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Al Farouq Omar ibn Khattab

AL FAROUQ OMAR IBN KHATTAB

Book contents

• Before The Grand Event.
• The Grand Event.
• After The Grand Event Years of Conquest
• Omar’s Marked Individuality.
• Amirul-Mu’Mineen the Commander of The Faithful.
• `Omar’s Martyrdom.

Before The Grand Event

Our man is `Omar ibnul-Khattab, of a tribe called Bani `Adiy. His father, Al-Khattab ibn Nufail, was not well-off, though he was well-known for his violence and brutal nature.

There is no doubt that `Omar inherited the severity and violence of his father, and that had it not been for his adoption of Islam, he might have lived among the people of his tribe, as his father had done before, a man with a ruthless heart and a violence of character that could never have been suppressed

Yet `Omar’s life, in his Pre-Islamic days was more or less the same as the lives of the youth about whom we read in the Pre-Islamic poetry.

He was fond of drinking, wrestling with his mates in the market places and courting the pretty young ladies.

He used to attend the annual poetic contests at `Okaz market, listen to the recitals of their poets and repeat the verses of the Pre-Islamic poets.

As all the other idolaters of his time, `Omar had made his own idol of soft dates.

But one day, as he was worshipping his idol, he felt hungry, and found no harm in devouring his god at once, which thing gives a true picture of the silly and trivial mentality of the idol-worshippers in the Pre-Islamic days.

`Omar was one of the very few who were instructed in reading and writing in his childhood.

 This is why he was frequently chosen by his tribe to represent them whenever there were any disputes between them and other tribes. Whatever those disputes the mere presence of `Omar was a very influential element in eliminating any difficulty and solving any problem.

That was `Omar ibnul-Khattab, the man of extraordinary strenght, height, broad- shoulderedness thickness of hands and feet; the man who forced the people to listen when he spoke, who always hastened away when he walked, and who usually caused much pain when he struck.

That was `Omar who never felt scared of anything or anybody throughout his life.

It was not strange to see him facing the first Muslims with all the violence and ruthlessness he had.

There was a strong enmity between him and Islam; the reason for this was that, among his people, he had been a man full of power prudence zeal and dignity power to defend his people and their beliefs; prudence to be always having watchful care of their interests;

 zeal to spend his time and effort to keep them in union; and dignity to provide full respect and prestige for himself and his people always and everywhere.

With all these honourable qualities, ‘Omar had had to face any call that might have caused disunion among his people, dispersing them, nullifying their aspirations condemning their beliefs and satirizing their gods.

No wonder, then, that `Omar’s violence inflicted the severest persecution and torture upon the first Muslims. We have seen how he had inherited so much of his father’s brutal and violent nature.

If we bear in mind that the most brutal and merciless enemy of Islam, its Prophet and its first adherents, was `Amr ibn-Hisham, after wards named “Abu-Jahl” by the Prophet and his companions, was `Omar’s uncle (his mother’s brother),

we can easily discern that `Omar’s violence was the outcome of what he had inherited from his father, and of the hideous ruthlessness his uncle used to inflict upon the poor and weak Muslims of his time.