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We have never destroyed a society without a destined term.

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And We did not destroy any city but that for it was a known decree.

— Saheeh International

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

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

No nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter.

— Saheeh International

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They say, “O you to whom the Reminder1 is revealed! You must be insane!

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And they say, "O you upon whom the message has been sent down, indeed you are mad.1

— Saheeh International

Why do you not bring us the angels, if what you say is true?”

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Why do you not bring us the angels, if you should be among the truthful?"

— Saheeh International

We do not send the angels down except for a just cause, and then ˹the end of˺ the disbelievers will not be delayed.

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

We do not send down the angels except with truth;1 and they [i.e., the disbelievers] would not then be reprieved.

— Saheeh International

It is certainly We Who have revealed the Reminder, and it is certainly We Who will preserve it.

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Indeed, it is We who sent down the message [i.e., the Qur’ān], and indeed, We will be its guardian.

— Saheeh International

Indeed, We sent messengers before you ˹O Prophet˺ among the groups of early peoples,

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And We had certainly sent [messengers] before you, [O Muḥammad], among the sects of the former peoples.

— Saheeh International

but no messenger ever came to them without being mocked.

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And no messenger would come to them except that they ridiculed him.

— Saheeh International

This is how We allow disbelief ˹to steep˺ into the hearts of the wicked.

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Thus do We insert it [i.e., denial] into the hearts of the criminals.

— Saheeh International

They would not believe in this ˹Quran˺ despite the ˹many˺ examples of those ˹destroyed˺ before.

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

They will not believe in it, while there has already occurred the precedent of the former peoples.

— Saheeh International

And even if We opened for them a gate to heaven, through which they continued to ascend,

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And [even] if We opened to them a gate from the heaven and they continued therein to ascend,

— Saheeh International

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