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O Messenger (rasūl), let them not grieve you, the actions of, those who vie with one another in disbelief, falling headlong into it, in other words, they [who] manifest it at every opportunity, of (min here is explicative) such as say with their mouths, with their tongues (bi-alsinatihim is semantically connected to qālū, '[such] as say'), 'We believe' but their hearts do not believe, and these are the hypocrites; and from among those of Jewry, there is a folk, who listen to calumny, fabricated by their rabbis, listening acceptingly, listening to, you, on behalf of some, other folk, from among the Jews, who have not come to you: these were the inhabitants of Khaybar, among whom two married persons committed adultery, but whom they did not want to stone. And so they dispatched [men from] Qurayza to ask the Prophet "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" about the ruling concerning the two; perverting words, that are in the Torah, such as the 'stoning' verse, from their contexts, [the contexts] in which Allahu ta’ālā had placed them, that is to say, substituting them, saying, to the ones they dispatched: 'If you are given this, distorted ruling, that is, flogging, which Muhammad "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" has pronounced for you as a ruling, then take it, accept it; but if you are not given it, and he pronounces some other ruling for you, then beware!', of accepting it! Whomever Allahu ta’ālā desires to try, to lead astray, you cannot avail him anything against Allahu ta’ālā, by preventing such [a trial]. Those are they whose hearts Allahu ta’ālā did not desire to purify, of unbelief, for had He desired it, you would have [been able to do something for them]; theirs shall be degradation in this world, humiliation, by being disgraced and subjected to the jizya, and in the Hereafter theirs shall be a great chastisement.