9. Surah At Tawbah

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

لاَ يَرْقُبُونَ فِي مُؤْمِنٍ إِلاًّ وَلاَ ذِمَّةً...   

9: 10.  In a believer they respect not the ties either of kinship or of covenant!

...وَأُوْلَـئِكَ هُمُ الْمُعْتَدُونَ ﴿١٠﴾  

It is they who have transgressed all bounds.

C1258. The catalogue of their sins being set out, it is clear that they were aggressors in the worst possible ways; and war became inevitable.

Pickthall’s Version:

9: 10

Pickthall And they observe toward a believer neither pact nor honor. These are they who are transgressors.

Transliteration La_ yarqubu_na fi mu'minin illaw wa la_ zimmah(tan), ula_'ika humul mu'tadu_n(a).