** * Umar’s (may Allah be pleased with him) golden words on success
* ** UMAR Bin Al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) was on his way to take over Jerusalem from the Romans. They insisted that they would hand over the keys of the city only to the leader of Muslims, whose power and might was well-known. His journey was special. He would take turns with his slave to ride the camel. If for some distance he rode and the slave walked pulling the camel, then for the next equal distance the slave would ride and Umar would walk, pulling the camel. Jerusalem was near, the city’s gates were almost in sight, and it was the slave’s turn to ride the camel. While Umar walked, he passed through a pool of mud, so his clothes got soiled. Abu Ubaidah Bin Al-Jarrah, commander of the Muslim army, was worried. He came to Umar and suggested that he rode the camel as they were about to enter Jerusalem. He thought the Romans, who are used to pomp and glory, will not respect Umar if he entered with such simplicity. At first, Umar was taken aback, as. he didn’t expect it from a revered companion like Abu Ubaidah Then Umar spoke one of the most powerful statements ever to go down in history. He said, “We were a people who lived in humiliation before. Allah gave us honor through Islam. If we sought honor through anything else (at the cost of Islam) then Allah will humiliate us again.” Surely enough, what was the Arabian peninsula before Islam? It was steeped deep into ignorance that rulers would pass by and would not bother conquering it. People would bury their female babies alive; wars would start at the drop of a hat and continue for hundreds of years; immoral practices were rampant; and most importantly idols were worshipped. Who could have thought during the time that in less than 100 years the same people would be ruling from Spain to the Indian subcontinent? But that is what Islam did to them, that is what standing firm upon the truth brought them. They were the best generation. They practiced Islam with full conviction and obeyed Allah with full submission. This is what we lack today. We lack knowledge that precedes action, and faith that turns knowledge into deeds. If we set that right, Allah promises us the success we so desperately seek. __,_._,___ -- Faizan Shaikh, Servant of Allah subhanau taa'la “O Allah! Guide me to have beautiful manners and characteristics, no one can guide me to beautify them except You. And turn me away from all evil actions and characteristics, no one can turn them away from me except You.” -- Nor can Goodness and Evil be equal. Repel (evil) with what is better; then the enmity between him and you will become as if it were your friend and intimate! Visit: sultan.org Subscribe: [email protected] Post to group: [email protected]
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