then after distress he sent down upon you security drowsiness overcoming a faction of you while another faction worried about themselves thinking of allah other than the truth the thought of ignorance saying is there anything for us in this matter? say indeed the matter belongs completely to allah. they conceal within themselves what they will not reveal to you. they say if there was anything we could have done in the matter some of us would not have been killed right here. say even if you had been inside your houses those decreed to be killed would have come out to their death beds. so that allah might test what is in your breasts and purify what is in your hearts. and allah is knowing of that within 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