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Talal Itani· published 2012
Yet whenever they come across some business, or some entertainment, they scramble towards it, and leave you standing. Say, "What is with God is better than entertainment and business; and God is the Best of providers."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
But when they spy some merchandise or pastime they breakaway to it and leave thee standing. Say: That which Allah hath is better than pastime and than merchandise, and Allah is the Best of providers
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
But when they see merchandise or sport they flock to it and leave thee standing! Say, 'What is with God is better than sport and than merchandise, for God is the best of providers
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But when they get a sight of merchandise or sport, they disperse after it, and leave thee standing alone. SAY: God hath in reserve what is better than sport or wares. And God is the best provider
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
But when they see any merchandizing, or sport, they flock thereto, and leave thee standing up in thy pulpit. Say, the reward which is with God is better than any sport or merchandize: And God is the best provider
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
Ndërkaq, kur shohin ndonjë tregti ose dëfrim, rendin drejt tyre, duke të lënë ty në këmbë. Thuaju: "Ajo që është tek Allahu, është më e mirë se dëfrimi e tregtia. Allahu është Furnizuesi më i mirë."
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
আর তারা (কিছু মুসলিম) যখন ব্যবসা-বাণিজ্য অথবা ক্রীড়া কৌতুক দেখে, তখন তারা তার দিকে ছুটে যায়, আর তোমাকে (মিম্বরে) দাঁড়ান অবস্থায় রেখে যায়। হে রাসূল! (তাদেরকে) বলো: ‘আল্লাহর কাছে যা (হালাল উপার্জনের মাধ্যমে) আছে তা ক্রীড়া-কৌতুক ও ব্যবসা অপেক্ষা উত্তম। আর আল্লাহ সর্বোত্তম রিযকদাতা।’
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
Ali, kad oni kakvu robu trgovačku ili zabavu ugledaju, pohrle joj i tebe ostave sama da stojiš. Reci: “Ono što je u Allaha bolje je i od zabave i od trgovine. A Allah je Opskrbitelj najbolji.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Ali, kad oni kakvu robu trgovačku ili zabavu ugledaju, pohrle joj i tebe ostave sama da stojiš. Reci: “Ono što je u Allaha bolje je i od zabave i od trgovine. A Allah je Opskrbitelj najbolji.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Si ɓe nji'ii njeeyngu maa fijindaaru, ɓe hammira toon, ɓe ngaccama hiɗa darii. Maaku: "Ko ko woni ka Allah kon ɓuri moƴƴude beleeɗe e njulaaku. Ko Allah ɓuri moƴƴude e arsikooɓe ɓeen".
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
ქართული · Georgian
და როცა ისინი ხედავენ ვაჭრობას ან გართობას, მისკენ ისწრაფვიან და მიგატოვეს ფეხზე მდგომი (მინბარზე ქადაგებისას). თქვი (ო, მოციქულო): «ის, რაც ალლაჰთანაა, უმჯობესია გართობაზე და ვაჭრობაზე. და ალლაჰი საუკეთესოა მბოძებელთა შორის».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und wenn sie einen Handel oder eine (spielende) Zerstreuung sehen, brechen sie sogleich dazu auf und lassen dich stehen. Sag: „Was bei Allah ist, ist besser als Zerstreuung und als Handel. Und Allah ist der beste Versorger.“
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
Κι όταν δουν (κάποιοι Μουσουλμάνοι) κάποια εμπορική συναλλαγή ή κάποια διασκέδαση πηγαίνουν σ’ αυτά, και σε αφήνουν (ω, Μωχάμμαντ) να στέκεσαι όρθιος (ενώ παραδίδεις το κήρυγμα της Παρασκευής). Πες: «Αυτό που έχει ο Αλλάχ (από αμοιβή για σας) είναι καλύτερο από οποιαδήποτε διασκέδαση και από οποιαδήποτε εμπορική συναλλαγή! Κι ο Αλλάχ είναι ο Καλύτερος αυτών που παρέχουν μέσα και αγαθά βιοπορισμού.
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
और जब उन्होंने कोई व्यापार अथवा खेल-तमाशा देखा, तो उठकर उसकी ओर चले गए[10] और उन्होंने आपको खड़ा छोड़ दिया। आप कह दें कि जो अल्लाह के पास है, वह खेल से तथा व्यापार से बेहतर है। और अल्लाह सबसे उत्तम जीविका प्रदान करने वाला है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E se intravedono un commercio o un divertimento, vi si precipitano, e ti lasciano in piedi[96]. Di’: «Ciò che viene da Allāh è migliore del divertimento e del commercio. E Allāh è il miglior Sostentatore».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
11. Tačiau (vieną kartą), kai jie pamatė sandorį arba pramogą (Muchammedai ﷺ ), jie nuskubėjo į tai ir paliko tave stovintį. Sakyk: „Kas yra pas Allahą, tas geriau nei pramoga ar sandoris, ir Allahas yra geriausias Aprūpintojas.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Yeroo daldala yookiin tapha argan gara isaaniitti faffaca'u dhaabiitti si dhiisanii; Jedhiin "wanta Rabbiin bira jirutu taphaafi daldala irra caala. Rabbiin Irra caalaa hiree hirtootaati" (jedhiin).
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
Но когда они увидели торговлю или забаву, то бросились к ней и оставили тебя стоящим. Скажи: «То, что у Аллаха, лучше забавы и лучше торговли. Аллах — наилучший из наделяющих уделом».
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
Али, кад они какву трговачку робу или забаву угледају, похрле јој и тебе оставе самог да стојиш. Реци: “Оно што је код Аллаха боље је и од забаве и од трговине. А Аллах је најбољи Опскрбитељ.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na wanapoiona biashara au pumbao wanayakimbilia hayo na wakakuacha umesimama. Sema: Yaliyoko kwa Mwenyezi Mungu ni bora kuliko pumbao na biashara. Na Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mbora wa watoa riziki.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Ändå, när [vissa av dem] fick syn på handel eller nöje, skyndade de sig dit och lämnade dig stående. Säg: ”Det som finns hos Gud är bättre än nöje och handel; Gud är den främste försörjaren.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Onlar bir ticaret ve eğlence gördükleri zaman hemen dağılıp ona giderler ve seni ayakta bırakırlar. Allah katındakiler, eğlenceden ve ticaretten daha hayırlıdır. Allah, rızık verenlerin en hayırlısıdır.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور جب کوئی سودا بکتا دیکھیں یا کوئی تماشا نظر آجائے تو اس کی طرف دوڑ جاتے ہیں اور آپ کو کھڑا ہی چھوڑ دیتے ہیں[1] ۔ آپ کہہ دیجئے کہ اللہ کے پاس جو ہے[2] وه کھیل اور تجارت سے بہتر ہے[3]۔ اور اللہ تعالیٰ بہترین روزی رساں ہے.[4]
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 O you who believe! When the call is made for prayer on Congregation Day, hasten to the remembrance of God, and drop all business. That is better for you, if you only knew.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye who believe! When the call is heard for the prayer of the day of congregation, haste unto remembrance of Allah and leave your trading. That is better for you if ye did but know
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who believe! when the call to prayer is made upon the Congregation Day, then hasten to the remembrance of God, and leave off traffic; that is better for you, if ye did but know
John Medows Rodwell1861 O ye who believe! When ye are summoned to prayer on the day of THE ASSEMBLY, haste to the commemoration of God, and quit your traffic. This, if ye knew it, will be best for you
George Sale1734 O true believers, when ye are called to prayer on the day of the assembly, hasten to the commemoration of God, and leave merchandizing. This will be better for you, if ye knew it
DIN 31635faʾiḏā quḍiyati ṣ-ṣalātu fāntaširū fī l-ʾarḍi wabtaġū min faḍli llāhi waḏkurū llāha kaṯīran laʿallakum tufliḥūna
Talal Itani2012 Then, when the prayer is concluded, disperse through the land, and seek God's bounty, and remember God much, so that you may prosper.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when the prayer is ended, then disperse in the land and seek of Allah's bounty, and remember Allah much, that ye may be successful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when prayer is performed, then disperse abroad in the land, and crave of God's grace; and remember God much; haply ye may prosper
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when the Prayer is ended, then disperse yourselves abroad and go in quest of the bounties of God; and, that it may be well with you, oft remember God
George Sale1734 And when prayer is ended, then disperse yourselves through the land as ye list, and seek gain of the liberality of God: And remember God frequently, that ye may prosper
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.58 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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
Talal Itani · George Sale0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.65
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.58
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · 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.