وَإِذْ يَمْكُرُ بِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لِيُثْبِتُوكَ أَوْ يَقْتُلُوكَ أَوْ يُخْرِجُوكَ ۚ وَيَمْكُرُونَ وَيَمْكُرُ ٱللَّهُ ۖ وَٱللَّهُ خَيْرُ ٱلْمَـٰكِرِينَ
Wa iz yamkuru bikal lazeena kafaroo liyusbitooka aw yaqtulooka aw yukhrijook; wa yamkuroona wa yamkurul laahu wallaahu khairul maakireen
İnkar edenler, seni bağlayıp bir yere kapamak veya öldürmek, ya da sürmek için düzen kuruyorlardı. Onlar düzen kurarken, Allah da düzenlerini bozuyordu. Allah düzen yapanların en iyisidir.
And remember when those who deny plotted against you — to detain you, or kill you, or drive you out. They plot, and God plots, and God is the best of planners.
Surah al-Anfal came down after Badr, and this line takes its first hearers back to a night in Mecca, when the Quraysh council weighed three courses against the Prophet: confinement, killing, or exile. The sira reports that they settled on killing, one young man from each clan striking together so the blood-guilt would be spread too wide to avenge. He left for Medina that night, and eighteen months later the same journey brought him to Badr against the same men.