2049 Evil will always devise plots against the Prophets of Allah. So was it with al Mustafa, and so wait with the Prophets before him. But the imposing structures which the ungodly build up (metaphorically) collapse at the Command of Allah, and they are often punished from quarters from which they least expected punishment, ( Cf.
16:45 and,
59:25). For example, the Quraysh were confident in their number's, their organisation. and their superior equipment. But on the field of Badr they collapsed where they expected victory.