Your fighting-O believers-the polytheists in the month in which Allah forbade fighting is a recompense for their fighting you in the sacred month. And whoever violates what Allah forbade of place and time, is punished with the like of his act, and of the same kind as his deed. So whoever committed aggression against you by fighting or other than that, then inflict upon him a punishment similar to his crime, and there is no blame upon you in that; because they are the ones who started the aggression, and fear Allah so do not exceed similarity in the punishment, and know that Allah is with those who fear Him and obey Him by performing His obligations and avoiding His prohibitions.