He praises those who enjoy these three kinds of...

He praises those who enjoy these three kinds of righteousness and calls them the truthful and the pious. These applications of the word “ Sidq ” and verses of the Holy Qur’an show that Sidq has an extensive meaning which is not always connected to discourse, word, promise and narration, but it can also come together with such things like thought, belief, human disposition, behaviour, etc. where the word has real meaning.

The Relationship of This Verse with the Preceding One As stated in the books of commentary and hadith , this verse concerns those believers who refused to accompany the holy Prophet (saws) to the Tabuk war. Upon the order of the Prophet, may God bless him and his descendants, Muslims stopped having ties with them to the extent that even their wives decided not to talk to them. Remorseful of what they had done, these people later on repented for their mistake.

They went outside the town and began to supplicate to God, augmenting their entreaty. So, God accepted their repentance and they returned home happily. In the next verse, God, the Mighty and High, orders people not to disobey the Prophet (saws) reminding them of the value of the hardship, thirst and hunger they suffer for the sake of God. In the verse in question, God, the Mighty and High, orders the believers to observe piety, refrain from disobeying God, and be with the Sadiqin (the truthful).

We need now to see who “the truthful” are. The Relationship of the Holy Verse with the Imamate of the Infallible Imams When the meaning of sidq was explained, it was stated that the phrase “كونوا مع الصادقين” seems to be an order (for us) to be with the truthful. It should be noted that to tell the truth and to avoid telling lies is obligatory, but to be with the truthful is not.

But (we see that) the idea of being with the truthful in the Qur’anic verse represents an order and the order is used to express necessity. The coming of the phrase “be with the truthful” in the same contextas the phrase اتقوا الله ( be careful of your duty to Allah ) where we are ordered to observe piety and definitely expresses necessity of being with the truthful, confirm the idea of being with the truthful.