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Summary of the Prophet’s biography | Musa bin Rashid Al-Azmi | H (34) | Quraysh negotiations with Abu Talib regarding the matter of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
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Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
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A Summary of the Prophetic biography (Seerah).
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The negotiations of Quraysh with Abu Talib regarding the Prophet, peace be upon him.
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When Quraysh realized that their oppression of the vulnerable among the Muslims,
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and their hostility toward others,
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did not turn the people away from responding to the call of Allah,
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they resorted to the method of negotiation once again.
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They went to Abu Talib again and said to him:
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"O Abu Talib,
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you possess age, honor, and status among us.
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We have asked you to restrain your nephew, yet you have not restrained him from us.
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By Allah, we can no longer endure this insulting of our forefathers,
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this mockery of our intelligence, and this disparagement of our gods,
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unless you restrain him from us,
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or we shall fight both him and you regarding this matter,
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until one of the two parties is destroyed."
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It weighed heavily upon Abu Talib to be estranged from his people and to face their enmity,
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yet he could not bring himself to hand over the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, nor to abandon him.
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He sent for the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and said to him:
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"O my nephew, your people have come to me,
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and they have said such-and-such,"
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referring to what they had told him.
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"So, have mercy upon me and upon yourself,
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and do not burden me with a matter I cannot bear."
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The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, thought
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that his uncle had reached his limit regarding him,
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and that he was going to abandon him and hand him over,
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and that he had become too weak to support him or stand by his side.
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The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said:
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"O my uncle,
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by Allah, if they were to place the sun in my right hand,
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and the moon in my left,
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on the condition that I abandon this matter,
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until Allah makes it manifest or I perish in the process,
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I would not abandon it."
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Then the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, was overcome with emotion and wept.
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Then he stood up.
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As he turned to leave,
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Abu Talib called out to him and said:
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"Come back, O my nephew."
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The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, turned back to him,
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and he said:
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"Go, O my nephew, and say whatever you wish.
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For by Allah, I will never hand you over to anyone, ever."
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Then he said:
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"By Allah, they shall never reach you with their collective might,
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until I am laid in the earth, buried."
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"So proclaim your command; you have nothing to fear.
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Rejoice, and let that bring coolness to your eyes."
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In a narration by al-Hakim in his Mustadrak with a hasan (sound) chain,
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on the authority of 'Aqil Ibn Abi Talib, he said:
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"Quraysh came to Abu Talib and said:
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'Your nephew is harming us in our religion and in our assembly,
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so forbid him from harming us.'
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He said to me, 'O 'Aqil,
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go to Muhammad.'
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He said: So I went to him,
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and I brought him out from a small room."
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Talha said: "A small house."
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It was at midday, due to the intense heat,
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and he was seeking the shade,
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walking in it because of the intense heat of the sun-scorched ground.
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So we came to them,
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and Abu Talib said:
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'Your cousins claim that you are harming them in their club and in their assembly,
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so refrain from that.'
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The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, raised his gaze to the sky and said:
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'Do you see this sun?'
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They said: 'Yes.'
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He said:
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'I am no more capable of abandoning this than you are
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of lighting a flame from it.'
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Abu Talib then said:
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'We have never known my nephew to lie.
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So go back.'"
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A Summary of the Prophetic biography (Seerah).
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Authored by Sheikh Musa bin Rashid al-'Azim,
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and presented by the Mawaddah Society in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
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If the longing of the worlds for one another grows long,
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the longing for you has no fathomable end.
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May Allah send blessings upon you as long as the call to prayer is raised,
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and as long as lips move with the remainder of the remembrance.