after of the distress he sent down calm on a band of you overcome with slumber while another band was stirred to anxiety by their own feelings moved by wrong suspicions of allahsuspicions due to ignorance. they said what affair is this of ours? say thou indeed this affair is wholly allahs. they hide in their minds what they dare not reveal to thee. they say if we had had anything to do with this affair we should not have been in the slaughter here. say even if you had remained in your homes those for whom death was decreed would certainly have gone forth to the place of their death but that allah might test what is in your breasts and purge what is in your hearts. for allah knoweth well the secrets of your hearts.
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