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pleasure, keeping secret the love you have for by Allah has no guide. (13:33)
them, I know best what you conceal and what Those before them plotted but all plotting be-
you make known. Any of you who do that have longs to Allah. He knows what each self earns,
strayed from the right way. (60:1) and the disbelievers will soon know who has the
(Believers say,) ‘We feed you only out of desire Ultimate Abode. (13:42)
for the Face of Allah. We do not want any repay- They concocted their plots, but their plots were
ment from you or any thanks.’ (76:9) with Allah, even if they were such as to make the
‘O self at rest and at peace, return to your Lord, mountains vanish. (14:46)
well-pleasing and well-pleased! (89:27-28) Those before them also plotted, and Allah came
(Those who guard against evil are) those who at their building from the foundations and the
give their wealth to purify themselves–not to roof caved in on top of them. The punishment
repay someone else for a favour done–desiring came at them from where they did not expect.
only the Face of their Lord Most High. (92:18-20) (16:26)
Be patient. But your patience is only by Allah.
PLOT Do not be grieved by them and do not be con-
They plotted and Allah plotted. But Allah is the stricted by the plots they hatch. (16:127)
best of plotters. (3:54) They hatched a plot and We hatched a plot while
And likewise in every city We set up its greatest they were not aware. (27:50)
wrongdoers to plot in it. They plot against them- So look at the end result of all their plotting; We
selves alone, but they are not aware of it. (6:123) utterly destroyed them and their whole people!
When a Sign comes to them, they say, We will (27:51)
not believe until we have been given the same as Do not grieve over them and do not let the plots
the Messengers of Allah were given.’ Allah they make distress you. (27:70)
knows best where to place His Message. They swore by Allah with their most earnest
Debasement in the sight of Allah and a severe oaths that if a warner came to them they would
punishment will strike those who did wrong for be better guided than any other community. But
the plots that they concocted. (6:124) then when a warner did come to them, it only in-
Pharaoh said, ‘Have you believed in him before I creased their aversion, shown by their arrogance
authorised you to do so? This is just some plot in the land and evil plotting. But evil plotting en-
you have concocted in the city to drive its people velops only those who do it. Do they expect any-
from it.’ (7:123) thing but the pattern of previous peoples? You
When those who disbelieve were plotting against will not find any changing in the pattern of Allah.
you to imprison you or kill you or expel you: they You will not find any alteration in the pattern of
were plotting and Allah was plotting, but Allah is Allah. (35:42-43)
the Best of Plotters. (8:30) So Allah safeguarded him (Musa) from the evil
When We let people taste mercy after hardship things they plotted and a most evil torment en-
has afflicted them, immediately they plot against gulfed Pharaoh’s people. (40:45)
Our Signs. Say: ‘Allah is swifter at plotting.’ Your They have hatched a mighty plot. (71:22)
plotting is recorded by Our Messengers. (10:21) They are hatching a plot. (86:15)
What then of Him Who is standing over every
self seeing everything it does? Yet still they asso- POET
ciate others with Allah! Say: ‘Name them! Or Furthermore they say, ‘A muddled jumble of
would you inform Him of something in the earth dreams!’ and, ‘He has invented it!’ and, ‘He is a
He does not know, or are they words which are poet!’ and, ‘Let him bring us a Sign like those sent
simply guesswork on your part?’ However, the to previous peoples.’ (21:5)
plotting of those who disbelieve seems good to And as for poets, it is the misled who follow
them and they bar the way. Anyone misguided them. (26:224)
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