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ABU TALIB The faithful of Quraysh
book. After faltering with weak steps in a zigzag way, ibn Abul Hadeed returned to
contradict himself by saying: One of the Talibites[320] wrote a book about the
faithfulness of Abu Talib.[321] He sent it to me and asked me to write a preface for it
whether in poetry or prose to witness that the evidences mentioned in the book were
true. I hesitated to give a final decision about that because I had some doubt about it
But I couldnt refrain from glorifying Abu Talib because I knew that without him Islam
would never stand and I knew that he had done favors that every Muslim must be
grateful to him in this life until the Day of Resurrection, so I wrote on the back of the book
these verses: Without Abu Talib and his son, the religion wouldnt be so firm to stand.
That in Mecca; sheltered and defended, and this in Medina ready to die. Abd Manaf[322]
undertook the task and died, then came Ali to complete it. Praise a mountain that passed,
after achieving what he had and leaving but glory! How great! This began the guidance,
and that concluded with nobilities! No nonsense of an ignorant would harm the glory of
Abu Talib, nor would any of eyesight feigning to be blind. As no one seeing the light of day
as darkness, would harm the signs of morning. So I gave him his due of glory and honor in
full and at the same time I didnt determine a matter that I was not certain about.[323]
We found the contradiction clearly in his passage before his verses when he said that he
hesitated to decide about the faithfulness of Abu Talib because he was in doubt about it
but he couldnt refrain from glorifying the man, who was the basis of the great edifice of
Islam, without whom Islam wouldnt stand and whose favors made every Muslim
grateful to him in this life until the Day of Resurrection! These were two contradictories
that couldnt meet together; Abu Talib was unbeliever! But without him Islam wouldnt
stand nor would be there a basis for Islam to be erected upon, therefore the Muslims had
to be grateful to him! What an unbeliever he was after all that! Wherefrom did he get that
right to be thanked and respected by the Muslims until the Day of Resurrection? Was that
because of his unbelief? And how was he the basis and the pillar of the great structure of
Islam? Could an unbeliever be such? After all that, ibn Abul Hadeed wrote on the book his
verses, in which the rightness was so clear. He showed the great deeds of Abu Talib and
his son Imam Ali (s), who were the two pillars of Islam and without whom Islam
wouldnt succeed or stand. The father began the struggle and established the base of
the structure and then the son completed the structure. The father protected and
defended the Prophet (s) and then the son often faced death in the way of supporting the
Prophet (s). The great task that the father had undertook but died before it reached the