτούς (από τα προηγούμενα έθνη). Και πράγματι, στείλαμε ξεκάθαρα Εδάφια (και Σημάδια). Και για τους άπιστους θα υπάρξει ένα εξευτελιστικό μαρτύριο.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
निश्चय जो लोग अल्लाह और उसके रसूल का विरोध करते हैं, वे अपमानित किए जाएँगे, जैसे उनसे पहले के लोग अपमानित किए गए। और हमने स्पष्ट आयतें उतार दी हैं। और काफ़िरों के लिए अपमानकारी यातना है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
In verità quelli che odiano e intralciano Allāh e il Suo Messaggero sono stati umiliati e puniti, come sono stati umiliati e puniti quelli che li hanno preceduti. E abbiamo fatto discendere chiari Segni, e ai miscredenti una punizione umiliante.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
5. Iš tiesų, prieštaraujantys Allahui ir Jo Pasiuntiniui yra pažeminti, kaip ir tie, anksčiau jų, buvo pažeminti. Ir, be abejonės, Mes nuleidome aiškias eilutes. O netikintiesiems – žeminanti bausmė.
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Русский · Russian
Воистину, те, которые враждуют с Аллахом и Его Посланником, будут повержены, подобно тому, как были повержены те, которые были до них. Мы уже ниспослали ясные знамения. А для отвергших веру — унизительное наказание.
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Српски · Serbian
Заиста, они који се супротстављају Аллаху и Његовом Посланику биће одбачени и понижени, као што су били одбачени и понижени и они пре њих. Ми смо објавили јасне речи и доказе, а невернике чека понижавајућа патња
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Hakika wanaopinzana na Mwenyezi Mungu na Mtume wake, watadhalilishwa kama walivyodhalilishwa wale waliokuwa kabla yao. Na tulikwishateremsha Ishara zilizo wazi. Na makafiri watapata adhabu ya kufedhehesha.
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Svenska · Swedish
De som motsätter sig Gud och hans sändebud ska förödmjukas precis som de som levde före dem. Vi har uppenbarat klara budskap. Och för de otrogna väntar ett förnedrande straff.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Allah’a ve Rasûlüne muhalefet edenler, kendilerinden öncekilerin alçaltıldıkları gibi alçaltılacaklardır. Biz, apaçık ayetler indirmiştik. Kâfirler için alçaltıcı bir azap vardır.
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اردو · Urdu
بیشک جو لوگ اللہ اور اس کے رسول کی مخالفت کرتے ہیں وه ذلیل کیے جائیں[1] گے جیسے ان سے پہلے کے لوگ ذلیل کیے گئے تھے[2]، اور بیشک ہم واضح آیتیں اتار چکے ہیں اور کافروں کے لیے تو ذلت واﻻ عذاب ہے.
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Easy-read (simplified)walladheena yuzaahiroona min nisaa'ihim thumma ya'oodoona limaa qaaloo fatahreeru raqabatin min qabli an yatamaassaa dhaalikum too'azoona bihi wallaahu bimaa ta'maloona khabeer
DIN 31635wallaḏīna yuẓāhirūna min nisāʾihim ṯumma yaʿūdūna limā qālū fataḥrīru raqabatin min qabli ʾan yatamāssā ḏālikum tūʿaẓūna bihi wallāhu bimā taʿmalūna ḫabīrun
Talal Itani2012 Those who estrange their wives by equating them with their mothers, then go back on what they said, must set free a slave before they may touch one another. To this you are exhorted, and God is well aware of what you do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those who put away their wives (by saying they are as their mothers) and afterward would go back on that which they have said, (the penalty) in that case (is) the freeing of a slave before they touch one another. Unto this ye are exhorted; and Allah is Informed of what ye do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But those who back out of their wives and then would recall their speech,- then the manumission of a captive before they touch each other; that is what ye are admonished, and God of what ye do is well aware
John Medows Rodwell1861 And those who thus put away their wives, and afterwards would recall their words, must free a captive before they can come together again. To this are ye warned to conform: and God is aware of what ye do
George Sale1734 Those who divorce their wives by declaring that they will for the future regard them as their mothers, and afterwards would repair what they have said, shall be obliged to free a captive, before they touch one another. This is what ye are warned to perform: And God is well apprized of that which ye do
Talal Itani2012 But whoever cannot find the means must fast for two consecutive months before they may touch one another. And if he is unable, then the feeding of sixty needy people. This, in order that you affirm your faith in God and His Messenger. These are the ordinances of God. The unbelievers will have a painful punishment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And he who findeth not (the wherewithal), let him fast for two successive months before they touch one another; and for him who is unable to do so (the penance is) the feeding of sixty needy ones. This, that ye may put trust in Allah and His messenger. Such are the limits (imposed by Allah); and for disbelievers is a painful doom
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But he who finds not (the means):- then a fast for two months consecutively, before they touch each other; and he who cannot endure that:- then the feeding of sixty poor folk. That is that ye may believe in God and His Apostle; and these are the bounds of God; and for the misbelievers is grievous woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 And he who findeth not a captive to set free, shall fast two months in succession before they two come together. And he who shall not be able to do so, shall feed sixty poor men. This, that he may believe in God and His Apostle. These are the statutes of God: and for the unbelievers is an afflictive chastisement
George Sale1734 And whoso findeth not a captive to redeem, shall observe a fast of two consecutive months, before they touch one another. And whoso shall not be able to fast that time, shall feed threescore poor men, This is ordained you, that ye may believe in God and his apostle. These are the statutes of God: And for the unbelievers is prepared a grievous torment
Talal Itani2012 On the Day when God resurrects them all, and informs them of what they did. God has kept count of it, but they have forgotten it. God is Witness over everything.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 On the day when Allah will raise them all together and inform them of what they did. Allah hath kept account of it while they forgot it. And Allah is Witness over all things
Edward Henry Palmer1880 on the day when God shall raise them all together, and shall inform them of what they have done. God has taken account of it, but they forget it; for God is witness over all
John Medows Rodwell1861 On the day when God shall raise them all to life, and shall tell them of their doings. God hath taken count of them, though they have forgotten them! and God is witness over all things
George Sale1734 On a certain day God shall raise them all to life, and shall declare unto them that which they have wrought. God hath taken an exact account thereof; but they have forgotten the same: And God is witness over all things
Easy-read (simplified)alam tara anna llaaha ya'lamu maa fee s-samaawaati wamaa fee l-'ardi maa yakoonu min najwaa thalaathatin illaa huwa raabi'uhum walaa khamsatin illaa huwa saadisuhum walaa adnaa min dhaalika walaa akthara illaa huwa ma'ahum ayna maa kaanoo thumma yunabbi'uhum bimaa 'amiloo yawma l-qiyaamati inna llaaha bikulli shay'in 'aleem
DIN 31635ʾalam tara ʾanna llāha yaʿlamu mā fī s-samāwāti wamā fī l-ʾarḍi mā yakūnu min naǧwā ṯalāṯatin ʾillā huwa rābiʿuhum walā ḫamsatin ʾillā huwa sādisuhum walā ʾadnā min ḏālika walā ʾakṯara ʾillā huwa maʿahum ʾayna mā kānū ṯumma yunabbiʾuhum bimā ʿamilū yawma l-qiyāmati ʾinna llāha bikulli šayʾin ʿalīmun
Talal Itani2012 Do you not realize that God knows everything in the heavens and everything on earth? There is no secret counsel between three, but He is their fourth; nor between five, but He is their sixth; nor less than that, nor more, but He is with them wherever they may be. Then, on the Day of Resurrection, He will inform them of what they did. God has knowledge of everything.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Hast thou not seen that Allah knoweth all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth? There is no secret conference of three but He is their fourth, nor of five but He is their sixth, nor of less than that or more but He is with them wheresoever they may be; and afterward, on the Day of Resurrection, He will inform them of what they did. Lo! Allah is Knower of all things
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Dost thou not see that God knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth? and that there cannot be a privy discourse of three but He makes the fourth? nor of five but He makes the sixth? nor less than that nor more, but that He is with them wheresoe'er they be? then He will inform them of what they have done upon the resurrection day; verily, God all things doth know
John Medows Rodwell1861 Dost thou not see that God knoweth all that is in the Heavens and all that is in the Earth? Three persons speak not privately together, but He is their fourth; nor five, but He is their sixth; nor fewer nor more, but wherever they be He is with them. Then on the day of resurrection He will tell them of their deeds: for God knoweth all things
George Sale1734 Dost thou not perceive that God knoweth whatever is in heaven and in earth? There is no private discourse among three persons, but He is the fourth of them; nor among five, but He is the sixth of them; neither among a smaller number than this, nor a larger, but He is with them; wheresoever they be: And He will declare unto them that which they have done, on the day of resurrection; for God knoweth all things
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.56 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 · George Sale0.73
Talal Itani · George Sale0.64
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.49
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.46
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.39
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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.