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On this day We will seal up their mouths, that they shall not open them in their own defence; and their hands shall speak unto Us, and their feet shall bear witness of that which they have committed
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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
On this Day, We will seal their mouths, and their hands will speak to Us, and their feet will testify to everything they had done.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
This day We seal up their mouths, and their hands speak out to Us and their feet bear witness as to what they used to earn
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
On that day we will seat their mouths, and their hands shall speak to us, and their feet shall bear witness of what they earned
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
On that day will we set a seal upon their mouths; yet shall their hands speak unto us, and their feet shall bear witness of that which they shall have done
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Sot Ne do t'ua vulosim gojët atyre, ndërkohë që do të na flasin duart e tyre e do të dëshmojnë këmbët e tyre për gjithçka që kanë bërë.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আজ আমি তাদের মুখে মোহর মেরে দিবো এবং তাদের হাত আমার সাথে কথা বলবে ও তাদের পা সে সম্পর্কে সাক্ষ্য দিবে, যা তারা অর্জন করত।(২৯)
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Danas ćemo im usta zapečatiti, njihove ruke će Nam govoriti, a noge njihove će o onom što su radili svjedočiti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Danas ćemo im usta zapečatiti, njihove ruke će Nam govoriti, a noge njihove će o onom što su radili svjedočiti.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Hannde, Min notay e kunndule maɓɓe ɗen, juuɗe maɓɓe ɗen yewta Min, koyɗe maɓɓe ɗen kadi seeditoo e kon ko ɓe ngonnoo e paggitagol".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
დღეს დავუდებთ ჩვენ ბეჭედს მათ ბაგეებს, და ილაპარაკებენ ჩვენთან მათი ხელები და დაამოწმებენ მათი ფეხები, იმაზე რაც მოიპოვეს.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Heute versiegeln Wir ihnen ihre Münder, und ihre Hände werden zu Uns sprechen und ihre Füße Zeugnis ablegen über das, was sie erworben haben.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Σήμερα θα σφραγίσουμε τα στόματά τους (για να μην αρνηθούν τις αμαρτίες τους), και θα Μας μιλήσουν τα χέρια τους, και θα μαρτυρήσουν τα πόδια τους για όσα διέπραξαν.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
आज हम उनके मुँहों पर मुहर लगा देंगे और उनके हाथ हमसे बात करेंगे तथा उनके पैर उन कर्मों की गवाही देंगे, जो वे किया करते थे।[20]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Oggi sigilliamo le loro bocche, e Ci parlano le loro mani, e testimoniano le loro gambe su ciò che hanno guadagnato.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
65. Šią Dieną Mes užantspauduosime jų burnas, ir jų rankos kalbės Mums, ir jų kojos liudys tai, ką jie įgydavo.
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
Сегодня Мы запечатаем их уста, и заговорят с Нами их руки, и засвидетельствуют их ноги о том, что они приобретали.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Данас ћемо да им запечатимо уста, њихове руке ће да Нам говоре, а њихове ноге ће о оном што су радили да сведоче.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Leo tunaviziba vinywa vyao, na iseme nasi mikono yao, na itoe ushahidi miguu yao kwa waliyokuwa wakiyachuma.
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Svenska · Swedish
Denna dag förseglar vi deras munnar och deras händer ska tala till oss och deras fötter ska vittna om deras handlingar.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
O gün onların ağızlarını mühürleriz. Yaptıklarını bizlere elleri anlatır, ayakları da şahitlik eder.
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اردو · Urdu
ہم آج کے دن ان کے منھ پر مہریں لگا دیں گے اور ان کے ہاتھ ہم سے باتیں کریں گے اور ان کے پاؤں گواہیاں دیں گے، ان کاموں کی جو وه کرتے[1] تھے.
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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The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 If We will, We can blind their eyes as they rush towards the path-but how will they see?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And had We willed, We verily could have quenched their eyesight so that they should struggle for the way. Then how could they have seen
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And if we please we could put out their eyes, and they would race along the road; and then how could they see
John Medows Rodwell1861 And, if we pleased, we would surely put out their eyes: yet even then would they speed on with rivalry in their path: but how should they see
George Sale1734 If We pleased We could put out their eyes, and they might run with emulation in the way they use to take; and how should they see their error
Talal Itani2012 And if We will, We can cripple them in their place; so they can neither move forward, nor go back.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And had We willed, We verily could have fixed them in their place, making them powerless to go forward or turn back
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And if we pleased we would transform them in their places, and they should not be able to go on, nor yet to return
John Medows Rodwell1861 And, if we pleased, we would surely transform them as they stand, and they would not be able to move onward, or to return
George Sale1734 And if We pleased We could transform them into other shapes, in their places where they should be found; and they should not be able to depart: Neither should they repent
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 —
0.52 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.58
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.52
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.43
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.40
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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.