This Is My Faith - Al-fatlawi, Ali - الصفحة ٢٥٩ - the Imams (PBUT)?
the hateful, we need to clarify one thing. The Most Exalted Allah never prescribes or imposes affectionate for someone aimlessly; there must be a purpose to that. If we contemplate the following Holy Verse from the Noble Quran,
(Say: I do not ask of you any reward for it but love for my near relatives)٤٢;٢٣.
We find out that the Most Gracious Allah set only affection towards the kinfolks and Ahl Al-Bait (PBUT) of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) as a reward for the message he spread and the difficulties he has been through.
Moreover, this affection and love is associated with the Almighty Allah Himself, i.e we love only those loved by the Glorious Allah and resent only those resented by the Glorious Allah. That is why the love and affection has become part of our faith as the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) put it: “The affection of a believer to another believer is the greatest form of faith, as whoever loves for the sake of Allah, resents for the sake of Allah, gives for the sake of Allah and bans for the sake of Allah is of the chosen by Allah”.