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Talal Itani· published 2012
Whatever God has bestowed upon His Messenger from them; you spurred neither horse nor camel for them, but God gives authority to His messengers over whomever He will. God is Able to do all things.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And that which Allah gave as spoil unto His messenger from them, ye urged not any horse or riding-camel for the sake thereof, but Allah giveth His messenger lordship over whom He will. Allah is Able to do all things
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
and as for the spoils that God gave to His Apostle from these (people) ye did not press forward after them with horse or riding camel; but God gives His Apostle authority over whom He pleases, for God is mighty over all
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
After the spoils of these Jews which God hath assigned to his apostle, ye pressed not with horse or camel. But God giveth his apostles power over what he will. God is Almighty
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And as to the spoils of these people which God hath grantedwholly to this apostle, ye did not push forward any horses or camels against the same; but God giveth unto his apostles dominion over whom He pleaseth: For God is almighty
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
Ndërkaq, për atë që Allahu i dha të Dërguarit të Tij si plaçkë (e marrë pa luftë) prej tyre, ju nuk u hipët kuajve e as deveve, por Allahu u jep pushtet të dërguarve të Tij mbi këdo që Ai dëshiron. Allahu është i Plotfuqishëm mbi çdo gjë.
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
আর আল্লাহ (বনূ নযীরের) ইয়াহূদীদের নিকট থেকে তাঁর রাসূলকে ফায়(৫) হিসেবে যা দিয়েছেন, তোমরা তার জন্য কোন ঘোড়া বা উটে আরোহণ করে অভিযান পরিচালনা করনি। বরং আল্লাহ তাঁর রাসূলগণকে যাদের ওপর ইচ্ছা কর্তৃত্ব (বিজয়) দান করেন। আল্লাহ সবকিছুর ওপর সর্বশক্তিমান।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
A vi niste kasom tjerali konje ni kamile zbog onoga što je Allah od njih, kao plijen, darovao Poslaniku Svome, nego, Allah prepušta vlast poslanicima Svojim nad onima nad kojima On hoće; Allah nad svime ima moć.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
A vi niste kasom tjerali konje ni deve zbog onoga što je Allah od njih, kao plijen, darovao Poslaniku Svome, nego, Allah prepušta vlast poslanicima Svojim nad onima nad kojima On hoće; Allah nad svime ima moć.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko Alla rutti fa'ade e nelaaɗo makko ummaade e mum en, on keñaraaki e mum pucci wolla geloobi, kono Alla na wuurta nelaaɓe makko e dow mbo o wela, Alla na hattani kala hu'unde.
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ქართული · Georgian
და რაც ალლაჰმა უბოძა თავისი მოციქულისათვის, როგორც [სამხედრო] ნადავლი მათგან [მათი საკუთრებიდან], ამისათვის თქვენ არ დაგჭირდათ არც ცხენების, არც აქლემების [გამოყენება], მაგრამ ალლაჰი აძლევს თავის მოციქულებს ძალაუფლებას, ვისზეც სურს. და ჭეშმარიტად, ალლაჰს ძალუძს ყველაფერი!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und für das, was Allah Seinem Gesandten von ihnen als kampflose Beute zugeteilt hat, habt ihr weder Pferde noch Reitkamele in Trab gebracht, sondern Allah gibt Seinen Gesandten Gewalt, über wen Er will. Und Allah hat zu allem die Macht.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Και ό,τι ο Αλλάχ παραχώρησε ως λάφυρα χωρίς μάχη (Αλ-Φάι’) στον Αγγελιαφόρο Του (τον Μωχάμμαντ) απ' αυτούς (τους Εβραίους των Μπάνι Αν-Ναντείρ που άφησαν τα πράγματά τους, μετά από την πολιορκία τους από τους Μουσουλμάνους) – αυτά δεν τα αποκτήσατε καβαλώντας κανένα άλογο, ούτε καμία καμήλα (δηλ. χωρίς μάχη). Μα ο Αλλάχ δίνει δύναμη στους Αγγελιαφόρους Του πάνω σ' όποιον θέλει. Και ο Αλλάχ είναι για τα πάντα Ικανός.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और अल्लाह ने जो धन उनसे अपने रसूल पर लौटाया, तो तुमने उसपर न कोई घोड़े दौड़ाए और न ऊँट। परन्तु अल्लाह अपने रसूल को, जिसपर चाहता है, प्रभुत्व प्रदान कर देता है और अल्लाह हर चीज़ पर सर्वशक्तिमान है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
I beni che Allāh ha fatto tornare al Suo Messaggero, dagli idolatri, voi non avete fatto correre né cavalli né cammelli in cerca di essi, e Allāh fa prevalere i Suoi Messaggeri su chi vuole. E Allāh è Onnipotente.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
6. Ir ką Allahas sugrąžino Savo Pasiuntiniui iš jų (nuosavybės) – jūs neraginote (ekspedicijoje) dėl to nei žirgų, nei kupranugarių, tačiau Allahas suteikia Savo pasiuntiniams galią tam, kam Jis panori, ir Allahas yra Sugebantis viską.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
А то, что Аллах даровал Своему Посланнику от них в добычу, — вы не гнали ради этого ни коней, ни верблюдов. Но Аллах даёт власть Своим посланникам над кем пожелает. Аллах всемогущ над всем сущим.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
А ви нисте гонили коње ни камиле због онога што је Аллах од њих, као плен, даровао Своме Посланику, него, Аллах препушта власт Својим посланицима над онима над којима Он хоће; Аллах над свиме има моћ.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na mali aliyoileta Mwenyezi Mungu kwa Mtume wake kutoka kwao hamkuikimbilia mbio kwa farasi wala ngamia. Lakini Mwenyezi Mungu huwapa mamlaka Mitume wake juu ya wowote awatakao. Na Mwenyezi Mungu ni Muweza mno juu ya kila kitu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Och det byte som Gud överlämnade till sändebudet från dem kom ni inte över [genom att storma fram] med hästar eller kameler, utan Gud ger sina sändebud överhanden över vem han vill; Gud har makt över allt.
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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Türkçe · Turkish
Allah’ın, onların mallarından Rasûle verdiği şeyler (fey) için siz ne at, ne de deve koşturdunuz. Fakat Allah, Rasûlünü dilediğine karşı üstün kılar. Allah’ın her şeye gücü yeter.
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اردو · Urdu
اور ان کا جو مال اللہ تعالیٰ نے اپنے رسول کے ہاتھ لگایا ہے جس پر نہ تو تم نے اپنے گھوڑے دوڑائے ہیں اور نہ اونٹ بلکہ اللہ تعالیٰ اپنے رسول کو جس پر چاہے غالب کر دیتا ہے[1] ، اور اللہ تعالیٰ ہر چیز پر قادر 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.
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Talal Itani2012 That is because they opposed God and His Messenger. Whoever opposes God-God is stern in retribution.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That is because they were opposed to Allah and His messenger; and whoso is opposed to Allah, (for him) verily Allah is stern in reprisal
Edward Henry Palmer1880 that is because they opposed God and His Apostle: and whoso opposes God, verily, God is keen to punish
John Medows Rodwell1861 This because they set them against God and his apostle; and whoso setteth him against God. . . . ! God truly is vehement in punishing
George Sale1734 This, because they opposed God and his apostle: And whoso opposeth God, verily God will be severe in punishing him
Easy-read (simplified)maa qata'tum min leenatin aw taraktumoohaa qaa'imatan 'alaa usoolihaa fabi'idhni llaahi waliyukhziya l-faasiqeen
DIN 31635mā qaṭaʿtum min līnatin ʾaw taraktumūhā qāʾimatan ʿalā ʾuṣūlihā fabiʾiḏni llāhi waliyuḫziya l-fāsiqīna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Whether you cut down a tree, or leave it standing on its trunk, it is by God's will. He will surely disgrace the sinners.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Whatsoever palm-trees ye cut down or left standing on their roots, it was by Allah's leave, in order that He might confound the evil-livers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 What palm trees ye did cut down or what ye left standing upon their roots was by God's permission, and to disgrace the workers of abomination
John Medows Rodwell1861 Your cutting down some of their palm trees and sparing others was by God's permission, and to put the wicked to shame
George Sale1734 What palm-trees ye cut down, or left standing on their roots, were so cut down or left by the will of God; and that He might disgrace the wicked doers
Talal Itani2012 Whatever God restored to His Messenger from the inhabitants of the villages belongs to God, and to the Messenger, and to the relatives, and to the orphans, and to the poor, and to the wayfarer; so that it may not circulate solely between the wealthy among you. Whatever the Messenger gives you, accept it; and whatever he forbids you, abstain from it. And fear God. God is severe in punishment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That which Allah giveth as spoil unto His messenger from the people of the townships, it is for Allah and His messenger and for the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, that it become not a commodity between the rich among you. And whatsoever the messenger giveth you, take it. And whatsoever he forbiddeth, abstain (from it). And keep your duty to Allah. Lo! Allah is stern in reprisal
Edward Henry Palmer1880 What God gave as spoils to His Apostle of the people of the cities is God's, and the Apostle's, and for kinsfolk, orphans, and the poor, and the wayfarer, so that it should not be circulated amongst the rich men of you. And what the Apostle gives you, take; and what he forbids you, desist from; and fear God, verily, God is keen to punish
John Medows Rodwell1861 The spoil taken from the people of the towns and assigned by God to his apostle, belongeth to God, and to the apostle, and to his kindred, and to the orphan, and to the poor, and to the wayfarer, that none of it may circulate among such of you only as are rich: What the apostle hath given you, take: What he hath refused you, refuse: And fear ye God, for God is severe in punishing
George Sale1734 The spoils of the inhabitants of the towns which God hath granted to his apostle, are due unto God and to the apostle, and him who is of kin to the apostle, and the orphans, and the poor, and the traveller; that they may not be for ever divided in a circle among such of you as are rich: What the apostle shall give you, that accept; and what he shall forbid you, that abstain from: And fear God; for God is severe in chastising
Easy-read (simplified)lilfuqaraa'i l-muhaajireena lladheena ukhrijoo min diyaarihim wa'amwaalihim yabtaghoona fadlan mina llaahi waridwaanan wayansuroona llaaha warasoolahu oolaa'ika humu s-saadiqoon
DIN 31635lilfuqarāʾi l-muhāǧirīna llaḏīna ʾuḫriǧū min diyārihim waʾamwālihim yabtaġūna faḍlan mina llāhi wariḍwānan wayanṣurūna llāha warasūlahu ʾūlāʾika humu ṣ-ṣādiqūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 To the poor refugees who were driven out of their homes and their possessions, as they sought the favor of God and His approval, and came to the aid of God and His Messenger. These are the sincere.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And (it is) for the poor fugitives who have been driven out from their homes and their belongings, who seek bounty from Allah and help Allah and His messenger. They are the loyal
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And (it is) for the poor who fled, who were driven forth from their houses and their wealth, who crave grace from God and His goodwill, and help God and the Apostle; they are the truthful
John Medows Rodwell1861 To the poor refugees (Mohadjerin) also doth a part belong, who have been driven from their homes and their substance, and who seek favour from God and his goodwill, and aid God and his apostle. These are the men of genuine virtue
George Sale1734 A part also belongeth to the poor Mohajerin, who have been dispossessed of their houses and their substance, seeking favour from God, and his good will, and assisting God and his apostle. These are the men of veracity
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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
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.87
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.80
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.61
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
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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.