No people can hasten or delay the term already fixed for them.
No group may advance its appointed promise nor postpone it.
and no nation outstrips its term, nor do they put it back.
[but remember that] no community can ever forestall [the end of] its term - and neither can they delay [it].
No community precedeth the term thereof nor doth it fall behind.
No nation can anticipate its term, nor delay it.
No nation can bring its time forward, nor can they delay it.
No people can outstrip the term for its destruction nor can it delay it.
No nation can advance its term, nor delay it.
No nation can outstrip its term nor can they lag behind.
No nation can advance its time nor can it defer it.
No nation can outstrip its term, nor do they put it back.
No nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter.
Every nation can only live for the time appointed for it.
No people can hasten on their doom nor can they postpone (it).
M<u>a</u> tasbiqu min ommatin ajalah<u>a</u> wam<u>a</u> yastakhiroon<b>a</b>
no people can forestall their doom, nor can they delay it.
Neither can a people anticipate its term, nor delay it.
مَّا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسْتَـْٔخِرُونَ
A nation will not be destroyed before its appointed time, and its destruction will not be delayed when its time arrives. The wrongdoers should not have hope in Allah delaying their fate.
A nation will not be destroyed before its appointed time, and its destruction will not be delayed when its time arrives. The wrongdoers should not have hope in Allah delaying their fate.