they are the ones who disbelieved and barred you from the inviolable mosque and prevented the animals you had designated for sacrifice from reaching the place of their offering. if it had not been for the believing men and believing women whom you did not know and had there not been the fear that you might trample on them and unwittingly incur blame on their account allah may admit to his mercy whomsoever he pleases. had those believers been separated from the rest we would certainly have inflicted a grievous chastisement on those of them [i.e. the makkans) who disbelieved.
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