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Talal Itani· published 2012
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.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Such were the townships. We relate some tidings of them unto thee (Muhammad). Their messengers verily came unto them with clear proofs (of Allah'sSovereignty), but they could not believe because they had before denied. Thus doth Allahprint upon the hearts of disbelievers (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
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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
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 po të tregojmë ty disa nga ndodhitë e këtyre qyteteve. Atyre u erdhën të dërguarit e tyre me dëshmi të qarta, por ata nuk do të besonin atë që kishin përgënjeshtruar më parë. Kështu i vulos Allahu zemrat e jobesimtarëve.
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বাংলা · Bengali
এসব জনপদের(২০) কিছু সংবাদ আমি তোমার কাছে বর্ণনা করছি, তাদের কাছে তাদের রাসূলগণ সুস্পষ্ট প্রমাণসহ এসেছিল; কিন্তু পূর্বে তারা যে বিষয়কে একবার মিথ্যারোপ করেছিল, এর ওপর তদের ঈমান আনার ছিল না।(২১) এভাবেই আল্লাহ কাফিরদের অন্তরে মোহর মেরে দেন।(২২)
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Bosanski · Bosnian
O tim naseljima Mi ti neke događaje kazujemo. Poslanici njihovi jasne su im dokaze donosili, ali oni nisu povjerovali zato što ni prije nisu vjerovali. Eto, tako Allah srca nevjernika zapečati.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
O tim naseljima Mi ti neke događaje kazujemo. Poslanici njihovi jasne su im dokaze donosili, ali oni nisu povjerovali zato što ni prije nisu vjerovali. Eto, tako Allah srca nevjernika zapečati.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɗeen ce'e, miɗen fillano maa kumpite majje. Gooŋɗii nulaaɓe maɓɓe ɓen ngaddanii ɓe ɓanngannduyeeji, ɓe ngonaano gooŋɗinooɓe ko ɓe njeddi kon ko adii. Ko wano nii All notirta e ɓerɗe heeferɓe ɓeen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
აი, ეს დასახლებები — ჩვენ გიყვებით შენ მათ შესახებ ცნობებს (ო, მოციქულო). და მართლაც, მოვიდნენ მათთან მათი მოციქულები ნათელი ნიშნებით, მაგრამ ისინი არ იყვნენ ისეთნი, რომ ერწმუნათ ის, რაც ადრე უარყვეს. ასე ბეჭდავს ალლაჰი ურწმუნოთა გულებს.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Dies sind die Ortschaften, über die Wir dir (einiges) von ihren Kunden erzählen. Ihre Gesandten kamen bereits zu ihnen mit den klaren Beweisen, aber sie konnten nicht an das glauben, was sie zuvor für Lüge erklärt hatten. Auf diese Weise versiegelt Allah die Herzen der Ungläubigen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Αυτές οι (προαναφερόμενες) κωμοπόλεις, που για μερικές από τις ιστορίες των οποίων (για την απιστία τους και την τιμωρία τους) σε ενημερώνουμε (ω, Μωχάμμαντ, για να είναι μία νουθεσία για τους ανθρώπους). Πράγματι, τους ήρθαν οι Αγγελιαφόροι τους με σαφείς αποδείξεις, αλλά δε γινόταν να πιστέψουν σ' αυτές (τις αποδείξεις) που είχαν ήδη διαψεύσει πριν (τις δουν). Έτσι ο Αλλάχ σφραγίζει τις καρδιές των άπιστων.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
ये बस्तियाँ हैं, हम (ऐ नबी!) आपसे उनके कुछ वृत्तान्त सुना रहे हैं। निःसंदेह उनके पास उनके रसूल खुले प्रमाण लेकर आए, तो वे ऐसे न थे कि उस चीज़ पर ईमान ले आते, जिसे वे इससे पहले झुठला[38] चुके थे। इसी प्रकार अल्लाह काफ़िरों के दिलों पर मुहर लगा देता है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Quelle erano le città di cui ora ti raccontiamo i fatti, nonostante fossero arrivati loro i Messaggeri con le evidenze, ma non hanno voluto credere in ciò che avevano smentito in passato. È così che Allāh sigilla i cuori ai miscredenti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
101. Tai buvo miestai, kurių istoriją Mes papasakojame tau (Muchammedai ﷺ ). Ir iš tiesų atėjo pas juos jų Pasiuntiniai su aiškiais įrodymais, tačiau nebuvo tokie, kurie patikėtų tuo, ką jis prieš tai neigė. Taigi Allahas užantspauduoja netikinčiųjų širdis (nuo bet kokio teisingo religinio vedimo).
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Magaalota kana (kan Nuuh irraa hanga ummata Shu’aybitti jiru) seenaalee isaanii irraa siif odeessina. Dhugumatti, ergamtoonni isaanii ragaawwan ifa ta’aniin isaanitti dhufaniiru, Waan san dura kijibsiisanitti kan amanan hin taane, Akka kanatti Rabbiin onnee kaafirootaa irratti cufa.[23]
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Те селения — Мы повествуем тебе некоторые из их известий. Действительно, их посланники приходили к ним с ясными знамениями, но они не могли уверовать в то, что прежде сочли ложью. Так Аллах запечатывает сердца отвергших веру.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
О тим насељима Ми ти неке догађаје казујемо. Њихови посланици доносили су им јасне доказе, али они нису поверовали зато што ни пре нису веровали. Ето, тако је Аллах запечатио срца неверника.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Miji hiyo, tunakusimulia katika habari zake. Na hakika waliwajia Mitume wao na hoja zilizo waziwazi. Lakini hawakuwa wenye kuamini yale waliyoyakadhibisha zamani. Namna hivi ndivyo Mwenyezi Mungu anavyoziba nyoyo za makafiri.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Detta är en del av det vi berättar för dig om dessa samhällen: deras sändebud kom till dem med klara bevis, men de kunde inte tro på det de förut hade förnekat. Så förseglar Gud de otrognas hjärtan.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
İşte bu sana haberlerini anlattığımız ülkelerdir. Onlara elçilerimiz apaçık delillerle gelmişlerdi de daha önce yalanladıklarına iman etmeye yanaşmadılar. İşte Allah, kâfirlerin kalplerini böyle mühürler.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
ان بستیوں کے کچھ کچھ قصے ہم آپ سے بیان کر رہے ہیں اور ان سب کے پاس ان کے پیغمبر معجزات لے کر آئے[1] ، پھر جس چیز کو انہوں نے ابتدا میں جھوٹا کہہ دیا یہ بات نہ ہوئی کہ پھر اس کو مان لیتے[2]، اللہ تعالیٰ اسی طرح کافروں کے دلوں پر بند لگا دیتا 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 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
Easy-read (simplified)awalam yahdi lilladheena yarithoona l-'arda min ba'di ahlihaa an law nashaa'u asabnaahum bidhunoobihim wanatba'u 'alaa quloobihim fahum laa yasma'oon
DIN 31635ʾawalam yahdi lillaḏīna yariṯūna l-ʾarḍa min baʿdi ʾahlihā ʾan law našāʾu ʾaṣabnāhum biḏunūbihim wanaṭbaʿu ʿalā qulūbihim fahum lā yasmaʿūna
Talal Itani2012 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?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 Is it not proved to those who inherit this land after its ancient occupants, that if we please we can smite them for their sins, and put a seal upon their hearts, that they hearken not
George Sale1734 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
DIN 31635ṯumma baʿaṯnā min baʿdihim mūsā biʾāyātinā ʾilā firʿawna wamalaʾihi faẓalamū bihā fānẓur kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu l-mufsidīna
Talal Itani2012 Then, after them, We sent Moses with Our miracles to Pharaoh and his establishment, but they denounced them. So consider the end of the evildoers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then, after them, We sent Moses with our tokens unto Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they repelled them. Now, see the nature of the consequence for the corrupters
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then we raised up after them Moses with our signs to Pharaoh and his chiefs; but they dealt unjustly therewith, and see what was the end of the evildoers
John Medows Rodwell1861 Then after them we sent Moses with our signs to Pharaoh and his nobles, who acted unjustly in their regard. But see what was the end of the corrupt doers
George Sale1734 Then, after them, We sent Moses with Our Signs to Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they unjustly rejected them. Behold, then, what was the end of those who created disorder
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.72
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.67
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.60
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · George Sale0.47
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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.