{ They ask you about the sacred months – is there fighting during them? Say: Fighting during them is a great sin, although hindering from the cause of Allah, disbelief in Him and the Sacred Mosque, and driving its people out of it, are even greater in the sight of Allah; and sedition is worse than killing. They will not stop fighting you until they turn you away from your religion if they could; and whoever turns away from his religion and dies in disbelief - these are the ones whose deeds will come to nothing, neither in this world nor the next, and these are the inhabitants of Hellfire, abiding there forever } Al-baqara 217

{ They ask you about the sacred months – is there fighting during them? } : that is, they ask you about fighting during the sacred months; { say: Fighting during them is a great sin } : but hindering from the cause of Allah and from the Sacred Mosque, and disbelief in Him, is even greater than such fighting. … It is said: One who is enraptured is insane, and insanity is sedition, in that it is an ordeal and departure from the path of those of sound mind. It is affirmed from these verses that sedition [fitnah] refers to an ordeal; indeed we have said: Truly sedition is worse than killing, since the ordeal [fitnah] of being drawn away from the religion leads to much killing in this world, and to deserving eternal punishment in the next.