مَّا
Mmā
Quran 15 : 5
Not (can) advance any nation its term and not (can) delay it.
تَسْبِقُ
Tasbiqu
مِنْ
Min
أُمَّةٍ
Aummahin
أَجَلَهَا
Aajalahā
وَمَا
Wamā
يَسْتَـْٔخِرُونَ
Yastakhirūna
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
Nonation can quicken its fate, nor can they delay it
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Neither can a people anticipate its term, nor delay it
Wahiduddin Khan
no people can forestall their doom, nor can they delay it
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
No nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter
The Wise Quran
No nation can hasten on its term, nor delay it.
The Study Quran
No community can hasten its term, nor delay it
Talal Itani (2012)
No nation can bring its time forward, nor can they delay it
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
No community can accelerate or postpone its appointed time.
T.B.Irving
no nation can forestall its deadline, nor will they ever postpone it.
Syed Vickar Ahamed
And not any people can foresee its term, nor can they delay it
Sher Ali
No people can escape their doom by outstripping their appointed term, nor can they remain behind
Shakir
No people can hasten on their doom nor can they postpone (it)
Shabbir Ahmed
The Law of Respite has no exceptions. No nation can hasten or delay the consequence
Samy Mahdy
Not of a community will precede its term, nor will they postpone.
Safi Kaskas
No nation can speed up [the end of] its time, nor defer it.
Rashad Khalifa
The end of any community can never be advanced, nor delayed.
N J Dawood 2014
Communities cannot forestall their doom, nor can they retard it
Mustaqim
No community precedes its fixed term nor do they delay it.
Mustafa Khattab 2018
No people can advance their doom, nor can they delay it.
Musharraf Hussain
no town can go beyond its appointed time, nor can they delay it.
MunirMezyed2023
No people can precede their doom, neither can they postpone it.
Munir Mezyed
No nation can precede its term, neither can they postpone it.
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
No people can precede their appointed time, nor can they exceed it
Muhammad Sarwar
Every nation can only live for the time appointed for it
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
No nation can outstrip its term nor can they lag behind
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
In no way can any nation outstrip its term, and in no way will they (be able) to postpone it
Muhammad Asad
[but remember that] no community can ever forestall [the end of] its term - and neither can they delay [it]
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
None from a nation precedes its term/time, and they do not delay (it)
Mohammad Shafi
No people can prepone their end nor can they postpone it
Mir Aneesuddin
No community can advance (the time of) its term (for destruction) nor can it postpone (it).
Maulana Muhammad Ali
No people can hasten on their doom, nor can they postpone (it)
Maududi
No people can outstrip the term for its destruction nor can it delay it
Linda "iLham" Barto
People cannot anticipate their term or delay it.
John Medows Rodwell
No people can forestall or retard its destiny
Irving/Hegab
no nation can forestall its deadline, nor will they ever postpone it.
Hilali - Khan
No nation can anticipate its term, nor delay it
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
No nation can outstrip its term, nor do they put it back
Hamid S. Aziz
No nation can hasten on its appointed time, nor put it off
George Sale
No nation shall be punished before their time shall be come; neither shall they be respited after
Fode Drame
And no nation can go ahead of its appointed time nor can they lag behind [it].
Faridul Haque
No group may advance its appointed promise nor postpone it
Edward Henry Palmer
No nation can hasten on its appointed time, nor put it off
Dr. Munir Munshey
No generation shall hasten or delay the term fixed for it
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
No people can go beyond their appointed term, nor can they step back (under the law of rise and fall)
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
No community precedes its term nor delays it.
Dr. Kamal Omar
No Ummah (Community) outstrips its appointed life-span and they do not remain existent beyond (that)
Corpus.Quran
Not (can) advance any nation its term and not (can) delay it
Bilal Muhammad 2018
Neither can the people anticipate its term nor delay it
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
Bakhtiari Nejad
No community (of faith) advances its appointed time, nor can they delay it.
Arthur John Arberry
and no nation outstrips its term, nor do they put it back
Amatul Rahman Omar
No people can outstrip its term and none can ever remain behind
Ali Ãœnal
No community can ever hasten on the end of its term, nor can they delay it
Ali Quli Qara'i
No nation can advance its time nor can it defer it
Aisha Bewley
No nation can advance its appointed time nor can they delay it.
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
No community can precede its promised time nor it can fall behind.
Ahmed Hulusi
No population can advance nor delay their term.
Ahmed Ali
No people can hasten or delay the term already fixed for them
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
No community precedeth the term thereof nor doth it fall behind
Abdul Hye
No nation can advance its term (fate), nor delay it.
Abdel Haleem
no community can bring its time forward, nor delay it