I can do nothing for you if you disobey to attack his home and people...

I can do nothing for you if you disobey to attack his home and people, so he hasten towards warning them." "Shame on you!," Abu-Lahab interrupted him, "Was it for this you invited us?" And so Allah, the Most Blessed and High, revealed to His Prophet the following chapter (surah): "Perdition overtake both hands of the Abu Lahab, and he will perish. His health and what he earns will no avail him.

He shall soon burn in fire that flames, And his wife, the bearer of fuel, Upon her neck a halter of strongly twisted rope." Holy Qur'an (111:1-5) This attempt was not in vain, for a number of the Quraishis entered Islam under the banner of "There is no god but Allah." Furthermore, the news of the faith forced itself into every house.

This statement made by the Prophet (s.a.w.) was, indeed, to usher in a new era of bitter struggle between the new faith and the wounded pride of the pre-Islamic Arabs. Previous…