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Leave Me (to deal) with those who give the lie to this pronouncement. We shall lead them on by steps from whence they 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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
So leave Me to those who reject this discourse; We will proceed against them gradually, from where they do not know.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Let Me alone, therefore, with him who accuseth this new revelation of imposture. We will lead them gradually to destruction, by ways which they know 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
Prandaj, më lër Mua me ata që e përgënjeshtrojnë këtë fjalë (Kuranin). Ne do t’i tërheqim ata shkallë-shkallë (drejt dënimit), në një mënyrë që as do ta kuptojnë.
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
অতএব, আমাকে এবং যারা এ বাণীকে মিথ্যা বলে তাদেরকে ছেড়ে দাও। আমি তাদেরকে ধাপে ধাপে এমনভাবে (শাস্তির দিকে) নিয়ে যাব যে, তারা টেরও পাবে না।
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
Pa, ostavi Mene i one koji ovaj Govor poriču, Mi ćemo ih postepeno, odakle se i ne nadaju, patnji približavati
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Pa, ostavi Mene i one koji ovaj Govor poriču, Mi ćemo ih postepeno, odakle se i ne nadaju, patnji približavati
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Accidam e kala jedduɗo ndee yeewtere; aray nde Min suynira ɓe nokku ka ɓe nganndaa.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
დამტოვე კი მე (ო, მოციქულო) მათთან, ვინც სიცრუედ მიიჩნევს ამ უწყებას [ყურანს]. ჩვენ ნელ-ნელა შევიყვანთ მათ (სასჯელისკენ), (მათთვის სიმდიდრისა და შვილების ბოძებით), ისე რომ თვითონაც ვერ შეამჩნიონ [ვერც გააცნობიერონ].
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
So lasse Mich (allein) mit denjenigen, die diese Aussage für Lüge erklären; Wir werden sie stufenweise (dem Verderben) näherbringen, von wo sie nicht wissen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Γι’ αυτό (ω, Μωχάμμαντ) άφησέ Με μ' όποιον διαψεύσει αυτό τον λόγο (το Κορ’άν) (δηλ. άφησέ τον και το θέμα του, για Μένα). Θα τους φέρουμε σταδιακά προς την τιμωρία από κει όπου δεν γνωρίζουν.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
अतः आप मुझे तथा उसको छोड़ दें, जो इस वाणी (क़ुरआन) को झुठलाता है। हम उन्हें धीरे-धीरे (यातना की ओर) इस प्रकार ले जाएँगे[11] कि वे जान भी न सकेंगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Lascia a Me chi nega questo Monito: Noi li rovineremo poco a poco, da dove non se lo aspettano.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
44. Taigi palik Mane (Muchammedai ﷺ ) su (reikalais) tų, kurie neigia šį Žodį (t. y. Koraną). Mes palaipsniui palydėsime juos (į bausmę) iš ten, iš kur jie nežino.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Anaafi nama haasa'a (Qur'aana) kana sobsiisu walitti nu dhiisi; Nuti suutaan karaa isaan hin beekne irraa isaan qabna.
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Русский · Russian
Так оставь же Меня с теми, которые считают ложью это повествование. Мы будем постепенно подводить их [к наказанию] оттуда, откуда они не знают.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Па, остави Мене и оне који овај Кур'ан поричу, Ми ћемо постепено, одакле се и не надају, патњи да их приближавамо
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi niache na wanaokadhibisha maneno haya! Tutawavutia kidogo kidogo kutokea mahali wasipopajua.
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Svenska · Swedish
Lämna åt mig [att ta itu med] de som förnekar detta budskap; vi ska gradvis [leda dem mot undergång] utan att de inser det.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Artık beni ve bu sözü yalanlayanları baş başa bırak. Biz onları bilmeyecekleri bir yerden derece derece azaba yaklaştıracağız.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
پس مجھے اور اس کلام کو جھٹلانے والے کو چھوڑ دے[1] ہم انہیں اس طرح آہستہ آہستہ کھینچیں گے کہ انہیں معلوم بھی نہ ہوگا.[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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Talal Itani2012 Their eyes subdued, shame will cover them. They were invited to bow down when they were sound.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 With eyes downcast, abasement stupefying them. And they had been summoned to prostrate themselves while they were yet unhurt
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Lowering their looks, abasement shall attack them, for they were called to adore while yet they were safe
John Medows Rodwell1861 Their looks shall be downcast: shame shall cover them: because, while yet in safety, they were invited to bow in worship, but would not obey
George Sale1734 Their looks shall be cast down: Ignominy shall attend them: For that they were invited to the worship of God, while they were in safety, but would not hear
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.63 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.68
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.61
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.35
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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.