Evil Plots

Arabs say:

مَنْ حَفَرَ لأَخِيهِ قَلِيبًا
أَوْقَعَهُ اللَّهُ فِيهِ قَرِيبًا
“Whoever digs for his brother a hole (qaleeb),
God will make this person himself fall in it soon (qareeb).”

This is not a Hadith, but the meaning is correct.

Imam al-Thalabi mentions it in his Tafsir and says:
قال ابن عباس : أنا أوجد لك ذلك في القرآن ، ثم قرأ قوله سبحانه وتعالى : {ولا يحيق المكر السيئ إلا بأهله
“Ibn Abbaas said: “I found that the meaning of this can be traced back to the Qur’an”, he then recited: “evil plotting only backfires on those who plot.” [35:43].
[“Al-Kashf wa-l-bayān ʿan tafsīr al-Qurʾān”, 11/274].

Always have good intentions in life, because evil plots often backfire.

A poet says:
کر د گلو کره چی سیمه دی گلزارشی
اغزی مه کره په پخو کی به دی خارشی!
“Sow the seeds of flowers,
so your surroundings become a garden.
Don’t sow thorns,
because they will eventually hurt your own feet.”