--- title: "The Benefits and Effects of Clarification" event: "Tabyeen (Clarification) - Ashura 1447 (2025) Series" session_number: 3 published_at: "2025-06-28" canonical_url: "https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-benefits-and-effects-of-clarification" event_url: "https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/tabyeen-clarification-ashura-1447-2025-series" type: "event-session" scripture_reference: "Quran, Surah Al-'Asr (The Declining Day), Chapter 103, Verse 3" --- # The Benefits and Effects of Clarification *Session 3 of [Tabyeen (Clarification) - Ashura 1447 (2025) Series](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/tabyeen-clarification-ashura-1447-2025-series) — 28 June 2025* A believing society can declare a decade "of justice and progress" and still end it no closer to either. Slogans do not build nations. This session argues that clarification only does its work when it stops being a private exchange and becomes structured public discourse — repeated and translated into policy, not simply proclaimed. Ideals like justice mean nothing as decoration; they must be studied and modelled, or a decade ends exactly where it began. Two qualities make this possible, according to the Commander of the Faithful, Imam Ali, peace be upon him: insight and steadfastness. "None shall bear this standard except he who possesses insight, patience, and knowledge of the places of truth," he taught — and the session builds an ethic of naseehah, sincere mutual advice, from the Qur'an's short chapter on time itself: everyone is in loss, except those who have faith, do good, and enjoin one another to truth and to patience. Break that chain, and isolation spreads, hope dissipates, and lofty goals quietly become impossible before anyone notices they were abandoned. The session closes on a warning as much as a promise: to know the truth and withhold it is its own form of betrayal. Culture is not a tool to be wielded for advantage — it is the tongue of a civilisation's soul. If everyone already knows the truth, why does a society still need to be told it, again and again? What the evening covers From speech to discourse. Why clarification must become a repeated, disciplined public conversation, not a single utterance. Insight and steadfastness. Imam Ali's description of what it actually takes to carry the truth. The chain of mutual counsel. Building naseehah, sincere advice, from the chapter on time. Silence as betrayal. Why withholding a known truth is treated as complicity, not caution. ## Scripture > إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَعَمِلُواْ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَٰتِ وَتَوَاصَوۡاْ بِٱلۡحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوۡاْ بِٱلصَّبۡرِ > > Except for those who have believed and done righteous deeds and advised each other to truth and advised each other to patience — *Quran, Surah Al-'Asr (The Declining Day), Chapter 103, Verse 3* ## Programme - [Watch the full session](https://youtu.be/BPgTb9bMjKM) - [Qur'an Recitation: Surah Mulk, Qaf, Baqarah, A’raaf + Ziyarat Jamia Kabira](https://youtu.be/tU1mQYiaQUo) - [Couplets: The Silence Before the Storm](https://youtu.be/NfyZVtLiVd8) - [Sermon: The Benefits and Effects of Clarification](https://youtu.be/5LI3dqdrdbI) - [Maqtal: Hurr ibn Yazid ar-Riyahi](https://youtu.be/aQJ0OAtkL_o) - [Nohe: Freedom](https://youtu.be/QiRZIb0dq_c) - [Ziyarah: The Communion of Ashura](https://youtu.be/1Tt96bruLO4) ## Other sessions in this event - [Session 11 — Special Program for Day of Ashura – The Blood of God Was Spilled](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/special-program-for-day-of-ashura-the-blood-of-god-was-spilled) — 6 July 2025 - [Session 10 — Trials, Deviation, and Steadfastness](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/trials-deviation-and-steadfastness) — 5 July 2025 - [Session 9 — The Response to Clarification](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-response-to-clarification) — 4 July 2025 - [Session 8 — The Subjects In Need of Clarification](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-subjects-in-need-of-clarification) — 3 July 2025 - [Session 7 — Methods and Types of Clarification](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/methods-and-types-of-clarification) — 2 July 2025 - [Session 6 — The Requirements of Clarification — Part 3](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-requirements-of-clarification-part-3) — 1 July 2025 - [Session 5 — The Requirements of Clarification — Part 2](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-requirements-of-clarification-part-2) — 30 June 2025 - [Session 4 — The Requirements of Clarification — Part 1](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-requirements-of-clarification-part-1) — 29 June 2025 - [Session 2 — Understanding Tabyeen](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/understanding-tabyeen) — 27 June 2025 - [Session 1 — Introduction](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/introduction) — 26 June 2025 --- _Read this session on the web: https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-benefits-and-effects-of-clarification_