Chapter IX.
Sūratu ʾt-Taubah.
The Chapter of Repentance.
(This chapter is without the initial formula, “In the name of the Merciful,” &c.)
An immunity for four months proclaimed to such of the idolaters as have made a league with the Prophet, but they are to be killed wherever found when the sacred months have expired.
An idolater seeking refuge is to be helped, in order that he may hear the word of God.
None are to be included in the immunity but those with whom the league was made at the Sacred Mosque.
They are not to be trusted.
Exhortation to fight against the Makkans.
Idolaters may not repair to the mosques of God.