Quran Majid has borne testimony to their condition in the following verse...

Quran Majid has borne testimony to their condition in the following verse: “It is He who has sent amongst the unlettered an apostle from among themselves, to rehearse to them His signs, to sanctify them, and to instruct them in scripture and wisdom, - although they had been, before, in manifest error.” (Chapter 62; verse 2) But the country was not altogether devoid of individuals who found idolatry repugnant.

These individuals, who were very few in number, were called "Hanifs," i.e., men and women "who had turned away from idol worship." Makka also had a sprinkling of these "hanifs," and some of them were in the clan of Khadija herself. One of them was her first cousin, Waraqa bin Naufal. Waraqa was the eldest of all his siblings, and his…