Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the man who attacked partiers in New Orleans with a truck, killing 14 people on Bourbon Street celebrating New Year’s Day, left a copy of the Quran open at his home, on a page about slaying for Allah, according to the New York Post.

The FBI searched Jabbar’s north Houston home on Wednesday and found his Quran propped atop a bookshelf, a centerpiece in his living room, and open to a passage reading, “they fight in Allah’s cause, and slay and are slain; a promise binding,” the Post reported.

That passage, Verse 9:111, expounds on Muslims’ responsibility to kill Allah’s enemies and to be willing to die for that mission in return for eternity in paradise, according to the Post.

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