الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنْكُمْ
Those among you who had believed.
Āmanū is in the past tense, while minkum addresses people present at the time of the revelation. Read together, these expressions focus on believers who had already embraced faith when the verse was revealed.
This reading gives importance to the state of faith at the time of revelation when identifying the recipients of the promise of caliphate.
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الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنْكُمْ
Those among you who had believed.
Āmanū is in the past tense, while minkum addresses people present at the time of the revelation. Read together, these expressions focus on believers who had already embraced faith when the verse was revealed.
This reading gives importance to the state of faith at the time of revelation when identifying the recipients of the promise of caliphate.