The Cow
2. Al-Baqarah
البقرة
Page #34
2:217
يَسْأَلُونَكَ
عَنِ
الشَّهْرِ
الْحَرَامِ
قِتَالٍ
فِيهِ
قُلْ
قِتَالٌ
فِيهِ
كَبِيرٌ
وَصَدٌّ
عَن
سَبِيلِ
اللَّهِ
وَكُفْرٌ
بِهِ
وَالْمَسْجِدِ
الْحَرَامِ
وَإِخْرَاجُ
أَهْلِهِ
مِنْهُ
أَكْبَرُ
عِندَ
اللَّهِ
وَالْفِتْنَةُ
أَكْبَرُ
مِنَ
الْقَتْلِ
وَلَا
يَزَالُونَ
يُقَاتِلُونَكُمْ
حَتَّى
يَرُدُّوكُمْ
عَن
دِينِكُمْ
إِنِ
اسْتَطَاعُوا
وَمَن
يَرْتَدِدْ
مِنكُمْ
عَن
دِينِهِ
فَيَمُتْ
وَهُوَ
كَافِرٌ
فَأُولَئِكَ
حَبِطَتْ
أَعْمَالُهُمْ
فِي
الدُّنْيَا
وَالْآخِرَةِ
وَأُولَئِكَ
أَصْحَابُ
النَّارِ
هُمْ
فِيهَا
خَالِدُونَ
yasʾalūnaka ʿani sh-shahri l-ḥarāmi qitālin fīhi qul qitālun fīhi kabīrun wa-ṣaddun ʿan sabīli llāhi wa-kufrun bihī wa-l-masjidi l-ḥarāmi wa-ʾikhrāju ʾahlihī minhu ʾakbaru ʿinda llāhi wa-l-fitnatu ʾakbaru mina l-qatli wa-lā yazālūna yuqātilūnakum ḥattā yaruddūkum ʿan dīnikum ʾini staṭāʿū wa-man yartadid minkum ʿan dīnihī fa-yamut wa-huwa kāfirun fa-ʾulāʾika ḥabiṭat ʾaʿmāluhum fī d-dunyā wa-l-ʾākhirati wa-ʾulāʾika ʾaṣḥābu n-nāri hum fīhā khālidūna
They ask thee concerning fighting in the Prohibited Month. Say: "Fighting therein is a grave (offence); but graver is it in the sight of Allah to prevent access to the path of Allah, to deny Him, to prevent access to the Sacred Mosque, and drive out its members." Tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter. Nor will they cease fighting you until they turn you back from your faith if they can. And if any of you Turn back from their faith and die in unbelief, their works will bear no fruit in this life and in the Hereafter; they will be companions of the Fire and will abide therein.
— Abdullah Yusufali
They ask you concerning warfare in the holy month. Say, ‘It is an outrageous thing to fight in it, but to keep [people] from Allah’s way, and to be unfaithful to Him, and [to keep people from] the Holy Mosque, and to expel its people from it are more outrageous with Allah. And persecution is graver than killing. They will not cease fighting you until they turn you away from your religion, if they can. And whoever of you turns away from his religion and dies faithless—they are the ones whose works have failed in this world and the Hereafter. They shall be the inmates of the Fire, and they shall remain in it [forever].
