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[Ali Mahdi]

Imam Hasan (AS), the Manifestation of the Divine Blessings

Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba (AS) was one of those outstanding personalities whose individual and social facets can be an incomparable guide for the treaders of the path of humanity. His outstanding characteristics were his forgiveness and compassion which have been widely quoted on by historians. In a narration on this subject, it has been revealed that a person went up to Imam Hasan (AS) and made some demands. The Imam (AS) asked for his need to be written and brought to him. When it was brought, the Imam (AS) gave him twice as much as he had asked for.

Some other virtuous qualities of Imam Hasan (AS) were his patience and forbearance as well as avoidance of hypocrisy and having “a holier than thou attitude.”

In this regard too, there are several narrations, one of which we quote as an example below:

It is quoted that a man from Syria had said: “One day I saw a man in Medina who had a tranquil and extremely beautiful countenance and wore the most beautiful clothes and was astride a mule who had been decorated in a beautiful manner. I asked: “Who is this man?”

They replied: “He is Hasan ibn ‘Ali ibn Abu Taleb (AS).” A seething rage overtook me from head to toe and as a result I felt jealous of ‘Ali ibn Abu Taleb (AS) for having such a son.

So I went up to him and enquired: “Are you the son of Abu Taleb?” He answered: “I am the offspring of his son.”

In a rage, I let out a flood of abuses and slander at him. After I had finished abusing him, he asked me if I was a stranger. To which I replied in the positive. Then he asked me to go along with him and that he would arrange a place for me to stay if I didn’t have one; and that if I didn’t have money, he would help me out. Also if I was in need, he would me make self-sufficient.

When I had separated from him, there was no one on earth who was more beloved to me than Imam Hasan ibn ‘Ali (AS).

On the religious role of Imam Hasan (AS), besides the fact that he was a means for the succession of the Household of the Prophet (S) and was responsible for the transfer of the works of the Messenger of God (S) (and of whom the Sunni school of thought also narrate in praise of his jurisprudence), his most important work must be considered to be the compilation of the Book of Traditions (ahadith).

It has been narrated that Imam Hasan (AS) had stated to his children and his brother (AS) that:

“Today you are the infants of one nation who will in a short time become the elders of a great nation. Partake knowledge, and if you cannot then maintain and narrate it. Write it down and place it in your home.”

At times, Imam Hasan (AS) would be the authority for solving certain intricate problems which some people would ask of Mu’awiyah, and which he, in spite of the presence of narrators and scholars in his court, would be unable to answer and would finally refer to Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba (AS).

Imam Hasan (AS) sacrificed what he could, even though he had earlier said: “I am the grandson of the one who brought the good news. I am the grandson of the warner. I am the grandson of the man who, with God’s permission, summoned the people to God. I am the grandson of the light which shone out to the world. I am the House from whom God has sent away abomination and whom God has required love in His Book (Quran), when God, the Most High, said: Say, “I don’t ask you for any reward except love for my kin. Whoever earns good, will increase good for himself,” [3:3]. The good is love for us, the House.”

[Dar'ul_Islam]

As-salaamu`alayka Ya Hasan ibnu `Ali, Ya al-Mujtaba...!

[A_Ali]

unfortunately many many many brothers and sisters don't know the great sacrifice the imam made for us, the amount he had to bear, his records and hadiths have been destroyed like many of the imams, i just wish that people would acknowledge him as a caliph and not as a man who was the target of propaganda. many sunnis dont even achnoedge him as a caliph, look into history, the sunni first rashudun caliph,then ummayad and in many places they hide the fact that he was a caliph

[Zahra'a khalil]

thanks for psting

[asdfgh]

Subhanallah.

Thanks for posting!