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Talal Itani· published 2012
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."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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
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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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 broughtback
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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
Ata do t'u thonë lëkurave të tyre: "Pse dëshmuat kundër nesh?" Ato do të thonë: "Është Allahu Ai që na bëri të flasim, Ai që i dha çdo gjë (aftësinë e) të folurit." Ai ju krijoi ju herën e parë dhe tek Ai do të ktheheni.
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
আর তারা (জাহান্নামীরা) তাদের চামড়াগুলোকে বলবে: ‘কেন তোমরা আমাদের বিরুদ্ধে সাক্ষ্য দিলে?’ তারা বলবে: ‘আল্লাহ আমাদের বাকশক্তি দিয়েছেন, যিনি সবকিছুকে বাকশক্তি দিয়েছেন। তিনি তোমাদেরকেপ্রথমবার সৃষ্টি করেছেন এবং তাঁরই কাছে তোমরা প্রত্যাবর্তিত হবে।'
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.
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Bosanski · Bosnian
“Zašto svjedočite protiv nas!?”, upitat će oni kože svoje. “Allah, Koji je dao sposobnost govora svakom biću, obdario je darom govora i nas”, odgovorit će. “On vas je prvi put stvorio i Njemu ste se, evo, vratili."
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
“Zašto svjedočite protiv nas?!” upitat će oni kože svoje. “Allah, Koji je dao sposobnost govora svakom biću, obdario je darom govora i nas”, odgovorit će. “On vas je prvi put stvorio i Njemu ste se, evo, vratili."
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 wi'ana guri maɓɓe ɗen: "Ko fii honlɗum seeditaniɗon e amin?" Ɗe wi'a: "Ko Allah wowlinɗo kala hu'unde On, wowlini men. Ko Kaŋko tagunoo on gila ka laawol aranol, ko ka makko kadi rutteteɗon".
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
და ეტყვიან [ალლაჰის მტრები] თავიანთ კანს (საყვედურით): «რატომ დაამოწმეთ ჩვენს წინააღმდეგ?» ისინი [მათი კანები] იტყვიან: «საუბრის უნარი მოგვცა ალლაჰმა, რომელმაც აალაპარაკა ყოველი არსება», და მან [ალლაჰმა] შეგქმნათ პირველად და მასთან დაბრუნდებით.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Sie sagen dann zu ihren Häuten: „Warum habt ihr gegen uns Zeugnis abgelegt?“ Sie sagen: „Allah, Der alles reden lässt, hat uns reden lassen. Er ist es, Der euch das erste Mal erschaffen hat, und zu Ihm werdet ihr zurückgebracht.“
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
(Οι άπιστοι) θα πουν στα δέρματά τους: «Γιατί μαρτυρήσατε εναντίον μας;» Θα πουν: «Ο Αλλάχ μάς έκανε να μιλήσουμε, ο Οποίος είναι Αυτός που έκανε τα πάντα να μιλήσουν, και είναι Αυτός που σας δημιούργησε την πρώτη φορά, και προς Αυτόν θα επιστρέψετε.
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
और वे अपनी खालों से कहेंगे : तुमने हमारे विरुद्ध क्यों गवाही दी? तो वे उत्तर देंगी : हमें उसी अल्लाह ने बोलने की शक्ति प्रदान की, जिसने प्रत्येक वस्तु को बोलने की शक्ति दी है। तथा उसी ने तुम्हें प्रथम बार पैदा किया और तुम उसी की ओर लौटाए जाओगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E dissero alle loro pelli: «Perché testimoniate contro di noi?” Dissero: «Ci ha fatto parlare Allāh, Colui che ha fatto parlare ogni cosa, e Lui vi creò la prima volta e a Lui ritornerete.
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
21. Ir jie sakys savo odoms: „Kodėl jūs liudijate prieš mus?“ Jos tars „Allahas privertė mus kalbėti – Jis priverčia viską kalbėti: ir Jis sukūrė jus pirmąjį kartą, ir pas Jį jūs priversti sugrįžti.“
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
Gogaalee isaanitiin “Maalif ragaa nurratti baatu?” jedhan. [Isaan] ni jedhu: “Rabbii Isa waan hunda dubbachiisetu nu dubbachiise, inni kan yeroo jalqabaa isin uume, kan gara Isaatti deebifamtan.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И они скажут своим кожам: «Почему вы свидетельствовали против нас?» Они скажут: «Нас наделил речью Аллах, Который наделил даром речи всё сущее. Он создал вас впервые, и к Нему вы будете возвращены».
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
„Зашто сведочите против нас?“ Упитаће они своје коже. „Аллах, Који је дао способност говора сваком бићу, обдарио је и нас даром говора“, одговориће. „Он вас је први пут створио и Њему сте се вратили.“
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
Na wao wataziambia ngozi zao: Kwa nini mmetushuhudilia? Nazo zitasema: Ametutamkisha Mwenyezi Mungu ambaye alitamkisha kila kitu! Na Yeye ndiye aliyewaumba mara ya kwanza, na kwake Yeye tu mtarejeshwa.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Och de ska fråga sin hud: ”Varför vittnar du mot oss?” [Huden] svarar då: ”Gud, som ger talförmåga åt alla ting, har också låtit oss tala. Det var han som skapade er från första början och det är till honom ni ska återföras.”
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
Derilerine: “Niçin aleyhimize şahitlik ettiniz” diyecekler. Onlar da: Her şeyi konuşturan Allah bizi de konuşturdu, diyecekler. Sizi ilk defa yaratan Odur. İşte yalnız Ona döndürülüyorsunuz.
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
یہ اپنی کھالوں سے کہیں گے کہ تم نے ہمارے خلاف شہادت کیوں دی[1] ، وه جواب دیں گی کہ ہمیں اس اللہ نے قوت گویائی عطا فرمائی جس نے ہر چیز کو بولنے کی طاقت بخشی ہے، اسی نے تمہیں اول مرتبہ پیدا کیا اور اسی کی طرف تم سب لوٹائے جاؤ گے.[2]
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 Until, when they have reached it, their hearing, and their sight, and their skins will testify against them regarding what they used to do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Till, when they reach it, their ears and their eyes and their skins testify against them as to what they used to do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 Until when they reach it, their ears and their eyes and their skins shall bear witness against them of their deeds
George Sale1734 until, when they shall arrive thereat their ears, and their eyes, and their skins shall bear witness against them of that which they shall have wrought
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
Easy-read (simplified)wadhaalikum zannukumu lladhee zanantum birabbikum ardaakum fa'asbahtum mina l-khaasireen
DIN 31635waḏālikum ẓannukumu llaḏī ẓanantum birabbikum ʾardākum faʾaṣbaḥtum mina l-ḫāsirīna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 It is that thought of yours about your Lord that led you to ruin-so you became of the losers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 That, your thought which ye did think about your Lord, hath ruined you; and ye find yourselves (this day) among the lost
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And that thought of yours which ye thought concerning your Lord has destroyed you, and ye have now become of those who lose
John Medows Rodwell1861 And this your thought which ye did think of your Lord hath ruined you, so that ye are become of those who perish
George Sale1734 This was your opinion, which ye imagined of your Lord: It hath ruined you; and ye are become lost people
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
Talal Itani · George Sale0.46
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.45
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.44
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · 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.