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.
They will not fight you all together except from fortified strongholds, or from behind walls. Their hostility towards each other is severe. You would think they are united, but their hearts are diverse. That is because they are a people who do not understand.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
They will not fight against you in a body save in fortified villages or from behind walls. Their adversity among themselves is very great. Ye think of them as a wholewhereas their hearts are divers. That is because they are a folk who have no sense
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 will not fight against you in a body save in fortified cities, or from behind walls; their valour is great amongst themselves;- thou dost reckon them as one body, but their hearts are separated. This is because they are a people who have no sense
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They (the Jews) will not fight against you in a body except in fenced towns or from behind walls. Mighty is their valour among themselves! thou thinkest them united - but their hearts are divided. This for that they are a people who understand not
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They will not fight against you in a body, except in fenced towns, or from behind walls. Their strength in war among themselves is great: Thou thinkest them to be united; but their hearts are divided. This, because they are people who do not understand
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[1] nuk ju luftojnë të gjithë së bashku, përveçse në qytete të fortifikuara ose pas mureve. Armiqësia mes tyre është e ashpër; ti i mendon të bashkuar, por zemrat e tyre janë të përçara. Kjo, se ata janë njerëz që nuk mendojnë.
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.
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বাংলা · Bengali
তারা সবাই মিলে তোমাদের বিরুদ্ধে যুদ্ধ করবে না; তবে সুরক্ষিত জনপদে অবস্থান করে অথবা প্রাচীরের আড়াল থেকে (যুদ্ধ করবে)।(৮) তাদের পারস্পরিক শত্রুতা অত্যন্ত প্রবল।(৯) তুমি তাদেরকে ঐক্যবদ্ধ মনে করবে, অথচ তাদের অন্তরসমূহ পরস্পর বিচ্ছিন্ন। এটি এ কারণে যে, তারা এমন এক সম্প্রদায়, যারা বিবেক-বুদ্ধি প্রয়োগ করে না।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Samo u utvrđenim gradovima ili iza zidina oni se protiv vas smiju skupa boriti. Njihovo međusobno neprijateljstvo žestoko je. Ti misliš da su oni složni, međutim, srca su njihova razjedinjena, zato što su to ljudi koji ne razumiju.
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
Samo u utvrđenim gradovima ili iza zidina oni se protiv vas smiju skupa boriti. Njihovo međusobno neprijateljstvo žestoko je. Ti misliš da su oni složni, međutim, srca su njihova razjedinjena, zato što su to ljudi koji ne razumiju.
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
ɓe kaɓatah e mon si wonah hoɓe e gure taartinaaɗe galli wolla caggal mahdeele bone maɓɓe hakkunde mu'en na satti haɗa sikka koɓe gootum kono ɓerɗe maɓɓe na ceerti waɗi noon koɓe yimɓe ɓe kakkiltah.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ისინი ყველა ერთად ვერ შეგებრძოლებიან, გარდა გამაგრებული სოფლებისა ან კედლებს ამოფარებულნი. მათ შორის მტრობა დიდია. შენ ისინი ერთიანნი გგონია, არადა მათი გულები გაყოფილია. ეს იმიტომ, რომ ისინი უგუნური ხალხია.
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
Sie werden nicht alle gegen euch kämpfen, außer in befestigten Ortschaften oder hinter Mauern. Ihre Gewalt ist untereinander stark. Du meinst, sie seien eine Einheit, doch ihre Herzen sind verschieden. Dies (ist so), weil sie Leute sind, die nicht begreifen.
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
Δεν θα σας πολεμούν ούτε καν όλοι μαζί (ενωμένοι), εκτός σε οχυρωμένες κωμοπόλεις, ή πίσω από τείχη. Η εχθρότητα ανάμεσά τους είναι μεγάλη. Τους νομίζεις ενωμένους, αλλά (στ’ αλήθεια) οι καρδιές τους διαφέρουν μεταξύ τους. Αυτό γιατί είναι ένας λαός που δεν συλλογίζεται.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
वे तुमसे एकत्रित होकर युद्ध नहीं करेंगे, परंतु क़िलेबंद बस्तियों में या दीवारों के पीछे से। उनकी आपस की लड़ाई बहुत सख़्त है। आप उन्हें एकजुट समझते हैं, जबकि उनके दिल अलग-अलग हैं। यह इसलिए कि वे ऐसे लोग हैं, जो बुद्धि नहीं रखते।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Non vi affronteranno uniti se non in cittadelle fortificate, o dietro bastioni; c’è tra loro grande inimicizia. Li credi uniti, ma i loro cuori sono divisi: ciò perché sono gente che non riflette,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
14. Jie nekovos su jumis visais drauge, išskyrus sutvirtintuose miestuose arba iš už sienų. Jų įtūžis (t. y. nesantaika) tarpusavyje yra smarkus. Jūs manote, kad jie yra vieningi, tačiau jų širdys skirtingos. Taip yra todėl, kad jie nemąstantys žmonės.
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.
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Русский · Russian
Они не станут сражаться с вами все вместе, разве что в укреплённых селениях или из-за стен. Вражда между ними сильна: ты считаешь их единым целым, но сердца их разрознены. Это потому, что они — люди, которые не разумеют.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Само у утврђеним градовима или иза зидина они против вас смеју заједно да се боре. Њихово међусобно непријатељство је жестоко. Ти мислиш да су они сложни, међутим, срца су њихова разједињена, зато што су то људи који не разумеју.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Hawatapigana nanyi kwa mkusanyiko isipokuwa katika vijiji vilivyoimarishwa kwa ngome, au nyuma ya kuta. Wao kwa wao vita vyao ni vikali. Utawadhania kuwa wako pamoja, kumbe nyoyo zao ni mbali mbali. Hayo ni kwa kuwa wao ni watu wasiotumia akili.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
De kommer aldrig att ta strid mot er som en samlad styrka förutom innanför befästa byar eller bakom murar. Deras inbördes strider är häftiga, ja, du må tro att de är eniga, men deras hjärtan är splittrade. Detta för att de är människor som inte använder sitt förnuft.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Onlar, surlarla çevrili kasabalar veya duvarlar arkasında olmadıkça sizinle topluca savaşamazlar. Kendi aralarındaki savaşları ise şiddetlidir. Onları birlik sanırsın, oysa kalpleri dağınıktır. Böyledir, çünkü onlar akletmeyen bir topluluktur.
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اردو · Urdu
یہ سب مل کر بھی تم سے لڑ نہیں سکتے ہاں یہ اور بات ہے کہ قلعہ بند مقامات میں ہوں یا دیواروں کی آڑ میں ہوں[1] ، ان کی لڑائی تو ان میں آپس میں ہی بہت سخت ہے[2] گو آپ انہیں متحد سمجھ رہے ہیں لیکن ان کے دل دراصل ایک دوسرے سے جدا ہیں[3]۔ اس لیے کہ یہ بےعقل لوگ ہیں.[4]
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 If they are evicted, they will not leave with them; and if anyone fights them, they will not support them; and if they go to their aid, they will turn their backs and flee; then they will receive no support.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 (For) indeed if they are driven out they go not out with them, and indeed if they are attacked they help them not, and indeed if they had helped them they would have turned and fled, and then they would not have been victorious
Edward Henry Palmer1880 If they be driven forth, these will not go forth with them; and if they be fought against, these will not help them; or if they do help them, they will turn their backs in flight;- then shall they not be helped
John Medows Rodwell1861 No! if they were driven forth, they would not share their banishment; if they were attacked they would not help them, or if they help them they will surely turn their backs: then would they remain unhelped
George Sale1734 Verily if they be expelled they will not go forth with them; and if they be attacked, they will not assist them; and if they do assist them, they will surely turn their backs: And they shall not be protected
DIN 31635laʾantum ʾašaddu rahbatan fī ṣudūrihim mina llāhi ḏālika biʾannahum qawmun lā yafqahūna
Talal Itani2012 Fear of you is more intense in their hearts than fear of God. That is because they are a people who do not understand.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Ye are more awful as a fear in their bosoms than Allah. That is because they are a folk who understand not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Ye indeed are a keener source of fear in their hearts than God; that is because they are a people who do not understand
John Medows Rodwell1861 Assuredly the fear of you is more intense in their hearts than the fear of God! This because they are a people devoid of discernment
George Sale1734 Verily ye are stronger than they, by reason of the terror cast into their breasts from God. This, because they are not people of prudence
DIN 31635kamaṯali llaḏīna min qablihim qarīban ḏāqū wabāla ʾamrihim walahum ʿaḏābun ʾalīmun
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Like those shortly before them. They experienced the consequences of their decisions. For them is a painful punishment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 On the likeness of those (who suffered) a short time before them, they taste the ill-effects of their own conduct, and theirs is painful punishment
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Like unto those before them, recently they tasted the evil result of their affair, and for them is grievous woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 They act like those who lately preceded them, who also tasted the result of their doings; and a grievous chastisement awaiteth them
George Sale1734 Like those who lately preceded them, they have tasted the evil consequence of their deed; and a painful torment is prepared for them hereafter
Talal Itani2012 Like the devil, when he says to the human being, "Disbelieve." But when he has disbelieved, he says, "I am innocent of you; I fear God, the Lord of the Worlds."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 (And the hypocrites are) on the likeness of the devil when he telleth man to disbelieve, then, when he disbelieveth saith: Lo! I am quit of thee. Lo! I fear Allah, the Lord of the Worlds
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Like unto the devil when he said to man, 'Disbelieve.' But when he disbelieved, he said, 'Verily, I am clear of thee! Verily, I fear God the Lord of the worlds
John Medows Rodwell1861 Like Satan when he saith to a man, "Be an infidel:" and when he hath become an infidel, he saith, "I share not thy guilt: verily, I fear God the Lord of the Worlds
George Sale1734 Thus have the hypocrites deceived the Jews: Like the devil, when he saith unto a man, be thou an infidel; and when he is become an infidel, he saith, verily I am clear of thee; for I fear God, the Lord of all creatures
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.54 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 · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · George Sale0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.45
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.29
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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.