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Talal Itani· published 2012
Is it not guidance for those who inherit the land after its inhabitants, that if We willed, We could strike them for their sins? And seal up their hearts, so that they would not hear?
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Is it not an indication to those who inherit the land after its people (who thus reaped the consequence of evil-doing) that, if We will, We can smite them for their sins and print upon their hearts so that they hear not
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
Is it not shown to those who inherit the earth after its (former) people, that, did we please, we would smite them in their sins, and would set a stamp upon their hearts, and then they should not hear
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Is it not proved to those who inherit this land after its ancientoccupants, that if we please we can smite them for their sins, and put a seal upon their hearts, that they hearken not
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Does it not lead those, who have inherited the earth in succession to its former inhabitants, to realize that if We please, We can smite them also for their sins and seal up their hearts, so that they would not listen to words of guidance
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
A nuk është e qartë për ata që trashëgojnë Tokën pas banorëve të saj të mëparshëm se, sikur të donim Ne, do t'i ndëshkonim për gjynahet e tyre dhe do t'ua vulosnim zemrat që të mos dëgjojnë?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
কোনো জনপদের অধিবাসীদের পর যারা তার উত্তরাধিকারী হয়, তাদের কাছে কি এ ব্যাপারটি সুস্পষ্ট নয় যে, আমি চাইলে তাদের পাপের কারণে তাদেরকে শাস্তি দিতে পারি? এমনকি আমি তাদের অন্তরেও মোহর মেরে দিতে পারি। ফলে তারা আর শুনবে না।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Zar nije jasno onima koji nasljeđuju Zemlju nakon prijašnjih stanovnika njezinih da ćemo i njih, ako budemo htjeli, zbog grijeha njihovih kazniti ili im srca zapečatiti, pa neće moći čuti?!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Zar nije jasno onima koji nasljeđuju Zemlju nakon prijašnjih stanovnika njezinih da ćemo i njih, ako budemo htjeli, zbog grijeha njihovih kazniti ili im srca zapečatiti, pa neće moći čuti?!
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
E ɓannganaali ɓeen ronooɓe leydi ɓeen ɓaawo (halkagol) yimɓe mayri ɓeen, won de si min muuyuno min meminirayno ɓe [lepte ɗen] bakkatuji maɓɓe ɗin? min tappa e ɓerɗe maɓɓe ɗeen hara kamɓe ɓe nanataa.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
განა არ აჩვენა (არ განუმარტა) მან მათ, რომლებმაც დაიმკვიდრეს მიწა მის (წინანდელ) მკვიდრთა შემდეგ რომ, თუ ჩვენ ვინებებდით, შევძლებდით ისინიც დაგვეღუპა მათი ცოდვების გამო, და დავბეჭდავდით მათ გულებს (რათა ვერ გაეგოთ ჭეშმარიტება), და აღარ მოისმენდნენ (დარიგებებს)?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Ist denn nicht denjenigen, die die Erde nach ihren (vorherigen) Bewohnern erben, deutlich geworden, dass, wenn Wir wollten, Wir sie für ihre Sünden getroffen hätten? Und Wir versiegeln ihre Herzen, sodass sie nicht hören.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Δεν έγινε σαφές σ' εκείνους που κατοικούν στη γη (κωμόπολη), μετά τον προηγούμενο λαό της (που καταστράφηκε λόγω των αμαρτιών του), ότι αν θέλαμε, θα τους τιμωρούσαμε για τις αμαρτίες τους και θα σφραγίζαμε τις καρδιές τους και έτσι, δεν θα άκουγαν;
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तो क्या उन लोगों के लिए यह तथ्य स्पष्ट नहीं हुआ, जो धरती के अगले वासियों के बाद उसके वारिस हुए कि यदि हम चाहें, तो उन्हें उनके पापों के कारण पकड़ लें और उनके दिलों पर मुहर लगा दें, फिर वे कोई बात न सुन सकें?
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Non è evidente a quelli che ereditano la terra dopo i suoi abitanti che, se volessimo, li puniremmo per i loro peccati, mettendo un sigillo sul loro cuore, così da non sentire più nulla?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
100. Argi neakivaizdu tiems, kurie paveldi žemę iš eilės iš jos (buvusiųjų) savininkų, kad jei Mes būtume norėję, būtume nubaudę juos už jų nuodėmes. Ir Mes užantspaudavome jų širdis, kad jie negirdėtų?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Sila isaannan dachii (dhumiinsa) warra ishee boodaan dhaalanuuf ifa hin taanee? nuti odoo feenee diliilee isaaniitiin isaan adabna? Onneewwan isaanii irratti cufna, isaan hin dhagayan.
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
Неужели не ясно тем, которые наследуют землю после её прежних обитателей, что, если Мы пожелаем, Мы поразим их за их грехи и запечатаем их сердца, так что они не будут слышать?
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
Зар није јасно онима који наслеђују Земљу након претходних њених становника да ћемо и њих, ако будемо хтели, због њихових греха да казнимо или да им срца запечатимо, па неће моћи да чују савет и опомену?!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Kwani haijawabainikia wale wanaoirithi ardhi baada ya waliokuwa wenyewe kwamba tukitaka tunawasibu kwa madhambi yao, na tukaziba nyoyo zao, kwa hivyo hawatasikia?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Har det inte blivit klart för de som övertagit landet efter dess tidigare invånare att vi, om vi ville, skulle kunna straffa dem för deras synder och försegla deras hjärtan så att de inte hör?
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Önceki sahiplerinden sonra yeryüzüne varis olanlara, hâlâ (şu gerçek) belli olmadı mı? Dilemiş olsaydık onları da, günahları yüzünden felakete uğratır ve kalpleri üzerine mühür basardık; böylece işitmez ve anlamaz duruma gelirlerdi.
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اردو · Urdu
اور کیا ان لوگوں کو جو زمین کے وارث ہوئے وہاں کے لوگوں کی ہلاکت کے بعد (ان واقعات مذکوره نے) یہ بات نہیں بتلائی کہ اگر ہم چاہیں تو ان کے جرائم کے سبب ان کو ہلاک کر ڈالیں اور ہم ان کے دلوں پر بند لگا دیں، پس وه نہ سن سکیں۔[1]
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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Easy-read (simplified)awa'amina ahlu l-quraa an ya'tiyahum ba'sunaa duhan wahum yal'aboon
DIN 31635ʾawaʾamina ʾahlu l-qurā ʾan yaʾtiyahum baʾsunā ḍuḥan wahum yalʿabūna
Talal Itani2012 Do the people of the towns feel secure that Our might will not come upon them by day, while they play?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Or are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them in the daytime while they play
Edward Henry Palmer1880 were the people of these cities secure that our violence would not come on them in the morning whilst they played
John Medows Rodwell1861 Were the people of those cities secure that our wrath would not light on them in broad day, while they were disporting themselves
George Sale1734 And are the people of these towns secure from the coming of Our punishment upon them in the early part of the forenoon while they play
Talal Itani2012 Do they feel safe from God's plan? None feel safe from God's plan except the losing people.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Are they then secure from Allah's scheme? None deemeth himself secure from Allah's scheme save folk that perish
Edward Henry Palmer1880 were they secure from the craft of God? none feel secure from the craft of God except a people that shall lose
John Medows Rodwell1861 Did they, therefore, deem themselves secure from the deep counsel of God? But none deem themselves secure from the deep counsel of God, save those who perish
George Sale1734 Are they then secure from the design of God? And none feels secure from the design of God save the people who are destined to perish
DIN 31635tilka l-qurā naquṣṣu ʿalayka min ʾanbāʾihā walaqad ǧāʾathum rusuluhum bil-bayyināti famā kānū liyuʾminū bimā kaḏḏabū min qablu kaḏālika yaṭbaʿu llāhu ʿalā qulūbi l-kāfirīna
Talal Itani2012 These towns-We narrate to you some of their tales. Their messengers came to them with the clear signs, but they would not believe in what they had rejected previously. Thus God seals the hearts of the disbelievers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Such were the townships. We relate some tidings of them unto thee (Muhammad). Their messengers verily came unto them with clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty), but they could not believe because they had before denied. Thus doth Allah print upon the hearts of disbelievers (that they hear not)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 These cities, we do relate to thee their stories. There came to them our apostles with manifest signs; but they did not at all believe in what they called a lie before.- Thus doth God set a stamp upon the hearts of those who misbelieve
John Medows Rodwell1861 We will tell thee the stories of these cities. Their apostles came to them with clear proofs of their mission; but they would not believe in what they had before treated as imposture. - Thus doth God seal up the hearts of the unbelievers
George Sale1734 Such were the towns some of whose news We have related to thee. And verily the Messengers came to them with clear Signs. But they would not believe what they had rejected before. Thus does God seal up the hearts of the disbelievers
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 —
0.56 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.62
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Talal Itani · George Sale0.53
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.52
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.51
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.