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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Yet when He gave them of His bounty, they hoarded it and turned away, averse
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
But when He gave them of His grace they were niggardly thereof, and turned their backs and swervedaside
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Yet when He had given unto them of his abundance, they became covetous thereof, and turned back, and retired afar off
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
Por, kur Ai u dha atyre nga mirësitë e Tij, ata u bënë dorështrënguar dhe u larguan duke kthyer shpinën.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
অতঃপর আল্লাহ যখন তাদেরকে স্বীয় অনুগ্রহে দান করলেন, তারা তাতে কার্পণ্য করলো এবং তারা মুখ ফিরিয়ে নিলো।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
A kad im je On dao iz obilja Svog, oni su u tome postali škrti i okrenuli se – a oni ionako glave okreću.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
A kad im je On dao iz obilja Svog, oni su u tome postali škrti i okrenuli se – a oni ionako glave okreću.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Nde O okkunoo ɓe e ɓural makko nagl, ɓe wuddiri ɗuum ɓe hucciti to ɓe ɗuurnii ɓe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ხოლო როცა უბოძა მათ თავისი მადლით, იძუნწეს და ზურგი აქციეს, და ზურგი აქციეს მათ, განერიდნენ (მორჩილებას ალლაჰისადმი).
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Deutsch · German
Als Er ihnen dann aber etwas von Seiner Huld zukommen ließ, geizten sie damit, und sie machten kehrt und wandten sich ab.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αλλά όταν τους έδωσε (ο Αλλάχ) από τη γενναιοδωρία Του, έγιναν τσιγκούνηδες μ' αυτά (που τους έδωσε, και δεν ξόδεψαν σε ελεημοσύνη) και απομακρύνθηκαν αρνούμενοι.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर जब उसने उन्हें अपने अनुग्रह से कुछ प्रदान किया, तो उन्होंने उसमें कंजूसी की और विमुख होकर फिर गए।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E quando diede loro un po’ della Sua grazia, divennero avari e si allontanarono con ostinazione.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
76. Tada, kai Jis suteikė jiems iš Savo Dosnumo, jie tapo šykštūs [atsisakė mokėti Sadaka (Zakat ir savanorišką labdarą)] ir nusigręžė, nemėgstančiai.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Yeroma (Rabbiin) tola Isaa irraa isaaniif kenne, (waadaa diiganii) isa doynoomanii (kennachuu didan); kan garagalan ta’anii dugda duuba deebi’an.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Когда же Он даровал им от Своей щедрости, они стали скупиться и отвернулись, будучи уклоняющимися [от обещанного].
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Српски · Serbian
А кад им је Он дао из Свога обиља, они су у томе постали шкрти и окрећући се - од тога удаљили.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi alipowapa katika fadhila yake, wakaifanyia ubahili na wakageuka hali ya kuwa wamepeana mgongo.
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Svenska · Swedish
Men när han gav dem av sin godhet snålade de med det och vände sig bort i motvilja.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Fakat Allah lütfundan onlara (zenginlik) verince, onda cimrilik edip (Allah'ın emrinden) yüz çevirerek sözlerinden döndüler.
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اردو · Urdu
لیکن جب اللہ نے اپنے فضل سے انہیں دیا تو یہ اس میں بخیلی کرنے لگے اور ٹال مٹول کرکے منھ موڑ لیا۔[1]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Talal Itani2012 They swear by God that they said nothing; but they did utter the word of blasphemy, and they renounced faith after their submission. And they plotted what they could not attain. They were resentful only because God and His Messenger have enriched them out of His grace. If they repent, it would be best for them; but if they turn away, God will afflict them with a painful punishment-in this life and in the Hereafter-and they will have on earth no protector and no savior.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They swear by Allah that they said nothing (wrong), yet they did say the word of disbelief, and did disbelieve after their Surrender (to Allah). And they purposed that which they could not attain, and they sought revenge only that Allah by His messenger should enrich them of His bounty. If they repent it will be better for them; and if they turn away, Allah will afflict them with a painful doom in the world and the Hereafter, and they have no protecting friend nor helper in the earth
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They swear by God they did not speak it, but they did speak the word of misbelief; and they disbelieved after they had embraced Islam, and they designed what they could not attain; and they only disapproved it because God and His Apostle had enriched them of His grace. If they turn again 'tis better for them; but if they turn their backs, God will torment them with mighty woe in this world and in the next, nor shall they have upon the earth a patron or protector
John Medows Rodwell1861 They swear by God that they said no such thing: yet spake they the word of infidelity, and from Muslims became unbelievers! They planned what they could not effect; and only disapproved of it because God and His Apostle had enriched them by His bounty! If they repent it will be better for them; but if they fall back into their sin, with a grievous chastisement will God chastise them in this world and the next, and on earth they shall have neither friend nor protector
George Sale1734 They swear by God that they said not what they are charged with: Yet they spake the word of infidelity, and became unbelievers, after they had embraced Islam. And they designed that which they could not effect; and they did not disapprove the design for any other reason, than because God and his apostle had inriched them, of his bounty. If they repent, it will be better for them; but if they relapse, God will punish them with a grievous torment, in this world and in the next; and they shall have no patron on earth, nor any protector
Easy-read (simplified)waminhum man 'aahada llaaha la'in aataanaa min fadlihi lanassaddaqanna walanakoonanna mina s-saaliheen
DIN 31635waminhum man ʿāhada llāha laʾin ʾātānā min faḍlihi lanaṣṣaddaqanna walanakūnanna mina ṣ-ṣāliḥīna
Talal Itani2012 Among them are those who promised God: "If He gives us of His bounty, we will donate and be among the upright."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And of them is he who made a covenant with Allah (saying): If He give us of His bounty we will give alms and become of the righteous
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And of them are some who make a treaty with God, that 'If He bring us of His grace, we will give alms and we will surely be among the righteous
John Medows Rodwell1861 Some there are of them who made this agreement with God - "If truly He give us of His bounties, we will surely give alms and surely be of the righteous
George Sale1734 There are some of them who made a covenant with God, saying, verily if He give us of his abundance, we will give alms, and become righteous people
Talal Itani2012 So He penalized them with hypocrisy in their hearts, until the Day they face Him-because they broke their promise to God, and because they used to lie.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 So He hath made the consequence (to be) hypocrisy in their hearts until the day when they shall meet Him, because they broke their word to Allah that they promised Him, and because they lied
Edward Henry Palmer1880 So He caused hypocrisy to pursue them in their hearts unto the day when they shall meet Him,- for that they did fail God in what they promised Him, and for that they were liars
John Medows Rodwell1861 So He caused hypocrisy to take its turn in their hearts, until the day on which they shall meet Him - for that they failed their promise to God, and that they were liars
George Sale1734 Wherefore He hath caused hypocrisy to succeed in their hearts, until the day whereon they shall meet Him; for that they failed to perform unto God that which they had promised Him, and for that they prevaricated
Talal Itani2012 Do they not know that God knows their secrets and their conspiracies? And that God is the Knower of the unseen?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Know they not that Allah knoweth both their secret and the thought that they confide, and that Allah is the Knower of Things Hidden
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Do they not know that God knows their secrets and their whisperings, and that God knows the unseen things
John Medows Rodwell1861 Know they not that God knoweth their secrets and their private talk, and that God knoweth the secret things
George Sale1734 Do they not know that God knoweth whatever they conceal, and their private discourses; and that God is the knower of secrets
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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
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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
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.68
Talal Itani · George Sale0.66
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.66
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
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.