"And were it not for the grace of Allah upon you and His mercy in this world and the Hereafter, a great punishment would have touched you for that into which you were drawn." There is a displacement in this verse; he says: And were it not for the grace of Allah upon you and His mercy, a great punishment would have touched you in this world and the Hereafter for that into which you were drawn. The "drawing into it" (al-ifadah) refers to when a man would meet another man and say, "Has the news of what was said about Aisha and Safwan not reached you?"