Torturing Committee

Efforts of the misbelievers to check the preaching of Reality by the Holy Prophet were not proving satisfactorily effective and this was adding fuel to their worries. So a committee of Chieftains of Quraish was constituted, which was to be headed by Abi Lahub. This committee resolved to spare no stone unturned in opposing Islam, torturing Holy Prophet and to treat every Muslim brutally and cruelly.

Abi Lahub, in his animosity to Holy Prophet crossed every limit and had excelled this extent that when Holy Prophet lost his son, he joyfully approached his comrades and announced in rejoice that Mohammad has lost his tail i.e. there would be no name carrier to him.

To compensate the grief caused due to Abi Lahub's remarks God consoled Holy Prophet in the following manner:

To thee have We granted the Abundant Virtue, therefore worship thy Lord and sacrifices for Him. Indeed the one who hates you will lose his tail (cut off from his posterity)

(Sura Kusar)

One day when Holy Prophet was busy in worshipping God Almighty in the holy Ka'aba, Abu Jehal came there along with his few fellows.

He was having camel-tripe filled with filth and blood. Now this was one of the methods of Arabs that when they had to inflict a painful death on a person, they used to strangulate that person with filth-filled camel tripe in such a way that the head of the person would he caught in the tripe and it was tied around the head like a bag. This would suffocate that person to death in the most horrifying manner. Abu Jehal and his cronies had come there to kill Holy Prophet using the camel tripe to make his death a lesson for others.

When they entered the holy Kaaba, Holy Prophet was engrossed in worshipping God. His prostration with engrossment made the task of Ahu Jehal easier and he trapped him in that state and tied the camel tripe around his head, neck and shoulders like a bag. When Holy Prophet had the realization that he had been strangulated, he tried to get himself' free but he couldn't manage to get rid of that. The people present there, even if they wanted to rescue him, couldn't dare to help him for the fear of Abu Jehal's enmity and vengeance.

A woman of Quraish's tribe who couldn't withstand that terrifying painful scene rushed to inform the family of holy Prophet. Ruqia, Holy Prophet's daughter upon hearing about this gruesome incident ran crying towards Kaaba. Ahu Jehal and his cronies turned aside upon seeing Ruqia and she helped her father in releasing him from that death trap of camel tripe and cleaned his face with her shirt. It took almost one hour that Holy Prophet could gather his senses and overcome the feebleness caused because of the suffocation. When he regained his senses his daughter helped him to walk to his home.

His daughter helped him to wash the filth and blood and change the clothes which she washed for him and put them in the sun to dry.

Next day without feeling afraid of yesterday's event, Holy Prophet went to Kaaba occupied his place and got busy with his worship. When he prostrated, this time Aqba covered him with his shawl and attacked him. This sudden attack was such a fierce attack that it caused Holy prophet to bleed profusely. Aqba attempted that he could finish Holy Prophet before he could rise from prostration. But, he couldn't succeed in his attempt and Holy Prophet managed to save himself from that deadly attack and reached home with bleeding nose and face.

Arwa, the wife of Abi Lahub known as Um-e-Jameel was the daughter of Abu Sufyan. To support her husband's campaign against Holy Prophet she wanted to be amongst the leaders of the campaign. She used to cast poisonous thorns on the paths and the doorway of the Holy Prophet. And, that was the malicious act that has been condemned in the Sura Lahuh.

When she came to know that Holy Prophet rehearses verses in condemnation of her and her husband's malicious activities, taking few stones in her hands to hit Holy Prophet, she reached the Kaaba. At that time Abu Bakkar (RA) was accompanying Holy Prophet. She approached Abu Bakkar and asked him, "Where is your friend? I have come to know that he rehearses couplets against me. I will hit his face with these stones, if I found him."After having created quite a scene she left from there.

Bewildered Abu Bakkar inquired the Holy Prophet how was that she couldn't see you. Holy Prophet replied, "God had suspended her vision in this regard for the moment."

Umiyia Bin Khulf was also one of the members of' Abu Lahub's team, he used to scold and abused Holy Prophet when and wherever he would found him. The very first verse of Sura Hamza hints about the same mischievous person.

"Woe to every scandalmonger and backbiter.

Akhnas Bin Shareeq Sayfi was also amongst those who took pleasure in teasing the Holy Prophet. The holy Quran refers to his mischievous activities in the Sura Qalum in the following words.

"Obey not very mean, swearer, slanderer, going about with calumnies - habitually hindering all good, transgressing bounds deep in sin, violent and cruel, with that, of a doubtful birth.

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