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"It is God Who sends the winds and
they raise the clouds, then He spreads them in the sky as He Wills, and breaks
them into fragments, until thou seest rain-drops issued from the midst thereof:
then when He has made them reach such of His servants as He Wills, Behold they
do rejoice!"
(S: 30, V: 48)
When Makka was suffering from famine due to
protracted drought and dry weather people asked Abu Talib to pray for the rain.
Children's sufferings because of famine were unbearable. Abu Talib took the
young apostle with him and came to Ka’aba and prayed for the rain in the wake
of the suffrings of the children especially. It didn't take long and it started
raining torrentially to quench the thirst of the earth. Abu Talib used to recite a couplet meaning, "That
beautiful face that causes Him to rain."
When in his twelfth year Mohammad visited
Basra with Abu Talib, they met a monk named Baheera, who holding the hand of
young apostle said God has made him the Mercy for the Worlds. Abu Talib could
not resist asking in surprise that what did make him to say that his nephew was
the Mercy for the Worlds. How could he say that?
Monk Baheera said, "When you had
entered the valley there wasn't a thing that had not bowed in prostration of
respect for this young man. Mohammad (PBUH).
