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Talal Itani· published 2012
They say, "If we return to the City, the more powerfultherein will evict the weak." But power belongs to God, and His Messenger, and the believers; but the hypocrites do not know.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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
They say, 'If we return to elMedinah, 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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They say, verily, if we return to Medina, the worthier shall expelthence the meaner. Whereassuperiorworth belongeth unto God, and his apostle, and the true believers: But the hypocrites know it not
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
Ata thonë: "Nëse kthehemi në Medinë, krenarët do t'i dëbojnë prej saj të përbuzurit." Në të vërtetë, e tërë krenaria i takon Allahut, të Dërguarit të Tij dhe besimtarëve, por dyfytyrëshit nuk e dinë këtë.
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
তারা বলে: ‘(এবার) যদি আমরা মদীনায় ফিরে যাই তাহলে সেখান থেকে (আমাদের) শক্তিশালীরা(২) অবশ্যই দুর্বলদেরকে(৩) বহিষ্কার করবে।’ অথচ সকল মর্যাদা তো আল্লাহর, তাঁর রাসূলের ও মু’মিনদেরই; কিন্তু মুনাফিকরা তা জানে না।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Oni govore: “Ako se vratimo u Medinu, sigurno će jači istjerati iz nje slabijeg!” A snaga je u Allaha i u Poslanika Njegova i u vjernika, ali licemjeri ne znaju.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Oni govore: “Ako se vratimo u Medinu, sigurno će jači istjerati iz nje slabijeg!” A snaga je u Allaha i u Poslanika Njegova i u vjernika, ali licemjeri ne znaju.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Hoɓe mbia si en nduttiima Madiina ma ɓurɓe teddude njaltin ɓurɓe hoyde ɓe, woodanii Alla teddungal e nelaaɗo makko e gooŋɗinɓe ɓe, kono tan naafige en nganndah.
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ქართული · Georgian
ისინი [თვალთმაქცები] ამბობენ: «თუ ქალაქში [მედინაში] დავბრუნდებით, მაშინ ძლევამოსილი [გულისხმობენ თვალთმაქცებს] აუცილებლად განდევნის იქიდან [მედინიდან] დამცირებულს [გულისხმობენ მორწმუნეებს]». მაგრამ სიდიადე ეკუთვნის ალლაჰს, მის მოციქულს და მორწმუნეებს, თუმცა თვალთმაქცებმა ეს არ იციან!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Sie sagen: „Wenn wir nach Al-Madinah zurückkehren, dann wird ganz gewiss der Mächtigere den Niedrigeren aus ihr vertreiben.“ Doch Allah gehört die Macht, und auch Seinem Gesandten und den Gläubigen. Aber die Heuchler wissen nicht.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Λένε (δηλ. ο ‘Αμπντ Αλλάχ ιμπν Σαλούλ, ο αρχηγός των υποκριτών της Μαντίνας, είπε): «Αν επιστρέψουμε στη Μαντίνα (από τη μάχη της Μπάνι Αλ-Μουστάλικ), θα διώξει ο δυνατότερος (δηλ. ο ίδιος με την ομάδα του) τον πιο αδύναμο (τον Προφήτη Μωχάμμαντ με την ομάδα του)!» Μα όλη η δύναμη (και η δόξα) ανήκουν μόνο στον Αλλάχ, στον Αγγελιαφόρο Του και στους πιστούς, αλλά οι υποκριτές δεν το γνωρίζουν.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
वे कहते हैं : यदि हम मदीना वापस गए, तो जो सबसे अधिक सम्मान वाला है, वह वहाँ से तुच्छतर को निकाल[4] बाहर करेगा। हालाँकि सम्मान तो केवल अल्लाह के लिए और उसके रसूल के लिए और ईमान वालों के लिए है। परंतु मुनाफ़िक़ नहीं जानते।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Dicono: «Una volta tornati a La Medinah, il potente svierà il debole». Ma il potere appartiene ad Allāh, e al Suo Messaggero, e ai credenti, ma gli ipocriti non sanno.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
8. Jie sako: „Jei mes sugrįšime į Mediną, labiau pagerbti (galia) tikrai išvarys iš jos prastesnius.“ Ir Allahui priklauso (visa) garbė, ir Jo Pasiuntiniui ﷺ , ir tikintiesiems, tačiau veidmainiai to nežino.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Nijedhan "Yoo gara Madiinaa deebine, jajjaboonni lallaafota baasuuf jira". Injifannoon kan Rabbiiti, kan Ergamaa Isaatiifi kan mu’uminootaati; garuu munaafiqoonni hin beekan. [3]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Они говорят: «Если мы вернёмся в Медину, то могущественнейший непременно изгонит оттуда униженного». Но могущество принадлежит Аллаху, Его Посланнику и верующим, однако лицемеры не знают этого.
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Српски · Serbian
Они говоре: “Ако се вратимо у Медину, сигурно ће јачи да истерају из ње слабијег!” А снага је код Аллаха и код Његовог Посланика и код верника, али лицемери не знају.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Wanasema: Tukirejea Madina, mwenye utukufu zaidi bila ya shaka atamfukuza humo aliye mnyonge. Na Mwenyezi Mungu ndiye Mwenye utukufu, na Mtume wake, na Waumini. Lakini wanafiki hawajui.
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Svenska · Swedish
De säger också: ”Om vi återvänder till Medina kommer de överlägsna där helt visst driva ut de underlägsna!” All överlägsenhet tillhör dock Gud och hans sändebud och de troende – något som dessa skenbart troende inte inser.
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Türkçe · Turkish
"Medine’ye dönersek güçlü olan, zayıf olanı oradan çıkaracaktır." diyorlar. Oysa izzet Allah'ın, O'nun Rasûlünün ve Müminlerindir. Ancak münafıklar bilmezler.
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اردو · Urdu
یہ کہتے ہیں کہ اگر ہم اب لوٹ کر مدینہ جائیں گے تو عزت واﻻ وہاں سے ذلت والے کو نکال دے گا[1] ۔ سنو! عزت تو صرف اللہ تعالیٰ کے لیے اور اس کے رسول کے لیے اور ایمان داروں کے لیے ہے[2] لیکن یہ منافق جانتے نہیں.[3]
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)sawaa'un 'alayhim astaghfarta lahum am lam tastaghfir lahum lan yaghfira llaahu lahum inna llaaha laa yahdee l-qawma l-faasiqeen
DIN 31635sawāʾun ʿalayhim ʾastaġfarta lahum ʾam lam tastaġfir lahum lan yaġfira llāhu lahum ʾinna llāha lā yahdī l-qawma l-fāsiqīna
Talal Itani2012 It is the same for them, whether you ask forgiveness for them, or do not ask forgiveness for them; God will not forgive them. God does not guide the sinful people.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Whether thou ask forgiveness for them or ask not forgiveness for them is all one for them; Allah will not forgive them. Lo! Allah guideth not the evil-living folk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 It is the same to them whether thou dost ask forgiveness for them, or whether thou dost not ask forgiveness for them,- God will not forgive them; verily, God guides not a people who work abomination
John Medows Rodwell1861 Alike shall it be to them whether thou ask forgiveness for them, or ask it not. By no means will God forgive them: God hath no guidance for a perverse people
George Sale1734 It shall be equal unto them, whether thou ask pardon for them, or do not ask pardon for them; God will by no means forgive them: For God directeth not the prevaricating people
Talal Itani2012 It is they who say: "Do not spend anything on those who side with God's Messenger, unless they have dispersed." To God belong the treasures of the heavens and the earth, but the hypocrites do not understand.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They it is who say: Spend not on behalf of those (who dwell) with Allah's messenger that they may disperse (and go away from you); when Allah's are the treasures of the heavens and the earth; but the hypocrites comprehend not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They it is who say, 'Expend not in alms upon those who are with the Apostle of God, in order that they may desert him!' - but God's are the treasures of the heavens and the earth; but the hypocrites have no sense
John Medows Rodwell1861 These are they who say to you of Medina, "Spend not aught upon those who are with the Apostle of God, and they will be forced to quit him." Yet the treasures of the Heavens and of the Earth are God's! But the Hypocrites have no understanding
George Sale1734 These are the men who say to the inhabitants of Medina, do not bestow any thing on the refugees who are with the apostle of God, that they may be obliged to separate from him. Whereas unto God belong the stores of heaven and earth: But the hypocrites do not understand
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
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
Talal Itani2012 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."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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 appointed time nigh at hand, then would I surely give in charity and be among the righteous
John Medows Rodwell1861 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
George Sale1734 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
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.65
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.63
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
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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.