The Holy Quran 15:5 — Surah Al-Hijr

Arabic text

مَّا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسْتَـْٔخِرُونَ

Translation

No nation can hasten their term (bring the date of their destruction forward), nor can they delay it. (Rise or fall and life or death is fixed.)

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

That is, this is not restricted to the nations that were destroyed; rather, whatever term has been fixed for the rise and fall, or the death and life, of any nation cannot come a single second earlier or later.

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