Farouk Omar (Omar Ibn Al-Khattab)
Episode 27.
"Caution: The following show contains disturbing images for young children"
May God have mercy on your brother, Al-Muthana.
May God have mercy on us all.
He said this: "When you meet Saad, give him my advice"
Tell him that he must not fight the enemy
when they have their forces in their own land.
He should fight them at their borders; at the closest point of Arab land
and the nearest point to Persian land.
If God grants victory to the Muslims,
they can take what is beyond them.
Otherwise, they can join another group
where they will be well aware of their routes.
They can regroup for another encounter.
Ameer Al-Mu'mineen has given similar instructions.
It shall be Al-Qadisiyyah, God willing.
Peace be to you with God's mercy.
And to you be peace with God's mercy.
Umar! I knew you since you were nicknamed Umair at the Ukaz market.
You frightened boys with your stick.
It was not long later when you became Umar,
then again it was not much longer before you became Ameer Al-Mu'mineen.
Fear God in dealing with your subjects.
Know that a person who fears the Day of Judgement
will find what is distant to be close at hand.
Whoever fears death, is apprehensive of finding food.
You have been too hard on Ameer Al-Mu'mineen, woman.
Leave her alone. Don't you know her?
She is Khawlah bint Thaalabah
whose complaint God heard above the universe,
as He states concerning her:
God has heard the words of the woman who pleads with you concerning her husband.
and complains to God." (Surat Al-Mujadilah/ The Pleading Woman, verse 1)
It behoves Umar to listen to her.
This is a wretched woman who has been good to her husband.
She took good care of her children and household.
After she spent most of her life doing this,
Her husband had abandoned her and is about to divorce her,
when she has done him no wrong.
You have placed yourself in regard to your people in the position of a father.
Will you be happy that this poor woman should be returned
to a brother who has a family to look after?
You! I learnt that you have abandoned your wife
and are about to divorce her
when people speak highly of her character and firm faith.
Have you found her rebellious
or do you complaint of anything in her character in order to divorce her?
By no means. I will only state the truth.
She is as good as you said, Ameer Al-Mu'mineen.
But I do not love her.
Are all family homes based on love?
What is left for kindness and generous care?
Did anyone force you to marry her in the first place?
Look, man! When we marry, we give our wives a most solemn pledge.
A woman then bears children,
going through pregnancy in stages of successive weakness,
then she breast-feeds and takes care of the young children and the sick.
All this at the expense of her own health and youth.
How fair is it that when she is middle aged,
her husband turns away from her.
Had she been negligent of her home and family,
concentrating on herself and her physical appearance,
her husband would be the first to criticize her,
saying that she is a bad housewife and mother.
Where will she go?
How about integrity and faithfulness?
Fear God in your treatment of your women.
And you?
Someone has come with a proposal to your sister,
offering a plentiful dowry.
He is a man of good character, morality and position.
I heard that she is keen on him, but you refuse. Why?
Ameer Al-Mu'mineen!
He is an ally while we belong to Quraysh.
We have a high social position.
He is incompatible to us.
He has a good standing in both this life and the life to come.
The first is his wealth,
while that of the Hereafter is that he is God-fearing.
Approve this marriage since the woman is willing.
We all descend from Adam, and Adam was created out of clay.
The noblest of us are the most God-fearing.
Wait a minute.
You mentioned Quraysh, and this reminds me.
Let anyone here from Quraysh listen,
and tell others you know.
I have learnt that you have your groups,
with people sticking to their own friends and relatives.
People now say: "this one belongs to the group of so and so,
and this one is a friend of such and such."
Everyone remains close to his own group.
I fear that this would lead to people splitting into groups and divisions,
"each of which are content with what they have." (Surat Ar-Rum/The Byzantines, verse 32)
Should the Muslim community face a serious or emergency situation,
people will go to their own groups to agree a plan.
By God, this will quickly undermine your faith, honour and unity.
I can see people in future generations saying:
this is the view of so and so,
splitting Islam into sections and divisions.
It will not take long before an elite comes to be distinguished from the rest of society.
People will thus go back to their old ways of jahiliyyah.
"Al-Qadisiyyah"
As for your leg, it is a case of sciatica,
but I have no idea what this rash is.
It may be that the local climate has not suited you.
The cause is irrelevant.
Give me some treatment for it.
The enemy has encamped close by and I am in this state:
I can neither ride nor walk, nor even turn on one side.
I will do what I can. But...
In all honesty. I have no cure for anything like this now.
Even if I had, this will not disappear overnight.
What am I to do? We are about to face our enemy.
The best plan is that you stay in this palace,
and to appoint someone to deputize for you among the soldiers.
You give him your orders from here and he passes on your orders.
- And if war breaks out? - The same applies.
The Al-Qadisiyyah plain is between this palace and the river.
When the army is ready to fight,
you will be in the balcony with the people seeing you.
You can send your instructions to the army with messengers.
And will I miss fighting?
You will not miss it when you are the commander.
The commander's more important role is his management of the battle.
All powers operate by God's will. All powers operate by God's will.
I pray you will be alright.
Salma, you are not safe here when the fighting begins.
Will you please move to the women's tents and stay with them?
By God, I shall not do that. If some Persians get to us here,
I will fight to the death, defending us both.
May God give you speedy recovery, Commander.
Welcome to Al-Khansa'.
What brings you from the women's tent?
I visited my sons.
I learnt of your illness, and I thought I better visit you
and see what Salma may need to help her as best as I can.
May God reward you.
Help me by praying for me, Khansa'.
Tell me what you did with Ameer Al-Mu'mineen,
when he saw you during the Pilgrimage (Hajj).
Umar! By God I have not known anyone like him.
I used to hear people saying that he is hard,
and I feared to meet him, as I had done what you know.
What's that?
In pre-Islamic days
I vowed I would never be out of mourning for my brother Sakhr.
After I became a Muslim, I continued in the same fashion:
a shaven head, keeping Sakhr's shoes around my neck.
People blamed me, saying that Islam forbids all this,
but I paid no heed.
They even put a complaint to Umar.
He met me while I was performing the tawaf around the Kaabah.
By God, he neither reproached nor forced me.
He only said: "Khunas! What made your eyes shed so much tears?"
I said: "Crying for the chiefs of Mudar".
He said: "Those were people who died in the days of jahiliyyah."
I said: "I used to cry for them, urging revenge."
"Now I cry for their fate in hell".
He asked me to recite some of my poetry about Sakhr.
I said: "The old or the new?"
He said: "Is there something new?"
I answered: "Yes. My eyes will not stop weeping for him".
He said: "The new, then."
I recited some of my recent poems.
He wept, remembering his brother, Zaid Ibn Al-Khattab
who was a martyr in the Battle of Al-Yamamah.
Then he turned to the people and said:
"Leave her alone. She will remain sad for the rest of her life."
"People will always weep for their loved ones."
I never saw a kinder person, yet he is Umar.
But then you abandoned the mourning of pre-Islamic days.
That was after visiting Aishah, the Mother of the believers.
She admonished me and said:
"I lost God's Messenger (Peace Be Upon Him),"
"who was the best man ever."
"Yet I never did anything in mourning more than what Islam permits."
How pleasant it is to listen to you.
You have eased my pain a little.
The population has increased
due to the numerous Arabs who come to settle in Madinah.
The Prophet's mosque has become too small for them.
I think we should extend it and rebuild it
so that it is more solidly founded and well protected from rain.
What do you think?
Extension is necessary, but how big?
I have looked into the matter.
I think it should be ten yards (9.14 meters) at the qiblah side,
twenty yards (18.28 meters) to the west and to the north...
Ameer Al-Mu'mineen!
Come with me and help me against Ubaidillah Ibn Saad.
He has been unfair to me.
Don't you see that I am busy with my companions?
You leave Umar when he comes to you,
but when you see him busy with matters of the Muslim community you come to him!
What wrong have I done?
You were saying "to the north..."
All power operates by God's will.
What have you done, Umar?
Aslam! Run after the man and bring him back to me. Now.
All power operates by God's will.
You, man; come back with me to Ameer Al-Mu'mineen.
You have punished me, Ameer Al-Mu'mineen!
What would you like?
Take up the whip and hit me as I hit you.
Do as I told you.
Do not let me bear this sin in front of God.
No, Ameer Al-Mu'mineen!
I leave it for God's sake and your sake.
Not like this.
You either leave it for God's sake and in hope of His reward,
or give it back to me and I know that.
I leave it for God's sake, and I forgive.
May God forgive you your sins.
Ibn Al-Khattab!
You were a humble person and God elevated you,
going astray but God gave you guidance,
humiliated and He gave you strength.
He then gave you the authority over the Muslim community.
Then a man came to complain to you, and you hit him.
What will you say to God when He questions you?
My Lord, unless You forgive Umar, then Umar is ruined.
It is enough, Umar.
You have been very fair to the man, and he has forgiven.
May God forgive you and him.
But I have not forgiven myself.
I have softened before people until it was said that I would never be hard,
and I hardened before them until it was said that I would not soften.
What else can I do?
May God bestow His grace on Abu Bakr.
I would have been better without all this.
I wish I will come out of it with a clean record, neither for nor against me.
Muslims! Be patient.
Martyrdom and paradise are waiting for us.
God is Supreme!
Give my instructions to Tameem.
Let them be quick to the rescue of Asad against the elephants.
How courageous are Tameem!
And how courageous Asad!
It is great what you have done today for God's cause.
Do not slacken tomorrow.
If the morning finds you safe, meet your enemy with clear vision,
seeking God's help against His enemies.
When the battle is in earnest,
be at the thick of it and fight the bravest of their soldiers.
That ensures a great win and honour.
Muslims! We are about to reach our brothers at Al-Qadisiyyah.
I think we better not join them as one group.
We split ourselves in ten groups, each includes 100 men.
Every group marches when the preceding one is about to disappear from sight.
Both parties will thus think that reinforcements are coming thick and fast,
with no apparent end.
The Muslims will be encouraged and the Persians will be weakened.
I do not see their elephants.
Maybe they are mending their howdahs.
They are not useful without them.
Praise be to God. Praise be to God.
God is Supreme!
People of Islam! I am your brother Al-Qa'qa' Ibn Amr of Tameem.
Rejoice and persevere.
Reinforcements from Syria are coming thick and fast.
We are only the first batch.
Behind us are thousands with Hisham Ibn Utbah.
God is Supreme!
Welcome to Al-Qa'qa', Tameem's brother.
Welcome to the one of whom Abu-Bakr said:
"By God's will, an army that includes Al Qa'qa' will not suffer defeat."
Your nephew Hisham Ibn Utbah sent me with this advance group,
and he speeded up while the others will follow.
God is Supreme!
Anyone for a duel?
What is your name?
I am Bahman Jathaweih.
Here is revenge for Abu Ubaid and the Bridge people.
God is Supreme!
Bring me another one!
God is Supreme!
How admirable you are, Al-Qa'qa'.
Two of their commanders are gone, with a third.
God is Supreme!
Wouldn't your commander come out?!
Don't you have a commander anymore?
God is Supreme!
Muslim people! Fight with your swords.
You can take them.
God is Supreme!
Farouk Omar