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Talal Itani· published 2012
They swear by God, with their most solemn oaths, that if a miracle were to come to them, they would believe in it. Say, "The miracles are only with God." But how do you know? Even if it did come, they still would not believe.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And they swear a solemn oath by Allah that if there come unto them a portent they will believe therein. Say; Portents are with Allah and (so is) that which telleth you that if such came unto them they would not believe
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 swore by God with their most strenuous oath, that if there come to them a sign they will indeed believe therein. Say, 'Signs are only in God'shands;- but what will make you understand that even when one has come, they will not believe
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
With their most solemn oath have they sworn by God, that if a sign come unto them they will certainly believe it; SAY: Signs are in the power of God alone; and He teacheth you not thereby, only because when they were wrought, ye did not believe
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And they swear by God their strongest oaths that if there came to them a Sign, they would surely believe therein. Say, 'Surely, Signs are with God. And what should make you know that when the signs come, they will not believe
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 betoheshin fuqishëm në Allahun se, nëse u vjen ndonjë mrekulli, ata me siguri do ta besojnë. Thuaju: "Mrekullitë janë vetëm tek Allahu." E çfarë ju bën ta dini se, kur t'u vijnë ato, ata do të besojnë?
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর তারা আল্লাহর নামে কঠোর শপথ করে বলে: তাদের কাছে যদি কোন নিদর্শন আসত, তবে তারা অবশ্যই তার ওপর ঈমান আনত। বলো: ‘নিদর্শন তো আল্লাহর কাছেই।’ আর তোমাদের কীভাবে বুঝানো যাবে যে, তাএলেও তারা ঈমান আনবে না!
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Oni se zaklinju Allahom, najjačom zakletvom, da će, ako im dođe kakvo znamenje, sigurno, zbog njega vjernici postati. Reci: “Sva su znamenja samo u Allaha!” A šta vi znate, možda bi oni, kada bi im ona došla, vjernici postali?
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Oni se zaklinju Allahom, najjačom zakletvom, da će, ako im dođe kakvo znamenje, sigurno, zbog njega vjernici postati. Reci: “Sva su znamenja samo u Allaha!” A što vi znate, možda bi oni, kada bi im ona došla, vjernici postali?
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɓe ngooɗnirii Alla hattirde gooɗnooje maɓɓe : si Aaya arii e maɓɓe, maa ɓe gooŋɗin mo. Maaku : "nganndee Aayeeje ɗe ko ka Alla woni". E ko so'ini on won de si ɗe ngarii, ɓe gooŋɗintaa?
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ქართული · Georgian
და ფიცს დებდნენ ისინი ალლაჰზე — თავიანთი ყველაზე ძლიერი ფიცით — რომ, თუ მათთან მოვა ნიშანი [სასწაული], უთხარი (მათ) (ო, მუჰამმად): «სასწაულები ალლაჰთანაა (და არა ჩემთან)». და რა გაძლევთ თქვენ (ო, მორწმუნენო) ცოდნას, რომ როცა ისინი მოვლენ, ისინი [მრავალღმერთიანები] ირწმუნებენ ან არ ირწმუნებენ?
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Deutsch · German
Und sie haben bei Allah ihren kräftigsten Eid geschworen, sie würden, wenn nur ein Zeichen zu ihnen käme, ganz gewiss daran glauben. Sag: „Nur bei Allah sind die Zeichen.“ Was sollte euch auch merken lassen, dass, wenn es tatsächlich käme, sie doch nicht glauben?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ορκίστηκαν (οι ειδωλολάτρες) με το Όνομα του Αλλάχ με πολύ ζήλο στον όρκο τους, ότι αν τους ερχόταν ένα σημάδι (απ' αυτά που πρότειναν στον Προφήτη), σίγουρα θα πίστευαν σ' αυτό (το σημάδι). Πες (ω, Προφήτη): «(Δεν έχω τα σημάδια, αλλά) μόνο ο Αλλάχ που έχει τα σημάδια (και τα στέλνει όποτε θέλει).» Πώς να ξέρετε (ω, πιστοί), ότι ακόμα κι αν τους ερχόταν (στους ειδωλολάτρες, το σημάδι όπως πρότειναν), πάλι δε θα πίστευαν! (Αλλά θα έμεναν στην απιστία τους, επειδή αυτοί δεν θέλουν την καθοδήγηση)!
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हिन्दी · Hindi
और उन्होंने अपनी मज़बूत क़समें खाते हुए अल्लाह की क़सम खाई कि निःसंदेह यदि उनके पास कोई आयत (निशानी) आई, तो वे उसपर अवश्य ही ईमान लाएँगे। आप कह दें : आयतें (निशानियाँ) तो केवल अल्लाह के पास हैं और (ऐ ईमान वालो!) तुम्हें क्या पता कि निःसंदेह वे निशानियाँ जब आ जाएँगी, तो वे ईमान नहीं लाएँगे।[69]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
Eppure hanno fatto un solenne giuramento su Allāh che, se fosse venuto loro un Segno, ci avrebbero creduto. Di’: «In verità i Segni sono di Allāh, e chi vi dice che, se venissero, non ci crederebbero?»
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
109. Ir jie prisiekia stipriausiomis savo priesaikomis Allahu, kad jei jiems ateitų ženklas, jie tikrai patikėtų juo. Sakyk: „Ženklai yra tik pas Allahą ir kas privers jus (musulmonai) suvokti, kad (net) jei tai (ženklas) ateitų, jie netikėtų?“
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Русский · Russian
Они поклялись Аллахом — самой твёрдой из своих клятв — что если придёт к ним знамение, они непременно уверуют в него. Скажи: «Воистину, знамения — лишь у Аллаха». Но откуда вам знать, что они уверуют, когда [эти знамения] придут?
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Српски · Serbian
Они се заклињу Аллахом, најјачом заклетвом, да ће, ако им дође какво знамење, сигурно због њега верници да постану. Реци: „Сва су знамења само код Аллаха!“ А да ли ви мисилите, да би они, када би им она дошла, верници постали?
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na waliapa kwa Mwenyezi Mungu viapo vyao vikali zaidi, kuwa ikiwajia Ishara, bila shaka wataiamini. Sema: Hakika Ishara hizo ziko kwa Mwenyezi Mungu. Na ni nini kitawajulisha kuwa zikija, hawataamini?
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Svenska · Swedish
De svor sina dyraste eder vid Gud att om ett mirakel kom till dem skulle de sannerligen tro på det. Säg: ”Miraklen finns hos Gud.” Och vad vet ni – kanske kommer de ändå inte att tro när de väl kommer?
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Türkçe · Turkish
(Müşrikler), kendilerine bir mucize gelirse, ona mutlaka iman edeceklerine dair var güçleriyle Allah’ın adına yemin ederler. De ki: “Mucizeler ancak Allah katındadır. O mucizeler geldiği vakit de inanmayacaklarını siz ne bileceksiniz?”
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اردو · Urdu
اور ان لوگوں نے قسموں میں بڑا زور لگا کر اللہ تعالیٰ کی قسم کھائی کہ[1] اگر ان کے پاس کوئی نشانی آ جائے[2] تو وه ضرور ہی اس پر ایمان لے آئیں گے، آپ کہہ دیجئے کہ نشانیاں سب اللہ کے قبضے میں ہیں[3] اور تم کو اس کی کیا خبر کہ وه نشانیاں جس وقت آجائیں گی یہ لوگ تب بھی ایمان نہ ﻻئیں گے۔
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Talal Itani2012 Had God willed, they would not have practiced idolatry. We did not appoint you as a guardian over them, and you are not a manager over them.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Had Allah willed, they had not been idolatrous. We have not set thee as a keeper over them, nor art thou responsible for them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But had God pleased, they would not have associated aught with Him; but we have not made thee a keeper over them, nor art thou for them a warder
John Medows Rodwell1861 Had God pleased, they had not joined other gods with Him: and we have not made thee keeper over them, neither art thou a guardian over them
George Sale1734 And if God had enforced His will, they would not have set up gods with Him. And We have not made thee a keeper over them, nor art thou over them a guardian
Talal Itani2012 Do not insult those they call upon besides God, lest they insult God out of hostility and ignorance. We made attractive to every community their deeds. Then to their Lord is their return, and He will inform them of what they used to do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Revile not those unto whom they pray beside Allah lest they wrongfully revile Allah through ignorance. Thus unto every nation have We made their deed seem fair. Then unto their Lord is their return, and He will tell them what they used to do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Do not abuse those who call on other than God, for then they may abuse God openly in their ignorance. So do we make seemly to every nation their work, then unto their Lord is their return, and He will inform them of what they have done
John Medows Rodwell1861 Revile not those whom they call on beside God, lest they, in their ignorance, despitefully revile Him. Thus have we planned out their actions for every people; then shall they return to their Lord, and He will declare to them what those actions have been
George Sale1734 And abuse not those whom they call upon besides God, lest they, out of spite, abuse God in their ignorance. Thus unto every people have We caused their doings to seem fair. Then unto their Lord is their return; And He will inform them of what they used to do
Talal Itani2012 And We turn away their hearts and their visions, as they refused to believe in it the first time, and We leave them blundering in their rebellion.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 We confound their hearts and their eyes. As they believed not therein at the first, We let them wander blindly on in their contumacy
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We will overturn their hearts and their eye-sights, even as they believed not at first; and we will leave them, in their rebellion, blindly wandering on
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we will turn their hearts and their eyes away from the truth, because they did not believe therein at first, and we will leave them in their transgressions, wandering in perplexity
George Sale1734 And We shall confound their hearts and their eyes, for they believe not therein the first time, and We shall leave them in their transgression to wander in distraction
Talal Itani2012 Even if We sent down the angels to them, and the dead spoke to them, and We gathered all things before them, they still would not believe, unless God wills; but most of them are ignorant.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And though We should send down the angels unto them, and the dead should speak unto them, and We should gather against them all things in array, they would not believe unless Allah so willed. Howbeit, most of them are ignorant
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And had we sent down unto them the angels, or the dead had spoken to them, or we had gathered everything unto them in hosts, they would not have believed unless that God pleased - but most of them are ignorant
John Medows Rodwell1861 And though we had sent down the angels to them, and the dead had spoken to them, and we had gathered all things about them in tribes, they had not believed, unless God had willed it! but most of them do not know it
George Sale1734 And though We had sent down angels unto them, and the dead had spoken unto them, and We had gathered together before them all things in one view; they would not have believed, unless God had so pleased: But the greater part of them know it not
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 —
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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 Pickthall0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.67
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.60
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Talal Itani · George Sale0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.54
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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.