 أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا ونبينة محمد وأهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين اللهم صل على محمد وآله محمد my dear viewers wherever you are السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وضركاته the holy month of Ramadan is the best opportunity that we will be inspired by great personalities throughout history and who is better than الإمام الحسن عليه السلام when we speak of الإمام الحسن عليه السلام we have spoken of all virtues and goodness in the world because our imams are the embodiments of the holy Quran and they are the manifestations of God's attributes God is invisible we cannot see God however we see the traces of his mercy and his majesty throughout his work in nature in this universe for example when we look at the galaxies when we look at the stars and constellations and this wonderful space and this universe we come to realize the scope of his knowledge and wisdom when we find a tiny little warm underneath a big rock deep in the ocean searching for food and staying alive we recognize and appreciate the mercy and benevolence of God when we look at الإمام الحسن عليه السلام and his demeanor his legacy we come to appreciate the grace of God and his wonderful attributes because أهل البيت عليهم السلام are a small reflection of the attributes of the Lord of the Almighty therefore it is a great occasion in the holy month of Ramadan we try to be inspired by someone like الإمام الحسن عليه السلام throughout my discussion I will give a few examples of the attributes and demeanor of this great إمام الإمام الحسن عليه السلام had a title and the title is called كريم أهل البيت the generous the gracious of أهل البيت also there is another title that is called حليم أهل البيت the patient of أهل البيت one that applies to his ethics morality and the other one is to his grace and generosity the إمام عليه السلام was the most generous person you can see and you can imagine during his history he himself عليه السلام إن أحسن الحسن الخلق الحسن the best of best is the best demeanor the best attitude the pleasant attitude when you face the adversary why? because this is a beautiful attitude the nice attitude that you have toward others number one it gains you friendships you will gain more loyal friends it also make you gain admirers and most importantly it neutralizes the enemy if you have a better enemy with your demeanor with your attitude similar to the attitude of الإمام الحسن عليه السلام you will make that enemy neutralized in a famous story that are probably the most of audience have heard of is that when a man from Sham and Sham used to be the empire of Muawiyah who was the arc enemy the bitter enemy of أهل البيت عليه السلام especially عليه بن أبي طالب and his sons الإمام الحسن and الحسين he used to curse عليه بن أبي طالب and to propagate negative news and rumors against the household of the prophet so this man was brainwashed by the propaganda machine of Muawiyah he came to Medina and when he looked at the Imam with his companions in a majestic procession in a majestic entourage when this man looked at the Imam and they told him that this man is الحسن ابن علي he started cursing and using a profane language against the Imam the Imam kept quiet for a while then he said I have seen that you are brainwashed by the propaganda of Muawiyah but now if you need anything please tell us إن كنت لو سألتنا أعطيناك إن كنت جائعا أشبعناك if you need something and you ask us you will get the answer if you were hungry وإن كنت محتاجا أغنيناك if you are in need of cash we will get you the cash وإن كنت طريدا أعوينك if you are a fugitive we will get you a shelter فلو حركت رحلك إلينا وكنت ضيفا علينا why don't you take your belonging and become a guest to us and become a guest to his home the next day the man stood up in front of people and he said أشهد أنك خليفة الله في الأرض today I witness that you are the vice-gerent of God on the face of a planet not Muawiyah then this man said when I came to Medina I saw Ali and his son but now the most loving people that I have in mind is Ali and his son by the demeanor of Imam Al-Hasan the enemy not only have been neutralized rather has become a loyal to the Imam the reason is that the majority of people are brainwashed they can't see the truth the truth is concealed once we expose the truth to them in nice demeanor in good attitude they not only abandon their hostility in fact they become loyal to us the second story it says that one day the Imam was in Masjid Al-Haram and he was circling around the Kaaba and performing Tawaf of course his Tawaf was mustahab advisory not a mandatory one right at that time where the Imam was in the middle and engaged in prayers and supplications with the Almighty and in the middle of the Tawaf I told him I need you I request you to attend to my need the Imam broke his Tawaf and walked with this gentleman one of the followers of the Imam waited until the Imam came back he sarcastically told the Imam اذهبت مع ذفلان الى حاجته من دهب في حاجة أخيه المسلم فقضيت حاجته كتبت له حاجته حاجته حاجته حاجته حاجته حاجته حاجته حاجته حاجته حاجته كتبت له حجته وعمرا وإن لم تقضي له كتبت له عمر the Imam said if anyone goes with his brother with his brother Muslim brother to help him to assist him to resolve his problem if he could manage solving the problem then God would give him the rewards of two things a حجة the whole pilgrimage going to the house of Allah during the time of pilgrimage pilgrimage which is the حجة and an addition أعمرة meaning visiting the house of the Almighty in some other occasion he said if he could manage his need God will give him the reward for two items but if he could not God will give him a reward of the أعمرة even if this person is in the middle of طواب this is a great lesson to us brothers and sisters that at any moment at any circumstances if you are faced with a situation that you can extend to others regardless of their faith regardless of their ideology and background it is incumbent this is the advice this is the practical advice of our Imam is to extend our help to them the third example is his generosity when he use to give people today we live in a world that there is a huge difference and inequality between the rich people and those who have not this inequality causes disturbance in society it will make people who have not it makes them feeling resentment and animosity toward others and causes civil disturbance in society and sometimes wars among nations the fact that today there are millions of people starve have shortage in food this indicative of the moral corruption live in more than the economic crisis according to studies each day there are 10,000 children die from malnutrition the problem is that with our greed and stinginess not because there is not enough resources in the planet studies show that the planet can take up to 15 million 15 billion people there is enough resources to everybody but the problem is that it's not been divided equally among the people in the planet for example when you look at the world monetary fund IMF when they give loan they give it under very humiliating and strict conditioning to the point that they subjugate that nation they humiliate that state but look at the demeanor of Al-Hassan ibn Ali a man comes to him and ask him while in the middle of heat in the afternoon he ask the Imam with writing a piece of letter to the Imam and brings the letter forward to the Imam Al-Hassan takes the letter and immediately tells him that I will fulfill your need the people who were around him told him you did not even read what's in the letter he said yes but I fear that God that you have humiliated this person enough while you were reading his request the person was waiting in a humiliation and I didn't want him to wait in a humiliation I wanted to make him happy and relieve him so I immediately told him that your need will be fulfilled it is narrated سلام has divided his entire wealth two times half and half one half is for the almighty Allah and one for himself and two times that he gave away everything that he had in the way of Allah also it is narrated that one day he was walking in the streets of Medina when he passes by a farm that belonged to Abban ibn Taqlub who had a servant the servant was standing up eating piece of bread and giving one piece to the dog he would take one piece for himself and one piece to the observing dog who was sitting and watching the Imam told him why do you do this why do you share your food with this animal the servant said استحيت عينايا من عينايه وغالبه I felt very embarrassed that I eat two pieces of bread while I give him one I have to divide that into two pieces one for him one for me the Imam tells him stay there I beg you for the sake of God I ask you to stay where you are he goes to Abban ابن غالب and tells him can you sell me this farm the man tells him yes and told him can you sell me the servant the man told him yes you will have both the farm and the servant the Imam came and told the servant that number one you are free in the way of Allah second this farm is also belong to you this is the generosity of the Imam look how the Imam was so passionate toward a servant of some fellow what about us we should be so helpful hopeful of the generosity of the Imam who are we are the proud followers of the Imam we hope that he will not forget us in the day of judgment and extend his generosity to all of us يا خالغان غير مخلوق يا ملكان غير مملوك يا قاهران غير مقه يا رافعان غير مرفو يا حافظان غير محفو يا ناصران غير منصور يا شاهران غير منصور يا شاهدان يا قريبان سبحانك يا لا خلصنا من النار يا نور يا منوران يا خالقان يا مدبران يا مقدران يا نوران كل نور يا نوران قبل كل نور يا نوران بعدا كل نور يا نوران فوقا كل نور يا نوران ليسك مثله سبحانك يا لا خلصنا من النار يا من عطاؤه الشري يا من فعله لطي يا من لطفه مقي يا من حسان قدي يا من قوله حق يا من وعده صدق يا من عفه فاضل يا من عذابه عادل يا من ذكره يا من حلوه عمي سبحانك يا لا خلصنا من النار الكوان دعا جوشن الكبير سوف نفتح سيغمنس 46 47 48 سيغمنس 46 سيغمنس 46 سيغمنس 46 سيغمنس 46 سيغمنس unlike لا أمر عليك لا أولاد notSide notSide notSide notSide NotSide notSide notSide notSide notSide notSide المخفض who is not created master and not the slave all dominant who is not dominated exalted and the exalted protector who needs no protection helper who needs no help witness who is not absent نير who is not distant I stopped at this beautiful statement or phrase يا صانعا غيرا مصنوع يا خالقا غيرا مخلوق Oh the fabricator, the fashioner, the designer who was not designed The creator who is not created Let's talk about science a little bit The agnostics, the materialists They talked about the origin of this universe Versus the origin of God if God exists in their eyes When they talk about this universe They used to claim that this universe doesn't have an origin And will not have an end It's a primordial universe Why? Because it's very convenient to claim that way Because that will remove the condition and the necessity of the creator of this universe If you would say who's the creator of this universe They tell you there is no creator because the universe is a perpetual It's an everlasting It was from the beginning and didn't have a beginning and start And it will not have an end That was their notion Until 1929 When their claim received a fatal blow At the hand of an astronomer And a cosmologist Under name of Edwin Hubble Edwin Hubble in 1929 Have demonstrated that the universe is expanding Is getting bigger and bigger When he focused at the receding lights of the constellations Galaxies and stars that were moving away from our system Imagine when you see in the darkness A faint light When this faint light starts to increase in density That is telling you something That that object is approaching you On the other side When the light loses intensity It means that this object is becoming farther and farther away from you That's what Edwin Hubble has experienced He showed that the lights of those galaxies and stars Are receding Getting fainter and fainter from the eyes of the planet Of our planet Which means that they are taking a very long distance Which means also that at one point in the past They were all converged together Then they started to separate And this is the hypothesis that came for the Big Bang The Big Bang Model was introduced at that time That the universe was tiny, little, dark With so much power, energy and heat Extremely hot spot All of a sudden it expanded And then constellations started to diverge from each other Meaning that the universe had an origin The minute you say that the universe has an origin You should ask how did it happen And who did it started There must be a cause for it Why? Because there is a law That is called law of causality Meaning that there must be a cause and effect Anything that takes place in this universe Cannot happen by itself There must be an explanation to it There must be a cause in it This is a logical mathematical law The cause and effect So the moment you say that the universe Has started and had an origin The question is who originated this Scientists say that that moment Before the expansion used to be called The point of singularity Where energy, time and space were together And then all of a sudden it spread Well, a tiny dot cannot expand Without a force and power being exerted in it And who did that An entity that were so powerful Super power That itself was not material That was not created from any material Outside of the realm of this point of singularity Cannot be contained by space, time and energy And matter This is what the scientists are saying today Whatever has caused the universe Is beside the point It's outside of the point of singularity And that is the almighty When you look at the elegant words Of علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام When he talks about the attributes of God He says God does not have a limit You cannot describe any feature of God ولا وقت معدود ولا أجل الممدود God is outside of time and space These are the words God was ever witnessing Witnessing to everything that took place This is segment number 46 Segment number 47 is to enlighten heart Where it says Light of light Illuminator of light A creator of light Planner of light Estimator of light Light of all light Light that precedes in existence Every light that will survive All light, light That is above every light Light of which there is no light Light is a natural agent That stimulates sight And make things visible to our eyes Maybe we have excellent eyes We have 20 over 20 vision But we cannot see with our eyes Why? Because there is one factor that is missing And that is light You must have to have light In order to see things Therefore it's an agent of visibility Visibility cannot find a place And cannot materialize without light Light means figuratively everything Why? Because you will see everything Through your eyes when there is light Darkness means oblivion Means nothing God is the light of this universe Meaning that everything is contained by God Everything is brought by God He contains everything And He is the origin of everything Light resembles everything Darkness resembles oblivion And nothingness Those who are disbelievers They will end up in nothingness As the ayah says Those who are disbelievers Their leaders will take them From light toward darkness Meaning toward oblivion Toward nothingness That's a segment number 47 And segment number 48 Is to get rid of illness Where it says in number 48 ياماً عفوه فضل ياماً عذابه عدل ياماً ذكره حلوان ياماً فضله عميل The word ياماً وعده صد His promise is an absolute truth He fulfills the promise One of the greatest attributes of the Almighty Is fulfilling his promise He makes good on his promises And he loves people who make good On their promises In fact the Almighty appraises one of his Prophets and messengers The great messenger اسماعيل He says that And he mentions in the book اسماعيل إنه كان صادق الوعد وكان رسول النبي He mentioned and appraises اسماعيل Who is before anything else Used to make good On his promise صادق الوعد Then he said That he was a messenger And a prophet of God And for this equality Of being صادق الوعد Truthful and promising To fulfill his promises Is the greatest thing It's something very sought after It is narrated that one day He promised a man to wait for him At a certain spot Of the street in the town The next day When they were supposed to meet اسماعيل went into that spot And waited The man didn't show up For one day He didn't show up For the second day He didn't show up Until the third day Three days The man didn't show up While اسماعيل Was fixated at that place Because the man has totally forgotten About the appointment When he saw رفت اسماعيل اسماعيل told him If you have not showed up I would have stayed there Until I would die This is how much اسماعيل Used to honor his promise This is a wonderful trade Of punctuality You have an order To preserve your time And save your time And utilize your time You have to be punctual Start at a certain point And end at a certain point Why? Because time is very valuable Another important point About the fulfilling of promises And being trustworthy And trustful Is that we should be A role model to others Especially to our kids Our kids would look at us As their role models If we break our promises And we have a breeding A culture of hypocrisy Those children will learn How to break their promises And how to lie And this will affect their future This will affect their lives Sometimes the parents are appalled On the way that their children Twist realities And do things While posing to And saying otherwise The problem is that Those kids, those children Have learned it from their parents While there is so much Admonishment and exhortation On people to make good On their promise Especially when you promise Your kids You buy them something Or you do something good Or you take them to somewhere You have to fulfill that promise Otherwise you will engender hypocrisy And insincerity Within your own family Tomorrow, those little children Will be the leaders of the nation And if the nation will be Misled as due to our action So many years before that incident We didn't teach them well Because we didn't make them Fulfill their promises May Allah SWT Guide us And give us the power And the ability To follow through his Wonderful attributes والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته او كمال Direct your people to go out In the day To achieve noble trades And to go out in the night To meet the needs of those Who might be sleeping For I swear by him Whose hearing extends to all voices If ever someone pleases another heart Allah will create a special thing Out of this pleasing So that whenever any hardship Befalls him It will come running like flowing water And drive away the hardship As wild camels are driven away