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Talal Itani· published 2012
Then God sent down His serenity upon His Messenger, and upon the believers; and He sent down troops you did not see; and He punished those who disbelieved. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Then Allah sent His peace of reassurance down upon His messenger and upon the believers, and sent down hosts ye could not see, and punished those who disbelieved. Such is the reward of disbelievers
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
then God sent down His shechina upon His Apostle and upon the believers; and sent down armies which ye could not see, and punished those who misbelieved
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Then did God send down His spirit of repose upon His Apostle, and upon the faithful, and He sent down the hosts which ye saw not, and He punished the Infidels: This, the Infidels' reward
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Afterwards God sent down his security upon his apostle and upon the faithful, and sent down troops of angels which ye saw not; and he punished those who disbelieved: And this was the reward of the unbelievers
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
Pastaj Allahu zbriti qetësinë e Tij mbi të Dërguarin e Tij e mbi besimtarët dhe dërgoi ushtri të cilat ju nuk i shihnit dhe i ndëshkoi ata që nuk besuan. Ky ishte ndëshkimi i jobesimtarëve.
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বাংলা · Bengali
অতঃপর আল্লাহ তাঁর পক্ষ থেকে প্রশান্তি নাযিল করলেন(৯) তাঁর রাসূলের ওপর ও মু’মিনদের ওপর এবং এমন সৈন্যবাহিনী নাযিল করলেন যাদেরকে তোমরা দেখতে পাওনি। আর তিনি কাফিরদেরকে শাস্তি দিলেন। আর এটা কাফিরদের কর্মফল।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Zatim je Allah na Poslanika Svoga i na vjernike smiraj Svoj spustio, i vojske koje vi niste vidjeli poslao, i one koji nisu vjerovali na muke stavio; to je bila kazna za nevjernike.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Zatim je Allah na Poslanika Svoga i na vjernike smiraj Svoj spustio, i vojske koje vi niste vidjeli poslao, i one koji nisu vjerovali na muke stavio; to je bila kazna za nevjernike.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Refti Alla Jippini deeƴere makko ndeen e dow nulaaɗo makko on e gooŋɗinɓe ɓeen. o jiippini kadi konu ngu on yi'aani, o lepti ɓeen yedduɓe. Ko ɗuum woni njoɓdi yedduɓe ɓeen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
შემდეგ გარდმოავლინა ალლაჰმა თავისი სიმშვიდე თავის შუამავალზე და მორწმუნეებზე, და გარდმოავლინა ლაშქარი, რომელსაც თქვენ ვერ ხედავდით, და დასაჯა ისინი, რომელნიც გახდნენ ურწმუნონი. და ეს არის ურწმუნოთა საზღაური.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Daraufhin sandte Allah Seine innere Ruhe auf Seinen Gesandten und auf die Gläubigen herab, und Er sandte Heerscharen, die ihr nicht sehen konntet, herab und bestrafte diejenigen, die ungläubig waren. Und dies ist die Vergeltung für die Ungläubigen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Έπειτα, ο Αλλάχ έστειλε την ηρεμία Του στον Αγγελιαφόρο Του και στους πιστούς (και τους έκανε να είναι σταθεροί ξανά στη μάχη), και έστειλε στρατιώτες (αγγέλους) που δεν τους είδατε, και τιμώρησε τους άπιστους (με φόνο και αιχμαλωσία). Τέτοια (τιμωρία) είναι η τιμωρία για τους άπιστους.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर अल्लाह ने अपने रसूल पर और ईमानवालों पर अपनी शांति उतारी, और ऐसी सेनाएँ उतारीं जिन्हें तुमने नहीं देखा[8], और उन लोगों को दंड दिया जिन्होंने कुफ़्र किया, और यही काफ़िरों का बदला है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Poi Allāh ha fatto scendere la Sua serenità sul Messaggero e sui credenti, e ha fatto scendere forze invisibili. E ha punito i miscredenti – quella è la ricompensa dei miscredenti –
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
26. Tada Allahas nusiuntė Savo Sakina (ramybę ir patikinimą) Pasiuntiniui (Muchammedui ﷺ) ir tikintiesiems, ir atsiuntė pajėgas (angelus), kurių jūs nematėte, ir nubaudė netikinčiuosius. Toks yra atpildas netikintiesiems.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Ergasii Rabbiin ergamaa Isaatiifi mu’uminoota irratti tasgabbii Isaa buuse. Waraana isin hin argines buusee, Isaan kafaran adabe. Kun galata kaafirootaati.
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Русский · Russian
Затем Аллах ниспослал Своё умиротворение Своему Посланнику и верующим, и низвёл воинство, которого вы не видели, и подверг наказанию тех, которые отвергли веру. Это — воздаяние для отвергших веру.
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 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Затим је Аллах на Свог Посланика и на вернике спустио Свој смирај, и послао је војске анђела које ви нисте видели, и оне који нису веровали ставио је на муке; то је била казна за невернике.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Kisha Mwenyezi Mungu akateremsha utulivu wake juu ya Mtume wake na juu ya Waumini. Na akateremsha majeshi ambayo hamkuyaona, na akawaadhibu wale waliokufuru. Na hayo ndiyo malipo ya makafiri.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Sedan sände Gud ned ett lugn från sig över sitt sändebud och de troende, och sände styrkor ni inte kunde se, och straffade de som förkastade tron. Sådan var de otrognas lön.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Sonra Allah, Rasûlüne ve Müminlere sükûnet/huzur indirdi ve görmediğiniz ordular indirdi ve kâfirlere azap etti. Kâfirlerin cezası işte budur.
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اردو · Urdu
پھر اللہ نے اپنی طرف کی تسکین اپنے نبی پر اور مومنوں پر اتاری اور اپنے وه لشکر بھیجے جنہیں تم دیکھ نہیں رہے تھے اور کافروں کو پوری سزا دی۔ ان کفار کا یہی بدلہ تھا۔
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 Say, "If your parents, and your children, and your siblings, and your spouses, and your relatives, and the wealth you have acquired, and a business you worry about, and homes you love, are more dear to you than God, and His Messenger, and the struggle in His cause, then wait until God executes His judgment." God does not guide the sinful people.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: If your fathers, and your sons, and your brethren, and your wives, and your tribe, and the wealth ye have acquired, and merchandise for which ye fear that there will no sale, and dwellings ye desire are dearer to you than Allah and His messenger and striving in His way: then wait till Allah bringeth His command to pass. Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'If your fathers, and your sons, and your brethren, and your wives, and your clansmen, and the wealth which ye have gained, and the merchandise which ye fear may be slack, and the dwellings which ye love are dearer to you than God and His Apostle, and than fighting strenuously in His way,- then wait awhile, until God brings His bidding, for God guides not a people who work abomination
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: If your fathers, and your sons, and your brethren, and your wives, and your kindred, and the wealth which ye have gained, and merchandise which ye fear may be unsold, and dwellings wherein ye delight, be dearer to you than God and His Apostle and efforts on his Path, then wait until God shall Himself enter on His work: and God guideth not the impious
George Sale1734 Say, if your fathers, and your sons, and your brethren, and your wives, and your relations, and your substance which ye have acquired, and your merchandize which ye apprehend may not be sold off, and your dwellings wherein ye delight, be more dear unto you than God, and his apostle, and the advancement of his religion; wait, until God shall send his command: For God directeth not the ungodly people
Talal Itani2012 God has given you victory in numerous regions; but on the day of Hunayn, your great number impressed you, but it availed you nothing; and the land, as spacious as it was, narrowed for you; and you turned your backs in retreat.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah hath given you victory on many fields and on the day of Huneyn, when ye exulted in your multitude but it availed you naught, and the earth, vast as it is, was straitened for you; then ye turned back in flight
Edward Henry Palmer1880 God has helped you in many a place, and on the day of 'Honein when ye were so pleased with your numbers; but it did not serve you at all, and the road grew too strait for you, where it had been broad; and then ye turned your backs retreating
John Medows Rodwell1861 Now hath God helped you in many battlefields, and, on the day of Honein, when ye prided yourselves on your numbers; but it availed you nothing; and the earth, with all its breadth, became too straight for you: then turned ye your backs in flight
George Sale1734 Now hath God assisted you in many engagements, and particularly at the battle of Honein; when ye pleased your selves in your multitude, but it was no manner of advantage unto you, and the earth became too strait for you, notwithstanding it was spacious; then did ye retreat and turn your backs
Talal Itani2012 O you who believe! The polytheists are polluted, so let them not approach the Sacred Mosque after this year of theirs. And if you fear poverty, God will enrich you from His grace, if He wills. God is Aware and Wise.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye who believe! The idolaters only are unclean. So let them not come near the Inviolable Place of Worship after this their year. If ye fear poverty (from the loss of their merchandise) Allah shall preserve you of His bounty if He will. Lo! Allah is Knower, Wise
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who believe! it is only the idolaters who are unclean; they shall not then approach the Sacred Mosque after this year. But if ye fear want then God will enrich you from His grace if He will; verily, God is knowing, wise
John Medows Rodwell1861 O Believers! only they who join gods with God are unclean! Let them not, therefore, after this their year, come near the sacred Temple. And if ye fear want, God, if He please, will enrich you of His abundance: for God is Knowing, Wise
George Sale1734 O true believers, verily the idolaters are unclean; let them not therefore come near unto the holy temple after this year. And if ye fear want, by the cutting off trade and communication with them, God will enrich you of his abundance, if He pleaseth; for God is knowing and wise
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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Talal Itani · George Sale0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.49
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.42
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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.