Al-Mu'minun Verse 43

No people can advance their doom, nor can they delay it.

No nation can bring its appointed time forward, nor can they delay it.

no nation outstrips its term, nor do they put it back.

no community can advance or delay its time-

No community can anticipate their term, nor can they lay behind.

No people can hasten their term, nor can they delay (it).

No nation can outstrip its term, nor can it put it back.

No nation can live beyond its allotted time, or lag behind.

No nation can go before its term ends nor stay back.

No nation can advance its time nor can it defer it.

(What happened to all those generations proves that) no community can ever hasten on the end of its term, nor can they delay it (once it has been decided by God because of their beliefs and life-styles).

No community can go ahead of its appointed time (and thus manage to escape their doom) nor can they remain behind (it, or delay it).

None from a nation precedes its term/time and they do not delay/lag behind.239

No nation can go before its term ends nor stay back.

Then after them We brought forth other generations.

No nation can anticipate their term, nor can they delay it.

Then We raised after them other generations.

No people can hasten on their doom nor can they postpone (it).

No nation can outstrip its term, nor yet postpone it.

Every nation has an appointed life span.

no nation outstrips its term, nor do they put it back.

No nation can advance their term, nor can they delay it.

no community can advance or postpone its appointed time,

No nation can advance its time, nor can they postpone it.

No community can precede its term, by dying before it, nor be deferred, beyond it (the person [in the second verb yasta'khirna, `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']).

No nation can advance their term, nor can they delay it.

means, they are taken at the appropriate time, as decreed by Allah in His Book that is preserved with Him, before they were created, nation after nation, century after century, generation after generation, successors after predecessors.