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Talal Itani· published 2012
The parable of those who disbelieve is that of someone who calls upon someone who hears nothing except screaming and yelling. Deaf, dumb, and blind-they do not understand.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
The likeness of those who disbelieve (in relation to the messenger) is as the likeness of one who calleth unto that which heareth naught except a shout and cry. Deaf, dumb, blind, therefore they have no sense
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
The likeness of those who misbelieve is as the likeness of him who shouts to that which hears him not, save only a call and a cry; deafness, dumbness, blindness, and they shall not understand
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
The unbelievers are like unto one who crieth aloud to that which heareth not so much as his calling, or the sound of his voice. They are deaf, dumb, and blind, therefore do they not understand
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
Jobesimtarët u shëmbëllejnë bagëtive, të cilat, kur i thërret ndokush, dëgjojnë vetëm thirrje e zë. Ata janë të shurdhër, memecë e të verbër, andaj nuk kuptojnë.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর যারাকুফরী করেছে, তাদের উদাহরণ সে রাখালের ন্যায়, যে তার চরানো পশুগুলোকে খুব চিৎকার করে ডাকছে; বস্তুত তারা তার হাঁক-ডাক ছাড়া আর কিছুই শোনে না। আসলে তারা বধির, বোবা, অন্ধ। কাজেই তারা বুঝে না।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Oni koji ne vjeruju slični su onome koji viče, ali sam ne čuje ništa osim zov i zapomaganje; oni su gluhi, nijemi i slijepi i oni ništa ne shvaćaju.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Oni koji ne vjeruju slični su onome koji viče, ali sam ne čuje ništa osim zov i zapomaganje; oni su gluhi, nijemi i slijepi i oni ništa ne shvaćaju.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Yeru ɓen yedduɓe hono ono ewnotooɗo kon ko nanataa si wanaa noddaandu e ewnal. Ko fahɗuɓe, mumɗuɓe, wumɓe ɓe kakkiltaa.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და (ჭეშმარიტებისკენ მომხმობელის და) მათი მაგალითი, რომელნიც ურწმუნონი გახდნენ, ჰგავს იმ (მწყემსის) მაგალითს, რომელიც ყვირის (საქონელზე), რომელიც არაფერს ისმენს, გარდა ძახილისა და ყვირილისა [არ ესმის მისი სიტყვის აზრი]: ყრუნი არიან (ჭეშმარიტების მიმართ), მუნჯნი, ბრმანი, — და ისინი ვერ ხვდებიან (რაშია მათთვის სარგებელი)!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und das Gleichnis derjenigen, die ungläubig sind, ist wie jemand, der etwas nachschreit, was nichts hört außer Stimmen und Zurufen. (Sie sind) taub, stumm, blind; so begreifen sie nicht.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Το παράδειγμα εκείνων των άπιστων (με εκείνον που τους καλεί στην καθοδήγηση) είναι σαν αυτό εκείνου (του βοσκού) που φωνάζει σ' αυτά (τα βοοειδή ή πρόβατα) που δεν ακούν παρά μόνο το κάλεσμα και τις φωνές (χωρίς να καταλαβαίνουν τις έννοιες των λέξεών του). Κωφοί, βουβοί και τυφλοί (από το να ακούν, να λένε ή να βλέπουν την αλήθεια), κι έτσι δεν αντιλαμβάνονται τίποτε.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
उन लोगों का उदाहरण जिन्होंने कुफ़्र किया, उस व्यक्ति के उदाहरण जैसा है, जो उन जानवरों को पुकारता है, जो पुकार और आवाज़ के सिवा कुछ[91] नहीं सुनते। वे बहरे हैं, गूँगे हैं, अंधे हैं, इसलिए वे नहीं समझते।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E l’esempio dei miscredenti è come l’esempio di quello che raglia e produce suoni che non capisce, se non i richiami e le grida; sono sordi, muti e ciechi, e non ragionano.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
171. Ir pavyzdys tų, kurie netiki, yra kaip tas, kuris rėkia tai (avių bandai), kuri nieko negirdi, tik šauksmus ir verskmus. (Jie yra) kurti, nebylūs ir akli. Taigi jie nesuvokia.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Fakkeenyi warra kafaranii (nama gara haqaatti isaan yaamuu) akka fakkeenya isa waan waamichaafi lallaba malee hin dhageenyetti (beyladatti) iyyuuti, (Isaan) (haqarraa) duudaa, arraba qabamaafi jaamaadha; isaan hin xiinxalan.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Пример тех, которые отвергли веру, подобен примеру [скота], которому кричат: он не слышит ничего, кроме призыва и окрика. Глухие, немые, слепые — и они не разумеют.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Они који не верују слични су ономе који виче, али сам не чује ништа осим зов и запомагање; они су глуви, неми и слепи и они ништа не схватају.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na mfano wa waliokufuru ni kama mfano wa anayempigia kelele asiyesikia isipokuwa wito na sauti tu. Ni viziwi, mabubu, vipofu, kwa hivyo hawaelewi.
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Svenska · Swedish
Dessa otrogna kan liknas vid den [boskap] som hör [herdarnas] rop som om det endast vore anrop och skrik [utan att förstå vad som sägs]. De är döva, stumma och blinda och förstår därför ingenting.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
(Hidayet çağrısına kulak vermeyen) kâfirlerin durumu, çobanların çağırdığı fakat, onun bağırıp çağırışından başka bir şey işitmeyen (bir şey anlamayan) hayvanların durumu gibidir. Onlar öyle sağır, dilsiz ve körlerdir ki akıllarını kullanmazlar.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
کفار کی مثال ان جانوروں کی طرح ہے جو اپنے چرواہے کی صرف پکار اور آواز ہی کو سنتے ہیں (سمجھتے نہیں) وه بہرے، گونگے اور ا ندھے ہیں، انہیں عقل نہیں۔[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 He commands you to do evil and vice, and to say about God what you do not know.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He enjoineth upon you only the evil and the foul, and that ye should tell concerning Allah that which ye know not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He does but bid you evil and sin, and that ye should speak against God what ye do not know
John Medows Rodwell1861 He only enjoineth you evil and wickedness, and that ye should aver of God that which ye know not
George Sale1734 Verily he commandeth you evil and wickedness, and that ye should say that of God which ye know not
Talal Itani2012 And when it is said to them, "Follow what God has revealed," they say, "We will follow what we found our ancestors following." Even if their ancestors understood nothing, and were not guided?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when it is said unto them: Follow that which Allah hath revealed, they say: We follow that wherein we found our fathers. What! Even though their fathers were wholly unintelligent and had no guidance
Edward Henry Palmer1880 When it is said to them, 'Follow what God has revealed,' they say, 'Nay, we will follow what we found our fathers agreed upon.' What! and though their fathers had no sense at all or guidance
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when it is said to them, "Follow ye that which God hath sent down;" they say, "Nay, we follow the usages which we found with our fathers." What! though their fathers were utterly ignorant and devoid of guidance
George Sale1734 And when it is said unto them who believe not, follow that which God hath sent down; they answer, nay, but we will follow that which we found our fathers practise. What? Though their fathers knew nothing, and were not rightly directed
Easy-read (simplified)yaa ayyuhaa lladheena aamanoo kuloo min tayyibaati maa razaqnaakum washkuroo lillaahi in kuntum iyyaahu ta'budoon
DIN 31635yā ʾayyuhā llaḏīna ʾāmanū kulū min ṭayyibāti mā razaqnākum waškurū lillāhi ʾin kuntum ʾiyyāhu taʿbudūna
Talal Itani2012 O you who believe! Eat of the good things We have provided for you, and give thanks to God, if it is Him that you serve.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O ye who believe! Eat of the good things wherewith We have provided you, and render thanks to Allah if it is (indeed) He Whom ye worship
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O ye who do believe! eat of the good things wherewith we have provided you, and give thanks unto God if it be Him ye serve
John Medows Rodwell1861 O ye who believe! eat of the good things with which we have supplied you, and give God thanks if ye are His worshippers
George Sale1734 O true believers, eat of the good things which we have bestowed on you for food, and return thanks unto God, if ye serve him
Talal Itani2012 He has forbidden you carrion, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and what was dedicated to other than God. But if anyone is compelled, without desiring or exceeding, he commits no sin. God is Forgiving and Merciful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He hath forbidden you only carrion, and blood, and swineflesh, and that which hath been immolated to (the name of) any other than Allah. But he who is driven by necessity, neither craving nor transgressing, it is no sin for him. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He has only forbidden for you what is dead, and blood, and flesh of swine, and whatsoever has been consecrated to other than God; but he who is forced, neither revolting nor transgressing, it is in no sin for him; verily, God is forgiving and merciful
John Medows Rodwell1861 But that which dieth of itself, and blood, and swine's flesh, and that over which any other name than that of God hath been invoked, is forbidden you. But he who shall partake of them by constraint, without lust or wilfulness, no sin shall be upon him. Verily God is Indulgent, Merciful
George Sale1734 Verily he hath forbidden you to eat that which dieth of itself, and blood, and swine's flesh, and that on which any other name but God's hath been invocated. But he who is forced by necessity, not lusting, nor returning to transgress, it shall be no crime in him if he eat of those things, for God is gracious and merciful
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 —
0.72 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
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.83
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.79
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.77
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.72
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.72
Talal Itani · George Sale0.72
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.66
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.63
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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.