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fa-tarā lladhīna fī qulūbihim maraḍun yusāriʿūna fīhim yaqūlūna nakhshā ʾan tuṣībanā dāʾiratun fa-ʿasā llāhu ʾan yaʾtiya bi-l-fatḥi ʾaw ʾamrin min ʿindihī fa-yuṣbiḥū ʿalā mā ʾasarrū fī ʾanfusihim nādimīna
Yet you see those in whose hearts is a sickness rushing to them, saying, ‘We fear lest a turn of fortune should visit us.’ Maybe Allah will bring about a victory, or a command from Him, and then they will be regretful for what they kept secret in their hearts,
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah Al-Ma'idah, Verse 52
52. "But you will see those in whose hearts is disease hastening towards them, saying: We fear lest a calamity should befall us.' And it may be that Allah brings about a victory or (some) thing from Himself (for the benefit of Muslims), then they will be regretting for what they hid in their selves."
In this verse, the Holy Qur'an points to the pretexts that some sickly people chose for justification of their unlawful relations with the non-Muslim foreigners. The verse implies that those in whose hearts there is sickness persist to take them as their own refuge and their confederate. Their pretext is that they say they fear that the authority and power be in the foreigners' hand and they be fallen in calamity. Here is the verse:
In answer to them, the Qur'an says that just as they think that someday the authority and power may be in the hand of the Jews and the Christians, they should also consider that Allah may bring a victory for the Muslims and they take-the authority and power in their own hand, so that these hypocrites be regretful for what they hid in their hearts. The verse says: