From this still god they expected help and success.

From this still god they expected help and success. The same hands, which made this god, extended towards it praying, begging and fearing so much. That was the utmost decline of the intellectuality, the human values and the creative mind of man. From among those houses there was one house that no thread of that darkness entered and the lamp, which Prophet Abraham (s) had lit, was still alight and no wind could put it out. This house still believed in the true belief of Abraham.

This house never doubted about the truthfulness of the mission of Abraham, by which he had proved the monotheism of the One and Only God. This house, which was related to Abraham in two ways; the wasy of progeny and fatherhood and the way of faith and monotheism, was but continuance of the mission of Abraham (s). In this faithful house, which neither ignorance nor polytheism had soiled ... in this honored house Abu Talib opened his eyes towards the route of life.

He saw in this house a life different from the life he saw among people and he lived a life different from that people lived. He saw in the chief of this house -his father Abdul Muttalib- a man different from the other man. He didn't see in those people save masses of fleshes and bones or dolls without a bit of reason.

He opened his eyes to see as what Di'bil (1) later on would open his eyes to see and to cry: "I open my eyes towards many, but I see none!" He saw in his father, Abdul Muttalib, the obeyed leader and the respected man, who carried out whatever he said and judged and no one would deny his judgement. He saw so generous. He used to serve banquets that even the rider would get his share from upon his camel.

Some food was put on the tops of the mountains that birds and beasts might eat from until he was called (the profluent) and (the feeder of the birds of the sky). He prayed Allah and Allah responded to his prayers. He was pleased with by Allah in the heaven and was praised on the earth; therefore he was called (Shaybatul Hamd; the old man of praise). He saw in his father many excellences that no one other than his father had.

Abdul Muttalib enacted many laws that showed his guidance, sublimity, purity of innerself and the great faith that he compiled with what Abraham (s) had preached at. He forbade himself from ____________ 1 He was a famous poet. He lived during the Abbasid age. He used to defend the Hashemites and to criticize the rulers in his poems.