سورة الحجر، الآية ٤
وَمَآ أَهْلَكْنَا مِن قَرْيَةٍ إِلَّا وَلَهَا كِتَابٌ مَّعْلُومٌ ٤
wamā ahlaknā min qaryatin illā walahā kitābun maʿlūmun
And We did not destroy any city but that for it was a known decree.
Verse 4 of Surah Al-Hijr (15:4), a Meccan surah, is in juz 14, on page 262 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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For each oppressive town that became destroyed, Allah already knew of its fixed time. The destruction will neither come before or after its time.
We never destroyed any town except that it had a destined time.
And never did We destroy a township but there was a known decree for it.
And We destroyed no township but there was a known decree for it.
Never did We destroy a population that had not a term decreed and assigned beforehand.
And never did We destroy a town but it had a term made known.
And in no way did We cause any town to perish except that it had a known (prescribed) Book.
وَجَعَلُوا۟ لِلَّهِ أَندَادًا لِّيُضِلُّوا۟ عَن سَبِيلِهِۦ قُلْ تَمَتَّعُوا۟ فَإِنَّ مَصِيرَكُمْ إِلَى ٱلنَّارِ
And they have attributed to Allāh equals to mislead [people] from His way. Say, "Enjoy yourselves, for indeed, your destination is the Fire."
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَمَآ أَهْلَكْنَا مِن قَرْيَةٍ إِلَّا لَهَا مُنذِرُونَ
And We did not destroy any city except that it had warners
