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Talal Itani· published 2012
Those who disbelieve spend their wealth to repel from God's path. They will spend it, then it will become a source of sorrow for them, and then they will be defeated. Those who disbelieve will be herded into Hell.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Lo! those who disbelieve spend their wealth in order that they may debar (men) from the way of Allah. They will spend it, then it will become an anguish for them, then they will be conquered. And those who disbelieve will be gathered unto hell
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
Verily, those who misbelieveexpend their wealth to turn folk from the path of God; but they shall spend it, and then it shall be for them sighing, and then they shall be overcome! Those who misbelieve, into hell shall they be gathered
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
The infidels spend their riches with intent to turn men aside from the way of God: spend it they shall; then shall sighing be upon them, and then shall they be overcome. And the infidels shall be gathered together into Hell
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Surely, those who disbelieve, spend their wealth to turn peopleaway from the way of God. They will surelycontinue to spend it; but then shall it become a source of regret for them, and then shall they be overcome. And the disbelievers shall be gathered unto Hell
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
Jobesimtarët e shpenzojnë pasurinë e tyre për të penguar (njerëzit) nga rruga e Allahut. Ata do ta shpenzojnë atë, por në fund do të jetë dëshpërim për ta, e pastaj do të mposhten. Ata që nuk besojnë në Xhehenem, do të tubohen,
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বাংলা · Bengali
নিশ্চয় যারা কুফরী করেছে, আল্লাহর রাস্তা হতে বাধা প্রদান করতে তারা নিজেদের ধন-সম্পদ ব্যয় করে। তারা অচিরেই তাদের সম্পদগুলো আরো ব্যয় করবে; অত:পর এটি তাদের আক্ষেপের কারণ হবে, এরপর তারা পরাজিত হবে। আর যারা কুফরী করেছে, তাদেরকে জাহান্নামে সমবেত করা হবে।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Zaista oni koji ne vjeruju troše imovinu svoju da bi od Allahova puta odvraćali. Oni će je tako trošiti, zatim će zbog toga žaliti i na kraju će pobijeđeni biti. A oni koji ne budu vjerovali – u Džehennem će biti potjerani,
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Zaista oni koji ne vjeruju troše imovinu svoju da bi od Allahova puta odvraćali. Oni će je tako trošiti, zatim će zbog toga žaliti i na kraju će pobijeđeni biti. A oni koji ne budu vjerovali – u Pakao će biti potjerani,
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Pellet, ɓeen yedduɓe, heɓe nafqira jawɗe maɓɓe ɗeen no ɓe paddora(yimɓe ɓen) e laawol Alla ngol. Maa ɓe nafqu ɗe, refti wontana ɓe nimsa, refti ɓe poolee. Ɓeen yedduɓe noon, ko ka Jahannama ɓe mooɓoytee,
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ქართული · Georgian
ჭეშმარიტად, ისინი, ვინც ურწმუნონი გახდნენ, ხარჯავენ თავიანთ ქონებას, რათა გადაახვევინონ (ადამიანებს) ალლაჰის გზიდან. და ისინი დახარჯავენ მას [თავიანთ ქონებას]. შემდეგ ეს მათთვის გახდება სინანულისა და მწუხარების მიზეზი. შემდეგ ისინი დამარცხდებიან, და ისინი, ვინც ურწმუნონი გახდნენ, შეკრებილნი იქნებიან ჯოჯოხეთში.
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Deutsch · German
Wahrlich, diejenigen, die ungläubig sind, geben ihren Besitz aus, um vom Weg Allahs abzuhalten. So werden sie ihn ausgeben, und hierauf wird es eine gramvolle Reue für sie sein. Hierauf werden sie besiegt werden. Und diejenigen, die ungläubig sind, werden zur Hölle versammelt werden!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Οι άπιστοι ξοδεύουν τα πλούτη τους για να αποτρέψουν (τους ανθρώπους) από τον δρόμο του Αλλάχ. Θα τα ξοδεύουν, και έπειτα το αποτέλεσμά τους θα είναι λύπη σ' αυτούς, και έπειτα θα ηττηθούν. Και (κατά την Ημέρα της Κρίσεως) οι άπιστοι θα συγκεντρωθούν προς την Κόλαση.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
निःसंदेह जिन लोगों ने कुफ़्र किया, वे अपने धन ख़र्च करते हैं ताकि अल्लाह के रास्ते से रोकें। तो वे उन्हें ख़र्च करते रहेंगे, फिर (ऐसा समय आएगा कि) वह उनके लिए पछतावे का कारण होगा। फिर वे पराजित होंगे। तथा जिन लोगों ने कुफ़्र किया, वे जहन्नम की ओर एकत्र किए जाएँगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
In verità i miscredenti spendono il loro denaro per sbarrare la strada di Allāh; lo spenderanno, poi sarà per loro ragione di rammarico, poi saranno vinti e i miscredenti verranno spinti in massa nell’Inferno,
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
36. Iš tiesų, tie, kurie netiki, eikvoja savo turtą, kad nustumtų (žmones) nuo Allaho Kelio, ir jie ir toliau jį eikvos. Tačiau, galiausiai tai taps jiems didžiule kančia. Tada jie bus nugalėti. Ir tie, kurie netiki, bus surinkti į Pragarą.
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Русский · Russian
Воистину, те, которые отвергли веру, расходуют своё имущество, чтобы отвращать от пути Аллаха. И они будут расходовать их, но затем это станет для них горьким сожалением, и потом они будут побеждены. А те, которые отвергли веру, будут собраны в Геенне,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Заиста они који не верују троше своју имовину да би одвраћали од Аллаховог пута. Они ће тако да је троше, затим ће због тога да се кају и на крају ће да буду побеђени. А они који не буду веровали - у Пакао ће да буду скупљени,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Hakika wale waliokufuru hutoa mali zao ili waizuilie Njia ya Mwenyezi Mungu. Basi watazitoa, kisha zitakuwa majuto juu yao, kisha watashindwa. Na wale waliokufuru watakusanywa kwenye Jahannam.
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Svenska · Swedish
De otrogna spenderar sina rikedomar för att avleda från Guds väg, och de ska fortsätta spendera dem. Sedan ska det bli deras bedrövelse, och till sist ska de besegras. De otrogna ska samlas till helvetet,
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Kâfirler, mallarını Allah’ın yolundan alıkoymak için harcarlar. Daha da harcayacaklardır. Sonra bu, onlara bir yürek acısı olacaktır. Sonra da yenilgiye uğrayacaklardır. Kâfir olanlar toplanıp Cehennem'e sürüleceklerdir.
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اردو · Urdu
بلاشک یہ کافر لوگ اپنے مالوں کو اس لئے خرچ کر رہے ہیں کہ اللہ کی راه سے روکیں سو یہ لوگ تو اپنے مالوں کو خرچ کرتے ہی رہیں گے، پھر وه مال ان کے حق میں باعث حسرت ہو جائیں گے۔ پھر مغلوب ہو جائیں گے اور کافر لوگوں کو دوزخ کی طرف جمع کیا جائے گا۔[1]
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 Yet why should God not punish them, when they are turning others away from the Sacred Mosque, although they are not its custodians? Its rightful custodians are the pious; but most of them do not know.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 What (plea) have they that Allah should not punish them, when they debar (His servants) from the Inviolable Place of Worship, though they are not its fitting guardians. Its fitting guardians are those only who keep their duty to Allah. But most of them know not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But what ails them that God should not torment them while they turn folk away from the Holy Mosque, though they are not the guardians thereof - its guardians are only the pious?- but most of them know not
John Medows Rodwell1861 But because they debarred the faithful from the holy temple, albeit they are not its guardians, nothing is there on their part why God should not chastise them. The Godfearing only are its guardians; but most of them know it not
George Sale1734 And what excuse have they now that God should not punish them, when they hinder men from the Sacred Mosque, and they are not its true guardians? Its true guardians are only those who are righteous, but most of them know not
Talal Itani2012 Their prayer at the House was nothing but whistling and clapping-so taste the punishment for your blasphemy.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And their worship at the (holy) House is naught but whistling and hand-clapping. Therefore (it is said unto them): Taste of the doom because ye disbelieve
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Their prayer at the House was naught but whistling and clapping hands!- taste then the torment for that ye misbelieved
John Medows Rodwell1861 And their prayer at the house of God is no other than whistling through the fingers and clapping of the hands - "Taste then the torment, for that ye have been unbelievers
George Sale1734 And their prayer at the Sacred House is nothing but whistling and clapping of hands. 'Taste then the punishment because you disbelieved
DIN 31635liyamīza llāhu l-ḫabīṯa mina ṭ-ṭayyibi wayaǧʿala l-ḫabīṯa baʿḍahu ʿalā baʿḍin fayarkumahu ǧamīʿan fayaǧʿalahu fī ǧahannama ʾūlāʾika humu l-ḫāsirūna
Talal Itani2012 That God may distinguish the bad from the good, and heap the bad on top of one another, and pile them together, and throw them in Hell. These are the losers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That Allah may separate the wicked from the good, The wicked will He place piece upon piece, and heap them all together, and consign them unto hell. Such verily are the losers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 that God may distinguish the vile from the good, and may put the vile, some on the top of the other, and heap all up together, and put it into hell!- These are those who lose
John Medows Rodwell1861 That God may separate the bad from the good, and put the bad one upon the other, and heap them all up and put them into Hell! These are they who shall be lost
George Sale1734 That God may separate the bad from the good, and put the bad, one upon another, and heap them up altogether, and then cast them into Hell. These indeed are the losers
Easy-read (simplified)qul lilladheena kafaroo in yantahoo yughfar lahum maa qad salafa wa'in ya'oodoo faqad madat sunnatu l-'awwaleen
DIN 31635qul lillaḏīna kafarū ʾin yantahū yuġfar lahum mā qad salafa waʾin yaʿūdū faqad maḍat sunnatu l-ʾawwalīna
Talal Itani2012 Say to those who disbelieve: if they desist, their past will be forgiven. But if they persist-the practice of the ancients has passed away.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Tell those who disbelieve that if they cease (from persecution of believers) that which is past will be forgiven them; but if they return (thereto) then the example of the men of old hath already gone (before them, for a warning)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say to those who misbelieve, if they desist they will be forgiven what is past; but if they return,- the course of those of former days has passed away
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY to the infidels: If they desist from their unbelief, what is now past shall be forgiven them; but if they return to it, they have already before them the doom of the ancients
George Sale1734 Say to those who disbelieve, if they desist, that which is past will be forgiven them; and if they return to their misdeeds, then verily the example of the former peoples has already gone before them
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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
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.63
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.55
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.53
Talal Itani · George Sale0.51
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.47
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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.