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Al-A'raf 7:34

وَلِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلٞۖ فَإِذَا جَآءَ أَجَلُهُمۡ لَا يَسۡتَأۡخِرُونَ سَاعَةٗ وَلَا يَسۡتَقۡدِمُونَ

For each community there is an appointed term. When their time arrives, they can neither delay it for a moment, nor could they advance it.

Word by word

وَلِكُلِّ
walikulli
And for every
Vocabulary
Root: كلل
أُمَّةٍ
ummatin
nation
Vocabulary
Root: امم
أَجَلٞۖ
ajalun
(is a fixed) term
Vocabulary
Root: اجل
فَإِذَا
fa-idhā
So when
Vocabulary
جَآءَ
jāa
comes
Vocabulary
Root: جيا
أَجَلُهُمۡ
ajaluhum
their term
Vocabulary
Root: اجل
لَا
lā
(they can) not
Vocabulary
يَسۡتَأۡخِرُونَ
yastakhirūna
seek to delay
Vocabulary
Root: اخر
سَاعَةٗ
sāʿatan
an hour
Vocabulary
Root: سوع
وَلَا
walā
and not
Vocabulary
يَسۡتَقۡدِمُونَ
yastaqdimūna
seek to advance (it)
Vocabulary
Root: قدم

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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.