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.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And when those who disbelieveplot against thee (OMuhammad) to wound thee fatally, or to kill thee or to drive thee forth; they plot, but Allah (also) plotteth; and Allah is the best of plotters
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
And when those who misbelieve were crafty with thee to detain thee a prisoner, or kill thee, or drive thee forth; they were crafty, but God was crafty too, for God is best of crafty ones
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And call to mind when the unbelievers plotted against thee, to detain thee prisoner, or to kill thee, or to banish thee: They plotted - but God plotted: and of plotters is God the best
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And remember when the disbelievers devisedplans against thee that they might put thee in confinement or slay thee or expel thee. And they planned and God also planned, and God is the Best of planners
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
Kujto kur jobesimtarët thurnin kurthe kundër teje: për të të zënë rob, për të të vrarë ose për të të dëbuar. Ata ngrenë kurthe, por edhe Allahu ngre kurthe (kundër tyre), e Allahu më së miri di të ngrejë kurthe.
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 তুমি স্মরণ করো, যখন কাফিররা তোমাকে নিয়ে ষড়যন্ত্র করছিল, তোমাকে বন্দী করতে অথবা তোমাকে হত্যা করতে কিংবা তোমাকে দেশ থেকে বের করে দিতে। আর তারা ষড়যন্ত্র করছিল এবং আল্লাহও পাল্টা কৌশল গ্রহণ করেছিলেন। আর আল্লাহ সর্বশ্রেষ্ঠ কৌশলী।
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 kad su ti nevjernici zamke pleli da bi te u tamnicu bacili ili da bi te ubili, ili da bi te prognali; oni su zamke pleli pa je i Allah njima zamke pleo, a Allah najbolje zamke plete.
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 kad su ti nevjernici zamke pleli da bi te u tamnicu bacili ili da bi te ubili, ili da bi te prognali; oni su zamke pleli pa je i Allah njima zamke pleo, a Allah najbolje zamke plete.
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
(siftor) tuma nde heeferɓe ɓeen fewjanayno maa fii yoɓe nannguma maa, ɓe mbar maa, ɓe njaltinmaa. Heɓe pewja, Alla no fewja. Ko Alla ɓuri moƴƴude fewjooɓe ɓeen.
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 აი, ისინი, ვინც ურწმუნოები გახდნენ, მზაკვრობდნენ შენ წინააღმდეგ (ო, მოციქულო), რათა შეეკავებინე, ან მოეკალი, ან გაეძევებინე. და ისინი ხრიკებს აწყობდნენ, ხოლო ალლაჰიც აწყობდა ხრიკს. და ჭეშმარიტად, ალლაჰი საუკეთესოა ხრიკების მოწყობაში.
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 (gedenke,) als diejenigen, die ungläubig sind, gegen dich Ränke schmiedeten, um dich festzusetzen oder zu töten oder zu vertreiben. Und sie schmiedeten Ränke, aber (auch) Allah schmiedete Ränke. Und Allah ist der beste Ränkeschmied.
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 (ανάφερε, ω, Προφήτη) όταν οι άπιστοι συνωμότησαν εναντίον σου (στη Μάκκα), για να σε φυλακίσουν, να σε σκοτώσουν ή να σε διώξουν (από τη Μάκκα). Σχεδιάζουν, αλλά και ο Αλλάχ επίσης σχεδιάζει (εναντίον τους, ανταποδίδοντας το σχέδιό τους), και ο Αλλάχ είναι ο Καλύτερος απ' αυτούς που σχεδιάζουν (δηλ. το σχέδιό Του είναι το πιο ισχυρό, και είναι από δικαιοσύνη και ως ανταπόδοση, ενώ το σχέδιο των εχθρών Του είναι από κακία για να βλάπτουν τους ενάρετους).
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 (ऐ नबी! वह समय याद करो) जब (मक्का में) काफ़िर आपके विरुद्ध गुप्त उपाय कर रहे थे, ताकि आपको क़ैद कर दें, अथवा आपका वध कर दें अथवा आपको (देश से) बाहर निकाल दें। तथा वे गुप्त उपाय कर रहे थे और अल्लाह भी गुप्त उपाय कर रहा था और अल्लाह सब गुप्त उपाय करने वालों से बेहतर गुप्त उपाय करने वाला है।[14]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E quando i miscredenti ordiscono un’astuzia per metterti nei ceppi o ucciderti, o scacciarti, e tramano. E Allāh sventa (le loro astuzie), e Allāh è il miglior Pianificatore.
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
30. Ir (atminkite) kai netikintieji surengė sąmokslą prieš tave (Muchammedai ﷺ) – įkalinti arba nužudyti, arba išvaryti tave (iš tavo namų, t. y. Mekkos). Jie rengė sąmokslą ir Allahas taip pat rengė sąmokslą. Ir Allahas yra Geriausias iš tų, kurie rengia sąmokslą.
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 вот замышляли против тебя те, которые отвергли веру, чтобы заточить тебя, или убить тебя, или изгнать. Они замышляли, но и Аллах замышляет, а Аллах — лучший из замышляющих.
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 кад су ти неверници правили замке да би те бацили у тамницу или да би те убили, или да би те прогнали; они су замке спремали па је и Аллах њима спремао замке, а Аллах спрема најбоље замке.
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 walipokupangia vitimbi wale waliokufuru ili wakufunge, au wakuue, au wakutoe. Na wakapanga vitimbi vyao, naye Mwenyezi Mungu akapanga vitimbi vyake. Na Mwenyezi Mungu ndiye mbora wa wapangao vitimbi.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Och minns när de otrogna smidde planer mot dig för att fängsla dig, döda dig eller fördriva dig. De smidde sina planer, men Gud smidde sina, och Gud är den bäste som smider planer.
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
Hani o kâfirler seni tutup bağlamak yahut öldürmek yahut seni (Mekke’den) çıkarmak için sana tuzak kuruyorlardı. Onlar bu tuzağı kurarlarken Allah da bunun karşılığında kendilerine tuzak kuruyordu. Allah, tuzak kuranların en hayırlısıdır.
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
اردو · Urdu
اور اس واقعہ کا بھی ذکر کیجئے! جب کہ کافر لوگ آپ کی نسبت تدبیر سوچ رہے تھے کہ آپ کو قید کر لیں، یا آپ کو قتل کر ڈالیں یا آپ کو خارج وطن کر دیں[1] اور وه تو اپنی تدبیریں کر رہے تھے اور اللہ اپنی تدبیر کر رہا تھا اور سب سے زیاده مستحکم تدبیر واﻻ اللہ 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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Talal Itani2012 O you who believe! If you remain conscious of God, He will give you a criterion, and will remit from you your sins, and will forgive you. God is possessor of infinite grace.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye who believe! If ye keep your duty to Allah, He will give you discrimination (between right and wrong) and will rid you of your evil thoughts and deeds, and will forgive you. Allah is of Infinite Bounty
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who believe! if ye fear God He will make for you a discrimination, and will cover for you your offences, and will forgive you; for God is Lord of mighty grace
John Medows Rodwell1861 O ye who believe! if ye fear God he will make good your deliverance, and will put away your sins from you, and will forgive you. God is of great bounteousness
George Sale1734 O ye who believe! if you do your duty to God, He will grant you a distinction and will remove your evils from you and will forgive you; and God is the Lord of great bounty
Easy-read (simplified)wa'idhaa tutlaa 'alayhim aayaatunaa qaaloo qad sami'naa law nashaa'u laqulnaa mithla haadhaa in haadhaa illaa asaateeru l-'awwaleen
DIN 31635waʾiḏā tutlā ʿalayhim ʾāyātunā qālū qad samiʿnā law našāʾu laqulnā miṯla hāḏā ʾin hāḏā ʾillā ʾasāṭīru l-ʾawwalīna
Talal Itani2012 And when Our revelations are recited to them, they say, "We have heard. Had we wanted, we could have said the like of this; these are nothing but myths of the ancients."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when Our revelations are recited unto them they say: We have heard. If we wish we can speak the like of this. Lo! this is naught but fables of the men of old
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But when our verses were rehearsed to them they said, 'We have already heard.- If we pleased we could speak like this; verily, this is nothing but tales of those of yore
John Medows Rodwell1861 And oft as our signs were rehearsed to them, they said, "Now have we heard: if we pleased we could certainly utter its like! Yes, it is mere tales of the ancients
George Sale1734 And when Our verses are recited to them, they say, 'We have heard. If we wished we could certainly say the like of it. This is nothing but mere tales of the ancients
Easy-read (simplified)wa'idh qaaloo llaahumma in kaana haadhaa huwa l-haqqa min 'indika fa'amtir 'alaynaa hijaaratan mina s-samaa'i awi tinaa bi'adhaabin aleem
DIN 31635waʾiḏ qālū llāhumma ʾin kāna hāḏā huwa l-ḥaqqa min ʿindika faʾamṭir ʿalaynā ḥiǧāratan mina s-samāʾi ʾawi ʾtinā biʿaḏābin ʾalīmin
Talal Itani2012 And they said, "Our God, if this is the truth from You, then rain down on us stones from the sky, or visit us with a painful affliction."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when they said: O Allah! If this be indeed the truth from Thee, then rain down stones on us or bring on us some painful doom
Edward Henry Palmer1880 When they said, 'O God! if this be truth, and from Thee, then rain upon us stones from heaven or bring us grievous woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when they said, "God! if this be the very truth from before thee, rain down stones upon us from Heaven, or lay on us some grievous chastisement
George Sale1734 And remember the time when they said, 'O God, if this be indeed the truth from Thee, then rain down upon us stones from heaven or bring down upon us a grievous punishment
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 —
0.64 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 · George Sale0.79
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.73
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.69
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · George Sale0.55
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.50
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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.