The Cattle
6. Al-'Anʿām
الأنعام
Page #143
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وَكَذَلِكَ
جَعَلْنَا
فِي
كُلِّ
قَرْيَةٍ
أَكَابِرَ
مُجْرِمِيهَا
لِيَمْكُرُوا
فِيهَا
وَمَا
يَمْكُرُونَ
إِلَّا
بِأَنفُسِهِمْ
وَمَا
يَشْعُرُونَ
wa-ka-dhālika jaʿalnā fī kulli qaryatin ʾakābira mujrimīhā li-yamkurū fīhā wa-mā yamkurūna ʾillā bi-ʾanfusihim wa-mā yashʿurūna
Thus have We installed in every town its major criminals that they may plot therein. Yet they do not plot except against their own souls, but they are not aware.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Thus have We placed leaders in every town, its wicked men, to plot (and burrow) therein: but they only plot against their own souls, and they perceive it not.
