Imam Hasan: The Blossoming of Grandeur

🌼🔆🌼Valayat Hasaniyya Residence🌼🔆🌼
🔹 The evening of the birth of Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba, peace be upon him
📅 Date: 1403/12/27 – 15 Ramadan 1446
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some of the topics discussed during the session:

🌙 Peace be upon you, O son of the Commander of the Faithful; peace be upon you, O beloved of God.

Congratulations on the birth of Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba, peace be upon him, to the celestial beings of the universe, accompanied by the melodious invocation of blessings upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad.

🔆 Hasan, the inner meaning of the Lamp of the Verse of Light

Imam Hasan is light; he is the Lamp, the inner meaning of the Verse of Light. Hasan is that Hasan upon whose goodness the heavens and the earth were founded. God has raised up the backbone of all existence through Hasan.

💎 A person’s worth lies in their goodness

A saying of the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him: “The worth of each person is measured by what they deem excellent.” If we hold Hasan in our hearts, our worth will rise beyond all measure.

🌓 From sighting to beholding Hasan

Is there anyone who has understood the first glimpse of Hasan? Who has discovered the grandeur of Hasaniyya and beheld its beauty and majesty? Do we know that this world has a Hasan?

💰 Hasan, God’s treasure for His creation

Where Hasan is present, there is no room for poverty in this world—not material poverty, nor poverty of thought. Hasan is a divine treasure, God’s capital for His creatures. If we catch the fragrance of Hasan, it will lead us to the nectar of the divine flower.

🌿 Life is beautiful only through Hasan

We may not know it, but we live through Hasan. A world without Hasan has no beauty.

✨ The manifestation of Hasaniyya, a prelude to the manifestation of God’s Proof

When will we reach the manifestation of Hasaniyya? Just as God’s final Proof is hidden from us, Hasan too is hidden in our time. Before the manifestation of the Proof, we must attain the manifestation of Imam Hasan, peace be upon him, within our souls and our understanding.

🌳 Knowledge of Hasaniyya, a bridge to knowing the Proof

We imagine that we can come to know the Imam of our time without knowing Imam Hasan, but that is not so. Hasan is the main trunk of the tree of prophethood. If we do not reach the root, we will never reach the branches and leaves. To forget Hasan is to forget ourselves and to forget God, for Hasan is the most beautiful and exalted sign of God’s beauty.

🔍 Lost in ignorance

If a person loses beauty and love, they have lost their mother and the sights of this world. Whoever loses knowledge loses their way and becomes a grave. Anyone who loses their Hasan and does not know that they possess a Hasan will wander in the confusion of ignorance.

💖 The path to divine love passes through Hasan

Everyone longs to experience love, but without knowledge of Hasaniyya, they cling only to the dust of this world and find no path to divine love. The secret of this love lies along the path of God’s Proofs, and Hasan is one such path.

🌍 The world of Hasaniyya is within us

We carry a world within our souls, a world called Hasaniyya. One of the greater realms is the realm of Hasan. We must journey through this world of Hasaniyya within ourselves, take flight with it, spread our wings toward God, and know God through the Hasan of our souls, loving Him through it. Otherwise, we will be left behind.

🔑 Uncovering the mysteries of Hasaniyya: the gateway to knowing God

To uncover the mysteries of Hasaniyya, we must take refuge in the Creator of Hasan and beseech Him wholeheartedly to make Hasan known to us. When we say اللهم عرفنی حجتک, one of God’s Proofs is Hasan. He is one of the roots of knowing God’s Proof. Until we reach him, we remain distant from God’s mystery.

We have a heart called *the Heart of Hasaniyya*; with this heart, we must feel love, experience its ardour, and turn toward God. This heart is the Kaaba of our Hasaniyya, which we must build.

📖 Imam Hasan: An Interpretation of the Clear Book**

Each of the Imams is God’s Clear Book. Hasan, too, is one of the inner dimensions of the Quran, a gate among the gates of the City of Knowledge. Imam Hasan is the Gate of God: the place where one encounters God, the abode of knowledge of God.
Hasan is the innate nature of our souls, our pure monotheism. We must discover and bring him to light. If we do not, we will be blind to Imam Hasan, for Hasan is the very eye of God that sees. Without him, we will have no way to the knowledge of God.

🕊 Experiencing Hasan’s Life: Supporting Imam Hasan

How can we be held in the arms of knowledge and yet remain ignorant? This is a great calamity! We must experience Hasan’s life and support the Hasan within us, so that he may awaken.
If we entrust ourselves to Imam Hasan, we have in truth come to the aid of God’s religion. Imam Hasan’s period of imamate in this world has ended, but his authority is eternal. Through him, we will experience many forms of life.

🌟 Imam Hasan and the Secret of the Cloak: A Life Beyond Time

Imam Hasan is the pearl of the Prophet’s household, one of the People of the Cloak. Whoever is not beneath the Cloak has no existence at all.
All God’s servants who live in true life dwell beneath the shade of this divine canopy. We need only experience it above us and within our hearts to understand the blessed life on Hasan’s path.

📖 Lessons in Wilayah and the Test of the City of Knowledge

We must learn the lessons of wilayah from beginning to end, for this world is a prelude and an entrance exam for the realm of reality. If our point of entry is truthfulness, our destination, too, will be truthfulness.
🔹 The Imams are the gates of the City of Knowledge**; if we do not know the gate of Hasan, we will never reach the gate of Husayn or the gates of Husayn’s descendants. This is a truth we must grasp.
🔹 **A person will never be satiated unless they draw sustenance from the Infinite. Until they partake of the light of wilayah, they will remain thirsty and chase after mirages.

🌟 Imam Hasan’s Place in Creation and the Veil of Grandeur

🔹 Allah placed the light of Muhammad (PBUH) behind twelve veils**; this is a profoundly mysterious idea. The light of Muhammad is like a seed that must be planted in the heart of the earth to blossom.
🔹 **The light of Muhammad (PBUH) was first confined for twelve thousand years within the “Veil of Power.” It is thought that this Veil of Power is none other than Amir al-Mu’minin Ali (AS).
🔹 Then the light of Muhammad was transferred to the “Veil of Grandeur,” where it remained for eleven thousand years. This Veil of Grandeur is the station of Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba (AS).

🌱 The Blossoming of Muhammad’s Light in Creation

🔹 Allah planted the light of Muhammad (PBUH) and placed it within the veils. This light remained for twelve thousand years in one veil, then eleven thousand years in another.
🔹 After twelve thousand years, this divine planting blossomed, and the beauty of Ali (AS) appeared.
🔹 The veils were stages in the perfection of Muhammad’s light, until that light manifested in existence.

These lessons show us the reality of wilayah and Imam Hasan’s (AS) place in the order of creation. To know Hasan is to know God’s light; it is to know the Gate of God.

🌿 Imam Hasan (AS) and the Place of Reflection in Knowing God

🔹 Why was Imam Hasan named Hasan?
Because it was through God’s benevolence that the heavens and the earth were raised up. Hasan is that very beauty which emerged from divine light, from which the Tablet and the Pen were created. Yet Hasan is greater than the Tablet and the Pen!

🔹 Reflection is the Father and Mother of All Goodness
Imam Hasan (AS) advises:
📜 “I urge you to be mindful of God and to persevere in reflection, for reflection is the father and mother of all goodness.”
✨ All beauty and goodness are the children of reflection. When reflection grows in the garden of noble character, it bears the fruits of goodness.

📖 “Whoever knows God falls in love with Him; whoever knows the world turns away from it.”
🔹 Knowledge of God is the means to divine love.
🔹 Until we know Imam Hasan (AS), how can we understand God’s Hasan-like love?

💡 Imam Hasan’s Warning to the Faithful about Distraction and Heedlessness

🔹 A believer does not occupy himself with frivolity. But when he becomes heedless, he slips into it without even realizing it!
🔹 When he reflects, he grieves that he has been caught up in frivolity and heedlessness.

📜 “Whoever knows God falls in love with Him.”
🔹 Knowledge of God is the means to love Him; and this knowledge can be attained only through knowing the Imams (AS).

✨ Without knowing Imam Hasan (AS), it is impossible to attain divine love!

✨ The believer’s light and his place in divine wilayah ✨

🔹 Kissing the place of light on a believing brother’s forehead
Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba (AS) says:
📜 “When one of you meets his believing brother, he should kiss the place of light on his forehead.”

🔆 Why? Because a believer is a source of light! A fountain of light streams from his forehead. The believer’s forehead is a place of divine light, worthy of a kiss.

🔹 Imam al-Sadiq (AS), addressing one of his sons, said:
📜 “Why don’t you have a place of light like your brother does?”
🔹 Light is a sign of faith. The faithful bear light on their foreheads, and the inhabitants of heaven recognize them by it.

📖 “The believer moves among five places of light: his entrance, his exit, his knowledge, his speech, and his return—all are toward the light.”
✨ The inhabitants of heaven see the believer’s light just as the people of earth see the stars in the sky!

🌿 The believer is created from light and mercy

🔹 Imam al-Rida (AS) says:
📜 “The Almighty Lord created the believer from His light and blended him with mercy, then took from him the covenant of wilayah.”

🔆 So what follows from this?
🔹 The believer’s father is light.
🔹 The believer’s mother is mercy.

✨ The believer is one who carries divine light and mercy within his soul and is imbued with wilayah.

🌟 The believer’s rank, the light of wilayah, and the divine race 🌟

🔹 The believer is immersed in God’s light!
📜 “The Almighty Lord created the believer from His light and blended him with mercy, then took from him the covenant of wilayah.” (Imam al-Rida (AS))

🔆 So what is the believer’s lineage?
🔹 The believer’s father is light.
🔹 The believer’s mother is mercy.

✨ In short, the believer is born of divine light and mercy, and wilayah completes this light.

🔹 Beware the insight of a believer, for he sees by God’s light!
📜 “By God, the divine light is the Imams (AS)—the very light that flows through the heavens and the earth!” (Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba (AS))

🔹 How are the hearts of believers illuminated?
📜 “O Abu Khalid! The light of the Imamate in the hearts of believers is brighter than the sun at midday. When God veils His light, their hearts are plunged into darkness!”

✨ So kissing the place of light on a believer’s forehead means kissing the light of the Imamate.

🔹 Ramadan is the arena of a divine race! 🏇
📜 “God has indeed made the month of Ramadan a racecourse for His servants, so that they may compete with one another in obedience to Him.” (Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba (AS))

🔹 What is the outcome of this race?
✅ Some surged ahead and triumphed!
❌ Others fell short and were disgraced!

🔆 Imam Hasan (AS) says:
📜 “How astonishing—utterly astonishing! How can people be engrossed in frivolity and laughter on the very day when the righteous receive their reward?!”

✨ If the veils were lifted, we would see the righteous rejoicing in their good deeds, while sinners struggle with the consequences of theirs!

🔹 The swift steed wins the divine race! 🏇
📜 “The month of Ramadan is a racetrack. The winning horse is the one made lean by the intensity of its effort and movement.”

🔆 So what should we do?
📜 “تَخَفَّفُوا تَلْحَقُوا!” (Lighten your load, and you will reach your destination!) — Imam Ali (AS)

✨ Let us travel light and let go of the world, so we can hasten along the path of nearness to God!