Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
[but remember that] no community can ever forestall [the end of] its term - and neither can they delay [it]
Arthur John Arberry
and no nation outstrips its term, nor do they put it back
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Neither can a people anticipate its term, nor delay it
Arabic
مَّا تَسۡبِقُ مِنۡ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا یَسۡتَءۡخِرُونَ ٥
Transliteration (2021)
mā tasbiqu min ummatin ajalahā wamā yastakhirūn