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Al-Hijr 15:5

مَّا تَسۡبِقُ مِنۡ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسۡتَـٔۡخِرُونَ

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

Word by word

مَّا
mā
Not
Vocabulary
تَسۡبِقُ
tasbiqu
(can) advance
Vocabulary
Root: سبق
مِنۡ
min
any
Vocabulary
أُمَّةٍ
ummatin
nation
Vocabulary
Root: امم
أَجَلَهَا
ajalahā
its term
Vocabulary
Root: اجل
وَمَا
wamā
and not
Vocabulary
يَسۡتَـٔۡخِرُونَ
yastakhirūna
(can) delay it
Vocabulary
Root: اخر

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Root and lemma annotations: Quranic Arabic Corpus © 2011 Kais Dukes (GPL), based on Tanzil text. Grammar tag guide. Only verified word alignments are annotated; missing roots are not guessed. A verse may be a phrase or span several sentences.