If you so desire...

If you so desire, I -asws can inform you, and you were a seed in the back of your father -asws , I shall inform you. O Muhammad son of Ali -asws !

Don’t you know that Al-Husayn -asws Bin Ali -asws , after the expiry of myself -asws and separation of my -asws soul from my -asws body, is the Imam -asws from after me ‑asws , and in the Presence of Allah -azwj in the past Book, being an inheritance from the Prophet -saww , having attained it in the inheritance from his -asws father -asws and his -asws mother ‑asws .

Allah -azwj Knows you all are best of His -azwj creatures, so He -azwj Chose Muhammad -saww from you, and Muhammad -saww chose Ali -asws , and Ali -asws chose me -asws for the Imamate, and I -asws am choosing Al-Husayn -asws ’. Muhammad son of Ali -asws said to him -asws , ‘You -asws are my Imam -asws and my chief, and you ‑asws are my means to Muhammad -saww . By Allah -azwj ! I would have loved it for my soul to have gone before I heard this talk from you -asws .

Indeed, and in my head, there is speech which the buckets cannot bleed, nor can the tone of wind alter it, being like the dictionary book in the small parchment. I think of manifesting it, but I find that the Revealed Book and what Rasool-Allah -saww had come with has preceded me to it.

And it is a Speech which fatigues every speaking tongue, and a hand of the scribe cannot reach to your -asws merits, and like that Allah -azwj Recompenses the good doers, and there is no Strength except with Allah -azwj . Al-Husayn -asws is our most knowledgeable and heaviest of us in forbearance and the closest of us from Rasool-Allah -saww in kinship. He -asws was an Imam -asws before he -asws was Created, and he -asws read the Revelation before it had been Spoken with.

And if Allah -azwj had Known anyone better from among us, He -azwj would not have Chosen Muhammad -saww . When He -azwj Chose Muhammad -saww , and Muhammad -saww chose Ali -asws as an Imam -asws , and Ali -asws chose you ‑asws after him -asws , and you -asws have chosen Al-Husayn -asws after you -asws , we submit and are pleased with the one who is pleasing and with the one we submit with, from the difficulties’’. [8] [1] Al-Kafi, Vol. 1, Chapters on History, Imam Hassan asws [2] Ibid, h 2.

[3] Ibid, h 4. [4] Ibid, h 5. [5] Ibid, h 6.