When We let people taste mercy after hardship has afflicted them, immediately they plot against Our signs. Say: “Allah is swifter at plotting.” Your plotting is recorded by Our Messengers. (Surah Yunus, 21)When unbelievers, who see and appreciate the might of Allah in times of difficulty, attain well-being they imagine that the mercy bestowed on them from His own Grace by Allah is actually theirs, and they then stupidly direct all their energies to striving against Muslims in the belief that their power and well-being belong to them. Allah creates these people specially in order to test Muslims. Their Creation in this way is one of the greatest proofs of the existence of Allah.
When those who are unbelievers were plotting against you to imprison you or kill you or expel you: they were plotting and Allah was plotting, but Allah is the Best of Plotters. (Surat al-Anfal, 30)
Allah desires to turn towards you, but those who pursue their lower appetites desire to make you deviate completely. (Surat an-Nisa’, 27)
Those who prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter, and bar access to the way of Allah, wanting to make it crooked; they are greatly misguided. (Surah Ibrahim, 3)
There was a group of nine men in the city causing corruption in the land and not putting things right. They said, ‘Let us make an oath to one another by Allah that we will fall on him and his family in the night and then say to his protector, “We did not witness the destruction of his family and we are telling the truth.”’ They hatched a plot and We hatched a plot while they were not aware. (Surat an-Naml, 48-50)
They swore by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if a warner came to them they would be better guided than any other community. But then when a warner did come to them, it only increased their aversion, shown by their arrogance in the land and evil plotting. But evil plotting envelops only those who do it. Do they expect anything but the pattern of previous peoples? You will not find any changing in the pattern of Allah. You will not find any alteration in the pattern of Allah. (Surah Fatir, 42-43)
You who believe! do not take any outside yourselves as intimates. They will do anything to harm you. They love what causes you distress. Hatred has appeared out of their mouths, but what their breasts hide is far worse. We have made the signs clear to you if you use your intellect. There you are, loving them when they do not love you, even though you believe in 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. 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 taqwa, their scheming will not harm you in any way. Allah encompasses what they do. (Surah Al ‘Imr’an, 118-120)
Among people there is one who argues about Allah without knowledge or guidance or any light-giving Book, turning away arrogantly, to misguide people from the Way of Allah. He will be disgraced in this world and on the Day of Resurection We will make him taste the punishment of the Burning. (Surat al-Hajj, 8-9)
Do you not see that Allah has subjected to you everything in the heavens and earth and has showered His blessings upon you, both outwardly and inwardly? Yet there are people who argue about Allah without knowledge or guidance or any illuminating Book. (Surat al-Luqman, 20)
... The demons inspire their friends to dispute with you. If you obeyed them you would then be associaters. (Surat al-An’am, 121)
The people of Noah denied the truth before them, and the Confederates after them. Every nation planned to seize its Messenger and used false arguments to rebut the truth. So I seized them, and how was My retribution! (Surat al-Ghafir, 5)
Those who argue about the signs of Allah without any authority coming to them do something hateful in the sight of Allah and in the sight of the people who believe.That is how Allah seals up the heart of every arrogant oppressor. (Surat al-Ghafir, 35)
When Allah desires to guide someone, He expands his breast to Islam. When He desires to misguide someone, He makes his breast narrow and constricted as if he were climbing up into the sky. That is how Allah defiles those who have no faith. (Surat al-An’am, 125)
They say, ‘When will this promise be fulfilled if you are telling the truth?’ Say: ‘It may well be that some of what you are anxious to hasten is right on your heels.’ (Surat an-Naml, 71-72)
... However, the plotting of those who are unbelievers seems good to them and they bar the way. Anyone misguided by Allah has no guide. (Surat ar-Ra’d, 33)
They concocted their plots, but their plots were with Allah, even if they were such as to make the mountains vanish. (Surah Ibrahim, 46)
Do those who plot evil actions feel secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them up or that a punishment will not come upon them from where they least expect? Or that He will not seize them on their travels, something they are powerless to prevent? Or that He will not seize them little by little? For your Lord is All-Compassionate, Most Merciful. (Surat an-Nahl, 45-47)
Or do those who perpetrate evil deeds suppose that We will make them like those who have iman and do right actions, so that their lives and deaths will be the same? How bad their judgment is! (Surat al-Jathiyya, 21)
Be patient. But your patience is only by Allah. Do not be grieved by them and do not be constricted by the plots they hatch. Allah is with those who fear [and respect] Him and with those who are good-doers. (Surat an-Nahl, 127-128)