The Poets
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[26:227]
[Most of them are of this kind –] save those who have attained to faith, and do righteous deeds, and remember God unceasingly, and defend themselves [only] after having been wronged, and [trust in God’s promise that] those who are bent on wrongdoing will in time come to know how evil a turn their destinies are bound to take!

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* v.227 : Thus the Qur’ān makes it clear that a true believer may fight only in self-defence: cf. 22:39-40, the earliest reference to war as such, and 2:190-194, where the circumstances making war fully justified are further elaborated.
* Lit., “by what [kind of] turning they will turn.”