The Quran

يا أَيُّهَا الَّذينَ آمَنُوا اذكُروا نِعمَتَ اللَّهِ عَلَيكُم إِذ هَمَّ قَومٌ أَن يَبسُطوا إِلَيكُم أَيدِيَهُم فَكَفَّ أَيدِيَهُم عَنكُم ۖ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ ۚ وَعَلَى اللَّهِ فَليَتَوَكَّلِ المُؤمِنونَ

Muhammad Asad

O you who have attained to faith! Remember the blessings which God bestowed upon you when [hostile] people were about to lay hands on you¹ and He stayed their hands from you. Remain, then, conscious of God: and in God let the believers place their trust.

Lit., "to stretch their hands towards you": an allusion to the weakness of the believers at the beginning of the Qur'anic revelation, and - by implication - to the initial weakness of every religious movement.