8:31 Whenever Our verses are recited to them, they say, 'We have heard them, if we wished, we could speak its like. They are but tales of the ancients.'
8:33 But Allah was not to punish them whilst you (Prophet Muhammad) were living in their midst. Nor would Allah punish them if they repeatedly ask forgiveness of Him.
8:34 And why should Allah not punish them, when they have barred others from the Sacred Mosque, although they were not its guardians? Its only guardians are the cautious, though most of them do not know.