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not consume one another’s unless they fight you there. If
property by unjust means, they do fight you, slay them—
nor offer it as a bribe to the such is the reward for those who
authorities, so that you may deny the truth— 192 but if they
deliberately and wrongfully desist, then surely God is most
devour a part of other people’s forgiving and merciful. 193 Fight
wealth. them until there is no more fitna
189
They ask you about the [religious persecution] and
phases of the moon. Say, ‘They religion belongs to God alone. If
are a means of determining time they desist, then let there be
for the regulation of people’s no hostility, except towards
affairs and for the pilgrimage.’ aggressors.
Piety does not consist in entering 194 A sacred month for a sacred
your houses from the rear. Indeed, month: violation of sanctity calls
one who guards himself against for fair retribution. Thus you
evil out of fear of God is the may exact retribution from
truly righteous one. Enter your whoever transgresses against
houses by their doors and be you, in proportion to his
mindful of God, so that you may transgression. Fear God and
prosper. 190 And fight in God’s know that God is with those who
cause against those who wage are mindful of Him. 195 Spend
war against you, but do not for God’s cause: do not cast
commit aggression—for surely, yourselves into destruction by
God does not love aggressors. your own hands. Do good, God
191 Slay them wherever you find loves the doers of good.
them [those who fight against 196 Perform the Hajj and the
you]; a drive them out of the minor pilgrimage [umrah] for
places from which they drove the sake of God. If you are
you, for [religious] persecution
is worse than killing. Do not a See pages xiv to xvii of the
fight them at the Sacred Mosque Introduction.