Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 348
CHAPTER 17 The Prophet sa as a Summoner to All a h 348 withdraw your support for him so that we ourselves can take him to task. "Ab u Ta lib pacified them and sent them back after counseling them. The second delegation The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa continued his mission of preaching until the Quraish began to hear about him more and more. Then the second delegation met Ab u Ta lib and said, "You are our elder noble man and we hold you in high esteem. We requested you to stop your nephew but you did not listen to us. We cannot tolerate it any longer. Either you stop him from preaching and denouncing our deities or we will fight with you till the destruction of either of us. " This was a very critical time for Ab u Ta lib and he was very frightened. He called the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa and told him on arrival, "O my nephew my people are greatly enraged by your preaching and it is quite possible that they would kill you and kill me as well. You have called their wise men idiots, their noble men as wicked َ ُّ ﺷ ْ ﺮ َِ اﻟ َّ رب ﻳ ﺔ. Their respectable deities " ّ وﻗﻮداﻟﻨ ﺎر " and labelled them profane and defiled. I advise you, as a well wisher, to refrain from saying these things otherwise I do not have the strength to fight the whole nation. " The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa realized that Ab u Ta lib was shaken and his greatest worldly support was in danger of collapse under the pressure of opposition, but he was not