 How's my second family doing? Well, guess what? We're just halfway into the holy month of Ramadan, and I just would like to say this. I hope everyone had a great first half of this blessed month, and I hope that everyone's enjoying hashtag LNT. Yesterday, the episode was a bit, skyrocketing, but we'll continue it off today. But tonight, we're trying to talk about a special personality. A personality that really affected the life, the lives of every single individual that follows the Shia School of Thought and also other schools of thought as well. But before we get to tell you who that personality is, or when was he born, or how was he born? Let's go and jump in to see what's trending. And then we'll be back very short. So do stay tuned. Welcome back, dear viewers. Once again, we do welcome everyone for joining us tonight live from this blessed holy city. I'm looking fresh tonight. You'll get to know why in a few moments. But if you guys want to go from Shanghai to LA in five hours, Tokyo to San Francisco in a bit of over five hours, five and a half hours, from Sydney to LA in six hours and three quarters of an hour. And that plane right there. This plane, the supersonic, as they're calling it, the boom, supersonic boom, it's the fastest airplane in the world right now where it takes you from Shanghai to LA in five hours. That's crazy. Or from Sydney to LA in 6.75 hours. So 6,045 minutes. That's crazy. But they're saying that this airplane and the cost of someone going on the airplane is actually half of what it costs on a Concorde. And they're picking it up where Concorde left off. So hopefully we can one day, you know, hashtag LNT and get that plane and come from Karbala, you know, and fly all the way. But, or maybe, you know, you never know, maybe the participant who wins will come to Karbala. We're not trying to give any false information, but you know, it might come on that plane. We never know. But this, if the winner comes out at the end of the year, then you're gonna have to wait for another year. Because at the beginning of next year, they're planning to launch that plane. But what else is trending? The next item is actually kind of crazy because one of the most expensive houses in America, America's most expensive house, it's on discount. So whoever loves discounts, go and buy this house. I'm one of the guys that love discounts. So if you're trying to buy that house, discount, you know how much discount is? 62 million dollars. 62 million dollar discount. This house actually broke the world record or America's record, $250 million as it was listed earlier on. But now it's on discount, has its own helipad, a Ferrari showroom at the bottom, has a Bugatti too. I can see a Ducati down there as well. But to buy that house on discount, 62 million dollars, you can buy, you can buy 62 houses with 62 million dollars. But for some it's a bargain. Why not? Go and buy that, have a nice dinner. But if you do buy it, invite hashtag L&T so we can have dinner together. But I'm kidding. Let's go and jump in to tonight's topic. When we look at the biographies of Islamic figures throughout history, we almost, or we tend to look at their accomplishments, their traits and lineage. If we were to look through history, we would find a prime example, Sheikh Abbas Al-Qummi, who's really, his accomplishment affected the lives of every single Shi'a Muslim living on this planet and also non-Shia as well. Him compiling the Dua'at and the Ziyaraz of Ahl-e-Baita Aleykum As-Salaam, Mafateeha Al-Janan, which is present in every Shi'a household in the world and in every mosque and in every Islamic center, Shi'a Islamic center. Now, he was known, Sheikh Abbas Al-Qummi was known for his piety, for his sincere love towards Prophet Muhammad and his Ahl-e-Bait piece and blessings be upon them. But if we were to go to his lineage, his dad, Muhammad al-Qummi, and his dad was just like how we have Marajah at this time, like grand jurist. He was the grand jurist of his time where people got to go to him and ask him in regards to their religion and their religious problems. But his mom is called Benny Zinat and one of the most pious and religious women of her time. But tonight, ladies and gentlemen, we're talking, we're trying to talk about an individual who, you know, as you can see the decorations in Ben Haraman, inshallah, to the whole two holy shrines for making it beautiful. But it's kind of far, but you can see the colors. I'm decorating myself tonight for this blessed occasion. But whose occasion is it that we haven't said anything? Tonight, we're trying to talk about a personality that has really not been looked at by many and unfortunately, but we're trying to talk about the birth anniversary of Imam Hassan al-Mushtaba, the fourth infallible, the second Imam of Ahl al-Bait, peace and blessings be upon him, the son of Imam Ali Nabi Talib and the son of Fatim al-Zahra, peace and blessings be upon them all. But tonight, ladies and gentlemen, your question for tonight, very simple, very easy. What do you know about Imam Al-Hasan? Hit him. What do you know about Imam Al-Hasan? Very simple. What do you know? The question is, what do you know? To let us know what you know, plus nine, six, four, seven, seven, four, zero, six, seven, 18, 36 is the number to call us at through WhatsApp. You pick up that phone, open WhatsApp, dial that number shown below. Shoot us a text message, shoot us a voice message. Call us live during the show. We are live on Facebook as well, so you can go check us out there. Give that thumbs up, share that reactions, that love, that heart, you know, because we love in those hearts. And do all that good stuff because anyone that comments or sends a voice message, text message or calls us, during the live show, the name will place in this fishbowl right here for a chance to win a free trip to Karbala exclusive on our house. But let's take a quick break and move back very short. So do stay tuned. Welcome back, dear viewers. We are live from the Holy City of Karbala, of course, with you, Muah Ahmad Ali. And tonight, we're trying to celebrate the birth anniversary of a very special individual, Imam Al-Hassan, al-Mushtaba, peace and blessings be upon him. Now, before the break today, I was, you know, I gave up some time to try and survey my friends and those who I know and try to find out how much people actually know about Imam Al-Hassan. And I was surprised, some people actually knew. Some, and some didn't know a lot. Which is unfortunate. But tonight, you're in for a treat because you're watching hashtag LNT. And, you know, when I go up on the pulpit, when I go up on the LNT pulpit, you know, I like to show off my knowledge, you know what I mean? But tonight, if we were to go back in history and see, when was Imam Al-Hassan born? A very simple question. For those who didn't know, well, you're about to learn. Imam Al-Hassan al-Mustabah was born on the 15th of Ramadan, which is tomorrow, the 15th of Ramadan in the third year of Hijrah. And very beautiful. If we were to look at who his lineage is, I mentioned that earlier on. His dad is the commander of the faithful, Ali Al-Bi'a-Tali, peace and blessings be upon him. His mom was Fathum to Zahra, the greatest woman of all time. His grandfather was Prophet Muhammad. And if we were to go back, it's a lineage filled with knowledge, with wisdom, and of course, with bravery, as we'll get to talk about later on. But when Imam Al-Hassan, peace and blessings be upon him, the first grandson of Prophet Muhammad, when he was born, Prophet Muhammad was, if you were to say it now, he was jumping from joy. You know, he was so happy that Imam Al-Hassan was born. So what happened, Prophet Muhammad gets informed by Jibra'il that Imam Al-Hassan was born, comes to the house of Imam Ali and Fathum to Zahra, and he looks at Imam Al-Hassan and he's just filled with joy. Now, Fathum to Zahra asks Imam Ali, what are we gonna name this baby? Imam Ali says, I can't beat the Prophet to naming the baby. So the Prophet has to name the baby. When Imam Ali and Fathum to Zahra asked the Prophet, he says, I'm not gonna beat God at naming this baby. So they waited until Jibra'il came down saying that name this son of yours or this grandson of yours, or Muhammad. Name him Shubbar. He said, what does that mean in Arabic? He said, Hassan. Hassan is the name of Muhammad. The original name, the Hebrew name, if you will, is Shubbar. And then you have the, or the Aramaic name, Shubbar. And then you have the Arabic name, Hassan. And this is very beautiful to get to see because usually it's the father who gets to, in any Islamic household, when newborns come, the father recites the Adhan in the right ear and the Qama in the left ear. But in this time, Prophet Muhammad did it in the ear of Muhammad Hassan, the right Adhan and the left Qama. And he said, I will name this as the will of Allah. I will name him Hassan. Now, what a lot of people don't understand is, during the life of Imam Al-Hassan, not a lot of biographies have been written on this individual. Not a lot of people or Maulanas all do respect to all of them. When they do go on the pulpit, they do mention the life of Imam Al-Hassan, but they focus on the treaty and how that saved Islam. That's great. But we, I have to understand, what did Imam Al-Hassan do? Because really, after the death of Imam Ali, no one knows what happened in life of Imam Al-Hassan. We'll get to talk about that very short. But if we were to continue, look at his knowledge. Imam Al-Hassan presented his knowledge at a very young age when Imam Al-Talib was there. People tried at that time. They wanted to test Imam Al-Hassan at his youth. They wanted to see what he's all about. Is he the real Imam after Imam Ali, or is it just some random stuff that people are saying? So they went up to Imam Al-Hassan. They started asking him questions that they don't even know the answers to, which is really the crazy part. So they asked Imam Al-Hassan, what are the 10 strong things that are stronger than one another? 10 strong things that are stronger than one another. Imam Al-Hassan replied to them and I quote. He said, among the strong things is stone. Even stronger than stone is iron, which is used to break the stone. Even stronger is the fire which melts the iron. Even stronger is the water which extinguishes the fire. Even stronger is the clouds that carry the water with them. And even stronger is the air that floats the cloud. Even stronger than that is the angel that moves the air. and even stronger is the angel who will give death to the angel who moves the air. And even stronger than the death is the angel of death and even stronger than the angel of death is the will of Allah that governs everything. At that moment, these guys were baffled. They didn't know what to say to this youth. The young man, Maman Hassan was and he was able to give them 10 things they didn't even know about. You know, at that time, maybe they knew, but they weren't, you know, they didn't have the full knowledge that these things actually could have existed or that philosophically, you know, sophisticated. But we do remind everyone to call in tonight and letting us know what you think about Imam Hassan. We are getting a few messages, so we'll get to, and we are receiving Facebook comments. Hello, hello back, but do let us know what you think. Hello's hello back, but let us know what you think. Now, if we were to go back and look at the accomplishments of Imam Hassan, now the accomplishments of this individual, if we were to go back in history, as inshallah the expert will get to tell us later on in the show, one of the great accomplishments during the life of Imam Hassan, which not a lot of people know about, is the fact of his bravery. During the life of Imam Hassan, just ask anyone, if you're sitting next to someone right now, ask him, what do you know about the bravery of Imam Hassan? I'll give you a second to ask him that. One second, go ahead. Let me drink some water while you ask. Did you ask, did he answer? If he said he was brave in the battles with his father, then that's the answer, that's correct. But if he stayed silent and said, I don't know, then continue watching. But, Imam Hassan peace and blessings be upon him. During the battles with his father, he was present in almost every battle, especially after Prophet Muhammad died. In every battle, Imam Hassan was there. And what's interesting, when Imam Hassan used to go in battle, he would tell Al Abbas and he would tell Imam Hassan to control, he says control your brother, Al Hassan. Because when he's in the battlefield, he goes off. He does not see anyone in front of him. He needs to get to the flag of the other army. This was the bravery of Imam Hassan. He needed to be controlled by Imam Hassan. And of course, he's an infallible Imam, so this not means that he's losing his senses, absolutely not. But it goes to show the level of bravery that he contained within himself. Now, another accomplishment of Imam Hassan, which a lot of people these days, and even at that time, ridiculed Imam Hassan for, even Shia as unfortunately, when they say, how could Imam Hassan go and shake the hand of a tyrant? Who am I talking about? I'm talking about Muawiyah bin Ibn Sufyan, the guy that really destroyed the Shia's back then, was the reason behind the murder of Imam Ali. And the prosecution of almost every single Shia during the time of Imam Ali and during the time of Imam Hassan. The person who really didn't care what Islam had to say and everything that he did was against the religion of Islam. So, Imam Hassan one day, when he saw the people being deviled by Muawiyah, and a lot of people actually leaving his army, he said, gather an army, we'll go fight. But when he saw the closest people to him betrayed him. At that time, he said, who am I gonna go and fight with? So, fighting at that time, he didn't wanna cause a civil war between the two Muslims themselves. So, what did he do? He went and signed a peace treaty with Muawiyah, the tyrants of the time. What was that peace treaty? That peace treaty was to say, in short, when Muawiyah dies and Imam Hassan was still alive, the caliphate would go to Imam Hassan. And if Imam Hassan dies and Muawiyah is still in power, when Muawiyah dies, it goes to Imam Hassan. So, what did Muawiyah do? Muawiyah played an evil, killed Imam Hassan, died, and he passed it on to his son Yazid. So, he broke that peace treaty, ending up in Karbala. But, we did just receive a text message from. Taqi from Canada, he says, Imam Hassan was very generous. I think he was the most generous Imam of all Imams, okay? Thank you very much Taqi for joining us tonight. So, your name will be placed Taqi from Canada, okay? Thank you very much Taqi from Canada for joining us tonight. Yeah, thank you very much. Now, we are receiving a few Facebook comments, we'll get to read them out very soon, inshallah. But to continue off where we were discussing and we were discussing the later life of Imam Hassan and how one of the major accomplishments of Imam Hassan, although facing a lot of ridicule and a lot of taunts from the followers of Imam Al-Muawiyah at that time, he still fought through and he saved the blood of the Muslims at that time and he saved the Muslims from a civil war. Now, if we were to move on and look at the traits of Imam Al-Hassan, peace and blessings be upon him, one of the most prominent traits as Taqi just told us, a message was generosity. To the level where there's a narration, a tradition that says after the Muataddam of Imam Ali, the orphans and the poor individuals and the needies on the street, they got sick, or sorry, they didn't get sick, no one was taking care of them after Imam Ali was murdered. This is actually not 100% true because after Imam Ali was murdered, Imam Al-Hassan was the one that took care of the poor. He took the responsibility of his father where he went around at night giving them food, giving the needy and the orphans food. That just moved on to Imam Al-Hassan. So that narration is not 100% correct, but also another trait of Imam Al-Hassan, which not a lot of people know, is the fact that he, whatever he has, anything he has was from God. So as an inner narration, he says, everything that I have is from God. So why don't I give whatever God has given me back to the poor and back to the needy, which is very beautiful. But let's check out the audio message first. Let's go see what, who is it from? Oh, Sister Batud once again from the USA. What does she say? This is Batud from the USA. To answer tonight's question, who is Al-Hassan Al-Hassan? He is the first, he's the eldest son of Fatima Tazharan Imam Al-Hassan. He's also the second Imam by the Twelvers. And he's considered the first Imam by the Ismailis. Imam Al-Hassan Al-Hassan was known for donating to the poor, his kindness to the poor and bond men and for his knowledge, his science and bravery. And he died at the age of 25 and buried in Jannah Al-Baqia. His wife, Jada, is commonly accused for his death by poisoning him. Thank you very much, Batud, for letting us know a lot of information, actually. Thank you very much and very deep and thorough information you mentioned there. Thanks to sheikhgoogle.com. I'm kidding. I'm kidding, thank you. No, I'm kidding. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. I was kidding by that. But let's go and check out the expert and what he has to say about tonight's topic. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem. Alhamdulillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahman ar-Rahman ar-Rahman ar-Rahman wa sallallahu ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala aliyah al-Tayyibina al-Tahireen. So what do you know about Imam Al-Hassan? Did you know that he was the first grandchild to Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa ala? Did you know that he was the first connection between Nubuwa and Imamah? The first result of tying the knot between Imam Ali alaihi salam, who represents Imamah and Fatima al-Zahra, who represents Nubuwa because she's the daughter of Rasulullah? Did you know that Rasulullah took Imam Al-Hassan as he was holding his hand or his hand was held by Imam Ali alaihi salam? Rasulullah was carrying Imam Hussain to Nasara, Najran, when they performed the Mubahala with Rasulullah and they decided to have a contest in the middle of the desert to see who was on the truth? Did you know that Imam Al-Hassan was a fierce warrior and he was extremely brave and stood with his father and father and Safin and Al-Jamal and Nahrawan? Did you know that Imam Al-Hassan was so brave that he would ask Imam Al-Hassain and Abul-Fadal al-Abbas to go and hold Imam Al-Hassan to make sure that he doesn't sacrifice his life in those battles? Did you know that Imam Al-Hassan was deceived by the people of Kufa and his father's army while many of them switched to the side of Muawiyah? And they sold out and they didn't stand by Imam Al-Hassan? Did you know that Imam Al-Hassan was deceived by some of his own companions? Some of them would come and visit him and they would say, As-salamu alaikum wa dillal mu'mineen Peace be upon you, all the one who humiliated the believers. Did you know that Imam Al-Hassan was a victim of rumors that he would marry, every day, marry and divorce, marry and divorce? This was an Umayyad propaganda from Beni Umayyad to make Imam Al-Hassan seem as a person who loves this dunya and has nothing to do with the Akhirah. Did you know that Imam Al-Hassan in his will, he wanted to be buried next to his grandfather, Rasulullah, but he was not allowed? Did you know that Imam Al-Hassan's body was hit with 72 arrows? Did you know that before his death, before his burial, Imam Al-Hassan had to put on the kafana of Imam Al-Hassan again and remove the arrows and remove the blood from his blood-set body? Peace be upon them. The peace of Allah be upon him and on his progeny and on his brother Imam Al-Hassan. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon Muhammad and his followers. Thank you very much Sayyidna for joining us tonight and actually very beneficial information that was presented in there because it really tells us a lot about who Imam Al-Hassan was. And I like the fact where he says, did you know? Because did you know those facts? If you didn't, then you need to really look at the biography of this individual because it's an obligation on the shoulders of every single Muslim on this planet to know who was the first grandson of Prophet Muhammad. But let's read some of the Facebook comments that we got. Aiman Zahra, he says, or Aiman I think is a guy, right? Or maybe her, I don't know. But she says, or he says, Imam Hassan, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, the most generous Imam and patient, Imam in every aspect, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon them. Okay, should we count as a participation? All right, Aiman Zahra. Maybe it's a guy, I don't know. All right, so. Okay. Okay, Aiman Zahra. Thank you very much for publishing it there. But thank you very much for participating. Another comment from Fawzia Faizi. She says, As-salamu alaykum on the birth of the first Imam. Yes, he was a brave soldier, yet he was very concerned about his people and made sacrifice to reinstate peace and well-being of his people. His own wife had a hand in his death, which was the result of his death, but a brave heart he was. Thank you very much, Fawzia, for joining us tonight. Okay, thank you very much once again. All right, so we are, but let's see what text message we received from. Razia from Norway again, thank you very much. So she says, Imam Al-Hassan is the first infallible being born to both infallible mother and father. He was a Muslim, okay, as after his death, his wish of being buried besides his grandfather, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, wasn't fulfilled and his body was showered with arrows. Unfortunately, but thank you very much, Razia from Norway for joining us tonight. Your name has been placed in this book. So inshallah, we'll give the chance for everyone else. We are getting another text message from Zakiya. Zakiya from Norway, what did she say? Okay, so what's the issue? Okay, so, okay, so Zakiya will read off my phone quickly. Zakiya says from Norway, Zakiya from Norway, wish you all many happy readings on this blessed day. Imam Al-Hassan was generous. He is the madlum who was betrayed by his closest and madlum now that he doesn't get the zwar that his brother Imam Al-Hassan has. Inshallah, we are all blessed with his Yara soon. Very nice and it's true that not a lot of people get to visit him, but it's one of the, maybe when Imam Mehdi reappears, we can all go and do a special hashtag in the episode near his shrine, but thank you very much, Zakiya from Norway. Okay, thank you very much, Zakiya for joining us tonight. Now, at the end, the last thing we're trying to say tonight is that we need, and I mentioned it earlier, it's incumbent upon Ashiyah to, especially every single Muslim, to really get to understand who the first grandson of Prophet Muhammad and to really know, because a lot of people don't know much about Imam Al-Hassan, so it's important to keep in our minds that go spend an hour, an hour of your time and read the biography of this great individual. Lastly, thank you very much for joining us tonight. This was Ahmed Ali, coming to you live from the Holy City of Karbala. Stay tuned for the upcoming episodes tomorrow at 2 a.m. Karbala time. Take care, wa-salaamu alaikum wa-rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.