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Talal Itani· published 2012
Whenever I called them to Your forgiveness, they thrust their fingers into their ears, and wrapped themselves in their garments, and insisted, and became more and more arrogant.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And lo! whenever I call unto them that Thou mayst pardon them they thrust their fingers in their ears and cover themselves with their garments and persist (in their refusal) and magnify themselves in pride
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, verily, every time I called them, that Thou mightest pardon them, they placed their fingers in their ears and tried to cover themselves with their garments and persisted, and were very big with pride
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
So oft as I cry to them, that thou mayest forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears, and wrap themselves in their garments, and persist in their error, and are disdainfullydisdainful
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And whensoever I call them to the truefaith, that Thou mayest forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, and cover themselves with their garments, and persist in their infidelity, and proudlydisdain my counsel
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
Madje, sa herë që i thirrja që Ti t’i falje, ata fusnin gishtat në veshë, mbuloheshin me rroba, ngulnin këmbë (në mosbesim) dhe silleshin me mendjemadhësi.
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 আমি যখনই তাদেরকে আহ্বান করেছি, যাতে আপনি তাদেরকে ক্ষমা করেন, তখনই তারা তাদের আঙুলগুলো নিজেদের কানে দিয়েছে, নিজেদের কাপড় দিয়ে নিজেদেরকে ঢেকে নিয়েছে, (কুফরির ওপর) অটল থেকেছে এবং প্রবল অহংকার করেছে।
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
I kad god sam ih pozivao da im oprostiš, prste su svoje u uši stavljali i haljinama svojim se pokrivali – bili su uporni i pretjerano oholi.
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.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I kad god sam ih pozivao da im oprostiš, prste su svoje u uši stavljali i haljinama svojim se pokrivali – bili su uporni i pretjerano oholi.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Tuma kala kadi nde mi noddi ɓe fii no kafaranaa ɓe, ɓe mbaɗat kolli maɓɓe ɗiin ka ndeer noppi maɓɓe, ɓe buumora comci maɓɓe ɗiin, ɓe deppitoo, ɓe townitora townitaadee.
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ქართული · Georgian
და უეჭველად, ყოველ ჯერზე, როცა მე მათ მოვუწოდებდი (შენს მიმართ რწმენისა და შენდამი სრული დამორჩილებისკენ), რათა შენ მათ (ამით) მიუტევო მათი ცოდვები, ისინი თავიანთ თითებს ყურებში იდებდნენ, და თავიანთი სამოსით იფარებოდნენ (რომ მე არ დამინახონ), ჯიუტად რჩებოდნენ (თავიანთ ურწმუნოებაში) და დიდ ქედმაღლობას ავლენდნენ.
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Deutsch · German
Und wahrlich, jedes Mal, wenn ich sie aufrief, damit Du ihnen vergibst, steckten sie ihre Finger in ihre Ohren, hüllten sich in ihre Gewänder, verharrten (im Irrtum) und verhielten sich sehr hochmütig.
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
Και στ’ αλήθεια κάθε φορά που τους καλούσα, για να τους συγχωρέσεις, έβαζαν τα δάχτυλά τους στ’ αυτιά τους, καλύπτονταν με τα ενδύματά τους και επέμεναν (στην άρνησή τους), και συμπεριφέρονταν πολύ αλαζονικά.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और निःसंदेह मैंने जब भी उन्हें बुलाया, ताकि तू उन्हें क्षमा कर दे, तो उन्होंने अपनी उँगलियाँ अपने कानों में डाल लीं तथा अपने कपड़े ओढ़ लिए[2] और हठ दिखाया और बड़ा घमंड किया।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E in verità ogni volta che li ho avvertiti, perché Tu li perdonassi, mettevano le dita nelle orecchie, si coprivano la testa con gli abiti e perseveravano nella loro superbia.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
7. Ir tikrai, kaskart, kai aš kviečiau juos, kad Tu galėtum atleisti jiems, jie įsikišdavo savo pirštus į savo ausis, apsidengdavo savo apdarais, būdavo užsispyrę ir išpuikę (didžiu) pasipūtimu.
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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
Воистину, всякий раз, когда я призывал их, чтобы Ты простил их, они затыкали уши пальцами, закутывались в свои одежды, упорствовали и проявляли великое высокомерие.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
И кад год сам их позивао да им опростиш, своје су прсте у уши стављали и својим хаљинама су се покривали - били су упорни и претерано охоли.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na hakika mimi kila nilipowaita ili upate kuwaghufiria, walijiziba masikio yao kwa vidole vyao, na wakajigubika nguo zao, na wakakamia, na wakatakabari vikubwa mno!
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Svenska · Swedish
Varje gång jag kallat dem till din förlåtelse har de stoppat fingrarna i öronen, svept sina kläder om sig, stått fast i sitt trots och uppträtt med stort högmod.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Doğrusu ben onları bağışlaman için her davet edişimde, onlar parmaklarını kulaklarına tıkadılar, örtülerini başlarına çektiler, direttiler ve kibirlendikçe kibirlendiler.
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اردو · Urdu
میں نے جب کبھی انہیں تیری بخشش کے لیے بلایا[1] انہوں نے اپنی انگلیاں اپنے کانوں میں ڈال لیں[2] اور اپنے کپڑوں کو اوڑھ لیا[3] اور اڑ گئے[4] اور بڑا تکبر کیا.[5]
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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2,079
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6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.72
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.69
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.68
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.66
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.64
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.63
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.60
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.58
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
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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.