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When a chapter is revealed, stating: "Believe in God and strive with His Messenger," the prominent among them ask you for exemption. They say, "Allow us to stay with those who stay behind."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And when a surah is revealed (which saith): Believe in Allah and strive along with His messenger, the men of wealth among them still ask leave of thee and say: Suffer us to be with those who sit (at home)
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
Whenever a surah is sent down to them, 'Believe ye in God, and fightstrenuouslytogether with His Apostle,' those of them who have the means will ask thee for leave to stay at home and say, 'Let us be amongst those who stay behind
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
When a Sura was sent down with "Believe in God and go forth to war with His Apostle," those of them who are possessed of richesdemanded exemption, and said, "Allow us to be with those who sit at home
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
When a sura is sent down, wherein it is said, believe in God, and go forth to war with his apostle; those who are in plentifulcircumstances among them ask leave of thee to stay behind, and say, suffer us to be of the number of those who sit at home
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
Sa herë që shpallet ndonjë sure ku thuhet: "Besoni Allahun dhe luftoni së bashku me të Dërguarin e Tij", pasanikët nga ata të kërkojnë leje, duke thënë: "Na lër të qëndrojmë me ata që nuk dalin në luftë!"
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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর যখন আল্লাহর প্রতি ঈমান আনার এবং রাসূলের সঙ্গী হয়ে জিহাদ করার নির্দেশ নিয়ে কোনো সূরা নাযিল হয়, তখন তাদের শক্তি-সামর্থ্যবান লোকেরা তোমার কাছে অনুমতি চায় এবং বলে: ‘আমাদেরকে অব্যাহতি দিন, আমরা (যুদ্ধে না গিয়ে) বসে থাকা লোকদের সাথে থাকতে চাই।’
Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Dawah Association in Rabwah, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
A kad je objavljena sura da u Allaha vjerujete i da se zajedno s Poslanikom Njegovim borite, najimućniji od njih zatražili su odobrenje od tebe i rekli: “Ostavi nas da budemo s onima koji ne idu u boj!"
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
A kad je objavljena sura da u Allaha vjerujete i da se zajedno s Poslanikom Njegovim borite, najimućniji od njih zatražili su odobrenje od tebe i rekli: “Ostavi nas da budemo s onima koji ne idu u boj!"
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
Si Cortewol=simoore jippinaama : "Si ko woni, gooŋɗinee Alla tiiɗnodon jihaadi e nulaaɗo makko on", jom-yaajeende'en e maɓɓe duŋinoto ma ɓe mbia : "Accu min wontida e jooɗiiɓe ɓeen".
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 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და როცა გარდმოევლინება სურა, რომ ირწმუნოთ ალლაჰი და იბრძოლოთ მის შუამავალთან ერთად, ნებართვას გთხოვენ მათგან მდიდარნი და თქვეს: «დაგვტოვე, რათა ვიყოთ შინ მსხდომთა შორის!»
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 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und wenn eine Surah (als Offenbarung) hinabgesandt wird: „Glaubt an Allah und müht euch (zusammen) mit Seinem Gesandten ab“, (dann) bitten dich die Wohlhabenden unter ihnen um Erlaubnis und sagen: „Lasse uns (daheim) mit den Sitzengebliebenen sein!“
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
Όταν αποκαλυφθεί (στον Προφήτη) ένα Κεφάλαιο (που να διατάξει) ότι: «Πιστέψτε στον Αλλάχ και αγωνιστείτε (στο δρόμο Του) μαζί με τον Αγγελιαφόρο Του.», οι εύποροι ανάμεσά τους (στους υποκριτές), σου ζητούν την άδεια (να μη βγουν για τη μάχη), και λένε: «Άφησέ μας να μείνουμε μ' αυτούς που θα μείνουν πίσω (που έχουν έγκυρη δικαιολογία να μην βγουν για τη μάχη).»
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 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा जब कोई सूरत उतारी जाती है कि अल्लाह पर ईमान लाओ तथा उसके रसूल के साथ मिलकर जिहाद करो, तो उनमें से धनवान लोग आपसे अनुमति माँगते हैं और कहते हैं : आप हमें छोड़ दें कि हम बैठने वालों के साथ हो जाएँ।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E se viene fatta scendere una Surah che dice: “Credete in Allāh e combattete a fianco del suo Messaggero!” I benestanti tra loro ti chiederanno il permesso. E diranno: “Lasciaci con quelli che restano!”
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 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
86. Ir kai sūra (Korano skyrius) yra apreiškiamas, įsakantis jiems patikėti Allahą ir stengtis stipriai bei kovoti kartu su Jo Pasiuntiniu, turtingieji iš jų prašo tavo leidimo atleisti juos (nuo džihado) ir sako: „Palik mus (užnugaryje), mes būsime su tais, kurie sėdi (namuose).“
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.
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 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Когда была ниспослана сура: «Уверуйте в Аллаха и усердствуйте вместе с Его Посланником!», обладатели достатка среди них попросили у тебя разрешения и сказали: «Оставь нас с теми, кто остаётся позади».
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
А када је објављено поглавље да у Аллаха верујете и да се заједно са Његовим Послаником борите, најбогатији од њих су затражили одобрење од тебе и рекли: „Остави нас да будемо са онима који не иду у бој!“
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
Na inapoteremshwa sura kwamba muaminini Mwenyezi Mungu na piganeni Jihadi pamoja na Mtume wake, wale wenye nguvu miongoni mwao hukutaka ruhusa na wanasema: Tuache tuwe pamoja na wanaokaa nyuma!
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
När en sura uppenbarades med orden: ”Tro på Gud och kämpa vid hans sändebuds sida” bad de förmögna bland dem om dispens och sa: ”Lämna oss här med de som stannar kvar!”
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 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
“Allah’a iman edin ve Rasûlü ile birlikte cihat edin” diye bir sure indirildiğinde, onlardan servet sahibi olanlar senden izin istediler ve; “Bizi bırak da oturup kalanlarla birlikte olalım.” dediler.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
جب کوئی سورت اتاری جاتی ہے تو اللہ پر ایمان لاؤ اور اس کے رسول کے ساتھ مل کر جہاد کرو تو ان میں سے دولت مندوں کا ایک طبقہ آپ کے پاس آکر یہ کہہ کر رخصت لے لیتاہے کہ ہمیں تو بیٹھے رہنے والوں میں ہی چھوڑ دیجئے۔[1]
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 You are never to pray over anyone of them who dies, nor are you to stand at his graveside. They rejected God and His Messenger, and died while they were sinners.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And never (O Muhammad) pray for one of them who dieth, nor stand by his grave. Lo! they disbelieved in Allah and His messenger, and they died while they were evil-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Pray not for any one of them who dies, and stand not by his tomb; verily, they disbelieved in God and His Apostle and died workers of abomination
John Medows Rodwell1861 Never pray thou over anyone of them who dieth, or stand at his grave - because they believed not in God and His Apostle, and died in their wickedness
George Sale1734 Neither do thou ever pray over any of them who shall die, neither stand at his grave; for that they believed not in God and his apostle, and die in their wickedness
Talal Itani2012 Do not let their possessions and their children impress you. God desires to torment them through them in this world, and their souls expire while they are disbelievers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Let not their wealth nor their children please thee! Allah purposeth only to punish them thereby in the world, and that their souls shall pass away while they are disbelievers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Let not their wealth and their children please you, God only wishes to torment them therewith in this world, and that their souls may pass away the while they misbelieve
John Medows Rodwell1861 Let not their riches or their children astonish thee: through these God is fain only to punish them in this world, and that their souls should depart while they are still infidels
George Sale1734 Let not their riches or their children cause thee to marvel: For God intendeth only to punish them therewith in this world; and that their souls may depart, while they are infidels
Talal Itani2012 But the Messenger and those who believe with him struggle with their possessions and their lives. These have deserved the good things. These are the successful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But the messenger and those who believe with him strive with their wealth and their lives. Such are they for whom are the good things. Such are they who are the successful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But the Apostle and those who believe with him are strenuous with their wealth and with their persons; these shall have good things, and these it is shall prosper
John Medows Rodwell1861 But the Apostle and those who share his faith, contend for the faith with purse and person; and these! all good things await them: and these are they who shall be happy
George Sale1734 But the apostle, and those who have believed with him, expose their fortunes and their lives for God's service; they shall enjoy the good things of either life, and they shall be happy
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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 · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.66
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.54
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.53
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.44
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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.