HOW COULD they who ascribe divinity to aught beside God be granted a covenant by God and His Apostle,1 unless it be those [of them] with whom you [O believers] have made a covenant in the vicinity of the Inviolable House of Worship?2 [As for the latter,] so long as they remain true to you, be true to them: for, verily, God loves those who are conscious of Him.