Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.
Recall when We dispatched towards you a number of jinn, to listen to the Quran. When they came in its presence, they said, "Payattention!" Then, when it was concluded, they rushed to their people, warning them.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And when We inclined toward thee (Muhammad) certain of the jinn, who wished to hear the Qur'an and, when they were in its presence, said: Give ear! and, when it was finished, turned back to their people, warning
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 when we turned towards thee some of the ginn listening to the Qur'an, and when they were present at (the reading of) it, they said, 'Be silent!' and when it was over they turned back to their people, warning them
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And remember when we turned aside a company of the djinn to thee, that they might hearken to the Koran: and no sooner were they present at its reading than they said to each other, "Hist;" and when it was ended, they returned to their people with warnings
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Remember when We caused certain of the genii to turn aside unto thee, that they might hear the Koran: And when they were present at the reading of the same, they said to one another, give ear: And when it was ended, they returned back unto their people, preaching what they had heard
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
Kujto kur dërguam te ti një grup xhinësh për të dëgjuar Kuranin, të cilët, kur arritën aty, thanë: "Heshtni (e dëgjoni me vëmendje)!" Kur përfundoi (leximi), u kthyen te populli i tyre për t'ua tërhequr vërejtjen,
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
হে রাসূল! সে সময়ের কথা স্মরণ কর, যখন আমি জিনদের একটি দলকে তোমার কাছে পাঠিয়েছিলাম। তারা আল-কুরআন পাঠ শুনছিল। যখন তারা তার কাছে উপস্থিত হল, তখন তারা বলল: ‘চুপ করে (আল-কুরআন) শোন। তারপর যখন পাঠ শেষ হল তখন তারা তাদের সম্প্রদায়ের কাছে সতর্ককারী হিসেবে ফিরে গেল।
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
Kad ti poslasmo nekoliko džina da Kur’an slušaju, kad dođoše da ga čuju, oni rekoše: “Šutite i slušajte!” A kad se završi, vratiše se narodu svom da opominju.
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
Kad ti poslasmo nekoliko džina da Kuran slušaju, kad dođoše da ga čuju, oni rekoše: “Šutite i pomno slušajte!” A kad se završi, vratiše se narodu svom da opominju.
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
Jaŋto tuma nde Min imminnoo fedde jinna e maaɗa, hiɗi heɗoo Alqur'aana. Nde ɗi tawanoo ɗum, ɗi mbi'i: "Heɗee"...Nde [janngin kin] timmunoo, ɗi huccitiri ka yimɓe majji, jeertinooji.
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 (უთხარი მათ, ო, შუამავალო), როგორ გამოვგზავნეთ შენთან ჯინების ერთი ჯგუფი, რათა ყურანი მოესმინათ. როდესაც ისინი მასთან (იქ სადაც ყურანი იკითხებოდა) მივიდნენ, მათ [ჯინებმა] ერთმანეთს უთხრეს: «გაჩუმდით (და ყურადღებით მოისმინეთ)!» და როდესაც (ყურანის წაკითხვა) დასრულდა, ისინი თავიანთ ხალხთან დაბრუნდნენ შემგონებლებად.
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 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und (gedenke,) als Wir eine kleinere Schar Jinn veranlassten, sich zu dir zu begeben und dem Quran zuzuhören. Als sie dann bei ihm zugegen waren, sagten sie: „Horcht hin!“ Als er (also der Prophet) dann zum Ende kam, kehrten sie warnend zu ihrem Volk zurück.
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
(Ανάφερε, ω, Προφήτη) όταν κάναμε να έρθει σε σένα μία ομάδα από τα Τζινν για να ακούσει το Κορ’άν. Όταν ήρθαν για να το ακούσουν, είπαν: «Ακούστε με προσοχή!» Και όταν τελείωσε, επέστρεψαν στον λαό τους για να τους προειδοποιήσουν (για την τιμωρία του Αλλάχ).
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 जब हमने तुम्हारी ओर जिन्नों के एक गिरोह[19] को फेरा, जो क़ुरआन को ध्यान से सुनते थे। तो जब वे उसके पास पहुँचे, तो उन्होंने कहा : चुप हो जाओ। फिर जब वह पूरा हो गया, तो अपनी क़ौम की ओर सचेतकर्ता बनकर लौटे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
»E abbiamo rivolto alcuni demoni verso di te per ascoltare il Corano, e quando furono presenti, dissero: «Ascoltate!» Quando la recitazione terminò, ritornarono dalla loro gente come ammonitori.
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
29. Ir (atmink) kuomet Mes išsiuntėme link tavęs (Muchammedai ﷺ) džinų grupę, besiklausančių Korano. Ir tuomet, išgirdę jį, jie pasakė: „Klausykitės tylėdami“. Ir tam pasibaigus jie grįžo pas savo žmones juos perspėdami.
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
(Yaa Muhammad!) Yeroo garee jinnoota irraa ta’e gara keetti garagalchine [yaadadhu] kan Qur’aana dhageeffatan ta’anii, Yeroo isa bira dhufan “cal’isaa (dhageeffadhaa)” (waliin) jedhan. Yeroo inni xumuramu immoo dinniintota ta’anii gara ummattoota isaanii deebi’an. [5]
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
Вот Мы направили к тебе группу джиннов, которые слушали Коран. И когда они явились к нему, то сказали: «Молчите и слушайте!» А когда [чтение] было завершено, они вернулись к своему народу предостерегающими.
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 када ти посласмо неколико духова да слушају Кур'ан, па када дођоше да га чују, рекоше: „Ћутите и слушајте!“ А кад се заврши, вратише се своме народу да упозоравају.
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 wakati tulipowaleta kundi la majini kuja kwako kusikiliza Qur-ani. Basi walipoihudhuria, walisema: 'Sikilizeni!' Na ilipokwisha somwa, walirudi kwa kaumu yao kwenda kuwaonya.
Issued by the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Minns när vi förde en grupp jinner till dig för att lyssna till Koranen. När de kom dit sa de till varandra: ”Lyssna i tysthet!” När [recitationen] var över, återvände de till sitt folk för att varna dem.
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
Hani cinlerden bir grubu, Kur’an'ı dinlemeleri için sana yöneltmiştik. Kur’an'ı dinlemeye hazır olunca (birbirlerine); "Susup, dinleyin!" demişler, Kur'an'ın okunması bitince uyarıcılar olarak kavimlerine dönmüşlerdi.
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
اور یاد کرو! جبکہ ہم نے جنوں کی ایک جماعت کو تیری طرف متوجہ کیا کہ وه قرآن سنیں، پس جب (نبی کے) پاس پہنچ گئے تو (ایک دوسرے سے) کہنے لگے خاموش ہو جاؤ[1] ، پھر جب پڑھ کر ختم ہوگیا[2] تو اپنی قوم کو خبردار کرنے کے لئے واپس لوٹ گئے.
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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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
Talal Itani2012 They said, "O our people, we have heard a Scripture, sent down after Moses, confirming what came before it. It guides to the truth, and to a straight path.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They said: O our people! Lo! we have heard a scripture which hath been revealed after Moses, confirming that which was before it, guiding unto the truth and a right road
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Said they, 'O our people! verily, we have heard a book sent down after Moses, verifying what came before it, guiding to the truth, and unto the right way
John Medows Rodwell1861 They said, "O our people! verily we have been listening to a book sent down since the days of Moses, affirming the previous scriptures; it guideth to the truth, and to the right way
George Sale1734 They said our people, verily we have heard a book read unto us, which hath been revealed since Moses, confirming the scripture which was delivered before it; and directing unto the truth, and the right way
Easy-read (simplified)yaa qawmanaa ajeeboo daa'iya llaahi wa'aaminoo bihi yaghfir lakum min dhunoobikum wayujirkum min 'adhaabin aleem
DIN 31635yā qawmanā ʾaǧībū dāʿiya llāhi waʾāminū bihi yaġfir lakum min ḏunūbikum wayuǧirkum min ʿaḏābin ʾalīmin
Talal Itani2012 O our people! Answer the caller to God, and believe in Him; and He will forgive you your sins, and will save you from a painful punishment."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O our people! respond to Allah's summoner and believe in Him. He will forgive you some of your sins and guard you from a painful doom
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O our people! respond to God's crier and believe in Him, and He will pardon you your sins and will deliver you from grievous woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 O our people! Obey the Summoner of God, and believe in him, that He may forgive your sins, and rescue you from an afflictive punishment
George Sale1734 Our people, obey God's preacher: And believe in him; that he may forgive you your sins, and may deliver you from a painful punishment
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
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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 · George Sale0.82
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.77
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.70
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.70
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.56
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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.