Reflections Of A Muslimah

Assalāmu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullāhi Wabarakath,

Below is the last Khutba, the Video and text, of the Caliph `Umar ibn `Abd al-`Aziz. May Allah subhanna wa ta'ala be pleased with him. Ameen. He was part of the Umayyad dynasty. He is also from the family of Umar Ibn Al Khattab, radi allahu anh, one of the four rightly guided Caliphs. He was a God-fearing, pious and noble Man and ruled with the commandments of Allah subhanna wa ta'ala. Very rarely do we see leaders like him and in todays World, we need leaders like him.

خطب عمر بن عبد العزيز
آخر خطبة خطبها فقال فيها

‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-`Aziz (rahimahullaah) said in his last khutbah:

O people,

Indeed you have not been created for mere play
Nor will you be left in vain

And for you is an appointed time
Wherein Allaah will descend to judge between his servants

Truly the failure is he who has left the Mercy of Allaah
which has encompassed all things

And who has been forbidden from Paradise,
its width as wide as the heavens and the earth

Don’t you see that you are indeed in a destroyed plunder

And those after you shall inherit it

Like that it will be, until it is returned to the Best of Inheritors (Allaah)

And everyday you are going back and forth escorting (someone) to Allaah

His term has been settled
And his life is over

Will you then bid him farewell and call him from the rough and unleveled cracks of the earth?

He has left all provisions
And left his beloved ones
He has settled to live among dust
And is due to face the reckoning

He is free from what he has left behind
And in dire need of what he has put forth

So fear Allaah O servants of Allaah
Before the descent of death and the coming of his time

Indeed, I say this to you
But none knows as much as I do of the sins (I have) earned

But I seek the forgiveness of Allaah and repent to Him

He then lifted the ends of his cloak and weeped…
Then he got down and did not return to the minbar until he passed away
May the Mercy of Allaah be upon him.

Ameen