{ Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you, and do not transgress; indeed Allah does not love those who transgress. And kill them wherever you get to them, and drive them away from where they drove you away; sedition is more severe than killing. But do not fight them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight you there, then if they fight you, kill them; such is the retribution of the Disbelievers. If they cease, indeed Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until there is no more sedition and religion belongs to Allah; and if they cease, there is no hostility except against those who oppress } Al-baqara 190-193

{ Until there is no more sedition } ; it is said: this means idolatry [shirk] and disbelief [kufr], and so the verse bears on what generally occurs. For if fighting them does not directly eliminate disbelief, it generally eliminates it, because whoever of them is killed – his disbelief ends, and whoever is not killed is afraid of remaining in his disbelief. … It is said that their sedition was that they hurt the Companions of the Prophet (SAW), and harmed them, to the point that some of them went off to Ethiopia and then to Medina.