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.