Past eventMuharram · Tabyeen (Clarification) - Ashura 1447 (2025) Series · Session 1

Introduction

Thursday, 26 June 2025

Fifty years was all it took for a people who loved the Prophet's grandsons to help kill one of them. Both Sunni and Shia sources agree: Imam Hasan and Imam Husayn, peace be upon them, were declared by the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, as the two masters of the youth of Paradise. Everyone knew it. It did not matter. Within a single lifetime after his passing, the ruling power that followed him openly mocked the very idea of revelation, and a community that recited his family's praises stood by while his grandson was cut down at Karbala. This opening session traces that collapse to one neglected duty: tabyeen, clarification. Not a failure of love, but a failure of explanation — elites and scholars who let devotion curdle into decoration, who quoted the Prophet's household without ever walking their path. Imam Husayn's own sermon at Mina names this exactly: those who witness injustice and change nothing "by word or deed" have, in his words, adhered to the obedience of Satan. The pattern runs deeper — even at Imam Ali's funeral, people who had once stood beside the Prophet doubted, on hearing of his martyrdom, that he had ever prayed. If loving the Prophet's family wasn't enough to stop Karbala, what actually is? What the evening covers The fifty-year collapse. How a community that professed love for the Prophet's household became complicit in massacring his grandson. The sermon at Mina. Imam Husayn's own diagnosis of a scholarly class gone silent. Satan's ancient vow. The Qur'anic warning about people who believe they are doing good while their efforts go astray. The task ahead. Why this Ashura and Arbaeen series is built entirely around one word — tabyeen, clarification.

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Qur'an Recitation: Quran - Surah al-Ahzab, al-Rahman, al-Baqarah + Ziyarat Nahiya

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Couplets: Reflections from the Quran & Ziyarat | Divine Majesty, Ahl al-Bayt & Tabyeen

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إنَّ المَرْءَ قَدْ يَسُرُّهُ دَرَكُ ما لَمْ يَكُنْ لِيَفُوتَهُ، ويَسُؤُءُهُ فَوْتُ ما لَمْ يَكُنْ لِيُدْرِكَهُ، فَلْيَكُنْ سُرُورُكَ بِما نِلتَ مِنْ آخِرَتِكَ، ولْيَكُنْ أسَفُكَ على ما فاتَكَ مِنْها، ولْيَكُنْ هَمُّكَ لِما بَعْدَ المَوْتِ.

Verily you have an ultimate destination so move towards your destination, and you have a guide so move towards it with [the help of] your guide.

Ghurur al-Hikam, The Hereafter, Aphorism 59