 أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم إسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ألم ترى كيف ظرب الله مثلا كلمة طيبة كشجاة طيبة أصلها ثابت وفرعها في السماء تبتي وكلها كل حين بإذن ربها ويضرب الله الأمثال للناس لعلهم يتفكرون صلى الله عليه العليه العظيم في one of the rooms, small rooms adjacent to the mosque of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم a room that was built by the hands of the Prophet for his noble daughter Fatima al-Zahra عليه الصلاة a baby was born on the 15th of Ramadan such a day on the third year of the hijra on the second year of the hijra امير المؤمنين عليه الصلاة والسلام was married to the daughter of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وعليه وسلم Fatima al-Zahra عليه الصلاة concedes with her first baby boy on the third year of the hijra in the middle of the month of Ramadan Lady Fatima al-Zahra delivers this little baby boy the news where the Prophet was brought rushed to that room the room is very close to him he goes inside the room and he says I want to see the baby they give him the baby, he wraps the baby in a piece of cloth and then he says اللهم إني أعيده وولده من الشيطان الرجيل and then he recites the Adhan in his right ear the Yeqamah in his left one and then he asks his parents عليه وفاطمة عليه الصلاة ما دا اسمك تروه؟ what did you name this baby? أمير المومنين سأخبره he says ما كنا لنسبقك يا وسول الله we would never mention we would never give a name to this baby before you you have to give the name and the Prophet answers وما كنت لأسبق ربي and I would never give him a name before my lord immediately Jirreel descend Jirreel عليه الصلاة تسنس with this name he says يا رسول الله إن الله تعالى أن عليه الأعلى يقربك السلام he sends his greetings to you and he says this first grandson of you the first very first grandson of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم will carry the name of Al-Hassan and therefore the Imam was named Al-Hassan عليه الصلاة صلى الله عليه وسلم the Prophet said to him يا حسن لقد أشتحت خلقي وفولوك you resemble me in my features physical features and also you resemble me in my manners because he is the product of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he was raised at the hand of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم المدينة those two boys حسن and Hussein the period between them is only 10 months Imam Hassan is older than his son Imam Hussein by only 10 months they were raised together at the hands of the first teacher the first muallim the first educator the seal of the messengers Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم therefore they inherited the manners the Akhlaat وإنك لعلى خلق عظيم the Akhlaat of their grandfather and he raised them he protected them he shielded them and he also said الحسن و الحسين سيدة الشباب أهل الجنر in numerous occasions the Prophet would point to these two boys as being the masters of the youth of paradise so Imam Hassan was with his grandfather until the age of 7 at the age of 7 the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم left this lower life الحياة الدنيا he left this lower life to meet his Lord and therefore الحسن was in the custody of his father and mother and fortunately he saw the tragic death of his mother at a very young tender age but these tragedies built their characters made them stronger boys stronger men and he was on the side of his father أمير المؤمنين the senior advisor to his father أمير المؤمنين صلى الله عليه وسلم until his father ultimately was murdered during this month in few nights we're going to commemorate the Shahada the martyrdom of أمير المؤمنين صلى الله عليه وسلم and Imam Hassan was at the age of 37 when Ameer al-Mu'mine was killed المحرد الصلاة and the sanctuary of the prayers in the grand mosque in Kufa the Muslim Ummah agreed that Imam Hassan is going to succeed him they paid allegiance to him and bay'a but then there was a dictator a dictator in Syria at that time by the name of Mu'awiya ibn Abi-Sufya who hijacked the power during the reign of the second caliph Mu'awiya became the governor of Syria during the reign of عمر بن الخطاب عمر بن الخطاب was the one who appointed Mu'awiya to be the governor the hakim of Syria and within 20 years of his dictatorship he consolidated his power in Syria and therefore he refused to pay allegiance to Imam Ali when Imam Ali became the caliph he refused and you all heard about the battle of Safin the battle of Safin had 70,000 casualties 70,000 people were killed in the battle of Safin because Mu'awiya refused to accept Imam Ali as the caliph and immobilized his troops those people who were brainwashed people like ISIS today who joined his army to come and fight the legitimate caliph Amir al-Rumineen Ali ibn Abi-Tard and then after the mentor of Imam Ali in Kufa he also refused Mu'awiya refused to accept Imam Hassan as the caliph or pay allegiance to him and he threatened him Imam as I did with your father I stood against him I will do the same against him so you have to quit no way I'm going to let you rule over the Muslim army and this is exactly what he did the first wave of soldiers and his army were fighting against Imam Ali in Safin and the second wave the second war also started during the time of Mu'awiya this time against Imam Hassan unfortunately the people of Iraq were exhausted tired the people of Syria at that time they were supplied by Mu'awiya and his government by money by weapon, by food so they were ready to fight the legitimate army but that legitimate army was powerless although they had the best leader but if the grass root is not willing to fight then the leader cannot fight by himself and therefore there were some skirmishes between the army of Mu'awiya who attacked the army of Imam Hassan and fortunately the army of Imam Hassan was defeated because people were unwilling to fight to go for Jihad they were unwilling Imam Hassan says ما سلمت الأمر إلى Mu'awiya إلا لأنني لم أجد أمصار ولو وجدت أمصارا لقاتلته ليلي ونهاري حتى يفتحوا الله بيني وبينه I surrendered to Mu'awiya because I did not have helpers I did not have supporters people were unwilling to come and willing to come with me and stand for the truth and this is the same not only with Imam Hassan with many of the prophets of Allah beginning with نوح thousands of using نوح عليه السلام says I keep inviting them to the truth to justice to be true human beings to live up to their responsibilities but they keep running away from me فرارا the same thing with Ibrahim I mentioned the story of Ibrahim last time Ibrahim was born in suddenly Iraq he is the native of Iraq near the city of Nasiriya today this is his birthplace but why Ibrahim is buried in Palestine because they drove him out of the country the supreme court at that time 300 judges they gathered in the supreme court 5000 years ago 4000 years ago and they sentenced Ibrahim عليه السلام to send him to some said let's sentence him to death others said no death is too much for him let's send him into exile kick him out of this land 300 judges they decided that Ibrahim is not fit to be the citizen of this town because he destroyed the idols he destroyed the idols so he doesn't we will not allow him to stay in this land so he was expelled Ibrahim and he had no supporters he had no supporters when he was expelled the same thing with Musa Musa had to run away from Egypt go to Palestine and then come back to Egypt again ففررت منكم لما خفتكم Musa said I ran away from my home from my land because they plotted against me and I had no supporters the same thing with Isa the same thing with Prophet Muhammad Prophet Muhammad was driven out of Makkah because he had no supporters and Allah said to him don't worry يارسل الله don't worry I'll bring you back to Makkah for 13 years he could not go to his home to his town for 13 years and then he was able to go just before the end of his life during فتح Makkah so these leaders those leaders because of lack of support unfortunately sometimes they have to surrender sometimes they have to surrender and this is what happened to Imam Hassan because he faced the most dishonest deceitful coming political leader and that was Muawiyah Muawiyah in Syria he ruled in Syria since the time of Omar through the time of of man and the 5 almost 5 years of Imam Ali he was ruling in Syria and he was able to alter the Quran the teachings of the Quran to change them and to brainwash the people and to portray himself as being the messenger of God as being the purest leader he was able to brainwash the people some people he will purchase them with money some people he will brainwash them brainwash them through what the same problem we face in America today with the media but let me ask you what does the media think about Muslims in America do they have good perception of the Muslims are we reflected in the media in America in a good way definitely in a bad way why because Muslims are bad you are bad people here you are not bad you are God fearing you are all right you came to this country to build the land to contribute not because you are bad but because there are some people who run the media they don't want people to know the truth this is exactly what Muawiyah did Muawiyah we understand on the member not only him thousands of creatures who work for him and he will ask the creatures to curse Imam Ali during Salatul Juma during Salatul Juma 60 years Imam Ali being cursed 60 years my friend 60 years this is very painful suddenly law of the prophet is the husband of Fatima Ali even today there are some people who don't like Imam Ali they are Muslims I was watching a clip 2 days ago a Wahhabi scholar who is speaking about مباهل the story of مباهل at the place in Medina between the group of the Christians who came from Najlan southern part of Arabia they discussed Jesus with the prophet and then the prophet invited them for مباهل a confrontation ideological confrontation not physical this guy who is reading the story he says the prophet invited Allah says the Wahhabi scholar says listen so the prophet brought Hassan and Hussein when he saw Akum so the prophet brings فاقرة الزهراء and then he skips Imam Ali he doesn't say وَأَنْ فُسَكُمْ it says the prophet went with حسن وفاقرة الزهراء Ali was missing even when he read the ayah he said فاقرة عالا وندعو عبناء أنا وعبناء أكم ونساء أنا ونساء أكم ثم نبتل he skipped when it says وَأَنْ فُسَنَّا وَأَنْ فُسَكُمْ because he doesn't like to hear the name of the Qur'an today when people all break the Qur'an in many manner imagine 1400 years ago when people did not even know anything about Qur'an so there is some hatred and hatred is a disease it's a disease and this disease is mentioned here open the Qur'an open the beginning of Surat Al-Bakr of Surat Al-Bakr verse number 6 what does it say إن الذين كافروا those who disbelieve سواء عليهم doesn't matter for them أأنذرتهم أم لم تنذرهم لا يؤمنوا whether you reach out to them and you speak to them and tell them this is the truth or whether you don't they would never believe in you إن الذين كافروا سواء عليهم because of their corruption insistence on evilhood because of their insistence الله has sealed their minds a lot so that they don't understand you and they don't listen to you and they don't respond to you so don't waste your time don't waste your time this is a disease this disease was spreading by Mu'awiya bin Abi-Sufyan against Amir al-Mu'mineen and Imam Hasan and therefore Mu'awiya becomes the caliph for only 6 months Imam Hasan was Amir al-Mu'mineen the caliph and then he surrenders and Mu'awiya takes over he becomes Amir al-Mu'mineen Awalid al-Muslimeen is the leader of all the Muslims and he was able to rule because because of his propaganda machine propaganda machine that he possessed not only in Syria in the entire Muslim region where today let me restart this hadith of the prophet صلى الله عليه و آله و سلم this hadith has been narrated by world class narrators حفاظ such as ابن ساعد such as ابن حجر such as ادهبي ادهبي in his book احتلال those hard core Sunni leaders they say the prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم قال إذا رأيتم معاوية او فاقتلوه او فرجموه اذا رأيتم معاوية رأيتم معاوية رأيتم معاوية then you have to murder him معاوية is any qualified to represent رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم but this is what happened this is the sad reality معاوية becomes that Amir al-Mu'mineen and Imam Hassan is relegated to the corners of his house because people always follow according to this book the Qur'an اتطلق اكثر من في الأرض يضلوك عن سبيل الله the vast majority of the people day if you want to follow them they are going to misguide the vast majority of people are for dunya not for after however Imam Hassan continues his leadership role the role of educating people guiding people and helping people one day someone who was completely brainwashed in Syria he comes to Madina for one reason he was searching for Imam Hassan just to curse him right in his face so he comes this is the mask so he goes there to the mask and he starts cursing him and his father Amir al-Mu'mineen inside Masjid al-Nibri this is not different from the person who went last friday to that mask him on the side of mask in Kuwait and while people were in the state of Sujood he detonated himself and he killed 28 of them it's not a big difference we have such ignorance nowadays so he comes to the Imam and he says he starts cursing the Imam Imam says Imam smiles the return to this cursing he smiles this is the Akhlaq this is how he inherited the Akhlaq of Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم he says to him I guess you are a stranger you don't know me very well I guess you are a stranger I guess you are a stranger I guess you are a stranger so if you come and get close to us if you are hungry come I will feed you or we will eat you if you are naked we will cloth you or we will need you if you have a need we will feed you or we will be homeless we will shelter you the man looks at him I'm cursing him I'm cursing his father and he says I will shelter you I will feed you I will welcome you come to my house the man see here if the human being has the seed of goodness in him or her but sometimes these are covered unfortunately so you need someone to go and stimulate them and wake them up and he spoke to him with such a compassionate forgiving tone the man had no other choice but to say الله أعلم حيث يجعله رسالته الله knows best who to choose for Imam for leadership and then he said to the Imam كنت أنت وأبوك أغض خلق الله إلي كنت أصبحت أنت وأبوك أحبخ الخلق الله أمان أصبحت أنت and your father أعلي أين أحبين أحبين now you and your father أعلي are the most أحبين are the most أحبين the message of Islam is the message of Islam the message of Islam the message of forgiveness it's not the message of retaliation never ever think of retaliating against people they have to stimulate their conscience sometimes people are dead your job is to wake them up wake them up that's the message of Islam to save people to salvage them one day a man comes to him and he says to him that I have nothing left for my family I have no food nothing at home I left my family hungry this is exactly what he says to him he says the only man that I know was going to help you is you لن يرقلي شيء يكفيك رؤية منظري عن مخبري look at how I look and you can understand I don't have to say about my misery and the way I look it tells you a lot about me يكفيك رؤية منظري عن مخبري إلا حشاشة ما إوجهن سنتها من أنتها عوقت وجد تلك مشتري the only thing which is left for me is my honor and my dignity and my respect and now I want to sell it to you يا حسن إمار حسر علي السلام immediately answers him عاجلتنا فأتاك وابل برنا طلن ولو أمهلتنا لم نقصري فخذ القليل فكن كأنك لم تبع ما صلته وكأننا لم مشتري إمار says you came to me as a surprise I am not prepared otherwise I would have prepared things for you I am going to give everything that I have now in my house and you don't have to sell your honor and your dignity to me you are the one who is doing the favor one day he was passing by a group of poor people they were eating food they said join us for food إمار immediately sits with them and he eats and he says the second meal you come to my house it's on me so they go to his house there is a lot of food someone says wow your job is really great look at the way you took care of them he said no their job is greater than mine he said how because the day they gave me the food they gave me everything they had everything they want why today when I gave them I did not give them everything I want so they did better than all they always served they helped but at the end of the day they still feel the shortcomings they feel that they did not do enough to serve people they give the credit to the people one day a man comes with a piece of paper he puts his request on a piece of paper because he is shy to speak today so he would give him a piece of paper from behind the door he knocks at the door and then he gives the paper he does not want the amount to see his face because he is embarrassed the amount says immediately 400 400 dina it's a lot of money 400 dina do you know that dina is one golden coin 400 golden coins to one person so they said to him look at his face ask him interrogate him whether he really needs help or not the man says no no because the time he waits until I bring him the money Allah is going to ask me about that time because that time is going to cause inversor for him I don't want it to wait any minute I grant him his need immediately those are our Ahlul bait this is Kareem and Ahlul bait the most generous within the family of the Prophet ﷺ one day a lady who gives him a bouquet of flowers Jareem slave lady who works in his house she presents him with a bouquet of flowers he says and return to this to these flowers I free you somebody said to him this is too much she gave him something very little you free her he says this is the teachings of the Qur'an when somebody greets you with a greeting you have to answer that greeting of that gift with a bigger gift and a bigger gift in this case is to free her يوجه الله أيها الإمام الحسن المجتبة يبدى رسول الله this is the product of امير المؤمنين وياسك الله سبحانه وتعالى to grant us that to free and the honor to follow the tradition of Ahlul bait عليهم السلام to follow that example in kindness in forgiveness, in generosity in selflessness we follow that example so insha'Allah to be the true Shi'a and true followers not only in this life but we will be gathered with them insha'Allah on the day of judgment من نها صلاتنا وصيامنا وتعاءنا وجعلنا من عتقائك من النار وفرج عن المسلمين ومؤمنين في اليمن وعراق وصوريا وجميع إلاد المسلمين ورحم شهداءنا وعدل في فرج السيدنا ومرولان صاحب العسن والزمان الله مكل وليك الحجة إبن الحسن صلواتك عليه وعلى وفي كل ساعة وليا وحافظا وقائدا وناصرة ودليلا وعينا حتى تسكنه وارضك طوعا وتماتحه فيها طويلة واجعلنا الله مبنى صالح وعوانه تبوره إن شاء الله صلاة الجمع وإلا الواحي المبينة ومؤمنات تواب الفاتحة ومقصلات على محمد وعال محمد