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Talal Itani· published 2012
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.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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 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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And obey God and his Apostle; and dispute not, lest ye becomefainthearted and your success go from you; but endure with steadfastness, for God is with the steadfastlyenduring
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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
Bindjuni Allahut dhe të Dërguarit të Tij e mos u grindni me njëri-tjetrin, se do të humbni guximin e do t'ju lërë fuqia. Dhe jini të qëndrueshëm, se, pa dyshim, Allahu është me durimtarët.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর তোমরা আল্লাহ ও তাঁর রাসূলের আনুগত্য করো এবং পরস্পর ঝগড়া করবে না, তাহলে তোমরা সাহসহারা হয়ে যাবে এবং তোমাদের শক্তি ও প্রভাব নিঃশেষ হয়ে যাবে। আর তোমরা ধৈর্যধারণ করো। নিশ্চয় আল্লাহ ধৈর্যশীলদের সাথে রয়েছেন।
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 pokoravajte se Allahu i Poslaniku Njegovu, i ne prepirite se da ne biste klonuli i bez borbenog duha ostali; i budite strpljivi, a Allah je, zaista, sa strpljivima.
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 pokoravajte se Allahu i Poslaniku Njegovu, i ne prepirite se da ne biste klonuli i bez borbenog duha ostali; i budite strpljivi, a Allah je, zaista, sa strpljivima.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɗoftee Alla e Nulaaɗo makko on, wata on pooɗondir sakko lo'on doole mon njaha. muññee, pellet, Alla no won di e muññiiɓe ɓe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და (ყოველთვის) დაემორჩილეთ ალლაჰს და მის მოციქულს, და ნუ დაიწყებთ კამათს, თორემ დაეცემით სულით (რადგან თქვენ შორის ერთობა აღარ დარჩება) და დაკარგავთ თქვენს ძალას. მოითმინეთ (ალლაჰისთვის), რადგან ჭეშმარიტად, ალლაჰი მომთმენებთანაა.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und gehorcht Allah und Seinem Gesandten, und streitet nicht miteinander, sonst würdet ihr verzagen (und den Mut verlieren), und eure Kraft würde vergehen! Und seid geduldig! Wahrlich, Allah ist mit den Geduldigen.
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 υπακούστε τον Αλλάχ και τον Αγγελιαφόρο Του και μην διαφωνείτε μεταξύ σας, για να μην γίνετε αδύναμοι (και να χάσετε το θάρρος σας) και να χαθεί η δύναμή σας. Και να είστε υπομονετικοί, πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ είναι με τους υπομονετικούς.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा अल्लाह और उसके रसूल की आज्ञा का पालन करो और आपस में विवाद न करो, अन्यथा तुम कायर बन जाओगे और तुम्हारी हवा उखड़ जाएगी। तथा धैर्य रखो, निःसंदेह अल्लाह धैर्य रखने वालों के साथ है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E obbedite ad Allāh e al Suo Messaggero e poi non disputate, perché potreste fallire e si disperderebbe la vostra forza: in verità Allāh è con i pazienti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
46. Ir pakluskite Allahui ir Jo Pasiuntiniui, ir nesiginčykite (vienas su kitu) tam, kad neprarastumėte drąsos ir neišnyktų jūsų stiprybė, ir būkite kantrūs. Iš tiesų, Allahas yra su tais, kurie yra As-Sabirūn (kantrieji).
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 повинуйтесь Аллаху и Его посланнику, и не спорьте друг с другом, иначе ослабнете [духом], и исчезнет ваша сила. И будьте терпеливы, воистину, Аллах — с терпеливыми.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
и покоравајте се Аллаху и Његовом Посланику, и не препирите се да не бисте клонули и остали без борбеног духа; и будите стрпљиви, а Аллах је, заиста, уз стрпљиве.
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 mtiini Mwenyezi Mungu na Mtume wake, wala msizozane mkaingiwa woga, na zikapotea nguvu zenu. Na subirini. Hakika Mwenyezi Mungu yu pamoja na wanaosubiri.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Lyd Gud och hans sändebud och tvista inte sinsemellan så att ni tappar modet och er kraft viker. Håll ut! Gud är med de tålmodiga.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Allah’a ve Rasûlüne itaat edin; çekişip ayrılığa düşmeyin. Yoksa korkar ve gücünüzü kaybedersiniz. Sabredin! Çünkü Allah sabredenlerle beraberdir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور اللہ کی اور اس کے رسول کی فرماں برداری کرتے رہو، آپس میں اختلاف نہ کرو ورنہ بزدل ہو جاؤ گے اور تمہاری ہوا اکھڑ جائے گی اور صبر و سہارا رکھو، یقیناً اللہ تعالیٰ صبر کرنے والوں کے ساتھ ہے۔[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.
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Talal Itani2012 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 predetermined matter. To God all matters revert.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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 brought back
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 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
George Sale1734 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
DIN 31635walā takūnū kallaḏīna ḫaraǧū min diyārihim baṭaran wariʾāʾa n-nāsi wayaṣuddūna ʿan sabīli llāhi wallāhu bimā yaʿmalūna muḥīṭun
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 And do not be like those who left their homes boastfully, showing off before the people, and barring others from the path of God. God comprehends what they do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Be not as those who came forth from their dwellings boastfully and to be seen of men, and debar (men) from the way of Allah, while Allah is surrounding all they do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And be not like those who went forth from their homes with insolence, and for appearance sake before men, and to turn folks off God's way; for all they do God comprehends
John Medows Rodwell1861 And be not like those Meccans who came out of their houses insolently and to be seen of men, and who turn others from the way of God: God is round about their actions
George Sale1734 And be not as those who went out of their houses in an insolent manner, and to appear with ostentation unto men, and turned aside from the way of God; for God comprehendeth that which they do
Talal Itani2012 Satan made their deeds appear good to them, and said, "You cannot be defeated by any people today, and I am at your side." But when the two armies came in sight of one another, he turned on his heels, and said, "I am innocent of you; I see what you do not see; I fear God; God is severe in punishment."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when Satan made their deeds seem fair to them and said: No-one of mankind can conquer you this day, for I am your protector. But when the armies came in sight of one another, he took flight, saying: Lo! I am guiltless of you. Lo! I see that which ye see not. Lo! I fear Allah. And Allah is severe in punishment
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when Satan made their works appear seemly to them, and said, 'There is none amongst mankind to conquer you today, for, verily, I am your neighbour!' and when the two troops came in sight of each other, he turned upon his heels and said, 'Verily, I am clear of you! verily, I see what you see not! verily, I fear God, for God is keen to punish
John Medows Rodwell1861 When Satan prepared their works for them, and said, "No man shall conquer you this day; and verily I will be near to help you:" But when the two armies came in sight, he turned on his heel and said, "Ay, I am clear of you: ay, I see what ye see not: ay, I fear God; for God is severe in punishing
George Sale1734 And remember when Satan prepared their works for them, and said, no man shall prevail against you to day; and I will surely be near to assist you. But when the two armies appeared in sight of each other, he turned back on his heels, and said, verily I am clear of you: I certainly see that which ye see not; I fear God, for God is severe in punishing
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 —
0.61 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
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.66
Talal Itani · George Sale0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.59
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.52
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.46
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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.