Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Ankaboot, Ayah 53

وَيَسْتَعْجِلُونَكَ بِٱلْعَذَابِ ۚ وَلَوْلَآ أَجَلٌۭ مُّسَمًّۭى لَّجَآءَهُمُ ٱلْعَذَابُ وَلَيَأْتِيَنَّهُم بَغْتَةًۭ وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ

And they urge you to hasten the punishment. And if not for [the decree of] a specified term, punishment would have reached them. But it will surely come to them suddenly while they perceive not.

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

And they ask you to hasten the chastisement. Yet were it not for an appointed term for this chastisement the chastisement would have come upon them before long but it shall assuredly come upon them suddenly while they are unaware of the time of its coming.

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(They bid thee) O Muhammad (hasten on the doom (of Allah). And if a term had not been appointed, the doom would assuredly have come unto them) before its due time. (And verily it will come upon them suddenly when they perceive not) its coming down upon them.

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Sahih Muslim#3550Sahih

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