it was these who disbelieved and prevented you from the sacred mosque and stopped the sacrificial animals from reaching their place and were it not for some muslim men and muslim women whom you do not know – lest you may crush them and unintentionally incur some violation due to them – allah would have permitted you to slay them this relief for them is so that allah may admit into his mercy whomever he wills and had they been separated we would have indeed punished the disbelievers 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