The deaths of Khadija r.a and Abu Talib had taken it's toll. With Abu Lahab's 'advisers' ensuring his protection towards the Prophet s.a.w. was taken back, high up the mountains lay the city of Ta'if, who would mock and ridicule the initial call to Islam. Pelting him with stones, they would drive him out of the city leaving him in a state of shock.
With blood soaking his sandals, he found some shelter under a tree and raised his hands to Allah. Some scholars have said, this is a dua whose words are enough to show it has come from the heart of a Prophet.
"O Allah! To you I complain of my weakness in strength. And my helplessness before men.
You are The Most Merciful of all those who have mercy. And you are the Lord of those who are humble.
And you are my Lord.
To whom do you leave me with O Allah? To somebody who's a stranger, who's going to treat me harshly, or to a close relative to whom you have given power over me?
As long as you are not angry with me, then I don't care.
Except for the fact that your protection from tribulation, your ease and comfort, this is more easy for me.
O Allah! I seek refuge in your face, your face that is the source of all the light, that releases darkness and because of which all of the affairs of this world and the next are rightly guided.
I seek refuge in your face that your anger comes down upon me or your wrath envelopes me.
It is your right to criticise until you are content.
And there is no power or change, except with you and through you"
Almost instantaneously, the Prophet s.a.w's dua was answered..
