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THE ALLIANCE OF THE GOOD

knows the end of all plots even before they were planned,
informs us that their plots are doomed to fail:

They concocted their plots, but their plots were with
God, even if they were such as to make the mountains
vanish. Do not imagine that God will break His
promise to His Messengers. God is Almighty, Exactor of
Revenge. (Surah Ibrahim: 46-47)
Shown by their arrogance in the land and evil plotting.
But evil plotting envelops only those who do it. Do they
expect anything but the pattern of previous peoples?
You will not find any changing in the pattern of God.
You will not find any alteration in the pattern of God.
(Surah Fatir: 43)
In another verse, God gives the examples of people from
the past and stresses that the evil-doers among them are a
defeated group. Just as how the alliance of the evil has
always been defeated throughout history, so will the ones
living today meet the same end. As a matter of fact, they are
defeated from the start:
A defeated host are all the factions that are there! Before
them the people of Noah denied the truth, as did 'Ad
and Pharaoh of the Stakes, and Thamud and the people
of Lut and the Companions of the Thicket. These were
the factions. (Surah Sad: 11-13)
God informs us that there is a never-ending and eternal
affliction for those who strive for evil in the world, who lead
people astray from His path, and who teach them perversity
and shamelessness. Before the torment of the hereafter, they
will encounter severe affliction also in this world:

Then the final fate of those who did evil will be the