Al-Mawadda Verse: Difference between revisions

"Mawadda" means "to love" <ref>Ibn Manẓūr, ''Lisān al-ʿArab'', under the word "ودد".</ref>and "Qurba" means blood relatives<ref>Ibn Manẓūr, ''Lisān al-ʿArab'', under the word "قرب".</ref>.

All [[Shi'a]] and most of [[Sunni]] [[exegete]]s have [[narration|narrated]] from [[Ibn 'Abbas]] that after the Prophet's (s) [[migration to Medina]], [[Ansar]] (helpers) had discussions about the Islamic government. They decided to go the [[Prophet (s)]] and say, "We will submit to you all our small wealth and facilities if you have any financial needs for the progress of [[Islam]] and the management of the newly-established Islamic society. In any way you take and use it would be our honor."<ref>See: Ālūsī, ''Rūḥ al-maʿānī'', vol. 13, p. 30.</ref> That was when al-Mawadda verse was [[revelation|revealed]] to the Prophet (s) to mention the love of the [[Ahl al-Bayt (a)]] as the reward for the Prophet's (s) mission, not any material or worldly [[reward]].