Children cried through the night out of hunger.

Children cried through the night out of hunger. The sound of their crying could be heard in Mecca and some of the kind-hearted disbelievers of Quraysh felt sympathetic towards them. But nobody dared to help them due to their fear of the powerful people of Mecca. That was while the faith of the early Muslims whose children wasted away before their eyes there were many people who died there, many became ill and many suffered from starvation was not shaken.

The Commander of the Faithful (a.s.) told his dear son, Muhammad ibn al- Hanafiyyah, "... the mountains may be shaken,…