It is He who expelled the faithless belonging to the People of the Book from their homes at the outset of [their] en masse banishment. You did not think that they would go out, and they thought their fortresses would protect them from Allah. But Allah came at them from whence they did not suppose and He cast terror into their hearts. They demolish their houses with their own hands and the hands of the faithful. So take lesson, O you who have insight!
اوست كسى كه، از ميان اهل كتاب كسانى را كه كفر ورزيدند در نخستين اخراج [از مدينه‌] بيرون كرد. گمان نمى‌كرديد كه بيرون روند و خودشان گمان داشتند كه دژهايشان در برابر خدا مانع آنها خواهد بود، و[لى‌] خدا از آنجايى كه تصوّر نمى‌كردند بر آنان درآمد و در دلهايشان بيم افكند، [به طورى كه‌] خود به دست خود و دست مؤمنان خانه‌هاى خود را خراب مى‌كردند. پس اى ديده‌وران، عبرت گيريد.