Easy-read (simplified)wa'anfiqoo min maa razaqnaakum min qabli an ya'tiya ahadakumu l-mawtu fayaqoola rabbi lawlaa akhkhartanee ilaa ajalin qareebin fa'assaddaqa wa'akun mina s-saaliheen
DIN 31635waʾanfiqū min mā razaqnākum min qabli ʾan yaʾtiya ʾaḥadakumu l-mawtu fayaqūla rabbi lawlā ʾaḫḫartanī ʾilā ʾaǧalin qarībin faʾaṣṣaddaqa waʾakun mina ṣ-ṣāliḥīna
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.
Talal Itani· published 2012
And give from what We have provided for you, before death approaches one of you, and he says, "My Lord, if only You would delay me for a short while, so that I may be charitable, and be one of the righteous."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And spend of that wherewith We have provided you before death cometh unto one of you and he saith: My Lord! If only thou wouldst reprieve me for a little while, then I would give alms and be among the righteous
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 expend in alms of what we have bestowed upon you before death come on any one of you, and he says, 'My Lord! wouldst thou but have respited me till an appointedtimenigh at hand, then would I surely give in charity and be among the righteous
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And expend in the cause of God out of that with which we have supplied you, ere death surprise each one of you, and he say, "O Lord! wilt thou not respite me to a term not far distant, that I may give alms, and become one of the just
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And give alms out of that which We have bestowed on you; before death come unto one of you, and he say, O Lord, wilt thou not grant me respite for a short term; that I may give alms, and become one of the righteous
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
Jepni nga të mirat që jua kemi dhënë para se t'i vijë vdekja ndonjërit e të thotë: "Zoti im, sikur të ma shtyje edhe pak afatin, që të jepja lëmoshë dhe të bëhesha 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 আমি (আল্লাহ) তোমাদেরকে যে রিযক দিয়েছি, তা থেকে ব্যয় করো, তোমাদের মৃত্যু আসার পূর্বে। কেননা (মৃত্যু আসলে) তখন সে বলবে: হে আমার রব, যদি আপনি আমাকে আরো কিছু কাল পর্যন্ত অবকাশ দিতেন, তাহলে আমি দান-সাদাকা করতাম এবং সৎকর্মপরায়ণদের অন্তর্ভুক্ত হতাম।
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
I udjeljujte od onoga čime vas Mi opskrbljujemo prije nego nekom od vas smrt dođe, pa da onda rekne: “Gospodaru moj, da me još samo kratko vrijeme zadržiš, pa da imetak udjeljujem i da dobar budem!”
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
I udjeljujte od onoga čime vas Mi opskrbljujemo prije nego nekom od vas smrt dođe, pa da onda rekne: “Gospodaru moj, da me još samo kratko vrijeme zadržiš, pa da imetak udjeljujem i da dobar budem!”
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
Nafqe ko Alla arsakini on ko, ko adii nde maayde arata e gooto e mon o wi'a joom am a leelnantaa kam haa e happu ɓadiiɗo mi sakkoro mi wona e moƴƴuɓe ɓe.
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 ხარჯეთ იქიდან, რაც გიბოძეთ, ვიდრე რომელიმე თქვენგანს სიკვდილი ეწევა და მაშინ ის იტყვის: «უფალო ჩემო! ნეტავ მცირე ხნით გადამივადო, რათა მოწყალება გავიღო და მართალთაგანი ვიყო!»
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
Und gebt aus von dem, womit Wir euch versorgt haben, bevor zu einem von euch der Tod kommt und er dann sagt: „Mein Herr, würdest Du mir doch nur Aufschub gewähren! Dann würde ich Almosen geben und zu den Rechtschaffenen gehören.“
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
Και ξοδέψτε (σε φιλανθρωπία) από όσα σας παρέχουμε, πριν έρθει ο θάνατος σε κάποιον από σας και μετά πει: «Κύριέ μου! Μακάρι να μου δώσεις αναβολή για λίγο ακόμη, ώστε να δώσω ελεημοσύνη και να είμαι μεταξύ των ενάρετων.»
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
तथा हमने तुम्हें जो कुछ दिया है, उसमें से खर्च करो, इससे पहले कि तुममें से किसी की मृत्यु[5] आ जाए, फिर वह कहे : ऐ मेरे पालनहार! मुझे थोड़ी-सी मोहलत क्यों न दी कि मैं दान करता तथा सदाचारियों में से हो जाता।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E donate da ciò che Noi vi abbiamo donato, prima che la morte arrivi a uno di voi, e dica: «Mio Dio, se solo mi avessi concesso una breve proroga, avrei fatto l’elemosina e sarei diventato uno tra i giusti!»
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
10. Ir leiskite (labdarai) iš to, ką Mes suteikėme jums, anksčiau nei mirtis pasieks kurį nors iš jūsų ir jis sakys: ,,Mano Viešpatie, jei tik Tu užlaikytum mane bent trumpam (t. y. sugražintum į žemiškąjį gyvenimą), aš duočiau Sadaka (t. y. Zakat) iš savo turto ir būčiau iš teisingųjų (t. y. atlikčiau Hadžą (piligiriminę kelionę į Mekką) ir kitus gerus darbus)".
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
И расходуйте из того, чем Мы наделили вас, прежде чем к кому-либо из вас придёт смерть и он скажет: «Господь мой! Если бы Ты дал мне отсрочку до близкого срока, я бы раздал пожертвования и стал бы одним из праведных».
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
И удељујте од онога чиме вас Ми опскрбљујемо пре него што неком од вас дође смрт, па да онда каже: “Господару мој, да ме још само кратко време задржиш у животу, па да милостињу удељујем и да будем добар!”
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
Na toeni katika tulichokupeni kabla hayajamfikia mmoja wenu mauti, tena hapo akasema: 'Mola wangu Mlezi! Huniakhirishi muda kidogo, nipate kutoa sadaka sana, na niwe katika watu wema?'
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Ge av det som vi har försett er med innan döden når någon av er, och han utbrister: ”Herre! Om du bara ger mig lite mer tid ska jag ge till välgörenhet och leva rättfärdigt!”
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
Herhangi birinize ölüm gelip de: "Rabbim! Beni yakın bir süreye kadar geciktirsen de sadaka verip salih kimselerden olsaydım." demeden önce size verdiğimiz rızıktan infak edin.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور جو کچھ ہم نے تمہیں دے رکھا ہے اس میں سے (ہماری راه میں) اس سے پہلے خرچ کرو کہ تم میں سے کسی کو موت آ جائے تو کہنے لگے اے میرے پروردگار! مجھے تو تھوڑی دیر کی مہلت کیوں نہیں[1] دیتا؟ کہ میں صدقہ کروں اور نیک لوگوں میں سے ہو جاؤں.[2]
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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5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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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.
Talal Itani2012 They say, "If we return to the City, the more powerful therein will evict the weak." But power belongs to God, and His Messenger, and the believers; but the hypocrites do not know.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They say: Surely, if we return to Al-Madinah the mightier will soon drive out the weaker; when might belongeth to Allah and to His messenger and to the believers; but the hypocrites know not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They say, 'If we return to el Medinah, the mightier will surely drive out the meaner therefrom;' but to God belongs the might, and to His Apostle and to the believers; but the hypocrites do not know
John Medows Rodwell1861 They say: "If we return to the city, the mightier will assuredly drive out the weaker from it." But might is with God, and with the Apostle, and with the Faithful! Yet the Hypocrites understand not
George Sale1734 They say, verily, if we return to Medina, the worthier shall expel thence the meaner. Whereas superior worth belongeth unto God, and his apostle, and the true believers: But the hypocrites know it not
Talal Itani2012 O you who believe! Let neither your possessions nor your children distract you from the remembrance of God. Whoever does that-these are the losers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye who believe! Let not your wealth nor your children distract you from remembrance of Allah. Those who do so, they are the losers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who believe! let not your property nor your children divert you from the remembrance of God, - for whosoever does that, they are those who lose
John Medows Rodwell1861 O ye who believe! let not your wealth and your children delude you into forgetfulness of God. Whoever shall act thus, shall surely suffer loss
George Sale1734 O true believers, let not your riches or your children divert you from the remembrance of God: For whosoever doth this, they will surely be losers
Talal Itani2012 But God will not delay a soul when its time has come. God is Informed of what you do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But Allah reprieveth no soul when its term cometh, and Allah is Informed of what ye do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But God will never respite a soul when its appointed time has come: and God of what ye do is well aware
John Medows Rodwell1861 And by no means will God respite a soul when its hour hath come! And God is fully cognisant of what ye do
George Sale1734 For God will by no means grant further respite to a soul, when its determined time is come: And God is fully apprized of that which ye do
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 —
0.62 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
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.74
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.72
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.72
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.46
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.45
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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.