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“Only these are the (true) believers who believe in Allah and His messenger and, when they are with him on a matter requiring collective action, they go not away until they have asked leave of him. Verily those who ask leave of you, are they who believe in Allah and His Messenger. So, if they ask your leave for some affair of theirs, give leave to whom you please of them, and ask forgiveness of Allah for them.

Verily Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.” Occasion of Revelation In commentaries there are many things mentioned about the occasion of revelation of this verse that we present to you some of them: Some say that this verse is about Hanzaleh in whose wedding night the commandment of holy war was issued. He took permission from the Prophet (S) to go home for doing the ceremony of wedding night. Because of shortage of time, he went to battle-field without taking legal bath and then he became martyr.

The holy Prophet (S) said: “Angles did bathe him.” After sleeping only that night with his wife, Allah gave Hanzaleh a child whose history is lengthy.[^1] Some other commentators say that this verse is about the hypocrites who performed ritual prayer when they were with people and if no one saw them and they were alone, they did not perform ritual prayer.

^2 A group of commentators say that this verse is about some persons who were ordered by the Prophet (S) to do a job, but they did their personal jobs. Some say that this verse is about those Muslims who were busy digging a moat and took permission from the Prophet (S) for visiting their family. Being with godly leader for helping him and solving problems is the sign of faith, and leaving him alone is the sign of hypocrisy and weakness of faith.

In social life, the existence of a leader and following him is necessary.