Behold, your Lord said to the angels: ”I will create a vicegerent on earth.” They said: ”Will You place therein one who will make mischief therein and shed blood? – while we do celebrate Your praises and glorify Your holy (name)?” He said: ”I know what you do not know.”
Qur’an 2:30
Qur’an 2:12
Of a surety, they are the ones who make mischief, but they realise (it) not.
Qur’an 2:11
When it is said to them: “Make not mischief on the earth,” they say: “Why, we only Want to make peace!”
Juxtaposts
Qur’an 2:27
Those who break Allah’s Covenant after it is ratified, and who sunder what Allah has ordered to be joined, and do mischief on earth: these cause loss (only) to themselves.