20 Preface وَاللَّهُ مِن وَرائِهِم مُحيطٌYusuf AliBut God doth encompass them from behind!1God encompasses everything. But the wicked will find themselves defeated not only in conditions that they foresee, but from all sorts of unexpected directions, perhaps from behind them, i.e., from the very people or circumstances which in their blindness they despised or thought of as helping them.