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The unbelievers, their sins, and their fate in the afterlife is one of the Qur'ans most strikingly prominent themes. On almost every page, the reader of the Qur'an is confronted with the "doom" (بئس المصير) and "painful torment" (عذاب أليم) that awaits the unbelievers in the afterlife, in their eternal abode, "the fire" (النار). In this life the duty of the believer is [[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Jihad|Jihad]] against the unbelievers until the pay the [[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Jizyah|protection tax]] and "feel themselves subdued" (Qur'an 9:29). The Qur'an warns the believers not to take the unbelievers as friends or protectors, and prohibits the marriage of believers to unbelievers (though this verse is traditionally considered partially abrogated by another permitting believing men to marry Christian and Jewish women). The [[hadith]] and the [[sira]] underline this hostility by portraying the prophet as constantly warring against the unbelief of the pagan Meccans and their Jewish allies. The [[sunnah]] contains many instances of the prophet and his companions killing and torturing unbelievers, and this is exalted as the good and righteous policy of a believing Muslim state. According to the sunnah, the best the unbelievers can hope for under a Muslim government is the second-class citizenship of [[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Dhimmitude|dhimmitude]].