The Disciples’ Supplication and Way of Life

The disciples made two important matters their way of life: divine consciousness and obedience to the prophet, and they expressed this meaning with the phrase “Our Lord, we believe in what You have sent down, and we follow the messenger”; then they allowed themselves to ask God to count them among the witnesses: “so write us among the witnesses.”

The disciples, like the community of the Prophet of Islam, are included in the verse “Whoever obeys God and the Messenger—they are with those whom God has blessed, including the prophets and the truthful, the martyrs (shuhadāʾ) and the righteous, and excellent companions are they!”,(494) because firstly, this verse is not exclusive to the Islamic community, and secondly, those who obey God and the Messenger in their journey towards God are accompanied by the prophets (a.s.) and the “martyrs.”(495)