لَقَدْ تَّابَ اللهُ عَلَى النَّبِىِّ وَالْمُهَاجِرِینَ وَالاَْنصَارِ الَّذِینَ اتَّبَعُوهُ فِی سَاعَةِ الْعُسْرَةِ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا کَادَ یَزِیغُ قُلُوبُ فَرِیق مِنْهُمْ ثُمَّ تَابَ عَلَیْهِمْ إِنَّهُ بِهِمْ رَءُوفٌ رَّحِیمٌ(( 117 ))

117- VERILY ALLAH TURNED IN MERCY TO THE PROPHET AND EMIGRANTS AND HELPERSِTHOSE WHO FOLLOWED HIM IN THE HOUR OF HARDSHIP, WHEN SOME OF THEM WERE ON THE POINT OF LOSING HEART. THEN HE TURNED IN MERCY TO THEM (TOO), THAT HE IS THE COMPASSIONATE, PITIFUL TO THEM.

وَعَلَى الثَّلاَثَةِ الَّذِینَ خُلِّفُوا حَتَّى إِذَا ضَاقَتْ عَلَیْهِمْ الاَْرْضُ بِمَا رَحُبَتْ وَضَاقَتْ عَلَیْهِمْ أَنفُسُهُمْ وَظَنُّوا أَنْ لاَ مَلْجَأَ مِنَ اللهِ إِلاَّ إِلَیْهِ ثُمَّ تَابَ عَلَیْهِمْ لِیَتُوبُواْ إِنَّ اللهَ هُوَ التَّوَّابُ الرَّحِیمُ(( 118 ))

118- (AND ALSO ALLAH TURNED IN MERCY) TO THE THREE WHO STAYED BEHIND (DURING TABUK EXPEDITION), AFTER THE EARTH WITH ALL ITS VASTNESS BECAME STRAIT FOR THEM, AND (EVEN) THEIR SOULS BECAME STRAIT FOR THEM(THEY COULD NOT EVEN CONTAIN IN THEMSELVES), AND THEY THOUGHT THAT THERE WAS NO REFUGE FROM ALLAH, EXCEPT IN HIM.

      THEN HE TURNED IN MERCY TOWARDS THEM THAT THEY MIGHT REPENT; FOR ALLAH IS THE FORGIVING THE COMPASSIONATE.