Were even forced to eat grass and the leaves of trees.Īt last, when the siege was lifted this year, Abu Talib, the Holy Prophet's uncle, who had been shielding him for ten long years, died, and hardly a month later his wife, Hadrat Khadijah, who had been a source of peace and consolation for him ever since the beginning of the call, also passed away. This boycott which continued uninterrupted for three years had broken the back of the Muslims and the Bani Hashim so much so that at times they
But even at that time whenever Abu Lahab noticed any of them approaching the market place or a trading caravan he would call out to the merchants exhorting them to announce forbidding rates of their articles for them, and would pledge that he himself would buy those articles so that they did not suffer any loss. Only during the Hajj season they were allowed to come out and buy some articles of necessity. The Quraish had blocked up this locality from every side so that no supplies of any kind could reach the besieged people. The Quraish and the other tribes had continued their boycott of the Bani Hashim and the Muslims for three years and the Holy Prophet and the people of his family and Companions lay besieged in Shi'b Abi Talib. The 10th year of the Prophethood was a year of extreme persecution and distress in the Holy prophet's life. And according to all authentic historical traditions he had gone to Ta'if three years before the Hijrah therefore it is determined that this Surah was sent down towards the end of the 10th year or in the early part of the 11th year of the Prophethood. This incident of the visit of the jinn and their going back after listening to the Qur'an had occurred, according to agreed traditions of the Hadith and biographical literature, at the time when the Holy Prophet had halted at Makkah during his return journey from Ta'if to Makkah. It is determined by an historical event that has been mentioned in vv.
It is derived from the sentence idh andhara qauma-hu bil Ahqaf-i of verse 21.
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