Muhammad the kindred to Humanity — Page 7
7 own children. After the fall of Mecca, when he was asked in what house he would reside, he remarked lovingly, Has Aqil left a house that we might rest in one of our own?" He meant that his cousins had sold all their ancestral dwellings. . He loved Abu Talib as he would have loved his father. He taught his followers not to say a word in contradiction to their parents, his own conduct in this respect being an embodiment of his teaching. . There is a remarkable incident belonging to the years after he had announced his claim to being an Apostle of God. . The Quraish chiefs warned Abu Talib that if he would not stop his nephew Muhammad from preaching, he himself would have to suffer for it. Abu Talib got upset over the warning. . When Muhammad came home, the uncle thus addressed him, "My boy, the chiefs of Mecca have warned me. Is it not possible for you somehow to conciliate them ?" The holy. Prophet was never more depressed than he was at this moment. There was, on the one hand, one who had tended him with loving care, whose slightest mishap Muhammad would not be able to bear, being threatened with disgrace and dishonur by a whole community; there was, on the other, his duty to proclaim the truth as had been communicate to him by God. Muhammad could not contain himself any longer. He wept and said, "Uncle, I can stand every conceivable torture, but I cannot stop proclaiming the message of. God. " Abu Talib knew well that Muhammad would never stop proclaiming, not even if he had to shed the last drop of his blood. So, on hearing his nephew's firm reply, he himself became firm, and said, "Go your way, my boy. Do not spare proclaiming the word that God has sent you. I am with you. '. This is how he acquitted himself as an orphan and could anybody have acquitted himself better?. The Prophet's Youth ". Now as to the period of his youth. Youth is typically the period of lack of self-restraint. In the Arabia of those