they are those who disbelieved and barred you from the holy mosque and the offering detained so as not to reach its place of sacrifice if it had not been for certain believing men and certain believing women whom you did not know you might have trampled upon them and so sin reached you because of them while you did not know. in order that allah admits into his mercy whom he will had they been easy to distinguish we would have punished the unbelievers among them 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