Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 532
CHAPTER 22 The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa 's Fortitude and Steadfastness 532 their objections. In the meantime one person caught hold of his shawl, started to twist it round his neck and tried to strangle him. Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra came to his rescue, pushed this person away and weepingly he said, ‘Do you want to kill a person on the basis that he says, 'My Lord is All a h'. Relating this incident ‘Abdull a h bin ‘Umar ra said, "This was the worst persecution at the hands of Quraish that I saw with my own eyes. " 21 One day the chiefs of Makkah gathered near Maq a m-e- H ajr. They took the oath of L a t, Man a t and ‘Uzz a and said, "After today, if we see Muhammad we will attack him together as one body and will not rest until we kill him. " Hadrat F at imah ra came to know of this plot. She came to her illustrious father and said, "The chiefs of your people have sworn and each one of them is a blood thirsty enemy. " The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa said, "My daughter give me water for ablution. " Then he performed ablution and went to the Ka‘bah, where all those chiefs were gathered together. As soon as they saw him, with one voice of they all yelled. "Look! here he is. " But none of them had the courage to attack him. Their eyes were downcast and they could not move from their places. They could not even dare to cast a glance towards him. Then the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa himself turned to them and went