 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا ونبينا وحبيب قلوبنا أب القاسم المصطفى محمد وعلى أهل بيتها الطيبين الطاهرين المقصومين أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ألم ترى كيف ضرب الله مثلا كلمة طيبة كشجرة ضيبة أصلها ثابت وفرغها في السماء تؤتي وكلها كل حين بإذن ربها ويضرب الله الأمثال للناس لعلهم يتذكرون صدق الله العلي العظيم وعلى الثالث سنوات من الهجرة after the immigration of the Prophet from Mecca to Medina وعلى الثلاثة الثلاثة الثلاثة الثلاثة الثلاثة الثلاثة الثلاثة الثلاثة وذلك يا بي بي بوي هو الحسن عليه الصلاة كانت مبارسة لأمام يبنى البطانب ومدره فاضمة الزهراء عليه الصلاة في مكان next to the masjid في الحقيقة في مكان next to the masjid وذلك كانت أول مبارسة لأمام محمد صلاة الله عليه الصلاة وعلى المبارسة كانت تتعرف عن المبارسة من المبارسة بالطبع أن المبارسة كانت مبارسة في المنطقة المبارسة لا يوجد مبارسة في ذلك الوقت ومبارسة في المبارسة فده came out and he took the baby وراب the baby in a white cloth وDeung He recited the adhan which is customary in Islam when a baby is born a father or someone in the family would recite the adhan in the right side of his ears والأقامة في الجانب الخارج. و هذا هو ما فعله. صلى الله عليه وسلم. ثم قلت to his father. He said, يا علي. What did you name your son? يمام عليه السلام said ما كنت لأسبقك يا رسول الله. I would never give him a name without asking your permission of the messenger of God. The messenger said I would not give him a name without getting the permission from God. Here Gabriel, the archangel descended upon the prophet and he said يا رسول الله العليه الأعلى the lord greets you and congratulates you and he says name your first grandson as Al-Hasan so the name of Imam Al-Hasan and both Imam Hussein came from the lord by the order of the lord الله سبحانه وتعالى. And therefore Imam Hassan was he got his name from his grandfather the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and he was raised also by the prophet and he was with the prophet until probably the age of 7 when the prophet died or maybe 8 and then he was raised by his father and his mother in the house of Ali and Fatima then he was with his father when his father moved from Medina to Kufa at that time Imam Hassan probably was in his mid 30s when his died when his father died about probably 37 or 38 years old and the Muslims the community of the Muslims they chose him and they elected him and they paid allegiance to him as the next caliph after the murder of his dad his father was died in the middle of the mosque when he was praying as we going to know about it in a couple of nights so the son succeeded the father but then there was a problem there was a governor all the way in Syria in a land called Shaan which is the ancient name of Syria and that governor did not pay allegiance to the new caliph Imam Hassan and he declared himself to be the caliph of the Muslim Ummah and that governor by the name of Muawiyah Ibn Abi-Sufyan probably was the most deceitful and deceiting and cunning leaders of all times he wrapped himself in the cloth of piety and religion but in fact he himself accepted religion by force he and his father Abu-Sufyan and he was very manipulative so he said he asked Imam Hassan that you have to surrender to me and I have to be the caliph knowing that the people paid allegiance to Imam Hassan as the next caliph for the Muslim Ummah he did not accept that Muawiyah did not accept that and he used two tools to fight the legitimate leadership two tools one of them is propaganda at that time there were no fox news and other news outlets so they would hire speakers speakers who are very good they master the art of speaking they are eloquent convincing they give them money and they ask them to say they ask them to fabricate they ask them to tell stories they ask them to falsely accuse this or that so they fabricate a story and they deliver it to the masses and the people would accept that the same role that some media has today they brainwash the population through these speakers and this is what Muawiyah did he hired certain people the names are mentioned in the books of history he would pay them money sometimes this money is you know high amount of money big amount of money and those people would say to the masses what the caliph what the leader wants them to say so this is one venue he would reach out to the people through those speakers that he hires the second tool of fighting the legitimate leadership was through military actions Muawiyah was in Syria at that time in Damascus and Muawiyah unfortunately was endorsed by the caliphs who were before him namely two caliphs Othman ibn Affan and before him Omar ibn al-Khattab Muawiyah was appointed to be the governor of Syria during the time of the second caliph Omar ibn al-Khattab and when Othman came to power became the caliph he would endorse him so for almost 20 years 20 years 2 full decades Muawiyah ibn al-Sofyan was the governor of Syria for 20 years so he threatened Imam Hassan the newly elected government which was at that time in Kufa in Iraq with military actions and he did, he invaded Iraq with his army from Syria they invaded Iraq and there were some casualties and some wars that I don't want you to I don't want to go through these things tonight that you can read them in the history there were many casualties and lots of bloodshed but Imam Hassan was keen to stop this bloodshed or even to prevent it from happening at the first place he didn't want to see division in the ummah in the community Muslims fighting other Muslims he didn't want to see this so Imam Hassan decided that the best way is to uncover this person this person is working in the name of Islam the best thing is to uncover him and to expose him so people would know exactly the nature of this man Muawiyah ibn al-Sofyan many people were misled by him through his media through his propaganda machine they were misled by him Imam Hassan decided that the best name is to tell the people the truth is to tell who this man is and what are his intentions his intention was to destroying the entire religion the entire Islamic faith he would misinterpret the verses of the Quran he would fabricate hadith sayings and a trick with them to the prophets false hadith they are not true he would hire some people who are good at producing hadith he would give them money go to the pulpit the mosque is packed with people and say this is what the prophet said while we know that Muawiyah he accepted Islam by force yes it is true the history of Islam we have some people who accepted Islam out of love and conviction and there are some people who accepted Islam by force they didn't like Islam but they had no choice one of them is Muawiyah read the details of how they converted to Islam they were pagans idol worshippers on the eighth year just a few months before the death of the prophet Prophet Muhammad they had to accept Islam by force they didn't believe Islam was the right religion they wanted to remain pagans and they looked at Prophet Muhammad as being their rival they didn't even recognize him as being a prophet they didn't recognize him it was so hard for Muawiyah and his father to accept this term this term it was so hard for them to accept it they didn't accept it but they had to they had no choice so such people who do not believe in Islam definitely would not come and serve Islam and they had the opportunity of seizing the you know the government and these high positions and they would impose their will on the people so this was the situation Imam Hassan he he faced he was faced with a very difficult to melt to us very painful years the last years of his life were very painful very painful until six months Imam Hassan was caliph only for six months by force he was expelled to sign the peace treaty with Muawiyah and Muawiyah becomes the caliph what a beautiful name the leader of the community of believers Muawiyah who had hard time to believe in God in the existence of God now he is and this title and this situation of Muawiyah is one of the Muslim countries today that claims that they are the leaders of all the Muslims but then you know what they do you know some of what they do to Islam I don't want to repeat that name of that country every night you know it read the newspapers so here Imam Al-Hassan went back from Kufa to Madin he decided to nurture the people to teach the people ignorance is the biggest disease people who surrender to Muawiyah to someone who is very cunning and deceiving and they accept him as a leader there is something wrong with that society that society is not healthy and that society wants to wake up and to learn and that society requires education and therapy and refinements so Imam Hassan decided to go and teach go and teach the people one of the fabrications against Imam Hassan which many people still say today even if you go to some Friday prayers at some mosque you see the Imam saying this this is a false hadith I am giving you an example of the false hadith that was created by Muawiyah himself what does he say he attributes to the prophet that the prophet said about Imam Hassan in نبني هذا سيد my son is a master ولعل الله يصلح به بين في اتاني عظيمة اتاني من المسلمين one day god is going to decide through him I can sign between two great groups of the Muslims who are these two great groups one of them the group of Imam Hassan himself and the other the group of Muawiyah Muawiyah was the one who fabricated this hadith to give legitimacy to himself to say I am a legitimate group see the prophet is saying about me I am a great group the prophet never said this hadith why did Muawiyah invent this hadith because Muawiyah in the battle of Sufine against Imam Ali the legitimate leader he murdered 70,000 he was the reason 70,000 Muslims were killed many of them are companions of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم صحابه they were companions and one of them was a leader among the companions and he was 97 years old when he was killed by Muawiyah his name is أمار ابن ياسر أمار ابن ياسر the prophet says about أمار ابن ياسر مرئ إيمان مرئه is full of faith from his head to his toe full of faith this man at the age of 97 was murdered by the army of Muawiyah in the battle of Sufine and he is buried in Syria he is buried there he was in the Syrian territory at that time so Muawiyah wanted to vindicate himself so he created this hadith but that hadith is not true that hadith is fabricated in fact when we read the history and investigate it is known does not help we have to investigate your job when you read the history you have to investigate you should be a researcher not just you read because many of these materials that you read it is not supported by evidence many of them were written by people who are hired just to write you have to research once you begin researching you find the truth so when we read about Muawiyah we find that the prophet and this is according to great Sunni who is the Hafil who is called Hafil no half of today when someone memorizes the Quran that this is not the actual meaning real meaning Hafil is the one who is transmitter the hadith of the prophet they call him Hafil so many of those transmitters of the hadith who are Sunnis such as in his book this is a a very important book in the Sunni tradition such as in his book such as in his book they say this hadith they narrate this hadith of the prophet he says if you see this man Muawiyah occupying my pulpit and speaking from my pulpit one day murder him murder him this is what the prophet said about Muawiyah so he cannot be either of a great nation or a great group he cannot this is fabrication حسن decided that the best thing is to reach out to the people people who are ignorant cannot succeed someone who is ignorant or a community that is ignorant cannot understand God cannot accomplish anything in this life cannot attain salvation and therefore cannot reach paradise paradise is not reachable through ignorance it is only reachable through reason when you use your app when you use your app this is where you have faith when she was telling us about these three verses many of you read the verses and pay attention to these secrets but when you reflect and you go deep down here you are going to trust God more and love God and here you are going to love the Quran and here you are going to have real faith not fake faith because you know God is the one who sent this book this is not the work of Muhammad Muhammad does not know about these things Muhammad did not know about these discoveries she only gave three examples there are three thousand examples scientific examples from this book not just medical all areas all areas from the galaxies to the small atom the Quran speaks about them these are facts so when we use our brain and our intellect we really reach God real God and we are going to have real faith but through ignorance we don't understand this book neither we understand God and therefore the faith is going to be fake not real Imam Hassan said I need to go back to the community and teach teach them through two things for elm knowledge and with knowledge what comes with knowledge help me with that huh and أحسنت أتعن الهوز that I am going to put it in another elm and something else ألن أخلاق أخلاق أخلاق ألم alone knowledge by itself does not function if you don't put it beside أخلاق manners this is what Ahl al-Bait incorporated in their life elm knowledge of hand in hand they work together if you take أخلاق from elm elm becomes only theories and if you take elm away from أخلاق أخلاق becomes only what rituals people pray rituals means they pray but it does not have content these are rituals but when you put when you put elm next to it أخلاق becomes faith through faith therefore he started helping reaching out to people through education and أخلاق and his well done for his generosity he was so generous إمام حسين is being defined within the family of the prophet as being كريم أهل البيت the most generous in the family of the prophet he is the most generous no person comes to him asking him anything and that person would go empty handed sometimes they say to him أو يقنى رسول الله إمام حسين maybe this person he has money he doesn't need he just wants to get more money he says yes I know sometimes he is not hungry maybe he has money but since he knocks at my door I would not return him empty handed I would not do that and he said one time this حديك he said إني لله سائل when they said to him we haven't seen you one day repelling repelling an inquirer when they come to you asking سائل means a beggar we never saw you shutting your door in their face he said because I am a beggar myself but to God I am begging him his mercy his forgiveness we are beggars we are sائل فأما ليتيم فلا تقهر و أما السائل و أما السائل فلا تنهر و أما بنعمة ربك فحد we are sائل for his mercy for his forgiveness for his bounties so he said I am myself I am asking God و أنا أستحي أن أكون سائل و أرد سائل I am too embarrassed that I am myself a beggar to God and when someone comes and begs I repell him I don't do that I don't do that one day story he was walking in Medina they recognized him he is the grandson of the Prophet out of respect for the Prophet they said to him أمام حسن come and have food with us he said of course I will so he left he went to the corner they were eating so he joined them he ate and then the following day he invited them to his house when he invited them to his house he said they are more generous than me they said how come he said because they gave me all their food everything they own they put it in front of me while I did not give them everything I own part of what I own this is a lesson for us real generous is not the one who gives you part sometimes he takes everything and he gives it to you this is real generous not the surplus not the surplus though I said today in the Friday prayers don't take your entire food and give it to someone else neither take your entire clothing and give it to someone else no Islam is not asking you to deprive yourself in order for you to give our share Islam says share take for yourself and if to others sharing so when someone has little and he is ready to give that little that is real generosity not when it is surplus and I don't know what to do with it like some people they have extra furniture they bring it to the masjid extra pair of shoes they bring it to the mosque extra clothing before they dump it in the trash they bring it to the masjid this is not generosity neither this is donation real donation real giving when you give what you love not what you want about to throw in the trash this is not many Muslims unfortunately they treat their masjid as dumpster this is how they treat it they don't have respect as Sameer said we have shoe rocks but go outside and see the shoes where are they go outside go in the lobby and see where is the adab in Islam after we eat after ourselves shouldn't we contribute shouldn't we help shouldn't we keep the masjid neat clean these are the manners of Islam where are we going to learn some people are not learning it's about teaching it's about education Islam should be quality religion not just religion quality religion Islam is not by numbers by quality it's not by quantity how many people we have I don't care how many even if they are 5 billion if we have 1 million who are organized and committed and dedicated they are much better than 5 billion and this is the wording of this book not me God says if there is 20 people who are organized among you and committed to their faith and to their Lord they are better than 200 persons people who are disorganized and if you have 100 people organized and committed they are better than 1,000 who are disorganized we Muslims we eat big numbers we don't have organization we don't we love numbers we get excited when we have big numbers Islam says equality quality is important let me conclude with what Imam Hassan said to someone who cursed him someone came from Syria full of hate this is what we face today in some societies tomorrow there are in many cities throughout the nation in America there is a march against Islam tomorrow Saturday organized by some Islamophobic in this country so someone came and he was yelling at the Imam in Medina he was cursing him imagine Imam is the grandson of the founder of Medina imagine someone comes to the son of George Washington and he curses him in the middle of Washington DC this is what used to happen they are the children of the prophet they cursed them they murdered them Imam Hussein was murdered by Muslim community by people who pray people who fast people who say these things happened and are happening now these things are still happening so this person comes to curse him listen to the answer of the Imam he was not angry Imam was not frustrated Imam was cool and he said to him أحسبك غريبا أيها الشيخ oh my old man شيخ means شيخ is a good title when you respect someone in the Arab culture you call him شيخ أحسبك غريبا I think you are a stranger you are from outside of town you are not one of the people of the city فإن كنت جائعا أشفقناك if you are hungry we would feed you or are you hungry if you need clothing we will cover you or if you are in need we will enrich you or if you are a fugitive we will give you shelter when this man hear this from the Imam he is cursing him and the Imam is returning the curse with love with shelter with compassion with a humanity he said to him أشهد أنك خليفة الله في أرضه الله أعلم حيث يجعله رسالته I bear witness that you are the caliph and representative of God on earth and God knows who chose for that leadership and then he said the following he said minutes before you and your father Ali were the most hated in my eyes now you switch this 180 degrees now you and your father Ali are the most most hated people to my heart this is a caliph this is a caliph my friend a caliph is magical creates magic turns people 180 degrees I remember a few months ago maybe last year some of the bikers in Arizona they decided to surround a mosque during Friday prayers and attack that mosque bikers who are wearing tattoos some of them carrying weapons and here many people they freaked out they decided not to go to the mosque to stay in the mosque but some leaders in that mosque they said when they come and they surround our mosque we will provide them with food and a drink and this is exactly what they did and those bikers they came with the intention of attacking, maligning cursing that when they saw food and a drink coming and some of them definitely they love kabab who does it to you smells good that's it it was diffused completely the anger went away they were busy eating a drink and they started smiling and this is a theory in this book اتفق بالله تهي احسن when someone is attacking you don't attack him back use a good method بالله تهي احسن use your intelligence use your love use your heart because some people are confused and some people are ignorant they think that you are here to destroy they don't know about you so when you show them love and compassion you diffuse that anger this is what we learn from رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم from إمام حسن and from the family of the prophet اللهم اخفر المؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات الأحياء منهم والأموات تابع لهم بيننا وبينهم الخيرات وعجل في فرج سيدنا ومولانا صاحب العصف والزمان أقول قولي هذا وأستخفر الله لي ولكم طيبين الطائرين