ثُمَّ أَنزَلَ عَلَيْكُم مِّنۢ بَعْدِ ٱلْغَمِّ أَمَنَةًۭ نُّعَاسًۭا يَغْشَىٰ طَآئِفَةًۭ مِّنكُمْ ۖ وَطَآئِفَةٌۭ قَدْ أَهَمَّتْهُمْ أَنفُسُهُمْ يَظُنُّونَ بِٱللَّهِ غَيْرَ ٱلْحَقِّ ظَنَّ ٱلْجَٰهِلِيَّةِ ۖ يَقُولُونَ هَل لَّنَا مِنَ ٱلْأَمْرِ مِن شَىْءٍۢ ۗ قُلْ إِنَّ ٱلْأَمْرَ كُلَّهُۥ لِلَّهِ ۗ يُخْفُونَ فِىٓ أَنفُسِهِم مَّا لَا يُبْدُونَ لَكَ ۖ يَقُولُونَ لَوْ كَانَ لَنَا مِنَ ٱلْأَمْرِ شَىْءٌۭ مَّا قُتِلْنَا هَٰهُنَا ۗ قُل لَّوْ كُنتُمْ فِى بُيُوتِكُمْ لَبَرَزَ ٱلَّذِينَ كُتِبَ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْقَتْلُ إِلَىٰ مَضَاجِعِهِمْ ۖ وَلِيَبْتَلِىَ ٱللَّهُ مَا فِى صُدُورِكُمْ وَلِيُمَحِّصَ مَا فِى قُلُوبِكُمْ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمٌۢ بِذَاتِ ٱلصُّدُورِ
How to read it
Thumma 'anzala ʻalay'kum mmin[m] baʻ'di l-ghammi 'amanatan nnuʻāssan yagh'shā ṭā'ifatan mminkum' . waṭā'ifatun qad' 'ahammat'hum' 'anfussuhum' yaẓunnūna bi-llahi ghay'ra l-ḥaqqi ẓanna l-jāhiliyyati . yaqūlūna hal llanā mina l-'am'ri min shay''in . qul' 'inna l-'am'ra kullahu lillahi . yukh'fūna fī 'anfussihim mmā lā yub'dūna laka . yaqūlūna law' kāna lanā mina l-'am'ri shay''un mmā qutilnā hāhunā . qul llaw' kuntum' fī buyūtikum' labaraza -lladhīna kutiba ʻalay'himu l-qat'lu 'ilā maḍājiʻihim' . waliyab'taliya -llahu mā fī ṣudūrikum' waliyumaḥḥiṣa mā fī qulūbikum' . wa-llahu ʻalīmun[m] bidhāti ṣṣudūri
After (the excitement) 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 Allah-suspicions due to ignorance. They said: "What affair is this of ours?" Say thou: "Indeed, this affair is wholly Allah's." They hide in their minds what they dare not reveal to thee. They say (to themselves): "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 (all this was) 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.
Translation: Abdullah Yusuf Ali
