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And verily We had empowered them with that wherewith We have not empowered you, and had assigned them ears and eyes and hearts; but their ears and eyes and hearts availed them naught since they denied the revelations of Allah; and what they used to mock befell them
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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
We had empowered them in the sameway as We empowered you; and We gave them the hearing, and the sight, and the minds. But neither their hearing, nor their sight, nor their minds availed them in any way. That is because they disregarded the revelations of God; and so they becamesurrounded by what they used to ridicule.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
We had established them in what we have established you, and we made for them hearing and eyesight and hearts; but neither their hearing nor their eyesight nor their hearts availed them aught, since they did gainsay the signs of God, and that encompassed them whereat they had mocked
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
With power had we endued them, even as with power have we endued you; and we had given them ears and eyes and hearts: yet neither their eyes, nor their ears, nor their hearts aided them at all, when once they gainsaid the signs of God; but that punishment which they had mocked at enveloped them on all sides
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
We had established them in the likeflourishingcondition wherein We have established you, Omen of Mecca; and We had given them ears, and eyes, and hearts: Yet neither their ears, nor their eyes, nor their hearts profited them at all, when they rejected the signs of God; but the vengeance which they mocked at, fell upon them
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
Ne u dhamë atyre fuqi që nuk ju kemi dhënë juve. Ua dhuruam edhe të dëgjuarit, të parët dhe zemrat, por as dëgjimi, as shikimi e as zemrat nuk u sollën atyre kurrfarë dobie, sepse i mohuan ajetet e Allahut, prandaj ata i përfshiu dënimi me të cilin talleshin.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর অবশ্যই আমি তাদেরকে যেভাবে প্রতিষ্ঠিত করেছিলাম, তোমাদেরকে সেভাবে প্রতিষ্ঠিত করিনি।(৮) আর আমি তাদেরকে কান, চোখ ও হৃদয় দিয়েছিলাম; কিন্তু তারা যখন আমার আয়াতসমূহকে অস্বীকার করত, তখন তাদের কান, তাদের চোখ ও তাদের হৃদয়সমূহ তাদের কোন উপকারে আসেনি। আর তারা যা (যে শাস্তি) নিয়ে ঠাট্টা-বিদ্রুপ করত, তা-ই তাদের ওপর আপতিত হলো।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Njima smo dali mogućnosti koje vama nismo dali. I sluh i vid i razum smo im dali, ali im ni sluh njihov ni vid njihov ni razum njihov nisu ni od kakve koristi bili, jer su Allahove dokaze poricali – i sa svih strana ih je okružilo ono čemu su se ismijavali.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Njima smo dali mogućnosti koje vama nismo dali. I sluh i vid i razum smo im dali, ali im ni sluh njihov ni vid njihov ni razum njihov nisu ni od kakve koristi bili, jer su Allahove dokaze poricali – i sa svih strana ih je okružilo ono čemu su se ismijavali.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Gooŋɗii Min njeɗiino ɓe, e ko ko Min njeɗaali on e mum. Min mbaɗani ɓe nanɗe, e ji'iɗe e ɓerɗe. Kono ɗeen nanɗe maɓɓe, e j'iiɗe maɓɓe e ɓerɗe maɓɓe (fof) duncanaani ɓe goɗɗum, tawde ɓe laatino yeddooɓe aayeeje Allah ɗen. Ko ɓe njalkitatnoo ko jippii e maɓɓe.
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ქართული · Georgian
და ჩვენ მათ ისეთი ძალაუფლება მივეცით, როგორიც თქვენთვის არ მოგვიცია, და მივეცით მათ სმენა, მხედველობა და გულები. მაგრამ ვერაფერი უშველათ ვერც მათმა სმენამ, ვერც მხედველობამ და ვერც გულებმა, რადგან ისინი უარყოფდნენ ალლაჰის აიათებს, და გარს შემოერტყათ ის, რასაც დასცინოდნენ.
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Deutsch · German
Und Wir hatten ihnen ja bereits eine feste Stellung verliehen darin, worin Wir euch keine feste Stellung verliehen haben. Und Wir hatten ihnen Gehör, Augenlicht und Herzen gegeben. Aber weder ihr Gehör, noch ihr Augenlicht, noch ihre Herzen nützten ihnen etwas, da sie die Zeichen Allahs zu verleugnen pflegten, und es umschloss sie das, worüber sie sich lustig zu machen pflegten.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Πράγματι, τους είχαμε δώσει τέτοια δύναμη που δε σας έχουμε δώσει (ω, φυλή Κουράις), και τους είχαμε δώσει ακοή, όραση και καρδιές (αλλά τα χρησιμοποίησαν στην ανυπακοή προς τον Αλλάχ), έτσι, ούτε η ακοή τους, ούτε η όρασή τους, ούτε οι καρδιές τους δεν τους προστάτεψαν σε τίποτε (από την τιμωρία), επειδή αρνήθηκαν (με αλαζονεία) τα Σημάδια του Αλλάχ. Έτσι, τους περικύκλωσε αυτή (η τιμωρία) που συνήθιζαν να τη χλευάζουν.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा निःसंदेह हमने उन्हें उन चीज़ों में शक्ति दी, जिनमें हमने तुम्हें शक्ति नहीं दी और हमने उनके लिए कान और आँखें और दिल बनाए, तो न उनके कान उनके किसी काम आए और न उनकी आँखें और न उनके दिल; क्योंकि वे अल्लाह की आयतों का इनकार करते थे तथा उन्हें उस चीज़ ने घेर लिया जिसका वे उपहास करते थे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
E avevamo loro concesso quello che non abbiamo concesso a voi, e li avevamo dotati di udito, vista, e cuori; ma udito, vista e cuori non li sono serviti a nulla, perché loro hanno respinto i Segni di Allāh, e furono circondati da ciò che deridevano.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
26. Iš tiesų, Mes sustiprinome juos tuo, kuo nebuvome sustiprinę jūsų (O Kuraiš)! Ir Mes jiems suteikėme klausą, regą, ir širdis. Bet jų klausa, rega, ir širdys nesuteikė jiems nieko, nes jie neigė Allaho Ajat (įrodymus, įkalčius, eilutes, pamokas, ženklus, apreiškimus ir t. t.), ir juos apsupo tai, iš ko jie tyčiojosi!
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Русский · Russian
И действительно, Мы укрепили их в том, в чём не укрепляли вас, и даровали им слух, зрение и сердца. Но ни слух, ни зрение, ни сердца нисколько не помогли им, когда они отвергали знамения Аллаха. И постигло их то, над чем они насмехались.
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Српски · Serbian
Њима смо дали могућности које вама нисмо дали: и дали смо им слух и вид и разум, али им ни њихов слух ни њихов вид ни њихов разум нису били ни од какве користи, јер су порицали Аллахове доказе, и са свих страна окружило их је оно чему су се исмејавали.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na bila ya shaka tuliwaweka vizuri siyo kama tulivyokuwekeni nyinyi, na tuliwapa uwezo wa kusikia, na kuona na ufahamu wa nyoyo. Na hayakuwafaa uwezo wao wa kusikia, na kuona na ufahamu wa nyoyo kwa lolote. Kwani hao walikuwa wakizikataa Ishara za Mwenyezi Mungu, na yale waliyokuwa wakiyafanyia masihara ndiyo yakawafika.
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Svenska · Swedish
Vi gav dem en styrka som ni själva aldrig fått och vi skänkte dem förmåga att höra, se och tänka. Men deras hörsel, syn och förstånd hjälpte dem inte det minsta när de förkastade Guds tecken, och just det [straff] de gjort sig lustiga över kom att omsluta dem helt och hållet.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Andolsun, size vermediğimiz imkânı/gücü onlara vermiştik. Kendilerine kulaklar, gözler ve kalpler vermiştik. Fakat kulakları, gözleri ve kalpleri kendilerine bir yarar sağlamadı. Çünkü Allah’ın ayetlerini inatla inkâr ediyorlardı. Alaya aldıkları şey onları kuşattı.
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اردو · Urdu
اور بالیقین ہم نے (قوم عاد) کو وه مقدور دیئے تھے جو تمہیں تو دیئے بھی نہیں اور ہم نے انہیں کان آنکھیں اور دل بھی دے رکھے تھے۔ لیکن ان کے کانوں اور آنکھوں اور دلوں نے انہیں کچھ بھی نفع نہ پہنچایا[1] جبکہ وه اللہ تعالیٰ کی آیتوں کا انکار کرنے لگے اور جس چیز کا وه مذاق اڑایا کرتے تھے وہی ان پر الٹ پڑی.[2]
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Easy-read (simplified)falammaa ra'awhu 'aaridan mustaqbila awdiyatihim qaaloo haadhaa 'aaridun mumtirunaa bal huwa maa sta'jaltum bihi reehun feehaa 'adhaabun aleem
DIN 31635falammā raʾawhu ʿāriḍan mustaqbila ʾawdiyatihim qālū hāḏā ʿāriḍun mumṭirunā bal huwa mā staʿǧaltum bihi rīḥun fīhā ʿaḏābun ʾalīmun
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Then, when they saw a cloud approaching their valley, they said, "This is a cloud that will bring us rain." "In fact, it is what you were impatient for: a wind in which is grievous suffering."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then, when they beheld it as a dense cloud coming toward their valleys, they said: Here is a cloud bringing us rain. Nay, but it is that which ye did seek to hasten, a wind wherein is painful torment
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when they saw a traversing cloud approaching their valleys they said, 'This is a cloud to give us rain.' 'Nay, but it is what ye sought to hasten on - a wind in which is grievous torment
John Medows Rodwell1861 So when they saw a cloud coming straight for their valleys, they said, "It is a passing cloud that shall give us rain." "Nay, it is that whose speedy coming ye challenged a blast wherein is an afflictive punishment
George Sale1734 And when they saw the preparation made for their punishment, namely, a cloud traversing the sky, and tending towards their valleys, they said, this is a traversing cloud, which bringeth us rain. Hud answered, nay; it is what ye demanded to be hastened: A wind, wherein is a severe vengeance
Talal Itani2012 It will destroy everything by the command of its Lord. And when the morning came upon them, there was nothing to be seen except their dwellings. Thus We requite the guilty people.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Destroying all things by commandment of its Lord. And morning found them so that naught could be seen save their dwellings. Thus do We reward the guilty folk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 it will destroy everything at the order of its Lord!' And in the morning naught was seen save their dwellings. Thus do we reward the sinful people
John Medows Rodwell1861 It will destroy everything at the bidding of its Lord!" And at morn nought was to be seen but their empty dwellings! Thus repay we a wicked people
George Sale1734 It will destroy every thing, at the command of its Lord. And in the morning nothing was to be seen, besides their empty dwellings. Thus do We reward wicked people
Easy-read (simplified)walaqad ahlaknaa maa hawlakum mina l-quraa wasarrafnaa l-'aayaati la'allahum yarji'oon
DIN 31635walaqad ʾahlaknā mā ḥawlakum mina l-qurā waṣarrafnā l-ʾāyāti laʿallahum yarǧiʿūna
Talal Itani2012 We have destroyed many townships around you, and diversified the signs, so that they may return.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And verily We have destroyed townships round about you, and displayed (for them) Our revelation, that haply they might return
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And we destroyed the cities that are around you:- and we turned about the signs that haply they might return
John Medows Rodwell1861 Of old, too, did we destroy the cities which were round about you; and, in order that they might return to us, we varied our signs before them
George Sale1734 We heretofore destroyed the cities which were round about you; and We variously proposed our signs unto them, that they might repent
Easy-read (simplified)falawlaa nasarahumu lladheena takhadhoo min dooni llaahi qurbaanan aalihatan bal dalloo 'anhum wadhaalika ifkuhum wamaa kaanoo yaftaroon
DIN 31635falawlā naṣarahumu llaḏīna taḫaḏū min dūni llāhi qurbānan ʾālihatan bal ḍallū ʿanhum waḏālika ʾifkuhum wamā kānū yaftarūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Why then did the idols, whom they worshiped as means of nearness to God, not help them? In fact, they abandoned them. It was their lie, a fabrication of their own making.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then why did those whom they had chosen for gods as a way of approach (unto Allah) not help them? Nay, but they did fail them utterly. And (all) that was their lie, and what they used to invent
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Why did not those help them, whom beside God they took for gods that could draw nigh to Him? Nay! they strayed away from them; for that was their lie and what they had forced
John Medows Rodwell1861 But did those whom they took for gods beside God as his kindred deities, help them? Nay, they withdrew from them. Such was their delusion, and their device
George Sale1734 Did those protect them, whom they took for gods, besides God, and imagined to be honoured with his familiarity? Nay; they withdrew from them: Yet this was their false opinion which seduced them, and the blasphemy which they had devised
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.77
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.75
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.75
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.63
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.52
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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.