مَّا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسْتَـْٔخِرُونَ
Maa tasbiqu min ummatin ajalahaa wa maa yastaakhiroon
No nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter.
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Decree & what is written
15:5Ayah 199
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No community min ummatin min is extra can outstrip its predetermined term nor can they seek to delay it nor can they put it off.
Related Hadiths
“My nation will pass through five stages. For forty years
(they
will be) people of righteousness and piety. Then those who
follow
them, for the next one hundred and twenty years, will be
people who
show mercy to one another and uphold ties with one
another. Then those
who follow them for the next one hundred and
sixty years will be
people who will turn their backs on one another
and sever ties with
one another. Then there will be Harj after Harj
(killing). Seek
deliverance, seek deliverance.”
‘The goodness of this nation will
not
cease as long as they revere this sanctuary* as it is due. But
when
they lose that reverence, they will be doomed.”
When Kisra would die there would be no Kisra after him; the rest of the hadith is the same as Abu Huraira reported.
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