Muhammad: Seal of the Prophets — Page 98
MUHAMMAD : SEAL OF THE PROPHETS 98 guarantee, the Holy Prophet and Zaid re - entered Mecca. When they had reached the Ka’aba, Mut’am stood upright on his camel and called aloud, ‘O ye Quraish, verily I have given the pledge of protection unto Muhammad; therefore, let not anyone amongst you mo lest him. ’ The Holy Prophet then returned to his house guarded by Mut’am and his party. Western writers have admired the Holy Prophet’s journey to Taif as something lofty and heroic; a solitary man, despised and rejected by his own people, going boldly forth in the name of God, and summoning an idolatrous city to repent and support his missio n, they opine, sheds a strong light on the intensity of his belief in the divine origin of his calling. Though the Holy Prophet had been re - admitted to Mecca, he could not think of any fresh plan for the purpose of the propagation of his faith. By chance one day, Tufail bin Amr, a respected chief of Daus, who was also a poet, happened to arrive in Mecca. On hearing of his arrival, some Quraish, being apprehensive lest he should encounter Muhammad and become a Muslim, approached him and warned him not to be beguiled by him, as he was a sorcerer who, through his deceptive propaganda, brought about separation be tween brother and brother and between husband and wife. Tufail has related that Quraish admonished him so repeatedly that, believing in what they said, he became fearful, and, in order to safeguard himself against the wiles of Muhammad, he filled both his ears with cotton lest any word of the alleged sorcerer should penetrate to his mind and he might be involved in trouble. One day, he went early in the morning to the courtyard of the Ka’aba and noticed the Holy