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.

Asad’s Version:

9: 10 In a Believer they respect not the ties either of kinship or of covenant! It is they who have transgressed all bounds.