our Prophet (Peace be upon him) , that is, he is the servant of Allâh, His Messenger, His spirit and His
Word breathed into Virgin Mary." The king at once remarked, "Even so do we believe. Blessed be you,  and blessed be your master." Then turning to the frowning envoys and to his bishops who got angry,  he  said: "You may fret and fume as you like but Jesus is nothing more than what Ja'far has said about  him." He then assured the Muslims of full protection. He returned to the envoys of Quraish, the gifts  they had brought with them and sent them away. The Muslims lived in Abyssinia (Ethiopia)  unmolested  for a number of years till they returned to Madinah.
In this way Quraish's malicious intentions recoiled on them and their machination met with utter  failure.
They came to fully realize that the grudge they nursed against he Muslims would not operate but  within  their realm of Makkah. They consequently began to entertain a horrible idea of silencing the advocate  of  the new Call once and for all, through various channels of brutality, or else killing him. An obstinate  difficulty, however, used to curtail any move in this direction embodied by the Prophets  ' uncle Abu
Talib  and the powerful social standing he used to enjoy as well as the full protection and support he used to  lend to his nephew. The pagans of Makkah therefore decided to approach Abu Talib for the second  time  and insisted that he put a stop to his nephews  ' activities, which if allowed unchecked, they said, would  involve him into severe hostility. Abu Talib was deeply distressed at this open threat and the breach  with his people and their enmity, but he could not afford to desert the Messenger too. He sent for his  nephew and told him what the people had said, "Spare me and yourself and put not burden on me  that
I cant ' bear." Upon this the Prophet (Peace be upon him) thought that his uncle would let him down  and  would no longer support him, so he replied:
"O my uncle! by Allâh if they put the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left on condition  that I abandon this course, until Allâh has made me victorious, or I perish therein, I would not  abandon it." The Prophet (Peace be upon him) got up, and as he turned away, his uncle called  him and said, "Come back, my nephew," and when he came back, he said, "Go and preach what  you please, for by Allâh I will never forsake you."
He then recited two lines of verse pregnant with meanings of full support to the Prophet (Peace be  upon  him) and absolute gratification by the course that his nephew had chalked out in Arabia.
ONECE MORE QURAISH APPROACHES ABU TALIB: Quraish, seeing that the Messenger of Allâh
(Peace be upon him) was still intent on his Call, realized that Abu Talib would never forsake his  nephew  even if this incurred their enmity. Some of them then went to see him once more taking with them a  youth called A ' marah bin Al -Waleed bin Al-Mugheerah, and said, "O Abu Talib! we have brought you a  smart boy still in the bloom of his youth, to make use of his mind and strength and take him as your  son in exchange for your nephew, who has run counter to your religion, brought about social discord,  found fault with your way of life, so that we kill him and rid you of his endless troubles; just man for  man." Abu Talibs  ' reply was, "It is really an unfair bargain. You give me your son to bring him up and I  give you my son to kill him! By Allâh, it is something incredible!!" Al-Muti' m bin A ' di, a member of the  delegation, interrupted saying that Quraish had been fair in that bargain because "they meant only to  rid you of that source of hateful trouble, but as I see you are determined to refuse their favours." Abu
Talib, of course, turned down all their offers and challenged them to do whatever they pleased.
Historical resources do not give the exact date of these two meetings with Abu Talib. They, however,  seem more likely to have taken place in the sixth year of Prophethood with a brief lapse of time in  between.
THE TYRANTS' DECISION TO KILL THE PROPHET: Now that all the schemes and conspiracof
Quraish had failed, they resorted to their old practices of persecution and inflicting tortures on the
Muslims in a more serious and brutal manner than ever before. They also began to nurse the idea of  killing the Prophet (Peace be upon him). In fact, contrary to their expectations, this new method and  this very idea served indirectly to consolidate the Call to Islam and support it with the conversion of  two