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Talal Itani· published 2012
Until, when they have reached it, their hearing, and their sight, and their skins will testify against them regarding what they used to do.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Till, when they reach it, their ears and their eyes and their skins testify against them as to what they used to do
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
until when they come to it, their hearing and their eyesight and their skins shall bear witness against them of that which they have done
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
until, when they shall arrivethereat their ears, and their eyes, and their skins shall bear witness against them of that which they shall have wrought
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
Kur të arrijnë atje, veshët e tyre, sytë e tyre dhe lëkurat e tyre do të dëshmojnë kundër tyre për atë që kanë bërë.
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বাংলা · Bengali
অবশেষে তারা যখন জাহান্নামের কাছে পৌঁছবে, তখন তাদের কান, তাদের চোখ ও তাদের চামড়া তাদের বিরুদ্ধে তাদের (কুফরী ও পাপাচার) কৃতকর্ম সম্পর্কে সাক্ষ্য দিবে।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
i kad dođu do nje, uši njihove, i oči njihove, i kože njihove svjedočit će protiv njih o onom što su radili.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
i kad dođu do nje, uši njihove, i oči njihove, i kože njihove svjedočit će protiv njih o onom što su radili.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Haa si ɓe hewtii nge, nannɗe maɓɓe ɗeen, e giiɗe maɓɓe ɗen, e guri ɓalli maɓɓe ɗin seeditoo e dow maɓɓe, kon ko ɓe gollatnoo.
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ქართული · Georgian
და როდესაც მასთან [ჯოჯოხეთთან] მივლენ, [ისინი დაიწყებენ თავიანთი ურწმუნოების და ცოდვების უარყოფას], მაგრამ მათი სმენა, მათი მხედველობა და მათი კანი დაამოწმებენ მათ წინააღმდეგ იმის შესახებ, რაც მათ [სიცოცხლეში] სჩადიოდნენ.
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Deutsch · German
Wenn sie dann dort angekommen sind, legen ihr Gehör, ihre Augen und ihre Häute gegen sie Zeugnis ab über das, was sie zu tun pflegten.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Έως ότου φτάσουν σ' αυτή (τη Φωτιά), θα μαρτυρήσουν εναντίον τους οι ακοές τους, οι οράσεις τους και τα δέρματά τους για ό,τι διέπραξαν (από κακές πράξεις).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
यहाँ तक कि जब वे उस (जहन्नम) के पास आ जाएँगे, तो उनके कान तथा उनकी आँखें और उनकी खालें उनके विरुद्ध उन कर्मों की गवाही देंगी, जो वे किया करते थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
e quando l’avranno raggiunto, il loro udito, la loro vista e le loro pelli testimonieranno contro di loro su ciò che hanno fatto.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
20. Kol, jiems ją (Pragaro Ugnį) pasiekus, jų klausa (ausys) ir jų akys, ir jų odos liudys prieš juos dėl to, ką jie darydavo.
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
Но как только они подойдут к нему, против них засвидетельствуют их слух, зрение и кожа о том, что они совершали.
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Српски · Serbian
И кад дођу до ватре, њихове уши, и њихове очи, и њихове коже сведочиће против њих о оном што су радили.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Hata watakapoufikia Moto, yatawashuhudia masikio yao, na macho yao na ngozi zao kwa yale waliyokuwa wakiyatenda.
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Svenska · Swedish
När de når fram ska deras hörsel, ögon och hud vittna mot dem om vad de brukade göra.
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.
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اردو · Urdu
یہاں تک کہ جب بالکل جہنم کےپاس آجائیں گے اور ان پر ان کے کان اور ان کی آنکھیں اور ان کی کھالیں ان کے اعمال کی گواہی دیں گی.[1]
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5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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DIN 31635waqālū liǧulūdihim lima šahidttum ʿalaynā qālū ʾanṭaqanā llāhu llaḏī ʾanṭaqa kulla šayʾin wahuwa ḫalaqakum ʾawwala marratin waʾilayhi turǧaʿūna
Talal Itani2012 And they will say to their skins, "Why did you testify against us?" They will say, "God, Who made all things speak, made us speak. It is He who created you the first time, and to Him you are returned."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And they say unto their skins: Why testify ye against us? They say: Allah hath given us speech Who giveth speech to all things, and Who created you at the first, and unto Whom ye are returned
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And they shall say to their skins, 'Why have ye borne witness against us?' they shall say, 'God gave us speech who has given speech to everything; He created you at first, and unto Him shall ye be returned
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they shall say to their skins, "Why witness ye against us?" They shall say, "God, who giveth a voice to all things, hath given us a voice: He created you at first, and to Him are ye brought back
George Sale1734 And they shall say unto their skins, wherefore do ye bear witness against us? They shall answer, God hath caused us to speak, who giveth speech unto all things: He created you the first time; and unto Him are ye returned
Talal Itani2012 You were unable to hide yourselves from your hearing, and your sight, and your skins, to prevent them from testifying against you, and you imagined that God was unaware of much of what you do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Ye did not hide yourselves lest your ears and your eyes and your skins should testify against you, but ye deemed that Allah knew not much of what ye did
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and ye could not conceal yourselves that your hearing and your eyesight should not be witness against you, nor your skins; but ye thought that God did not know much of what ye do
John Medows Rodwell1861 And ye did not hide yourselves so that neither your ears nor your eyes nor your skins should witness against you: but ye thought that God knew not many a thing that ye did
George Sale1734 Ye did not hide your selves, while ye sinned, so that your ears, and your eyes, and your skins could not bear witness against you: But ye thought that God was ignorant of many things which ye did
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 —
0.57 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 · George Sale0.71
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.48
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.42
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.39
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
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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.