History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c45.s1.6

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† *Jihad fi sabil ullah* (Quran, ix. 29). For *jihad* see Hughes, 243-248, 710; *Encyclopædia of Islam*, i. 1041. "And when the sacred months are passed, kill those who join other deities with God, wherever ye shall find them...But if they shall convert,...then let them go their way." (Quran, ix. 5, 6.) "Say to the infidels, if they desist from their unbelief, what is now past shall be forgiven them. But if they return to it,...fight then against them till strife be at an end, and the religion be all of it God's" (viii. 39-42.)