Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
[for,] no community can ever forestall [the end of] its term - and neither can they delay [its coming]
Arthur John Arberry
no nation outstrips its term, nor do they put it back
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
No people can hasten their term, nor can they delay (it)
Arabic
مَا تَسۡبِقُ مِنۡ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا یَسۡتَءۡخِرُونَ ٤٣
Transliteration (2021)
mā tasbiqu min ummatin ajalahā wamā yastakhirūn