Wasn’t this saying greater in meaning than to say: I am a Muslim?

Wasn’t this saying greater in meaning than to say: I am a Muslim? If someone said to you that he was a Muslim, wouldn’t he be treated like the other Muslims concerning the rights and the obligations? Wouldn’t his blood, property and honor be protected and no one had any right to violate anything of that?

So what about this man; Abu Talib, who announced his faithfulness so loudly and who asked the witness of Allah to witness that he was guided by the religion of his nephew, that people denied his being a Muslim? It was but deviation that covered the eyes thickly and prevented them from seeing the brightness of the truth! Here is something else of Abu Talib’s poetry: Allah had honored , Who became the most honored among all the peoples of Him.

Allah had derived a name for him From His own name to glorify him; The Lord was Mahmood [^5] and His apostle was Muhammad. [^6] These verses had many things of monotheism and confession of the prophecy of (S). As for what concerned his confession of the prophecy of his nephew, there were much many things, some of which was mentioned in the previous chapters of this book. Here we quoted some individual verses chosen from Abu Talib’s poems.

Some of them might be mentioned in the previous chapters: You are the Prophet; the Prophet of Allah that we know well, To you the books of the Almighty have been revealed. Don’t you know that we have found Muhammad a Prophet, Like Moses; this is true in the Books! You are the son of Aamina; you are the … A prophet: to whom the revelation of his Lord has come… You are the … Ahmed has come to them with truthfulness He has not come to them with falseness.

Alternatively, they believe in a wonderful Book revealed to a prophet Like Moses or Jonah. They have already known that we believe our son, And, we never care for the sayings of the falsifiers. Among the absurdities was the saying of al-Qarafi when commenting on this verse.

He said to uncover the ill will of him: “…declaring by the tongue and believing in the heart but he didn’t submit.”[^7] Did this biased one have another definition of faithfulness or his inner feelings led him to deviate from the straight way? This was some of Abu Talib’s poetry and there was much more full of his clear confession of the mission of Muhammad and full of advocation showing his submission to his nephew.