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SOME SECRETS OF THE QUR'AN

You will not find any alteration in the pattern of
God. (Surah Fatir: 42-43)
If something good happens to you, it galls them. If
something bad strikes you, they rejoice at it. But if
you are steadfast and have fear of God, their
scheming will not harm you in any way. God
encompasses what they do. (Surah Ali 'Imran: 120)

Prophet Joseph's life is exemplary in the sense that the
schemes hatched against believers will ultimately turn in
their favour and against hatchers. As related in Surah Yusuf,
the prophet Joseph's brothers, who were consumed with
envy, devised a plan and threw him to a well. When Prophet
Joseph, peace be upon him, was still young, another scheme
was devised by the governor's wife, in whose house prophet
Joseph resided. The promise of God entailed the failure of all
these plots and protection from harm. Following the plans
devised, God placed the prophet Joseph in authority over the
treasures of the land. After all these, the prophet Joseph
commented that the plots of the disbelievers are fated to
failure:
(Then Joseph said: I asked for this) so that he (my
former master) may know at last that I did not
dishonour him behind his back and that God most
surely does not guide the deviousness of the
dishonourable. (Surah Yusuf: 52)