When she reached the one-unit ‘watr’ prayer...

When she reached the one-unit ‘watr’ prayer, Susan, the chaste lady, woke up from her sleep and also recited the Midnight Prayer. After the prayers she began to feel labor pains. Lady Hakima approached the honorable maid and asked, “Do you feel somethinga” She replied, “I am feeling a severe thing.” Lady Hakima addressed her with utmost kindness and respect, “If Allah wills, there is no fear for you.” Not much time passed when a beautiful male child was born from the womb of his mother, Susan.

The child who would purify the earth from transgressors and oppressors and establish the rule of God over it. His Eminence, Imam Hasan Askari (a.s) was extremely overjoyed at the birth of this blessed and fortunate child and he began to speak up in refutation of the Abbaside rulers that they used to think that they would be able to soon kill him and deprive the Imam from continuing his progeny.

He said in this way, “These cruel people thought that they would kill me so that this progeny could be cut off. What an estimation of God’s power they hada” [1] [1] Bihar 13/10 Performance of rituals connected with the new birth Lady Hakima took the newborn child of exalted rank to its honorable father, Imam Hasan Askari (a.s) who welcomed him with great pleasure and joy and initiated the Islamic rituals connected with the occasion.

In the right ear of the newborn child, the Imam recited the 'Azan' [1] and in his left recited the 'Iqamat'. [2] Thus the first words to reach his ears were, 'God is the Greatest' [3] and, 'There is no god, except Allah' [4] .

In fact, Imam Hasan Askari (a.s), by these words fed the child with the secret of existence and the aim of the prophets and it resulted in completely surrounding the heart with kindness, feelings and understanding and at this moment the nascent divine child spoke up, like among the past prophets Isa (a.s) had done, reciting the following verse from the Holy Quran: "And we desired to bestow a favor upon those who were deemed weak in the land, and make them the Imams, and to make them the heirs…" [5] In this way, the Proof of Allah on people and His Guardian (Wali) was born in such a concealed way due to the fear of the oppressive rulers who were in severe pursuit to find and kill him.