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But what [plea] have they now, that Allahu ta’ālā should not chastise them, with the sword, after your departure and that of the oppressed [believers] - if this [verse] is understood in accordance with the first opinion [that it refers to the idolaters asking forgiveness], then it abrogates the previous one, for Allahu ta’ālā had chastised them at Badr and in other instances - when they bar, prevent the Prophet "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" and the Muslims, from the Sacred Mosque, [from] performing circumambulations there, though they are not its guardians?, as they claim? Its only [rightful] guardians are the Allahu ta’ālā-fearing, but most of them do not know, that they have no [rightful] custodianship over it.