The Cave - 18:58 Your Lord is Forgiving, the Owner of Mercy. If He had reckoned them immediately for what they did, He would have hastened the torment for them. But He gives them a definite term, beyond which they cannot escape.
Every society has an appointed term:
The Believers/23:43 No people can hasten or delay the term appointed for them.
The Heights/7:34 Every community has a term. When their term comes, they can neither postpone it a moment nor bring it forward.
Those Who Set The Ranks/37:148 They believed, so We provided for them for a while.
Those Who Set The Ranks/37:147 We sent him to a hundred thousand or more.
Yaseen/36:44 Instead, they will receive mercy from Us and they will be kept alive until a certain term.
Yaseen/36:43 If We had willed, We could have drowned them; no one would have heard their cry, nor would they have been saved.
The Pilgrimage/22:48 How many a city I gave respite to its inhabitants while they were wrongdoers, and then I called them to account; to Me is the final return.
Mary/19:75 "Say, "The Most Merciful gives a term to those who go astray. Until they see the punishment or the end of the world. They will know who has the evil place and the weak army."
The Bee/16:61 Had Allah punished mankind for their wrongdoing, He would not have left a creature therein, but He postpones them until a certain term. And when their term comes to an end, they will not be brought forward for an hour, nor will they be postponed.
The Cave/18:58 Your Lord is Forgiving, the Owner of Mercy. If He had reckoned them immediately for what they did, He would have hastened the torment for them. But He gives them a definite term, beyond which they cannot escape.
Prophet Hud/11:48 "He said: "O Noah, descend from us in peace and blessings for you and the nations that are with you. And there are also such nations that We will make them live for a while and then a painful torment will touch them from Us."
Originator/35:45 Had Allah punished mankind for what they used to do, He would have left no creature on the earth. But He postpones them until a certain term. When their term is over, then Allah will take account of His servants.
Prophet Jonah/10:49 "Say: "Except Allah wills, I have no power to harm or benefit even myself. Every community has a term. When their term is over, they will neither be delayed for an hour nor brought forward."
Sheva/34:30 "Say, "You have a day appointed for you which will not be an hour late or an hour early."
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