Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.
Talal Itani· published 2012
Then, after him, We sent messengers to their people. They came to them with the clear proofs, but they would not believe in anything they had already rejected. Thus We set a seal on the hearts of the hostile.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Then, after him, We sent messengers unto their folk, and they brought them clear proofs. But they were not ready to believe in that which they before denied. Thus print We on the hearts of the transgressors
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 we raised up after him apostles unto their people, and they came to them with manifestsigns; but they would not believe in what they had called a lie before. Thus do we set a stamp upon the hearts of the transgressors
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Then after him, we sent Apostles to their peoples, and they came to them with credentials; but they would not believe in what they had denied aforetime: Thus seal we up the hearts of the transgressors
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Then did We send, after him, apostles unto their respective people, and they came unto them with evidentdemonstrations: Yet they were not disposed to believe in that which they had before rejected as false. Thus do We seal up the hearts of the transgressors
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, pas tij çuam të dërguar te popujt e tyre, të cilët u erdhën me dëshmi të qarta, por ata nuk deshën të besonin atë që kishin përgënjeshtruar më parë. Kështu i vulosim zemrat e atyre që i kalojnë kufijtë.
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
অতঃপর আমরা তার (নূহের) পরে অনেক রাসূলকে তাদের জাতির কাছে পাঠিয়েছি এবং তারা তাদের নিকট সুস্পষ্ট প্রমাণাদি নিয়ে এসেছিল। কিন্তু তারা (কাফিররা) আগে যা মিথ্যারোপ করেছিল, তাতে ঈমান আনার জন্য প্রস্তুত ছিল না। এমনিভাবে আমি সীমালঙ্ঘনকারীদের অন্তরে মোহর মেরে দেই।
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
Zatim smo, poslije njega, poslanike narodima njihovim slali i oni su im jasne dokaze donosili, ali oni nisu htjeli vjerovati u ono što prije nisu priznavali. Tako Mi pečatimo srca onih koji granice prelaze.
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
Zatim smo, poslije njega, poslanike narodima njihovim slali i oni su im jasne dokaze donosili, ali oni nisu htjeli vjerovati u ono što prije nisu priznavali. Tako Mi pečatimo srca onih koji granice prelaze.
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
Refti minn immini ɓaawo makko nulaaɓe haa e yimɓe maɓɓe ɓen. Ɓe ngaddani ɓe ɓanngannduyeeji. Ɓe ngonaano gooŋɗinooɓe sabu ko njeddiri ɗuum ko ko adii. Ko wano nii min notirta e ɓerɗe ɓeen jaggituɓe.(yawtuɓe keeri).
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
მერე მის შემდგომ წარვგზავნეთ შუამავლები თავიანთ ხალხთან და მიუტანეს მათ ცხადი სასწაულები, მაგრამ ისინი ისეთნი არ იყვნენ, რომ ერწმუნათ ის, რაც ადრე [ნუჰის ხალხმა] სიცრუედ მიიჩნია. ასე ვბეჭდავთ ზღვარგადასულთა გულებს.
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
Hierauf schickten Wir nach ihm (also Nuh) Gesandte zu ihrem (jeweiligen) Volk. So kamen sie mit den klaren Beweisen zu ihnen, jedoch waren sie nicht bereit, an das zu glauben, was sie zuvor für Lüge erklärt hatten. Auf diese Weise versiegeln Wir die Herzen der Übertreter.
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
Έπειτα στείλαμε μετά απ' αυτόν (τον Νώε) Aγγελιαφόρους (τον Χουντ, τον Σάλιχ, τον Αβραάμ, τον Λωτ, τον Σου‘άιμπ και άλλους) στους λαούς τους, τους ήρθαν με ξεκάθαρα Σημάδια, αλλά δε θα πίστευαν σ' αυτά (τα σημάδια) που είχαν ήδη διαψεύσει πριν (τα δουν, λόγω της επιμονής τους στο να διαψεύδουν τους Αγγελιαφόρους). Έτσι σφραγίζουμε τις καρδιές των παραβατών.
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
फिर उसके बाद हमने कई रसूल उनकी जाति की ओर भेजे, तो वे उनके पास खुली निशानियाँ लेकर आए। पर वे ऐसे न थे कि जिसे वे पहले झुठला चुके थे, उसपर ईमान लाते। इसी तरह हम सीमा से आगे बढ़ने वालों के दिलों पर मुहर[21] लगा देते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Poi, dopo di lui abbiamo inviato Messaggeri ai loro popoli, portando loro chiari Segni. Ma non hanno voluto credere in nulla che avessero già rifiutato: così Noi sigilliamo i cuori ai trasgressori.
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
74. Tada po jo Mes siuntėme Pasiuntinius jų žmonėms. Jie nešė jiems aiškius įrodymus, tačiau jie netikėdavo tuo, ką jie jau atmetė prieš tai. Taigi, Mes užantspaudavome nusidėjėlių (tų, kurie netiki Allaho Vienumą ir nepaklūsta Jam) širdis.
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 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Ergasii isa booda (nuuh booda) ergamtoota gara ummata isaanii ni erginee, mallattoowwan ifa ta’aniin isaanitti dhufan. Isaan waan san dura kijibsiisan sanatti kan amanan hin taane. Akka kanatti onnee daangaa dabritootaa irratti cufna.
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
Затем после него Мы отправили посланников к их народам, и они приходили к ним с ясными знамениями. Но они так и не уверовали в то, что прежде уже сочли ложью. Так Мы запечатываем сердца преступающих пределы.
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 смо, после њега, посланике народима њиховим слали који су им доносили јасне доказе, али они нису хтели да верују у оно што су пре порицали. Тако Ми печатимо срца онима који прелазе Аллахове границе.
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
Kisha baada yake tukawatuma Mitume kwa kaumu zao. Nao wakawajia kwa Ishara zilizo wazi. Lakini hawakuwa wenye kuyaamini wale waliyoyakanusha kabla yake. Hivyo ndivyo tunavyoziziba nyoyo za wavukao mipaka.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Efter honom skickade vi sändebud till deras respektive folk, som kom till dem med klara bevis. Men de vägrade att tro på något som de tidigare avfärdat som lögn. På detta vis förseglar vi hjärtana hos de som överskrider gränserna.
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
Sonra onun arkasından kendi kavimlerine rasûller göndermiştik. (O toplumlara) Rasûller apaçık delillerle gelmişlerdi. Daha önce yalanladıkları şeye iman edecek değillerdi. İşte, haddi aşanların kalplerini böyle mühürleriz.
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
اردو · Urdu
پھر نوح (علیہ السلام) کے بعد ہم نے اور رسولوں کو ان کی قوموں کی طرف بھیجا سو وه ان کے پاس روشن دلیلیں لے کر آئے[1] پس جس چیز کو انہوں نے اول میں جھوٹا کہہ دیا یہ نہ ہوا کہ پھر اس کو مان لیتے[2]۔ اللہ تعالیٰ اسی طرح حد سے بڑھنے والوں کے دلوں پر بند لگا دیتا ہے.[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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Easy-read (simplified)fa'in tawallaytum famaa sa'altukum min ajrin in ajriya illaa 'alaa llaahi wa'umirtu an akoona mina l-muslimeen
DIN 31635faʾin tawallaytum famā saʾaltukum min ʾaǧrin ʾin ʾaǧriya ʾillā ʿalā llāhi waʾumirtu ʾan ʾakūna mina l-muslimīna
Talal Itani2012 "But if you turn away, I have not asked you for any wage. My wage falls only on God, and I was commanded to be of those who submit."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But if ye are averse I have asked of you no wage. My wage is the concern of Allah only, and I am commanded to be of those who surrender (unto Him)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and if ye turn your backs, I ask you not for hire; my hire is only due from God, and I am bidden to be of those resigned
John Medows Rodwell1861 And if ye turn your backs on me, yet ask I no reward from you: my reward is with God alone, and I am commanded to be of the Muslims
George Sale1734 And if ye turn aside from my admonition, I ask not any reward of you for the same; I expect my reward from God alone, and I am commanded to be one of those who are resigned unto Him
Talal Itani2012 But they denounced him, so We saved him and those with him in the Ark, and We made them successors, and We drowned those who rejected Our signs. So consider the fate of those who were warned.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But they denied him, so We saved him and those with him in the ship, and made them viceroys (in the earth), while We drowned those who denied Our revelations. See then the nature of the consequence for those who had been warned
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But they called him a liar; and we saved him, and those with him, in the ark; and we made these successors, and drowned those who had said our signs were lies; see then how was the end of those who had been warned
John Medows Rodwell1861 But they treated him as a liar: therefore we rescued him and those who were with him in the ark, and we made them to survive the others; and we drowned those who charged our signs with falsehood. See, then, what was the end of these warned ones
George Sale1734 But they accused him of imposture; wherefore We delivered him, and those who were with him in the ark, and We caused them to survive the flood, but We drowned those who charged our signs with falsehood. Behold therefore, what was the end of those who were warned by Noah
DIN 31635ṯumma baʿaṯnā min baʿdihim mūsā wahārūna ʾilā firʿawna wamalaʾihi biʾāyātinā fastakbarū wakānū qawman muǧrimīna
Talal Itani2012 Then, after them, We sent Moses and Aaron with Our proofs to Pharaoh and his dignitaries. But they acted arrogantly. They were sinful people.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then, after them, We sent Moses and Aaron unto Pharaoh and his chiefs with Our revelations, but they were arrogant and were a guilty folk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then we raised up after them Moses and Aaron, unto Pharaoh and his chiefs with our signs; but they were too big with pride, and were a sinful people
John Medows Rodwell1861 Then sent we, after them, Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh and his nobles with our signs; but they acted proudly and were a wicked people
George Sale1734 Then did we send, after them, Moses and Aaron unto Pharaoh and his princes with our signs: But they behaved proudly, and were a wicked people
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 —
0.53 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
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.52
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.50
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.43
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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.