Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼The world has been adorned with Hasan’s beauty🌼
🌼The vast geography of Hasan🌼
🌸🔆🌿 Our beloved Hasan: “The grace and sweetness of the blessed month of Ramadan, Hasan”
🔅🌹 A summary with supplement from the “Meshkat-e Noor gathering” “The Imam of Beauty,” on the night of the birth of Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba, peace be upon him 1402.01.16 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🔅🌸 اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ إِحْسَانِكَ بِأَحْسَنِهِ وَ كُلُّ إِحْسَانِكَ حَسَنٌ اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ بِإِحْسَانِكَ كُلِّه🔅🌸
🌹🔅 When the Divine will ordained Hasan’s creation, heaven and earth took on their beauty 🔅🌹
🌹🔅 The world of the spirit flourishes through Hasan’s beauty 🔅🌹
🌹🔅 Blessed be the world’s most generous birth 🔅🌹
🔅🌸 The salt of creation
☘️🔅 If beauty is lost, the world loses its grace and sweetness;
☘️🔅 Without beauty, the eye can no longer open; blindness would be better than sight, deafness better than hearing, and muteness better than speech. A heart that is absent would be better than one that remains.
☘️🔅Pleasure finds meaning in beauty. Without beauty—or if we are deprived of it—pleasure, too, falls silent.
☘️🔅Failing to recognize beauty is worse than losing it. Beauty is there, but without recognition there is no eye to see it, no heart to feel it.
☘️🔅Creation’s flavor lies in beauty. The desire to go on living rests on the hope of beauty; without it, death is better than life.
☘️🔅Where is the Hasan who is our very soul? To seek Hasan in the heart is to behold Hasan in creation, in the realm and the heavens,
🔅🌸 The stature of Hasan’s beauty
☘️🔅قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص سُمِّيَ الْحَسَنُ حَسَناً لِأَنَّ بِإِحْسَانِ اللَّهِ قَامَتِ السَّمَاوَاتُ وَ الْأَرْضُ وَ الْحَسَنُ مُشْتَقٌّ مِنَ الْإِحْسَانِ وَ عَلِيٌّ وَ الْحَسَنُ اسْمَانِ [مُشْتَقَّانِ] مِنْ أَسْمَاءِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَ الْحُسَيْنُ تَصْغِيرُ الْحَسَن
☘️🔅Without Hasan, the creation of the heavens and the earth would fall apart.
☘️🔅Where is Hasan in creation?! The Creator of existence has woven creation through and through with Hasan’s beauty; without it, the world would collapse.
☘️🔅If we look into the world of our spirit, we find that every level of the soul that stands firm does so through Hasan’s beauty.
☘️🔅The more brightly the Hasan within us shines, the greater our soul’s beauty and the taller our stature!
☘️🔅Imam Hasan, peace be upon him, is a great divine mystery. The lover, follower and knower of Hasan’s station is a treasury of the innermost mysteries, for within their own soul they bear the secrets of beauty.
☘️🔅وَ الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ سَيِّدَا شَبَابِ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّة
☘️🔅A heart suffused with love, devotion and knowledge of Hasan is a paradise of beauty.
☘️🔅To be with Hasan is to dwell in Paradise.
☘️🔅We are with Hasan, and Hasan is with us: we are in Paradise, and Paradise is within our souls.
☘️🔅 قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِي أُنْذِرْتُمْ وَ بِعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع اهْتَدَيْتُمْ وَ قَرَأَ إِنَّما أَنْتَ مُنْذِرٌ وَ لِكُلِّ قَوْمٍ هادٍ وَ بِالْحَسَنِ أُعْطِيتُمُ الْإِحْسَانَ وَ بِالْحُسَيْنِ تَسْعَدُونَ وَ بِهِ تَشْقَوْنَ أَلَا وَ إِنَ الْحُسَيْنَ بَابٌ مِنْ أَبْوَابِ الْجَنَّةِ مَنْ عَادَاهُ حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ رَائِحَةَ الْجَنَّةِ
🔅🌸 Hasan’s beauty
☘️🔅Imam Hasan is the most perfect vessel of divine beneficence. To forget Hasan is to be deprived of divine grace.
☘️🔅If we make Imam Hasan, peace be upon him, the heart of our being, our existence will become a fountainhead of beauty.
☘️🔅Imam Hasan, peace be upon him, is the everlasting treasure of divine grace.
☘️🔅The deeper our understanding of Imam Hasan, peace be upon him, the greater our share in divine grace.
☘️🔅 قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنَا وَارِدُكُمْ عَلَى الْحَوْضِ وَ أَنْتَ يَا عَلِيُّ السَّاقِي وَ الْحَسَنُ الذَّائِدُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ الْآمِرُ وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْفَارِضُ وَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ النَّاشِرُ وَ جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ السَّائِقُ وَ مُوسَى بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ مُحْصِي الْمُحِبِّينَ وَ الْمُبْغِضِينَ وَ قَامِعُ الْمُنَافِقِينَ وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُوسَى مُزَيِّنُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ مُنْزِلُ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ فِي دَرَجَاتِهِمْ وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ خَطِيبُ شِيعَتِهِ وَ مُزَوِّجُهُمُ الْحُورَ [الْعِينَ] وَ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ سِرَاجُ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ يَسْتَضِيئُونَ بِهِ وَ الْقَائِمُ شَفِيعُهُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ حَيْثُ لَا يَأْذَنُ اللَّهُ إِلَّا لِمَنْ يَشاءُ وَ يَرْضى
☘️🔅Imam Hasan, peace be upon him, is the defender, guide and leader at the Pool of Kawthar. He protects the Shi‘a and knows the ways of Kawthar. He leads us to a world of joy, beauty and mysteries. Without Hasan, we are defenseless, helpless and wounded; we are denied a taste of the drink from the Pool of Kawthar, and our souls are weak and lame.
☘️🔅The special role and effects of Imam Hasan’s guardianship and imamate will become clearer in the higher worlds. If we do not reach Hasan in this world, we will not find him in the next. Our eyes must be illumined by Hasan’s light and gain true sight, so that we may travel the straight path swiftly and radiantly.
☘️🔅الحديد : 13 يَوْمَ يَقُولُ الْمُنافِقُونَ وَ الْمُنافِقاتُ لِلَّذينَ آمَنُوا انْظُرُونا نَقْتَبِسْ مِنْ نُورِكُمْ قيلَ ارْجِعُوا وَراءَكُمْ فَالْتَمِسُوا نُوراً فَضُرِبَ بَيْنَهُمْ بِسُورٍ لَهُ بابٌ باطِنُهُ فيهِ الرَّحْمَةُ وَ ظاهِرُهُ مِنْ قِبَلِهِ الْعَذابُ
☘️🔅We must draw as much as we can from the lights of our Imams in this world: their sweetness and their drink, their teachings, virtues, radiance and guardianship, so that in the abode of eternity they may be the shining sun that lights our way on the journey to God. Let us journey within this halo of light; to be deprived of Hasan’s light is to be deprived of all divine light.
☘️🔅On the Day of Alast, and even before it, we pledged ourselves to Hasan. Let us reopen that pledge and review it. How many covenants of devotion to Hasan have we broken without even knowing it?
☘️🔅What, then, is this covenant with Hasan? If we do not remember it, we have reason to fear that we are breaking it. Forgetfulness is the clearest sign of a broken covenant. If the blossoms, fruit and honeyed sweetness of our souls have not been filled by him, then we have become separated from Hasan. A branch cut off from its root is a branch cut off from life.
☘️🔅 َ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ: يَا عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ أَنْتُمْ أَصْحَابِي وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ مِنِّي وَ أَنَا مِنْ عَلِيٍّ فَمَنْ قَاسَهُ بِغَيْرِهِ فَقَدْ جَفَانِي وَ مَنْ جَفَانِي [فَقَدْ] آذَانِي وَ مَنْ آذَانِي فَعَلَيْهِ لَعْنَةُ رَبِّي يَا عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى أَنْزَلَ عَلَيَّ كِتَاباً مُبِيناً وَ أَمَرَنِي أَنْ أُبَيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ مَا نَزَّلَ إِلَيْهِمْ مَا خَلَا عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَإِنَّهُ (يَسْتَغْنِي عَنِ الْبَيَانِ إِنَّ) اللَّهَ تَعَالَى جَعَلَ فَصَاحَتَهُ كَفَصَاحَتِي وَ دِرَايَتَهُ كَدِرَايَتِي وَ لَوْ كَانَ الْحِلْمُ رَجُلًا لَكَانَ عَلِيّاً ع وَ لَوْ كَانَ الْفَضْلُ شَخْصاً لَكَانَ الْحَسَنَ ع وَ لَوْ كَانَ الْحَيَاءُ صُورَةً لَكَانَ الْحُسَيْنَ ع وَ لَوْ كَانَ الْحُسْنُ (هَيْئَةً لَكَانَتْ) فَاطِمَةَ [بَلْ هِيَ أَعْظَمُ إِنَّ فَاطِمَةَ ع] ابْنَتِي خَيْرُ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ عُنْصُراً وَ شَرَفاً وَ كَرَماً.
☘️🔅Hasan’s distinction lies in his grace. Whoever wishes to witness the overflowing of mercy, generosity and beneficence should turn their gaze to Hasan. Through Hasan, we are granted God’s grace and generosity, and attain more than anything else could offer us!
☘️🔅Imam Hasan, peace be upon him, means a realm beyond mercy, love and generosity. Imam Hasan, peace be upon him, means beyond the bounds of what is known—into the unknown. The innermost secret.
☘️🔅Our need for Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba, peace be upon him, is greater in this age than at any other time.
☘️🔅Knowledge of and loving devotion to Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba, peace be upon him, are prerequisites for knowing the Imam of our time, peace be upon him. The Imam of our time, peace be upon him, inherits prophethood and imamate; among these inheritances are the trusts entrusted to Imam Hasan.
☘️🔅 Before the appearance, we must uncover the Imams’ mysteries, including the mysteries of Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba, peace be upon him.
☘️🔅 The life and imamate of Imam Hasan, peace be upon him, were not in vain. The spirit of his imamate has been breathed into the world and lives within us. Hasan’s way of life must give life to our souls; our souls must undergo Hasan-like transformation.
☘️🔅 Perhaps, at the time of Imam Hasan’s return, peace be upon him, his lovers and Shi‘a from different eras will stand at his side.
☘️🔅 At the time of his return, his imamate’s majesty will be made manifest. In his own time, because of the ignorance of the age, Imam Hasan, peace be upon him, was hidden from people’s understanding. When his blessed return comes, the greatness of his being will be revealed, and the wonders and traces of his blessed soul will come to light.
☘️🔅 The mysteries of Imam Hasan, peace be upon him, are not hidden from his sincere Shi‘a; rather, they are entirely ready to be put into practice.
☘️🔅 Imam Hasan, peace be upon him, has stored his mysteries in the heart of the earth, and the engineers of Hasan’s mines are bringing them to the surface!
☘️🔅 Whoever does not know his Hasan will not understand the Proof of the Age either. To be disloyal to Hasan is to be disloyal to the Mahdi.
☘️🔅 The blessed month of Ramadan has been doubly adorned by the birth of Imam Hasan, peace be upon him. The spirit of beauty is mingled with love. Imam Hasan is the jewel of the blessed month.
☘️🔅 Beauty has no home but in Hasan.
☘️🔅 The charm of the blessed month of Ramadan is Hasan.
☘️🔅 عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: كُنْتُ جَالِساً بَيْنَ يَدَيِ النَّبِيِّ ص ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ وَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ عَلِيٌّ وَ فَاطِمَةُ وَ الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ إِذْ هَبَطَ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع وَ مَعَهُ تُفَّاحَةٌ فَحَيَّا بِهَا النَّبِيَّ ص فَتَحَيَّا بِهَا النَّبِيُ ص وَ حَيَّا بِهَا عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَتَحَيَّا بِهَا عَلِيٌّ وَ قَبَّلَهَا وَ رَدَّهَا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَتَحَيَّا بِهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ حَيَّا بِهَا الْحَسَنَ فَتَحَيَّا بِهَا الْحَسَنُ وَ قَبَّلَهَا وَ رَدَّهَا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَتَحَيَّا بِهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ حَيَّا بِهَا الْحُسَيْنَ فَتَحَيَّا بِهَا الْحُسَيْنُ وَ قَبَّلَهَا وَ رَدَّهَا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَتَحَيَّا بِهَا وَ حَيَّا بِهَا فَاطِمَةَ فَتَحَيَّتْ بِهَا وَ قَبَّلَتْهَا وَ رَدَّتْهَا إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص فَتَحَيَّا بِهَا الرَّابِعَةَ وَ حَيَّا بِهَا عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَتَحَيَّا بِهَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَلَمَّا هَمَّ أَنْ يَرُدَّهَا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص سَقَطَتِ التُّفَّاحَةُ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَنَامِلِهِ فَانْفَلَقَتْ نِصْفَيْنِ فَسَطَعَ مِنْهَا نُورٌ حَتَّى بَلَغَ [إِلَى] السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا فَإِذَا عَلَيْهَا سَطْرَانِ مَكْتُوبَانِ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ تَحِيَّةٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى إِلَى مُحَمَّدِ الْمُصْطَفَى وَ عَلِيٍّ الْمُرْتَضَى وَ فَاطِمَةَ الزَّهْرَاءِ وَ الْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ سِبْطَيْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَمَانٌ لِمُحِبِّيهِمَا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ مِنَ النَّارِ
☘️🔅عنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع: يَا عَلِيُّ أَنَا نَذِيرُ أُمَّتِي وَ أَنْتَ هَادِيهَا وَ الْحَسَنُ قَائِدُهَا وَ الْحُسَيْنُ سَائِقُهَا وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ جَامِعُهَا وَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ عَارِفُهَا وَ جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ كَاتِبُهَا وَ مُوسَى بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ مُحْصِيهَا وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُوسَى مُعَبِّرُهَا وَ مُنْجِيهَا وَ طَارِدُ مُبْغِضِيهَا وَ مُدْنِي مُؤْمِنِيهَا وَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَائِمُهَا وَ سَائِقُهَا وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ سَاتِرُهَا وَ عَالِمُهَا وَ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ مُنَادِيهَا وَ مُعْطِيهَا وَ الْقَائِمُ الْخَلَفُ سَاقِيهَا وَ مُنَاشِدُهَا إِنَّ فِي ذلِكَ لَآياتٍ لِلْمُتَوَسِّمِينَ يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ
☘️🔅 عَنْ أَبِي سَلْمَى رَاعِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ: لَيْلَةَ أُسْرِيَ بِي إِلَى السَّمَاءِ قَالَ لِيَ الْجَلِيلُ جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ آمَنَ الرَّسُولُ بِما أُنْزِلَ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ رَبِّهِ قُلْتُ وَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ كُلٌّ آمَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَ مَلائِكَتِهِ وَ كُتُبِهِ وَ رُسُلِهِ قَالَ صَدَقْتَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ مَنْ خَلَّفْتَ فِي أُمَّتِكَ قُلْتُ خَيْرَهَا قَالَ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع قُلْتُ نَعَمْ يَا رَبِّ قَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنِّي اطَّلَعْتُ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ [اطِّلَاعَةً] فَاخْتَرْتُكَ مِنْهَا فَشَقَقْتُ لَكَ اسْماً مِنْ أَسْمَائِي فَلَا أُذْكَرُ فِي مَوْضِعٍ إِلَّا ذُكِرْتَ مَعِي فَأَنَا الْمَحْمُودُ وَ أَنْتَ مُحَمَّدٌ ثُمَّ اطَّلَعْتُ الثَّانِيَةَ فَاخْتَرْتُ مِنْهَا عَلِيّاً فَشَقَقْتُ لَهُ اسْماً مِنْ أَسْمَائِي فَأَنَا [الْعَلِيُ] الْأَعْلَى وَ هُوَ عَلِيٌ يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنِّي خَلَقْتُكَ وَ [خَلَقْتُ] عَلِيّاً وَ فَاطِمَةَ وَ الْحَسَنَ وَ الْحُسَيْنَ وَ الْأَئِمَّةَ مِنْ وُلْدِهِ مِنْ سِنْخِ نُورِي وَ عَرَضْتُ وَلَايَتَكُمْ عَلَى أَهْلِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ أَهْلِ الْأَرَضِينَ فَمَنْ قَبِلَهَا كَانَ عِنْدِي مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ مَنْ جَحَدَهَا كَانَ عِنْدِي مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ لَوْ أَنَّ عَبْداً مِنْ عَبِيدِي عَبَدَنِي حَتَّى يَنْقَطِعَ وَ يَصِيرَ كَالشَّنِّ الْبَالِي ثُمَّ أَتَانِي جَاحِداً لِوَلَايَتِكُمْ مَا غَفَرْتُ لَهُ حَتَّى يُقِرَّ بِوَلَايَتِكُمْ يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَ تُحِبُّ أَنْ تَرَاهُمْ قُلْتُ نَعَمْ يَا رَبِّ فَقَالَ لِي الْتَفِتْ عَنْ يَمِينِ الْعَرْشِ فَالْتَفَتُّ فَإِذَا أَنَا بِعَلِيٍّ وَ فَاطِمَةَ وَ الْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ وَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ وَ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ وَ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ وَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُوسَى وَ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ وَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍ وَ الْمَهْدِيِّ فِي ضَحْضَاحٍ مِنْ نُورٍ قِيَامٌ يُصَلُّونَ وَ [هُوَ] فِي وَسَطِهِمْ [يَعْنِي] الْمَهْدِيَّ يُضِيءُ كَأَنَّهُ كَوْكَبٌ دُرِّيٌّ فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ هَؤُلَاءِ الْحُجَجُ (وَ هُوَ الثَّائِرُ) مِنْ عِتْرَتِكَ فَوَ عِزَّتِي وَ جَلَالِي (إِنَّهُ النَّاصِرُ) لِأَوْلِيَائِي وَ الْمُنْتَقِمُ مِنْ أَعْدَائِي (وَ لَهُمُ الْحُجَّةُ الْوَاجِبَةُ وَ) بِهِمْ يُمْسِكُ اللَّهُ السَّمَاوَاتِ أَنْ تَقَعَ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِهِ.
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