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Lowering the Bow: Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas and the Conqueror Who Chose Silence Over Power

Lowering the Bow: Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas and the Conqueror Who Chose Silence Over Power

Hikma, Narin

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ISBN13: 9798185741306
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

What if the bravest thing a man ever did was refuse to fight?You know the feeling of watching everyone around you pick a side while your own conscience refuses to let you choose so easily. You know what it costs to hold a position nobody applauds. And you know, too, the particular helplessness of loving someone whose choices you cannot control - a child who grows into a person you never expected, and never wanted, them to become. Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas was the first man to shed blood for a faith not yet two years old. He broke the Sassanid Empire at Qadisiyyah, one of the most decisive battles in history, and built the city of Kufa from empty desert. He governed with a fairness that made him nearly impossible to bribe and nearly impossible to slander successfully - though men tried both. And when his own community turned its violence inward, tearing itself apart in a civil war with no clean side to stand on, he became one of the only senior companions of the Prophet brave enough to lay down his weapon and refuse to raise it against another Muslim. Then his own son commanded the army that killed the Prophet's own grandson at Karbala - and Sa'd spent his final, blind years learning to hold triumph and grief in the very same unbearable breath.

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