is a sufficient protector.  Do they not attentively consider the Koran?  If it had been from any besides God, they would certainly have found therein many contradictions.  When any news cometh unto them, either of security or fear, they immediately divulge it; but if they told it to the apostle and to those who are in authority among them, such of them would understand the truth of the matter, as inform themselves thereof from the apostle and his chiefs.  And if the favor of God and his mercy had not been upon you, ye had followed the devil, except a few of you.  Fight therefore for the religion of God, and oblige not any to what is difficult, except thyself; however, excite the faithful to war, perhaps God will restrain the courage of the unbelievers; for God is stronger than they, and more able to punish.  He who intercedeth between men with a good intercession shall have a portion thereof; and he who intercedeth with an evil intercession shall have a portion thereof; for God overlooketh all things.  When ye are saluted with a salutation, salute the person with a better salutation, or at least return the same; for God taketh an account of all things.  God! there is no God but he; he will surely gather you together on the day of resurrection; there is no doubt of it:  and who is more true than God in what he saith?  Why are ye divided concerning the ungodly into two parties; since God hath overturned them for what they have committed?  Will ye direct him whom God hath led astray; since for him whom God shall lead astray, thou shalt find no true path?  They desire that ye should become infidels, as they are infidels, and that ye should be equally wicked with themselves.  Therefore take not friends from among them, until they fly their country for the religion of God; and if they turn back from the faith, take them, and kill them wherever ye find them; and take no friend from among them, nor any helper, except those who go unto a people who are in alliance with you, for those who come unto you, their hearts forbidding them either to fight against you, or to fight against their own people.  And if God pleased he would have permitted them to have prevailed against you, and they would have fought against you.  But if they depart from you, and fight not against you and offer you peace, God doth not allow you to take or kill them.  Ye shall find others who are desirous to enter into a confidence with you, and at the same time to preserve a confidence with their own people:  so often as they return to sedition, they shall be subverted therein; and if they depart not from you, and offer you peace, and restrain their hands from warring against you, take them and kill them wheresoever ye find them; over these have we granted you a manifest power.  It is not lawful for a believer to kill a believer, unless it happen by mistake; and whoso killeth a believer by mistake, the penalty shall be the freeing of a believer from slavery, and a fine to be paid to the family of the deceased,[74] unless they remit it as