when you meet the unbelievers smite their necks until you have crushed them then bind your captives firmly thereafter set them free either by an act of grace or against ransom until the war ends. that is for you to do. if allah had so willed he would have himself exacted retribution from them. that he may test some of you by means of others. as for those who are slain in the way of allah he shall never let their works go to waste.
فإذا لقيتم الذين كفروا فضرب الرقاب حتى إذا أثخنتموهم فشدوا الوثاق فإما منا بعد وإما فداء حتى تضع الحرب أوزارها ذلك ولو يشاء الله لانتصر منهم ولكن ليبلو بعضكم ببعض والذين قتلوا في سبيل الله فلن يضل أعمالهم