23. Surah Al-Mu'minun, Verse 43
مَا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ اُمَّةٍ اَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسْتَأْخِرُونَۜ
Ma tasbiqu min ommatin ajalahawama yasta/khiroon
No nation can advance its appointed time nor can they delay it.
- Progressive Muslims
No nation can hasten its appointed time, nor can it delay.
- Shabbir Ahmed
No nation can advance its term, nor delay it. (The Laws of the rise and fall of nations are unchangeable (7:34), (13:38), (15:5)).
- Sam Gerrans
No community outstrips its term, nor will they defer.
- The Monotheist Group
No nation can hasten its appointed time, nor can it delay.
- Edip-Layth
No nation can hasten its appointed time, nor can it delay.
- Aisha Bewley
No nation can advance its appointed time nor can they delay it.
- Rashad Khalifa
No community can advance its predetermined fate, nor delay it.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
No nation can live beyond its allotted time, or lag behind.
- Sahih International
No nation will precede its time [of termination], nor will they remain [thereafter].
- Muhammad Asad
[for, ] no community can ever forestall [the end of] its term - and neither can they delay [its coming].
- Marmaduke Pickthall
No nation can outstrip its term, nor yet postpone it.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
No people or nation can predate their set period of time nor can they postdate it either -includes: span of prosperity, of misery, of other conditions as well as that of life -
- Bijan Moeinian
No nation can advance its pre-determined fate, nor delay it.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
No nation can advance their term, nor can they delay it.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
No people can hasten their term, nor can they delay (it).
- Mustafa Khattab
No people can advance their doom, nor can they delay it.
- Taqi Usmani
No community can go ahead of its appointed time, nor can they become late.
- Abdul Haleem
no community can advance or delay its time-
- Arthur John Arberry
no nation outstrips its term, nor do they put it back.
- E. Henry Palmer
No nation can anticipate its appointed time, nor keep it back.
- Hamid S. Aziz
Then after them We brought forth other generations.
- Mahmoud Ghali
In no way does any nation outstrip its term, and in no way are they able to postpone.
- George Sale
No nation shall be punished before their determined time; neither shall they be respited after.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
No nation can quicken its term, nor can it delay (it).
- Amatul Rahman Omar
No community can go ahead of its appointed time (and thus manage to escape their doom) nor can they remain behind (it, or delay it).
- Ali Quli Qarai
No nation can advance its time nor can it defer it.