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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Abu Talib (a.s) The Day of the Warning Another day came. It was not less important than that day of the revelation of the mission. When the Quranic verse of the Warning (And warn your nearest relations ... Quran, 26:214) was reveled to the Prophet believed in the mission, to invite the close relatives of Quraysh and to tell them about the purpose of this invitation but the crowed separated without any use. The Prophet (s) tried again to gather them.
And as soon as he finished his speech, his uncle Abu Talib said to him: "How much we like to assist you, to accept your relatives gathering and I am one of them but I am the first of them to do what you like. Follow what you are ordered of. By Allah, I will still be your guard and protector but my self doesn't obey me to give up the religion of Abdul Muttalib." (1) Abu Lahab (2) objected to Abu Talib by saying: "By Allah, this is the evil!
Prevent him (Muhammad) before he will spoil the others." Abu Talib answered him: "By Allah, we will defend him as long as we are alive." (3) Then he turned to his nephew and said: "O my ____________ 1 Al-Kamil by ibnul Atheer, vol.2 p.41. 2 He was one of the Prophet's uncles. 3 Al-Kamil by ibnul Atheer, vol.2 p.41, as-Seera al-Halabiyya, vol.1 p.321. master! Get up and say whatever you like. Inform of your God's mission.
You are the most truthful, the most honest." (1) What a faith that overcame Abu Talib to make him rush from among more than forty persons, who were seized by ignorance and whose eyes were covered by a haze that they couldn't see the light shining from the mission of this new prophet. It was Abu Talib, who offered his support, who accepted the advice and who believed what his nephew had said.
Wouldn't this refer to the deep faith, the true submission and the reasonable obedience of him, who could distinguish between the truth and the falsehood? If Abu Talib hadn't believe in the Prophet's mission, he would have adopted another situation like that of Abu Lahab and he wouldn't confute Abu Lahab so severely until he said to him: "Be silent, O you to say so ... !? (2) Weren't Abu Talib and Abu Lahab two brothers and both of them were uncles of the Prophet (s)?