employed for the purpose. This was certainly the easiest as well as the best method to
convey an accurate impact and significance of Prophethood, wherein the allegorical mode
of expressing such a complex reality was without parallel in the teachings of any other
Prophet or founder of religion.
The words of the Prophet (r) so struck the Quraysh that they stood silent and still. Abu
Lahab, at last, took courage and exclaimed,
“May you perish! Is it for this that you have brought us here?"