“They planned and plotted and Allah countered their plans by plans of His own. Allah is the best of planners.”
(Al-Quran – 3:54)
The above verse of the Holy Qur’ān highlights the fact that the plans and schemes of Allah are the best, and people, because of their limitation to completely comprehend it, fail to see beyond the tangible and material reality. The above verse was revealed, when the chiefs of the city were planning and plotting against Jesus (peace be to him), however Allah had His plans hatched out to prove all their plotting insignificant.
In today’s context this verse assumes great salience. The Arab Spring which got the cue from the self-immolation of Bouazizi in Tunisia, spread all across the Arab world and the ouster of Ben Ali, led to the domino effect in Egypt, Libya and Morocco. The tyrants and the oppressors, who were placed by the west, tried all that they could to put the Islamic Ummah in a dormant state and persecuted everyone who dared to speak against their oppression.
Indeed they had their plans, but beyond what their vision could comprehend was Allah, who had willed something entirely different from what they wanted and perceived. The unbearable restrictions put by the oppressors, led to the rupture so intense that even they could not contain or stem. Indeed Allah does what He wills and the recent revival in the Ummah and unrelenting calls in favour of Islam are something which the tyrants could have never imagined. Verily their plots now appear fragile.