Have you not seen how the councillors for the Children of Israel told a prophet of theirs [who came] after Moses: "Send us a king; we will fight for God’s sake." He said: "Perhaps you will not fight even though fighting has been prescribed for you." They said: "What do we have to keep us from fighting for God’s sake? We and our children have been turned out of our homes!" Yet whenever fighting was prescribed for them, all but a few of them turned away. God is Aware as to who are evildoers.