it was they who were bent on denying the truth and who debarred you from the sacred mosque and who prevented your offering from reaching its place of sacrifice. and had it not been for the believing men and believing women whom you might unwittingly have trampled underfoot and on whose account you might have unknowingly become guilty so that he may bring whoever he will into his mercy. if they had been clearly separated we would have punished those who were bent on denying the truth with a painful punishment.
هم الذين كفروا وصدوكم عن المسجد الحرام والهدي معكوفا أن يبلغ محله ولولا رجال مؤمنون ونساء مؤمنات لم تعلموهم أن تطئوهم فتصيبكم منهم معرة بغير علم ليدخل الله في رحمته من يشاء لو تزيلوا لعذبنا الذين كفروا منهم عذابا أليما