Everything is True
Hooman Majd

I am one of the few male survivors of the Battle of Karbala. Me and three of my sons. What, you say? Oh, I’m not proud, for I was willing, no, eager, to lay my life down, but that was not to be my fate. Seven of my sons, yes, but not me. Seven sons I gave for Hossein, seven. Their heads separated from their bodies, a cruel fate but an easy death, and I will see them every day of my life, this one and the next and the one after that, impaled on the grimy spears of Yazid’s army. How, you wonder, did it come to pass that this Brahmin and his ten Brahmin sons, fought and died for Hossein? We were not the only ones, you know. I am Hindu, but I am in Shi’at Ali.

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