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Talal Itani· published 2012
When you encounter those who gossip about Our revelations, turn away from them, until they engage in another topic. But should Satan make you forget, do not sit after the recollection with the wicked people.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And when thou seest those who meddle with Our revelations, withdraw from them until they meddle with another topic. And if the devil cause thee to forget, sit not, after the remembrance, with the congregation of wrong-doers
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
When thou dost see those who plungedeeply into the discussion of our signs, turn from them until they plungedeeply into some other discourse; for it may be that Satan may make thee forget; but sit not, after thou hast remembered, with the unjust people
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when thou seest those who busy themselves with cavilling at our signs, withdraw from them till they busy themselves in some other subject: and if Satan cause thee to forget this, sit not, after recollection, with the ungodly people
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when thou seest those who engage in vain discourse concerning Our Signs, then turn thou away from them until they engage in a discourse other than that. And if Satan should cause thee to forget, then sit not, after recollection, with the unjust people
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
Kur t'i shohësh ata duke shpërfillur ajetet Tona, largohu prej tyre derisa ta ndërrojnë bisedën! E, nëse djalli të bën të harrosh, sapo të përmendesh, mos rri më me të padrejtët!
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর যখন তুমি তাদেরকে দেখো, তারা আমার আয়াতসমূহের ব্যাপারে উপহাসমূলক সমালোচনায় রত আছে, তুমি তাদের থেকে মুখ ফিরিয়ে নাও, যতক্ষণ না তারা অন্য কথাবার্তায় লিপ্ত হয়। আর যদি শয়তান তোমাকে ভুলিয়ে দেয়, তবে স্মরণের পর যালিম সম্প্রদায়ের সাথে বসো না।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Kada vidiš one koji lažima zadiru u Naše ajete i rugaju se, ti se od njih okreni sve dok drugu priču ne započnu. A ako te šejtan navede da zaboraviš, onda, nakon što se sjetiš, ne sjedi s ljudima nepravednim.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Kada vidiš one koji lažima zadiru u Naše ajete i rugaju se, ti se od njih okreni sve dok drugu priču ne započnu. A ako te sotona navede da zaboraviš, onda, nakon što se sjetiš, ne sjedi s ljudima nepravednim.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Si a yi'ii ɓen jumpayɓe e Aayeeje Amen ɗen, ɗuurno ɓe haa ɓe jumpa e yeewtere woɗnde. Si seytaane yejjintinii ma, wata a jooɗoo ɓaawo annditugol ngol, e yimɓe tooñooɓe ɓeen.
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ქართული · Georgian
და როდესაც შენ (ო, მოციქულო ) დაინახავ მათ, რომლებიც იძირებიან (დამცინავად) ჩვენს აიათებში (ნიშნებში) მაშინ განერიდე მათ, სანამ ისინი სხვა საუბარში არ ჩაერთვებიან. და თუ სატანა დაგავიწყებს (ამ ბრძანებას), მაშინ გახსენების შემდეგ, ნუ დაჯდები უსამართლო ხალხთან.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und wenn du diejenigen siehst, die spottend auf Unsere Zeichen eingehen, so wende dich von ihnen ab, bis sie auf ein anderes Gespräch eingehen. Wenn dich der Satan nun vergessen lässt, dann sitze nicht, nachdem du dich (daran) erinnert hast, mit dem ungerechten Volk zusammen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Όποτε βλέπεις εκείνους που χλευάζουν τα Εδάφιά Μας, απομακρύνσου απ' αυτούς μέχρι αυτοί να αλλάξουν τη συζήτηση. Αν ο Σατανάς σε έκανε να ξεχαστείς (και έτσι κάθισες μαζί τους), τότε μόλις το θυμηθείς, (φύγε και) μην καθίσεις με τον άδικο λαό.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और जब आप उन लोगों को देखें, जो हमारी आयतों के विषय में (उपहास के साथ) बात करते हैं, तो उनसे मुँह फेर लें, यहाँ तक कि वे उसके अलावा बात में लग जाएँ, और यदि कभी शैतान आपको भुला दे, तो याद आ जाने के बाद ऐसे अत्याचारी लोगों के साथ न बैठें।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E quando vedi quelli che discutono i Nostri segni, evitali finché non parleranno di altro; se invece Satana te lo farà dimenticare, non sederti più, dopo aver ricordato, con la gente ingiusta.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
68. Ir kai tu (Muchammedai ﷺ ) matai tuos, kurie įsitraukę į apgaulingus pokalbius apie Mūsų (Korano) Eilutes, šaipydamiesi iš jų, venk jų, kol jie pakeis temą. Ir jei Šaitan (Šėtonas) priverčia tave užmiršti, tada po to, kai prisiminsi, nesėdėk kartu su tais žmonėmis, kurie yra Zalimūn (daugiadieviai ir nusidėjėliai).
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.
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
Когда ты увидишь тех, кто предаётся пустословию о Наших знамениях, то отвернись от них, пока они не перейдут к другому разговору. Если же шайтан заставит тебя позабыть, то, вспомнив, не сиди с несправедливыми людьми.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Када видиш оне који задиру лажима у Наше речи и ругају се, ти се од њих окрени све док други говор не започну. А ако те ђаво наведе да заборавиш, онда, након што се сетиш, не седи са људима неправедницима.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na unapowaona wanaoziingilia Aya zetu, basi jitenge nao mpaka waingilie mazungumzo mengine. Na kama Shetani atakusahaulisha, basi baada ya kutanabahi usikae pamoja na watu madhalimu.
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Svenska · Swedish
När du ser de som driver med våra budskap, vänd dig då bort från dem tills de talar om något annat. Och om Satan får dig att glömma, ska du – när du blivit påmind – inte längre sitta kvar med de orättfärdiga.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Ayetlerimiz hakkında ileri geri konuşmaya dalanları gördüğün vakit başka bir söze dalıncaya kadar onlardan yüz çevir, uzaklaş. Şayet Şeytan sana unutturursa hatırladıktan sonra (kalk), o zalimler grubu ile beraber oturma.
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اردو · Urdu
اور جب آپ ان کو لوگوں کو دیکھیں جو ہماری آیات میں عیب جوئی کر رہے ہیں تو ان لوگوں سے کناره کش ہوجائیں یہاں تک کہ وه کسی اور بات میں لگ جائیں اور اگر آپ کو شیطان بھلا دے تو یاد آنے کے بعد پھر ایسے ﻇالم لوگوں کے ساتھ مت بیٹھیں۔[1]
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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Easy-read (simplified)wamaa 'alaa lladheena yattaqoona min hisaabihim min shay'in walaakin dhikraa la'allahum yattaqoon
DIN 31635wamā ʿalā llaḏīna yattaqūna min ḥisābihim min šayʾin walākin ḏikrā laʿallahum yattaqūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 The righteous are in no way accountable for them; it is only a reminder, that they may be careful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those who ward off (evil) are not accountable for them in aught, but the Reminder (must be given them) that haply they (too) may ward off (evil)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Those who fear are not bound to take account of them at all, but mind!- haply they may fear
John Medows Rodwell1861 Not that they who fear God are to pass any judgment upon them, but the object of recollection is that they may continue to fear Him
George Sale1734 And those who are righteous are not at all accountable for them, but their duty is to admonish them that they may fear God
Talal Itani2012 So leave alone those who take their religion for play and pastime, and whom the worldly life has deceived. But remind with it, lest a soul becomes damned on account of what it has earned. It has no helper or intercessor besides God. Even if it offers every equivalent, none will be accepted from it. These are the ones who are delivered to perdition by their actions. They will have a drink of scalding water, and a painful punishment, because they used to disbelieve.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And forsake those who take their religion for a pastime and a jest, and whom the life of the world beguileth. Remind (mankind) hereby lest a soul be destroyed by what it earneth. It hath beside Allah no protecting ally nor intercessor, and though it offer every compensation it will not be accepted from it. Those are they who perish by their own deserts. For them is drink of boiling water and a painful doom, because they disbelieved
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Leave those who have taken their religion for a play and a sport, whom this world's life hath deceived, and remind them thereby that a soul shall be given up for what it has earned; nor has it, beside God, patron or intercessor; and though it should compensate with the fullest compensation, it would not be accepted. Those who are given up for what they have gained, for them is a drink of boiling water, and grievous woe for that they have misbelieved
John Medows Rodwell1861 And quit those who make their religion a sport and a pastime, and whom this present life hath deceived: warn them hereby that every soul will be consigned to doom for its own works: patron or intercessor, beside God, shall it have none: and could it compensate with fullest compensation, it would not be accepted from it. They who for their deeds shall be consigned to doom - for them are draughts of boiling water, and a grievous torment; for that they believed not
George Sale1734 And leave alone those who take their religion to be a sport and a pastime, and whom worldly life has beguiled. And admonish people thereby lest a soul be consigned to perdition for what it has earned. It shall have no helper nor intercessor beside God; and even if it offer every ransom it shall not be accepted from it. These are they who have been delivered over to destruction for their own acts. They will have a drink of boiling water and a grievous punishment, because they disbelieved
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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 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
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.65
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.56
Talal Itani · George Sale0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.55
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.47
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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.