have you not considered those who were told restrain your hands and perform your prayers and spend in regular charity? but when fighting was ordained for them a faction of them feared the people as god is ought to be feared or even more. and they said our lord why did you ordain fighting for us? if only you would postpone it for us for a short while. say the enjoyments of this life are brief but the hereafter is better for the righteous and you will not be wronged one bit.
ألم تر إلى الذين قيل لهم كفوا أيديكم وأقيموا الصلاة وآتوا الزكاة فلما كتب عليهم القتال إذا فريق منهم يخشون الناس كخشية الله أو أشد خشية وقالوا ربنا لم كتبت علينا القتال لولا أخرتنا إلى أجل قريب قل متاع الدنيا قليل والآخرة خير لمن اتقى ولا تظلمون فتيلا