وَمَا أَهْلَكْنَا مِنْ قَرْيَةٍ إِلَّا وَلَهَا كِتَابٌ مَعْلُومٌ ٤
Never did We destroy a population that had not a term decreed and assigned beforehand.
15:5
مَا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسْتَأْخِرُونَ ٥
Neither can a people anticipate its term, nor delay it.
15:6
وَقَالُوا يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِي نُزِّلَ عَلَيْهِ الذِّكْرُ إِنَّكَ لَمَجْنُونٌ ٦
They say: "O thou to whom the Message is being revealed! truly thou art mad (or possessed)!
15:7
لَوْ مَا تَأْتِينَا بِالْمَلَائِكَةِ إِنْ كُنْتَ مِنَ الصَّادِقِينَ ٧
"Why bringest thou not angels to us if it be that thou hast the Truth?"
15:8
مَا نُنَزِّلُ الْمَلَائِكَةَ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَمَا كَانُوا إِذًا مُنْظَرِينَ ٨
We send not the angels down except for just cause: if they came (to the ungodly), behold! no respite would they have!