اَلَمْ تَرَ اِلَى الَّذِيْنَ قِيْلَ لَھُمْ كُفُّوْۗا اَيْدِيَكُمْ وَاَقِيْمُوا الصَّلٰوۃَ وَاٰتُوا الزَّكٰوۃَ۰ۚ فَلَمَّا كُتِبَ عَلَيْہِمُ الْقِتَالُ اِذَا فَرِيْقٌ مِّنْھُمْ يَخْشَوْنَ النَّاسَ كَخَشْـيَۃِ اللہِ اَوْ اَشَدَّ خَشْـيَۃً۰ۚ وَقَالُوْا رَبَّنَا لِمَ كَتَبْتَ عَلَيْنَا الْقِتَالَ۰ۚ لَوْلَاۗ اَخَّرْتَنَاۗ اِلٰۗى اَجَلٍ قَرِيْبٍ۰ۭ قُلْ مَتَاعُ الدُّنْيَا قَلِيْلٌ۰ۚ وَالْاٰخِرَۃُ خَيْرٌ لِّمَنِ اتَّقٰى۰ۣ وَلَا تُظْلَمُوْنَ فَتِيْلًا۷۷
Alam tara ila allatheena qeela lahum kuffoo aydiyakum waaqeemoo alssalata waatoo alzzakata falamma kutiba AAalayhimu alqitalu itha fareequn minhum yakhshawna alnnasa kakhashyati Allahi aw ashadda khashyatan waqaloo rabbana lima katabta AAalayna alqitala lawla akhkhartana ila ajalin qareebin qul mataAAu alddunya qaleelun waalakhiratu khayrun limani ittaqa wala tuthlamoona fateelan
Have you not seen the people who were told: "Hold back your hands (from attacking), observe your devotional obligations and pay the zakat?" But when they were commanded to fight, behold, a section among them were filled with fear of men as though it were the fear of God and even more, and said: "O Lord, why did you make war compulsory for us? Why did you not allow us to live a little more?" Say to them: "How short-lived is the commerce of this world; but that of the next is best for those who fear God; and you will not be wronged the breadth of a thread."