Omar Ibn Al Khattab (ra): His Leadership, His Legacy, His Death | The Firsts with Dr. Omar Suleiman

your brothers and sisters as we come now to the final lesson in the life of um i want to emphasize that you could literally spend 50 or 60 weeks with um is extensive in every way you could learn taqwa from um you could study islamic history through um because as we talked about last week in that decade of his khilafah islam spread to almost every majority muslim country that we know today you could talk about his iman and his lessons in faith and truth seeking you could talk about any of the virtues that we covered in the second lecture of um you could also talk about legal precedence the fik of um his understanding the entire idea of makasta sharia the higher objectives of islamic law based upon the decision-making of um and all of it would not be enough to sufficiently cover this man or the allah so what i want to do tonight inshaallah ta'ala is i want to get to the circumstances surrounding his death but before that i want to speak about him from the perspective of his leadership and him seeing himself and the ummah seeing him as the shepherd of this flock truly the the shepherd of this flock as the prophet salallahu every one of you is a shepherd and every single one of you is responsible for their flocks was the shepherd of this ummah and he is rightfully called amir al-mu'mineen the first person in history to be called the commander of the believers and by the way that was from the philip of abu bakr allah and it just fits him so perfectly abu bakr allah was his title was khalifa rasulillah the khalifa of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam who understood that you know instead of it being khalifa khalifa to rasulullah islam the khalifa of the khalifa of the prophet saws and then the khalifa which means successor the caliph of the khalifa the khalifa of rasulallah then you should find some other title that fits this position and so um was the first person to be addressed with this lofty title of amir al-mu'min the commander of the believers and when we look at his we find that one of the things that made him such a worthy khalifa such a worthy leader was that he never felt worthy never in his entire history as a khalifa did um feel like he belonged did he feel like he had arrived from the very beginning when he assumes the khilafah and he was so exhausted from the very start when abu bakr allah appointed him as such to the last moment of his life when he is laying in the dirt and he is breathing his last or um did not feel a sense of entitlement to this lofty position and that's why he was so good at it made him worthy due to his humility because the more you lower yourself the more that allah subhanahu wa raises you and subhanallah as i was reading through these moments and trying to choose the incidents to illustrate what it means to be a shepherd of this ummah you know subhanallah from the very beginning when he gives his first khutbah as he stands on the men but and he realizes he's standing on the place that the prophet saws stands he says i'm not worthy to stand in the place the prophet saws stood so he gets down and he says this is where abu bakr stood allah i don't belong in the place that abu bakr allah so he gets down to the very lowest step and he addresses the people and subhanallah that is where he makes this dua to allah in his inaugural allah allah i am weak so make me strong o allah i am harsh so make me gentle o allah i am miserly or i may be stingy at times so make me generous this was his du'a he assumed the position of leadership over this ummah and we know that um is defined by justice so much so that a tyrant would fear omar but you would never fear tyranny from um you never had to fear being oppressed by um so i wanted to go through some of these things subhanallah first and foremost his fear of allah with the ummah his fear of allah with the ummah and being asked about the ummah because that's ultimately the fear that he carries with him at the moment of his death um one time he asked he said am i a king or a khalifa he said if you take from the land or the money of the muslims a dirham or less that does not belong to you then you're a king and if you uphold the rights of the muslims and you don't cheat them even with a dirham or lust then you started to weep and he started to seek refuge and allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when it came to the people that um would be asked about subhanallah look at how noble he is he said wallahi if i live long enough i will not leave a single widow from the people of iraq in need of anyone but me she will never need anyone else i want to take care of the armala of the widows of this ummah i want to take care of the orphans of this ummah um was exhausted of the thought of the animal subhanallah one time he walked up to a camel and the camel looked exhausted and he put his hand on the camel and he said i fear that allah will cause you to testify against me on the day of judgment and he started to weep he said i swear that if the sheep dies on the shore of the euphrates i fear that allah subhanahu ta'ala will hold me accountable for it on the day of judgment that was who he was and this is what he imparted upon the ummah one of the authentic narrations from um one of the things he said to the believers it's so profound and i want you to think about the khutbas over the last few weeks he said test and you have a hungry believer amongst you so his admonishing of the ummah as well as admonishing himself and the most frequent verse that you would hear um and that tells you a lot about a person right the verse that he would recite so frequently and for the one who fears the standing before his lord is two gardens he was so afraid of that standing before allah and being asked about those that were under his care so what did he used to do he used to seek refuge in allah subhanahu wa he used to worship allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he used to ask allah for help and you never saw um during the day except that he was walking between the people in their marketplaces and around tending to their needs and you never saw him at night which is going to be the bulk of our discussion before we get to his death except that he was walking through the streets and caring for the members of his ummah he was also a man of surah and this is something that's very important because the prophet saws said that um was what from the muhammad those who were divinely inspired towards the truth was so right that the quran agreed upon agreed with him on multiple occasions now at that point wouldn't you have a chip on your shoulder that the quran came down in agreement with me right that the prophet saws would praise me and say that i am like a man who the angels speak to wouldn't you have a chip on your shoulder but um is marked by what shura he used to see consultation from people he used to first and foremost consult who they said he would consult the sabi the first muslims he would look to the people of badr and then after the people of badr who are the best people those were his his most frequent people to consult he would look to quran to the people of the quran he looked at the people who memorized and who lived the quran and then he looked to the youth and this is something that's very important by the way that um who used to consult young people in the ummah and this is something that imam azuri rahimahullah was once giving khutban we know imam zhuri by the way great hadith collector the first person to formally collect hadith in this ummah and he stood up and he addressed the youth and he said don't belittle yourselves because when um used to face a difficulty and when he needed to consult he would call the young people around him and he would seek their surah he would seek their advice because he saw sharpness and purity in their thoughts would uplift the youth and his ummah and he would seek their consultation and he would put them in a high place subhanallah this was part of his wisdom and creating succession after him in the air in the arena of knowledge in the arena of policy making in all sorts of things we also see that um had a great preference to ah albeit to the family of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam we mentioned that when he went to jerusalem he put who in charge you guys should remember this and subhanallah there are so many different narrations in this regard one of them which is uh which is a beautiful one that i came across that you know one time a man complained to um and in the the most ordinary person could bring the chief of the sahaba and say i want judgment including um you could in front of other companions and say i have a complaint against him and that companion would have to sit and have to listen and have to be impartial even with the khalifa sitting in front of them so in this situation a man came and he brought alibaba he said to um that i have a complaint so um he called him by his kunya hasan and he sat them both down and um he judged in the favor of the other man this was something that used to happen frequently amongst themselves looked upset so um he was afraid he said he said yeah yeah he said do you feel like i wronged you did i did i not give you justice in this regard and he said you didn't treat me and my opponent equally so um who said what did i do wrong and he said you called me by my kunya you called me abu hassan and you called him by his first name so you were not just to the man when you called him to sit next to me look at the way these people think like there was some favoritism in the way you called me over because you didn't say adi and call the man by his first name you said abu hassan which means there is a connection there so um he breathed a sigh of relief and he kissed adira the allah on the forehead and he said may allah subhanahu ta'ala never allow me to be in a land where abu hassan is not may allah not let me dwell on the land that abu hassan is not meaning i need this man next to me uh abdullah um he talks about the favoritism that omar showed to the people of the household so islam of nuzeid the beloved one the son of the beloved one of rasulallah noticed the way that umar was treating him and um said to him that look usama is more beloved to the prophet salla sallam than you are and the father of usama being said was more beloved to the prophet sawsan than your father usable usama was more beloved to the prophet's life some than you and by the way his father was more beloved to the prophet salla islam than your father is so he would always give gifts to us he would treat him in a certain way one time abdullah um he went to the house of um and he knocked on the door and um didn't answer his own son then as he's walking out al-hussein was on the way to the house of umar and abdullah umar tells him that he's probably not home because he's not answering so um comes out afterwards and he tells them hussein why didn't you come to me i was waiting for you and he said well i saw your son on the way out and he said that you weren't you weren't taking anyone at that time he said no no you're different you're different he treats him even better than he treats his own family why because this is the beloved one of the prophet sallallahu alaihi so his idea of surah his idea of preference his idea of love is fully guided as well by this way that he loves allah and his messenger the concept of the concept of the endowments was a theory that started at a very minimal level with the prophet salallahu that this concept grew where people were donating their lands and setting up endowments to take care of the travelers to take care of the sick to take care of the orphans and the widows that was all under um because he called out to the muslims and he said listen who amongst you will donate his garden for allah so that it won't just bear him fruit in this life but it will be a means of his success on the day of judgment he said here this is the garden that the prophet saws gifted me on the day of khaibar i'm giving it to allah i'm giving it for the sake of allah and so the sahaba started to come forward and they started to donate their gardens for the sake of allah it was from that that this concept of actually became a system in the ummah so that's from the wisdom and the and the foresight of umar or and as i get to now you know subhanallah the way he suffered with the muslims you know one of the things that happened with um the man who had 14 patches in his garment is that he got to a point where he no longer had any money to take care of himself so he consults the sahaba even on that and he says to them listen what am i entitled to because i no longer have any earning coming to my house so what am i entitled to from baitur mad i don't want to wrong anyone so some of the sahabah they said you know you're entitled to a fine garment you're entitled to all of your meals and your family's meals you're entitled to a riding animal and whatever you need to conduct your affairs your armor whatever you need to conduct your affairs as amir menin you eat and you feed others that's what you're entitled to told them two meals the khalifa of the muslims you're entitled to two meals from baitlmar um went with that opinion and then he asked them he said well what about his clothing they said that you have a winter cloth and a summer cloth so one for the winter one for the summer and an animal to take yourself to hajj and to umrah and then your regular stipend that any muslim receives from baitlmat and um like that because he said i'm only one of the muslims this was the khalifa of the muslims and subhanallah the stories are so many we mentioned when he went to jerusalem when he said allah purify this garment from the money of the muslims i'll share with you this one story that one time some perfume came to him from bahrain and he said i wish there was someone that could uh that could wave the contents you know like how how strong the perfume is the musk is if it's how how concentrated it is an atika who's atika by the way you guys should remember this from the hotel last night his wife and also this the daughter of zayd muhammad the sister of said okay so been saying she says i can do it i can wait for you and um said no she said how come he said because i'm afraid that you'll take some of it and you'll put it on your neck or on your hands and that way you'll take more than the other muslims would he wanted to give it for the sake of allah i don't even want this much to come on you because it might be it might be a form of transgression that you take more than the other muslim so this is the way that he was and this especially showed in ramada which is known as the year of ashes where the famine hit the ummah so strong that they were praying janazah on tens of sahaba every day in madina and people were coming from all over asking for help the animals were starving the animals were actually attacking people so that they could eat so it became just a dangerous situation for the muslims he says that we were afraid that um was going to die out of his worry for the muslims so beyond just the physical toll that it would take on him we were worried that um was going to die because of how much worry and anxiety he had over the muslims and he used to make this o allah do not let the destruction of the ummah muhammad sallallahu alaihi sallam come at my hands is said we were making dura for the famine to end not because of the pain of the famine but the fear of losing um to the famine like losing omar would have been worse to this famine than losing anyone else including ourselves so we were so worried that we were going to lose him he changed colors because of the deprivation that he experienced his body changed he took an oath by allah subhanahu ta'ala that he would not eat from any yogurt from any from any milk any butter or any meat until the people could afford them and take care of them and subhanallah the people feeling sorry for him they would buy him things and so there was once a man that brought um a piece or a can of yogurt for him and said to him i bought this for you as a gift i want you to eat from an um gave it away in charity and he said i don't like to eat what the muslims can't eat and he was once sitting and as he was sitting his stomach actually started to rumble and this is something subhanallah that i want you to think about that um was sitting in his home and his stomach started to rumble so much that people would hear it and all he would eat was what whatever oil he could find whatever he could whatever he could get off of the lid of something some bread sometimes and that was that was it and he had this famous thing that he would say to his stomach he would say yes he said rumble or don't rumble he's talking to his own stomach he said go ahead and rumble or don't rumble but i swear by allah that you will not be full until the children of the muslims are able to eat that's a leader that's a shepherd refuses to eat what his own ummah cannot eat people would bring him meat and um would say to them i will not touch this meat until every single one of the muslims can afford to eat meat not having it people would bring him gifts of fruit and um would take the grapes and one by one he would he would he would take them apart and he would start handing them to the people outside and he would not even take a bite of those grapes one time he even comes home and there's a narration subhanallah about his son and his son had a piece of watermelon you know these concepts come to life really when you're looking at these stories the sun had watermelon and um walks in and his eyes get big and he says what is this eating watermelon in the time of of ramadan this time of famine and he starts to chase his son around the house to take the watermelon from his hand and his wife says to him ya omar he purchased it from his own money he purchased it from his own money and um until the children of the ummah can eat this it shouldn't be eaten by our children it has to go out there and um this famous saying he said how can i consider myself to be a shepherd of this ummah when i am not touched with what my flock is touched with all of this idea of responsibility for the ummah love for the ummah care for the ummah comes from and this was his attitude in all times in the time of the famine and otherwise that um who hated that he would eat what the ummah could not eat or that the ummah would suffer what he himself would not feel ibn he says that one time we were at hajj and this is changing the culture of the people and safwan umayya he made some fancy food for him and it was on a platter that was carried by four men so these four men that were servants carried the food over to him he's used to do hajj every single year and they put it in front of him and then the four men retreated and they started to stand on the side looked at them and he said to safan he said aren't they going to eat and he said no no this is for us not for them and um he took his stick and he poked safan he almost knocked him over and he said who are you people to give preference to yourselves over these servants he told all four of the men he said sit down this is in hajj he said sit down and eat and they were they were shy they're like is he serious he said sit down and eat in um and he assumed the place that they were assuming this is the leader of the muslims whether they were muslim or not muslim this was how um the examples in this regard are so many i literally have about 30 stories in front of me i can't go through them all you know of governors that would send the allah i know a special dish and um would send them back a really mean letter about why they're sending him a special dish because um considered it a form of bribery don't send me this stuff don't send me these clothes don't send me these dishes take care of those that are under your care and be the way that you are so that when you meet allah subhanahu ta'ala you are not taken to task and so the most famous thing that he becomes known for radhiallahu ta'ala is his night patrols and these night patrols if you remember there was an incident with abu bakr allah just so you know that omar was constantly trying to live up to abu bakr right that's what he said you've exhausted anyone that comes after you because no one can be as good as you remember that time that um followed abu bakr allah out when he was the khalifa and he found him serving an old woman look at what that did to him he said one time i saw umar radhiallahu leaving his house late at night and he kept on going to the same house on the outskirts of madina it's almost an identical story by the way and he said so i got curious so i followed him one night to see which house why he keeps on going to this particular house so he said i went there and in the morning when um left i went inside and i saw an old woman i knocked on the door and an old woman answer and she had a disability and she was also blind and i asked her i said who is that man that comes to you and she said he's he's a man who just likes to do he never even told her he was the khalifa he's a man who likes to do he's a man who likes to do good he comes out he cooks for me every day he cleans my house and then he leaves subhanallah how long has he been coming to you she said for years years subhan allah years the man who is the most powerful man in the world and now commands the responsibility of almost every major city in the world for years he was making it a point to come out to my house and to cook for me and to clean and he never even once bothered to say to her that he was amir muhammadin he said i put my my head down and i started to say to you trying to follow or find faults with um like what a shameful act that you did like if you had any one any bad suspicion inside of you about this man what a man that with all of that responsibility was still finding time to do that and this was following in the way of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and in the way of his predecessor so what are some of the other famous incidents probably the most famous one is one that involves himself and his wife um bintadi may allah be pleased with them um kurthum was the daughter of adi and fatima allahu ta'ala and the wife of um he sees this wool tent and it was the first time that he sees this tent and he sees this man that is sitting outside the tent looking nervous and he can hear a woman in pain screaming in pain inside the tent so um what's going on he says just leave he didn't know who he was be on your way thanks for asking but please go away can you tell me what's happening to the woman that's inside the tent he said zach can you please go like you're annoying me now stop asking all these intrusive questions about me um can you just tell me what's going on with her because i'm hearing her screaming in pain what's going on with her and he said you know my wife is giving birth um is anyone there inside with her he said nope so masha'allah the man sitting outside while his wife is about to deliver a baby all by herself there's no woman inside no nurse inside no one to help her she's just going through the pain of labor by herself so um he goes home and it's late at night he says to um this is how he presents the opportunity to um he says do you want to accept a good deed that allah subhanahu ta'ala is presenting to you like you want me to tell you about a great opportunity for you not like come on woman let's go we got to help someone out like he's telling um there is a there is a good deed there is reward for you that is waiting for you do you want to participate in this reward that allah is sending your way so she said of course so he said come with me there's a woman that's delivering and um he says what food do we have in the house so she points to some flour um he takes the flower and he takes some animal fat he carries it together he is the khalifa of the muslims walking with um the first lady of the ummah right the granddaughter of the prophet alaihi wasallam the daughter of the allah and the wife of um and they go to this house omar says this is my wife she's going to help your wife out the man says go ahead she goes inside umkrthum is helping this woman deliver a baby he says help me set this fire they're getting some wood together setting the fire um starts cooking and as he may as he's making the food for this man this man's a a bedouin he's just traveling through medina he has no idea what's going on here after that his wife delivers inside the tan and she says uh you know um calls out and says congratulate your friends congratulate your new friend on his baby and the man goes like subhanallah i forgot that i'm having a baby wait you're you're um subhan allah that was the extent to which he would do so and um said don't worry about it don't be afraid he said help me put this food into into some plates and he said that tomorrow come to me and inshaallah there will be some some payments for your newborn child something to help you all along with your newborn child so this is literally going out at night to take to literally deliver babies with his wife for a traveler that is unknown and um is unknown uh to him now what gets really interesting with these night patrols and i think is often missed beyond the inspiration of it because i want it to be practical as well is that um derived policy from these night patrols he derived policy from these night patrols what do i mean by that who says that one time um was walking and he saw an old blind man who was begging so he tapped him on the shoulder and he says which of kitab are you which of the people of the book are you meaning are you a jew or are you a christian so he says to him i'm a jew and he says to him why do i see you begging why are you begging like this and he says to him because the jizya has become difficult on me in my old age the jizya was the tax that the people of the book paid for protection in lieu of zakah and it was even less than the zakat in the time of but he said it's hard for me to pay the jizya and i'm an old man and i can't take care of myself takes him to his own home he says he said we took the jizya from you when you were young and then we lost you when you were old no way he takes him to his own home and he cares for him in his own home and then um who calls for the keeper of baytul mal and he takes the man to him and he says take care of him and make sure that he never has to beg again and make sure that the elders from the people of the book from kitab never are begging we have to take care of them we're not going to punish them because they're elderly we're not going to take the jizya from them and then lose them when they are old they're also entitled so he's deriving policies while he's doing these night patrols one of the most famous incidents in this regard is that uh one time he was he was walking by a house and he heard a child crying and he saw a fire that was coming you know from outside of the home so he said o people of light or people of the light because he didn't want to say o people of the fire so he said o people of the light he said what's going on in there so the woman calls out and she says my baby is hungry um who says you know why don't you feed him because it was a breastfeeding baby feed your child nurse your child so um starts to walk away and the child yells louder and she's holding her baby and she's doing this but she's not feeding her child so um comes back to her and he says why don't you feed your child and she doesn't answer him um moves away and the child screams louder so he comes back and he says will you breastfeed your child you know what what what a bad mom you are would you breastfeed your child why are you torturing your child and she says to him she said it's because omar she doesn't know it's omar she said because umar gives a more generous payment to the child that is weaned than the breastfeeding child when um distributes from baits and man he had a higher portion that he would give to the child when it was older than when the child was still breastfeeding and that did not fit this woman um was so ashamed of himself listen he said omar came to fajr that day and he was holding his beard and he was saying woe to you that day when we prayed fajr behind him he was weeping so much that we didn't understand anything he read from the quran you imagine subhanallah how much that incident shook him we did not know what surahs he just read in the salah because of how much he was weeping radhiallahu how many children have you killed that's what he's saying to himself how many children have you hurt how many children have been killed because of you yep and so after he finishes the fajr salah he says to them tell your women do not wean their children early and they're going to receive the same amount of money both ways whether it is fatim or walir whether the child is still breastfeeding or the child is older so he's changing his policies on the basis of what on the basis of this interaction with the people subhanallah he's amongst the people that's one of the greatest lessons that we learn from him of leadership when they talk about ivory tower and disconnect and you don't understand the condition of your people literally walks the streets of the ummah at night and adjusts state policy on the basis of what he is encountering from the pain of his ummah one of those other times that he changed the policy by the way was one time he passed by the house of a woman and the woman was crying and she was saying lines of poetry about being lonely and omar understood that this was the wife of a man that had been sent out in battle so what is um do he goes to hafsa his daughter in the middle of the night and he knocks on the door of the allah is worried like why are you coming in the middle of the night is everything okay and um by the way i just want to ask you kem taspira imran how patient can a woman be or how many months can a woman be patient when her husband is gone that's what you came to ask me and she said you know one two three four months is when it gets a little excessive when you send out people in in battle and they're gone for four months it gets tough on her so um what does he do the next morning he prays allah and he announces a new policy that when anyone is sent out in battle this is in the middle of you know all of these you know battles with the byzantines and with the persians he said that no one should leave for more than four months subhanallah he's adjusting on the basis of what hearing that woman complaining about her grief when her husband was gone for so long in a noble cause in jihadis and of course subhanallah the the they go on and on and on and on you know in one of these situations i just the end of the story because it's a long story that islam he says that one time um he saw this this hungry family at night and he spent the entire night collecting food for them and then he went and he started cooking for them and he was carrying everything and the smoke was coming through his beard as he was cooking for this large family and islam let me carry these things for you and he said are you going to carry my burden on yom qiyamah attachment subhanallah you're going to carry my burden on the day of judgement this is my burden we also find that um has moments where night patrols went wrong how did night patrols go wrong omar was so tall that sometimes he could see over the walls so he had to lower his gaze when he was walking right and this is actually subhanallah something that was very unique to him other people right they'd have to put their hands up and they actually used to measure their ceiling some of the historians say they used to measure their ceilings first and foremost by saying if i put my hand up can i touch the ceiling or not and then i'll try to build over that was just or their walls right omar was so tall that he has to put his head down when he's walking in the street so he doesn't accidentally see into people's homes and so sometimes he heard things that one time we were walking and we heard these loud voices inside of the door and it was very clear that people were basically partying they were drinking alcohol and they were partying so um grabbed my hand and he said do you know whose house this is and i i said no um who said this is the house of they um be drinking wine right now what do you think i think do not spy on the people [Music] so you know allah tells us not to spy and we just are spying and we are assuming things of them so we should leave them alone so um said you're right let's go let's get out of here and another time um actually saw a man and he heard some singing and he heard some some poetry and he heard all these things and um saw an old man and he was drinking wine and doing some other things that he should not be doing and um who shouted out to him and said it's fear allah shouldn't you be waiting for your death this is what you're doing in your old age and the man said to him no you would take allah you should fear allah you don't have a right to spy on me in my privacy and um puts his head down starts crying and he goes away and he says ya allah he's right i can't spot i'm not supposed to see this stuff i'm not supposed to know it's allah the man cleaned himself up and he uh he felt so ashamed of that incident with um the allah i know that that was a night actually that he made tauba and he started to be regular in the masjid so there are numerous narrations in this regard and one of the things that um used to say to the people that were traveling with him at night he said that know that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has servants who cause some falsehood to die by ignoring it and not giving light to it by mentioning it so you know sometimes you're going to hear things you might suspect things when we're doing these night patrols we're out to take care of the um we're not out to spy on the ummah and that's actually something that's very important when you're asking about people in what spirit are you asking about them and what spirit are you asking about them are you asking about them in a way like oh have you heard about this person we haven't seen them for a very long time are you asking about them from a place of concern and the greatest story with that we'll end with when it comes to the night patrols is of course the time that um went out with islam and as he was traveling the night he overhears a conversation between a mother and her daughter and the mother is telling her daughter to mix the milk with water okay and then to sell it in the marketplace and she was a widow and that was an orphan girl so it was just the two of them so she said take the milk and mix it with water and then go sell it in the marketplace because this is how we're going to make a living and the daughter says to the mother that oh my mother don't you know that um prohibited this he stopped us from doing this he prohibited us from mixing the milk with water because it's a form of deception she said where is omar and she responds oh my mother i'm not going to obey him in public and then disobey him in private in canada if omar doesn't see us right now the lord of omar sees us and um hears this entire thing so islam he says that um who tells me mark that door all right mark that door he goes home that night he gathers his sons he said who amongst you needs to get married subhanallah he didn't see the girl he didn't want to punish the mom he said that voice is a voice of taqwa that's a voice of piety so he said who amongst you needs to get married so his son asam was the only one of his sons that was not yet married all right come with me after fajr they pray fajr he takes his son asam he knocks on the door and he asks the mother if her daughter is married or not and he proposes on behalf of his son asan to that young girl the daughter of that mother who said where is umar anyway and subhanallah it was through that mom that she would give birth to a daughter named leila and laila was the mother of um that incident is the incident from which was born was omar hearing that young girl of taqwa that would become the eventual grandmother of um that's incredible subhanallah that was the way that allah put barakah in his thought blessing in his thoughts and look what the ummah benefited the first reviver of this ummah the first mujaddid of this ummah comes from that one incident and when we talk about umar being spoken to by the angels wakes up one day and he says oh how i wish to see that young man for my descendants who is going to fill the earth with justice after it's been filled with injustice and he said he has an interesting scar on his face subhanallah that was what he saw in his dream and the dream of um would come true everyone thought that it was going to be bilal the son of abdullah and instead um he was a young man when he was actually a young boy a horse kicked him in the face and he had this car on his face that was exactly what um described in his dream and he was the prophecy of that dream of um imagine subhanallah just walked past that woman's house and said you know what let me teach that let me teach the mom a lesson subhanallah imagine if um did not take that particular action on that day now subhanallah when we get to the fitnah and we get to the the the death of um it's important to point out a few things number one if you lived in medina at that time right this was the golden age okay this was the time where you knew justice was being upheld internally where you knew that islam was spreading around the world where you saw the the good coming back to madinah medina becoming a center of knowledge unlike no other center in the world all of these things are happening the development of the okaf the development of the endowments everything the prophet saw some talked about that would come to pass in terms of good is happening in the of um one day he stands up and he says who amongst you remembers what the prophet saws told us about el fiten about the trials and tribulations he said i remember exactly what the prophet saws um said about al-fitrin what he said about the tribulations so um he said that that's bold of you to say that so what did he say so they follow the allah responding he said when a person is tested or you know the fitan that come in a person's daily life of their families their their spouses their children their money their prayer and their charity and their enjoying good expiates all of the trials and tribulations that come as a result of that he said that's not what i'm asking you about he says he said i'm talking about the fitan the trials and tribulations that the prophet saw some talked about that would hit the ummah like wave after wave after wave after wave i'm talking about the heavy fitan those trials and tribulations that the prophet saws talked about and he said to him there is a closed door between you and all of that fitna subhanallah you are a closed door or there is a door between you and the fitness will the door be broken or will the door be opened i said to him rather the door will be broken he started to weep and he says he said if that door is going to be broken then it's never going to be shut again and um he buries his face in his hands crying he gets up and he leaves the gathering and none of the sahaba understood what just happened everyone's looking at this exchange between umar and they're wondering what just happened what did they discuss what door are they talking about why did um suddenly cry what does he mean the door can't be closed after it is shattered and afterwards explained that um who understood that he himself was the door and what um was asking was was he going to die or was he going to be killed and so him the door being broken means that he is going to be killed and um understands that that is going to set a wave of tribulations of fitan that he was a barrier between the ummah and that fitan and subhanallah there are so many wisdoms for that i mean um makes the perfect leader literally when you think about leadership um is the perfect leader he establishes justice he doesn't allow nonsense to happen you know in fact when the fitness started under under the time of uthman of the allah there was a man named um used to be one of those people that would spread rumors and cause fitna and a community and in the time of um he was starting to spread rumors and start slander and start making things worse and um he lashed him and he deported him he got rid of him came back to the community and when the fitness started in the time of utman of the allah i know they went to us pulled up his shirt and he said see these the righteous man taught me a lesson don't even get me started i'm not interested in the gossip and the rumor mongering and the things that will start to bring tribulation to this ummah so um was a door between the ummah and the fitnah in his leadership style and in the fact that when you establish justice in that way subhanallah then that justice transcends every single system and every single group within the ummah however um that his time was coming near and he had these two duas that he would make the most famous one allah oh allah grant me martyrdom in your cause and let me die in the city of your prophet hafsan abdullah would say to umar how are you going to die a shaheed in medina battles don't happen in medina right maybe in persia that's where we're hearing the stories in persia and asham with the byzantines how are you going to die shaheed in medina he said if allah wants it to happen it's going to happen that's that's truthfulness in dura he just kept on making the dura he wanted to die the death of a martyr and he wanted to die in the city of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he had another he said allah do not let me be killed at the hands of someone who prostrated towards you he made suju to you that he would argue against me on the day of judgment with it meaning don't let me be killed by a believer so subhanallah is to be killed by a non-muslim in madina as a shaheed three things that seem completely impossible it starts with a man by the name of lua whose name was and was a captive from the persians and he was particularly taken by muhir abdul sharma now um in his wisdom did not like that there would be captives in medina because obviously you know things could get messy in that regard so he didn't like that there would be captives that would be brought back to medina and that that would become a threat an internal threat to the community after these battles but asked for particular to be with him in madinah because was a skilled craftsman he used to make weapons of war right and so he's someone that offers a particular unique service and so he comes in and he works under muhir abner now lua complained to um was a just man he doesn't spare more we actually find other incidents where he takes a task it takes muhammad ibrahimo to task takes sahabah to task he does not show injustice because the person on the other side is not muslim or of a lesser class or anything anything of that sort right but complains that you know the commission that he's taking from the weapons of war are too much it's it's too high and i'm working too hard so um he takes his complaint he weighs the evidence on both sides and um comes to the opinion that it was a fair commission that he was taking from the weapons that he was providing through the raw materials and things that were coming out of it which was for dirhams so um tells him that you know it's it's not an unjust salary that he's taking or a portion that he's taking from you and at the same time he tells to be lenient with him to be just with him so do not you know uh do not overdo it with him be gentle with him and be lenient with him but was enraged by just that judgment he goes back and he swears to himself that he's going to kill omar and um is walking by him one day in madina and he's making all of these different types of things and one of the things that he would make was windmills he would make these spears and he would make all these different crafts so um walks by and in a nice way he says to him that i heard that you do these things very well can you make me one of these also and says to him i'm going to make one for you that the whole world is going to hear about subhanallah so what you know he's threatening him in a nice way omar is not illiterate or or naive in this situation he walks away and he's laughing as he's walking away and he says he just promised to kill me so the sahabah say to him well why don't we apprehend him and why don't we kill him first he says you want him to be killed over a suspicion he said no absolutely not that's my hunch from him that's my sense from him but it's the qatar of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala whatever happens as a result of that so um let it go now subhanallah there are these dreams that then start to happen dreams of other sahaba and dreams of um the first one is very interesting because it comes up in jerusalem he says during the khilaf i saw this rope that was hanging down from the heavens and the people were trying to reach it subhanallah of the many dreams of umar so he says was three times the size of everybody else so he grabbed on to it easily and he ascended so i said how come um i know the only one that can grab the rope and can ascend and it was responded to me because he is the khalifa of allah on this earth and he does not fear the blame of a blamer shahidan and he will be killed as a martyr so three things he's a khalifa of allah a rightful khalifa and he doesn't fear anybody he doesn't fear blame from anyone else and he will be murdered and killed as a martyr so awful malik went to abu bakr this is still in the time of abu bakr and he told him the dream and abu bakr said call umar and tell him what you saw so awful calls and he tells him the dream and um says that's a whole lot for someone to see in their sleep like a sleeper you saw all of that in your dream and that was it um didn't entertain anything beyond that i mean he fears allah he's been given all of these glad tidings from the prophet saws but for his own tuskeya right he wants to keep himself humble subhanallah remember we were talking about jerusalem when um who first went to al-jabya that um called me over and he said remember that dream that you had in the time of abu bakr he said to him yes but you told me that or you didn't seem to really be interested in hearing it he said no no i was just you know i wasn't i wasn't serious about that he said as for becoming the khalifa he said i'm thinking about your dream since you shared it with me in that time he said as for becoming the khalifa he says that already happened and he says as for the second part he says well i don't fear the blame of anyone but allah subhanahu ta'ala but he said the third part he's asking him what his kids used to say to him how am i gonna be killed shahid when i'm in madinah right and he's he's just kind of speaking out loud and thinking out loud not questioning allah subhanahu wa ta'ala but it's very interesting right he's coming out to hashem and he's seeing these people that have been in battle all this time you know how am i going to be killed i wonder how i'm going to be killed as a shaheed in medina so that's the first dream the second dream is from abu musa what a beautiful dream he was in asham and he woke up in the morning and he calls the people and he says that i saw an interesting dream last night i saw that i had horses and crops and then they started to disappear so good things started to disappear and so he said i took it and i went to this jabba to this mountain and i saw rasulallah salaam and abu bakr allah standing in the distance and um come to me cross cross over here subhanallah so he sees this dream of the prophet saws i'm telling him standing with abu bakr and telling umar it's time for you to come this way saba musa he saw that dream and they said why don't you write a letter to omar telling him what you saw and he said i don't want to be the one to break the news of his death to him this is clearly an indication that he's going to dyson and indeed subhan allah that time that was actually the year that um and here's something that is very very interesting um would die only a few days after returning from hajj every year of his 10 years in a row and he was in hajj and the sahabah describe raising his hands in arafah that year saying i've gotten old and my strength is leaving me when tasha at umati and the ummah has spread to the world take me back to you while you're pleased with me oh allah subhanallah as if he knew he's calling upon allah subhanahu ta'ala ten years in a row ten hajj's in a row and he's saying ya allah i've gotten old now my time is running out ya allah take me back to you while you are pleased with me pleased with what i have done with your ummah he gets back to madinah from hajj so the incident with took place right before he went to hajj he gets back to madina right after hajj and he gave only one khutba between hajj and his martyrdom so it's the hidja the 21st of durham yom al-jumaah 23 years after the hijrah and umar radhiallahu ta'ala he stands up and he says o people i saw a dream so now um who saw dream as well he said i saw this dream where a rooster came up to me and it pecked me twice and then the people said to me that you should appoint a khalifa i interpreted this to mean my death but allah will not cause his religion or this ummah to be lost but he said if i die then the khalifa is to be appointed by those whom the prophet saws was pleased with when he died meaning the leftovers of the leftovers of those that were guaranteed paradise so um himself has seen a dream that he interprets as his death then comes the day of his death so it is the 23rd of durham salat al-fajr walks in and he's 63 years old just like the prophet's son was 63 years old when he died just like abu bakr al-dillah was 63 when he died and there are multiple narrations i mean you can imagine how many people narrate the incident of the the assassination of the allah and how many people were in the masjid when um was assassinated that lived to record it in history and tell the story the most extensive narration is from ahmad bin maymoon and he says that on that day came to salat and i was standing in the second line and there was no one between he and i except for abdullah ibn abbas so imagine salah the masjid of the prophet salla you're standing in the second slap of the allah who's leading the salah he said ibn abbas was in front of me and i was standing right behind ibn abbas and he said um before he would lead the salah he would walk between us and he would straighten up our rose and then um went to lead the salah he says allahu akbar and in salat and by the way of course it was dark why why would i choose salat al-fajr to assassinate him because you can't see anything in fajr it's dark so um was leading salat al-fajr and i'm praying behind him and he said he read surat yusuf and he cried a lot as he read surat yusuf subhanallah what an amazing you know experience like imagine praying behind um he's reading surah yusuf and he's crying reading surah yusuf and he said he used to love to read surah yusuf in fajr so this was something that um used to do in salat al-fajr and then um who went into rokur and he went into sujud and abu lulua he had made this dagger that he sharpened from both ends so he could stab both ways when he poisoned both ends of the dagger and he was hiding it under his cloth under his cloak and he was praying because even though he wasn't a muslim right it's fajr no one can see anybody else waited for him to go into sujud and as he was in sujood lua attacked him and he stabbed the um with that dagger up to nine times stabbed him in his back stabbed him in his front stabbed him from his sides and the worst wound was right in the stomach of um so after he he hit him enough times and um was laid out then he stabbed him the hardest right in his stomach under his navel and um he gasped and he said kelp the dog killed me he knew he remembered that incident subhanallah from that moment when he walked by him and he recited allah quran comes to his mind and the affair of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala was a decree to come true abu bakr allah ended his life with quran after life with um when you talk about asabar and the submitted patience being at the first strike the first thing that comes to um when he stabbed is what quran this is the decree of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala now except for the people that were right in the front the other people the masjid didn't know what was happening so people were saying subhanallah out loud thinking that um forgot to to go to the next position in salah and the people that were around omar some of them started to help him and then some of them went to pursue abu lua and what's his concern as he's laying there about to die he grabs the leg of abraham it's kind of like get over here and finish the prayer that's his concern he goes up and he quickly he reads surat al-qaeda in the second raqqa and he quickly finishes up the salah in the meantime he goes out of the mazda and he's stabbing people on the way so he kills nine people on that morning and he wounds 13. and just as he's getting through them eventually the people apprehend him and they throw a cloak on top of him and as realizes that he's surrounded by others he takes his own dagger and he stabs himself three times in the chest until he dies so he commits suicide in the masjid subhanallah think how this incident just went from fajr behind um in mazda nebui listening to surah yusuf a beautiful recitation to now um laid out with nine wounds nine sahaba that are dead and this incident that they had never seen before and so immediately after they finish the salah they carry um the house of abdullah because abdullah's house was the closest to the masjid his own son and at that point um had lost consciousness and they're trying to revive him and abdullah is calling out ya o my father o my father they're trying to revive him but um was unconscious for some time after sunrise um who opens his eyes what's the first thing he asks he says did the people finish their prayer subhanallah what a shepherd what an amazing human being like that's his first concern is that the people finish their salah or not as they said to him yes they finished their salah he said alhamdulillah islam those that are slacking with their prayers listen up he said alhamdulillah because there is no share of islam for the one that leaves their prayer there is no islam and a person that abandons their salah so he said alhamdulillah the people finished their salah that's his first concern did the people pray as the blood is flowing from him and then he tells abdullah set me up and he says to abdullah bring me some water when he asks them for water they think that he's going to drink water what does he start to do he starts to do uldu and um who finishes his fajr prayer because he was stabbed and made unconscious in the second naka that's where his heart is that's where his mind is then um because of his strength you know anyone else would have died from those wounds right away but because of how huge he is and how strong he is um who starts to ask questions he says he said who was the one that killed me they said it was the persian that that that person that you suspected that day and he said alhamdulillah the one who killed me is not someone who says he's concerned about the day of judgment i don't want a muslim to be the one that killed me and he's concerned about the implications to the ummah if someone who said committed that crime that's going to unlock another type of fitnah in this community and indeed we see that in the time of the allah so he said alhamdulillah that the one who killed me was not a muslim he still cares about this ummah alhamdulillah he's not someone who says for some milk and they brought him the milk and his wounds was so severe that everything he drank came out of his stomach so it would flow out of him immediately so they called for a doctor and the doctor saw the wounds of um tried to patch up saw what happens when he drinks milk and the way that his body was responding and he says to him oh commander of the believers you're not going to make it you're going to die so whatever wasa you have to give then give it now you have either a few moments maybe a few days max but you don't have much longer so whatever you have to say say it now what is um number one he calls abdullah and he says ya abdullah i want you to go around and i want you to see who i owe money and i want you to make sure that you pay off every single one of those debts and your father doesn't have much so if i run out or if you run out from my wealth then distribute the debt amongst yourselves it's not that he had big debts it's that he had no money he's the khalifa of the muslims most powerful man in the world he has no money he said so you and the kids take care of it and he said and if you run out then go to banu adi our tribe and collect the money from them and if banu adi runs out then you can ask some of our close ones from quraish but don't go any further than that so first he wants to take care of his deaths then um reaffirms the surah and he appoints those that will appoint the khalifa after him and they are the six people that are remaining from those who were promised paradise except for one who would have been the seventh and that was talked about shaykh yasser talks about him last night said why because it's his brother-in-law he's he's cut he is his cousin and um wants to keep his family away from the khilafah he wants to avoid nepotism in any way possible some of the people say to um why don't you appoint abdullah is your khalifa abdullah is literally a copy of umar he has a son who is exactly like him says no way this affair is good for only one person from my family if you want he can consult but he can't be a member of the surah he cannot actually have a vote or be considered for the khilafah but you can consult him so um appoints the surah in that regard and then he calls abdullah and he says to abdullah that i have one wish for allah his dying wish he says go to and give my salam to her but don't tell her that amir al-mu'manin said salaam to you tell her that omar salaam to you because i'm no longer amir min i'm no longer the commander of the believers and i don't want her to think that what you're going to say to her comes from an official place just go to her and send salam from omar and ask her but tell her that it is fully your right to say no to this ask her if she would give me permission to be buried in that spot beside the prophet salallahu siddiq if she says no that is that's justice that's her right don't pressure her if she says yes that's her father that's her virtue that's her showing kindness towards me abdullah um i went to a is weeping profusely and subhanallah they said aisha cried more when omar died than when her own father abu bakr died and they said to her why said beca she said because omar was the door between us and the fitna he was the door between us and the fitness she knew the implications of his death in an authentic narration she says abu bakr i heard my father say i swear by allah there is no one on the face of the earth more beloved to me than umar so he's loved by her father he's loved by her husband rasool allah he's the door between us and the fitna everyone in madina is crying right now because they know that um peace be on to you my mother i have a request from omar he sends his saddam to you and he asks for you to consider but without any pressure it's your right if he could be buried next to his two companions buried next to rasulallah you talk about a favor you talk about a charity you talk about giving something up she says i always envisioned that that would be my spot that i'd be buried next to my husband and my father i mean this is her home it's literally her room the prophet saws in abu bakr are buried in her room and she says i always saw that i would be buried next to my father and next to my husband but i know the place that um so she granted it comes back when omar sees abdullah he's laying down he's barely alive at this point when he sees abdullah coming back um set me up and says to abdullah what are you coming back with he said i'm coming back to you with news that is pleasing to you that was the only thing that i wanted but he said after i die go back to her again just in case she felt under pressure and ask her after i die if she's sure that she wants to give up that place and don't pressure if she says no maybe after you know she's calmed down from the emotion bury me amongst the muslims in the book here and i'm satisfied with that but that's her right he doesn't want to wrong in a moment of emotion and abdullah then puts the head of omar in his lap at that moment people are coming in and some of the sahaba are praising um says to some of those that praise him he said attached will you bear witness on the day of judgment with what you're saying he's so afraid are you going to bear witness in front of allah with what you are saying and they're saying yes no one was dissatisfied with your abdullah comes in [Music] starts to mention all of these virtues and um he says but what about all of these people he said i'm afraid of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala asking me about this ummah i'm afraid of allah subhana ta'ala asking me about this ummah and he said if i could meet allah and give everything of this world and not be punished or not be rewarded then i would be satisfied i just don't want to be punished for all of these people that were under my care that is the ham that is the wish of um and then subhanallah he does something very interesting in his last moments he says to abdullah he says to him o my son put my head in the dirt so that when allah looks at me he'll have mercy on me he'll see his humble servant and show mercy to him take my head off of your thigh and put my face in the dirt allah says i don't want to do it no why and um if this face is a face that belongs in hellfire then you don't want it in your lap and if this face is a face that belongs in jannah then the pillow of jannah is softer than your thigh so just listen to me my son put my face in the dirt subhanallah this man who spread islam to most parts of the world that you all are from today who is a person who the prophet saws praised over and over and over again who has the shahada of the sahaba the witness of the companions who died praying fajr in medina shaheed next to the prophet slice of them from the place that the prophet saws a companion of the prophets by some guaranteed paradise and he's saying to a son leave my head in the dirt so that maybe when allah subhanahu ta'ala looks at me then there would be mercy that is shown towards me in the uthman of the allahu ta'ala he said i was the last person to see him alive meaning not from his family urthman of the allah and who entered in and um with his face in the dirt with his with it with his face on the ground and he said woe to um if allah does not show mercy to him does not show mercy to him until allah subhanahu took his soul in that humble place this is um this is the fear of allah that he had from the moment that he became muslim to the moment that he left this earth in the best way that any person could possibly want to leave this earth this is a man who one day set out to kill the prophet salla islam and ended up being buried next to the prophet salallahu i'm going to end here because of time that abdullah he then he then says that we took his body and we washed his body and by the way abdullah when he would walk by the hijra the place of the prophet saw some you know we say salam alaika to the prophet saws every time he walks by says peace be unto you my father abdullah washed his own fathers body and subhanallah even in his janazah there was justice so that none of those who were promised paradise leading janazah would indicate that they would be khalifah sohaib was chosen as the person to lead the salah of um [Music] and they bury him next to the prophet saws and next to abu bakr may allah be pleased with him he says that when um was placed in his coffin and the people carried him i was one of the people carrying omar on my shoulder and he said there was someone around me or behind me that was making beautiful dua he said you have not left anyone behind you who i would love to meet allah with his deeds than you wa um and he said and i had a feeling that allah would bless you with this noble place to be buried next to the prophet salla islam and abu bakr because i remember the prophet saw islam would always say i abu bakr did this and so i pray that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has granted you their companionship finally allah this is her room subhanallah the way that they're buried the prophet saw some is buried abu bakr allah is buried with his head to the shoulder of the prophet salallahu was s with his head to the shoulder of abu bakr allah think about the way that they're buried abu bakr with his head to the shoulder of the prophet saws with his head to the shoulder of abu bakr allah and i used to enter the room i mean this is her house she said i would remove my my my hijab because i would say to myself that's my husband and then my father died i mean imagine the house of aisha and i would walk into my room and i'd see the prophet slice i'm in abu bakr and i would remove my hijab because i told myself well zojiwabi my husband and my father but when um died and he moved into my home she said i couldn't even bring myself to take off my hijab in my own home out of the hebrew of um like the ah the presence of almighty allah i know even in death i couldn't even remove my garments in my own home because um who was there remember the prophet saw islam said i saw um in jannah or i saw his palace in jannah and i saw some of his women folk and when they told me it was the palace of omar's that i don't want anything to do with it because i remember the read of umar that's the that's the position that um and that final scene dear brothers and sisters and i apologize for going over time subhan allah you think about the people rising from their graves on the day of judgement and i want you to imagine the scene when the prophet saws and abu bakr and umar radhiallahu and rise from those graves and proceed to arudhar masha to the place of assembly and the prophet says i'm entering into jannah as he said with abu bakr and umar with him like this just as they used to walk why do i share that make dua that allah grants you their companionship ask allah would sit in your heart with truthfulness in your heart ya allah let me be resurrected with them ya allah let me sit with them ya allah let the prophet saw some call me over ya allah let me be in the house of the prophet sam in jannah ya allah let me have that companionship because the person that would die after islam of the allah and what was it the dream of rasulallah and so when we dream and we think we think ya allah gather us with them allah have mercy for shepherding this flock in the way that he did may allah grant him the ajar the reward of everything that was born out of what he brought from concept to reality may allah reward him for the good that he acknowledged and that he was aware of and that which he was not aware of and that which he did not acknowledge may allah allow us to be witnesses for um for the companions for the family of the prophet saws on the day of judgement allah subhanahu ta'ala gather us with our beloved prophet sasam and with the companions foreign you

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Published: Tue Jul 27 2021