Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
and expel them from where they expelled you,
for faithlessness 1 is graver than killing.
But do not fight them near the Holy Mosque
unless they fight you therein;
but if they fight you, kill them;
such is the requital of the faithless.
192 But if they relinquish,2
then Allah is indeed all-forgiving, all-merciful.
193 Fight them until faithlessness 3 is no more,
and religion becomes [exclusively] for Allah.
Then if they relinquish, there shall be no reprisal
except against the wrongdoers.
194 A sacred month for a sacred month,
and all sanctities require retribution.
So should anyone aggress against you,
assail him
in the manner he assailed you,4
and be wary of Allah,
and know that Allah is with the Godwary.
195 Spend in the way of Allah,
and do not cast yourselves with your own hands
into destruction;
and be virtuous.
Indeed Allah loves the virtuous.
1 Or ‘polytheism.’
2 That is, if they give up idolatry.
3 Or ‘polytheism,’ as narrated from Imam Muḥammad al-Bāqir (Ṭabrisī), Mujāhid, Qatādah, Rabī‘, and Ḍaḥḥāk (Ṭabarī).
4 Cf. 16:126.
