Bismillah
Praise be to Allah Lord of the Worlds, Creator of the Creations, The All Knowing, may He Support me much in this endeavor and Inspire me with the correct words. Allahuma salli a`la Mohamed wa a`la aalehee wa sahbeh wa sallam.
as salam alykom brothers and sisters
The more you read the Quran the more you feel that it contains all solutions to any problem.
Who does not face plotting or conspiracy in many various situations? either on the personal, professional or even more globaly of course on Islam level?
What would u do? would you spend hours thinking of how to plot back? or reveal your innocence in cases of false accusations? or even take your revenge by your hand?
Do you think this would be easy or even fruitful? do you think this can go by without harming you on the spirtual level? I think it would. None of us really by instinct leans towards evil. Usually we feel remorse after even saying a bad word to someone who harmed you verbally or physically.
Let us see what solution Allah Gave us:
"<b>Lo! You are the ones who love them but they love you not, and you believe in all the Scriptures [i.e. you believe in the Torah and the Gospel, while they disbelieve in your Book, the Qur’an]. And when they meet you, they say, "We believe". But when they are alone, they bite the tips of their fingers at you in rage. Say: "Perish in your rage. Certainly, Allah knows what is in the breasts
</b> (all the secrets). (for the underlined word I would better use chests).
* If a good befalls you, it grieves them, but if some evil overtakes you, they rejoice at it. But if you remain patient and become pious, not the least harm will their cunning do to you. Surely, Allah surrounds all that they do
." (Quran 3:119-120)
The first Ayah explains the evil situation one may encounter, followed by an explanation of how Allah Wants us to handle it. Allah actually Explains the feelings such people who plot against anyone have. They are probably so much busy with the person against whom they plot, their hearts are full of rage against the other party. They verbally express other than what their hearts hide. More over so, they grief and become more raged in case the other party experiences a good situation while they rejoice when he/she encounters evil. This precise, exact accurate of course Divine explanation fulfills situation we may all encounter in different situations. Based on this, if a person is so much full of hate, he/she may easily resort to cunning in order to harm the victim.
But how can we protect ourselves against their cunning which may be harmful of course?
Allah Say: to remain patient and become pious. So patience and fearing Allah are two means of handling such situation. Both means are enough to keep us busy with how to implement them.
Just note that Allah Put patience before fearing Allah. For only when one is patient during problems and trials, taking it easy and knowing that all is from Allah and what is from Allah is certainly the best. Only then one will be able to fear Allah. Fearing Allah means that u dont go hiring a pro killer for example to take your revenge, fearing Allah will prevent u from even saying a bad word back or ruining one's reputation to take your revenge, from lying to save yourself trouble, fearing Allah will make you think many times before taking any action in order to ward off harm or evil..
Brothers and sisters, just apply the manual and you will be more than happy.