S: Often will those who disbelieve wish that they had been Muslims.

015.003 Y: Leave them alone, to enjoy (the good things of this life) and to please themselves: let (false) hope amuse them: soon will knowledge (undeceive them).

P: Let them eat and enjoy life, and let (false) hope beguile them. They will come to know!

S: Leave them that they may eat and enjoy themselves and (that) hope may beguile them, for they will soon know.

015.004 Y: Never did We destroy a population that had not a term decreed and assigned beforehand.

P: And We destroyed no township but there was a known decree for it.

S: And never did We destroy a town but it had a term made known.

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

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

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