they wish you to become disbelievers as they are so that you should become like them. therefore hold them not as friends until they go out of their homes in the way of god. if they do not seize them wherever they are and do away with them. do not make them your friends or allies except those who take refuge with a people allied to you or those who weary of fighting you or their people come over to you. if god had so willed he would surely have given them power over you and they would have fought you. if they keep aloof and do not fight and offer peace god has left you no reason to fight 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