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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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
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.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
That Allah may separate the wicked from the good, The wicked will He placepiece upon piece, and heap them all together, and consign them unto hell. Such verily are the losers
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
John Medows Rodwell1808–1900 · published 1861
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
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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
në mënyrë që Allahu t'i ndajë të këqijtë nga të mirët e t'i mbledhë të këqijtë një mbi një e pastaj t'i hedhë të gjithë në Xhehenem. Këta janë të humburit.
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বাংলা · Bengali
যাতে আল্লাহ নিকৃষ্ট দলকে পবিত্র দল থেকে পৃথক করতে পারেন। আর যেন তিনি সকল অপবিত্রকে একটিকে আরেকটির উপর স্তূপ করে জাহান্নামে নিক্ষেপ করতে পারেন। বস্তুত তারাই তো আসল ক্ষতিগ্রস্ত।
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
da bi Allah dobre od nevaljalih odvojio i da bi nevaljale jedne na druge naslagao, a onda ih sve u gomilu zbio i u Džehennem bacio. Oni su baš gubitnici.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
da bi Allah dobre od nevaljalih odvojio i da bi nevaljale jedne na druge naslagao, a onda ih sve u gomilu zbio i u Pakao bacio. Oni su baš gubitnici.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Fii yo Alla senndindir soɓe ɗen e ko laaɓi kon, O waɗa soɓe ɗen yoga mum e dow yoga, O fawindira ɗum fof O waɗta ɗum ka ndeer Jahamma. ko ɓeen ɗoon ngoni hayruɓe(pertuɓe.)ɓe
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
რათა ალლაჰმა გაარჩიოს უწმინდური კეთილისგან, და უწმინდურნი დააწყოს ერთმანეთზე, და დააგროვოს ისინი ყველა ერთად და ჩაყაროს ჯოჯოხეთში. აი, ისინი არიან წაგებულნი.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
(Dies,) damit Allah das Schlechte vom Guten aussondere und das Schlechte übereinander lege, es alles zusammenhäufe und dann in die Hölle bringe. Jene sind die Verlierer.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
(Θα οδηγηθούν οι άπιστοι προς την Κόλαση) για να χωρίσει ο Αλλάχ τους κακούς (άπιστους) από τους καλούς (πιστούς) και να κάνει τους κακούς τον έναν πάνω στον άλλο, και να τους συσσωρεύσει όλους και μετά να τους ρίξει στην Κόλαση. Πράγματι, αυτοί είναι οι χαμένοι.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
ताकि अल्लाह अपवित्र को पवित्र से अलग कर दे, तथा अपवित्र को एक पर एक रखकर ढेर बना दे। फिर उसे जहन्नम में फेंक दे। यही लोग घाटे में पड़ने वाले हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
così che Allāh distingua il cattivo dal buono; poi metterà i malvagi gli uni sugli altri e li butterà tutti insieme nell’Inferno: quelli sono i perdenti.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
37. Tam, kad Allahas atskirtų bloguosius (netikinčiuosius, daugiadievius ir bloga darančiuosius) nuo gerųjų (tikinčiųjų islamiškuoju monoteizmu ir gera darančiųjų), ir susodintų bloguosius (netikinčiuosius, daugiadievius ir bloga darančiuosius) vieną virš kito, surinktų juos į krūvą ir įmestų juos į Pragarą. Tie! Tai jie yra pralaimėtojai.
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
чтобы Аллах отделил скверное от благого, сложил скверное одно на другое, собрал их всех вместе и поместил в Геенну. Такие и есть потерпевшие убыток.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
да би Аллах одвојио добре од неваљалих и да би неваљале једне на друге наслагао, а онда их све у гомилу збио и у Пакао бацио. Они су заиста губитници.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Ili Mwenyezi Mungu awapambanue waovu kutokana na wazuri, na awaweke waovu juu ya waovu wengine, na awarundike wote pamoja, na awatie katika Jahannam. Hao ndio waliohasirika.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
för att Gud ska skilja de onda från de goda, lägga de onda på varandra, trava ihop dem och kasta dem i helvetet. Dessa är de verkliga förlorarna.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Bu Allah'ın pis olanı temizden ayırması, pis olanları üst üste koyup hepsini yığarak Cehennem'e koyması içindir. İşte onlar, ziyana uğrayanların ta kendileridir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
تاکہ اللہ تعالیٰ ناپاک کو پاک سے الگ کر دے[1] اور ناپاکوں کو ایک دوسرے سے ملا دے، پس ان سب کو اکھٹا ڈھیر کر دے پھر ان سب کو جہنم میں ڈال دے۔ ایسے لوگ پورے خسارے میں ہیں۔
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 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
Talal Itani2012 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.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, those who misbelieve expend 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 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
George Sale1734 Surely, those who disbelieve, spend their wealth to turn people away from the way of God. They will surely continue 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
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
Talal Itani2012 Fight them until there is no more persecution, and religion becomes exclusively for God. But if they desist-God is Seeing of what they do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is all for Allah. But if they cease, then lo! Allah is Seer of what they do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Fight them then that there should be no sedition, and that the religion may be wholly God's; but if they desist, then God on what they do doth look
John Medows Rodwell1861 Fight then against them till strife be at an end, and the religion be all of it God's. If they desist, verily God beholdeth what they do
George Sale1734 And fight them until there is no persecution and religion is wholly to God. But if they desist, then surely God is Watchful of what they do
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 —
0.59 on a scale
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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 · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.73
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.63
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Talal Itani · George Sale0.52
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.41
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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.