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.
O you who believe! Be supporters of God, as Jesus son of Mary said to the disciples, "Who are my supporters towards God?" The disciples said, "We are God's supporters." So a group of the Children of Israel believed, while another group disbelieved. We supported those who believed against their foe, so they became dominant.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
O ye who believe! Be Allah's helpers, even as Jesus son of Mary said unto the disciples: Who are my helpers for Allah? They said: We are Allah's helpers. And a party of the Children of Israel believed, while a party disbelieved. Then We strengthened those who believed against their foe, and they became the uppermost
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
O ye who believe! be ye the helpers of God! as Jesus son of Mary said to the apostles, 'Who are my helpers for God?' Said the apostles, 'We are God's helpers!' And a party of the children of Israel believed, and a party misbelieved. And we aided those who believed against their enemies, and they were on the morrowsuperior
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O ye who believe! be helpers (ansars) of God; as said Jesus the son of Mary to his apostles, "Who will come to the help of God?" "We," said the apostles, "will be helpers of God." And a part of the children of Israel believed, and a part believed not. But to those who believed gave we the upperhand over their foes, and soon did they prove victorious
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
O truebelievers, be ye the assistants of God; as Jesus the son of Mary said to the apostles, who will be my assistants with respect to God? The apostles answered, we will be the assistants of God. So a part of the children of Israel believed, and a part believed not: But We strengthened those who believed, above their enemy; wherefore they became victorious over them
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
O ju që besoni! Bëhuni ndihmëtarë (të fesë së) Allahut, ashtu siç u tha Isai nxënësve të tij: "Cilët janë ndihmëtarët e mi në rrugën e Allahut?" Nxënësit e tij thanë: "Ne jemi ndihmëtarët e Allahut." Atëherë, një pjesë e bijve të Israilit besuan e një pjesë mohuan. Prandaj, Ne i mbështetëm ata që besuan kundrejt armikut të tyre dhe kështu u bënë ngadhënjimtarë.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
হে তোমরা যারা ঈমান এনেছ! তোমরা আল্লাহর সাহায্যকারী হও, যেমন মারইয়াম পুত্র ‘ঈসা হাওয়ারীদেরকে বলেছিল: আল্লাহর পথে কারা আমার সাহায্যকারী হবে? হাওয়ারীগণ বলেছিলো: আমরাই আল্লাহর সাহায্যকারী। তারপর বানূ-ঈসরাইলের মধ্য থেকে একদল ঈমান আনল এবং অপর এক দল কুফরী করলো। অতঃপর যারা ঈমান আনল আমি তাদেরকে তাদের শত্রুবাহিনীর ওপর সাহায্য করলাম। ফলে তারা (ওদের উপর) বিজয়ী হলো।
Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Dawah Association in Rabwah, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
O vi koji vjerujete, budite pomagači Allahovi, kao što je rekao Isa, sin Merjemin, prisnim sljedbenicima: "Ko su moji pomagači u pozivanju Allahu?" Prisni sljedbenici odgovoriše: "Mi smo Allahovi pomagači!" Onda je jedna skupina iz potomaka lsrailovih povjerovala, a druga skupina uznevjerovala! Pa smo one koji su vjerovali protiv njihovih neprijatelja osnažili pa su postali nadmoćni.
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 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
O vi koji vjerujete, budite pomagači Allahovi, kao što je rekao Isus, sin Marijin, prisnim sljedbenicima: "Tko su moji pomagači u pozivanju Allahu?" Prisni sljedbenici odgovoriše: "Mi smo Allahovi pomagači!" Onda je jedna skupina iz potomaka Izraelovih povjerovala, a druga skupina uznevjerovala! Pa smo one koji su vjerovali protiv njihovih neprijatelja osnažili pa su postali nadmoćni.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ehey mon gooŋɗinɓe ngonee wallooɓe Alla hono no Iisa Ibnu Mariya maaki suɓaaɓe mum hombo wallata mi fa'ade e Alla suɓaaɓe mum mbii ko minen ngoni wallooɓe Alla, heen fedde e Banii Isra'iil goonɗini won'de nde yeddi min cemmbini gooŋɗinnde nde e dow añɓe mum en ɓe ngonti foolɓe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ჰეი, თქვენ, რომელთაც ირწმუნეთ! იყავით ალლაჰის შემწენი, როგორც უთხრა 'ისამ, ძემ მარიამისამ, მოწაფეებს: «ვინ იქნება ჩემი შემწე ალლაჰის გზაზე?» მოწაფეებმა უპასუხეს: «ჩვენ ვართ ალლაჰის შემწენი!» მაშინ ისრაელის ძეთა ერთმა ნაწილმა ირწმუნა, ხოლო მეორე ნაწილმა უარყო. მაშინ ჩვენ დავეხმარეთ მორწმუნეებს ('ისას/იესოს მომხრეებს) მათი მტრების წინააღმდეგ და ისინი გამარჯვებულნი გამოვიდნენ.
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 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
O die ihr glaubt, seid Helfer Allahs, so wie 'Isa, der Sohn Maryams, zu den Jüngern sagte: „Wer sind meine Helfer (auf dem Weg) zu Allah (hin)?“ Die Jünger sagten: „Wir sind Helfer Allahs.“ So glaubte eine Gruppe von den Kindern Israils, während eine (andere) Gruppe ungläubig war. Da stärkten Wir diejenigen, die glaubten, gegen ihre Feinde, und so bekamen sie die Oberhand.
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 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ω, εσείς που πιστεύετε! Να είστε υποστηρικτές (στη θρησκεία) του Αλλάχ, όπως είπε ο Ιησούς, ο υιός της Μαρίας, στους μαθητές του: «Ποιοι είναι οι υποστηρικτές μου (στη θρησκεία) του Αλλάχ;» Οι μαθητές είπαν: «Εμείς είμαστε οι υποστηρικτές (στη θρησκεία) του Αλλάχ.» Έτσι, μία ομάδα από τα παιδιά του Ισραήλ πίστεψε, ενώ μία άλλη ομάδα αρνήθηκε την πίστη. Έτσι, υποστηρίξαμε αυτούς που πίστεψαν κατά των εχθρών τους, και έτσι έγιναν νικητές (ανώτεροι).
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
हिन्दी · Hindi
ऐ ईमान वालो! तुम अल्लाह (के धर्म) के सहायक बन जाओ, जिस तरह मरयम के पुत्र ईसा ने ह़वारियों से कहा : अल्लाह की ओर मेरे सहायक कौन हैं? ह़वारियों ने कहा : हम अल्लाह के (धर्म के) सहायक हैं। तो बनी इसराईल में से एक समूह ईमान लाया और एक समूह ने इनकार किया। फिर हमने उन लोगों का, जो ईमान लाए थे, उनके शत्रुओं के विरुद्ध समर्थन किया, तो वे हावी हो गए।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
O credenti! Siate i sostenitori di Allāh, come ‘Īsa, figlio di Maryem, disse agli Apostoli: «Chi sono i miei sostenitori verso Allāh?» Gli Apostoli risposero: «Noi siamo i sostenitori di Allāh!» Così credette parte dei figli d’Israīl e negò un’altra parte. E sostenemmo quelli che credettero contro i loro nemici, e furono vittoriosi.
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
14. O jūs, kurie patikėjote! Būkite Allaho rėmėjai, kaip tada, kai Isa (Jėzus), Marjamos (Marijos) sūnus, tarė apaštalams: „Kas yra mano rėmėjai dėl Allaho?“ Apaštalai atsakė: „Mes esame Allaho rėmėjai.“ Ir dalis Israelo (Izraelio) Vaikų patikėjo, o dalis nepatikėjo. Taigi, Mes sustiprinome tuos, kurie patikėjo, prieš jų priešus, ir jie triumfavo.
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
О вы, которые уверовали! Будьте помощниками Аллаха, подобно тому, как сказал ‘Иса, сын Марьям, своим ученикам: «Кто мои помощники [на пути] к Аллаху?» Ученики сказали: «Мы — помощники Аллаха!» И уверовала одна часть сынов Исраила, а другая отвергла веру. И Мы поддержали тех, которые уверовали, против их врагов, и они одержали верх.
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
О ви који верујете, будите Аллахови помагачи, као што је рекао Исус, Маријин син, блиским следбеницима: “Ко су моји помагачи у позивању Аллаху?” Они одговорише: “Ми смо Аллахови помагачи!” Па је једна група од Израиљевих потомака поверовала, а друга група узневеровала! Па смо оне који су веровали против њихових непријатеља оснажили и били су надмоћни.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Enyi mlioamini! Kuweni wasaidizi wa Mwenyezi Mungu, kama alivyosema Isa mwana Mariamu kuwaambia wanafunzi wake: 'Ni nani wasaidizi wangu kwa Mwenyezi Mungu?' Wakasema wanafunzi: 'Sisi ni wasaidizi wa Mwenyezi Mungu!' Basi kundi moja la Wana wa Israili liliamini, na kundi jingine lilikufuru. Basi tukawaunga mkono wale walioamini dhidi ya maadui zao, wakawa wenye kushinda.
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Svenska · Swedish
Troende! Var Guds hjälpare, såsom när Jesus, Marias son, sa till lärjungarna: ”Vilka vill hjälpa mig [i kallet] till Gud?” Lärjungarna svarade: ”Vi är Guds hjälpare!” En grupp av israeliterna trodde, medan en annan vägrade att tro. Då gav vi de troende stöd mot deras fiender, och de stod som vinnare.
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
Ey iman edenler! Allah'ın (dininin) yardımcıları olun. Meryem oğlu Îsâ’nın Havariler'e dediği gibi: "Allah (yolunda) yardımcılarım kimdir?" Havariler dedi ki: "Biz, Allah'ın (dininin) yardımcılarıyız!" İsrailoğulları'ndan da bir grup iman etmiş, bir grup da küfretmişti. Biz de iman edenleri düşmanlarına karşı destekledik, onlar da üstün geldiler.
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اردو · Urdu
اے ایمان والو! تم اللہ تعالیٰ کے مددگار بن جاؤ[1] ۔ جس طرح حضرت مریم کے بیٹے حضرت عیسیٰ نے حواریوں سے فرمایا کہ کون ہے جو اللہ کی راه میں میرا مددگار بنے[2]؟ حواریوں نے کہا ہم اللہ کی راه میں مددگار ہیں، پس بنی اسرائیل میں سے ایک جماعت تو ایمان ﻻئی اور ایک جماعت نے کفر کیا[3] تو ہم نے مومنوں کی انکے دشمنوں کے مقابلہ میں مدد کی پس وه غالب آ گئے.[4]
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not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil
Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the
same edition and their orthography differs.
DIN 31635yaġfir lakum ḏunūbakum wayudḫilkum ǧannātin taǧrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru wamasākina ṭayyibatan fī ǧannāti ʿadnin ḏālika l-fawzu l-ʿaẓīmu
Talal Itani2012 He will forgive you your sins; and will admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow, and into beautiful mansions in the Gardens of Eden. That is the supreme success.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He will forgive you your sins and bring you into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, and pleasant dwellings in Gardens of Eden. That is the supreme triumph
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He will pardon you your sins, and bring you into gardens beneath which rivers flow, and goodly dwellings in gardens of Eden;- that is the mighty bliss
John Medows Rodwell1861 Your sins will He forgive you, and He will bring you into gardens beneath whose shades the rivers flow - into charming abodes in the gardens of Eden: This shall be the great bliss
George Sale1734 He will forgive you your sins, and will introduce you into gardens through which rivers flow, and agreeable habitations in gardens of perpetual abode. This will be great felicity
Easy-read (simplified)wa'ukhraa tuhibboonahaa nasrun mina llaahi wafathun qareebun wabashshiri l-mu'mineen
DIN 31635waʾuḫrā tuḥibbūnahā naṣrun mina llāhi wafatḥun qarībun wabašširi l-muʾminīna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 And something else you love: support from God, and imminent victory. So give good news to the believers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And (He will give you) another (blessing) which ye love: help from Allah and present victory. Give good tidings (O Muhammad) to believers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And other things which ye love,- help from God and victory nigh! so do thou give the glad tidings unto the believers
John Medows Rodwell1861 And other things which ye desire will he bestow, Help from God and speedy conquest! Bear thou these tidings to the faithful
George Sale1734 And ye shall obtain other things which ye desire, namely, assistance from God, and a speedy victory. And do thou bear good tidings to the true believers
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 —
0.56 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
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.49
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.47
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.46
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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.