If the hypocrites and those in whose hearts there is a sickness,1 and the scandal mongers in Madinah2 do not desist from their vile acts, We shall urge you to take action against them, and then they will hardly be able to stay in the city with you.
Footnotes
[1]
The Arabic word is masjidwhich literally means ‘a place for prostration’.
[2]
The People of the Scripture.
[3]
“Having diseased hearts” points to two kinds of evils:
[4]
(1) That a person should be an ill-wisher of Islam and the Muslims although he gets himself counted among the Muslims; and