سورة المؤمنون
Surah Al-Mu’minûn 23:43
The Believers · Verse 43 of 118
مَا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسْتَأْخِرُونَ
Abdul Mannan 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).
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
No people can hasten their term, nor can they delay (it).
Ahmed Ali
No nation can live beyond its allotted time, or lag behind.
12 more translations
Ali Unal
(What happened to all those generations proves that) no community can ever hasten on the end of its term, nor can they delay it (once it has been decided by God because of their beliefs and life-styles).
Daryabadi
No community can anticipate their term, nor can they lay behind.
Faridul Haque
No nation can go before its term ends nor stay back.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
No people can hasten on their doom, nor can they postpone (it).
Maulvi Sher Ali
No people can go ahead of their appointed time, nor can they remain behind it.
Muhammad Asad
[for,] no community can ever forestall [the end of) its term - and neither can they delay [its coming).
Muhammad Musin Khan
No nation can anticipate their term, nor can they delay it.
Muhammad Pickthall
No nation can outstrip its term, nor yet postpone it.
Muhammad Sarwar
Every nation has an appointed life span.
Muhammed ali Shakir
No people can hasten on their doom nor can they postpone (it).
Rashad Khalifa
No community can advance its predetermined fate, nor delay it.
Shabbir Ahmed
No community can advance its term, nor delay it. (The laws of the rise and fall of nations are unchangeable 7:34, 13:38, 15:5)