ٱلْمُؤْمِنُون : ٤٣

  • مَا Not
  • تَسۡبِقُ can precede
  • مِنۡ any
  • أُمَّةٍ nation
  • أَجَلَهَا its term
  • وَمَا and not
  • يَسۡتَـٔۡخِرُونَ they (can) delay (it)
No nation will precede its time [of termination], nor will they remain [thereafter].
No community can precede its term, by dying before it, nor be deferred, beyond it (the person [in the second verb yasta'khiroona, 'be deferred'] is masculine, having been feminine [in the first verb tasbiqu, 'precede'] because this [masculine plural] takes into account the [plural masculine] content [of the term 'community']).