Saturday, February 10, 2007

Umar sleeping under a tree

One afternoon a Roman emissary arrived in Madinah on important diplomatic business with the Caliph. When he enquired as to the whereabouts of Umar (RA), he was directed to a man sleeping peacefully under a tree: with no bodyguards, no weapons, no fortifications and no security. The Roman messenger marvelled at this sight: the sight of the leader of millions of people sleeping peacefully under a tree without a care in the world. He then remarked his famous words that remain etched into history until today: “O Umar! You ruled. You were just. Thus you were safe. And thus you slept.”


Source: Babar Ahmed, The Stone of Justice
Note: If someone can find the proper source of the story, I'd really appreciate it. I'll look for it as well.


Note (added Feb 13): The story is on Wikipedia as well.

7 comments:

MT said...

wow, that's amazing!
subhanallah

Hafsa said...

Tareq Suwaidan mentioned this story during RIS.

Humairah Irfan said...

Thanks Hafsa!

Syra said...

SubhanAllah.
A righteous person tends to be blessed with a peaceful sleep.
http://sairastar.blogspot.com/2007/12/potential-solution-to-sleep-problems.html

Anonymous said...

Asalaamu alikum,

May Allah bless us with leaders like Umar (RA).

Jazak'allah for this beautiful blog- its a great resource on a personality I love to learn about.

I'm waiting for Abu Bakr (RA), Uthman (RA) and Ali (RA) blogs to appear in time insha'allah...(!)


Don't be sad

Anonymous said...

Good Job! :)

NabanWrites said...

We know something amazing is expected when we speak about Umar (RA).

What an inspirational character