Where is my Imam ?

And based on another narration, HakÄ«meh KhÄtÅ«n stated, ‘Three days after his majesty SÄhib al Amr (mgehr) ‘s birth, I was eager to visit him. [So,] I went to his majesty ImÄm Haá¹£an AskarÄ« (pbuh) and asked, ‘Where is my MawlÄ1?’

His majesty stated, ‘I entrusted him to the one who was the most deserving and superior to you and me. [So] come back to our presence on the seventh day’. And when I went back on the seventh day, I saw a cradle and I ran toward it. I saw my MawlÄ, laughing and smiling at me, like the full month.

Then his majesty called out, ‘Bring my child’. When I brought him to his majesty’s service, he twisted her tongue in his blessed [the infant’s] mouth and stated, ‘O’ son, start speaking!’. [There] His Excellency Sahib al Amr (mgehr) recited the Shahada2 and recited, “Peace be upon His Majesty the Messenger of Allah, and other [infallible] ImÄmsâ€. Then he stated “Bi-smi llÄh3†and recited the verse4 mentioned above.

Then his majesty ImÄm Haá¹£an AskarÄ« (pbuh) stated, ‘O’ son, recite what the Almighty God has sent to the Prophets [pbu th]’.

So he started [to read] from the book of Adam (pbuh) and read in the Syriac language. Then he read the book of Idris (pbuh), the book of Noah (pbuh), the book of Jud (pbuh), the book of á¹¢Äliḥ (pbuh), the book of IbrÄhÄ«m (pbuh). [He also read] the Torah of Moses (pbuh), the Psalms of David (pbuh), the Gospel of Jesus (pbuh), and the QurʾÄn of my grandfather Muḥammad MustafÄ (pbuh&h). Then he recalled the stories of the prophets.

Then, His Excellency ImÄm Haá¹£an AskarÄ« (pbuh) stated:

After the Almighty God granted me “Ummah’s MahdÄ« (mgehr) [My son, who will be these people’s ImÄm] and sent an angle to take him close to Throne of God5 the Merciful, The Almighty God called him:

‘O, my servant, Great! In fact, I created you in order to help religion and fulfill my religious law.

You are “The Guided by me†among my servants. I swear by my essence [The essence of God] that if they [people] obey you, I will reward them for their good deeds. But whoever disobeys you, I will punish him.

I will forgive my servants, for your intercession and guidance.

. Now, you two angels! Return him to his father, send my regard to him and tell,

‘He is in the shelter of my protection, and I protect him from the enemies.

Afterward, I will let him emerge. I will establish the truth via him, overthrow the falsehood with him, and the religion of truth will be pure for me.’

That was all, I narrated from [the book] “JalÄ al- ‘Oyun[6].

Also in the book “Haqqul Yaqeen[7]â€, His Excellency’s honorable birthday was narrated like this. Moreover, Other narrations were mentioned in this book. such as:

“Muḥammad ibn ‘Uthman Umri[8] narrated that, ‘When our sir “His Excellency Sahib al- Amr[9](mgehr)†was born, His Excellency ImÄm Haá¹£an AskarÄ« (pbuh) asked for my father and ordered to

 

give ten- thousand- pound (approximately three thousand kilograms) bread; plus, ten-thousand-pound meat to Bani HÄshim and others, as giving alms…

 

1.     Guardian.

2.     an Islamic creed, one of the Five Pillars of Islam and part of the Adhan [Call to Prayer], declaring belief in the oneness (tawhid) of God and the acceptance of Muhammad as God’s messenger, as well as the wilaya of Ali according to Shia Islam.

3.     the Islamic phrase bi-smi llÄh r-RaḥmÄn r-RahÄ«m (بÙسْم٠ٱللَّٰه٠ٱلرَّحْمَٰن٠ٱلرَّحÙيمÙ), “In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.”

4.     Holy QurʾÄn, Surah AL-QASAS, Verse 5&6.

5-      Ê¿AllÄma ṬabÄá¹­abÄʾī believed that “the Throne†is an evolved stage of the worlds of existence, is the center of command of the world, and the place of issuing divine commands….

6-      It is a book in Persian written by Allama Muḥammad BaqÄ«r TaqÄ« MajlisÄ« (1037 AH – 1110 AH). It is about the life history of the fourteen infallible ImÄms (pbu th). This book was written in fourteen chapters, each of which contains several chapters. According to the author’s view, JalÄ al- ‘Oyun is also considered a doctrinal-theological book.

7-      The book Haqqul Yaqeen (Principles of Religion and Education), written by Muḥammad Baqīr ibn Muḥammad Taqī Majlisī (d. 1111 AH), covered a complete period of discussions on the principles of religion and the necessities of the Shiite religion. ʿ

8-      Ê¿UthmÄn ibn SaÊ¿Ä«d al-ʾAsadÄ«y al-Ê¿AmrÄ«y was the first of the Four Deputies of the twelfth ImÄm, ImÄm al-MahdÄ« (mgehr) in Twelver Shia Islam. He was appointed as an agent and deputy of ImÄm al-MahdÄ« (mgehr), while the ImÄm was in the Minor Occultation, a period in which he would only contact his followers through the Four Deputies. After ibn Sa’id’s death, his son Abu JaÊ¿far Muḥammad ibn Ê¿UthmÄn was appointed as the second deputy by Ḥujjat-Allah al-Mahdi [ImÄm MahdÄ« (mgehr)].

9-      This title of ImÄm MahdÄ« (mgehr) means, the Master of the Authority.