وَلِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلٌۭ ۖ فَإِذَا جَآءَ أَجَلُهُمْ لَا يَسْتَأْخِرُونَ سَاعَةًۭ ۖ وَلَا يَسْتَقْدِمُونَ
Wa likulli ummatin ajalun fa izaa jaaa'a ajaluhum laa yastaakhiroona saa'atanw wa laa yastaqdimoon
And for every nation is a [specified] term. So when their time has come, they will not remain behind an hour, nor will they precede [it].
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Decree & what is written
7:34Ayah 1206
5 ayahs in Al-A'raaf are strongly about Allah’s decree. This is one of them.
Tafsir
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Every community has a term a finite period of time. When their term comes they shall not delay it a single hour nor bring it forward.
Related Hadiths
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not be established till my followers copy the deeds of the previous
nations and follow them very closely, span by span, and cubit by cubit (i.e., inch by inch)." It was
said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Do you mean by those (nations) the Persians and the Byzantines?" The
Prophet said, "Who can it be other than they?"
“The ages of (the people in) my nation will be between sixty and
seventy, and few of them will exceed that.”
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