Tafsir for verse: 3:120
إِن تَمۡسَسۡكُمۡ حَسَنَةٞ تَسُؤۡهُمۡ وَإِن تُصِبۡكُمۡ سَيِّئَةٞ يَفۡرَحُواْ بِهَاۖ وَإِن تَصۡبِرُواْ وَتَتَّقُواْ لَا يَضُرُّكُمۡ كَيۡدُهُمۡ شَيۡـًٔاۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ بِمَا يَعۡمَلُونَ مُحِيطٞ ١٢٠ ﴿120
120If something good happens to you, it annoys them, and if something evil befalls you, they are delighted with it. If you keep patience and fear Allah, their cunning shall not harm you at all. Allah is All-Encompassing of what they do.
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Commentary

And when what this statement informed about their hatred and the intensity of their enmity was needed to reach the observation, it indicated that by saying: "If it touches you"; meaning: merely a touch; "a good thing will harm them"; and when this was a clear evidence, but it was not explicit, he followed it with the explicit by saying: "And if a misfortune befalls you"; meaning: with the strength of its bitterness, and the severity of its impact, and its harm; "a bad thing they will rejoice in"; and when this was a matter that is reproachful, infuriating, and painful, he treated them by referring to victory, conditioned by the condition of piety and patience; so he said: "And if you are patient and fear Allah"; meaning: you are among the people of patience and piety; "their plot will not harm you at all"; then he explained that by saying: "Indeed, Allah"; meaning: the Possessor of Glory and Honor; "is All-Encompassing of what they do"; meaning: He prepares for every plot what nullifies it; and the meaning - according to the reading of the address - is: "By your every action; so whoever is patient and fears Allah, I will grant him victory; and whoever acts otherwise, I will take retribution from him."

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