لا تبدیل لخلق الله

Borrowed from Arabic لَا تَبْدِيلَ لِ‍خَلْقِ اللَّهِ‎ (lā tabdīla li‍ḵalqi l-lahi, literally “there is no altering for God's creation”), a Quranic phrase in the so-called "verse of Fitrat" (30:24).

لا تبدیل لخلق الله • (lâ tabdila lexalqe-llah)

1. (rare) a leopard cannot change its spots
   • 11th century, Abul-Fazl Bayhaqi, Tarikh-e Beyhaqi

     ‏این بوسهل مردی بود امامزاده و محتشم و فاضل و ادیب اما شرارت و زعارتی در طبع وی مؤکد شد و لا تبدیل لخلق اﷲ و بآن شرارت دلسوزی نداشت.‎‎

     in Bu-Sahl mardi bud emâmzâde o mohtašam o fâzel o adib, ammâ šerârat o ze'ârati dar tab'-e vey mo'akkad šod—va la tabdila lexalqe-llah—va be-ân šerârat delsuzi nadâšt.

     This Bu Sahl was a man of noble birth, dignitary, scholar, and literary, but there was a [kind of] villainy and bad temper fixated in his nature—and "there is no altering for God's creation"—and with that villainy, he had no mercy ...