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.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
It may be that Allah will ordain love between you and those of them with whom ye are at enmity. Allah is Mighty, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful
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
Mayhap that God will place love between you and between those of them ye are hostile towards: for God is powerful, and God is forgiving, compassionate
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
God will, perhaps, establish good will between yourselves and those of them whom ye take to be your enemies: God is Powerful: and God is Gracious, Merciful
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Peradventure God will establish friendship between yourselves and such of them as ye now hold for enemies: For God is powerful; and God is inclined to forgive, and merciful
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
Mund të ndodhë që Allahu të vendosë dashuri mes jush dhe atyre me të cilët keni armiqësi.[1] Allahu është i Plotfuqishëm. Allahu është Falës i Madh e Mëshirëplotë.
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
যাদের সাথে তোমরা শত্রুতা করছো, আশা করা যায়, আল্লাহ (৩)(তোমাদের শত্রুদেরকে ইসলামে দীক্ষিত করার মাধ্যমে) তোমাদের ও তাদের মধ্যে বন্ধুত্ব সৃষ্টি করে দিবেন।(৪) আর আল্লাহ সর্ব শক্তিমান এবং আল্লাহ অতিশয় ক্ষমাশীল, পরম দয়ালু।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Allah će sigurno uspostaviti ljubav između vas i onih s kojima ste u neprijateljstvu; Allah je svemoćan, i Allah je Onaj Koji oprašta grijehe i milostiv je.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Allah će sigurno uspostaviti ljubav između vas i onih s kojima ste u neprijateljstvu; Allah je svemoćan, i Allah je Onaj Koji oprašta grijehe i milostiv je.
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
Yaama nde Alla waɗata hakkunde mon e ɓeen ɓe ngañandirɗon e mu'en gilli, Alla ko kattanɗo Alla ko kafroowo bakkatuuji jurmotooɗo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
შესაძლოა, ალლაჰმა დაამყაროს სიყვარული თქვენსა და მათ შორის, ვისაც მტრობდით. ალლაჰი ყოვლისშემძლეა. და ალლაჰი მიმტევებელი, შემწყალებელია.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Vielleicht wird Allah zwischen euch und denjenigen von ihnen, mit denen ihr verfeindet seid, Zuneigung setzen! Und Allah ist allmächtig, und Allah ist allvergebend und barmherzig.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ίσως ο Αλλάχ να κάνει φιλία μεταξύ εσάς και εκείνων που έχετε ως εχθρούς απ' αυτούς (δηλ. να ανοίξει τις καρδιές τους στο Ισλάμ). Και ο Αλλάχ είναι Καντείρ (Ικανός για τα πάντα), και ο Αλλάχ είναι Γαφούρ (Αυτός που συγχωρεί τα πάντα) και Ραχείμ (Πολυεύσπλαχνος).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
निकट है कि अल्लाह तुम्हारे बीच तथा उन लोगों के बीच, जिनसे तुम उन (काफिरों) में से बैर रखते हो, मित्रता[4] पैदा कर दे। और अल्लाह सर्वशक्तिमान् है तथा अल्लाह अति क्षमाशील, अत्यंत दयावान् है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Allāh forse infonderà amicizia tra voi e quelli, tra di loro, che consideravate nemici, e Allāh è Potente, e Allāh è Perdonatore, Misericordioso.
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 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
7. Galbūt Allahas sukels tarp jūsų ir tų iš jų, kuriems jūs buvote priešai, meilę. Ir Allahas yra Sugebantis, ir Allahas yra Atleidžiantis, Gailestingiausias.
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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Быть может, Аллах установит дружбу между вами и теми, с которыми вы враждуете. Аллах — всемогущ, и Аллах — прощающий, милующий.
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
Српски · Serbian
Аллах ће сигурно да успостави љубав између вас и оних са којима сте у непријатељству; Аллах је свемоћан, и Аллах опрашта грехе и милостив је.
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 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Asaa Mwenyezi Mungu akatia mapenzi baina yenu na hao maadui zenu, na Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mweza, na Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mwenye kusamehe zaidi, Mwenye kurehemu mno.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Det kan hända att Gud låter vänskap uppstå mellan er och de som nu är era motståndare; Gud har makt över allt, och han är ständigt förlåtande, barmhärtig.
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 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Olur ki Allah onlardan düşmanlık ettiklerinizle sizin aranızda yakın bir dostluk meydana getirir. Allah güçlüdür. Allah; bağışlar, merhamet eder.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
کیا عجب کہ عنقریب ہی اللہ تعالیٰ تم میں اور تمہارے دشمنوں میں محبت پیدا کر دے[1] ۔ اللہ کو سب قدرتیں ہیں اور اللہ (بڑا) غفور رحیم 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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Talal Itani2012 Our Lord, do not make us a target for those who disbelieve, and forgive us, our Lord. You are indeed the Mighty and Wise."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Our Lord! Make us not a prey for those who disbelieve, and forgive us, our Lord! Lo! Thou, only Thou, are the Mighty, the Wise
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Our Lord! make us not a trial for those who misbelieve; but forgive us! Our Lord! verily, thou art mighty, wise
John Medows Rodwell1861 O our Lord! expose us not for trial to the unbelievers, and forgive us: for thou art the Mighty, the Wise
George Sale1734 O Lord, suffer us not to be put to trial by the unbelievers: And forgive us, O Lord; for thou art mighty and wise
Easy-read (simplified)laqad kaana lakum feehim uswatun hasanatun liman kaana yarjoo llaaha wal-yawma l-'aakhira waman yatawalla fa'inna llaaha huwa l-ghaniyyu l-hameed
DIN 31635laqad kāna lakum fīhim ʾuswatun ḥasanatun liman kāna yarǧū llāha wal-yawma l-ʾāḫira waman yatawalla faʾinna llāha huwa l-ġaniyyu l-ḥamīdu
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Talal Itani2012 There is an excellent example in them for you-for anyone who seeks God and the Last Day. But whoever turns away-God is the Self-Sufficient, the Most Praised.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Verily ye have in them a goodly pattern for everyone who looketh to Allah and the Last Day. And whosoever may turn away, lo! still Allah, He is the Absolute, the Owner of Praise
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Ye had in them a good example for him who would hope in God and the last day. But whoso turns his back, verily, God, He is rich and to be praised
John Medows Rodwell1861 A good example had ye in them, for all who hope in God and in the last day. But let who will turn back, God truly is the Rich, the Praiseworthy
George Sale1734 Verily ye have in them an excellent example, unto him who hopeth in God and the last day: And whoso turneth back; verily God is self sufficient, and praise worthy
Talal Itani2012 As for those who have not fought against you for your religion, nor expelled you from your homes, God does not prohibit you from dealing with them kindly and equitably. God loves the equitable.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah forbiddeth you not those who warred not against you on account of religion and drove you not out from your homes, that ye should show them kindness and deal justly with them. Lo! Allah loveth the just dealers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God forbids you not respecting those who have not fought against you for religion's sake, and who have not driven you forth from your homes, that ye should act righteously and justly towards them; verily, God loves the just
John Medows Rodwell1861 God doth not forbid you to deal with kindness and fairness toward those who have not made war upon you on account of your religion, or driven you forth from your homes: for God loveth those who act with fairness
George Sale1734 As to those who have not born arms against you on account of religion, nor turned you out of your dwellings, God forbideth you not to deal kindly with them, and to behave justly towards them; for God loveth those who act justly
Talal Itani2012 But God prohibits you from befriending those who fought against you over your religion, and expelled you from your homes, and aided in your expulsion. Whoever takes them for friends-these are the wrongdoers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah forbiddeth you only those who warred against you on account of religion and have driven you out from your homes and helped to drive you out, that ye make friends of them. Whosoever maketh friends of them - (All) such are wrong-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He only forbids you to make patrons of those who have fought against you for religion's sake, and driven you forth from your homes, or have aided in your expulsion; and whoever makes patrons of them, they are the unjust
John Medows Rodwell1861 Only doth God forbid you to make friends of those who, on account of your religion, have warred against you, and have driven you forth from your homes, and have aided those who drove you forth: and whoever maketh friends of them are wrong-doers
George Sale1734 But as to those who have born arms against you on account of religion, and have dispossessed you of your habitations, and have assisted in dispossessing you, God forbideth you to enter into friendship with them: And whosoever of you enters into friendship with them, those are unjust doers
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 —
0.67 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
computed, not judged.
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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.79
Talal Itani · George Sale0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.64
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.55
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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.