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Talal Itani· published 2012
How? Whenever they overcome you, they respect neither kinship nor treaty with you. They satisfy you with lipservice, but their hearts refuse, and most of them are immoral.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
How (can there be any treaty for the others) when, if they have the upperhand of you, they regard not pact nor honour in respect of you? They satisfy you with their mouths the while their hearts refuse. And most of them are wrongdoers
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
How!- if they prevail against you, they will not observe either ties of blood or ties of clientship; they please you with their mouths, but their hearts refuse; and most of them do workabomination
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
How can they? since if they prevail against you, they will not regard in you either ties of blood or faith. With their mouths will they content you, but their hearts will be averse. The greater part of them are perverse doers
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
How can they be admitted into a league with you, since, if they prevail against you, they will not regard in you either consanguinity or faith? They will please you with their mouths, but their hearts will be averse from you; for the greater part of them are wicked doers
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
Si (mund të ketë marrëveshje me ta), kur ata, nëse arrijnë t'ju mposhtin, nuk respektojnë as lidhjet farefisnore e as marrëveshjet? Ata ju kënaqin me gjuhët e tyre, ndërkohë që zemrat e tyre e urrejnë atë dhe shumica e tyre janë të pabindur.
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বাংলা · Bengali
কেমন করে চুক্তি বলবৎ থাকবে? অথচ তারা যদি তোমাদের ওপর জয়ী হয়, তাহলে তারা তোমাদের ব্যাপারে আত্মীয়তার বন্ধন ও অঙ্গীকারের প্রতি লক্ষ্য রাখে না।(৫) তারা মুখে তোমাদেরকে সন্তুষ্ট রাখতে চায়; কিন্তু তাদের অন্তর তা অস্বীকার করে। আর তাদের অধিকাংশই ফাসিক।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Kako, kad oni, ako bi vas pobijedili, ne bi, kad se o vama radi, ni srodstvo ni sporazum poštivali!? Oni vam se ustima svojim umiljavaju, ali im se srca protive, većina njih su buntovnici.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Kako, kad oni, ako bi vas pobijedili, ne bi, kad se o vama radi, ni srodstvo ni sporazum poštivali!? Oni vam se ustima svojim umiljavaju, ali im se srca protive; većina njih su buntovnici.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ko holno si ɓe poolii on, ɓe ndeenataa e mooɗon enɗam wanaa ahdi?! Hiɓe mbeltinira on kunnduɗe maɓɓe, ɓerɗe maɓɓe ɗen caloo; ko ɓuri ɗuuɗude e maɓɓe kadi ko yaltuɓe ɗoftaare
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ქართული · Georgian
როგორ (შეიძლება ჰქონდეთ ამ მრავალღმერთიანებს შეთანხმება ალლაჰსა და მის მოციქულთან), როცა ისინი, თუ თქვენზე (ო, მორწმუნენო) გაიმარჯვებენ, არც ნათესაურ ვალდებულებებს დაიცავენ თქვენს მიმართ და არც შეთანხმების პირობებს? ამიტომ ნუ მოტყუვდებით მათი დამოკიდებულებით თქვენდამი, როცა თქვენი ეშინიათ. ისინი თავიანთი ენებით ცდილობენ თქვენი გულების მოგებას, ხოლო მათ გულებს ეს სძულს. და მათი უმეტესობა ურჩებია.
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Deutsch · German
Wie (soll es einen Vertrag geben), wo sie doch, wenn sie die Oberhand über euch bekommen, euch gegenüber weder Verwandtschaftsbande noch (Schutz)vertrag beachten? Sie stellen euch mit ihren Mündern zufrieden, aber ihre Herzen verweigern (den Glauben). Und die meisten von ihnen sind Frevler.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Πώς (μπορεί να έχουν συνθήκη με τον Αλλάχ) – την ώρα που αν σας νικήσουν, δε θα σέβονται ούτε δεσμούς συγγένειας, ούτε συνθήκη μαζί σας; [Αλλά θα σας κάνουν να γευτείτε ένα μεγάλο μαρτύριο]. Σας λένε με τα στόματά τους, αυτά που να σας κάνουν ικανοποιημένους, ενώ οι καρδιές τους αρνούνται, και οι περισσότεροι απ' αυτούς είναι ανυπάκουοι.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
(उन लोगों की संधि) कैसे संभव है, जबकि वे यदि तुमपर अधिकार पा जाएँ, तो तुम्हारे विषय में न किसी रिश्तेदारी का सम्मान करेंगे और न किसी वचन का। वे तुम्हें अपने मुखों से प्रसन्न करते हैं, जबकि उनके दिल इनकार करते हैं और उनमें से अधिकांश अवज्ञाकारी हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
Ma come, quando vi afferrano non rispettano nei vostri riguardi né parentela né patti! Loro vi compiacciono con le loro lingue, ma i loro cuori sono contrari e la maggioranza di loro sono trasgressori.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
8. Kaip (gali būti tokia sutartis su jais) kad kai jūs esate įveikti jų, jie nepaiso saitų, nei giminystės, nei sutarties su jumis? (Gerais žodžiais) savo burnomis jie pamalonina jus, tačiau jų širdys nemėgsta jūsų ir dauguma iš jų yra Fasikūn (maištingi, nepaklusnūs Allahui).
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Русский · Russian
Как может быть [у них договор], если они, одержав над вами верх, не станут считаться ни с родством, ни с обязательствами? Они угождают вам своими устами, но сердца их противятся, и большинство из них — нечестивцы.
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Српски · Serbian
Како, када они, ако би вас победили, не би, кад сте ви у питању, поштовали ни сродство ни споразум? Они вам се умиљавају говором својих уста, али им се срца противе; већина њих су зликовци.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Vipi, na wakiwa na ushindi dhidi yenu, hawachungi kwenu udugu wala ahadi. Wanawafurahisha kwa midomo yao tu, lakini nyoyo zao zinakataa hayo. Na wengi wao ni wavukao mipaka.
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Svenska · Swedish
Hur [något avtal finnas], när de – om de får övertaget över er – varken tar hänsyn till släktband eller skyddsavtal? De söker blidka er med sina ord medan deras hjärtan står i motsättning. De flesta av dem är trotsiga syndare.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Onların bir ahdi nasıl olabilir ki? Eğer onlar size üstün gelselerdi, sizin hakkınızda ne akrabalık (bağlarını), ne de anlaşma (yükümlülüğünü) gözetirlerdi. Ağızlarıyla sizi hoşnut etmeye çalışıyorlar, oysa kalpleri buna karşı çıkıyor. Onların pek çoğu fasık kimselerdir.
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اردو · Urdu
ان کے وعدوں کا کیا اعتبار ان کا اگر تم پر غلبہ ہو جائے تو نہ یہ قرابت داری کا خیال کریں نہ عہدوپیمان کا[1] ، اپنی زبانوں سے تو تمہیں پرچا رہے ہیں لیکن ان کے دل نہیں مانتے ان میں سے اکثر تو فاسق ہیں۔
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DIN 31635waʾin ʾaḥadun mina l-mušrikīna staǧāraka faʾaǧirhu ḥattā yasmaʿa kalāma llāhi ṯumma ʾabliġhu maʾmanahu ḏālika biʾannahum qawmun lā yaʿlamūna
Talal Itani2012 And if anyone of the polytheists asks you for protection, give him protection so that he may hear the Word of God; then escort him to his place of safety. That is because they are a people who do not know.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And if anyone of the idolaters seeketh thy protection (O Muhammad), then protect him so that he may hear the Word of Allah, and afterward convey him to his place of safety. That is because they are a folk who know not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And if any one of the idolaters ask thee for aid, then aid him, in order that he may hear the word of God; then let him reach his place of safety,- that is, because they are a folk who do not know
John Medows Rodwell1861 If any one of those who join gods with God ask an asylum of thee, grant him an asylum, that he may hear the Word of God, and then let him reach his place of safety. This, for that they are people devoid of knowledge
George Sale1734 And if any of the idolaters shall demand protection of thee, grant him protection, that he may hear the word of God; and afterwards let him reach the place of his security. This shalt thou do, because they are people which know not the excellency of the religion thou preachest
Talal Itani2012 How can there be a treaty with the polytheists on the part of God and His Messenger, except for those with whom you made a treaty at the Sacred Mosque? As long as they are upright with you, be upright with them. God loves the pious.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 How can there be a treaty with Allah and with His messenger for the idolaters save those with whom ye made a treaty at the Inviolable Place of Worship? So long as they are true to you, be true to them. Lo! Allah loveth those who keep their duty
Edward Henry Palmer1880 How can there be for the idolaters a treaty with God and with His Apostle, save those with whom ye have made a league at the Sacred Mosque! Then while they stand by you, stand ye by them; verily, God loves those who fear
John Medows Rodwell1861 How shall they who add gods to God be in league with God and with His Apostle, save those with whom ye made a league at the sacred temple? So long as they are true to you, be ye true to them; for God loveth those who fear Him
George Sale1734 How shall the idolaters be admitted into a league with God and with his apostle; except those with whom ye entered into a league at the holy temple? So long as they behave with fidelity towards you, do ye also behave with fidelity towards them; for God loveth those who fear him
Talal Itani2012 They traded away God's revelations for a cheap price, so they barred others from His path. How evil is what they did.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They have purchased with the revelations of Allah a little gain, so they debar (men) from His way. Lo! evil is that which they are wont to do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They barter God's signs for a little price, and they turn folk from His way; verily, they - evil is that which they have done
John Medows Rodwell1861 They sell the signs of God for a mean price, and turn others aside from his way: evil is it that they do
George Sale1734 They sell the signs of God for a small price, and obstruct his way; it is certainly evil which they do
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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
Talal Itani · George Sale0.81
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.79
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.73
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.68
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.31
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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.