
Through this tarbiyah we will become more
dutiful towards weighty responsibilities and firm through necessary hardships
that Allah may later place upon us. When the Islamic State was established in
Medina, the
Prophet (S) relied most on the early Muslims who held firmly to Islam at a time
when being Muslim meant torture and persecution and who thus had the
best Islamic training e.g., in the Battle of Hunain, when the Muslims were
almost defeated, the Prophet (S) asked his uncle, ’Abbaas to call
out "O Ansaar," (the early, dedicated Muslims) to stand their ground.