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Verse (15:5) - English Translation

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Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the fifth verse of chapter 15 (sūrat l-ḥij'r). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

 

Chapter (15) sūrat l-ḥij'r (The Rocky Tract)

Sahih International: No nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter.

Pickthall: No nation can outstrip its term nor can they lag behind.

Yusuf Ali: Neither can a people anticipate its term, nor delay it.

Shakir: No people can hasten on their doom nor can they postpone (it).

Muhammad Sarwar: Every nation can only live for the time appointed for it.

Mohsin Khan: No nation can anticipate its term, nor delay it.

Arberry: and no nation outstrips its term, nor do they put it back.

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