ٱلْأَنْفَال : ٢٥

  • وَٱتَّقُواْ And fear
  • فِتۡنَةٗ a trial
  • لَّا not
  • تُصِيبَنَّ which will afflict
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those who
  • ظَلَمُواْ do wrong
  • مِنكُمۡ among you
  • خَآصَّةٗۖ exclusively
  • وَٱعۡلَمُوٓاْ And know
  • أَنَّ that
  • ٱللَّهَ Allah
  • شَدِيدُ (is) severe
  • ٱلۡعِقَابِ (in) the penalty
And fear a trial1 which will not strike those who have wronged among you exclusively, and know that Allāh is severe in penalty.
Footnotes
1 - i.e., an affliction or punishment during life upon this earth. When corruption spreads among a people, its consequences will affect everyone.
And be afraid of a trial which, if it were to fall upon you, would certainly not fall exclusively upon the evildoers among you, but would encompass them and others, and the way to guard against it is to repudiate that evil which necessarily results in [precipitating] it; and know that God is severe in retribution, against those who oppose Him.