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The Planner
When those unbelievers were plotting against you to im-
prison you or to kill or expel you: they were plotting and
Allah was plotting, but Allah is the Best of Planners. (Surat
al-Anfal, 8:30)

Those who plotted against the just religion throughout history
strove to distance people from it for their own selfish desires (e.g.,
greed for power, personal interests, and so on). In the Hereafter, they
will be told: “No, it was your scheming night and day when you
commanded us to reject Allah and assign equals to Him.” (Surah
Saba', 34:33) Yet there is a very important point that we need to re-
member here:
Those before them plotted, but all planning belongs to
Allah. He knows what each self earns, and the unbelievers
soon will know who has the Ultimate Abode. (Surat ar-
Ra‘d, 13:42)
As is related in the verse above, “all planning belongs to Allah.”
Thus, against all of the unbelievers’ plots, Allah devises the best
plan. Allah calls attention to the deadlock facing unbelievers:
They concocted their plots, but their plots were with Allah,
even if they were such as to make the mountains vanish.
(Surah Ibrahim, 14:46)
As this verse relates, Allah protects all believers from these pl
ots. This is very easy for Allah, Who turns all plots against His
Messengers and believers into failures and makes unbelievers suf-
fer the ensuing dire consequences, for “… Allah is swifter at plan-
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