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The Water They Withheld: Husayn ibn Ali and the Ten Days at Karbala

The Water They Withheld: Husayn ibn Ali and the Ten Days at Karbala

Hikma, Narin

Paperback

Religious BiographiesIslamIraq History

ISBN13: 9798185781272
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 5 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the price of keeping your word was everything you had left to lose?

You know what it feels like to bite your tongue at the family dinner table. To choose the easier lie over the costlier truth. To wonder, quietly, what you would actually do if refusing to compromise meant losing everything.

In the autumn of 680 CE, Husayn ibn Ali - grandson of the Prophet Muhammad - rode toward the city of Kufa believing he had been invited to lead it. What he found instead was a governor's army, a river his family was forbidden to touch, and ten days that would decide what his name would mean for the next fourteen centuries. The Water They Withheld tells that story in full, human, unflinching detail - not as a distant religious legend, but as the true account of a family who chose loyalty over safety, one costly decision at a time, until there was nothing left to give but everything.

Feel the specific weight of a father's final appeal, holding his six-month-old son toward an army that had already denied his family water for seven days.

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