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Al-Baqarah · 2:191
And kill them [in battle] wherever you overtake them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you, and fitnah is worse than killing. And do not fight them at al-Masjid al-Ḥarām until they fight you there. But if they fight you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.
Sahih International
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وَٱقْتُلُوهُمْ
wa-uq'tulūhum
And kill them
Word breakdown
وَ
Harf · Conjunctionand
ٱقْتُلُ
Fi'l · VerbAnd kill them
Rootقتلqtl
to kill, slay, fight
170× in the Quran · Common
LemmaقَتَلَVerb (form I) - to kill
و
Ism · Personal pronounyou all/your
هُمْ
Ism · Personal pronounthem/their
Grammar rules
Command verb
وَٱقْتُلُوهُمْ (And kill them) is a command — it's telling someone to do something.
We translate it as a direct command — "[Do this]!"
Lesson 10 · Commands & FutureConjunction وَ (and)
وَٱقْتُلُوهُمْ (And kill them) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".
We add "and" to connect this to what came before.
Lesson 4 · Particles