behold as for those who have attained to faith and who have forsaken the domain of evil and are striving hard with their possessions and their lives in gods cause as well as those who shelter and succour these are the friends and protectors of one another. but as for those who have come to believe without having migrated you are in no wise responsible for their protection until such a time as they migrate . yet if they ask you for succour against religious persecution it is your duty to give this succourexcept against a people between whom and yourselves there is a covenant for god sees all that you do.
إن الذين آمنوا وهاجروا وجاهدوا بأموالهم وأنفسهم في سبيل الله والذين آووا ونصروا أولئك بعضهم أولياء بعض والذين آمنوا ولم يهاجروا ما لكم من ولايتهم من شيء حتى يهاجروا وإن استنصروكم في الدين فعليكم النصر إلا على قوم بينكم وبينهم ميثاق والله بما تعملون بصير