15. Surah Al-Hijr, Verse 5
مَا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ اُمَّةٍ اَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسْتَأْخِرُونَ
Ma tasbiqu min ommatin ajalahawama yasta/khiroon
No nation can advance its appointed time nor can they delay it.
- Progressive Muslims
No nation can quicken its fate, nor can they delay.
- Shabbir Ahmed
The Law of Respite has no exceptions. No nation can hasten or delay the consequence.
- Sam Gerrans
No community outstrips its term, nor will they defer.
- The Monotheist Group
Nonation can quicken its fate, nor can they delay it.
- Edip-Layth
No nation can quicken its fate, nor can they delay.
- Aisha Bewley
No nation can advance its appointed time nor can they delay it.
- Rashad Khalifa
The end of any community can never be advanced, nor delayed.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
No people can hasten or delay the term already fixed for them.
- Sahih International
No nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter.
- Muhammad Asad
[but remember that] no community can ever forestall [the end of] its term - and neither can they delay [it].
- Marmaduke Pickthall
No nation can outstrip its term nor can they lag behind.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
Nor can a people or a nation hasten their own end of ultimate state earlier than the predetermined due date nor can they delay it either.
- Bijan Moeinian
No community is destroyed before its pre-determined time of reflection and re-evaluation nor is given more time than what is fair enough for coming to their senses.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
No nation can advance its term, nor delay it.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Neither can a people anticipate its term, nor delay it.
- Mustafa Khattab
No people can advance their doom, nor can they delay it.
- Taqi Usmani
No people can precede their appointed time, nor can they exceed it.
- Abdul Haleem
no community can bring its time forward, nor delay it.
- Arthur John Arberry
and no nation outstrips its term, nor do they put it back.
- E. Henry Palmer
No nation can hasten on its appointed time, nor put it off.
- Hamid S. Aziz
No nation can hasten on its appointed time, nor put it off.
- Mahmoud Ghali
In no way can any nation outstrip its term, and in no way will they (be able) to postpone it.
- George Sale
No nation shall be punished before their time shall be come; neither shall they be respited after.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
And not any people can foresee its term, nor can they delay it.
- Amatul Rahman Omar
No people can outstrip its term and none can ever remain behind.
- Ali Quli Qarai
No nation can advance its time nor can it defer it.