As for Jezebel, it is said that she ordered the killing of prophets 1 Kings The supporters of Baal called upon their god to send fire to consume their sacrifice, but nothing happened.
When Elijah called upon the name of the Lord, fire came down from heaven immediately and consumed their offering. Eventually Ahab in killed in battle, and when Elisha, successor to the prophet Elijah, anoints Jehu king of Israel, the latter had the house of Ahab killed. Jezebel was captured by her enemies, thrown out of a window, trampled by a horse, and her flesh eaten by dogs.
The damnable activities of both couples as they are presented in the respective texts relate in a compelling way. Stones tied around necks seems to have been a well-known form of execution as attested to in the Gospels e. Abu Lahab and some other people stole a golden gazelle from the Ka'ba , but he escaped the punishment after the intercession of his maternal uncles from the Khuza'a tribe.
Abu Lahab's bondwoman, Thuwayba, breastfed the Prophet s for a while. Abu Lahab always believed that the Prophet's s miracles were merely magic. He tried to damage the Prophet's s reputation by mounting a relentless smear campaign thus interuppting the propagation of Islam.
Abu Lahab was among the heads of the Quraysh who planned to assassinate the Prophet s overnight while he was asleep. After the Prophet's s Hijra migration , Abu Lahab did not attend the Battle of Badr against the Prophet s , but he sent another person in his stead. Abu Lahab died of a disease, seven days after the Battle of Badr.
Abu Lahab was Lubna's only child. Very little is known about Abu Lahab's life before the emergence of Islam, but the second verse of Sura al-Masad [4] 'His wealth will not avail him or that which he gained' implies that he was, just like other people of the Quraysh, engaged in business and had gained a wealth.
Abu Lahab and some other people stole a golden gazelle endowed to the Ka'ba by 'Abd al-Muttalib. When the thieves were arrested, the hands of some of them were amputated as a punishment, but Abu Lahab's maternal uncles from the Khuza'a tribe did not let his hands be amputated.
Just before his death, 'Abd al-Muttalib gathered his children and recommended them to undertake the custody of Muhammad s. When Abu Lahab volunteered for the task, 'Abd al-Muttalib told him: "you just do not be wicked to him! After the Bi'that of the Prophet s , Abu Lahab turned into one of the most ardent enemies of the Prophet s. He is known in the history of the early Islam for his enmity to the Prophet s.
Abu Lahab served the idol, 'Uzza. It is narrated that he said: "if 'Uzza wins, then I am its servant, and if Muhammad wins, which he will not, he is the son of my brother. When al-Indhar Verse was revealed, the Prophet s was commissioned by God to begin his public call to Islam from his own relatives. He invited the children of 'Abd al-Muttalib to his house.
Although there was little food there, everyone ate and was fed. The importance of writing about these bullies is to re-present them, and by doing so, we revisit the struggles of the Prophet and his followers of the early days of Islam in their hands and the hands of other oppressors.
We are also able to easily find wise approach in dealing with tyrants of our time. Perhaps, this was because he was more a foxlike and would conspire the attacks against the Prophet, rather than carry them out personally. The two men had one thing in common; hatred for the Prophet, and thus they went the extra mile they could to tarnish his image or get him killed.
To achieve their goals, they ganged up as allies and associates. Together, they organized the three-year economic and social sanction against the Muslims in Makkah. The boycott banned any trade or any contract of marriage between the Muslims and idolaters. As a result of this other evil conducts, the two men shall be united in hell for the same reason they allied in this life.
May Allah protect us from the torment of hell. In fact, they rejected him because the message he came with was not descended through them or any of their children.
When news spread of the birth of the Prophet , he freed a slave. Therefore, his relationship with the Prophet was strong even before Prophethood. Dark ages and the time of ignorance was to prescribe as he became one of the biggest and deadliest enemies of Islam. His turmoil, his torture, his torment increased day by day at the uprising of Islam. Even his wife had the same attitude towards the Holy Prophet as he did as she was extremely hostile towards the Prophet.
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