when you meet the unbelievers smite their necks then when you have made wide slaughter among them tie fast the bonds then set them free either by grace or ransom till the war lays down its loads. so it shall be and if god had willed he would have avenged himself upon them but that he may try some of you by means of others. and those who are slain in the way of god he will not send their works astray.
فإذا لقيتم الذين كفروا فضرب الرقاب حتى إذا أثخنتموهم فشدوا الوثاق فإما منا بعد وإما فداء حتى تضع الحرب أوزارها ذلك ولو يشاء الله لانتصر منهم ولكن ليبلو بعضكم ببعض والذين قتلوا في سبيل الله فلن يضل أعمالهم