And just as We have guided you-O Muslims-to the correct path in religion, We have made you a choice and just nation to be witnesses over the nations in the Hereafter that their messengers conveyed to them the messages of their Lord, and the Messenger in the Hereafter will likewise be a witness over you that he conveyed to you the message of his Lord. And We did not make-O Messenger-the Qiblah -Jerusalem- which you were upon, then turned you from it to the Kaaba in -Mecca-, except to make manifest what We have known in eternity; a knowledge with which reward and punishment are related, to distinguish who follows you and obeys you and faces with you wherever you turned, and who is weak in faith so he turns back as an apostate from his religion because of his doubt and hypocrisy. And indeed this situation, which is the turning of the Muslim in his prayer from facing Jerusalem to facing the Kaaba, is surely heavy and difficult except for those whom Allah guided and favored with faith and piety, and Allah was not to let your faith in Him and your following of His Messenger go to waste, and invalidate your prayer toward the previous Qiblah. Indeed, He Glorified and Exalted be He is Most Kind and Most Merciful to people.