Indeed those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger (blessings and peace be upon him) and remain engaged in creating mischief in the land (i.e. perpetrate terrorism, robbery and burglary among the Muslims), their punishment is that they be slain, or hanged to death, or their hands and their feet on opposite sides be cut off, or they be exiled far from (i.e. deprived of moving about in) the homeland (i.e. either by banishment or by imprisonment). That is the humiliation for them in this world, and for them there is a terrible torment in the Hereafter (as well),