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Talal Itani· published 2012
Fight them until there is no more persecution, and religion becomesexclusively for God. But if they desist-God is Seeing of what they do.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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
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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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
Luftojini ata derisa të mos ketë më fitne (mosbesim) dhe tërë feja t'i kushtohet vetëm Allahut. E, nëse heqin dorë, atëherë Allahu sheh çdo gjë që bëjnë ata.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর তোমরা তাদের বিরুদ্ধে লড়াই চালিয়ে যাও; যতক্ষণ না ফিতনার অবসান হয় এবং দীন পূর্ণরূপে আল্লাহর জন্য হয়ে যায়। তবে যদি তারা বিরত হয়, তবে নিশ্চয় তারা যা করে সে বিষয়ে আল্লাহ সম্যক দ্রষ্টা।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I borite se protiv njih dok smutnja ne iščezne i dok samo Allahova vjera ne ostane. Ako se oni okane – pa zaista Allah dobro vidi šta oni rade.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I borite se protiv njih dok smutnja ne iščezne i dok samo Allahova vjera ne ostane. Ako se oni okane – pa zaista Allah dobro vidi šta oni rade.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Kaɓee ɓe haa ka tawata fitina laatotaako, diine kan fof laatanoo Alla. Si ɓe haɗitike, haray pellet, Alla ko deenɗo ko ɓe ngollata kon.
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ქართული · Georgian
და იბრძოლეთ (ო, მორწმუნენო) მათთან, ვიდრე არ გაქრება ცდუნება[1], და ვიდრე მთელი მორჩილება [რწმენა, თაყვანისცემა და მორჩილება] არ იქნება მხოლოდ ალლაჰისთვის. ხოლო თუ ისინი შეიკავებენ თავს და მიიღებენ ჭეშმარიტ რწმენას, მაშინ, ჭეშმარიტად, ალლაჰი ხედავს იმას, რასაც ისინი გააკეთებენ.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und kämpft gegen sie, bis es keine Wirren (arab. „Fitnah“) mehr gibt und (bis) die Religion gänzlich Allahs ist. Wenn sie jedoch aufhören, so sieht Allah fürwahr, was sie tun.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
(Ω, πιστοί) πολεμήστε τους (τους άπιστους εχθρούς σας) μέχρι να μην υπάρχει πια (απ' αυτούς) ειδωλολατρία (και να σταματήσουν να σας αποτρέπουν από το Ισλάμ μέσω διωγμών) και να είναι όλη η θρησκεία (και η υπακοή και η λατρεία) προς τον Αλλάχ και μόνο. Μα αν παύσουν (την απιστία τους και το να σας πολεμούν), πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ βλέπει όλα όσα κάνουν.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा उनसे युद्ध करो, यहाँ तक कि कोई फ़ितना[18] न रह जाए और धर्म पूरा का पूरा अल्लाह के लिए हो जाए। फिर यदि वे बाज़ आ जाएँ, तो निःसंदेह अल्लाह जो कुछ वे कर रहे हैं, उसे खूब देखने वाला है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E combatteteli finché non ci sarà più idolatria e tutta la religione sarà di Allāh! Se smetteranno, in verità sappi che Allāh osserva ciò che fanno.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
39. Ir kovokite su jais tol, kol neliks daugiau Fitna (netikėjimo ir daugiadievystės, t. y. ko nors kito, išskyrus Allaho, garbinimo) ir religija (garbinimas) bus visas tik Allahui Vieninteliui [visame pasaulyje [1]]. Tačiau, jei jie liausis (garbinę kitus, išskyrus Allahą), tada, tikrai, Allahas yra Visa Matantis, ką jie daro.
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Русский · Russian
И сражайтесь с ними до тех пор, пока не прекратится смута и вся религия не будет посвящена только Аллаху. А если они прекратят, то воистину, Аллах видит то, что они совершают.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
И борите се против њих док смутња не ишчезне и док само Божја вера не остане. Ако се они окане, па заиста Аллах добро види шта они раде.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na piganeni nao mpaka kusiwepo majaribio na Dini yote iwe kwa ajili ya Mwenyezi Mungu. Lakini wakiacha, basi hakika Mwenyezi Mungu anayaona vyema wanayayatenda.
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Svenska · Swedish
Och bekämpa dem tills avgudadyrkan och förföljelse upphör och all gudsdyrkan ägnas Gud. Om de upphör har Gud förvisso full insikt i allt de gör.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Hiçbir fitne kalmayıncaya ve din bütünüyle Allah’ın oluncaya kadar onlarla savaşın. Eğer vazgeçerlerse, muhakkak Allah ne yaptıklarını iyice görmektedir.
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اردو · Urdu
اور تم ان سے اس حد تک لڑو کہ ان میں فساد عقیده نہ رہے[1] ۔ اور دین اللہ ہی کا ہو جائے[2] پھر اگر یہ باز آجائیں تو اللہ تعالیٰ ان اعمال کو خوب دیکھتا ہے۔[3]
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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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
Talal Itani2012 And know that whatever spoils you gain, to God belongs its fifth, and to the Messenger, and the relatives, and the orphans, and the poor, and to the wayfarer, provided you believe in God and in what We revealed to Our servant on the Day of Distinction, the day when the two armies met. God is Capable of everything.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And know that whatever ye take as spoils of war, lo! a fifth thereof is for Allah, and for the messenger and for the kinsman (who hath need) and orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, if ye believe in Allah and that which We revealed unto Our slave on the Day of Discrimination, the day when the two armies met. And Allah is Able to do all things
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and know that whenever ye seize anything as a spoil, to God belongs a fifth thereof, and to His Apostle, and to kindred and orphans, and the poor and the wayfarer; if ye believe in God and what we have revealed unto our servants on the day of the discrimination,- the day when the two parties met; and God is mighty over all
John Medows Rodwell1861 And know ye, that when ye have taken any booty, a fifth part belongeth to God and to the Apostle, and to the near of kin, and to orphans, and to the poor, and to the wayfarer, if ye believe in God, and in that which we have sent down to our servant on the day of the victory, the day of the meeting of the Hosts. Over all things is God potent
George Sale1734 And know that whenever ye gain any spoils, a fifth part thereof belongeth unto God, and to the apostle, and his kindred, and the orphans, and the poor, and the traveller; if ye believe in God, and that which we have sent down unto our servant on the day of distinction, on the day whereon the two armies met: And God is almighty
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 —
0.58 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 · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.69
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.66
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.53
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.48
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.43
Talal Itani · George Sale0.37
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
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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.