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 (who lived in Makkah and) 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, (then fighting would not have been put to a stop. It was stopped so that) Allah may admit to His Mercy whomsoever He pleases. Had those believers been separated from the rest, We would certainly have inflicted a grievous chastise-ment on those of them [i.e. the Makkans) who disbelieved.
آنان بودند که کفرورزیدند و شما را از مسجدالحرام باز داشتند و نگذاشتند قربانی [شما] که باز داشته شده بود، به محل [قربانگاه‌]اش برسد، و اگر [در مکه‌] مردان و زنان [مستضعف‌] با ایمانی نبودند که [ممکن بود] بی‌آنکه آنان را بشناسید، ندانسته پایمالشان کنید و تاوانشان بر شما بماند [فرمان حمله به مکه می‌دادیم‌] تا خدا هر که را بخواهد در جوار رحمت خویش درآورد اگر [کافران و مؤمنان‌] از هم متمایز می‌شدند، قطعا از میان آنان کافران را به عذاب دردناکی معذب می‌داشتیم‌