then after sorrow he sent down security upon you a calm coming upon a party of you and another party whom their own souls had rendered anxious they entertained about allah thoughts of ignorance quite unjustly saying we have no hand in the affair. say surely the affair is wholly of allah. they conceal within their souls what they would not reveal to you. they say had we any hand in the affair we would not have been slain here. say had you remained in your houses those for whom slaughter was ordained would certainly have gone forth to the places where they would be slain and that allah might test what was in your breasts and that he might purge what was in your hearts and allah knows what is in the breasts.
ثم أنزل عليكم من بعد الغم أمنة نعاسا يغشى طائفة منكم وطائفة قد أهمتهم أنفسهم يظنون بالله غير الحق ظن الجاهلية يقولون هل لنا من الأمر من شيء قل إن الأمر كله لله يخفون في أنفسهم ما لا يبدون لك يقولون لو كان لنا من الأمر شيء ما قتلنا هاهنا قل لو كنتم في بيوتكم لبرز الذين كتب عليهم القتل إلى مضاجعهم وليبتلي الله ما في صدوركم وليمحص ما في قلوبكم والله عليم بذات الصدور