The Peace He Chose: How Hasan ibn Ali Gave Away a Kingdom to Save a People - Couverture souple

Hikma, Narin

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798187036714

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

What if the moment everyone called you weak was actually the bravest thing you ever did?

You know the feeling. The moment you walked away instead of fighting. The moment you gave something up rather than watch it destroy everyone around you. And the way people looked at you afterward — like you'd lost, like you'd caved, like you should have fought harder.

In the year 661, Hasan ibn Ali — grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, son of Ali, brother of Husayn — stood at the head of a caliphate he never asked for and watched his own army come apart in his hands. He had a choice: keep fighting a war he could not win without destroying the very people he was fighting for, or give up the throne his father had died defending. He chose to give it up. A crowd gathered on the road out of Kufa to tell him exactly what they thought of that choice.

Recognize the specific ache of being called a coward for the one decision that actually took courage
Watch a man rebuild an ordinary life — quietly, generously, without needing anyone to know his name — after the world decided his story was already over
Feel the weight of holding your tongue about the one thing you have every right to say out loud
Understand why two of history's most divided religious traditions — Sunni and Shia alike — still call this man beloved
Discover the treaty, the forty days of silent suffering, and the funeral standoff that together tell you what real strength actually looks like

This is a book for anyone who has ever chosen the harder peace and spent years wondering if they were wrong to choose it.

The road only ever judges one afternoon. It never has to answer for the fifty years that came after.

Open the first page. The peace he chose will find you too.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798187036714
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 262
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