they ask you about fighting during the holy month. say fighting during it is deplorable but to bar others from gods path and to disbelieve in him and to prevent access to the holy mosque and to expel its people from it are more deplorable with god. and persecution is more serious than killing. they will not cease to fight you until they turn you back from your religion if they can. whoever among you turns back from his religion and dies a disbeliever—those are they whose works will come to nothing in this life and in the hereafter. those are the inmates of the fire abiding in it forever.
يسألونك عن الشهر الحرام قتال فيه قل قتال فيه كبير وصد عن سبيل الله وكفر به والمسجد الحرام وإخراج أهله منه أكبر عند الله والفتنة أكبر من القتل ولا يزالون يقاتلونكم حتى يردوكم عن دينكم إن استطاعوا ومن يرتدد منكم عن دينه فيمت وهو كافر فأولئك حبطت أعمالهم في الدنيا والآخرة وأولئك أصحاب النار هم فيها خالدون