So if you met-O you believers-those who disbelieved in the fields of war then be truthful to them the fighting, and strike from them the necks, until when you weakened them by the abundance of killing, and broke their strength, then perfect the binding of the captives: then either that you favor upon them by releasing their captivity without exchange, and either that they ransom themselves with the wealth or other, and either that they be enslaved or be killed, and continue upon that until the war ends. That mentioned judgment in the testing of the believers with the disbelievers and the rotation of the days between them, and had Allah willed He would have surely taken victory for the believers from the disbelievers without fighting, but rather He made their retribution on your hands, so He legislated the jihad; to test you by them, and to help by you His religion. And those who were killed in the cause of Allah from the believers then Allah will never nullify the reward of their deeds.