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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And (there are) others who await Allah's decree, whether He will punish them or will forgive them. Allah is Knower, Wise
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 others are in hopes of God's bidding; whether He will torment them, or whether He turn again towards them; for God is knowing, wise
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And there are others who wait with suspense the decree of God; whether He will punish them, or whether He will be turned unto them: But God is knowing and wise
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
Dhe ka të tjerë që janë në pritje të vendimit të Allahut. Ai mund t'i ndëshkojë ata ose t'ua pranojë pendimin. Allahu është i Gjithëdijshëm, i Urtë.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর আল্লাহর নির্দেশ আসার অপেক্ষায়(৯) অপর কিছু লোকের বিষয়ে ফয়সালা পিছিয়ে দেয়া হলো। (তাওবাহ না করলে) তিনি তাদেরকে শাস্তি দিবেন, আর (তাওবাহ করলে) তাদের তাওবাহ কবুল করবেন। আর আল্লাহ সর্বজ্ঞ, প্রজ্ঞাময়।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Ima i drugih koji su u neizvjesnosti da li će ih Allah kazniti ili će im oprostiti. A Allah je Onaj Koji sve zna i mudar je.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Ima i drugih koji su u neizvjesnosti da li će ih Allah kazniti ili će im oprostiti. A Allah je Onaj Koji sve zna i mudar je.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
E woɗɓe goo ko nennanaaɓe e yamiroore Alla : immaa O lepta ɓe, maa O jaɓana ɓe tuubuubuyee. Alla ko gannduɗo, Ñeeñuɗo.
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ქართული · Georgian
და (ლაშქრობიდან სახლში დარჩენილთა შორის) არიან სხვებიც, რომელთა საქმე გადადებულია ალლაჰის ბრძანებამდე [სანამ ალლაჰი მათ შესახებ გადაწყვეტილებას მიიღებს]: ან დასჯის მათ, ან მიიღებს მათ მონანიებას. და ალლაჰი ყოვლისმცოდნე, ბრძენია!
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Deutsch · German
Und andere (wiederum) werden zurückgestellt, bis die Anordnung Allahs (erfolgt). Entweder bestraft Er sie, oder Er nimmt ihre Reue an. Und Allah ist allwissend und allweise.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Και υπάρχουν και άλλοι (οι τρεις από τους κατοίκους της Μαντίνας, ο Μουράρα μπιν Αρ-Ραμπί‘, ο Κά‘μπ μπιν Μάλικ και ο Χιλάλ μπιν Ουμάια, που δε βγήκαν για τη μάχη της Ταμπούκ παρόλο που δεν είχαν δικαιολογία) που το θέμα τους θα αναβληθεί μέχρι να έρθει η εντολή του Αλλάχ. Είτε θα τους τιμωρήσει, είτε θα δεχτεί τη μεταμέλειά τους! Πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ είναι ‘Αλείμ (Παντογνώστης) και Χακείμ (Πάνσοφος).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
और कुछ दूसरे लोग भी हैं, जिनका मामला अल्लाह का आदेश आने तक स्थगित[46] है। या तो वह उन्हें यातना दे और या फिर उनकी तौबा क़बूल करे। तथा अल्लाह सब कुछ जानने वाला, पूर्ण हिकमत वाला है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E ci sono altri in attesa del giudizio di Allāh, Colui che li punirà o li assolverà. E Allāh è Sapiente, Saggio.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
106. O kiti yra verčiami laukti Allaho Nulėmimo – nubaus Jis juos ar atleis jiems. Ir Allahas yra Visa Žinantis, Visa Išmanantis.
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Русский · Russian
[Есть] и другие, чьё дело отложено до решения Аллаха: Он либо подвергнет их наказанию, либо примет их покаяние. Аллах — знающий, мудрый.
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Српски · Serbian
Има и других који су у неизвесности да ли ће Аллах да их казни или ће да им опрости. А Аллах све зна и мудар је.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na wapo wengine wanaongojea amri ya Mwenyezi Mungu. Ima atawaadhibu au atawakubalia toba. Na Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mwenye kujua zaidi, Mwenye hekima.
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Svenska · Swedish
Och andra avvaktar Guds beslut – antingen straffar han dem eller så godtar han deras ånger. Gud är allvetande, vis.
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Türkçe · Turkish
(Savaşa katılmayan) diğer bir kısım da, Allah’ın (haklarındaki) emrine bırakılmışlardır. Allah onlara ya azap eder ya da tevbelerini kabul eder. O, her şeyi hakkıyla bilendir, Hakîm'dir.
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اردو · Urdu
اور کچھ اور لوگ ہیں جن کا معاملہ اللہ کے حکم آنے تک ملتوی ہے[1] ان کو سزا دے گا[2] یا ان کی توبہ قبول کرلے گا[3]، اور اللہ خوب جاننے واﻻ ہے بڑا حکمت واﻻ ہے۔
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Easy-read (simplified)alam ya'lamoo anna llaaha huwa yaqbalu t-tawbata 'an 'ibaadihi waya'khudhu s-sadaqaati wa'anna llaaha huwa t-tawwaabu r-raheem
DIN 31635ʾalam yaʿlamū ʾanna llāha huwa yaqbalu t-tawbata ʿan ʿibādihi wayaʾḫuḏu ṣ-ṣadaqāti waʾanna llāha huwa t-tawwābu r-raḥīmu
Talal Itani2012 Do they not know that God accepts the repentance of His servants, and that He receives the contributions, and that God is the Acceptor of Repentance, the Merciful?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Know they not that Allah is He Who accepteth repentance from His bondmen and taketh the alms, and that Allah is He Who is the Relenting, the Merciful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Do they not know that God accepts repentance from His servants, and takes alms; and that God is He who is easily turned and merciful
John Medows Rodwell1861 Know they not that when his servants turn to Him with repentance, God accepteth it, and that He accepteth alms, and that God is He who turneth, the Merciful
George Sale1734 Do they not know that God accepteth repentance from his servants, and accepteth alms; and that God is easy to be reconciled, and merciful
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Work. God will see your work, and so will His Messenger, and the believers. Then you will be returned to the Knower of secrets and declarations, and He will inform you of what you used to do."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And say (unto them): Act! Allah will behold your actions, and (so will) His messenger and the believers, and ye will be brought back to the Knower of the Invisible and the Visible, and He will tell you what ye used to do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And say, ' Act ye;' and God and His Apostle and the believers shall see your acts, and ye shall be brought back to Him who knows the seen and the unseen, and He shall inform you of that which ye have done
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: Work ye: but God will behold your work, and so will His Apostle, and the faithful: and ye shall be brought before Him who knoweth alike the Hidden and the Manifest, and He will tell you of all your works
George Sale1734 Say unto them, work as ye will; but God will behold your work, and his apostle also, and the true believers: And ye shall be brought before Him who knoweth that which is kept secret, and that which is made public; and He will declare unto you whatever ye have done
Easy-read (simplified)walladheena takhadhoo masjidan diraaran wakufran watafreeqan bayna l-mu'mineena wa'irsaadan liman haaraba llaaha warasoolahu min qablu walayahlifunna in aradnaa illaa l-husnaa wallaahu yashhadu innahum lakaadhiboon
DIN 31635wallaḏīna taḫaḏū masǧidan ḍirāran wakufran watafrīqan bayna l-muʾminīna waʾirṣādan liman ḥāraba llāha warasūlahu min qablu walayaḥlifunna ʾin ʾaradnā ʾillā l-ḥusnā wallāhu yašhadu ʾinnahum lakāḏibūna
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Talal Itani2012 Then there are those who establish a mosque to cause harm, and disbelief, and disunity among the believers, and as an outpost for those who fight God and His Messenger. They will swear: "Our intentions are nothing but good." But God bears witness that they are liars.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And as for those who chose a place of worship out of opposition and disbelief, and in order to cause dissent among the believers, and as an outpost for those who warred against Allah and His messenger aforetime, they will surely swear: We purposed naught save good. Allah beareth witness that they verily are liars
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And there are those who have taken to a mosque for mischief, and for misbelief, and to make a breach amongst the believers, and for an ambush for him who made war against God and His Apostle before; they surely swear, 'We only wished for what was good;' but God bears witness that they are liars
John Medows Rodwell1861 There are some who have built a Mosque for mischief and for infidelity, and to disunite the faithful, and in expectation of him who, in time past, warred against God and His Apostle. They will surely swear, "Our aim was only good:" but God is witness that they are liars
George Sale1734 There are some who have built a temple to hurt the faithful, and to propagate infidelity, and to foment division among the true believers, and for a lurking place for him who hath fought against God and his apostle in time past; and they swear, saying, verily we intended no other than to do for the best: But God is witness that they do certainly lie
Talal Itani2012 Do not stand in it, ever. A mosque founded upon piety from the first day is worthier of your standing in it. In it are men who love to be purified. God loves those who purify themselves.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Never stand (to pray) there. A place of worship which was found upon duty (to Allah) from the first day is more worthy that thou shouldst stand (to pray) therein, wherein are men who love to purify themselves. Allah loveth the purifiers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Never stand up therein!- there is a mosque founded on piety from the first day: it is more right that thou shouldst stand therein;- therein are men who love to be clean; for God doth love the clean
John Medows Rodwell1861 Never set thou foot in it. There is a Mosque founded from its first day in piety. More worthy is it that thou enter therein: therein are men who aspire to purity, and God loveth the purified
George Sale1734 Stand not up to pray therein for ever. There is a temple founded on piety, from the first day of its building. It is more just that thou stand up to pray therein: Therein are men who love to be purified; for God loveth the clean
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.53
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.33
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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.