ٱلْبَقَرَة : ١٩١

  • وَٱقۡتُلُوهُمۡ And kill them
  • حَيۡثُ wherever
  • ثَقِفۡتُمُوهُمۡ you find them
  • وَأَخۡرِجُوهُم and drive them out
  • مِّنۡ from
  • حَيۡثُ wherever
  • أَخۡرَجُوكُمۡۚ they drove you out
  • وَٱلۡفِتۡنَةُ and [the] oppression
  • أَشَدُّ (is) worse
  • مِنَ than
  • ٱلۡقَتۡلِۚ [the] killing
  • وَلَا And (do) not
  • تُقَٰتِلُوهُمۡ fight them
  • عِندَ near
  • ٱلۡمَسۡجِدِ Al-Masjid
  • ٱلۡحَرَامِ Al-Haraam
  • حَتَّىٰ until
  • يُقَٰتِلُوكُمۡ they fight you
  • فِيهِۖ in it
  • فَإِن Then if
  • قَٰتَلُوكُمۡ they fight you
  • فَٱقۡتُلُوهُمۡۗ then kill them
  • كَذَٰلِكَ Such
  • جَزَآءُ (is the) reward
  • ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ (of) the disbelievers
And kill them [in battle] wherever you overtake them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you, and fitnah1 is worse than killing. And do not fight them at al-Masjid al-Ḥarām until they fight you there. But if they fight you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.
Footnotes
1 - Among the meanings of fitnah are disbelief and its imposition on others, discord, dissension, civil strife, persecution, oppression, injustice, seduction, terrorism, trial and torment.
And slay them wherever you come upon them, and expel them from where they expelled you, that is, from Mecca, and this was done after the Conquest of Mecca; sedition, their idolatry, is more grievous, more serious, than slaying, them in the Sacred Enclosure or while in a state of pilgrimage inviolability, the thing that you greatly feared. But fight them not by the Sacred Mosque, that is, in the Sacred Enclosure, until they should fight you there; then if they fight you, there, slay them, there (a variant reading drops the alif in the three verbs [sc. wa-laa taqtiloohum, hattaa yaqtulookum, fa-in qatalookum, so that the sense is 'slaying' in all three, and not just 'fighting']) - such, killing and expulsion, is the requital of disbelievers.