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Whether you ask forgiveness for them, or do not ask forgiveness for them-even if you ask forgiveness for them seventy times, God will not forgive them. That is because they disbelieved in God and His Messenger. God does not guide the immoral people.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Ask forgiveness for them (OMuhammad), or ask not forgiveness for them; though thou ask forgiveness for them seventy times Allah will not forgive them. That is because they disbelieved in Allah and His messenger, and Allah guideth not wrongdoingfolk
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
Ask forgiveness for them or ask not forgiveness, for them! if they shouldst ask forgiveness for them seventy times, yet would not God forgive them; that is because they disbelieved in God and His Apostle, for God guides not a people who workabomination
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Ask thou forgiveness for them, or ask it not, it will be the same. If thou ask forgiveness for them seventy times, God will by no means forgive them. This, for that they believe not in God and His Apostle! And God guideth not the ungodly people
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Ask forgiveness for them, or do not ask forgiveness for them; it will be equal. If thou ask forgiveness for them seventy times, God will by no means forgive them. This is the divinepleasure, for that they believe not in God, and his apostle; and God directeth not the ungodly people
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
Kërkove falje për ta ose nuk kërkove falje për ta; edhe sikur të kërkoje falje për ta shtatëdhjetë herë, Allahu nuk do t'i falte kurrë. Kjo, për shkak se ata e kanë mohuar Allahun dhe të Dërguarin e Tij. E, Allahu nuk e udhëzon në rrugë të drejtë popullin e pabindur.
Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
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বাংলা · Bengali
তুমি তাদের জন্য ক্ষমা প্রার্থনা করো, কিংবা ক্ষমা প্রার্থনা না-ই করো, একই কথা। যদি তুমি তাদের জন্য সত্তর বারও ক্ষমা প্রার্থনা করো, তবুও আল্লাহ তাদেরকে কখনোই ক্ষমা করবেন না। কারণ তারা আল্লাহ ও তাঁর রাসূলের সাথে কুফরি করেছে। আর আল্লাহ ফাসিক সম্প্রদায়কে হিদায়াত দেন না।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Molio ti oprosta za njih ili ne molio, molio čak i sedamdeset puta, Allah im neće oprostiti – zato što u Allaha i Njegova Poslanika ne vjeruju. – A Allah neće uputiti narod grešnički.
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
Molio ti oprosta za njih ili ne molio, molio čak i sedamdeset puta, Allah im neće oprostiti – zato što u Allaha i Njegova Poslanika ne vjeruju. – A Allah neće uputiti narod grešnički.
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
Fulfulde · Fulani
Imsinano ɓe, maa hara a imsinanaaki ɓe -hay si a imsinanike ɓe laaɓi cappanɗe jeeɗiɗi - Alla yaafataako ɓe. Ko waɗi ɗuum, ɓeen ɓe njeddii Alla e nulaaɗo makko on. Alla feewnataa yimɓe yaltuɓe ɗoftaare ɓeen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
შენდობა სთხოვე მათთვის (თვალთმაქცთათვის), ან ნუ სთხოვ, სამოცდაათჯერაც რომ სთხოვო მათთვის შენდობა, ალლაჰი მაინც არ მიუტევებს მათ, ეს იმიტომ, რომ მათ უარყვეს ალლაჰი და მისი შუამავალი და ალლაჰი არ დაადგენს ჭეშმარიტ გზაზე ურჩ ხალხს.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Bitte um Vergebung für sie oder bitte nicht um Vergebung für sie; selbst wenn du (auch) siebzigmal um Vergebung für sie bittest, so wird Allah ihnen doch nicht vergeben. Dies (geschieht deshalb), weil sie Allah und Seinen Gesandten verleugnet haben. Und Allah leitet das Volk der Frevler nicht recht.
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
Είτε (ω, Προφήτη) ζητάς συγχώρεση γι' αυτούς (τους υποκριτές), είτε δε ζητάς συγχώρεση γι' αυτούς, -ακόμα κι αν ζητήσεις συγχώρεση γι' αυτούς εβδομήντα φορές (δηλ. όσο κι αν ζήτησεις)-, ο Αλλάχ δε θα τους συγχωρήσει. Αυτό επειδή δεν πίστευαν στον Αλλάχ και στον Αγγελιαφόρο Του. Πράγματι, ο Αλλάχ δεν καθοδηγεί τους ανυπάκουους.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
(ऐ नबी!) आप उनके लिए क्षमा याचना करें, या उनके लिए क्षमा याचना न करें, यदि आप उनके लिए सत्तर बार क्षमा याचना करें, तो भी अल्लाह उन्हें कभी क्षमा नहीं करेगा। यह इस कारण कि उन्होंने अल्लाह और उसके रसूल के साथ कुफ़्र किया और अल्लाह अवज्ञाकारी लोगों का मार्गदर्शन नहीं करता।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Non importa se tu implori o non implori il perdono per loro: anche se tu lo implorassi settanta volte, Allāh non li perdonerebbe, perché hanno negato sia Allāh che il Suo Profeta, e Allāh non guida il popolo trasgressore.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
80. Ar tu (Muchammedai ﷺ) prašai jiems (veidmainiams) atleidimo, ar neprašai jiems atleidimo – (ir net) jei prašytum jiems atleidimo septyniasdešimt kartų, Allahas neatleis jiems, nes jie nepatikėjo Allahą ir Jo Pasiuntinį (Muchammedą ﷺ). Ir Allahas neveda teisingai tų žmonių, kurie yra Fasikūn (maištingieji, nepaklusnieji Allahui).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Araarama isaaniif kadhadhu yookiin araarama isaaniif kadhachuu dhiisi; yoo yeroo torbaatama araarama isaaniif kadhatte, Rabbiin isaaniif hin araaramu. Kun waan isaan Rabbiifi ergamaa Isaatti kafaraniifi. Rabbiin ummata finciltoota hin qajeelchu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Проси для них прощения или не проси — даже если ты попросишь для них прощения семьдесят раз, Аллах никогда не простит их. Это потому, что они отвергли Аллаха и Его Посланника, а Аллах не наставляет на верный путь нечестивых людей.
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
Молио ти опрост за њих или не молио, молио чак и седамдесет пута, Аллах неће да им опрости - зато што у Аллаха и Његовог Посланика не верују. А Аллах неће да упути непослушне људе.
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
Waombee msamaha au usiwaombee msamaha. Hata ukiwaombea msamaha mara sabini, Mwenyezi Mungu hatawasamehe. Hayo ni kwa sababu ya kuwa wao walimkufuru Mwenyezi Mungu na Mtume wake. Na Mwenyezi Mungu hawaongoi kaumu wavukao mipaka.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Be om förlåtelse för dem eller låt bli att be om förlåtelse för dem; om du så ber om förlåtelse för dem sjuttio gånger ska Gud aldrig förlåta dem. Detta eftersom de vägrade tro på Gud och hans sändebud. Gud vägleder inte de trotsiga syndarna.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Onlar için ister bağışlanma dile, ister dileme (fark etmez.) Onlar için yetmiş kez bağışlanma dilesen de, Allah onları asla affetmeyecektir. Bu, onların Allah ve Rasûlüne (iman etmeyip) kâfir olmaları sebebiyledir. Allah, fasık topluluğu doğru yola iletmez.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
ان کے لئے تو استغفار کر یا نہ کر۔ اگر تو ستر مرتبہ بھی ان کے لئے استغفار کرے تو بھی اللہ انہیں ہرگز نہ بخشے گا[1] یہ اس لئے کہ انہوں نے اللہ سے اور اس کے رسول سے کفر کیا[2] ایسے فاسق لوگوں کو رب کریم ہدایت نہیں دیتا۔[3]
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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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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
Talal Itani2012 Those who criticize the believers who give charity voluntarily, and ridicule those who find nothing to give except their own efforts-God ridicules them. They will have a painful punishment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those who point at such of the believers as give the alms willingly and such as can find naught to give but their endeavours, and deride them - Allah (Himself) derideth them. Theirs will be a painful doom
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Those who defame such of the believers as willingly give their alms, and such as can find nothing to give but their exertions, and who mock at them,- God will mock at them, and for them is grievous woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 They who traduce such of the faithful as give their alms freely, and those who find nothing to give but their earnings, and scoff at them, God shall scoff at them; and there is a grievous torment in store for them
George Sale1734 They who traduce such of the believers as are liberal in giving alms beyond what they are obliged, and those who find nothing to give, but what they gain by their industry; and therefore scoff at them: God shall scoff at them, and they shall suffer a grievous punishment
Talal Itani2012 Those who stayed behind rejoiced at their staying behind the Messenger of God. And they hated to strive with their wealth and their lives in God's way. And they said, "Do not venture out in the heat." Say, "The Fire of Hell is much hotter, if they only understood."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Those who were left behind rejoiced at sitting still behind the messenger of Allah, and were averse to striving with their wealth and their lives in Allah's way. And they said: Go not forth in the heat! Say: The fire of hell is more intense of heat, if they but understood
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Those who were left behind rejoiced in staying behind the Apostle of God, and were averse from fighting strenuously with their wealth and their persons in God's way, and said, 'March not forth in the heat.' Say, 'The fire of hell is hotter still, if ye could but discern
John Medows Rodwell1861 They who were left at home were delighted to stay behind God's Apostle, and were averse from contending with their riches and their persons for the cause of God, and said, "March not out in the heat." SAY: A fiercer heat will be the fire of Hell." Would that they understood this
George Sale1734 They who were left at home in he expedition of Tabuc, were glad of their staying behind the apostle of God, and were unwilling to employ their substance and their persons for the advancement of God's true religion; and they said, go not forth in the heat. Say, the fire of hell will be hotter; if they understood this
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lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Talal Itani · George Sale0.52
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.49
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.22
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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.