Laʿallaka bāḵiʿun nafsaka allā yakūnū muʾminīn. “Haply thou wilt risk death grieving that they do not believe.”  (26:4)

The Promised Messiah^(as) says one meaning of this verse is : In your concern for making a believer into a complete believer ( making a momin into a  momin), would you sacrifice your life.

The enigma therefore is not how the righteous will gain victory over the unrighteous or how the good will triumph over evil but how the evil in every good and unrighteousness of the righteous is to be overcome. The fundamental issue in our lives is not the control of wickedness, but the limitation of self-righteousness and pious hypocrisy. For it is this that often leads to chaos, confusion and disorder.

The issue is not merely that good will one day triumph over evil in a final, dramatic clash. The deeper issue is how taqwa and good can grow so immense in quality and influence that evil finds itself unable to stand before it and ultimately submits. In such a vision, the victory of good is not just the defeat of an opponent but the transformation of the hearts of the enemy and moral landscape itself, until vice becomes unattractive, incoherent, and socially unsustainable. God does the  heavy lifting of transformation of hearts (6:126), We do the jihad of self reformation with effort and prayers  and istighfar so we evolve through stages of excellence from good to better to best (13:23; 66:9).

This perspective shifts the focus from fighting evil reactively to cultivating good proactively. Rather than centering energy on opposing what is wrong, it calls for building such powerful structures of virtue, within character, families, communities, and institutions, that injustice and corruption have no fertile ground in which to thrive. Goodness then becomes the norm, not the exception: the standard by which ideas, actions, and systems are judged, and the atmosphere that makes evil feel alien and out of place.

When good reaches this magnitude, evil does not just lose battles; it loses credibility. Hearts that might have been seduced by selfishness or aggression instead find greater strength, beauty, and dignity in truth, mercy, and justice. The ultimate triumph, therefore, is not the annihilation of evil alone, but the moral elevation of humanity to a point where evil, stripped of its allure and power, bows before a radiant and all-encompassing good.

The Holy Quran explains this as:

“Good and evil are not alike. Repel evil with that which is best, and lo, he between whom and thyself was enmity is as though he were a warm friend” ( 41:35) Wa lā tastawī al-ḥasanatu wa lā as-sayyi’ah, idfaʿ billatī hiya aḥsan, fa-idhā alladhī baynaka wa baynahu ʿadāwatun ka-an

This verse directly captures the idea that the goal is not merely to crush evil, but to elevate “good” to such a level that even an enemy’s heart is transformed and effectively submits to it. Allah says :

“While on them who affirm: Our Lord is Allah, and then remain steadfast, angels descend, reassuring them; Fear not nor grieve, and rejoice in the Garden that you were promised.”  (41:31)

God is the foundation of goodness and of everything good—He did not obtain it from another source. Our goodness comes from God. We reflect it. The Holy Prophet^(sa) was the mirror image of Godly attributes. The more we move away from God we lose the reflection of these attributes which become blurred and ultimately disappear. Allah guides us

“Verily, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you may take heed: (16:91)

When goodness is deep, disciplined, and God-centered, evil is not merely defeated but quietly disarmed, stripped of its appeal and force. In striving for that quality of belief and goodness, the believer does not seek the humiliation of an enemy, but the elevation of all hearts toward Allah, until even former enmity is transformed into sincere devotion and lasting peace. Allah says in The Quran

“ Of the believers whoso acts righteously, whether male or female, we will surely grant such a one a pure life; and We will certainly reward them according to the measure of the best of their works. (16:98)