50 Preface وَمَكَروا مَكرًا وَمَكَرنا مَكرًا وَهُم لا يَشعُرونَYusuf AliThey plotted and planned,1 but We too planned, even while they perceived it not.Cf. 3:54. Their secret plotting is all known to God, but of God’s just and beneficient plans they know nothing. And the wicked must come to an evil end.