But now as the fortress...

But now as the fortress, which protected the prophet (s) from the evils of Quraysh, was ruined when the defending lion was put in the grave, the beasts of Quraysh ____________ 1 Sheikh Abtah p.44 quoted from al-Majlisi, al-Mufeed and ibn Hajar in his Issaba, vol.7 p.112. found the way empty and guardless.

So they began to harm the Prophet (s) with all kinds of harm, torment, mockery and bitter insult; therefore the image of Abu Talib would have never left the mind of the Prophet (s) especially at this moment when he felt that he was in extreme need of him. Once he came into his house and his hair was stained with dust that some of the impudents of Quraysh had poured upon his head. His daughter became sad and began to cry. She tried to remove the dust from her father's head.

He calmed her down saying: "Don't cry my daughter! Allah protects your father." Then he added after remembering the past of his uncle Abu Talib when no one could dare to touch a hair of him: "Quraysh couldn't hurt me until Abu Talib died!" (1) On every occasion such words came out of his mouth expressing his longing to his uncle and his need of him and of his glorious past: "O uncle! How sudden I felt your absence!" (2) Allah willed to try his messenger.

It was fated that he had to face two disasters each of them was bitterer that the other. Nearly in the same days he lost two supporters, who so often assisted and supported him in his distresses; Abu Talib, with his powerfulness and strength, who had ____________ 1 As-Seera an-Nabawiyya, vol.1 p.88, 281, as-Seera al-Halabiyya, vol.1 p.291, as-Seera al-Hishamiyya, vol.2 p.58, at-Tabari's Tareekh, vol.2 p,80, ibnul Atheer's Tareekh, vol.2 p.63, al-Manaqib, vol.1 p.38, Biharul Anwar, vol.6 p.430, 528, Sheikhul Abtah, p.51, Abu Talib, p.91, al-Ghadeer, vol.7 p.377, Imam Ali, the Voice of Justice, p.36 (vol.1 p.60), A'yan ash-Shia, vol.39, p.127.

2 As-Seera an-Nabawiyya, vol.1 p.88, 281, as-Seera al-Halabiyya, vol.1 p.291, as-Seera al-Hishamiyya, vol.2 p.58, at-Tabari's Tareekh, vol.2, p.80, ibnul Atheer's Tareekh, vol.2 p.63, al-Manaqib, vol.1 p.38, Biharul Anwar, vol.6 p.430, 528, Sheikhul Abtah, p.51, Abu Talib, p.91, al-Ghadeer, vol.7 p.377, Imam Ali, the Voice of Justice, p.36 (vol.1 p.60), A'yan ash-Shia, vol.39, p.127.