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all the Books. When they meet you, they say: “We
believe.” But when they leave, they bite their fingers out
of rage against you. Say: “Die in your rage.” Allah knows
what your hearts contain. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 118-119)
As revealed in the above verses, unbelievers try every
possible way to harm believers, to destroy or incapacitate
them. As we stated earlier, slander and plotting against them
are the most frequently applied methods used to achieve
such aims.
Unbelievers want everyone to stray from the righteous
path, just as they have. For this reason, and to prevent peo-
ple from being influenced by and complying with the right-
eous believers' message, they try to belittle believers.
However, believers remain steadfast in Allah's religion and
thus do, say, or believe nothing that will disgrace them. They
do not transgress the limits that Allah has established for
them, and always maintain their good character and decent
conduct. Aware of this, unbelievers can only try to achieve
their goals through slander, lies, and deceit. They come
together, conspire against believers, decide how to slander
them, and, in order to disseminate their lies, delegate specif-
ic tasks to each member in the conviction that they can dis-
credit believers in the eyes of the people. But they will never
succeed. Allah informs believers of these people:
And likewise, in every city We set up its greatest wrong-
doers to plot in it. They plot against themselves alone,
but they are not aware of it. (Surat al-An‘am, 123)
Some of the slanders that the messengers and Muslims
have had to endure are revealed in the Qur’an. It is important