Every Township has its allotted Time
Ayahs Covered
سُورَةُ الحِجۡرِ
Al-Hijr (The Rock)
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
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وَمَآ أَهْلَكْنَا مِن قَرْيَةٍ إِلَّا وَلَهَا كِتَابٌۭ مَّعْلُومٌۭ
And We did not destroy any city but that for it was a known decree.
مَّا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسْتَـْٔخِرُونَ
No nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter.
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Related Hadiths
Sunan Ibn Majah#3795
“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 sh...
Narrated by It was narrated from Anas bin Malik that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
said:
Sunan Ibn Majah#2846
‘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.”
Narrated by It was
narrated from ‘Ayyash bin Abu Rabi’ah (Makhzumi) that the
Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
Sahih Muslim#7149
When Kisra would die there would be no Kisra after him; the rest of the hadith is the same as Abu Huraira reported.
Narrated by Jabir b. Samura reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:
Related Tafsir
Every Township has its allotted Time
Allah is informing us that He never destroys a township until He has established evidences for it and its allotted time has ended. When the time for a nation's destruction has come, He never delays it, and He never moves its appointed time forward. This was a message and a warning to the people of Makkah, telling them to give up their Shirk, their stubbornness and disbelief for which they deserved to be destroyed.