Say-O Messenger-to those who rejected the uniqueness of Allah from the polytheists of your people: If they refrain from disbelief and enmity of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and return to the faith in Allah alone and the non-fighting of the Messenger and the believers, Allah will forgive them what has preceded of the sins, for Islam erases what is before it. And if these polytheists return to your fighting-O Messenger-after the occurrence which We caused to fall upon them on the Day of -Badr- then the way of the former ones has already preceded, which is that they if they belied and persisted on their stubbornness We hasten them with the punishment and the retribution.