they ask you about fighting in the sacred month. say to fight is a grave matter but barring people from the path of god to deny him and expelling people from the sacred mosque are far graver in his sight and persecution is worse than killing. they will not stop fighting you until they make you renounce your faith if they can. whoever of you turns back from his faith and dies as a denier of the truth will have his deeds come to nothing in this world and the hereafter and he will be an inhabitant of the fire to abide therein forever.
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