Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-A'raaf, Ayah 34
وَلِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلٌۭ ۖ فَإِذَا جَآءَ أَجَلُهُمْ لَا يَسْتَأْخِرُونَ سَاعَةًۭ ۖ وَلَا يَسْتَقْدِمُونَ
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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(And every nation) every people that have a religion (hath its term) an appointed time for its destruction, (and when its term) the time of their destruction (cometh, they cannot put it off an hour) they are not given reprieve one fraction of a second after their appointed time (nor yet advance (it)) they are not destroyed before the appointed time, even if it be by one fraction of a second.
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Sahih al-Bukhari#7041Sahih
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)." ...
Narrated by Narrated Abu Huraira:
Sunan Ibn Majah#3974
“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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narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
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Al-Jalalayn Commentary
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.