(2) The pre-Islamic age with all its filths...

(2) The pre-Islamic age with all its filths, evils and sins wouldn't affect him or make him deviate from the right way he had followed. ____________ 1 Sharh Nahjol Balagha, vol.3 p.461, as-Seera al-Halabiyya, vol. p.17, As-Seera an-Nabawiyya, vol.1 p.99, al-Kamil by ibnul Atheer, vol.2 p.14, al-Majaliss by Tha'lab, vol.1 p.37. 2 Refer to Sharh Nahjol Balagha, vol.1 p.37. Neither the environment he lived in could adapt him nor was he affected by its evils.

He still had had his exalted thinking, his high insight, his virtuous soul and all his inherited good qualities. All these made him so strong that he wouldn't be drifted by the sins of the milieu he lived in. Nevertheless he was so firm enough to educate that low society with high lessons of morals and principles. It was so necessary for such a man to be existed in a period between two prophets or after the cease of the divine revelation lest Allah wouldn't be answerable before his people.

(1) The existence of Abu Talib after Abdul Muttalib was an inevitable necessity. Such deportment had to be a sign for a divine mission, which would shine to drive the dark cloud prevailing over the existence away. But it might be surprising for those, who used to live under the darkness and that it might be too difficult for them to open their eyes before a bright lamp.

There must be a lamp sending a ray as a good omen of shining light later on and there must be a star to guide those, who walked under the darkness of the night lest they fell into an abyss of deviation ... so there must be one like Abu Talib to be as evidence of Allah before His people. And really he was. He was the educator of Muhammad (s) and one of the signs leading to the near appearing of the prophecy.

No one would deny that the personality of Abu Talib had all the qualities of the well-quallified leader, the virtuous aspects and the high excellences, which made him distinguished from all around him and surrounded him with a halo of respect and admiration. ____________ 1 Refer to al-Abbas p.18-19, Biharul Anwar, vol.6 p.302, 475, Ikmaluddeen p.102, Mo'jamul Quboor, vol.1 p.190, 200 and al-Ghadeer, vol.7 p.390, 395.

He was the fount of goodness and the respective fortress, to which wronged and weak people resorted. He was the generous, from whose hand the destitute ladled. He was the one, whom people entreated when the Heaven held its rain. He was so humane towards his relatives. He hurried to relieve the distressed.