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Talal Itani· published 2012
Anyone who turns his back on them on that Day, except while maneuvering for battle, or to join another group, has incurred wrath from God, and his abode is Hell-what a miserabledestination!
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Whoso on that day turneth his back to them, unless manoeuvring for battle or intent to join a company, he truly hath incurred wrath from Allah, and his habitation will be hell, a haplessjourney'send
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
for he who turns to them that day his hinderparts, save turning to fight or rallying to a troop, brings down upon himself wrath from God, and his resort is hell, and an ill journey shall it be
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Whoso shall turn his back to them on that day, unless he turn aside to fight, or to rally to some other troop, shall incur wrath from God: Hell shall be his abode and wretched the journey thither
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And whoso turns his back to them on such a day, unless manoeuvring for battle or turning to join another company, he indeeddraws upon himself the wrath of God, and Hell shall be his abode. And an evil resort it is
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
Kushdo që ua kthen shpinën atyre atë ditë, – përveçse si taktikë e luftës a për t’iu bashkuar një grupi tjetër, – ai do të marrë zemërimin e Allahut dhe vendbanimi i tij do të jetë Xhehenemi. Eh, sa përfundim i keq që është ai!
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.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর যে ব্যক্তি সেদিন যুদ্ধের কৌশল অবলম্বন অথবা নিজ দলে যোগ দেয়ার উদ্দেশ্য ব্যতীত তাদেরকে পৃষ্ঠ প্রদর্শন করবে, তাহলে সে আল্লাহর ক্রোধ নিয়ে ফিরে আসবে এবং তার আশ্রয় হবে জাহান্নাম। আর সেটি কতইনা নিকৃষ্ট প্রত্যাবর্তনস্থল!
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Bosanski · Bosnian
onaj ko im tada leđa okrene – osim onog koji se povuče s namjerom da se ponovno bori ili drugoj četi pristupi – vratit će se natovaren Allahovom srdžbom; prebivalište njegovo bit će Džehennem, a užasno je to krajnje odredište.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
onaj tko im tada leđa okrene – osim onog koji se povuče s namjerom da se ponovno bori ili drugoj četi pristupi – vratit će se natovaren Allahovom srdžbom; prebivalište njegovo bit će Pakao, a užasno je to krajnje odredište.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Kala duŋtiiɗo ɓe nden ñande (ɓabbal mu'un), -si wonaa hara ko on keɓɓitantooɗo hare nden, maa hara ko ukkitotooɗo e fedde, -gooŋɗii haray o ruttodii e tikkere immorde ka Alla, jaaƴorde maɓɓe nden ko Jahannama nge bonii ruttorde!
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ქართული · Georgian
ხოლო ვინც იმ დღეს მათ [ურწმუნოებს] ზურგს მიუბრუნებს [გაიქცევა], გარდა იმ შემთხვევისა, როცა (ტაქტიკურად) უკან იხევს, რათა კვლავ შეტევაში დაბრუნდეს, ან უერთდება მებრძოლ მორწმუნეთა რაზმს, — ის (ვინც ბრძოლის ველიდან გარბის) დაიმსახურებს ალლაჰის რისხვას, და მისი თავშესაფარი იქნება ჯოჯოხეთი, და რა საშინელი მისაქციელია იგი!
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Deutsch · German
Und wer ihnen an jenem Tag den Rücken kehrt - außer, er setzt sich ab zum Kampf, oder er schließt sich einer (anderen) Schar an -, so hat er sich fürwahr den Zorn Allahs zugezogen, und sein Zufluchtsort ist die Hölle - und wie schlimm ist dieser Ausgang!
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Όποιος τους γυρίσει την πλάτη εκείνη την ημέρα –εκτός κι αν παρεκκλίνει (από μία πλευρά στην άλλη ως στρατηγική) για να πολεμήσει ή θέλει να ενταχθεί σ' άλλη ομάδα (πιστών στο Μουσουλμανικό στρατό)– θα γυρίσει με την οργή του Αλλάχ και η κατοικία του (στη Μέλλουσα Ζωή) θα είναι η Κόλαση, και τι τρομερός προορισμός είναι αυτός!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और जो कोई उस दिन उनसे अपनी पीठ फेरे, सिवाय उसके जो पलटकर आक्रमण करने वाला अथवा (अपने) किसी गिरोह से मिलने वाला हो, तो निश्चय वह अल्लाह के प्रकोप के साथ लौटा, और उसका ठिकाना जहन्नम है और वह लौटने की बुरी जगह है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
E quelli che voltano le spalle – tranne che per tattica di guerra o per unirsi a una truppa – andranno incontro all’ira di Allāh, e il loro rifugio sarà in verità l’Inferno, e avranno un infausto destino.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
16. Ir kas atgręžia savo nugarą jiems tokią dieną – nebent tai karinė gudrybė arba pasitraukimas į (savo paties) būrį – jis iš tiesų užitraukė Allaho rūstybę. Ir jo buveinė yra Pragaras, ir blogiausias, iš tiesų, yra toks galutinis tikslas!
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.
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Русский · Russian
Кто в тот день повернётся к ним спиной, иначе как разворачиваясь для сражения или присоединяясь к другому отряду, тот навлечёт на себя гнев Аллаха. Пристанищем ему будет Геенна, и сколь же ужасен этот исход!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Онај ко им тада окрене леђа, осим онај који се повуче са намером да се поновно бори или приступи другој чети, вратиће се натоварен Божјом срџбом; Пакао ће да буде његово пребивалиште, а ужасно је то крајње одредиште.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na atakayewageuzia mgongo wake siku hiyo, isipokuwa kwa mbinu za vita au kuungana na kikosi, basi hakika atakuwa amestahiki ghadhabu ya Mwenyezi Mungu. Na pahali pake ni Jahannam, na hayo ndiyo marejeo mabaya kabisa!
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Svenska · Swedish
Den som vänder dem ryggen den dagen – utom för att inta en ny stridsposition eller ansluta sig till ett annat förband – har ådragit sig Guds vrede, och hans hemvist är helvetet. Vilken usel destination!
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Türkçe · Turkish
-Savaş taktiği olarak düşmanı vurmak için çekilme ya da diğer bir birliğe katılmak durumu hariç- böyle bir günde her kim onlara arkasını dönerse; mutlaka o, Allah’ın gazabına uğramış olur. Onun varacağı yer de Cehennem'dir. Ne kötü varılacak yerdir orası!
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اردو · Urdu
اور جو شخص ان سے اس موقع پر پشت پھیرے گا مگر ہاں جو لڑائی کے لیے پینترا بدلتا ہو یا جو (اپنی) جماعت کی طرف پناه لینے آتا ہو وه مستثنیٰ ہے[1] ۔ باقی اور جو ایسا کرے گا وه اللہ کے غضب میں آجائے گا اور اس کا ٹھکانہ دوزخ ہوگا وه بہت ہی بری جگہ ہے۔[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.
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Talal Itani2012 It was not you who killed them, but it was God who killed them. And it was not you who launched when you launched, but it was God who launched. That He may bestow upon the believers an excellent reward. God is Hearing and Knowing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Ye (Muslims) slew them not, but Allah slew them. And thou (Muhammad) threwest not when thou didst throw, but Allah threw, that He might test the believers by a fair test from Him. Lo! Allah is Hearer, Knower
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Ye did not slay them, but it was God who slew them; nor didst thou shoot when thou didst shoot, but God did shoot, to try the believers from Himself with a goodly trial; verily, God both hears and knows
John Medows Rodwell1861 So it was not ye who slew them, but God slew them; and those shafts were God's, not thine! He would make trial of the faithful by a gracious trial from Himself: Verily, God Heareth, Knoweth
George Sale1734 So you slew them not; but it was God Who slew them. And thou threwest not when thou didst throw, but it was God Who threw, that He might overthrow the disbelievers and that He might confer on the believers a great favour from Himself. Surely, God is All-Hearing, All-Knowing
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.66 on a scale
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.74
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.71
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.65
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.65
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Talal Itani · George Sale0.63
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.57
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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.