Sourate Al-Hijr · سُوْرَةُ الْحِجْرِ · Juz 14
Q 15:5
مَّا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسْتَـْٔخِرُونَ
Traductions
Nulle communauté ne devance son terme, ni ne le retarde.No nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter.Tafsir
Aucune communauté n’est anéantie avant que son terme n’arrive à échéance et son anéantissement ne peut être reporté lorsque son terme échoit. Par conséquent, que les injustes ne se fassent pas d’illusions sur le répit qu’Allah leur accorde.
Lire Ibn Kathir (Ibn Kathir (abrégé, en anglais))
And never did We destroy a township but there was a known decree for it (4)No nation can advance its term, nor delay it (5)
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.
Texte arabe : Tanzil (uthmani). Traductions : Muhammad Hamidullah (fr), Sahih International (en). tanzil.net