Ismail Kamdar – Umar ibn Abd al Azziz – Lessons from his life

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			It's very important that we become familiar with the lives of the righteous predecessors. There are
many righteous people in our history that we don't study enough or talk about enough. But for many
of us, when it comes to history, we learn about the lives of the prophets, or mo salah and the
Sahaba radula onehope. But we don't go beyond that. And when we don't go beyond that, we are missing
out on 1400 years of legacies, 1400 years of stories that we can derive a lot of lessons from.
		

			So today, Inshallah, we're going to take a look at one of those historical figures who are very
important, and who is someone who played a crucial role in the history of Islam. Yet he is someone
who many of our youngsters have never, never even heard about, in fact, many of our elders haven't
even heard about, despite being one of the most important people in the first and second century of
Islam. And that is the great Caliph of Islam. Omar Ibn Abdul Aziz Rahim Allah.
		

			So who was Omar bin Abdulaziz Omar even Abdul Aziz was the eighth of the Umayyad caliphs. So the
maids were the first dynasty to rule over the Muslim world. They were a a series of kings that ruled
for about 90 years, starting with the great Sahabi ma Rajala. One who going on for about 90 years,
this family ruled over the Muslim world after they were the split between the Abbas's and the
omegas. And after that they had to move to Spain, and they ruled over Spain for another 290 years.
So the Omega three the first major dynasty in the history of Islam, and in this line of kings, the
eighth one to rule over the Muslim world, was named Omar Ibn Abdul Aziz. So he came from the royal
		

			family of that time, the Romanians, right, his father, Abdul Aziz was the son of the great homemade
King.
		

			Marwan even haka, right with Omar Ibn Abdul Aziz even Marwan Ibaka and his mother this is in this
way he's leading she gets interesting. Omar even Abdulaziz mother Leila was the granddaughter of
omitted Nahata Graciela one who saw on his mother's side, He is the great grandson of Omar radula.
One who and on his father's side he's and Omar yet and he that's why he's also known as Omar the
second because he's the second Omar and the second Omar from that family to serve as a caliph over
the Muslim world. So Omar Ibn Abdul Aziz, he was born at the time, which was
		

			very rocky for the OMA in some ways, and then it good for the online Adobe's. So on one hand, the
Ummah was dealing with a lot of expansion. They were kicking over many lands, they were growing very
wealthy, it was becoming a world superpower. Right. So at this point in time, the Muslims are
growing into a world superpower. They are just conquered Spain, parts of India, they now ruled many
countries across Europe, North Africa, and parts of Asia, they had become a superpower of the time.
So the Ummah was growing and you're entering a new phase, a phase that was unknown to the Sahaba,
the early Muslims, they never imagined that within 100 years, the Muslims would be ruling such a
		

			large portion of that. Now, with these new conquests, and these new luxuries, and all this new
goodness, they entered the Ummah, they also came a lot of new tests, because people weren't used to
this level of success and this level of wealth and this level of power. And many of the early
intermediates, they fell into the sin of abusing this power, right of charging too much taxes or
living very lavish lifestyles, of enjoying too much of this world. And this began to cause some
tension between the average person in the public and the rulers, because this is like one generation
after the qualifier, Russia then you have Abu Bakr, Omar Osman Ali, and now 50 years later, you have
		

			these kings living a lavish lifestyle. So it's during this era, the Omen even Abdul Aziz is born.
And he is born into both worlds. on his father's side, he's the grandson of the king. And on his
mother's side, He is the great grandson of Omar Rajala, who and he grows up experiencing both
worlds. He grows up experiencing the luxury of being of the royal family, but he also grows up
experiencing the piety and the knowledge of being from the family of Omar, Graciela one who so for
example, when his father was appointed as the governor of Egypt, Omar bin Abdulaziz stayed behind in
Medina to learn from the Obama of material so why his father was in Egypt, the ruling that part of
		

			the land a young woman with
		

			Abdel Aziz is growing up in Medina, under the care of Abdullah bin Omar, his grandfather's brother,
studying with the Sahaba studying with the great Allama of Medina. So he's getting both worlds. He's
getting this world of politics and royalty and he's getting this world of piety and knowledge at the
same time. And so what this does is he makes him a very unique individual in our history. He's one
of the few rulers in our history that came from both backgrounds, the background of piety and the
background of material wealth. And what's important is when when Allah finally gave him power and
Allah chosen to be the person in power, he chose piety. He chose piety over royalty. So Omar
		

			Abdulaziz grows up in Medina, his cousin Walid becomes the king. He mammies Walid sister, Fatima,
who's a very important person in the story. So he manages the Princess The literally the king's
daughter, and he is now both the first cousin and the brother in law of the king. Right because his
cousin Khalid is now the king and Walid appointed as the governor of Medina. And the people of
Medina love Omar bin Abdulaziz. He is a pious man. He's a descendant of Omar Abdullah one who he is
someone who's ruling in similar style to the Colaba Rashi Deen. So everybody loves him in Medina. So
when he gives him power over that entire region, including Makkah and Medina, at the same time,
		

			rulers of other region, regions begin to get jealous of him, they begin to become jealous that
people love him more than them. And people are migrating from their cities to his cities. So they
start, you know, saying some bad things about him to the Caliph. They start putting pressure on the
Calico removing for power. Eventually, Waleed finds it not worth fighting for he moves over from the
position of governor and makes him move to Damascus. Now we've all been Abdullah these moves to
Damascus, his cousin Walid passes away. And what leads brother Sulaiman becomes the king and
sulamani. And Omar has a very good relationship, right? They were cousins, they were brother in
		

			law's and they were very, very close. So Suleiman makes over bin Abdulaziz, his minister, he's one
of his chief advisors. And he has a very close relationship with him during his reign. But Solomon
suffered from health problems, and he only ruled for three years and passed away at a young age,
before passing away. Solomon, King Solomon has a dilemma. He doesn't have any children who are old
enough to be king because he passed away at a young age. His children are like two or three years
old, so he can't pass it on to his children. His brothers weren't ready to be king yet either. They
were very young, very immature, very spoiled. He also felt very bad about some of the mistakes he
		

			had made as a ruler, and he wanted to make up for it. So after consulting his advisers, they all
told him to choose his cousin Omar as an ex King, because Omar is technically still an Omean. He is
the first cousin of Solomon and the brother in law of Solomon, and he's the grandson of Marwan even
have come so he's still technically no mayor. So it will still be in the family, but you will be
with the righteous man. And so Solomon before passing away, he chooses Omar Ibn Abdul Aziz to be the
next Caliph. This is in the year 99, ah, 99 years after the Hijra to talking about almost a century
after the story of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. The world's a very different place in the
		

			in the 100 years. And Omar bin Abdulaziz comes into power, he doesn't want to be king. He doesn't
want to be the Caliph, but Allah chose him for this position. And so he went into it with full
sincerity and full effort, and he ended up making a lot of reforms that impacted the Ummah right
until today. So Omar Abdullah, this becomes the Caliph. And what's interesting is that his reign
coincides with the turn of the first century, right? He starts doing a 99 H. So in 100, H, he is the
Caliph. And many of the historians they linked us to the Hadith, where the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam said, at the end of every century, Allah sends people to revive this religion. And there's
		

			almost an EMR or consensus amongst the historians and scholars of Hadith, that that first revival,
at the end of the first century, was Omar bin Abdulaziz, that the Ummah was starting to stray people
were becoming materialistic, people are starting to get addicted to alcohol, people we're starting
to get focused only on money and power. And incomes is righteous man and changes everything. And so
he's seen as the first McGeady the first revival and reform of the Muslim world. So what is Omar bin
Abdulaziz do as Caliph. He does a lot of things. We don't have enough time to summarize all of it in
a single hook. But just to give you an idea of how many important and radical changes he made as
		

			Caliph Number one, he removed the unfair tax or Jizya on converts. Now in Islam, non Muslims living
in the Islamic State pay tax call the jizya right, but when they convert to Islam, they don't pay it
anymore because the Muslims now they made some of the earlier may exhibit greedy for extra money. So
even after people converted to Islam, they were still charging
		

			Get the juicy, right because it just wanted an extra tax. And this had multiple negative impacts on
the ummah. Number one, it of course, it fueled the greed of the Americans. Number two, it, it became
a barrier for people converting to Islam. Because one of the financial incentives of converting to
Islam was they didn't have to pay Jizya anymore, but now they're going to convert and still pay the
Jizya. Number three, it was causing injustice, right? And anytime there's injustice in the Muslim
world, it affects every level of society. So one of the first things Omar Abdulaziz does is he gets
rid of this policy. He says Jizya is only to be charged on the non Muslim residents of the Muslim
		

			world. Anyone who converts to Islam doesn't have to pay Jizya. Yeah, that includes all those who
have already converted. And this has multiple positive impacts on the Ummah, the most important one
is that 1000s of people converted to Islam during the reign of Omar Abdulaziz, because that unjust
tax was gone. And the door was open for people to convert. And the beautiful exchange that takes
place, one of his governors writes to him and says, you know, if you stop charging this tax, you're
gonna be losing a lot of money. And Omar Abdulaziz writes back and says, Allah did not send the
prophets loathsome as a tax collector. He sent him as Rama tulameen. This was his message to his
		

			governance, do you see the level of righteousness of this king. So Omar bin Abdulaziz, he makes this
change, he makes other changes as well. One of the major changes he made was that he increased the
salary of Allah ma, and he paid a lot of attention to the development of the Islamic sciences. So in
the early years of Islam,
		

			although we had to be self sustaining, right, they had to have a business on the side and take care
of themselves. And they had to provide for themselves while studying. And the Romanians came up with
the idea that why don't we pay them a salary so they can focus on their studies? Right? It was King,
world leader who came up with his idea, let's pay them a salary so they can focus on their studies
and their teaching. They don't have to worry about making money. Omar Abdulaziz comes into power, he
increases that salary. Why should now there's more incentive for people to study Islam, there's more
incentive for people to become Alama because they don't have to worry about money. And think about
		

			this today. How relevant is this policy today? Nowadays, one of the main reasons why people are not
becoming Alama is they're worried about money, right? They're worried how they're gonna take care of
their families in the time have only been Abdulaziz, they did not have to worry about us because he
paid the Olimar so well, that he was actually financially beneficial to become a scholar in his
time. As to this led to many people taking up the study of Islam during his lifetime, who would in
the next generation become great scholars of Islam. Not only did he pay attention to the salaries of
the Allama, but he also played a pay attention to other aspects of Islamic knowledge as well. So for
		

			example, he revived the concept of having a shura committee of having Allah Ma, who the deacon
consult on every decision. So he has some of the greatest scholars of his time in the palace to
consult him on major matters. So the Allah ma are now involved in running the country. Number three,
he sent all Amar to all the outlying regions that the Muslims had conquered, so they could do Dawa
to the people, and they could teach the new converts So Islam could spread. And number four, this is
one of his most overlooked but perhaps one of his most important contributions. Omar bin Abdul Aziz
hired the leading Hadith scholars of his time to start compiling and writing hotties into book
		

			forms. Right so for the first 100 years of our history had these were primarily passed down orally
from teacher to student in the year 100. Age, Omar Abdullah ji said we need to start compiling these
into books so that they are not lost. And so the process and the project of compiling ideas into
book form begins in the reign of Omar bin Abdulaziz Rahim Allah, this project only bears its
greatest fruit 200 years later, with the production of sahih al Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. Right but
those books are the end result of 200 years of effort of 300 years of hard work. It starts here with
Omar bin Abdulaziz passes this policy that we need to start working on this, even if it takes
		

			decades, even if it takes centuries, we have to start working on this. And so they started that
project in his lifetime. And 200 years later, it bears his greatest heroes. So Omar bin Abdulaziz
did all of this. But what's most amazing, what's most amazing about the life of this great Caliph of
Islam, this great king, this great,
		

			rightly guided Taliban pious man is that he was only the ruler for two years. He was only the Caliph
for two and a half years, from 99 to one on one edge.
		

			Everything I just mentioned and everything I couldn't make time to mention happened in a two year
period.
		

			The amount of Baraka that Allah put in this man's life in this man's time in this mind in this man's
efforts is mind blowing. When you look back and you study, he's like you cannot understand how did
so much get done in such a short period of time. This to me is historically one of the greatest
examples of Baraka in the history of Islam, where a man comes into power for just two and a half
years and complete
		

			cleat reforms the Muslim world, there are many of those changes he made, they will impact the Ummah
for the rest of time, whether it was increasing the score or the salaries of the scholars, where it
was sending people to do Dawa in the outlying regions, the development of Spain which would
eventually end up becoming, you know, the leader of Europe during the Muslim rains, it started the
time of Omar Abdulaziz with a start developing Spain, with AIDS, the compilation of Hadith all of
these things were done in a two year period. Unfortunately, after two years, some of Omar bin
Abdulaziz cousins became jealous of him. They bribed one of his servants to poison him and he died
		

			at a young age of 37.
		

			Think about it, this man passed away at the age of 37. And over 1300 years later, we still study his
life. We still marveled at his life, we still take benefit from his life, we still are amazed by how
much he accomplished in such a short period of time. He lived in this world for only 37 years, he
ruled the Muslim world for only two and a half years. But what he accomplished in that time is truly
a grommet. It is a miracle it is some it is a proof of baraka and one of the one of the greatest
examples we have in our history of what happens when a pious man is in charge of this Omar, we ask
Allah to bless us once again with righteous rulers, we ask Allah to allow us to follow in the
		

			footsteps of these righteous people to take lessons from their lives to be able to draw lessons from
their lives and to apply them to our lives and to be like them. So behind Robin Robin is at the
mercy foon was salam ala mousseline with hamdulillahi rabbil Alameen.
		

			hamdu Lillahi wa Salatu was Salam ala Mala Nabi about the ummah. But
		

			just to draw a few lessons from the life of Omar bin Abdulaziz, it's very important that as Muslims,
we need to change the way we study history. One of the biggest problems we have today is that when
we study history, we only focus on memorizing names and dates. And that's not what's important.
What's important is that you derive lessons from history, that you learn from both the success and
failures of those who came before us. That's the only way we're ever going to move forward, that you
study any story in history and ask yourself, What can I learn from this? If they were successful?
How can I imitate that success, even on a small level? If they fail? How can I avoid that failure
		

			even on a small level, and all of these there are so many lessons we can take from his life. He'll
read my book about him, I actually have listened 15 lessons from his life. The other books that
listen to 25 lessons from his life, there's so many we can take, but here are just a few that each
of us can apply, you know, even though most of us will never be in a position of political power.
Right? But we can still apply these lessons to our life. Number one, the importance of marrying a
righteous spouse. We see this at every level of the story. Right at the very beginning when you see
the story of how Omar bin Abdulaziz grandparents met. Right from that story, we see the importance
		

			of marrying a righteous bow. So what the story goes that Omar Abdullah Cadabra, Ilan, when he was
the Khalifa, he would go out at night to check on the people. And once he overheard a conversation
at night between a woman who wanted her daughter to mix milk and water right to to give her the way
of deception to deceive people about how much multi wrestling and the doctor refused to do so out of
fear of Allah. So he sent someone the next day to find out who this righteous young lady is because
he wants a lady to marry his son. And when he realized that there's a pious woman living here, who
is not married, he wanted the pious woman to marry his son. And so that woman, married his son asked
		

			him and later on O'Meara general had a dream that from the descendants, they came a righteous ruler.
They had a daughter named Leila. And of course, she was raised righteously in Medina by the SIR by
the Sahaba and the tabby and, and she marries the prince Abdulaziz ibn Marwan, and they raised their
son over righteously. And Omar grows up in Medina, being raised by the likes of Abdullah ibn Omar.
And he man is a righteous woman, Fatima be the Abdul Malik. And what you see in every level of the
story for success to reach that level, everybody has to be careful who you choose and a spouse at
every level someone is making sure the valley the best possible person embedding a personal piety
		

			because that affects the next generation as well. That's going to be the parents of the next
generation. We look at Justin in the case of Omar Abdulaziz, he would not have been able to do what
he did if his wife wasn't a righteous woman. In reality, he had three wives. But this is the only
one who's spoken about because she was the person who could have blocked him. Why? Because Fatima
being the Abdulmalik was the daughter, the granddaughter and the sister of the kings. She was raised
in royalty. She was the most powerful woman in the world at that time. When he chose to live a
simple life she could have said no. When he chose to live a simple life she could have rebelled
		

			against him. She could have taken her brother's side. But no she chose to live a simple life. Now
imagine you grew up
		

			Father was a king Your father was a king, your brothers were a king. Imagine the level of luxuries
she is accustomed to, and she still chooses a righteous lifestyle. This is the importance of a
righteous boss that this woman Faulkner being the Abdulmalik was so pious that in the history books,
she is referred to as Amira to Zahida, the aesthetic queen, the queen who had suffered. That was her
legacy for this Omar.
		

			Second lesson we can take from the life of Omar Abdulaziz, the importance of righteous parenting.
Someone like Omar bin Abdulaziz doesn't come about in a vacuum. He is the result of three
generations of righteous parenting, you have Omar radula, anhu, raising his son, and then getting
his son value to a righteous woman. You have them raising their daughter Leila, and getting her
Maddie to a good man. And then you have them raising their son Omar Abdullah over Rahima, hula, and
him growing up to become this great Caliph. And this Colisee his son was even more pious than him,
because his son is now the result of five generations of righteous parenting. But unfortunately, his
		

			son passed away during his lifetime, and never got to experience
		

			any worldly success because he passed away at a young age in an accident, but he was even more pious
than him. So we see that righteous parenting has a ripple effect generation after generation after
generation, and the more generation of righteous parenting they are, the more greater people that
will come in those later generations. A third lesson that we can take from the life of Omar bin
Abdulaziz is that he doesn't matter how long you live in this world. Allah has given each of us a
set time in this world and is different for everybody. Some people are only in this world for 25
years, and some people are in this world for 90 years. Some people are anywhere in between that some
		

			people aren't even here for less than that, right? We don't know how much time you have. What
matters is that you use the time that Allah has given you in a way that is pleasing to Him. If you
do that Allah will put Baraka in your life and you will Baraka in your efforts. And we see that will
Omar even Abdulaziz Rahim Allah he only lived for 37 years. He only ruled for two years. But Allah
put Baraka in everything he did, and the Ummah continues to benefit from it right until today. And
the final lesson that we can take today from the life of Omar bin Abdulaziz, that our time is short.
I mean, we don't have time to go into more lessons. As I said, there are dozens of lessons we can
		

			take from his life. But one last one that we can all apply today is to focus on sources of
continuous reward. Focus on sources of the Wabi Jharia. Because if we pass away, we don't want our
good deeds to end. If we pass away young we want our good deeds to continue for decades, if not
centuries. So for example, Omar bin Abdulaziz developing Spain that benefited the Ummah for
centuries, Omar bin Abdulaziz starting the project of compiling Hadith that benefits the Ummah right
until today.
		

			All these things he did, you know, help being the cause of 1000s of people converting to Islam, all
of the 1000s of people and their descendants and their descendants and their descendants for the
next 1300 years until today, inshallah he gets to share that reward. This is what it means to
dedicate your life to sources of continuous reward, that even if you pass away at a young age, your
good deeds never stop. It can be hundreds of years later, 1000s of years later, and your good deeds
continue to pile up. So let us spend our lives focus on building up sources of continuous reward for
ourselves. So even when we leave this world, our good deeds don't come to an end. And just like
		

			these righteous predecessors, you know, we can leave behind the legacy the benefits this ummah, for
hundreds, if not 1000s of years. We ask Allah to allow us to follow in the footsteps in the
righteous. We ask Allah Subhana Allah to allow us to continue deriving lessons from their life and
to apply into our lives. Robin Artina dunya Hasina will fade out or the husband are working harder
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