have you not seen those who were told restrain you hands and establish the prayer and pay the zakah? but when fighting was enjoined upon them some of them feared men as one should fear allah or even more and said our lord why have you ordained fighting for us? why did you not grant us a little more respite? say to them there is little enjoyment in this world. the world to come is much better for the godfearing. and you shall not be wronged even to the extent of the husk of a datestone.
ألم تر إلى الذين قيل لهم كفوا أيديكم وأقيموا الصلاة وآتوا الزكاة فلما كتب عليهم القتال إذا فريق منهم يخشون الناس كخشية الله أو أشد خشية وقالوا ربنا لم كتبت علينا القتال لولا أخرتنا إلى أجل قريب قل متاع الدنيا قليل والآخرة خير لمن اتقى ولا تظلمون فتيلا