Abu Talib

Mecca was a city of people where everyone from men to women, from the young to the old was preoccupied with poetry. Abu Talib was one of those who composed poems of praise on different occasions for the Prophet (pbuh) whose supreme attributes, exemplary morals, unique virtues and pure ancestry were accepted by everyone from enemies to friends. The uncle and the guardian of the Prophet, Abu Talib, composed a qasidah of ten couplets on the historic cutting off of relations and the blockade by the Meccan idolaters against the Muslims. In this qasidah, he talks about how the people of Quraish turned against him because of his protection of his nephew, then goes on to praise the nobility of Allah’s Apostle and underlines that he will continue to guard him.