Fight, therefore, on God’s path:  lay not burdens on any but thyself; and stir up the faithful.  The might of the infidels haply will god restrain, for God is the stronger in prowess, and the stronger to punish.

He who shall mediate between men for a good purpose shall be the gainer by it.  But he who shall mediate with an evil mediation shall reap the fruit of it.  And God keepeth watch over everything.

If ye are greeted with a greeting, then greet ye with a better greeting, or at least return it:  God taketh count of all things.

God! there is no god but He!  He will certainly assemble you on the day of resurrection.  There is no doubt of it.  And whose word is more true than God’s?

Why are ye two parties on the subject of the hypocrites, when God hath cast them off for their doings?  Desire ye to guide those whom god hath led astray?  But for him whom God leadeth astray, thou shalt by no means find a pathway.

They desire that ye should be infidels as they are infidels, and that ye should be alike.  Take therefore none of them for friends, till they have fled their homes for the cause of God.  If they turn back, then seize them, and slay them wherever ye find them; but take none of them as friends or helpers,

Except those who shall seek and asylum among your allies, and those who come over to you-their hearts forbidding them to make war on you, or to make war on their own people.  Had God pleased, he would have given them power against you, and they would have made war upon you!  But, if they depart from you, and make not war against you and offer you peace, the God alloweth you no occasion against them.

Ye will find others who seek to gain your confidence as well as that of their own people:  So oft as they return to sedition, they shall be overthrown in it:  But if they leave you not, nor propose terms or peace to you nor withhold their hands, then seize them, and slay them, wherever ye find them.  Over these have we given you undoubted power.

A believer killeth not a believer but by mischance:  and whoso killeth a believer by mischance shall be bound to free a believer from slavery; and the blood-money shall be paid to the family of the slain, unless they convert it into alms.  But if the slain believer be of a hostile people, then let him confer freedom on a slave who is a believer; and if he be of a people between whom and yourselves there is an alliance, then let the blood-money be paid to his family, and let him set free a slave who is a believer:  and let him who hath not the means, fast two consecutive months.  This is the penance enjoined by God; and God is Knowing, Wise!

But whoever shall kill a believer of set purpose, his recompense shall be hell; for ever shall he abide in it; God shall be wrathful with him, and shall curse him, and shall get ready for him a great torment.

O believers! when ye go forth to the fight for the cause of God, be discerning, and say not to every one who meeteth you with a greeting, “Thou art not a believer"18 in your greed after the chance good things of this present life!  With God are abundant spoils.  Such hath been your wont in times past; but god hath been gracious to you.  Be discerning, then, for God well knoweth what ye do.