Holy Prophet Muhammad and His Teachings — Page 18
18 their parents in the hope that they might renounce their faith. Such measures, however, failed to shake them, and they continued to worship their Maker with dry lips and sunken eyes, till their parents. fearing that they might be starved to death, supplied them with food. . Pity was sometimes taken upon these young men, but the case of those slaves and poor people who had become Muslims, but who had nobody to protect or to help them was indeed pitiful. . Slaves were made to wear steal armour and then stand in the burning sun of Arabia till their n skins were scorched. Some were dragged along the burning sands by means of ropes tied to their legs, the bodies of others were seared with red hot irons. One form of torture was to puncture the bodies of Muslims with needles. A devout. Muslim lady was killed by a spear being run. through her body. But these and other unspeakable horrors were borne unflinchingly by the. Muslims, and even under torture they did not cease to declare that they could not relinquish the worship of One God. The Holy Prophet. himself was the victim of persecution, but in his