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A Rebuttal of Maududian Philosophy founts of wisdom. 24 The poet was the ‘kindler of battles and 'the journalist of the time' 26 The Ansar (the Muslims of Medina) were accused of dishonouring themselves by submitting to an outsider. Asma bint Marwan of Umayyah b. Zayd composed verses taunting and insulting Medinite Muslims. She said:. Cowards of Malik and Nabit. And cowards of Awf and Khazraj. You obey a stranger who does not belong to you. Who is neither a Murad nor a Mad'hij²8. Do you when your own chiefs have been murdered - hope in him. Like the greedy people looking towards a cooking pot of meal soup?. Is there no man of honour among you who will take advantage of an unguarded moment. And cut off the gulls' hopes?29. The centenarian poet of Khazrajite class, Abu Afak, taunted the Medinites with the following verses:. I have lived a long time, but I have never seen. Either a house or gathering of people. More loyal and faithful to. Its allies, when they call on them,. Than those of the Children of Qayla³0 as a whole. . The mountains will crumble before they submit. . Yet here is a rider come among them who has divided them. (He says) "This is permitted, this is forbidden'. To all kinds of things. But if you had believed in power. And in might, why did you not follow. Tubba?31. Tubbas were south Arabian kings of great reputation. Abu Afak, in effect, asked the Ansar, ‘Once you resisted Tubba, now what has happened to you that you have accepted the claims of a Meccan refugee?". While Asma and Abu Afak were putting the Ansar to shame, the Jewish poet Kab b. al-Ashraf³2, enraged by the Muslim victory at Badr, went all the way to Mecca to rouse the Quraish against the Holy Prophets. He played on the Arab weakness for vengeance: 29