Not a year had passed since the emigration that took the Prophet and his devoted companions from their homeland to a foreign city; a city that would become their new home providing them the much needed shelter from the tyranny of those who were by birth their closest. The brutality shown by neighbours and kinsmen could reach such heights that would force them out of their homes was perhaps not imagined but by those who understood the nature of the prophetic message and the demands of the path of God. One such noble and farsighted person was the Christian relative of the Prophet’s wife, Waraqah bin Naufal.