Fight them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, cover them with shame, help you (to victory) over them, heal the breasts of the believers. … Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of paradise): They fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the law, the Gospel, and the Qur'an: And who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah? Then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: That is the achievement supreme.

DEFINE: Explains the theological concept of martyrdom as a transaction where believers trade their lives for paradise.

Asena Karipek, Portrayals of Jihad, loc. 28