THE CALIPHATE OF HAZRAT UMAR (RA)

 THE CALIPHATE OF HAZRAT UMAR (RA)

The Caliphate of Hazrat Umar (RA) is a role model of leadership for world. Hazrat Umar(RA)’s simplicity, his sacrifices for the sake of benefit of his public is a precedent in mankind history.  The superpowers of that time (Byzantine empire and Sassanid empire ) were under his feet. But his clothes were full of patches.  He walked among people as an ordinary man. He never took any special privilege for him or for his family as a caliph. He used to sleep on mat. When Delegates and Dignitaries  of other areas came to meet him, they became surprised after seeing him. They used to question among themselves, He is caliph? Where are his guards? Where are his servants? When he was entering Jerusalam with his subjects, The people of Jerusalam were asking among themselves, Who is the caliph among them? Once a Famine struck his caliphate, which resulted in huge scarcity of food, Then he promised himself not to drink milk and oil and only to eat bread alone. It even affected his health. Once he was camping at night, he heard voice of a mother forcing her daughter for adulteration in milk but her daughter refused, that Allah is watching us, he became so impressed from  honesty of that girl that, Next day  he visited her house and ask her to marry his son Asim(RA) which she accepted. Once his son Asim(RA) took some mini advantage, Then Umar(RA) became very angry on him and told him to abandon that advantage. Once a Christian came to him with complain of a muslim, when Umar(RA) found that muslim guilty, he ordered that Christian to beat that muslim from a stick in front of him.

Reference : Omar(RA) series Qatar