The Quraish stood firm in their convictions and persisted in calling all this
Jewish history, and so the next verse reads:
Tales of the Ancients that he hath put in writing and they were dictated to
him morning and evening. 6.
The Quraish now adopted another course. They cut off the family of Muhammad
from all social intercourse with the rest of the people, or, in modern language,
boycotted it, and for a while Muhammad and his kinsmen were confined to an
isolated quarter of the city. At length, however, some of the Quraish began to
relent, but just at this time Muhammad lost by death Abu Talib, his protector,
and five weeks later Khadija, his wise and loving wife. This brought matters to
a crisis. The Prophet, saddened, lonely and well-nigh hopeless, thought he would
try whether the people of Ta'if, a city about seventy miles east of Mecca, would
receive the man whom Mecca rejected. Accompanied by the faithful Zaid, Muhammad
entered the city, waited on the chief men and explained his mission, but they
would neither receive him nor accept his teaching. After ten days, he was stoned
and so, wounded and weary, he had to flee away from the city. About half way on
the return journey he halted in the valley of Nakhla. Excited by all he had gone
through, saddened at the rejection of his message by men, he saw, in
imagination, crowds of Jinn (Genii) embracing the faith.
Then Sura Al-Jinn (lxxii) was revealed 1:
Say: it hath been revealed to me that a company of