If it were not for God’s grace towards you, and His mercy in this world and in the Hereafter, you would have suffered a great retribution because of this incident.
وَلَولا فَضلُ اللَّهِ عَلَيكُم وَرَحمَتُهُ فِى الدُّنيا وَالـٔاخِرَةِ لَمَسَّكُم فى ما أَفَضتُم فيهِ عَذابٌ عَظيمٌ
wa law laa fadlul laahi ‘alaikum wa rahmatuhoo fiddunyaa wal aakhirati lamassakum fee maaa afadtum feehi ‘azaabun ‘azeem