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Talal Itani· published 2012
Who hears God's revelations being recited to him, yet he persists arrogantly, as though he did not hear them. Announce to him a painful punishment.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Who heareth the revelations of Allah recited unto him, and then continueth in pride as though he heard them not. Give him tidings of a painful doom
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
who hears God's signs sent to him, then persists in being big with pride as though he heard them not - so give him the glad-tidings of grievouswoe
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Who heareth the signs of God recited to him, and then, as though he heard them not, persisteth in prouddisdain! Apprise him of an afflictive punishment
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
who heareth the signs of God, which are read unto him, and afterwardsproudly persisteth in infidelity, as though he heard them not: -- Denounce unto him a painful punishment
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
Ai i dëgjon ajetet e Allahut që i lexohen e sërish ngul këmbë në mendjemadhësi, sikur të mos i kishte dëgjuar ato. Prandaj, njoftoje për një dënim të dhembshëm!
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বাংলা · Bengali
সে আল্লাহর আয়াতসমূহ শোনে যা তার কাছে তিলাওয়াত করা হয়, তারপর সে অহংকারী হয়েঅবিচল থাকে, যেন সে তা শুনতে পায়নি। অতএব তুমি তাকে এক যন্ত্রণাদায়ক শাস্তির সুসংবাদ দাও।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
koji čuje Allahove ajete kad mu se uče, zatim ustraje u nevjerovanju oholeći se, kao da ih ni čuo nije – njemu patnju bolnu navijesti.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
koji čuje Allahove ajete kad mu se uče, zatim ustraje u nevjerovanju oholeći se, kao da ih ni čuo nije – njemu patnju bolnu navijesti.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Mo no nana Aayeeje Allah ɗen hino janngee e dow makko, refti o hedditora e toownitaare, wa si tawii o nanaani ɗe. Awa weltinir mo lepte mu'usuuɗe.
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ქართული · Georgian
ისმენს ალლაჰის აიათებს, რომლებიც ეკითხება მას, შემდეგ კი ჯიუტობს ამპარტავნულად, თითქოს არც მოუსმენია. მაშ, ახარე მას მწარე სასჯელი.
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Deutsch · German
Er hört, wie ihm die Zeichen Allahs verlesen werden, hierauf verharrt er hochmütig (in seinem Unglauben), als ob er sie nicht gehört hätte! So verkünde ihm schmerzhafte Strafe.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
που ακούει τα Εδάφια του Αλλάχ να απαγγέλλονται σ' αυτόν, και έπειτα επιμένει (στην απιστία του) με αλαζονεία, σαν να μην τα άκουσε. Ανάγγειλε, λοιπόν, (ω, Προφήτη) σ' αυτόν την είδηση για ένα επώδυνο μαρτύριο (που τον περιμένει).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
जो अल्लाह की आयतों को सुनता है, जबकि वे उसके सामने पढ़ी जाती हैं, फिर वह घमंड करते हुए अडिग रहता है, जैसे कि उसने उन्हें नहीं सुना, तो उसे दर्दनाक यातना की शुभ-सूचना दे दो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
sente recitare i Segni di Allāh e poi persiste nella sua superbia, come se non li sentisse; annunciagli una dura punizione!
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
8. kuris girdi Allaho Eilutes recituojamas jam, tačiau vis tiek lieka išdidus, lyg jų negirdėtų. Taigi pranešk jam apie skausmingą kančią.
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Keeyyattoota Rabbii kan isa irratti dubbifaman dhaga’aa; ergasii akka waan ishee hin dhaga’iniitti boona isaa itti fufa. adabbii laalessaan isa gammachiisi. [2]
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Русский · Russian
Он слышит знамения Аллаха, которые читаются ему, а затем упорствует надменно, словно и не слышал их. Так обрадуй же его вестью о мучительном наказании!
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Српски · Serbian
који чује Аллахове речи кад му се читају, затим устраје у неверовању, охолећи се као да их није ни чуо - њему наговести болну патњу.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Anayesikia Aya za Mwenyezi Mungu akisomewa, kisha anashikilia yale yale aliyokatazwa, na anajivuna, kama kwamba hakuzisikia. Basi mbashirie adhabu chungu!
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Svenska · Swedish
som hör Guds verser reciteras för honom men högmodigt envisas [i sin förnekelse], som om han aldrig hade hört dem. Låt honom veta att ett smärtsamt straff väntar honom.
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Türkçe · Turkish
O Allah’ın ayetleri kendisine okunurken işitir de sonra onları işitmemiş gibi büyüklük taslayarak ısrar eder. İşte ona çok acıklı bir azabı müjdele!
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اردو · Urdu
جو آیتیں اللہ کی اپنے سامنے پڑھی جاتی ہوئی سنے پھر بھی غرور کرتا ہوا اس طرح اڑا رہے کہ گویا سنی ہی نہیں[1] ، تو ایسے لوگوں کو دردناک عذاب کی خبر (پہنچا) دیجئے.
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Talal Itani2012 These are God's Verses which We recite to you in truth. In which message, after God and His revelations, will they believe?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 These are the portents of Allah which We recite unto thee (Muhammad) with truth. Then in what fact, after Allah and His portents, will they believe
Edward Henry Palmer1880 These are the signs of God which we recite to thee in truth; and in what new story after God and His signs will they believe
John Medows Rodwell1861 Such are the signs of God: with truth do we recite them to thee. But in what teaching will they believe, if they reject God and his signs
George Sale1734 These are the signs of God; We rehearse them unto thee with truth. In what revelation therefore will they believe, after they have rejected God and his signs
DIN 31635waʾiḏā ʿalima min ʾāyātinā šayʾan taḫaḏahā huzuwan ʾūlāʾika lahum ʿaḏābun muhīnun
Talal Itani2012 And when he learns something of Our revelations, he takes them in mockery. For such there is a shameful punishment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when he knoweth aught of Our revelations he maketh it a jest. For such there is a shameful doom
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and when he knows something of our signs takes them for a jest! These,- for them is shameful woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when he becometh acquainted with any of our signs he turneth them into ridicule. These! a shameful punishment for them
George Sale1734 And who, when he cometh to the knowledge of any of our signs, receiveth the same with scorn. For these is prepared a shameful punishment
Easy-read (simplified)min waraa'ihim jahannamu walaa yughnee 'anhum maa kasaboo shay'an walaa maa takhadhoo min dooni llaahi awliyaa'a walahum 'adhaabun 'azeem
DIN 31635min warāʾihim ǧahannamu walā yuġnī ʿanhum mā kasabū šayʾan walā mā taḫaḏū min dūni llāhi ʾawliyāʾa walahum ʿaḏābun ʿaẓīmun
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Talal Itani2012 Beyond them lies Hell. What they have earned will not benefit them at all, nor will those they adopted as lords instead of God. They will have a terrible punishment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Beyond them there is hell, and that which they have earned will naught avail them, nor those whom they have chosen for protecting friends beside Allah. Theirs will be an awful doom
Edward Henry Palmer1880 behind them is hell, and what they have earned shall not avail them aught, nor what they have taken besides God for patrons; and for them is mighty woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 Hell is behind them! and neither their gains nor the lords whom they have adopted beside God shall avail them in the least: and theirs, a great punishment
George Sale1734 Before them lieth hell; and whatever they shall have gained shall not avail them at all, neither shall the idols which they have taken for their patrons, besides God: And they shall suffer a grievous punishment
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.65 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
Talal Itani · George Sale0.74
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.73
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.72
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.68
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.56
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.51
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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.