Have you not seen the people who were told: "Hold back your hands (from attacking), observe your devotional obligations and pay the zakat?" But when they were commanded to fight, behold, a section among them were filled with fear of men as though it were the fear of God and even more, and said: "O Lord, why did you make war compulsory for us? Why did you not allow us to live a little more?" Say to them: "How short-lived is the commerce of this world; but that of the next is best for those who fear God; and you will not be wronged the breadth of a thread."
آيا نديدى كسانى را كه به آنان گفته شد: «[فعلاً] دست [از جنگ‌] بداريد، و نماز را برپا كنيد و زكات بدهيد»، و[لى‌] همين كه كارزار بر آنان مقرر شد، بناگاه گروهى از آنان از مردم [=مشركان مكّه‌] ترسيدند مانند ترس از خدا يا ترسى سخت‌تر. و گفتند: «پروردگارا، چرا بر ما كارزار مقرّر داشتى؟ چرا ما را تا مدتى كوتاه مهلت ندادى؟» بگو: «برخوردارى [از اين‌] دنيا اندك، و براى كسى كه تقوا پيشه كرده، آخرت بهتر است، و [در آنجا] به قدر نخ هسته خرمايى بر شما ستم نخواهد رفت.»