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« have over their own selves. 4 See above, IC, p. 2, n. 5 and p. 3, n. 14 regarding the different meanings of wilāya. 5 Bukhārī, Ṣaḥīḥ, ‘Kitāb al-Īmān’; Muslim, Ṣaḥīḥ, ‘Kitāb al-Īmān’. 6 This verse relates part of the covenant that was taken by God from the prophets at the same time that He took the covenant from the seed of all the children of Adam. On the Covenant of Alast see above Tustarī’s commentary on 7:172 and IT, pp. xxxi–xxxii and xxxv–xxxvi. Tafsīr al-Tustarī 158 ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Zayd said: Veracity (ṣidq) is being faithful (wafāʾ) to God in your act[s]. Sahl was asked about veracity and said: »