سورة الحجر، الآية ٥
مَّا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسْتَـْٔخِرُونَ ٥
mā tasbiqu min ummatin ajalahā wamā yastakhirūna
No nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter.
Verse 5 of Surah Al-Hijr (15:5), 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.
80 recitations by 74 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
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.
No nation can advance its appointed time, nor can they delay it.
No nation can advance its term, nor delay it.
No nation can outstrip its term nor can they lag behind.
Neither can a people anticipate its term, nor delay it.
No people can hasten on their doom nor can they postpone (it).
In no way can any nation outstrip its term, and in no way will they (be able) to postpone it.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
مَا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسْتَـْٔخِرُونَ
No nation will precede its time [of termination], nor will they remain [thereafter].
