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but the best of planners is Allah." (Surat al-Anfal: 30)
Allah entrapped materialists by making them assume that matter is an
absolute existence and in so doing, humiliated them in a way never seen
before. Materialists deemed their possessions, status, rank, the society they

belong to, the whole world to be absolute. Moreover, by relying on these,
they grew arrogant against Allah. By being boastful, they revolted against
Him and added to their unbelief. While so doing, they relied on a total
conviction in the absoluteness of matter. Yet so lacking are they in under-
standing that they fail to realize that Allah compasses them round about.
Allah announces the state to which the unbelievers are led as a result of
their thick-headedness:
Or do they intend a plot [against you]? But those who defy Allah are them-
selves involved in a Plot! (Surat at-Tur: 42)
Theirs is most probably the biggest intellectual defeat in history. While
growing arrogant of their own accord, materialists have been tricked and suf-
fered a serious defeat in their war against Allah by bringing up something
monstrous against Him. The verse "Thus have We placed leaders in every
town, its wicked men, to plot [and burrow] therein: but they only plot
against their own souls, and they perceive it not" (Surat al-An'am: 123)
announces how unconscious these people who revolt against our Creator
are, and how they will end up. In another verse the same fact is related as:
Fain would they deceive Allah and those who believe, but they only deceive
themselves, and realise [it] not! (Surat al-Baqara: 9)

While trying to plot, unbelievers do not realize the very important fact
that everything they experience is really experienced in their brains, and
all the plots they devise are simply formed in their brains, just like every
other act they perform. Their folly has let them forget that they are all alone
with Allah and, hence, are trapped in their own devious plans.
Just like those unbelievers of bygone days, those living today face a
reality that will shatter the basis of their devious plans. With the verse
"...feeble indeed is the cunning of Satan" (Surat an-Nisa': 76), Allah has
stated that these plots were doomed to end with failure the day they were
hatched, and gave the good tidings to believers with the verse "...not the

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