Then it means that You -azwj have Changed Your -azwj Decision.

Then it means that You -azwj have Changed Your -azwj Decision.’ The Rasool Allah -saww came with camels and Hazrat Abd Al-Muttalib -asws had sent people to search him -saww in all directions and valleys of (Makkah). When he -asws saw the Rasool Allah -saww he -asws held him -saww to kiss and said, ‘Son, I -asws will never send you thereafter for anything. I am afraid for you -saww to be kidnapped and killed.

[21] The narrator of the Hadith says: ‘I heard Amir-ul-Momineen -asws saying: ‘By Allah -azwj ! Neither my -asws father -as , nor my -asws grandfather -as Abdul Muttalib -as , nor Hashim -as , nor Abd Manaf -as worshipped idols at all’. It was said to him -asws , ‘So what were they -as worshipping?’ He -asws said: ‘They were Praying to the House (Kabah), upon the Religion of Ibrahim -as , being attached to it’.

[22] (Our sixth Imam -asws ) Imam Jafar e Sadiq -asws said: At a certain place around the Ka’bah ‘Hazrat Abd Al-Muttalib -asws ’s people would spread house furnishings for him only and for no one else. His sons stood around him -asws for protection. Once the Rasool Allah -saww , then a small child who had just begun to walk, came to ‘Hazrat Abd Al-Muttalib -asws ’ and sat in his lap.

One of the people standing as a guard came to remove the child away but Hazrat Abd Al-Muttalib -asws ’said, ‘Leave my -asws child -saww alone. The angel -as has just come to him. [23] The Holy Prophet -saww ’ was brought up and protected by his -saww Uncle Abu Talib -asws : Imam Jafar-e-Sadiq -asws said: They (non-Shias) think that Hazrat Abu Talib -asws was an unbeliever. They speak lies.

How could he be an unbeliever when he said such words as these: ‘Do they not know that we found Mohammed -saww as a prophet like Musa -as (Moses) whose name is written in the ancient books’!’” Imam Jafar e Sadiq -asws said: Once when the Holy Prophet -saww was in the sacred Mosque wearing new clothes, the pagans threw the contents of the stomach of camel on him and his new clothes were ruined. Allah -azwj Knows how hard it was for him -saww .

The Holy Prophet -saww went to Hazrat Abu Talib -asws and asked, ‘What is my honour worth to you -as ? Hazrat Abu Talib -asws asked, ‘What is the matter, O son of my brother?’ The Holy Prophet -saww informed him -asws of the incident. Hazrat Abu Talib -asws , while picking up a sword, called and asked Hamza -asws to take up arms.