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The Real Goal of the Evil's Alliance
themselves towards the young, children and elderly in a like
manner, they will be satisfied and stop opposing them. In
several verses, God informs us that disbelievers are deeply
committed to the idea of making the good side with
themselves:
They would like you to disbelieve just as they
disbelieve so that you will all be the same… (Surat an-
Nisa': 89)
If they come upon you, they will be your enemies and
stretch out their hands and tongues against you with
evil intent, and they would dearly love you to
disbelieve. (Surat al-Mumtahana: 2)
Many of the People of the Book would love it if they
could make you revert to disbelief after you have
believed, showing their innate envy now that the truth
is clear to them. But you should pardon and overlook
until God gives His command. Truly God has power
over all things. (Surat al-Baqara: 109)
God informs in another verse that disbelievers would
continue striving until they divert the believers from their
religion:
…but barring access to the Way of God and rejecting
Him and barring access to the Masjid al-Haram and
expelling its people from it are far more serious in the
sight of God. Tumult is worse than killing. They will
not stop fighting you until they make you revert from
your religion, if they are able. As for any of you who
revert from their religion and die while they are
disbelievers, their actions will come to nothing in the
world and the hereafter. They are the Companions of