His acts of disobedience, and were mindful of Him regarding what He commanded them of His obligatory duties, obeying Him in performing them. For God, Mighty and Majestic, described them with God-fearingness (Taqwa), and did not restrict their God-fearingness toward Him to some of what He is worthy of from them to the exclusion of other parts (1). Thus, no one among the people has the right to restrict the meaning of that to describing them with something of the God-fearingness (Taqwa) of God, Mighty and Majestic, to the exclusion of another, except with evidence to which submission is obligatory. Because that being part of the description of the people—had it been restricted to a specific sense of God-fearingness (Taqwa) rather than its general sense—God, Glorified be His Praise, would not have left the clarification of that to His servants, whether in His Book or upon the tongue of His Messenger, Peace and blessings of God be upon him, since there is no evidence in intellect for the impossibility of describing them with general God-fearingness (Taqwa).
So thereby the invalidity of the statement of whoever claimed that the interpretation of that is merely: "those who beware of polytheism and disavowed hypocrisy" becomes clear. Because a person might be like that while being a transgressor (Fisq), not deserving to be among those who are mindful of God—unless, according to the proponent of this view, the meaning of hypocrisy is: committing the atrocities that God, Glorified be His Praise, prohibited, and neglecting His obligatory duties that He imposed upon him. For a group among the people of knowledge used to call whoever did that a hypocrite. Thus he would be—even if he differed in naming whoever was as such by this name—correct in the interpretation of the statement of God, Mighty and Majestic, "for those mindful of God".
The commentary on the interpretation of the statement of God, Glorified be His Praise: ﴿Who believe﴾
267- Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd al-Rāzī narrated to us, he said: Salamah ibn al-Faḍl narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, from Muḥammad ibn Abī Muḥammad, the freed slave of Zayd ibn Thābit, from ʿIkrimah, or from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās: "Who believe", he said: affirm the truth.
268- Yaḥyā ibn ʿUthmān ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Sahmī narrated to me, he said: Abū Ṣāliḥ narrated to us,
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