Submitted by BEULAH Wall(United States), Mar 26, 2006 at 17:42
Koran 47:1 When you meet the unbelievers in the battlefield, strike off their heads, and , when you have laid them low, bind your captives firmly. Then grant them their freedom or take a ransom from them, until war shall lay down their burdens.
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