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And We sent down blessed water from the sky There is a prescribed limit to every term. (13:38)
and made gardens grow by it and grain for har- No nation can advance its appointed time nor
vesting and soaring date-palms with layered can they delay it. (15:5)
spathes, (50:9-10) And were it not for a prior word from your Lord,
and a specified term, it would inevitably have al-
SPECIFIED TERM ready taken place. (20:129)
No self can die except with Allah’s permission, at No nation can advance its appointed time nor
a predetermined time. If anyone desires the re- can they delay it. (23:43)
ward of this world, We will give him some of it. If They ask you to hasten the punishment. If it were
anyone desires the reward of the hereafter, We not for a stipulated term, the punishment would
will give him some of it. We will recompense the have come to them already. It will come upon
thankful. (3:145) them suddenly when they are not expecting it.
It is He Who created you from clay and then de- (29:53)
creed a fixed term, and another fixed term is If Allah were to take mankind to task for what
specified with Him. Yet you still have doubts! they have earned, He would not leave a single
(6:2) creature crawling on it, but He is deferring them
It is He Who takes you back to Himself at night, until a specified time. Then, when their time
while knowing the things you perpetrate by day, comes, Allah sees His servants! (35:45)
and then wakes you up again, so that a specified He created the heavens and the earth with truth.
term may be fulfilled. Then you will return to He wraps the night around the day and wraps the
Him. Then He will inform you about what you day around the night, and has made the sun and
did. (6:60) moon subservient, each one running for a speci-
Have they not looked into the dominions of the fied term. Is He not indeed the Almighty, the
heavens and the earth and what Allah has cre- Endlessly Forgiving? (39:5)
ated, and seen that it may well be that their ap- Allah takes back people’s selves when their
pointed time is near? In what discourse after this death arrives and those who have not yet died,
will they believe? (7:185) while they are asleep. He keeps hold of those
If Allah were to hasten evil for people the way whose death has been decreed and sends the
they try to hasten good, their term would already others back for a specified term. There are cer-
have been completed for them. We abandon tainly Signs in that for people who reflect. (39:42)
those who do not expect to meet Us to wander It is He Who created you from earth, then from a
blindly in their excessive insolence. (10:11) drop of sperm, then from a clot of blood, then He
Say: ‘I possess no power to harm or help myself brings you out as infants, then so you may
except as Allah wills. Every nation has an ap- achieve full strength, then so you may become
pointed time. When their appointed time comes, old men–though some of you may die before that
they cannot delay it a single hour or bring it for- time–so that you may reach a predetermined age
ward.’ (10:49) and so that hopefully you will use your intellect.
Allah is He Who raised up the heavens without (40:67)
any support–you can see that–and then estab- They only split up after knowledge came to them,
lished Himself firmly on the Throne. He made the tyrannising one another. And were it not for a prior
sun and moon subservient, each running for a decree from your Lord for a specified term, the
specified term. He directs the whole affair. He judgement between them would already have
makes the Signs clear so that hopefully you will be been made. Those who inherited the Book after
certain about the meeting with your Lord. (13:2) them are indeed in grave doubt about it. (42:14)
We sent Messengers before you and gave them Allah will not give anyone more time, once their
wives and children. Nor was any Messenger able time has come. Allah is aware of what you do.
to bring a Sign except by Allah’s permission. (63:11)
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