Al-Hijr Verse 5

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

No nation can advance its appointed time, nor can they delay it.

and no nation outstrips its term, nor do they put it back.

no community can bring its time forward, nor delay it.

No community precedeth the term thereof nor doth it fall behind.

Neither can a people anticipate its term, nor delay it.

No people can outstrip the term for its destruction nor can it delay it.

No people can hasten or delay the term already fixed for them.

No group may advance its appointed promise nor postpone it.

No nation can advance its time nor can it defer it.

No community can ever hasten on the end of its term, nor can they delay it.

No people can outstrip its term and none can ever remain behind.

None from a nation precedes its term/time, and they do not delay (it).

No group may advance its appointed promise nor postpone it.

No nation can hasten on its appointed time, nor put it off.

No nation can anticipate its term, nor delay it.

And never did We destroy a town but it had a decree made known.

No people can hasten on their doom nor can they postpone (it).

No nation can outstrip its term nor can they lag behind.

Every nation can only live for the time appointed for it.

No nation can outstrip its term, nor do they put it back.

No nation can advance its term, nor delay it.

no people can forestall their doom, nor can they delay it.

No nation can bring its time forward, nor can they delay it.

No community (min ummatin; min is extra) can outstrip its [predetermined] term nor can they [seek to] delay it, [nor can they] put it off.

And never did We destroy a township but there was a known decree for it. No nation can advance its term, nor delay it.

Allah is informing that He never destroys a township until He has established evidences for it and its allotted time has ended. When the time for a nation's destruction has come, He never delays it, and He never moves its appointed time forward.

This was a message and a warning to the people of Makkah, telling them to give up their Shirk, their stubbornness and disbelief for which they deserved to be destroyed