[9:7]
How can there be a treaty with Allah and with
His messenger for the idolaters save those with whom ye made a treaty at the
[9:8]
How (can there be any treaty for the others)
when, if they have the upper hand of you, they regard not pact nor honour in
respect of you ? They satisfy you with their mouths the while their hearts
refuse. And most of them are wrongdoers.
[9:9]
They have purchased with the revelations of
Allah a little gain, so they debar (men) from His way. Lo! evil is that which
they are wont to do.
[9:10]
And they observe toward a believer neither pact nor
honour. These are they who are transgressors.
[9:11]
But if they repent and establish worship and pay
the poor-due, then are they your brethren in religion. We detail Our
revelations for a people who have knowledge.
[9:12]
And if they break their pledges after their
treaty (hath been made with you) and assail your religion, then fight the heads
of disbelief - Lo! they have no binding oaths - in order that they may desist.
[9:13]
Will ye not fight a folk who broke their solemn
pledges, and purposed to drive out the messenger and did attack you first ?
What! Fear ye them ? Now Allah hath more right that ye should fear Him, if ye
are believers