When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then, when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds; then set them free, either by grace or ransom, till the war lays down its loads. So it shall be; and if God had willed, He would have avenged Himself upon them; but that He may try some of you by means of others. And those who are slain in the way of God, He will not send their works astray.
پس چون با كافران روبه رو شديد [مهلت ندهيد و] گردن‌ها را بزنيد، تا چون آنها را از پاى در آورديد، بندها [ى اسيران‌] را محكم كنيد، آن‌گاه يا به منّت [آزادشان كنيد] يا به فديه، تا جنگ بارهايش را فرو نهد. اين [فرمان خداست‌]، و اگر خدا مى‌خواست خود از ايشا