They are the ones who disbelieved ( in the Oneness of Allah Islamic Monotheism ) , and hindered you from Al-Masjid-al-Haram ( the sacred mosque of Makkah ) and the sacrificial animals , detained from reaching their place of sacrifice . Had there not been believing men and believing women whom you did not know , that you may kill them , and on whose account a sin would have been committed by you without ( your ) knowledge , that Allah might bring into His Mercy whom He will , if they ( the believers and the disbelievers ) should have been apart , We verily had punished those of them who disbelieved , with painful torment .