Publisher's Synopsis
Unintended consequences are the threads with which Allah weaves the tapestry of our lives. But is it indeed a tapestry or a pall that He creates?During the reign of the caliph Harun Al-Rashid, three men thrown into the same Egyptian prison tell each other their stories in a contest to determine who is the most miserable of them all. Unbeknownst to each of them, their fellow inmates were at the root of their tragedies.