These it was who disbelieved and debarred you from the Inviolable Place of Worship , and debarred the offering from reaching its goal . And if it had not been for believing men and believing women , whom ye know not - lest ye should tread them under foot and thus incur guilt for them unknowingly ; that Allah might bring into His mercy whom He will - If ( the believers and the disbelievers ) had been clearly separated We verily had punished those of them who disbelieved with painful punishment .