لَوْ خَرَجُوا فِیکُم مَّا زَادُوکُمْ إِلاَّ خَبَالا وَلاَوْضَعُوا خِلَـلَکُمْ یَبْغُونَکُمُ الْفِتْنَةَ وَفِیکُمْ سَمَّـعُونَ لَهُمْ وَاللهُ عَلِیمٌ بِالظَّـلِمینَ (47) لَقَدِ ابْتَغَوُا الْفِتْنَةَ مِن قَبلُ وَقَلَّبُوا لَکَ الاُْمُورَ حَتَّى جَآءَ الْحَقُّ وَظَهَرَ أمْرُ اللهِ وَهُمْ کَـرِهُونَ (48)
46- IF THEY HAD INTENDED TO SET FORTH, THEY WOULD HAVE MADE SOME PREPRATIONS FOR IT, BUT ALLAH DISLIKED THEIR GETTING UP, SO HE WITHHELD THEM, AND IT WAS SAID TO THEM: `SIT YOU DOWN WITH THOSE WHO SIT DOWN.47- IF THEY HAD COME OUT AMONG YOU, THEY WOULD ADD YOU NOTHING EXCEPT DOUBT AND ANXIETY. AND THEY WOULD MAKE WAY AMONG YOU TO SOW IN YOU SEDITION, (TO CREATE DISCORD) AND AMONG YOU THERE ARE LISTENERS FOR THEM. (SPIES) AND ALLAH KNOWS THE OPPRESSORS.
48- VERILY THEY SOUGHT TO SOW DISCORD (TO CREATE TUMULT) IN BEFORE, AND TURNED THINGS UPSIDE DOWN FOR YOU, UNTIL THE TRUTH CAME, AND ALLAH'S ORDER PREVAILED, WHILE THEY DISLIKET IT.