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Answer:
b) Candidates should be able to draw examples from their own lives, or
from current affairs, to show how forgiveness can be practically applied.
Relevant answers should be credited with better answers being able to
show a sense of the importance of forgiveness in those situations.
a) Seeing the persecutions, Prophet thought of visiting a nearby town
known as Al-Taif and seeking their help. The people of Taif used to worship
the Goddess of Al-Lat and this had a lot of significance for them. Holy
Prophet took his foster son, Hazrat Zayd bin Harith to the walled town so
that they could meet the three brothers (Masud, Habib, Abd Yalil) who were
the caretakers of the temple of Al-Lat. As soon as they were introduced to
Islam, they got offended and started humiliating the Prophet. One of the
brothers said: “God did not find anyone else for His message except you?”
Another said: “I must be naive or a thief if I believed you to be a prophet.”
And so it went on. They then drove both the Holy Prophet and Hazrat Zayd
out of their place and set small children with rocks in their hands to chase
them down. These children threw stones on them and both of them started
bleeding heavily when finally, they found refuge in an orchard which was
walled from all ends. Holy Prophet, while bleeding prayed to Allah in the
following words “To You, my Lord, I complain of my weakness, lack of
support, and the humiliation
permission to bury the city; the Prophet (pbuh) refused and instead
prayed for believers to be born from their progeny. Further
development, such as the name of the tribe in Ta’if, the conversation
with the servant Addas, and Jibril and the Angel of the Mountain,
details of the incident in which some jinn came to the Prophet (pbuh)
and accepted Islam, as well as the Prophet (pbuh) gaining protection
from Mut’im ibn Adi, are all important developments that will take
the answer to a higher level.