HIS ASCETICISM
Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) was most humble to Allah and led an austere life. His food was very coarse and he would patch his cloth with leather. He used to carry a water skin on his shoulders in spite of his great esteem. He used to laugh little and never joked with anyone. Engraved on his ring was: “Death is sufficient as an admonition, O’ Umar.”
When he was appointed as the Caliph, he said: “Nothing is permissible (for me) from the treasury more than two clothes, one for the cold season and the other for the dry season. The sustenance of my family will be the equivalent of an average man of Quraish and not the rich amongst them, for I am just an ordinary man among the Muslims (i.e. nothing special about me).”
O’ Creator of these men, glory be to you. See what the Qur’an did to the soul of these people. Return your gaze, dear readers, and see the condition of the Caliph and what was sufficient for him. May Allah bless the right religion that groomed them and may He bless the Prophet that taught them.
Mu’awiyah ibn Abu Sufyan (one of the Companions, may Allah bless him) said: “As for Abu Bakr, he never desired the world and the world did not desire him. As for Umar, the world desired him but he never desired the world. As for us, we have been soiled by the world inside-out.”
At the time of drought, Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), ate bread and oil until his skin turned pale dark and he would say: “What a bad leader I am if I eat my fill and the people go hungry.” (Ibn Katheer, 1988, V.5: 214).
Source: (The Series of: Men and Women Around Muhammad)
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