I belong to the House...

I belong to the House, the love for whose members God has made incumbent on people, as He, the Most High, states, ‘I do not ask of you any reward but love for ( my ) near relatives; and whoever earns good, We give him more of good therein; surely Allah is Forgiving Grateful ’ So, to do good is to show love towards us, the People of the House, Ahl al–Bayt ” .

[^3] It is concluded from these two hadith s that the external fulfilment of specifically divine purity of Ahl al–Bayt is nothing but their inerrancy. This illustration clearly indicates that “the desire” in the Qur’anic verse of Tatheer has ontological connotations. Ahl al–Bayt in the Verse of Tatheer The…