Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
Had Allah wished,
He would have imposed them upon you,
and then they would have surely fought you.
So if they keep out of your way
and do not fight you, and offer you peace,
then Allah does not allow you
any course [of action] against them.
91 You will find others
desiring to be secure from you,
and secure from their own people;
yet whenever they are called back to polytheism,
they relapse into it.
So if they do not keep out of your way,
nor offer you peace,
nor keep their hands off [from fighting],
then seize them and kill them
wherever you confront them,
and it is such against whom We have given you
a clear sanction.
92 A believer may not kill another believer,
unless it is by mistake.
Anyone who kills a believer by mistake
should set free a believing slave,
and pay blood-money to his family,1
unless they remit it in charity.
If he 2 belongs to a people that are hostile to you
but is a believer,
1 That is, to the family of the victim.
2 That is, the victim.
