they would love to see you deny the truth even as they have denied it so that you should be like them. do not therefore take them for your allies until they forsake the domain of evil for the sake of god and if they revert to enmity seize them and slay them wherever you may find them. and do not take any of them for your ally or giver of succour unless it be such as have ties with people to whom you yourselves are bound by a covenant or such as come unto you because their hearts shrink from making war either on you or on their own folk although if god had willed to make them stronger than you they would certainly have made war on you. thus if they let you be and do not make war on you and offer you peace god does not allow you to harm them.
ودوا لو تكفرون كما كفروا فتكونون سواء فلا تتخذوا منهم أولياء حتى يهاجروا في سبيل الله فإن تولوا فخذوهم واقتلوهم حيث وجدتموهم ولا تتخذوا منهم وليا ولا نصيرا إلا الذين يصلون إلى قوم بينكم وبينهم ميثاق أو جاءوكم حصرت صدورهم أن يقاتلوكم أو يقاتلوا قومهم ولو شاء الله لسلطهم عليكم فلقاتلوكم فإن اعتزلوكم فلم يقاتلوكم وألقوا إليكم السلم فما جعل الله لكم عليهم سبيلا