 it was they who were bent on denying the truth and who debarred you from the inviolable house of worship and prevented your offering from reaching its destina­tion. and had it not been for the believing men and believing women whom you might have unwittingly trampled underfoot and on whose account you might have become guilty without knowing it of a grievous wrong so that god might admit to his grace whomever he wills. had they been clearly discernible we would indeed have imposed grievous suffering on such of them as were bent on denying the truth.
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