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Talal Itani· published 2012
They said, "O father, we went off racing one another, and left Joseph by our belongings; and the wolf ate him. But you will not believe us, even though we are being truthful."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Saying: O our father! We went racing one with another, and left Joseph by our things, and the wolf devoured him, and thou believest not our saying even when we speak the truth
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
said, 'O our father! verily, we went forth to race and left Joseph by our goods, and the wolf devoured him,- but thou wilt not believe us, truth tellers though we be
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They said, "O our Father! of a truth, we went to run races, and we left Joseph with our clothes, and the wolf devoured him: but thou wilt not believe us even though we speak the truth
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
and said, father, we went and ran races with one another, and we left Joseph with our baggage, and the wolf hath devoured him; but thou wilt not believe us, although we speak the truth
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
Thanë: "O babai ynë, ne shkuam për të bërë gara dhe e lamë Jusufin me gjërat tona, kështu që e hëngri ujku. Ti nuk do të na besosh, edhe pse e themi të vërtetën."
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
তারা বললো: ‘হে আমাদের পিতা, আমরা (দৌড় ও তীর নিক্ষেপ) প্রতিযোগিতা করতে গিয়েছিলাম, আর ইউসুফকে রেখে গিয়েছিলাম আমাদের মালপত্রের নিকট (পাহারা দিতে), অতঃপর নেকড়ে তাকে খেয়ে ফেলেছে। আর আপনি আমাদেরকে তো বিশ্বাসই করবেন না; যদিও আমরা সত্যবাদী হই।’
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
"O oče naš", rekoše, "bili smo otišli da se nadmećemo, a Jusufa smo ostavili kod naših stvari, pa ga je vuk pojeo. A ti nam nećeš vjerovati iako istinu govorimo."
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
"O oče naš," rekoše, "bili smo otišli da se nadmećemo, a Josipa smo ostavili kod naših stvari, pa ga je vuk pojeo. A ti nam nećeš vjerovati iako istinu govorimo."
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
Ɓe mb'i: "Ko an yo baaben amen, minen men njehii miɗen adondira, men ngacci Yuusufa ka kaake amen saafaandu ndun ñaami mo. A hoolotaako min non, hay si min ngonii gooŋɗuɓe".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
მათ უთხრეს: «ჰეი, მამაჩვენო! ჩვენ წავედით, რომ შევჯიბრებოდით და იუსუფი ჩვენს ნივთებთან დავტოვეთ, და იგი მგელმა შეჭამა. შენ კი არ დაგვიჯერებ, თუნდაც სიმართლეს ვამბობდეთ».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Sie sagten: „O unser Vater, wir gingen ja, um einen Wettlauf zu machen, und ließen Yusuf bei unseren Sachen zurück. Doch da fraß ihn der Wolf. Du wirst uns aber nicht glauben, selbst wenn wir die Wahrheit sagen.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Είπαν: «Ω, πατέρα μας! Πήγαμε να αγωνιστούμε και αφήσαμε τον Ιωσήφ με τα υπάρχοντά μας, αλλά ένας λύκος τον έφαγε. Αλλά δε θα μας πιστέψεις ποτέ, όσο και να είμαστε ειλικρινείς.»
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
उन्होंने कहा : ऐ हमारे पिता! हम आपस में दौड़ का मुक़ाबला करने लगे और यूसुफ़ को अपने सामान के पास छोड़ दिया। इतने में उसे भेड़िया खा गया। और आप तो हमारा विश्वास करने वाले नहीं हैं, यद्यपि हम सच ही क्यों न बोल रहे हों।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Dissero: «O padre nostro, in verità siamo andati a fare le gare di corsa e abbiamo lasciato Yūsuf vicino alle nostre cose, e il lupo lo ha mangiato; ma tu non ci credi anche se siamo veritieri!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
17. Jie tarė: „Mūsų tėve, mes lenktyniavome vienas su kitu ir palikome Jusufą (Juozapą) prie mūsų daiktų ir vilkas suėdė jį. Tačiau, tu niekada nepatikėsi mumis, net jeigu mes kalbėtume tiesą.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Nijedhan “Yaa abbaa keenya! Nuti wal dorgomuuf deemne, Yuusufiin meeshaa keenya biratti dhiifnee, yeyyiin isa nyaate, ati nuuf kan amantuu (nudhuga'oomsituu) miti Odoma nuti warra dhugaa dubbatan taaneeyyuu”.
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
Они сказали: «О наш отец! Воистину, мы ушли состязаться и оставили Юсуфа у наших вещей, и тогда его съел волк. Но ты нам не поверишь, даже если бы мы говорили правду».
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
„О оче наш“, рекоше, „отишли смо били да се такмичимо, а Јосифа смо оставили код наших ствари, па га је вук појео. А ти нећеш да нам верујеш иако истину говоримо.“
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
Wakasema: Ewe baba yetu! Hakika tulikwenda kushindana na tukamwacha Yusuf penye vitu vyetu. Basi mbwa mwitu akamla. Lakini wewe hutuamini ijapokuwa sisi ni wakweli.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
De sa: ”Far! Vi gick i väg för att springa i kapp och lämnade Josef vid våra saker och då åt vargen upp honom! Du tror oss inte fastän vi talar sanning.”
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
"Ey babamız, biz yarış yapalım diye gittik; Yûsuf’u da eşyamızın yanında bırakmıştık. (Bir de ne görelim) onu kurt yemiş. Her ne kadar doğru söylesek de sen bize inanmazsın'' dediler.
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
اور کہنے لگے کہ ابا جان ہم تو آپس میں دوڑ میں لگ گئے اور یوسف (علیہ السلام) کو ہم نے اسباب کے پاس چھوڑا پس اسے بھیڑیا کھا گیا، آپ تو ہماری بات نہیں مانیں گے، گو ہم بالکل سچے ہی ہوں.[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.
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Talal Itani2012 So they went away with him, and agreed to put him at the bottom of the well. And We inspired him, "You will inform them of this deed of theirs when they are unaware."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then, when they led him off, and were of one mind that they should place him in the depth of the pit, We inspired in him: Thou wilt tell them of this deed of theirs when they know (thee) not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when they had gone off with him and agreed to put him in the depths of the pit, and we inspired him, 'Thou shalt surely inform them of this affair of theirs and they shall not perceive
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when they went away with him they agreed to place him at the bottom of the well. And We revealed to him, "Thou wilt yet tell them of this their deed, when they shall not know thee
George Sale1734 And when they had carried him with them, and agreed to set him at the bottom of the well, they executed their design: And We sent a revelation unto him, saying, thou shalt hereafter declare this their action unto them; and they shall not perceive thee to be Joseph
Easy-read (simplified)wajaa'oo 'alaa qameesihi bidamin kadhibin qaala bal sawwalat lakum anfusukum amran fasabrun jameelun wallaahu l-musta'aanu 'alaa maa tasifoon
DIN 31635waǧāʾū ʿalā qamīṣihi bidamin kaḏibin qāla bal sawwalat lakum ʾanfusukum ʾamran faṣabrun ǧamīlun wallāhu l-mustaʿānu ʿalā mā taṣifūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 And they brought his shirt, with fake blood on it. He said, "Your souls enticed you to do something. But patience is beautiful, and God is my Help against what you describe."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And they came with false blood on his shirt. He said: Nay, but your minds have beguiled you into something. (My course is) comely patience. And Allah it is Whose help is to be sought in that (predicament) which ye describe
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And they brought his shirt with lying blood upon it. Said he, 'Nay, but your souls have induced you to do this; but patience is fair! and God is He whom I ask for aid against that which ye describe
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they brought his shirt with false blood upon it. He said, "Nay, but yourselves have managed this affair. But patience is seemly: and the help of God is to be implored that I may bear what you tell me
George Sale1734 And they produced his inner garment stained with false blood. Jacob answered, nay, but ye your selves have contrived the thing for your own sakes: However patience is most becoming, and God's assistance is to be implored to enable me to support the misfortune which ye relate
Talal Itani2012 A caravan passed by, and they sent their water-carrier. He lowered his bucket, and said, "Good news. Here is a boy." And they hid him as merchandise. But God was aware of what they did.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And there came a caravan, and they sent their waterdrawer. He let down his pail (into the pit). He said: Good luck! Here is a youth. And they hid him as a treasure, and Allah was Aware of what they did
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And travellers came and sent their water-drawer; and he let down his bucket. Said he, 'O glad tidings! this is a youth.' And they kept him secret, as a chattel; but God knew what they were doing
John Medows Rodwell1861 And wayfarers came and sent their drawer of water, and he let down his bucket. "Good news!" said he, "This is a youth!" And they kept his case secret, to make merchandise of him. But God knew what they did
George Sale1734 And certain travellers came, and sent one to draw water for them: And he let down his bucket, and said, good news! This is a youth. And they concealed him, that they might sell him as a piece of merchandize: but God knew that which they did
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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
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.60
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.50
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.46
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.41
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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.