demands from us to love these blessed individuals, as in Ayah 23 of Surah Ash-Shura in the part 25:

قُلْ لَّاۤ اَسْــٴَـلُكُمْ عَلَیْهِ اَجْرًا اِلَّا الْمَوَدَّةَ فِی الْقُرْبٰىؕ-

Translation from Kanz-ul-Iman: Say you (O beloved) ‘I do not ask any remuneration from you for this (propagation of religion), except (your) love of (my) close relatives’.

Commenting upon the above Ayah, A’la Hadrat, the Imam of the Ahl-us-Sunnah, Imam Ahmad Raza Khan رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه states: Close relatives’ means noble Sayyids and the auspicious Ahl-e-Bayt رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُم.’

(Malfuzaat-e-A’la Hadrat, pp. 501)

اَلْـحَمْـدُ لـِلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ, the respected Ahl-e-Bayt and noble Sayyids رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُم are such blessed personalities that the virtues of loving them and maintaining good character with them are even mentioned in the blessed Ahadees.

The virtue of good character with noble Sayyids

The Rasool of Rahmah صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said: Whoever maintains good character with anyone from my Ahl-e-Bayt, I will give him the reward of this on the Day of Judgement. (Al-Jami’-us-Sagheer, pp. 533, Hadees 8821)

In another Hadees, he صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم states: Whoever behaves well with any of the offsprings of ‘Abdul Muttalib in the world, he has the right to receive its reward from me when he will meet me on the Day of Judgement.

(Tareekh Baghdad, vol. 10, pp. 102, Hadees 5221)

ہم کو سارے سَیِّدوں سے پِیار ہے

اِن شَآءَ الله اپنا بیڑا پار ہے