A problem on Inner Product Space and Commutator

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I want to get you guys help on this problem.

Consider $f$ is an element in Hilbert Space $H$, also $A$ and $B$ are both bounded, self-adjoint operators.$[A,B]=AB-BA$.

We want to show that $ \langle[A,B]f,f\rangle = 2\|Af\|\|Bf\|$ if only if there exists a real number $c$ such that $Af=cBf$.

I always get the left hand side of the equation is 0 and $\|Af\|\|Bf\|=0$, which means $c=0$. So at least one of the norm is 0.

I don't think it is right. Can anyone help me? Thanks.