9:8
How (can there be such a league), seeing that if they get an
advantage over you, they respect not in you the ties either of
kinship or of covenant? With (fair words from) their mouths they
entice you, but their hearts are averse from you; and most of them
are rebellious and wicked.
9:9
The Signs of Allah have they sold for a miserable price, and
(many) have they hindered from His way: evil indeed are the deeds
they have done.
9:10
In a Believer they respect not the ties either of kinship or of
covenant! It is they who have transgressed all bounds.
9:11
But (even so), if they repent, establish regular prayers, and practise
regular charity,- they are your brethren in Faith: (thus) do We
explain the Signs in detail, for those who understand.
9:12
But if they violate their oaths after their covenant, and taunt you
for your Faith,- fight ye the chiefs of Unfaith: for their oaths are
nothing to them: that thus they may be restrained.
9:13
Will ye not fight people who violated their oaths, plotted to expel
the Messenger, and took the aggressive by being the first (to
assault) you? Do ye fear them? Nay, it is Allah Whom ye should
more justly fear, if ye believe!
9:14
Fight them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, cover them
with shame, help you (to victory) over them, heal the breasts of
Believers,
9:15
And still the indignation of their hearts. For Allah will turn (in
mercy) to whom He will; and Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
9:16
Or think ye that ye shall be abandoned, as though Allah did not
know those among you who strive with might and main, and take
none for friends and protectors except Allah, His Messenger, and
the (community of) Believers? But Allah is well-acquainted with
(all) that ye do.
9:17
It is not for such as join gods with Allah, to visit or maintain the
mosques of Allah while they witness against their own souls to
infidelity. The works of such bear no fruit: In Fire shall they dwell.
9:18
The mosques of Allah shall be visited and maintained by such as
believe in Allah and the Last Day, establish regular prayers, and
practise regular charity, and fear none (at all) except Allah. It is
they who are expected to be on true guidance.
9:19
Do ye make the giving of drink to pilgrims, or the maintenance of
the Sacred Mosque, equal to (the pious service of) those who
believe in Allah and the Last Day, and strive with might and main
in the cause of Allah? They are not comparable in the sight of
Allah: and Allah guides not those who do wrong.
9:20
Those who believe, and suffer exile and strive with might and
main, in Allah’s cause, with their goods and their persons, have the
highest rank in the sight of Allah: they are the people who will
achieve (salvation).
9:21
Their Lord doth give them glad tidings of a Mercy from Himself,
of His good pleasure, and ofgardens for them, wherein are delights
that endure:
9:22
They will dwell therein for ever. Verily in Allah’s presence is a
reward, the greatest (of all).
9:23
O ye who believe! take not for protectors your fathers and your
brothers if they love infidelity above Faith: if any of you do so,
they do wrong.