they are eager that you should disbelieve like they have disbelieved so that you all become alike. so do not make friends from among them until they migrate in the way of allah. but if they turn their backs seize them and kill them wherever you find them and do not take from among them friends or helpers excepting those who join a people between whom and you there is a treaty or such as come to you with hearts reluctant to fight you or to fight their own people. had allah wished he would have imposed them upon you and then they would have surely fought you. so if they keep out of your way and do not fight you and offer you peace then allah does not allow you any course against 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