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That the hearts of those who believe not in the Hereafter may incline thereto, and that they may takepleasure therein, and that they may earn what they are earning
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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
So that the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter may incline to it, and be content with it, and that they may perpetrate whatever they perpetrate.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
And let the hearts of those who believe not in the life to come incline thereto, and let them find their content in this, and let them gain what they are gaining
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
and let the hearts of those be inclined thereto, who believe not in the life to come; and let them please themselves therein, and let them gain that which they are gaining
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
(Vepruam kështu) në mënyrë që zemrat e atyre që nuk besojnë në botën tjetër të anojnë nga ajo dhe të jenë të kënaqura me të dhe të bëjnë atë që bëjnë.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর তারা এ উদ্দেশ্যে পরস্পরকে কুমন্ত্রণা দেয় যে, পরকালে অবিশ্বাসীদের অন্তরগুলো যেন সে চমকপ্রদ কথার প্রতি অনুরাগী হয় এবং তাতে যেন তারা সন্তুষ্ট হয়। আর তারা যে অপকর্ম করে, তাতে যেন তারা নিমজ্জিত থাকে।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
i da bi srca onih koji u onaj svijet ne vjeruju bila sklona tome i zadovoljna time, i da bi počinili grijehe koje su počinili.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
i da bi srca onih koji u onaj svijet ne vjeruju bila sklona tome i zadovoljna time, i da bi počinili grijehe koje su počinili.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
E fii yo heɗito ɗuum, ɓerɗe ɓen ɓe ngooŋɗinaa laakara, e fii yo ɓe mbele ɗuum, e fii yo ɓe fefindo huunde nde ɓe fefindotoo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და დაე, იხრებოდნენ მისკენ [ამ მორთული სიტყვისკენ] გულები მათი, რომლებიც არ ირწმუნებენ მარადიულ ცხოვრებას, და (დაე) კმაყოფილდებოდნენ მისით [იმ სიტყვით] და დაე, იძენდნენ (ცოდვებიდან) იმას, რასაც ისინი იძენენ.
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Deutsch · German
Und damit die Herzen derjenigen, die nicht an das Jenseits glauben, dem zuneigen, sodass sie damit zufrieden sind und begehen, was sie begehen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Και (εκείνοι οι διάβολοι ψιθυρίζουν ο ένας στον άλλον την πλάνη) ώστε οι καρδιές εκείνων που δεν πιστεύουν στη Μέλλουσα Ζωή να κλίνουν προς αυτή (την πλάνη), να τη δεχτούν (και να την αγαπούν) και για να διαπράττουν ό,τι (αμαρτίες) θα διαπράττουν.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
और ताकि उन लोगों के दिल उस (सुशोभित झूठ) की ओर झुक जाएँ, जो आख़िरत पर विश्वास नहीं रखते और ताकि वे उसे पसंद करें और ताकि वे भी वही कुकर्म करने लगें, जो ये करने वाले हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E che li ascoltino gli animi di quelli che non credono nell’Aldilà, e che lo accettino e commettano ciò che di solito commettono.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
113. (Ir tai yra tam,) kad širdys tų, kurie netiki Amžinybę palinktų į tai (apgaulę), ir kad jie liktų patenkinti ja, ir kad jie darytų tai, ką jie daro (visų rūšių nuodėmes ir blogus darbus).
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Akka onneewwan warra Aakhiratti hin amaninii gara isaa dabaniifi, akka isas jaalataniifi (adaba irraa) waan raawwachaa jiranis akka raawwataniif.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И чтобы к этим [речам] склонялись сердца тех, которые не веруют в Последнюю жизнь, и чтобы они были довольны ими и совершали то, что совершают.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
и да би срца оних који у онај свет не верују била склона томе и задовољна тиме, и да би починили грехе које су починили.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na ili ziyaelekee hayo nyoyo za wale wasioiamini Akhera, nao wayaridhie, na wayachume yale wanayoyachuma.
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Svenska · Swedish
Och på så vis kommer hjärtana hos de som inte tror på det kommande livet fängslas av det och behagas, och de kommer att fortsätta göra det de gör.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
O sözleri, ahirete iman etmeyenlerin kalpleri ona meyletsin, bir de ondan hoşnut olsun ve işledikleri günahları işlemeye devam etsinler diye söylerler.
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اردو · Urdu
اور تاکہ اس کی طرف ان لوگوں کے قلوب مائل ہوجائیں جو آخرت پر یقین نہیں رکھتے اور تاکہ اس کو پسند کرلیں اور تاکہ مرتکب ہوجائیں ان امور کے جن کے وه مرتکب ہوتے تھے۔[1]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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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
Talal Itani2012 Likewise, We have assigned for every prophet an enemy-human and jinn devils-inspiring one another with fancy words in order to deceive. But had your Lord willed, they would not have done it. So leave them to their fabrications.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Thus have We appointed unto every prophet an adversary - devils of humankind and jinn who inspire in one another plausible discourse through guile. If thy Lord willed, they would not do so; so leave them alone with their devising
Edward Henry Palmer1880 So have we made for every prophet an enemy,- devils of men and ginns; some of them inspire others with specious speech to lead astray; but had thy Lord pleased they would not have done it; so leave them with what they do devise
John Medows Rodwell1861 Thus have we given an enemy to every prophet Satans among men and among Djinn: tinsel discourses do they suggest the one to the other, in order to deceive: and had thy Lord willed it, they would not have done it. Therefore, leave them and their vain imaginings
George Sale1734 Thus have We appointed unto every prophet an enemy; the devils of men, and of genii: Who privately suggest the one to the other specious discourses to deceive; but if thy Lord pleased, they would not have done it. Therefore leave them, and that which they have falsely imagined
DIN 31635ʾafaġayra llāhi ʾabtaġī ḥakaman wahuwa llaḏī ʾanzala ʾilaykumu l-kitāba mufaṣṣalan wallaḏīna ʾātaynāhumu l-kitāba yaʿlamūna ʾannahu munazzalun min rabbika bil-ḥaqqi falā takūnanna mina l-mumtarīna
Talal Itani2012 "Shall I seek a judge other than God, when He is the One who revealed to you the Book, explained in detail?" Those to whom We gave the Book know that it is the truth revealed from your Lord. So do not be of those who doubt.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Shall I seek other than Allah for judge, when He it is Who hath revealed unto you (this) Scripture, fully explained? Those unto whom We gave the Scripture (aforetime) know that it is revealed from thy Lord in truth. So be not thou (O Muhammad) of the waverers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Of other than God shall I crave a decree, when it is He who has sent down to you the Book in detail, and those to whom we gave the Book know that it is sent down from thy Lord, in truth? be thou not then of those who doubt
John Medows Rodwell1861 What! shall I seek other judge than God, when it is He who hath sent down to you the distinguishing Book? They to whom we have given the Book know that it is sent down from thy Lord with truth. Be not thou then of those who doubt
George Sale1734 Shall I seek after any other judge besides God to judge between us? It is He who hath sent down unto you the book of the Koran distinguishing between good and evil; and they to whom We gave the scripture know that it is sent down from thy Lord, with truth. Be not therefore one of those who doubt thereof
Talal Itani2012 The Word of your Lord has been completed, in truth and justice. There is no changing to His words. He is the Hearer, the Knower.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Perfected is the Word of thy Lord in truth and justice. There is naught that can change His words. He is the Hearer, the Knower
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The words of thy Lord are fulfilled in truth and justice; there is none to change His words, for He both hears and knows
John Medows Rodwell1861 And the words of thy Lord are perfect in truth and in justice: none can change his words: He is the Hearing, Knowing
George Sale1734 The words of thy Lord are perfect, in truth and justice; there is none who can change his words: He both heareth and knoweth
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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
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.64
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.56
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.47
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.41
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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.