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Talal Itani· published 2012
And they say, "Our hearts are screened from what you call us to, and in our ears is deafness, and between us and you is a barrier. So do what you want, and so will we."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And they say: Our hearts are protected from that unto which thou (OMuhammad) callest us, and in our ears there is a deafness, and between us and thee there is a veil. Act, then. Lo! we also shall be acting
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 say, 'Our hearts are veiled from what thou dost call us to, and in our ears is dullness, and between us and thee there is a veil. Act thou; verily, we are acting too
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And they say, "Our hearts are under shelter from thy teachings, and in our ears is a deafness, and between us and thee there is a veil. Act as thou thinkest right: we verily shall act as we think right
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And they say, our hearts are veiled from the doctrine to which thou invitest us; and there is a deafness in our ears, and a curtain between us and thee: Wherefore act thou, as thou shalt think fit; for we shall act according to our own sentiments
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 thonë: "Zemrat tona janë të mbuluara ndaj asaj për të cilën na thërret ti, veshët tanë janë të shurdhër dhe midis nesh e teje ka një pengesë. Prandaj, vepro sipas mënyrës sate, e ne do të veprojmë sipas tonës!"
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 বলে: ‘(হে মুহাম্মাদ) তুমি আমাদেরকে যে বিষয়ের দিকে দাওয়াত দিচ্ছ, সে বিষয়ে আমাদের অন্তরসমূহ আচ্ছাদিত (তালাবদ্ধ), আমাদের কানের মধ্যে রয়েছে বধিরতা(৪) আর তোমার ও আমাদের মধ্যে রয়েছে অন্তরায়।(৫) অতএব তুমি তোমার কাজ করে যাও, নিশ্চয় আমরাও আমাদের কাজ করে যাব।(৬)
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
“Srca su naša”, govore oni, “pod pokrivačima, daleka od onog čemu nas ti pozivaš, i mi smo gluhi za to, a između nas i tebe je pregrada, pa ti radi, i mi ćemo raditi.”
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
“Srca su naša”, govore oni, “pod pokrivačima, daleka od onog čemu nas ti pozivaš, i mi smo gluhi za to, a između nas i tebe je pregrada, pa ti radi, i mi ćemo raditi.”
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: "Ɓerɗe amen no ommbanii ko noddataa men e mum kon, noto hino e noppi amen, heedo kadi hino hakkunde amen e maa. Haray wonu e golle maa ; menen kadi miɗen e golle amen".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და მათ [ურწმუნოებმა] უთხრეს (მუჰამმადს): «ჩვენი გულები დაფარულია (საფარებელშია) იმისგან, რისკენაც მოგვიწოდებ, ჩვენი ყურები კი ყრუა, და ჩვენსა და შენს შორის არის ფარდა (რომელიც გვიშლის ხელს, დაგემორჩილოთ). მაშ, იმოქმედე (შენი რწმენისამებრ), რადგან ჩვენც (ჩვენი რწმენისამებრ) ვიმოქმედებთ!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und sie sagen: „Unsere Herzen sind in Hüllen (bedeckt) vor dem, wozu du uns aufrufst, und in unseren Ohren ist Schwerhörigkeit, und zwischen uns und dir ist ein Vorhang. Handle also, wir werden ebenfalls handeln.“
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
Και είπαν: «Οι καρδιές μας είναι μέσα σε καλύμματα που τις εμποδίζουν απ' αυτό στο οποίο μας καλείς, υπάρχει κώφωση στα αυτιά μας, και υπάρχει ένα φράγμα ανάμεσα σε μας και σε σένα (και δε φτάνει σε μας τίποτε από ό,τι λες). Συνέχισε λοιπόν τις πράξεις σου (με τον τρόπο σου), και εμείς θα συνεχίσουμε τις πράξεις μας (με τον τρόπο μας).»
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
तथा उन्होंने[1] कहा : हमारे दिल उससे पर्दों में हैं, जिसकी ओर आप हमें बुला रहे हैं तथा हमारे कानों में बोझ (बहरापन) है तथा हमारे और आपके बीच एक ओट है। अतः आप अपना काम करें और हम अपना काम कर रहे हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E dissero: «I nostri cuori sono impermeabili a ciò a cui tu ci inviti e nelle nostre orecchie c’è sordità e tra noi e te c’è una barriera: Agisci pure, in verità anche noi agiamo».
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
5. Ir jie sako: „Mūsų širdys po uždangomis (uždengtos) nuo to, į ką jūs mus kviečiate. Ir mūsų ausyse yra kurtumas, ir tarp mūsų ir jūsų yra uždanga – taigi dirbkite (savo keliu), tikrai mes dirbame (savo keliu).“
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
Они сказали: «Наши сердца в покровах от того, к чему ты нас призываешь, в наших ушах — глухота, а между нами и тобой — преграда. Так действуй же, воистину, действуем и мы!»
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
И говоре: „Наша срца су затворена за оно у шта нас ти позиваш. Ми смо глуви према томе, а између нас и тебе је преграда, па ти ради, и ми ћемо да радимо.“
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 wakasema: Nyoyo zetu zimo katika vifuniko kwa hayo unayotuitia, na masikio yetu yana uziwi, na baina yetu na wewe lipo pazia. Basi wewe tenda, nasi hakika tunatenda.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
De säger: ”Våra hjärtan är låsta för det du kallar oss till och våra öron är blockerade, och en skiljevägg står mellan oss och dig. Handla du på ditt sätt – vi gör detsamma.”
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
"Bizi çağırdığın şeye karşı kalplerimizde örtüler, kulaklarımızda ağırlık vardır. Seninle bizim aramızda da bir perde vardır. O halde sen yapacağını yap. Şüphesiz biz de yapanlarız." dediler.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور انہوں نے کہا کہ تو جس کی طرف ہمیں بلا رہا ہے ہمارے دل تو اس سے پردے میں ہیں[1] اور ہمارے کانوں میں گرانی ہے[2] اور ہم میں اور تجھ میں ایک حجاب ہے، اچھا تو اب اپنا کام کیے جا ہم بھی یقیناً کام کرنے والے ہیں.[3]
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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Talal Itani2012 Say, "I am only a human like you; it is inspired in me that your God is One God. So be upright towards Him, and seek forgiveness from Him." And woe to the idolaters.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say (unto them O Muhammad): I am only a mortal like you. It is inspired in me that your Allah is One Allah, therefor take the straight path unto Him and seek forgiveness of Him. And woe unto the idolaters
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'I am but a mortal like yourselves, I am inspired that your God is one God; then go straight to Him, and ask forgiveness of Him; and woe to the idolaters
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: I am only a man like you. It is revealed to me that your God is one God: go straight then to Him, and implore his pardon. And woe to those who join gods with God
George Sale1734 Say, verily I am only a man like you. It is revealed unto me that your God is one God: Wherefore direct your way strait unto Him; and ask pardon of Him for what is past. And woe be to the idolaters
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
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.65
Talal Itani · George Sale0.64
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.58
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.51
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.50
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.50
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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.