they ask you concerning warfare in the holy month. say it is an outrageous thing to fight in it but to keep from allahs way and to be unfaithful to him and the holy mosque and to expel its people from it are more outrageous with allah. and persecution is graver than killing. they will not cease fighting you until they turn you away from your religion if they can. and whoever of you turns away from his religion and dies faithless—they are the ones whose works have failed in this world and the hereafter. they shall be the inmates of the fire and they shall remain in it .
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