Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Muminoon, Ayah 43
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Other Scholars on This Ayah
Tafsir
(No nation can outstrip its term) no nation can bring forward the term appointed for its destruction, (nor yet postpone it) to a later date.
Related Hadiths
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Al-Jalalayn Commentary
No community can precede its term by dying before it nor be deferred beyond it the person in the second verb yasta’khirūna ‘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’.