The reason for my going out from his protection is only that...

The reason for my going out from his protection is only that I don't like to live under the protection of anyone except God." This is how the protective period came to end, and he lost his immunity from persecution. But he was still moving freely among Quraish as before.

One day, Labeed bin Rabia, the well-known poet of Arabia came to Mecca to recite his Qasida (poem) which he had recently composed, and which is now considered as a masterpiece and classics of the pre-Islamic period of Arabic literature. The Qasida begins with the following line: 78 Know (that Ev ery thing is null and v oid ex - cept God; nothing ex cept A llah is Truth).…