«مِنْ سَلِّمْ سِلَاحُهْ حُرُمْ قَتْلُهْ»

The saying holds that surrender changes the moral situation. When an adversary stops fighting and gives up the means of resistance, whether by handing over or surrendering a weapon, the victor loses any right to strike them down. Attacking someone who has submitted is treated as forbidden, a moral expectation of restraint rather than a specific legal or religious ruling.

Beyond the battlefield, the expression serves as a call for mercy toward anyone who has yielded. Whoever drops their opposition and accepts terms should be left unharmed. It reminds the stronger party that pursuing a beaten opponent turns justified conflict into needless cruelty, and that submission earns protection.

Suitable when urging someone to stop punishing or pressing an opponent who has already given in, whether in a literal fight or a quarrel, rivalry, or dispute where the other side has conceded and stopped resisting.