وَلَوْلَا كَلِمَةٌ سَبَقَتْ مِن رَّبِّكَ لَكَانَ لِزَامًا وَأَجَلٌ مُّسَمًّى
Wa law laa Kalimatun sabaqat mir Rabbika lakaana lizaamanw wa ajalum musammaa
If it were not for a preordained Word from your Lord [Prophet], they would already have been destroyed. Their time has been set,
Were it not for a word that had already gone forth from your Lord, and a term appointed, the judgment would have been inescapable.