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.
They assumed there would be no punishment, so they turned blind and deaf. Then God redeemed them, but then again many of them turned blind and deaf. But God is Seeing of what they do.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
They thought no harm would come of it, so they were wilfully blind and deaf. And afterward Allah turned (in mercy) toward them. Now (even after that) are many of them wilfully blind and deaf. Allah is Seer of what they do
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 reckoned that there would be no disturbance; but they were blind and deaf! and then God turned again towards them: and then many amongst them were blind and deaf! but God saw what they did
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And they reckoned that no harm would come of it: - but they became blind and deaf! Then was God turned unto them: then many of them again became blind and deaf! but God beheld what they did
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And they imagined that there should be no punishment for those crimes, and they became blind, and deaf. Then was God turned unto them; afterwards many of them again became blind and deaf; but God saw what they did
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 menduan se nuk do të kishte ndëshkim, kështu që u bënë të verbër dhe të shurdhër. Pastaj Allahu ua pranoi atyre pendimin; por sërish shumë prej tyre u bënë të verbër dhe të shurdhër. Allahu sheh mirë gjithçka që bëjnë ata.
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 ভেবেছে যে, তাদের কোন বিপর্যয় হবে না।(১৩) ফলে তারা অন্ধ ও বধির হয়ে গিয়েছে।(১৪) অতঃপর আল্লাহ তাদের তাওবা কবুল করেছেন। অতঃপর তাদের অনেকে অন্ধ ও বধির হয়ে গিয়েছে। আর তারা যা আমল করে আল্লাহ তার সম্যক দ্রষ্টা।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Mislili su da neće na muke biti stavljeni, pa su bili i slijepi i gluhi, i onda kad je Allah primio pokajanje njihovo, mnogi od njih su opet bili i slijepi i gluhi; a Allah dobro vidi ono šta oni rade.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Mislili su da neće na muke biti stavljeni, pa su bili i slijepi i gluhi, i onda kad je Allah primio pokajanje njihovo, mnogi od njih su opet bili i slijepi i gluhi; a Allah dobro vidi ono šta oni rade.
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 tamƴinii fitna laatotaako, ɓe mbumi ɓe pah'ɗi. Refti Alla Jaɓani ɓe tuubuubuyee. Refti ko heewi e maɓɓe mbumi ɓe pahaɗi. Alla ko reenuɗo kon ko ɓe ngollata.
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ქართული · Georgian
და მათ [ისრაელის შთამომავლებმა] იფიქრეს, რომ არანაირი გამოცდა არ იქნებოდა. ამიტომ დაბრმავდნენ და დაყრუვდნენ [ჭეშმარიტების მოსასმენად]. შემდეგ, როცა მათ სასჯელი შეეხოთ და ალლაჰს მონანიებით მიმართეს, ალლაჰმა მიიღო მათი მონანიება. შემდეგ კი, როცა ჭეშმარიტება უკვე ნათელი გახდა, მათგან ბევრმა კვლავ დაბრმავდა და დაყრუვდა. და ჭეშმარიტად, ალლაჰი ხედავს იმას, რასაც ისინი აკეთებენ.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und sie meinten, dass es keine Versuchung gäbe. Und so waren sie blind und taub. Hierauf nahm Allah ihre Reue an, aber dann wurden viele von ihnen (wieder) blind und taub. Und Allah ist sehend über das, was sie tun.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Νόμιζαν ότι δεν θα υπάρξει τιμωρία (για ό,τι κακές πράξεις έκαναν), έτσι (συνέχισαν στους πόθους τους, και) έγιναν τυφλοί και κωφοί (από το να βλέπουν ή να ακούν την αλήθεια). Έπειτα (ο Αλλάχ τους έστειλε συμφορές, και έτσι στράφηκαν με μεταμέλεια προς τον Αλλάχ, και έτσι) ο Αλλάχ τους συγχώρεσε, αλλά και πάλι πολλοί απ' αυτούς έγιναν τυφλοί και κωφοί (από το να βλέπουν ή να ακούν την αλήθεια). Και ο Αλλάχ βλέπει όλα όσα κάνουν.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा उन्होंने सोचा कि कोई फ़ितना (परीक्षण या दंड) नहीं होगा, इसलिए वे अंधे और बहरे हो गए। फिर अल्लाह ने उन्हें क्षमा कर दिया। फिर उनमें से बहुत से अंधे और बहरे हो गए। तथा अल्लाह ख़ूब देखने वाला है, जो वे करते हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E credevano che non avrebbe portato nessuna tentazione; furono ciechi e sordi, poi Allāh li perdonò, ma furono ciechi e sordi molti di loro, e Allāh osserva le loro azioni.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
71. Jie galvojo, kad nebus Fitna (išbandymo arba bausmės), taigi jie tapo akli ir kurti. Po to Allahas atsigręžė į juos (su Atleidimu), tačiau vėl daugybė jų tapo akli ir kurti. Ir Allahas yra Visa Matantis tai, ką jie daro.
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Русский · Russian
И они думали, что не будет смуты, и поэтому ослепли и оглохли [в отношении истины]. Затем Аллах принял их покаяние, а затем многие из них [снова] ослепли и оглохли. Аллах — видящий то, что они совершают.
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Српски · Serbian
Мислили су да неће на муке да буду стављени, па су били и слепи и глуви, и онда кад је Аллах примио њихово покајање, многи од њих су опет били и слепи и глуви; а Аллах добро види оно шта они раде.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na wakadhani kuwa hapatakuwa majaribio; basi wakawa vipofu na viziwi. Kisha Mwenyezi Mungu akawapokelea toba zao. Kisha tena wengi katika wao wakawa vipofu na viziwi. Na Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mwenye kuyaona vyema hayo wayatendayo.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
De trodde att inga följder skulle drabba dem, så de gjorde sig blinda och döva [för sanningen]. Därefter tog Gud emot deras ånger, men många av dem blev åter blinda och döva. Gud har full insikt i allt de gör.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Bir fitnenin/azabın olmayacağını sandılar körleştiler, sağırlaştılar. Sonra Allah onların tevbesini kabul etti. Ardından yine onların çoğu körleşip, sağır oldular. Allah, yaptıklarını çok iyi görmektedir.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور سمجھ بیٹھے کہ کوئی پکڑ نہ ہوگی، پس اندھے بہرے بن بیٹھے، پھر اللہ تعالیٰ نے ان کی توبہ قبول کی، اس کے بعد بھی ان میں سے اکثر اندھے بہرے ہوگئے[1] ۔ اللہ تعالیٰ ان کے اعمال کو بخوبی دیکھنے واﻻ ہے۔
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 Those who believe, and the Jews, and the Sabians, and the Christians-whoever believes in God and the Last Day, and does what is right-they have nothing to fear, nor shall they grieve.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Lo! those who believe, and those who are Jews, and Sabaeans, and Christians - Whosoever believeth in Allah and the Last Day and doeth right - there shall no fear come upon them neither shall they grieve
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Verily, those who believe and those who are Jews, and the Sabaeans, and the Christians, whosoever believes in God and the last day, and does what is right, there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve
John Medows Rodwell1861 Verily, they who believe, and the Jews, and the Sabeites, and the Christians - whoever of them believeth in God and in the last day, and doth what is right, on them shall come no fear, neither shall they be put to grief
George Sale1734 Verily they who believe, and those who judaize, and the Sabians, and the Christians, whoever of them believeth in God and the last day, and doth that which is right, there shall come no fear on them, neither shall they be grieved
Talal Itani2012 We made a covenant with the Children of Israel, and We sent to them messengers. Whenever a messenger came to them with what their souls did not desire, some of them they accused of lying, and others they put to death.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 We made a covenant of old with the Children of Israel and We sent unto them messengers. As often as a messenger came unto them with that which their souls desired not (they became rebellious). Some (of them) they denied and some they slew
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We took a compact of the children of Israel, and we sent to them apostles; every time there came to them an apostle with what their souls loved not, a part of them they did call liars and a part of them they slew
John Medows Rodwell1861 Of old we accepted the covenant of the children of Israel, and sent Apostles to them. Oft as an Apostle came to them with that for which they had no desire, some they treated as liars, and some they slew
George Sale1734 We formerly accepted the covenant of the children of Israel, and sent apostles unto them. So often as an apostle came unto them with that which their souls desired not, they accused some of them of imposture, and some of them they killed
DIN 31635laqad kafara llaḏīna qālū ʾinna llāha huwa l-masīḥu bnu maryama waqāla l-masīḥu yā banī ʾisrāʾīla ʿbudū llāha rabbī warabbakum ʾinnahu man yušrik billāhi faqad ḥarrama llāhu ʿalayhi l-ǧannata wamaʾwāhu n-nāru wamā lilẓẓālimīna min ʾanṣārin
Talal Itani2012 They disbelieve those who say, "God is the Messiah the son of Mary." But the Messiah himself said, "O Children of Israel, worship God, my Lord and your Lord. Whoever associates others with God, God has forbidden him Paradise, and his dwelling is the Fire. The wrongdoers have no saviors."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They surely disbelieve who say: Lo! Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary. The Messiah (himself) said: O Children of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord. Lo! whoso ascribeth partners unto Allah, for him Allah hath forbidden paradise. His abode is the Fire. For evil-doers there will be no helpers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They misbelieve who say, 'Verily, God is the Messiah the son of Mary;' but the Messiah said, 'O children of Israel! worship God, my Lord and your Lord;' verily, he who associates aught with God, God hath forbidden him Paradise, and his resort is the Fire, and the unjust shall have none to help them
John Medows Rodwell1861 Infidels now are they who say, "God is the Messiah, Son of Mary;" for the Messiah said, "O children of Israel! worship God, my Lord and your Lord." Whoever shall join other gods with God, God shall forbid him the Garden, and his abode shall be the Fire; and the wicked shall have no helpers
George Sale1734 They are surely infidels, who say, verily God is Christ the son of Mary; since Christ said, O children of Israel, serve God, my Lord and your Lord; whoever shall give a companion unto God, God shall exclude him from paradise, and his habitation shall be hell fire; and the ungodly shall have none to help them
Talal Itani2012 They disbelieve those who say, "God is the third of three." But there is no deity except the One God. If they do not refrain from what they say, a painful torment will befall those among them who disbelieve.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They surely disbelieve who say: Lo! Allah is the third of three; when there is no Allah save the One Allah. If they desist not from so saying a painful doom will fall on those of them who disbelieve
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They misbelieve who say, 'Verily, God is the third of three;' for there is no God but one, and if they do not desist from what they say, there shall touch those who misbelieve amongst them grievous woe
John Medows Rodwell1861 They surely are Infidels who say, "God is the third of three:" for there is no God but one God: and if they refrain not from what they say, a grievous chastisement shall light on such of them as are Infidels
George Sale1734 They are certainly infidels, who say, God is the third of three: For there is no God, besides one God; and if they refrain not from what they say, a painful torment shall surely be inflicted on such of them as are unbelievers
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.58 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
computed, not judged.
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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.78
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.72
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · George Sale0.53
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.49
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.47
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.46
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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.