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Talal Itani· published 2012
The arrogant elite among his people said, "O Shuaib, We will evict you from our town, along with those who believe with you, unless you return to our religion." He said, "Even if we are unwilling?"
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
The chieftains of his people, who were scornful, said: Surely we will drive thee out, O Shu'eyb, and those who believe with thee, from our township, unless ye return to our religion. He said: Even though we hate it
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
Said the crowd of those who were big with pride amongst His people, 'We will of a suretyturn thee out, O Shohaib! and those who believe with thee, from our village; or else thou shalt return unto our faith.' Said he, 'What even if we be aversetherefrom
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Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Said the chiefs of his people puffed up with pride, "We will surely banish thee, O Shoaib, and thy fellow-believers from our cities, unless indeed ye shall comeback to our religion." "What!" said he, "though we abhor it
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Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
The chief men of his people who were arrogant said, 'Assuredly we will drive thee out, O Shu'aib, and the believers that are with thee from our town, or you shall return to our religion.' He said, 'Even though we be unwilling
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
Krerët mendjemëdhenj nga populli i tij thanë: "Njëmend ne do të të dëbojmë ty nga qyteti ynë, o Shuajb, me gjithë ata që besuan me ty, ose do të ktheheni në besimin tonë." Ai tha: "Edhe nëse e urrejmë atë?!
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বাংলা · Bengali
তাঁর সম্প্রদায়ের অহংকারী নেতারা বললো: ‘হে শু'আইব! আমরা অবশ্যই তোমাকে ও তোমার সাথে যারা ঈমান এনেছে, তাদেরকে আমাদের জনপদ থেকে বের করে দিবো। অন্যথায় তোমাদেরকে আমাদের আদর্শে ফিরে আসতে হবে।’ সে বললো: ‘যদিও আমরা সেটাকে ঘৃণা করি, তবুও?’(২৬)
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Glavešine naroda njegova, oni koji su bili oholi, rekoše: "Ili ćemo mi, o Šuajbe, i tebe i one koji s tobom vjeruju iz naselja našeg istjerati, ili ćete se vratiti u našu vjeru!" "Zar i protiv naše volje?", reče on.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Glavešine naroda njegova, oni koji su bili oholi, rekoše: "Ili ćemo mi, o Šuajbe, i tebe i one koji s tobom vjeruju iz naselja našeg istjerati, ili ćete se vratiti u našu vjeru!" "Zar i protiv naše volje?" reče on.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Mbatu mawnintiniingu e yimɓe makko ɓen mbi'i : "Ko maa men yaltine an Su'aybu, e ɓeen gooŋɗinɓe won dude e maaɗa ka saare amen, maa nduttoɗon e diina amen". -o maaki : "Hay si tawii ko men añuɓe [ɗuum]?".
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ქართული · Georgian
۞ მისი ხალხის დიდებულებმა, რომლებიც ამპარტავნებით იყვნენ აღვსილნი, თქვეს: «აუცილებლად გაგაძევებთ შენ, ო შუ'აიბ, და მათ, ვინც შენთან ერთად ირწმუნა, ჩვენი დასახლებიდან, ანდა შენ დაბრუნდები ჩვენს სარწმუნოებაზე». მან (შუ'აიბმა) თქვა: «[ნუთუ ჩვენ უნდა მივყვეთ თქვენს ცრუ რწმენას], მაშინ როცა იგი მისი სიცრუის გამო გვძულს?
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Deutsch · German
Die führende Schar seines Volkes, die sich hochmütig verhielt, sagte: „Wir werden dich - o Schu'ayb - und diejenigen, die mit dir glauben, ganz gewiss aus unserer Ortschaft vertreiben, oder aber ihr kehrt zu unserer Glaubensrichtung zurück!“ Er sagte: „Was denn, auch wenn es uns zuwider ist?
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Οι αρχηγοί του λαού του που έδειξαν αλαζονεία, είπαν: «Ω, Σου‘άιμπ! Πράγματι, θα διώξουμε εσένα και όσους πιστεύουν μαζί σου από την πόλη μας, εκτός αν επιστρέψετε στη θρησκεία μας.» Είπε: «Ακόμα κι αν την απεχθανόμαστε;
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हिन्दी · Hindi
उसकी जाति के उन प्रमुखों ने कहा जो बड़े बने हुए थे कि ऐ शुऐब! हम तुझे तथा उन लोगों को जो तेरे साथ ईमान लाए हैं, अपने नगर से अवश्य ही निकाल देंगे, या हर हाल में तुम हमारे धर्म में वापस आओगे। (शुऐब ने) कहा : क्या अगरचे हम नापसंद करने वाले हों?
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Dissero i cortigiani superbi del suo popolo: «Noi faremo uscire dalla nostra città te, o Shuayb, e quelli che hanno creduto insieme a te, a meno che torniate alla nostra religione». Disse: «Anche a malincuore?
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
88. Lyderiai tų, kurie buvo išdidūs iš jo žmonių tarpo, sakė: „Mes tikrai išvarysime tave, Šuaibai, ir kartu su tavimi patikėjusius iš mūsų miesto, arba priešingu atveju jūs (visi) grįšite į mūsų tikėjimą.“ Jis tarė: „Netgi jei to nekenčiame?!“
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Русский · Russian
Те из знати его народа, которые возгордились, сказали: «Мы непременно изгоним тебя, о Шу‘айб, и тех, которые уверовали вместе с тобой, из нашего селения — или вы непременно вернётесь к нашему вероучению». Он сказал: «Неужели — даже если мы ненавидим это?
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Српски · Serbian
Главешине његовог народа, они који су били охоли, рекоше: „Или ћемо ми, о Јофоре, и тебе и оне који са тобом верују из нашег насеља да истерамо, или ћете да се вратите у нашу веру!“ „Зар и против наше воље?“ Рече он.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Wakasema waheshimiwa waliotakabari katika kaumu yake, "Lazima tutakutoa ewe Shu'aib na wale walioamini pamoja nawe katika mji wetu, au lazima mtarejea katika mila yetu." Akasema, "Je, hata kama tunachukia?"
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Svenska · Swedish
Det högmodiga ledarskapet i hans folk sa: ”Shuʿayb! Vi ska driva ut dig och de troende med dig ur vårt samhälle om ni inte återgår till vår religion.” Han sa: ”Även om vi avskyr den?
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Türkçe · Turkish
Şuayb’ın kavminden büyüklük taslayan ileri gelenler dediler ki: "Ey Şuayb! Elbette seni ve seninle birlikte iman edenleri memleketimizden çıkaracağız yahut mutlaka bizim dinimize döneceksiniz." dediler. Şuayb: “İstemesek de mi?” dedi.
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اردو · Urdu
ان کی قوم کے متکبر سرداروں نے کہا کہ اے شعیب! ہم آپ کو اور جو آپ کے ہمراه ایمان والے ہیں ان کو اپنی بستی سے نکال دیں گے الّا یہ کہ تم ہمارے مذہب میں پھر آجاؤ[1] ۔ شعیب (علیہ السلام) نے جواب دیا کہ کیا ہم تمہارے مذہب میں آجائیں گو ہم اس کو مکروه ہی سمجھتے ہوں۔[2]
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Talal Itani2012 "And do not lurk on every path, making threats and turning away from the path of God those who believe in Him, seeking to distort it. And remember how you were few, and how He made you numerous. So note the consequences for the corrupters."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lurk not on every road to threaten (wayfarers), and to turn away from Allah's path him who believeth in Him, and to seek to make it crooked. And remember, when ye were but few, how He did multiply you. And see the nature of the consequence for the corrupters
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and sit not down in every path, threatening and turning from the path of God those who believe in Him, and craving to make it crooked. Remember when ye were few and He multiplied you; and see what was the end of the evildoers
John Medows Rodwell1861 And lay not in ambush by every road in menacing sort; nor mislead him who believeth in God, from His way, nor seek to make it crooked; and remember when ye were few and that he multiplied you, and behold what hath been the end of the authors of disorder
George Sale1734 And beset not every way, threatening the passenger; and turning aside from the path of God him who believeth in Him, and seeking to make it crooked. And remember, when ye were few, and God multiplied you: And behold, what hath been the end of those who acted corruptly
Talal Itani2012 "Since some of you believed in what I was sent with, and some did not believe, be patient until God judges between us; for He is the Best of Judges."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if there is a party of you which believeth in that wherewith I have been sent, and there is a party which believeth not, then have patience until Allah judge between us. He is the Best of all who deal in judgment
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And if there be a party of you who believe in what I am sent with, and a party who believe not, then wait patiently until God judges between us, for He is the best of judges
John Medows Rodwell1861 And if a part of you believe in that with which I am sent, and a part of you believe not, then wait steadfastly until God shall judge between us, for He is the best of judges
George Sale1734 And if part of you believe in that wherewith I am sent, and part believe not, wait patiently until God judge between us; for He is the best judge
Talal Itani2012 "We would be fabricating falsehood against God, if we were to return to your religion, after God has saved us from it. It is not for us to return to it, unless God, our Lord, wills. Our Lord embraces all things in knowledge. In God we place our trust. Our Lord, decide between us and our people in truth, for You are the Best of Deciders."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 We should have invented a lie against Allah if we returned to your religion after Allah hath rescued us from it. It is not for us to return to it unless Allah our Lord should (so) will. Our Lord comprehendeth all things in knowledge. In Allah do we put our trust. Our Lord! Decide with truth between us and our folk, for Thou art the best of those who make decision
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We shall have devised a lie against God if we return unto your faith, after God has saved us from it; and what should ail us that we should return thereto, unless that God our Lord should please? our Lord embraces everything in His knowledge; - on God do we rely. O our Lord! open between us and between our people in truth, for Thou art the best of those who open
John Medows Rodwell1861 Now shall we have devised a lie concerning God, if after he hath delivered us from your religion we shall return to it; nor can we return to it, unless by the will of God our Lord: our Lord embraceth all things in his ken. In God have we put our trust: O our Lord! decide between us and between our people, with truth; for the best to decide art Thou
George Sale1734 If we return to your religion after God has saved us therefrom, we would indeed admit that we had been forging a lie against God. And it behoves us not to return thereto except that God, our Lord, should so will. Our Lord comprehends all things in His knowledge. In God have we put our trust. So, Our Lord, decide Thou between us and between our people with truth and Thou art the Best of those who decide
DIN 31635waqāla l-malaʾu llaḏīna kafarū min qawmihi laʾini tabaʿtum šuʿayban ʾinnakum ʾiḏan laḫāsirūna
Talal Itani2012 The elite of his people who disbelieved said, "If you follow Shuaib, you will be losers."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But the chieftains of his people, who were disbelieving, said: If ye follow Shu'eyb, then truly ye shall be the losers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And the chiefs of those who disbelieved amongst his people said, 'If ye follow Shohaib, verily, ye shall be the losers
John Medows Rodwell1861 And the chiefs of his people who believed not, said, "If ye follow Shoaib, ye shall then surely perish
George Sale1734 And the chief men of his people, who disbelieved, said, 'If you follow Shu'aib, you shall then certainly be of the losers
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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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
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.77
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.74
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.70
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Talal Itani · George Sale0.58
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.58
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.56
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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.