Tafseer of The Inner Apartments · Al-Hujuraat · 49:15
The believers are only the ones who have believed in Allah and His Messenger and then doubt not but strive with their properties and their lives in the cause of Allah. It is those who are the truthful.
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The explanation of the saying of the Exalted: إِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَرْتَابُوا وَجَاهَدُوا بِأَمْوَالِهِمْ وَأَنْفُسِهِمْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أُولَئِكَ هُمُ الصَّادِقُونَ (15) (The believers are only those who have believed in Allah and His Messenger and then have not doubted, and who have striven with their wealth and their lives in the way of Allah; it is they who are the truthful (15)).
The Exalted, whose remembrance is exalted, says to the bedouins who said "we believe" while faith had not yet entered into their hearts: the believers are only, O people, those who have affirmed Allah and His Messenger as true and then have not doubted — He says: and then did not doubt the oneness of Allah, nor the prophethood of His Prophet ﷺ, and who imposed upon themselves obedience to Allah and obedience to His Messenger, as well as acting upon whatever obligatory duties of Allah were incumbent upon him, without any doubt on their part regarding the obligatory nature of that for him. ( وَجَاهَدُوا بِأَمْوَالِهِمْ وَأَنْفُسِهِمْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ ) (and who have striven with their wealth and their lives in the way of Allah), He says: they strove against the polytheists (mushrikīn) by expending their wealth and sacrificing the blood of their souls in their fighting against them, in accordance with what Allah had commanded them of fighting against them — and that is His way — so that the word of Allah might be the highest and the word of those who disbelieve the lowest.
And His saying ( أُولَئِكَ هُمُ الصَّادِقُونَ ) (it is they who are the truthful), He says: these who do that, they are the truthful in their saying "we are believers" — not the one who has entered into the religious community (al-milla) out of fear of the sword, in order to protect his blood and his wealth.
And in accordance with what we have said about this, the people of interpretation spoke.
* Mention of who said that:
Yūnus related to me, saying: Ibn Wahb informed us, saying: Ibn Zayd said, concerning His saying ( أُولَئِكَ هُمُ الصَّادِقُونَ ) (it is they who are the truthful), he said: they made their faith true through their deeds.
