Al-Anfal 8:57

<h2>Striking Hard against Those Who disbelieve and break the Covenants</h2><p>Allah states here that the worst moving creatures on the face of the earth are those who disbelieve, who do not embrace the faith, and break promises whenever they make a covenant, even when they vow to keep them, </p><div class="arabic uthmani">وَهُمْ لاَ يَتَّقُونَ</div><p>(and they do not have Taqwa) meaning they do not fear Allah regarding any of the sins they commit. </p><div class="arabic uthmani">فَإِمَّا تَثْقَفَنَّهُمْ فِى الْحَرْبِ</div><p>(So if you gain the mastery over them in war), if you defeat them and have victory over them in war, </p><div class="arabic uthmani">فَشَرِّدْ بِهِم مَّنْ خَلْفَهُمْ</div><p>(then disperse those who are behind them,) by severely punishing the captured people according to Ibn `Abbas, Al-Hasan Al-Basri, Ad-Dahhak, As-Suddi, `Ata' Al-Khurasani and Ibn `Uyaynah. This Ayah commands punishing them harshly and inflicting casualties on them. This way, other enemies, Arabs and non-Arabs, will be afraid and take a lesson from their end, </p><div class="arabic uthmani">لَعَلَّهُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ</div><p>(so that they may learn a lesson. ) </p><p>As-Suddi commented, "They might be careful not to break treaties, so that they do not meet the same end." </p>

If thou comest on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember.

If ye gain the mastery over them in war, disperse, with them, those who follow them, that they may remember.

So if you gain the mastery over them in war, punish them severely in order to disperse those who are behind them, so that they may learn a lesson.

If you confront them in battle, make of them a fearsome example for those who follow them, that they may take heed.