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barāʾatun mina llāhi wa-rasūlihī ʾilā lladhīna ʿāhadtum mina l-mushrikīna

[This is] a [declaration of] repudiation by Allah and His Apostle [addressed] to the polytheists with whom you had made a treaty:

— Ali Quli Qarai

9:2

fa-sīḥū fī l-ʾarḍi ʾarbaʿata ʾashhurin wa-ʿlamū ʾannakum ghayru muʿjizī llāhi wa-ʾanna llāha mukhzī l-kāfirīna

Travel [unmolested] in the land for four months, but know that you cannot frustrate Allah, and that Allah shall disgrace the faithless.

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9:3

wa-ʾadhānun mina llāhi wa-rasūlihī ʾilā n-nāsi yawma l-ḥajji l-ʾakbari ʾanna llāha barīʾun mina l-mushrikīna wa-rasūluhū fa-ʾin tubtum fa-huwa khayrun lakum wa-ʾin tawallaytum fa-ʿlamū ʾannakum ghayru muʿjizī llāhi wa-bashshiri lladhīna kafarū bi-ʿadhābin ʾalīmin

[This is] an announcement from Allah and His Apostle to all the people on the day of the greater Hajj: that Allah and His Apostle repudiate the polytheists: If you repent that is better for you; but if you turn your backs [on Allah], know that you cannot frustrate Allah, and inform the faithless of a painful punishment

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9:4

ʾillā lladhīna ʿāhadtum mina l-mushrikīna thumma lam yanquṣūkum shayʾan wa-lam yuẓāhirū ʿalaykum ʾaḥadan fa-ʾatimmū ʾilayhim ʿahdahum ʾilā muddatihim ʾinna llāha yuḥibbu l-muttaqīna

(barring the polytheists with whom you have made a treaty, and who did not violate any [of its terms] with you, nor backed anyone against you. So fulfill the treaty with them until [the end of] its term. Indeed Allah loves the Godwary).

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9:5

fa-ʾidhā nsalakha l-ʾashhuru l-ḥurumu fa-qtulū l-mushrikīna ḥaythu wajadtumūhum wa-khudhūhum wa-ḥṣurūhum wa-qʿudū lahum kulla marṣadin fa-ʾin tābū wa-ʾaqāmū ṣ-ṣalāta wa-ʾātawu z-zakāta fa-khallū sabīlahum ʾinna llāha ghafūrun raḥīmun

Then, when the sacred months have passed, kill the polytheists wherever you find them, capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every ambush. But if they repent, and maintain the prayer and give the zakat, then let them alone. Indeed Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.

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9:6

wa-ʾin ʾaḥadun mina l-mushrikīna stajāraka fa-ʾajirhu ḥattā yasmaʿa kalāma llāhi thumma ʾablighhu maʾmanahū dhālika bi-ʾannahum qawmun lā yaʿlamūna

If any of the polytheists seeks asylum from you, grant him asylum until he hears the Word of Allah. Then convey him to his place of safety. That is because they are a people who do not know.

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9:7

kayfa yakūnu li-l-mushrikīna ʿahdun ʿinda llāhi wa-ʿinda rasūlihī ʾillā lladhīna ʿāhadtum ʿinda l-masjidi l-ḥarāmi fa-mā staqāmū lakum fa-staqīmū lahum ʾinna llāha yuḥibbu l-muttaqīna

How shall the polytheists have any [valid] treaty with Allah and His Apostle?! (Barring those with whom you made a treaty at the Holy Mosque; so long as they are steadfast with you, be steadfast with them. Indeed Allah loves the Godwary.)

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9:8

kayfa wa-ʾin yaẓharū ʿalaykum lā yarqubū fīkum ʾillan wa-lā dhimmatan yurḍūnakum bi-ʾafwāhihim wa-taʾbā qulūbuhum wa-ʾaktharuhum fāsiqūna

How? For if, they get the better of you, they will observe toward you neither kinship nor covenant. They please you with their mouths while their hearts spurn you; and most of them are transgressors.

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9:9

ishtaraw bi-ʾāyāti llāhi thamanan qalīlan fa-ṣaddū ʿan sabīlihī ʾinnahum sāʾa mā kānū yaʿmalūna

They have sold the signs of Allah for a paltry gain, and have barred [the people] from His way. Evil indeed is what they have been doing.

— Ali Quli Qarai