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The Quraysh make Abu Talib a strange proposal
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The Quraysh make Abu Talib a strange proposal
The Quraysh saw that their threats and challenges had been ignored. Muhammad was still preaching a doctrine that defamed their gods and the customs of their ancestors. They also found out that Abu Talib was not about to abandon his nephew in the face of threats. Instead, he seemed to be prepared to fight the entire tribe in order to protect him. The Quraysh considered the immense potential danger of the situation. Muhammad was popular among the people of Makkah, although he represented a threat to their way of life. They held more meetings to try to come up with ways to deal with him. At last, they decided to make Abu Talib a proposal. The idea revolved around Ammarah bin Waleed, a handsome young boy from the Quraysh tribe. They took him to Abu Talib and said, “O, Abu Talib! Take this youth from us and treat him as your own son. Give him your complete support. In exchange for him, give us your nephew – a young man who has challenged the ways of your forefathers and caused disputes among the Makkans, denouncing them as ignorant men who have deviated from the straight path. We shall then put him to death. After all, we are giving you one man in exchange for another.” Abu Talib could only respond to such a rediculous idea with sarcasm. “By God, you are offering me a bad bargain. You are giving me your son so that I can feed him lavishly, and asking for my son so that you may kill him! By God, it will never happen.” Persecution of the Prophet When neither threats nor bargains proved successful in swaying Abu Talib, the Quraysh decided to persecute the Prophet . Simultaneously, they intensified their campaign against the believers. 63 Because of the Prophet’s high position in Makkan society, only those of like standing dared mistreat him. Those who harrassed the Prophet in his own house were, Abu Lahab, Hakam bin Abi Al-As bin Umayya, Uqba bin Abi Mu’ayt, Aidy bin Hamra Thaqafi, Ibn Al-Asda Hadhab – all of whom were his neighbours. When the Prophet bowed down in prayer, someone threw the fetus of a camel on his back. Others would throw similar filth at his door. The Prophet would remove it with a piece of wood and say, “O Banu Abdu Munaf! What kind of neighbourhood is this?” Whenever Umayya bin Khalaf saw the Prophet , he would taunt him before the people of Makkah. Similarly, his brother, Abi bin Khalaf, crumbled a rotten bone and threw it in the face of the Prophet . He would also say to the Prophet : “O Muhammad, I have a horse named Ud, and I feed it three heaps of food so that I can kill you while upon its back!” One day the Prophet answered this challenge by saying, “No, it is I who will kill you.” The Prophet’s words came true when he killed Abi during the battle of Uhud. On another occasion, Uqba bin Mu’ayt sat beside the Prophet listening to him. When Abi bin Khalaf found out that his friend Uqba had been with the Prophet , he chided him for that and them said to Uqba, “Go and spit in the face of Muhammad.” Ever mindful that allegience to the tribe came before even honour and decency, Uqba rose from his seat, approached the Prophet , and spat in his face. Abu Lahab, the Prophet’s uncle, who had freed a slave to celebrate his nephew’s birth, became his sworn enemy from the day he heard his nephew call the people to Islam from atop Mount Safa. The two sons of Abu Lahab, Utbah and Atiba, had married the Prophet’s daughters, Ruqayyah and Umm Kulthoom, respectively. Abu Lahab ordered both is sons to divorce their wives, threatening never to see them again if they refused. His wife, Umm Jameel Ardi bint Harb, also asked them to divorce 64 their wives for they had become “disbelievers”. Utbah and Atiba obeyed their parents and divorced the Prophet’s daughters. Umm Jameel was no less vicious in her enmity. Her nephew by marriage was posturing as a messenger, daring to oppose their gods she held dear. She resolved to punish him. She used to scatter prickly bits of wood over the path that the Prophet and his Companions would pass. When Umm Jameel heard that a short chapter of the Qur’an (Surah Abu Lahab) had been revealed to the Prophet which condemned her to Hell for this very act. She began searching for him, armed with a rock. He was sitting near the Ka’bah with Abu Bakr . She strode up to Abu Bakr and asked him, “Where has your companion gone? I have come to know that he speaks ill of me. By God, if I find him I shall hurl this stone at his face. Look, I am also a poet.” She then uttered the following verses and went away: We disobeyed the blameworthy, rejected his call, and renounced his relieigon with disdain. Abu Bakr was amazed that Umm Jameel had not seen the Prophet sitting right beside him. “O Prophet! Did she fail to see you?” He said, “Yes, she could not see me because Allah seized her sight.” Meanwhile, the Quraysh invented a new way of abusing the Prophet : they began calling him Muhammam instead of Muhammad, the meaning of which is the opposite of his real name. “Muhammad” is one who is highly praised, while Download 0.91 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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