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Talal Itani· published 2012
When you met, He made them appear as few in your eyes, and made you appear fewer in their eyes, so that God may conclude a predeterminedmatter. To God all mattersrevert.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And when He made you (Muslims), when ye met (them), see them with your eyes as few, and lessened you in their eyes, (it was) that Allah might conclude a thing that must be done. Unto Allah all things are broughtback
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 He showed them to you, as ye encountered them, as few in your eyes; and made you seem few in their eyes; that God might accomplish a thing that was as good as done; for unto God do things return
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when, on your meeting, he made them to appear to your eyes as few, and diminished you in their eyes, that God might carry out the thing that was to be done. To God do all things return
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when He caused them to appear unto you, when ye met, to be few in your eyes; and diminished your numbers in their eyes; that God might accomplish the thing which was decreed to be done: And unto God shall all things return
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
Kur u ndeshët, Ai bëri që ata të dukeshin pak në sytë tuaj dhe ju të dukeshit pak në sytë e tyre, në mënyrë që Allahu të përmbushte atë që tashmë ishte caktuar. E, tek Allahu kthehen të gjitha çështjet.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর তোমরা স্মরণ করো, যখন তোমরা পরস্পরের সম্মুখীন হয়েছিলে, তখন তিনি তাদেরকে তোমাদের দৃষ্টিতে স্বল্প সংখ্যক দেখিয়েছিলেন এবং তোমাদেরকেও তাদের দৃষ্টিতে স্বল্প সংখ্যক দেখিয়েছিলেন(১৮), যাতে আল্লাহ সম্পন্ন করেন এমন কাজ যা ঘটারই ছিল।(১৯) আর আল্লাহর দিকেই সব কিছু প্রত্যাবর্তন করা হবে।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
A kad ste se sukobili, u očima vašim On ih je prikazao u malom broju, a vas u očima njihovim, također, u malom broju, da bi Allah dao da se ispuni ono što se moralo dogoditi – a Allahu se sve vraća.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
A kad ste se sukobili, u očima vašim On ih je prikazao u malom broju, a vas u očima njihovim, također, u malom broju, da bi Allah dao da se ispuni ono što se moralo dogoditi – a Allahu se sve vraća.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
E tuma nde Alla hollatnoo on ɓe, nde pottunoɗon, ko ɓe seeɗaaɓe e gite mon, Homo famɗina on kadi e gite maɓɓe fii yo Alla ñaawo fiyaaku laatinooɗo golleteeɗo. Ko faade ka Alla woni ruttorde fiyakuuji ɗiin.
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ქართული · Georgian
და გაიხსენეთ (ო, მოციქულო და მისო თანხმლებნო), როგორ გაჩვენათ თქვენ ალლაჰმა ისინი [თქვენი მტრები], როცა შეხვდით (ბრძოლის ველზე): მცირერიცხოვანად მოგაჩვენათ ისინი თქვენს თვალში (და ამან გამბედაობა შეგმატათ), და თქვენც მცირერიცხოვნად მოგაჩვენათ მათ თვალში (რათა ისინი სერიოზულად არ მომზადებულიყვნენ ბრძოლისთვის და უკან არ დაეხიათ). ეს იყო იმისათვის, რომ ალლაჰს განეხორციელებინა საქმე, (რომელიც უკვე იყო განსაზღვრული) და ყოველი საქმე ალლაჰს უბრუნდება.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und (gedenke,) als Er sie euch, als ihr aufeinandertraft, in euren Augen als wenige erscheinen ließ, und (auch) euch in ihren Augen weniger machte, damit Allah eine Angelegenheit entscheide, die ausgeführt werden sollte. Und zu Allah werden (all) die Angelegenheiten zurückgebracht.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Και (θυμηθείτε, ω, Μουσουλμάνοι) όταν συναντηθήκατε (στη μάχη του Μπαντρ), (και ο Αλλάχ) έκανε εκείνους (τους ειδωλολάτρες) να φαίνονται λίγοι στα μάτια σας, και σας έκανε (ω, Μουσουλμάνοι) να φαίνεστε λίγοι στα μάτια τους, για να ολοκληρώσει ο Αλλάχ αυτό που οπωσδήποτε θα γινόταν. Και στον Αλλάχ θα επιστρέψουν όλα τα θέματα.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा जब वह तुम्हें, जब तुम्हारी परस्पर मुठभेड़ हुई, उनको तुम्हारी नज़रों में थोड़े दिखाता था, और तुमको उनकी नज़रों में बहुत कम करके दिखाता था, ताकि अल्लाह उस काम को पूरा कर दे, जो किया जाने वाला था। और सारे मामले अल्लाह ही की ओर लौटाए जाते हैं।[22]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Al momento dello scontro li fece sembrare pochi ai vostri occhi, mentre vi fece sembrare pochi ai loro occhi per portare a compimento un fatto che era destinato ad accadere, e ad Allāh tornano tutte le cose.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
44. Ir (atminkite) kai jūs sutikote (netikinčiųjų kariuomenę Badr mūšio dieną), Jis parodė juos jums kaip keletą jūsų akyse ir Jis privertė jus pasirodyti kaip keletą jų akyse, tam, kad Allahas galėtų įvykdyti tai, kas jau buvo nulemta (Jo Žinojimu). Ir pas Allahą grįžta viskas (dėl sprendimo).
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Русский · Russian
И вот Он показывал вам их, когда вы встретились, малочисленными в ваших глазах, и делал вас малочисленными в их глазах, чтобы Аллах совершил дело, которое должно было свершиться. К Аллаху возвращаются все дела.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
А кад сте се сукобили, у вашим очима Он их је приказао у малом броју, а вас у њиховим очима такође у малом броју, да би Аллах дао да се испуни оно што је морало да се догоди - а Аллаху се све враћа.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na alipowaonyesha mlipokutana, katika macho yenu kuwa wao ni wachache, na akawafanya nyinyi ni wachache katika macho yao, ili Mwenyezi Mungu atimize jambo lililokuwa lifanywe. Na kwa Mwenyezi Mungu yatarejeshwa mambo yote.
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Svenska · Swedish
Och kom ihåg när ni möttes lät han dem framstå som få i era ögon och lät er framstå som få i deras, för att Gud skulle fullborda ett redan avgjort beslut. Till Gud återförs alla angelägenheter.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Hani karşılaştığınız zaman onları gözlerinize az gösteriyor, sizi de onların gözlerinde azaltıyordu ki Allah, olacak bir işi gerçekleştirsin. Bütün işler Allah’a döndürülür.
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اردو · Urdu
جبکہ اس نے بوقت ملاقات انہیں تمہاری نگاہوں میں بہت کم دکھائے اور تمہیں ان کی نگاہوں میں کم دکھائے[1] تاکہ اللہ تعالیٰ اس کام کو انجام تک پہنچا دے جو کرنا ہی تھا[2] اور سب کام اللہ ہی کی طرف پھیرے جاتے 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 Recall when you were on the nearer bank, and they were on the further bank, and the caravan was below you. Had you planned for this meeting, you would have disagreed on the timing, but God was to carry out a predetermined matter, so that those who perish would perish by clear evidence, and those who survive would survive by clear evidence. God is Hearing and Knowing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 When ye were on the near bank (of the valley) and they were on the yonder bank, and the caravan was below you (on the coast plain). And had ye trysted to meet one another ye surely would have failed to keep the tryst, but (it happened, as it did, without the forethought of either of you) that Allah might conclude a thing that must be done; that he who perished (on that day) might perish by a clear proof (of His Sovereignty) and he who survived might survive by a clear proof (of His Sovereignty). Lo! Allah in truth is Hearer, Knower
Edward Henry Palmer1880 When ye were on the near side of the valley, and they were on the far side, and the camels were below you; had ye made an appointment then ye would have failed to keep your appointment - but it was that God might accomplish a thing that was as good as done! that he who was to perish might perish with a manifest sign; and that he who was to live might live with a manifest sign; for, verily, God hears and knows
John Medows Rodwell1861 When ye were encamped on the near side of the valley, and they were on the further side, and the caravan was below you, if ye had made an engagement to attack ye would have failed the engagement; but ye were led into action notwithstanding, that God might accomplish the thing destined to be done: That he who should perish might perish with a clear token before him, and that he who liveth might live with it. And verily, God Heareth, Knoweth
George Sale1734 When ye were incamped on the hithermost side of the valley, and they were incamped on the further side, and the caravan was below you; and if ye had mutually appointed to come to a battle, ye would certainly have declined the appointment; but ye were brought to an engagement without any previous appointment, that God might accomplish the thing which was decreed to be done, that he who perisheth hereafter may perish after demonstrative evidence, and that he who liveth may live by the same evidence God both heareth and knoweth
Talal Itani2012 God made them appear in your dream as few. Had He made them appear as many, you would have lost heart, and disputed in the matter. But God saved the situation. He knows what the hearts contain.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 When Allah showed them unto thee (O Muhammad) in thy dream as few in number, and if He had shown them to thee as many, ye (Muslims) would have faltered and would have quarrelled over the affair. But Allah saved (you). Lo! He knoweth what is in the breasts (of men)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 When God showed thee them in thy dream as though they were but few; but had He shown thee them as though they were many, ye would have been timid, and ye would have quarrelled about the matter;- but God preserved you; verily, He knows the nature of men's breasts
John Medows Rodwell1861 Remember when God shewed them to thee in thy dream, as few: Had he shown them numerous, ye would certainly have become fainthearted, and would certainly have disputed about the matter - But from this God kept you - He knoweth the very secrets of the breast
George Sale1734 When thy Lord caused the enemy to appear unto thee in thy sleep, few in number; and if He had caused them to appear numerous unto thee, ye would have been disheartened and would have disputed concerning the matter: But God preserved you from this; for He knoweth the innermost parts of the breasts of men
Talal Itani2012 And obey God and His Messenger, and do not dispute, lest you falter and lose your courage. And be steadfast. God is with the steadfast.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And obey Allah and His messenger, and dispute not one with another lest ye falter and your strength depart from you; but be steadfast! Lo! Allah is with the steadfast
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and fear God and His Apostle, and do not quarrel or be timid, so that your turn of luck go from you; but be ye patient, verily, God is with the patient
John Medows Rodwell1861 And obey God and his Apostle; and dispute not, lest ye become fainthearted and your success go from you; but endure with steadfastness, for God is with the steadfastly enduring
George Sale1734 And obey God and his apostle, and be not refractory, lest ye be discouraged, and your success depart from you; but persevere with patience, for God is with those who persevere
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 —
0.54 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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
Talal Itani · George Sale0.64
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.62
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.45
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.40
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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.