At first...

At first, it says: " Verily those who believe and do righteous deeds, soon the Beneficent (Allah) will appoint love for them." Faith and righteous deed has a reflection as vast as the world of existence, and the ray of love emerged from it can cover the whole expansion of creation. Allah, the Pure Essence, loves such believing people. They are beloved with all those who are in the skies. This affection will brighten the hearts of men who are on the earth.

To be beloved is a divine bounty which may be given to the believers and the righteous, as the Qur'an says: "…soon the Beneficent (Allah) will appoint love for them." Yes, the one who loves only Allah will be loved heartily by all people with the help of Allah. In general, he who remembers Allah, He will have His favor upon him. The Qur'an says: "Therefore, remember Me, and I will remember you; …" (Sura Al-Baqarah, No. 2, verse 152).

It is interesting that the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) in a traditions says: "When the Lord loves one of His servants, He says to His great angel, Gabriel, that He loves so and so, then do love him. Gabriel will love him and, then, he calls in the skies that Allah loves so and so, then do love him; and thereafter, all those who are in the skies will love him, and then the acceptance of this affection will reflect in the earth.

And when the Lord hates a person, He tells Gabriel to hate him, and Gabriel hates him. After that he calls out among those who are in the skies that Allah hates him, then do hate him. Thus, all those who are in the skies will hate him, and afterward, the reflection of this hatred will be found in the earth." This tradition has been recorded in many Islamic traditional sources as well as in many commentary books, but this is a tradition of the text recorded in the Commentary of Fi-Zalal, vol.

5, p. 454 which is adopted from Ahmad, Muslim, and Bukhari. Verily, what a pleasure is better than this that a person feels that he is beloved by all the pure and the righteous of the world of existence? And how painful is that a person feels that the earth, the skies, the angels and the believing people all hate him?

However, besides the books of Shi'ah, there are numerous traditions recorded in the books of tradition and commentary compiled by the scholars of the Sunnite upon the occasion of revelation of the verse under discussion, narrated from the Prophet of Islam (p.b.u.h.) , which denote that this verse has been revealed mostly in regard to Ali-ibn-Abitalib (a.s.).