The Quran

Preface

لَهُ مُعَقِّباتٌ مِن بَينِ يَدَيهِ وَمِن خَلفِهِ يَحفَظونَهُ مِن أَمرِ اللَّهِ ۗ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لا يُغَيِّرُ ما بِقَومٍ حَتّىٰ يُغَيِّروا ما بِأَنفُسِهِم ۗ وَإِذا أَرادَ اللَّهُ بِقَومٍ سوءًا فَلا مَرَدَّ لَهُ ۚ وَما لَهُم مِن دونِهِ مِن والٍ

Yusuf Ali

For each (such person)¹ there are (angels) in succession, before and behind him: They guard him by command of God. Verily never will God change the condition of a people until they change what is within themselves.² But when (once) God willeth a people?s punishment, there can be no turning it back, nor will they find, besides Him, any to protect.

See last verse. Every person, whether he conceals or reveals his thoughts, whether he skulks in darkness or goes about by day?all are under God’s watch and ward. His grace encompasses everyone, and again and again protects him, if he will only take the protection, from harm and evil. If in his folly he thinks he can secretly take some pleasure or profit, he is wrong, for recording angels record all his thoughts and deeds.
God is not intent on punishment. He created man virtuous and pure: He gave him intelligence and knowledge; He surrounded him with all sorts of instruments of His grace and mercy. If, in spite of all this, man distorts his own will and goes against God’s Will, yet is God’s forgiveness open to him if he will take it. It is only when he has made his own sight blind and changed his own nature or soul away from the beautiful mould in which God formed it, that God’s Wrath will descend on him and the favourable position in which God placed him will be changed. When once the punishment comes, there is no turning it back.
None of the things which he relied upon?other than God?can possibly protect him.