[37]. Once they have submitted, the People of the Scripture retain their rights and honor (in spite of their refusal of Islām) through payment of the jizyah tax in place of Zakāh and military service due from Muslims. They are then under the protection of the Islāmic state.
[38]. Those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize. Run in such a way that you may obtain it through right faith and constant good deeds, discipline, avoiding distractions. Everyone who competes for the prize is moderate and self-restraint in all things. Now they do it for worldly gain, but you do race for the Hereafter life and a Paradise the vastness of which is as the vastness of the heavens and the earth prepared for the righteous.