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Verily, We have created many of the jinn and the men whose end shall be Hell. They have hearts wherewith they understand not and they have eyes wherewith they see not and they have ears wherewith they hear not. They are like cattle; nay, they are even more astray. They are indeedaltogether heedless
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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
We have destined for Hell multitudes of jinn and humans. They have hearts with which they do not understand. They have eyes with which they do not see. They have ears with which they do not hear. These are like cattle. In fact, they are further astray. These are the heedless.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Already have We urged unto hell many of the jinn and humankind, having hearts wherewith they understand not, and having eyes wherewith they see not, and having ears wherewith they hear not. These are as the cattle - nay, but they are worse! These are the neglectful
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
We have created for hell many of the ginn and of mankind; they have hearts and they discern not therewith; they have eyes and they see not therewith; they have ears and they hear not therewith; they are like cattle, nay, they go more astray! these it is who care not
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Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Many, moreover, of the Djinn and men have we created for Hell. Hearts have they with which they understand not, and eyes have they with which they see not, and ears have they with which they hearken not. They are like the brutes: Yea, they go more astray: these are the heedless
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Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Sigurisht që Ne kemi krijuar për Xhehenem shumë xhinë dhe njerëz. Ata kanë zemra me të cilat nuk kuptojnë, sy me të cilët nuk shohin dhe veshë me të cilët nuk dëgjojnë. Ata janë si bagëtia, madje edhe më të humbur. Ata janë të shkujdesurit.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর আমি অবশ্যই বহু জিন ও মানবকে জাহান্নামের জন্য সৃষ্টি করেছি। তাদের অন্তর আছে; কিন্তু তা দ্বারা তারা অনুধাবন করতে পারে না। তাদের চোখ আছে; তবে তা দ্বারা তারাদেখে না। আর তাদের কান আছে; কিন্তু তা দ্বারা তারা শুনে না। মূলত তারা চতুষ্পদ জন্তুর মতো; বরং তারা এর চেয়েও অধিক পথভ্রষ্ট। তারাই হচ্ছে প্রকৃত গাফিল।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Mi smo za Džehennem mnoge džine i ljude stvorili; oni srca imaju – a njima ne shvataju, oni oči imaju – a njima ne vide, oni uši imaju – a njima ne čuju; oni su kao stoka, čak i gori – oni su baš nemarni.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Mi smo za Pakao mnoge džine i ljude stvorili; oni srca imaju – a njima ne shvaćaju, oni oči imaju – a njima ne vide, oni uši imaju – a njima ne čuju; oni su kao stoka, čak i gori – oni su baš nemarni.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Gooŋɗii min taganii Jahannama ko ɗuuɗi e jinna e yimɓe. Heɓe mari ɓerɗe, ɓe faamirtaa ɗe. Hiɓe mari gite, ɓe njiirtaa ɗe. Hiɓe mari noppi, ɓe nanirtaa ɗi. ɓeen no mb'i wa neemoraaɗi, toode ko kamɓe ɓuri majjude. Ko ɓeen ngoni welsindiiɓe ɓen.
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ქართული · Georgian
და უკვე შევქმენით ჯოჯოხეთისთვის მრავალი ჯინი და ადამიანი: მათ აქვთ გულები, რომლებითაც ვერ იგებენ; აქვთ თვალები, რომლებითაც ვერ ხედავენ (ალლაჰის ნიშნებს); აქვთ ყურები, რომლებითაც ვერ ისმენენ. ასეთნი არიან პირუტყვივით, კიდევ უფრო მეტად გზააცდენილნიც კი. ასეთნი არიან უგულისყურონი.
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Deutsch · German
Und Wir haben ja bereits viele von den Jinn und den Menschen für die Hölle erschaffen. Sie haben Herzen, mit denen sie nicht verstehen; sie haben Augen, mit denen sie nicht sehen; und sie haben Ohren, mit denen sie nicht hören. Jene sind wie das Vieh. Vielmehr sind sie noch irregeleiteter! Jene sind (ja) die Unachtsamen.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Πράγματι, έχουμε δημιουργήσει για την Κόλαση πολλά τζινν και ανθρώπους (που ξέραμε ότι θα διαπράττουν τις πράξεις που θα τους εισάγουν στη Φωτιά). Έχουν καρδιές με τις οποίες δεν καταλαβαίνουν, μάτια με τα οποία δε βλέπουν και αυτιά με τα οποία δεν ακούν. Εκείνοι είναι σαν τα βοοειδή, είναι στ' αλήθεια ακόμη πιο παραστρατημένοι. Εκείνοι είναι αυτοί που αδιαφορούν (για την πίστη στον Αλλάχ και στην Έσχατη Ημέρα).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
और निःसंदेह हमने बहुत-से जिन्न और इनसान जहन्नम ही के लिए पैदा किए हैं। उनके दिल हैं, जिनसे वे समझते नहीं, उनकी आँखें हैं, जिनसे वे देखते नहीं और उनके कान हैं, जिनसे वे सुनते नहीं। ये लोग पशुओं के समान हैं; बल्कि ये उनसे भी अधिक गुमराह हैं। यही लोग हैं जो ग़फ़लत में पड़े हुए हैं।[68]
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
E abbiamo creato per l’Inferno molti dei demoni e degli umani ﴿كَثِيرًا مِنَ الْجِنِّ وَالْإِنْسِ﴾: hanno cuori con i quali non comprendono ﴿لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لَا يَفْقَهُونَ بِهَا﴾, e hanno degli occhi coi quali non vedono ﴿وَلَهُمْ أَعْيُنٌ لَا يُبْصِرُونَ بِهَا﴾, e hanno delle orecchie con le quali non sentono ﴿وَلَهُمْ آَذَانٌ لَا يَسْمَعُونَ بِهَا﴾; quelli sono come gli animali ﴿أُولَئِكَ كَالْأَنْعَامِ﴾, anzi sono peggio ﴿بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ﴾: quelli sono i distratti.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
179. Ir tikrai, Mes sukūrėme daug iš džinų ir žmonijos Pragarui. Jie turi širdis, kuriomis jie nesupranta, ir jie turi akis, kuriomis jie nemato, ir jie turi ausis, kuriomis jie negirdi (tiesos). Jie yra kaip galvijai. Ne, dar labiau paklydę, tie! Jie yra nerūpestingieji!
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Русский · Russian
Действительно, Мы сотворили для Геенны многих из джиннов и людей. У них сердца, которыми они не понимают, у них глаза, которыми они не видят, и у них уши, которыми они не слышат. Такие — словно скот. Нет, напротив, они ещё более заблудшие. Такие и есть беспечные.
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Српски · Serbian
Ми смо за Пакао многе духове и људе створили; они срца имају - а њима не схватају, они очи имају - а њима не виде, они уши имају - а њима не чују; они су као стока, чак и гори - они су заиста немарни.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na hakika tumeiumbia Jahannamu wengi katika majini na watu. Wana nyoyo wasizofahamu kwazo. Na wana macho wasiyoona kwayo. Na wana masikio wasiyosikia kwayo. Hao ni kama wanyama wa mifugo, bali wao ni wapotovu zaidi. Hao ndio walioghafilika.
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Svenska · Swedish
Vi har skapat många jinner och människor för helvetet. De har hjärtan de inte förstår med, ögon de inte ser med och öron de inte hör med. De är som boskap, men de är ännu mer vilsegångna. Det är de som är de obrydda.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Andolsun, biz cinler ve insanlardan birçoğunu Cehennem için yaratmışızdır. Çünkü onların kalpleri vardır ama kavrayıp anlamazlar. Gözleri vardır, onunla görmezler; kulakları vardır, onunla işitmezler. Onlar hayvanlar gibidir, hatta onlardan daha şaşkındırlar.
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اردو · Urdu
اور ہم نے ایسے بہت سے جن اور انسان دوزخ کے لیے پیدا کئے ہیں[1] ، جن کے دل ایسے ہیں جن سے نہیں سمجھتے اور جن کی آنکھیں ایسی ہیں جن سے نہیں دیکھتے اور جن کے کان ایسے ہیں جن سے نہیں سنتے۔ یہ لوگ چوپایوں کی طرح ہیں بلکہ یہ ان سے بھی زیاده گمراه ہیں[2]۔ یہی لوگ غافل ہیں۔
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Talal Itani2012 To God belong the Most Beautiful Names, so call Him by them, and disregard those who blaspheme His names. They will be repaid for what they used to do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Allah's are the fairest names. Invoke Him by them. And leave the company of those who blaspheme His names. They will be requited what they do
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But God's are the good names; call on Him then thereby, and leave those who pervert His names; they shall be rewarded for that which they have done
John Medows Rodwell1861 Most excellent titles hath God: by these call ye on Him, and stand aloof from those who pervert his titles. For what they have done shall they be repaid
George Sale1734 And to God alone belong all perfect attributes. So call on Him by these attributes. And leave alone those who deviate from the right way with respect to His attributes. They shall be requited for what they do
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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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.57
Talal Itani · George Sale0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.53
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.52
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.50
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.49
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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.