This Is My Faith - Al-fatlawi, Ali - الصفحة ٢٦٧ - More on Affection
put it: (Say: I do not ask of you any reward for it but love for my near relatives)٤٢;٢٣”. Abu Ja’far Al-Baqir (PBUH) also commented on this Holy Verse: “By God, it is a Divine duty on His slaves for the sake of Mohammad (PBUH) over his near relatives”.
· Al-Tabrasi – God bless his soul – reports that Al-Hasan Bin Ali (PBUT) delivered a speech to the people in which he said: “I am from the Ahl Al-Bait (PBUT) whose affection was enjoined by Allah on every Muslim, as He said: (Say: I do not ask of you any reward for it but love for my near relatives)”.
· Al-Allamah Al-Tabrasi([١٥]) – God bless his soul – writes in his book ‘Kashf Al-Haq’ (Discovering the Truth): “It is reported in the Sahihain, in Ahmad Bin Hanbal’s Mosnad and in Tafsir Al-Tha’labi that Bin Abbas said: when the Holy Verse (Say: I do not ask of you any reward for it but love for my near relatives) was revealed, the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) was asked who the near relatives were, he said: Ali, Fatimah and her two sons, while to love them is to obey them”.
[١٥] Ayatullah Ash-Sheikh Fazal bin Hassan bin Fazal At-Tabrasi (٤٦٠- ٥٥٠ H) known as Amin Al-Islam was born in the holy city of Mash’had. Wrote a number of books, some of which are: Majma-ul-Bayan fee Tafseeril Quran, Uddatus-Safar…